Non-intrusive automated deposition management
AssigneeMulti-Chem Group, LLC
InventorsDavid Bennett, Bo Gentry, Philippe Prince
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Abstract
A method may include: generating a signal in a conduit; measuring the signal; generating data representing a deposit in the conduit, the data being generated by a deposition identification model, wherein the deposition identification model utilizes the signal as an input; generating a treatment plan based at least in part on the data representing the deposit; and applying a chemical additive to the conduit based at least in part on the treatment plan.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- generating a signal in a conduit;
- measuring the signal;
- generating data representing a deposit in the conduit, the data being generated by a deposition identification model, wherein the deposition identification model utilizes the signal as an input;
- generating a treatment plan based at least in part on the data representing the deposit;
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- applying a chemical additive to the conduit based at least in part on the treatment plan.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having data stored therein representing software executable by a computer, the software including instructions comprising:
- instructions to accept a computer file representing acoustical or pressure signals;
- instructions to generate data representing a deposit, the data being generated by a deposition identification model wherein the deposition identification model utilizes the acoustical or pressure signals as an input;
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- instructions to generate a treatment plan based at least in part on the data representing the deposit.
A system comprising:
- an acoustical or pressure signal generator configured to generate an acoustical or pressure signal;
- an acoustical or pressure signal receiver configured to receive the acoustical or pressure signal and generate a signal output;
- a signal analysis unit configured to accept the signal output and generate data representing a deposit;
- a treatment analysis unit configured to accept the data representing the deposit as an input and generate a treatment plan, the treatment plan comprising at least one chemical additive and a flow rate thereof;
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- a treatment unit configured to accept the treatment plan as an input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.