Detection of pipeline contaminants

A computer program product for detecting contaminants in a pipe that is transporting a known fluid, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer instructions stored therein for causing a computer processor to perform:

• establishing a baseline vibration pattern from readings generated by a smart sensor that is affixed to the pipe, wherein the baseline vibration pattern is caused by a flow of the known fluid as the known fluid travels through the pipe in an unadulterated form;
• taking subsequent readings from the smart sensor to generate a new vibration pattern;
• and
• in response to the new vibration pattern being different, beyond a predefined range, from the baseline vibration pattern, matching the new vibration pattern with a known vibration pattern in order to identify a specific contaminant of the known fluid, wherein the known vibration pattern is known to occur when the specific contaminant is flowing through the pipe with the known fluid;
• and
• determining a specific gravity of the specific contaminant by matching the new vibration pattern with the known vibration pattern.

A system comprising:

• a processor, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage media;
• first program instructions to establish a baseline vibration pattern from readings generated by a smart sensor that is affixed to a pipe, wherein the baseline vibration pattern is caused by a flow of a known fluid as the known fluid travels through the pipe in an unadulterated form;
• second program instructions to take subsequent readings from the smart sensor to generate a new vibration pattern;
• third program instructions to, in response to the new vibration pattern being different, beyond a predefined range, from the baseline vibration pattern, match the new vibration pattern with a known vibration pattern in order to identify a specific contaminant of the known fluid, wherein the known vibration pattern is known to occur when the specific contaminant is flowing through the pipe with the known fluid;
• and
• fourth program instructions to determine a specific gravity of the specific contaminant by matching the new vibration pattern with the known vibration pattern;
• and wherein
• the first, second, third, and fourth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media, and wherein the program instructions are executed by the processor via the computer readable memory.