18456131. ULTRASONIC IN-LINE INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH SQUARE TRANSDUCERS (SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY)
ULTRASONIC IN-LINE INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH SQUARE TRANSDUCERS
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Aziz U. Rehman of Edmonton (CA)
Isa H. Al-mudaibegh of Dammam (SA)
Naif A. Al-sufyani of Al Khobar (SA)
Ahmed F. Al-rashidi of Khobar (SA)
Yasser S. Al-subhi of Dhahran (SA)
ULTRASONIC IN-LINE INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH SQUARE TRANSDUCERS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18456131 titled 'ULTRASONIC IN-LINE INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH SQUARE TRANSDUCERS
Original Abstract Submitted
Ultrasonic pipeline crack inspection systems and methods can include a housing with an elongate body; a plurality of slots on a circumferential surface of the elongate body; and a plurality of square cross-section ultrasonic transducers (UTs) positioned in the corresponding the plurality of slots. A controller operatively coupled to the plurality of square cross-section UTs causes each UT of the plurality of square cross-section UTs to transmit a respective ultrasonic beam through the fluid flowed through the pipeline towards a wall of the pipeline, to receive a respective reflection of each ultrasonic beam transmitted by each square cross-section UT, and to process respective ultrasonic beam and each respective reflection of each ultrasonic beam to analyze a crack in the wall of the pipeline.