Title :
Monitoring of hydraulic fracturing using DFB fiber laser acoustic sensors
Author :
Rongzhang Chen ; Aidong Yan ; Zaghloul, Mohamed ; Guanyi Lu ; Bunger, Andrew P. ; Miller, Gary A. ; Cranch, Geoffrey A. ; Chen, Kevin P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
This paper studies acoustic emission from hydraulic fracturing using DFB fiber laser sensors interrogated by a 3×3 coupler. This study shows that fiber lasers are useful tools to monitor fracturing processes for oil gas extraction.
Keywords :
distributed feedback lasers; fibre optic sensors; measurement by laser beam; natural gas technology; oil technology; optical fibre couplers; DFB fiber laser acoustic sensors; acoustic emission; hydraulic fracturing monitoring; oil gas extraction; optical coupler; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic sensors; Monitoring; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber sensors; Strain;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
