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US 10,379,036 B2Granted
Integrated computational element designed for multi-characteristic detection
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsMichael N. Simcock, David L. Perkins
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Abstract
A single Integrated Computational Element (“ICE”) predictive of multiple sample characteristics.
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A method for designing an Integrated Computational Element (“ICE”), comprising:
- defining a preliminary ICE design;
- defining a first chemical system having one or more components;
- defining a second chemical system having one or more components;
- determining a first performance factor of the preliminary ICE design which corresponds to the first chemical system;
- determining a second performance factor of the preliminary ICE design which corresponds to the second chemical system;
- summing the first and second performance factors to produce a total performance factor;
- determining a final ICE design based upon the total performance factor;
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- fabricating an ICE according to the final ICE design.
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A method for designing an Integrated Computational Element (“ICE”), comprising:
- defining a plurality of chemical systems that each represent one or more components;
- determining a single ICE design that corresponds to the plurality of chemical systems;
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- fabricating an ICE according to the single ICE design.
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An Integrated Computational Element (“ICE”) which approximates a regression vector of a plurality of chemical systems.
An optical computing device, comprising:
- an electromagnetic radiation source which produces electromagnetic radiation that optically interacts with a fluid sample to produce sample-interacted light;
- at least one Integrated Computational Element (“ICE”) that approximates a regression vector of a plurality of chemical systems, the at least one ICE being positioned to optically interact with the sample-interacted light to produce optically-interacted light that corresponds to at least one characteristic within the fluid sample;
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- an optical transducer positioned to receive the optically-interacted light and thereby generate a signal corresponding to the at least one characteristic of the fluid sample.
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An optical computing method, comprising:
- optically interacting electromagnetic radiation with a fluid sample to produce sample-interacted light;
- optically interacting the sample-interacted light with an Integrated Computational Element (“ICE”) to thereby generate optically-interacted light which corresponds to at least one characteristic of the fluid sample, wherein the ICE approximates a regression vector of a plurality of chemical systems;
- utilizing an optical transducer to generate a signal that corresponds to the at least one characteristic;
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- determining the at least one characteristic using the signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.