Measurement and monitoring techniques for scale deposits in petroleum pipelines

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 1997, Pages 841-847

  Gunarathne, G P P ^a  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM PIPELINES; PIPELINES; SCALE (DEPOSITS); ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TESTING; DESCALING; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATIONS; DOWN HOLES; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; PIPELINE SURVEY; ULTRASONIC TECHNIQUES;

PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM PIPELINES;

CHEMICAL DESCALING; DOWN-HOLE PIPES;

EID: 0030683390     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.1997.610200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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