Applied Research of Optical Fiber Sensor in Oil and Gas Pipe Corrosion Monitoring

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 020604 ◽  
Author(s):  
杨牧 Yang Mu ◽  
刘秀红 Liu Xiuhong ◽  
刘伟 Liu Wei ◽  
李再春 Li Zaichun
Author(s):  
Wei-Liang Jin ◽  
Jian-Wen Shao ◽  
En-Yong Zhang

Submarine pipeline system is a main pattern in collection and transmission of offshore oil and gas, which sends oil and gas from offshore oil/gas field to land, and it plays an important role in the production of oil and gas. Because of the complicated and harsh condition in which pipeline system works, such as impulsion, corrosion and free-spanning vibration, failure of submarine pipeline system occurs occasionally, it causes oil leakage, environment pollution and economic losses. Health monitoring is a feasible and effective manner to ensure submarine pipeline safe and reliable during service, especially when all factors affecting pipeline failure are not still entirely realized or controlled. The basic strategy of a new real-time monitoring system for long distance submarine pipeline is introduced in this paper, which has the function of diagnosis and auto-alarm. In this system, a new distributed optical fiber sensor (DOFS), which uses optical time domain reflectometry theory based on Brillouin backscatter, is applied to monitor the strain and temperature along the pipeline. To be used for long distance submarine pipeline, this system applies Wavelength Division Multiplex (WDM) technology and series DOFSs in series so as to extend the measure scope for long distance submarine pipeline. By using signal processing system to analyze the outcome data of sensor, the strain along the pipeline can be obtained. If the strain reaches the alarm setting, the system will send out caution and meanwhile accurately give the damage position. The system can also analyses vibration frequency of pipeline, if free-spanning vibration occurs, caution will also be given, so that the operator can take some measures in time to avoid the failure of pipeline. In this paper, the makeup of distributed optical fiber sensor and developing principle are specified, system development, application and construction in engineering are analyzed as well. The brand new practical system can not only be used for submarine oil and gas pipeline but also for land oil and gas transfer system, city coal gas transfer system, electricity-transmission cable and so on. This system can be widely used in many prospects of other industries.


Author(s):  
Ruishu F. Wright ◽  
Nathan Diemler ◽  
James C. Egbu ◽  
Michael P. Buric ◽  
Paul R. Ohodnicki

Author(s):  
Dakuan Yu ◽  
Xueguang Qiao ◽  
Xiangyu Wang ◽  
Lisong Zhang

The optical fiber sensor for oriented bending based on eccentric UV exposure is fabricated. With the eccentric UV exposure on the ready-made Michelson interference fiber structure, the optical sensor gives the oriented bending characteristics by changing the radial circular symmetry of fiber cladding refractive indexes. The principle of the asymmetric process of the eccentric exposure to cladding mode are analyzed. The bending loss of the excited cladding mode in different radial directions is detected. The experimental results show that the Michelson interference has some oriented bending characteristics in the eccentric UV exposure process. There are different bending sensitivity in different radial directions. Furthermore, the bending sensitivity is higher on the exposed side and the curvature sensitivity is 5.5 dB·m. On the opposite side, the bending sensitivity is lower and the curvature sensitivity is -1.31 dB·m. With these oriented bending characteristics, the optical sensor can be applied to oil and gas exploration and development and to oriented seismic wave vector detection.


2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-99
Author(s):  
N. Sogabe ◽  
S. Nakaue ◽  
K. Chikiri ◽  
M. Hayakawa

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (0) ◽  
pp. 19-00095-19-00095
Author(s):  
Shogo FUJIMOTO ◽  
Suguru UEMURA ◽  
Nobuyuki IMANISHI ◽  
Shuichiro HIRAI

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1166
Author(s):  
Bin Liu ◽  
Jianping He ◽  
Shihai Zhang ◽  
Yinping Zhang ◽  
Jianan Yu ◽  
...  

Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) of distributed optical fiber sensor is extracted from the Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS), which is often characterized by Lorenz type. However, in the case of complex stress and optical fiber self damage, the BGS will deviate from Lorenz type and be asymmetric, which leads to the extraction error of BFS. In order to enhance the extraction accuracy of BFS, the Lorenz local single peak fitting algorithm was developed to fit the Brillouin gain spectrum curve, which can make the BSG symmetrical with respect to the Brillouin center frequency shift. One temperature test of a fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) packaged sensor whose BSG curve is asymmetric was conducted to verify the idea. The results show that the local region curve of BSG processed by the developed algorithm has good symmetry, and the temperature measurement accuracy obtained by the developed algorithm is higher than that directly measured by demodulation equipment. Comparison with the reference temperature, the relative measurement error measured by the developed algorithm and BOTDA are within 4% and 8%, respectively.


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