Fiber optic pressure and temperature sensors for oil down hole application

Bing Qi; Gary R. Pickrell; Po Zhang; Yuhong Duan; Wei Peng; JunCheng Xu; ZhengYu Huang; Jiangdong Deng; Hai Xiao; Zhiyong Wang; Wei Huo; Russell G. May; Anbo Wang

doi:10.1117/12.456071

14 February 2002 Fiber optic pressure and temperature sensors for oil down hole application

Bing Qi, Gary R. Pickrell, Po Zhang, Yuhong Duan, Wei Peng, JunCheng Xu, ZhengYu Huang, Jiangdong Deng, Hai Xiao, Zhiyong Wang, Wei Huo, Russell G. May, Anbo Wang

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Proceedings Volume 4578, Fiber Optic Sensor Technology and Applications 2001; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.456071
Event: Environmental and Industrial Sensing, 2001, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

Detailed studies on fiber optic pressure and temperature sensors for oil down-hole applications are described in this paper. The sensor head is an interferometric based fiber optic senor in which the air-gap will change with the pressure or temperature. For high-speed applications, a novel self-calibrating interferometric/intensity-based (SCIIB) scheme, which realizes compensations for both the light source drift and the fiber loss variation, was used to demodulate the pressure (or temperature) signals. An improved white light system was developed for sensor fabrication. This system is also used as the signal demodulation system providing very high resolution. Experiment results show that the SCIIB system achieves 0.1% accuracy with a 0-8000psi working range for the pressure sensor and a 0-600 degree(s)C working range for the temperature sensor. The resolution of the white light system is about +/- 0.5 nm with a dynamic range up to 10 micrometers. The long -term testing results in the oil site are also presented in this paper.

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Bing Qi, Gary R. Pickrell, Po Zhang, Yuhong Duan, Wei Peng, JunCheng Xu, ZhengYu Huang, Jiangdong Deng, Hai Xiao, Zhiyong Wang, Wei Huo, Russell G. May, and Anbo Wang "Fiber optic pressure and temperature sensors for oil down hole application", Proc. SPIE 4578, Fiber Optic Sensor Technology and Applications 2001, (14 February 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.456071

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