US 12,461,005 B2
Apparatus and method to measure flare burner fallout
Konstantin Mikhailovich Serdyuk, Berdsk (RU); Roman Alexandrovich Skachkov, Quincy, MA (US); Dilara Ildusovna Serdyuk, Novosibirsk (RU); Grigory Yurievich Mikhalev, Novosibirsk (RU); Barbara Zielinska, Palaiseau (FR); Vitaly Valeryevich Singin, Florence, KY (US); Aleksander Yuryevich Moiseev, Novosibirsk (RU); and Evgeny Aleksandrovich Domakhin, Novosibirsk (RU)
Assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Appl. No. 18/259,144
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 14, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/063263
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 23, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/140109, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 30, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. RU2020143141 (RU), filed on Dec. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0060868 A1, Feb. 22, 2024
Int. Cl. G01N 15/0227 (2024.01); F23G 7/08 (2006.01); F23N 5/18 (2006.01); G01N 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 15/0227 (2013.01) [F23G 7/08 (2013.01); G01N 2015/0026 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. A method for monitoring unburned fallout droplets from a liquid flare burner, the method comprising:
generating first coordinates to dispose first fallout collection devices in a first measurement region;
disposing the first fallout collection devices in a first measurement region;
measuring first fallout from the liquid flare burner in the first measurement region;
generating second coordinates to dispose second fallout collection devices in a second measurement region;
disposing second fallout collection devices in a second measurement region;
measuring second fallout from the liquid flare burner in the second measurement region;
in response the liquid flare burner reaching steady-state operation, directing the first fallout collection devices and the second fallout collection devices to move from a closed position to an open position;
determining a fallout efficiency of the liquid flare burner based on a first volume of the first fallout and a second volume of the second fallout; and
in response to the fallout efficiency not satisfying a fallout efficiency threshold, adjusting a configuration of the liquid flare burner.