Mid-infrared optical tomography for imaging through petroleum: A feasibility study

Author

Vendruscolo, Tiago P. ; Patyk, Rodolfo L. ; Dutra, Guilherme ; Martelli, Cicero ; Morales, Rigoberto E. M. ; da Silva, Marco J.

Author_Institution

Grad. Program of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Fed. Univ. of Technol. - Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

fYear

2015

fDate

11-14 May 2015

Firstpage

1400

Lastpage

1403

Abstract

The feasibility of generating tomographic images of objects inside crude oil is investigated in this paper. Crude oil in the visible spectrum usually appears as black oil. Nevertheless, in the mid-infrared range, crude oil presents bands of high transmission. These windows of opportunities are explored to obtain data for generating cross-section images. In this paper, a first generation tomograph (containing one radiation source and one detector) is setup and applied to visualize objects inside a typical crude oil sample from a Brazilian reservoir. Reconstructed images based on standard filtered back-projection algorithm for phantom measurements show very promising results.

Keywords

crude oil; image reconstruction; inspection; optical tomography; production engineering computing; Brazilian reservoir; crude oil; filtered back-projection algorithm; image reconstruction; mid-infrared optical tomography; petroleum; tomographic imaging; Detectors; Image reconstruction; Optical filters; Optical imaging; Optical sensors; Temperature measurement; Tomography; Imaging; MIR; Optical tomography; crude oil;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2015 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Pisa

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/I2MTC.2015.7151480

Filename

7151480