Ultrasonic feature extraction techniques for characterisation and quantification of scales in petroleum pipelines

Author

Gunarathne, G.P.P. ; Zhou, Q. ; Christidis, K.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Robert Gordon´´s Univ., Aberdeen, UK

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

859

Abstract

Development of time and frequency domain feature extraction techniques and wavelet transform methods to detect scale deposits in petroleum pipelines from top-side ultrasonic measurements are presented. The potential of ultrasonic imaging for pipeline internal surveys for scale deposits have been demonstrated and advances in identifying deposits in situ by means of acoustic measurements are also presented. Results indicate the feasibility of monitoring scale nucleation

Keywords

feature extraction; monitoring; petroleum industry; ultrasonic applications; ultrasonic imaging; ultrasonic measurement; wavelet transforms; US feature extraction; acoustic measurements; frequency domain feature extraction; monitoring; petroleum pipelines; pipeline internal surveys; scale deposits; scale nucleation; top-side ultrasonic measurements; ultrasonic imaging; wavelet transform; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic signal detection; Feature extraction; Frequency domain analysis; Frequency measurement; Petroleum; Pipelines; Time measurement; Wavelet domain; Wavelet transforms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Sendai

ISSN

1051-0117

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4095-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.1998.762279

Filename

762279