Integrity monitoring of conduits

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10753820
APP PUB NO 20140069173A1
SERIAL NO

14115255

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The present invention relates to a method of integrity monitoring of a conduit. An optic fibre is provided optic fibre along the path of the conduit, and a fluid in the conduit is pressurized and depressurized. The optic fibre is interrogated to provide a distributed acoustic sensor, and data is sampled from a plurality of longitudinal portions of the fibre during the pressurizing and depressurizing. The data is processed to detect a signal characteristic of the integrity of the conduit.

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OPTASENSE HOLDINGS LIMITEDHAMPSHIRE GU14 0LX

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kelley, Christopher John Farnborough, GB 1 18
Roy, James Edward Alberta, CA 1 18

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