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US 2014/0208841 A1Published application
Passive Micro-vessel and Sensor
AssigneeFluidion SAS
InventorsAndreas Hausot, Dan E. Angelescu
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Abstract
An electrically passive device and method for in-situ acoustic emission, and/or releasing, sampling and/or measuring of a fluid or various material(s) is provided. The device may provide a robust timing mechanism to release, sample and/or perform measurements on a predefined schedule, and, in various embodiments, emits an acoustic signal sequence(s) that may be used for triangulation of the device position within, for example, a hydrocarbon reservoir or a living body.
Claims49
A system for acquiring samples in a body of fluid, the system comprising:
- a containment unit that is negatively buoyant relative to the body of fluid;
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- a sampling array tethered to the containment unit, the sampling array including a plurality of sampling devices positioned along the array, for sampling the body of fluid at varying depths.
A method for acquiring samples in a body of fluid, the method comprising:
- installing in the body of fluid a containment unit negatively buoyant relative to the body of fluid, a sampling array tethered to the containment unit, the sampling array including a plurality of sampling devices positioned along the array, for sampling the body of fluid at varying depths.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.