Abstract:
Gas detector devices, systems, and methods using a Golay cell are described herein. One device includes a microphone having a front surface with an sound collecting aperture for receiving sound, a substrate, a gas cavity formed in the substrate such that the gas cavity is in gas communication with the sound collecting aperture and the front surface forms a side surface of the gas cavity, and a window abutting the substrate to form a side surface of the gas cavity.
Abstract:
Laser-based spectroscopy systems and methods including a laser source that emits a beam of radiation, an optical resonant cavity having at least two cavity mirrors, and at least one beam filtering element positioned along a path of the beam external to the cavity and having a front surface, wherein the front surface is oriented such that an intersection of the beam and the surface is at an angle, such as the Brewster's angle or a pseudo-Brewster's, that reduces or eliminates reflection of a predominant polarization component of the beam by the filtering element.
Abstract:
A method for downhole fluid analysis by optical spectroscopy with photoacoustic detection includes positioning a photoacoustic system within a wellbore, applying a laser pulse to the fluid sample using the pulsed laser system, detecting, by the acoustic sensor, a time-resolved acoustic pulse generated by absorption of the laser pulse by the fluid sample, and determining a property of the fluid sample using the detected time resolved acoustic pulse. The photoacoustic system includes a pulsed laser system and an acoustic sensor.
Abstract:
A gas analysis system and method filter different wavelengths of incident light using a variable light filter (104) at different locations along a length of the variable light filter (104) to form filtered light. The variable light filter (104) is configured to be disposed between a light source (102) generating plural different wavelengths of the incident light and a gas sample (106). Intensities of wavelengths of the filtered light are determined after the incident light generated by the light source (102) passes through the variable light filter (104) and the gas sample (106). The gas sample (106) may be identified from among different potential gasses based on the intensity of the one or more wavelengths of the filtered light that is determined by the light detector (108).
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to a system and method for analyzing a gaseous sample extracted from a drilling fluid coming from a wellbore. The system comprises a surface assembly, situated outside of the wellbore and including : - an extractor for extracting a gaseous sample from the drilling fluid, - a quantification device connected to the extractor for quantifying at least a gaseous constituent contained the gaseous sample. The quantification device comprises at least a photoacoustic cell in fluid communication with the extractor, at least a light source for emitting a light beam at a predetermined emission spectrum in the photoacoustic cell, at least an acoustic detector positioned in the photoacoustic cell and a processor for calculating a parameter relative to the quantity of the gaseous constituent on the basis of a signal obtained from the detector.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a photo-acoustic cell (1), comprising: an acoustic resonator (2), said resonator comprising a resonator recess (3) in the form of a tube extending in a longitudinal detection (4); an input mirror (8) and an end mirror (10) aligned with the resonator (2) along an optical axis (5) of the cell parallel to the longitudinal direction (4); between the input mirror and the resonator, an input acoustic buffer (13); and between the end mirror and the resonator, an end acoustic buffer (14). According to a first aspect of the cell according to the invention, the lengths (63, 64) of the input and end acoustic buffers, measured in the longitudinal direction, are preferably asymmetrical. According to a second aspect of the cell according to the invention, the input mirror and the end mirror are preferably arranged to reflect a light beam (15) entering the cell through the input window (9) in the longitudinal direction, being centred on the optical axis, such that after each reflection on each of these mirrors, the reflected light beam remains centred on the optical axis (5). The invention also concerns a gas analyser comprising a cell according to the invention.