SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING OF AN OBJECT/STRUCTURE BY MEASUREMENT OF VIBRATIONS USING AN OPTICAL FIBER

    公开(公告)号:US20250123139A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-17

    申请号:US18688110

    申请日:2022-09-21

    Applicant: ENI S.P.A.

    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring by optical fiber for the measurement of vibrations an object/structure includes the optical fiber associated with the object/structure and one end connected to a circulator and a terminated opposite end, a source of symbols emitting sequence of NS input signals and configured to generate an input vector, a multi-carrier OFDM modulation block adapted to modulate a light beam emitted by a laser source by an OFDM modulating signal to determine a sensing signal with NC subcarriers, the modulating signal OFDM being generated on the basis of the input vector; the circulator adapted to send the sensing signal to the optical fiber and to receive a backscattered signal; an OFDM demodulation block; and a processing unit that processes the output and input vectors, on the basis of respective Nc reference vectors of the optical fiber, generating a deformation vector.

    OPTICAL FIBER VIBRATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM IN MULTIPHASE FLOWS WITH RELATED METHOD TO MONITOR MULTIPHASE FLOWS

    公开(公告)号:US20170336248A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-23

    申请号:US15538764

    申请日:2015-12-23

    Applicant: Eni S.p.A.

    CPC classification number: G01H9/004 G01D5/35361 G01F1/661 G01V8/24 G01V11/002

    Abstract: A vibration measurement system and relative method to monitor multiphase flows in extraction wells or conduits, by analysis of backscattered multimode fiber light comprising: • a sensing multimode optical fiber; • an optical source, containing a high coherence laser that emits optical pulses to be sent in said sensing fiber; • a photonic lantern with 3 or more single-mode optical fiber ports and one multimode fiber port that is connected to the sensing multimode fiber; • an optical receiver, comprising a number of photodetectors equal to the number of the single-mode optical fiber ports of said photonic lantern minus 1, wherein each photodetector is connected to each of said single-mode ports; • a system for processing output signals from the optical receiver, the optical source being connected to one of the single-mode optical fiber ports and the other single-mode fibers being connected to the optical receiver. A process is also described for reconfiguring an optical reflectometry system already installed at a facility to be monitored.

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