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Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2021
Applicant:

Epiroc Rock Drills Aktiebolag, Örebro, SE;

Inventor:

Harald Franz Arno Merkel, Ringkøping, DK;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 27/02 (2006.01); E21B 47/00 (2012.01); E21B 47/07 (2012.01); E21B 47/12 (2012.01); G01N 27/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/138 (2020.05); E21B 47/07 (2020.05); E21B 2200/22 (2020.05);
Abstract

Arrangement for detecting water in a material flow during drilling, wherein the arrangement includes a control unit, a data acquisition unit and a sensor, wherein the sensor includes at least two probes, wherein the at least two probes are to be arranged in contact with the material flow and are connected to a programmable voltage source and a programmable voltage receiver. The arrangement is configured to measure a ratio between a received voltage waveform and an applied voltage waveform for a set of pre-determined frequencies; determine a complex impedance between the at least two probes for each of the pre-determined frequencies, based on the measured ratio; and determine a set of time mean values of the determined complex impedance for each of the pre-determined frequencies, using a time window.


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