The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Veyance Technologies, Inc.

Luis Roberto Flores Sanches

Mauricio Pinto Spaolonzi

Waldir Pereira De Lucena

Marcelo Martins Werneck

Airton Domingos Moreno

Cesar Cosenza De Carvalho

Emilio Priore Neto

A fluid leak detector is provided for a double carcass hose line segment and includes a sensor housing defined by sidewalls externally mounted to the hose line segment and having an internal housing chamber in communication with the collection space. An optical sensor is mounted through at least one sensor housing sidewall and positions an optical sensing element means within the sensor housing chamber for detecting a presence of fluid in the hose collection space. The optical sensor further includes analysis element means connecting to the optical sensing element means and positioned outside of the sensor housing one, wall, the analysis means generating data indicative of the fluid status within the hose collection space; and transmitter element means connecting to the analysis means for receiving data from the analysis element means and transmitting the data to at least one remote receiver. T optical sensing element means is electrically isolated from the analysis means and comprises at least one optical fiber positioned to make contact with fluid leaking into a collection space between the two carcasses of the hose.

Leak detection system and method for offshore hose lines

A flexible seawater suction hose is configured to include a tube body of flexible rubber material reinforced by textile fabric and steel wire. Opposite ends of the tube body are terminated to a respective connector. A steel cable is incorporated within the tube body and extends longitudinally between the opposite tube body ends and attaches to the opposite end connectors. The flexible hose connects at one end to a rigid conduit by means of one connector and extends downward therefrom to a prescribed depth to facilitate extraction of seawater at a desired temperature.

Seawater suction hose and method

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Santana de Parnaiba, Brazil

Luis Roberto Flores Sanches