Method and system for determining energy content and detecting contaminants in a fluid stream
First Claim
1. A method of determining energy content and quantity of a contaminant in a fluid comprising:
- transmitting a fluid within a fluid infrastructure through an optical cell;
scanning said fluid over a broad wavelength range within the near infrared spectrum using a first scanning source;
scanning said fluid over a narrow wavelength range within the near infrared spectrum using a second scanning source;
determining energy content of said fluid using spectrographic analysis from said first scanning source scan; and
determining a quantity of a contaminant in said fluid using spectrographic analysis from said second scanning source scan.
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Abstract
Methods and systems for real time, in situ monitoring of fluids, and particularly the determination of both the energy content and contaminants in a gas or oil transmission facility, are provided. The system may include two separate scanning sources to scan two different, but overlapping, NIR ranges, or may involve two separate scans from a single scanning spectroscopy source. The first scan ranges from approximately 1550 nm up through 1800 nm and a second scan concurrently scans at a high resolution across a band from approximately 1560-1610 nm, the wavelength of interest for hydrogen sulfide (though similar scans are contemplated in alternative wavelength ranges for alternative contaminants). The second scan may provide very narrow (0.005 nm) step resolution over just the wavelength of interest for the contaminant and may scan at a substantially higher power level. The spectroscopic optical data from the two scans, however obtained, must then be combined into an analytical processing module containing models that analyze the multi-scan data and yield both energy content and contaminant quantitative data.
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30 Claims
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1. A method of determining energy content and quantity of a contaminant in a fluid comprising:
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transmitting a fluid within a fluid infrastructure through an optical cell; scanning said fluid over a broad wavelength range within the near infrared spectrum using a first scanning source; scanning said fluid over a narrow wavelength range within the near infrared spectrum using a second scanning source; determining energy content of said fluid using spectrographic analysis from said first scanning source scan; and determining a quantity of a contaminant in said fluid using spectrographic analysis from said second scanning source scan. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of determining energy content and quantity of a contaminant in a fluid comprising:
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transmitting a fluid within a fluid infrastructure through an optical cell; scanning said fluid over a broad wavelength range within the near infrared spectrum using a scanning source; nearly simultaneously scanning said fluid over a narrow wavelength range within the near infrared spectrum using said scanning source; determining energy content of said fluid using spectrographic analysis from said scan of said broad wavelength range; and determining a quantity of a contaminant in said fluid using spectrographic analysis from said scan of said narrow wavelength range. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of determining energy content and quantity of a contaminant in a fluid comprising:
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transmitting a fluid within a fluid infrastructure through an optical cell; scanning said fluid over a broad wavelength range within the near infrared spectrum using a scanning source; evaluating said broad wavelength range at low resolution to determine energy content of said fluid; and evaluating a narrow wavelength range within said broad wavelength range at high resolution to determine a quantity of a contaminant in said fluid. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A system for determining energy content and quantity of a contaminant in a fluid comprising:
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an optical cell; a fluid infrastructure, wherein fluid in said fluid infrastructure is transmitted through said optical cell; a first scanning source configured to scan said fluid in said optical cell over a broad wavelength range within the near infrared spectrum; a second scanning source configured to scan said fluid in said optical cell over a narrow wavelength range within the near infrared spectrum, wherein energy content of said fluid is determined using spectrographic analysis from said first scanning source, and wherein quantity of contaminant is determined using spectrographic analysis from said second scanning source. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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