Methods of assessing and designing an application specific measurement system

• US 20070282647A1
• Filed: 05/30/2006
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Incorporated (Halliburton Company)
• Original Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Incorporated (Halliburton Company)
• Inventors: Blackburn, John C., Priore, Ryan J., Freese, Robert P., Perkins, David L.
• Granted Patent: US 8,027,855 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/02 Details
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/0208 using focussing or collimating elements, e.g. lenses or mirrors; performing aberration correction
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/027 Control of working procedures of a spectrometer; Failure detection; Bandwidth calculation
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 3/28 Investigating the spectrum using colour filters G01J3/51
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0203 Market surveys; Market polls

Abstract

Methods of assessing feasibility of a project include receiving a datum from a customer; designing an application specific system based on the datum; analyzing the datum; evaluating a set of input parameters to determine an applicability of the application specific system to a customer process; and providing feedback for the customer process with the application specific system.

Claims

1. A method of assessing feasibility of a project, the method comprising:

receiving a datum from a customer;

designing an application specific multivariate optical computing system based on the datum;

analyzing the datum; and

evaluating a set of input parameters to determine an applicability of the application specific multivariate optical computing system to a customer process.

2. The method of assessing as in claim 1, wherein the customer is one of a pharmaceutical customer, a fuel customer, a hazardous substance customer, a law enforcement customer, a government customer, a chemical customer, a food customer, and a beverage customer.

3. The method of assessing as in claim 1, wherein the datum is data selected from the group consisting of a compound of interest, a representative spectrum of the compound of interest, a representative spectra of a mixture, a concentration of interest, an analyte of interest, an expected concentration across a range of expected interferents and combinations thereof.

4. The method of assessing as in claim 3, wherein the spectrum is in spectral regions of interest selected from the group consisting of ultraviolet, visible, near infrared, mid infrared, infrared and combinations thereof.

5. The method of assessing as in claim 3, wherein the expected interferents include pressure, temperature, humidity, vibration, process component variability and combinations thereof.

6. The method of assessing as in claim 3, further comprising providing at least one of a concentration range, an accuracy, a speed of measurement, and a system configuration for the analyte of interest to the customer.

7. The method of assessing as in claim 1, further comprising determining performance of the system for the datum.

8. The method of assessing as in claim 1, further comprising providing feedback to the customer process.

9. The method of assessing as in claim 1, further comprising analyzing the datum remote from a facility of the customer.

10. A method of assessing feasibility of a project, the method comprising:

receiving a datum from a customer;

designing an application specific system based on the datum;

analyzing the datum;

evaluating a set of input parameters to determine an applicability of the application specific system to a customer process; and

providing feedback for the customer process with the application specific system.

11. The method of assessing as in claim 10, wherein the customer is one of a pharmaceutical customer, a fuel customer, a hazardous substance customer, a law enforcement customer, a government customer, a chemical customer, a food customer, and a beverage customer.

12. The method of assessing as in claim 10, wherein the datum is data selected from the group consisting of a compound of interest, a representative spectrum of the compound of interest, a representative spectra of a mixture, a concentration of interest, an analyte of interest, an expected concentration across a range of expected interferents and combinations thereof.

13. The method of assessing as in claim 12, wherein the spectrum or spectra is in spectral regions of interest selected from the group consisting of ultraviolet, visible, near infrared, mid infrared, infrared and combinations thereof.

14. The method of assessing as in claim 12, wherein the expected interferents include pressure, temperature, humidity, vibration, process component variability and combinations thereof.

15. The method of assessing as in claim 12, further comprising providing at least one of a concentration range, an accuracy, a speed of measurement, and a system configuration for the analyte of interest to the customer.

16. The method of assessing as in claim 10, further comprising determining performance of the system for the datum.

17. The method of assessing as in claim 10, further comprising analyzing the datum remote from a facility of the customer.

18. A method of assessing feasibility of a project, the method comprising:

receiving a datum from a consumable products customer;

designing an application specific multivariate optical computing system based on the datum;

analyzing the datum; and

evaluating a set of input parameters to determine an applicability of the application specific multivariate optical computing system to a consumable products customer process.

19. The method of assessing as in claim 18, wherein the consumable products customer is one of a pharmaceutical customer, a fuel customer, a hazardous substance customer, a law enforcement customer, a government customer, a chemical customer, a food customer, and a beverage customer.

20. The method of assessing as in claim 18, wherein the datum is data selected from the group consisting of a compound of interest, a-representative spectrum of the compound of interest, a representative spectra of a mixture, a concentration of interest, an analyte of interest, an expected concentration across a range of expected interferents and combinations thereof.

21. The method of assessing as in claim 20, wherein the spectrum is in spectral regions of interest selected from the group consisting of ultraviolet, visible, near infrared, mid infrared, infrared and combinations thereof.

22. The method of assessing as in claim 20, wherein the expected interferents include pressure, temperature, humidity, vibration, process component variability and combinations thereof.

23. The method of assessing as in claim 20, further comprising providing at least one of a concentration range, an accuracy, a speed of measurement, and a system configuration for the analyte of interest to the consumable products customer.

24. The method of assessing as in claim 18, further comprising determining performance of the system for the datum.

25. The method of assessing as in claim 18, further comprising providing feedback for the consumable products customer process.

26. The method of assessing as in claim 18, further comprising analyzing the datum remote from a facility of the consumable products customer.