Industrial process monitoring and imaging

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PATENT NO 9829368
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14700285

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Exemplary embodiments include an apparatus for imaging a volume of material contained inside a vessel. The apparatus includes a plurality of synchronized acoustic sensors positioned at a periphery of an inner volume of the vessel. A processor combines the outputs of the acoustic sensors to identify at least one ambient noise source of the industrial process generating a noise field that illuminates an internal volume of the vessel and to provide an image of the material by temporal and spatial coherent processing of the transmission and reflection of the noise field generated by the noise source.

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CHEVRON U S A INCSAN RAMON CALIFORNIA 94583-0806

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Farhadiroushan, Mahmoud London, GB 52 964
Finfer, Daniel London, GB 17 354
Kutlik, Roy Oakland, US 2 54
Luo, Huping El Cerrito, US 55 332
Parker, Tom Richard London, GB 20 360

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