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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2014
Yibing Zhang, Annandale, NJ (US);
Limin Song, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Geoff Keiser, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Michael Louis Hergenrother, Kingwood, TX (US);
Berne K. Stober, Esmont, VA (US);
Patricia H. Kalamaras, Milford, NJ (US);
Yibing Zhang, Annandale, NJ (US);
Limin Song, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Geoff Keiser, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Michael Louis Hergenrother, Kingwood, TX (US);
Berne K. Stober, Esmont, VA (US);
Patricia H. Kalamaras, Milford, NJ (US);
EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY, Annandale, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for detecting a deposit in a vessel with a sensing cable including an optical fiber sensor array aligned with a heating element disposed in the vessel. An excitation source is configured to propagate at least one heat pulse through the heating element along at least a portion of the sensing cable to affect an exchange of thermal energy between the heating element and media exposed to the sensing cable. An optical signal interrogator is adapted to receive a signal from a plurality of sensor locations and configured to measure, a temperature profile corresponding to the heat pulse at the sensor locations. A control unit is configured to detect a deposit by determining one or more properties of the one or more media exposed to the sensing cable at each of the plurality of sensor locations based on the temperature profile corresponding thereto.