Detecting apparatus and method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11460126
APP PUB NO 20210148486A1
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16464756

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A method and apparatus for detecting pipe entrenchment or upheaval of a flexible pipe and/or the presence of an external feature to the flexible pipe. The method includes helically winding a temperature sensing element around a layer of a flexible pipe, helically winding a heating element around a layer of a flexible pipe, heating the heating element to a pre-determined temperature, measuring the temperature at at least two locations along the flexible pipe, comparing the measured temperature response at the at least two locations, and making a determination, from the comparison of measured responses, regarding the exterior vicinity of the pipe at one of the at least two locations.

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BAKER HUGHES ENERGY TECHNOLOGY UK LIMITEDBRISTOL BS48 1BS

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McNabb, John Cross Newcastle upon Tyne, GB 1 0
Nott, Philip Michael Newcastle upon Tyne, GB 3 9

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