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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
May. 31, 2019
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abhijit Kulkarni, Houston, TX (US);
Prashant Shekhar, Houston, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A line of coherent radiation is projected on a bed on which one or more particles is located, the one or more particles flowing produced as a result of a downhole operation in the borehole. An image of the bed is captured wherein one or more particles on the bed deflect the line of coherent radiation. One or more image edges is detected based on the captured image. A subset of the one or more image edges is identified as corresponding to edges of the one or more particles, based in part on changes in intensity of the captured image. Information about the one or more particles, including information about of size, shape and volume, can be determined from the one or more image edges corresponding to the edges of the one or more particles.