US 12,292,356 B2
Non-intrusive integral system for pipelines monitoring in real time
Sergiy Sadovnychiy, Mexico City (MX); Juan Manuel López Carreto, Mexico City (MX); Edgar Alberto Canul García, Mexico City (MX); Marco Antonio Hernández Rojo, Mexico City (MX); Fernando Real Gómez, Mexico City (MX); Samuel Eduardo Moya Ochoa, Mexico City (MX); and Volodymyr Ponomaryov, Mexico City (MX)
Assigned to INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO, Mexico City (MX)
Filed by INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO, Mexico City (MX)
Filed on Feb. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/678,715.
Claims priority of application No. MX/a/2021/002358 (MX), filed on Feb. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0276116 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. G01M 3/24 (2006.01); G06Q 50/06 (2024.01); G08C 17/02 (2006.01)
CPC G01M 3/243 (2013.01) [G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); G08C 17/02 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-intrusive Integral System for monitoring pipelines in real time to detect and locate leaks in the transport of hydrocarbons comprising: three integrated modules: (a) an Acoustic System; (b) a Negative Pressure Wave Detection System; and (c) a System that analyzes the Mass and Energy Balance of product in a pipeline, wherein the system uses three processes: one a direct correlation using time stamps, a second a cross-correlation that uses pressure and hydrophone signals, and a third process identified as calculation mass balance and fluid energy.