RT info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject T1 Hydrogen and deuterium distributed sensing using Chirped-Pulse φOTDR A1 García Ruiz, Andrés A1 Morana, Adriana A1 Fidalgo Martins, Hugo A1 Martín López, Sonia A1 González Herráez, Miguel A1 Delepine-Lesoille, Sylvie A1 Boukenter, Aziz A1 Ouerdane, Youcef A1 Girard, Sylvain K1 Distributed optical fiber sensors K1 Rayleigh scattering K1 Chemical sensing K1 Gas diffusion K1 Radioactive waste storage K1 Electrónica K1 Electronics AB The detection and quantification of the presence of certain chemical species is of central importance regarding permanent structural health monitoring of key industrial fields and civil infrastructures such as oil extraction boreholes or radioactive waste repositories, where H2 is released. With this work we propose and test a competitive technique able to measure the concentration of hydrogen and deuterium thanks to their diffusion into the silica glass of a standard optical fiber, already employed for the distributed monitoring of large infrastructures. The proposed technique, based on Chirped-Pulse Phasesensitive Reflectometry (CP-φOTDR), could represent a novel solution for this problem, thanks to its ability to provide dynamical measurements of refractive index change, with great linearity and sensitivities of 10-8 refractive index units, featuring spatial resolutions of a few meters and kilometric sensing ranges. PB SPIE SN 0277-786X YR 2019 FD 2019-10-01 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/39646 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/39646 LA eng NO 7th European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors (EWOFS'2019), 01/10/2019-04/10/2019, Limassol, Chipre. NO European Commission DS MINDS@UW RD 27-abr-2024