Immersed lens downhole refractometer
AssigneeBaker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
InventorsRocco DiFoggio, Helene C. Climent
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Abstract
An apparatus for detecting one or more properties of a downhole fluid includes a housing. The apparatus also includes a location-sensitive optical detector, arranged within a chamber formed by the housing. The apparatus further includes a light source, arranged within the chamber. The apparatus also includes a lens, positioned at an end of the housing, the lens preferably having a flat side and a curved side, the flat side positioned proximate the chamber to position the flat side closer to the light source than the curved side. The apparatus further includes a mirror, arranged outside the housing.
Claims6
A system for determining one or more fluid properties, comprising:
- a tool component adapted to be secured to a tool string for use in a downhole environment;
- and
- a sensor associated with the tool component, comprising:
- a pressure housing having a chamber;
- a lens, forming at least a portion of the pressure housing;
- a detector, arranged within the chamber formed by the pressure housing;
- a light source, arranged within the chamber;
- and
- a mirror positioned outside the pressure housing.
A system for determining one or more fluid properties, comprising:
- a tool component adapted to be secured to a tool string for use in a downhole environment;
- a sensor associated with the tool component, comprising:
- a pressure housing having a chamber;
- a lens, forming at least a portion of the pressure housing and at least partially immersed in a fluid;
- a detector, arranged within the chamber formed by the pressure housing;
- a light source, arranged within the chamber;
- and
- a mirror positioned outside the pressure housing and at least partially immersed in the fluid;
- and
- a control system including at least one memory and at least one processor, wherein instructions are stored on the at least one memory that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
- emit a beam from the light source positioned in the chamber formed by the pressure housing, wherein the beam is directed through the lens and toward the mirror;
- receive, from the mirror and through the lens, a reflected beam at the detector;
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- determine, based at least in part on the reflected beam, the one or more fluid properties.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.