System and method for image-based analysis of a slurry and control of a slurry process

A system for characterizing a slurry in a slurry process includes a flow tube, a camera, and a computer. The system is suitable for use with an oil sands extraction slurry processed or treated by an oil sands extraction slurry process. The slurry is diverted from the slurry process into the flow tub...

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Hauptverfasser:	Skwarok Robert, Ridley Rodney, Dougan Pat, Polak Mark, Daugela Darcy, Bara Barry
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	BLASTING CALCULATING CHEMISTRY COMPUTING CONTROLLING COUNTING CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS FLUID DYNAMICS, i.e. METHODS OR MEANS FOR INFLUENCING THE FLOWOF GASES OR LIQUIDS FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS FUELS HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS HEATING HYDRAULICS OR PNEUMATICS IN GENERAL IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL INSTALLATIONS OR METHODS FOR OBTAINING, COLLECTING, ORDISTRIBUTING WATER LIGHTING LUBRICANTS MEASURING MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUIDLEVEL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING METALLURGY METERING BY VOLUME MINERAL WAXES PEAT PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES PHYSICS PRESENTATION OF DATA PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVEHYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION RECOGNITION OF DATA RECORD CARRIERS RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, ORGASES REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS REFORMING OF NAPHTHA REGULATING SEWERAGE SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE TESTING WATER SUPPLY WEAPONS
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Zusammenfassung:	A system for characterizing a slurry in a slurry process includes a flow tube, a camera, and a computer. The system is suitable for use with an oil sands extraction slurry processed or treated by an oil sands extraction slurry process. The slurry is diverted from the slurry process into the flow tube. The camera images the slurry as it flows through a transparent portion of the flow tube to produce a digital image of the slurry. The computer analyzes the digital image to determine a slurry characteristic. Based on the determined slurry characteristic, the computer may predict a performance metric of the slurry process and adjust an operating parameter of the slurry process to optimize the slurry process towards a target performance metric. Multiple systems may be used to continuously monitor slurry characteristics at upstream and downstream steps of the slurry process, and determine correlations between those characteristics.