“…The heater operates under high pressure and at high temperatures, thus requires sophisticated detection technology. In the past years, there have been a number of methods for detecting leakage, including pressure gradient method, negative pressure wave method, flow balance method, acoustic method, system identification method, neural network method, etc., [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Among all the methods, the acoustic emission detection is fundamentally different from all others because it is a dynamic nondestructive detecting technology [7][8][9][10].…”