Remote sensing of gas leaks

Details Remote sensing of gas leaks Remote sensing of gas leaks

2004-03-12

2010-12-21

Porta, David P (Department: 2884)

Radiant energy

Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling

Infrared responsive

Reexamination Certificate

active

07855367

ABSTRACT:
A gas filter correlation radiometer mounted on an aircraft is flown over a target area. The gas filter correlation radiometer is configured to detect ethane (C2H6) gas in the event of a gas leak. The gas filter correlation radiometer uses background radiation to detect ethane.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3032655 (1962-05-01), Romans
patent: 3472593 (1969-10-01), Drinkwater
patent: 4436428 (1984-03-01), Watanabe et al.
patent: 4507558 (1985-03-01), Bonne
patent: 4520265 (1985-05-01), Griggs et al.
patent: 4543481 (1985-09-01), Zwick
patent: 4676642 (1987-06-01), French
patent: 4836678 (1989-06-01), Okaji
patent: 4958076 (1990-09-01), Bonne et al.
patent: 5067799 (1991-11-01), Gold et al.
patent: 5128797 (1992-07-01), Sachse et al.
patent: 5155628 (1992-10-01), Dosmann
patent: 5742383 (1998-04-01), Jeon
patent: 5946095 (1999-08-01), Henningsen et al.
patent: 6008928 (1999-12-01), Sachse et al.
patent: 6061141 (2000-05-01), Goldenberg et al.
patent: 6157033 (2000-12-01), Chudnovsky
patent: 6301054 (2001-10-01), Van Tran
patent: 6307626 (2001-10-01), Miles et al.
patent: 6310677 (2001-10-01), Togano et al.
patent: 6409198 (2002-06-01), Weimer et al.
patent: 6509566 (2003-01-01), Wamsley et al.
patent: 6574031 (2003-06-01), Sachse
patent: 6611329 (2003-08-01), Sachse
patent: 6750453 (2004-06-01), Nelson et al.
patent: 6756592 (2004-06-01), Smith et al.
patent: 6829051 (2004-12-01), Abe et al.
patent: 6853452 (2005-02-01), Laufer
patent: 2003/0025081 (2003-02-01), Edner et al.
patent: 2003/0112435 (2003-06-01), Sachse
patent: 2003/0206325 (2003-11-01), Sachse et al.
patent: 2004/0088113 (2004-05-01), Spoonhower et al.
patent: 2004/0156050 (2004-08-01), Sachse
patent: 2256992 (1992-12-01), None
patent: WO 00/55602 (2000-09-01), None
patent: WO0194916 (2001-12-01), None
J. Sandsten, P. Weibring, H. Edner & S. Svanberg: “Real-Time Gas-Correlation Imaging Employing Thermal Background Radiation”; Feb. 2000; vol. 6, No. 4, Optics Express; p. 92-103.
H. S. Lee, H.H. Zwick and S.M. Till: “Gas Filter Correlation Instrument for the Remote Sensing of Gas Leaks”; 1985 American Institute of Physics; p. 1812-1819.
J. Rudoph,: “The Tropospheric Distribution and Budget of Ethane” J. Geophys. Res., 100 (D6), 11369-11381 (1995).
B.T. Tolton and J.R. Drummond:“Characterization of the Length-Modulate/Radiometer”, Appl. Opt 36(22), 5409-5420 (1997).
Buxton, R.A. , et al., “Quantitative Remote Ssensing Tools For Air And Surface Mesaurements”, Proceedings of the Commission II Symposium on Advances in Instrumentation for Processing and Analysis of Photogrammetric and Remotely Sensed Data, Ottawa, Canada, Aug. 30-Sep. 3, 1982, pp. 593-608.
Aktas, M., et al., “Cassiopee Executive Summary”, Proceedings of the International Space University Summer Session Program 2001, Bremen, Germany, Jul. 15-Sep. 15, 2001, pp. 71-81, and 126-131.
B.T. Tolton, D. Yashcov, “A Concept for a Gas-Filter Correlation Radiometer to Remotely Sense the Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Column from Space”, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARRS '02. 2002 IEEE International, Jun. 24-28, 2002, vol. 4, Jun. 24, 2002, pp. 2118-2120.
Ward, T.V., Zwick, H.H., “Gas cell correlation spectrometer: GASPEC”, Applied Optics, vol. 14, No. 12, Dec. 1975, pp. 2896-2904.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Remote sensing of gas leaks does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Remote sensing of gas leaks, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Remote sensing of gas leaks will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4202894