DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CORROSION DETECTION AND FORMATION EVALUATION USING INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL ELEMENTS

摘要

An optical computing device and method for (1) determining and/or monitoring corrosion data in a given environment and (2) evaluating a downhole formation, both being accomplished in real-time by deriving the data from the output of an optical element.

主权项

1. A method utilizing an optical computing device to determine corrosion of a sample, the method comprising:
deploying an optical computing device into an environment, the optical computing device comprising an optical element and a detector; optically interacting electromagnetic radiation with a sample to produce sample-interacted light; optically interacting the optical element with the sample-interacted light to generate optically-interacted light which corresponds to a characteristic of the sample; generating a signal that corresponds to the optically-interacted light through utilization of the detector; and determining a corrosion of the sample using the signal.