Sorama helps teams detect, localize, and document leaks through acoustic inspection. When a leak is present, speed and certainty matter. By making leaks visible, we help teams move quickly from suspicion to confirmation, reduce exposure, and take action with confidence in demanding environments.
This approach supports LDAR workflows, regulatory requirements, and inspections in hazardous environments. Whether the situation involves compressed air loss, gas leakage, or hydrogen risk, we help teams answer one critical question: where exactly is the leak?
Leaks are hard to find and costly to ignore
Leaks are rarely visible from a distance and once they exist, they can create safety risks, waste energy or product, affect uptime, and make maintenance harder than it needs to be.
Traditional leak detection methods still play an important role, but they often require close‑range access, repetitive checks, or confirmation only after gas has already spread. In large, noisy, hazardous, or hard‑to‑reach environments, this makes finding the source slow, uncertain, and difficult to scale.
Acoustic inspection helps teams narrow that search. By showing where leak‑related sound originates, it becomes easier to focus inspections, document findings, and follow up with clarity.
How acoustic leak detection works
When a leak is present, it often produces audible or ultrasonic sound at its source. That sound provides a direct indication of where the leak is occurring, allowing inspections to focus on a specific location instead of searching an entire system. This supports a more targeted inspection process, especially where access is limited, risk is high, or many potential leak points need to be checked.
Because the method is non‑intrusive and non‑destructive, teams can inspect without disassembly, direct contact, or disruption to the asset or process.
For regulated or hazardous environments, we support inspections with ATEX‑ and IECEx‑certified products, helping teams work more safely and with greater confidence.
Where this solution fits?
Hazardous environments
For hazardous and regulated sites where safety, certification, and uptime are critical, including oil and gas, chemical processing, hydrogen, energy, and utility infrastructure.
Industrial operations
For industrial sites focused on reliability, maintenance, and efficiency, including food and beverage, automotive, production lines, utilities, datacenters, and general manufacturing.
Why teams use this approach?
Fast confirmation of issues
Acoustic inspection helps teams identify leaks earlier, before small issues develop into larger safety, cost, or reliability problems.
Precise localization
Clear source identification reduces time spent searching and limits unnecessary exposure.
Safer inspections
Leaks can be located from a distance, even in hazardous or elevated areas.
Clear documentation
Findings can be recorded, reported, and used in LDAR and maintenance workflows.
Proof from the field
Leak localization in harsh hydrogen production conditions
In a hydrogen production environment near Bergen, H2 Production, part of Norwegian CCB Energy, evaluated whether acoustic inspection could help detect small leaks from a safer distance.
During testing, wind speeds reached up to 20 m/s (≈72 km/h) in storm conditions. Even then, the team detected the ultrasonic signature of a very small leak and confirmed the location afterward using a traditional gas detector.
That helped confirm not only that a leak was present, but where to inspect next.
It really worked. We found a very small leak. For the Sorama CAM iV64Ex to work under such conditions was a very good selling point.
Richard OugendalCCB EnergyTechnical Manager
Built for different inspection strategies
Some teams need fast handheld checks during maintenance rounds. Others need ongoing monitoring in critical or hazardous areas. We support both approaches, so teams can choose the inspection setup that fits their environment, workflow, and level of risk.
Acoustic leak detection helps teams detect and localize leaks by using the sound produced at the source.
What types of leaks can acoustic leak detection help identify?
This approach helps identify leaks that produce an audible or ultrasonic sound signature, including compressed air, argon, helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, natural gas, methane and oxygen leaks.
How does acoustic leak detection support LDAR workflows
It helps teams inspect more selectively, localize leak sources more clearly, and document findings for follow-up and reporting.
Can acoustic leak detection be used in hazardous environments?
Yes. Sorama supports inspection in hazardous and regulated environments with ATEX- and IECEx-certified products.
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