In order to investigate the leak detection strategy of a heating network,a space-based simulation mathematical model for the heating network under leakage conditions is built by graph theory.The pressure changes of all the nodes in the heating network are obtained from node leak and pipe leak conditions.Then,a leakage diagnosis system based on the back propagation（BP）neural network is established.This diagnosis system can predict the leakage pipe by collecting the pressure change data of the monitoring points,which can preliminary estimate the leak location.The usefulness of this system is proved by an example.The experimental results show that the forecast accuracy by this diagnosis system can reach 100%.
