Marshall Webster

US Patent:

20140061449, Mar 6, 2014

Filed:

Aug 31, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/600355

Inventors:

Ola Tunheim - Bryne, NO
Marshall E. Webster - Spring TX, US
Alexis Wachtel, II - Houston TX, US
Robert P. Freese - Pittsboro NC, US
James R. MacLennan - Aberdeen, GB

Assignee:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. - Houston TX

International Classification:

G01N 21/17
G01N 21/49

US Classification:

25022711, 250573, 250574

Abstract:

Disclosed is a portable handheld characteristic analyzer used to analyze chemical compositions in or near real-time. One method of using the analyzer to determine a characteristic of a sample includes directing the handheld characteristic analyzer at the sample, the handheld characteristic analyzer having at least one integrated computational element arranged therein, activating the handheld characteristic analyzer, thereby optically interacting the at least one integrated computational element with the sample and generating optically interacted light, receiving the optically interacted light with at least one detector arranged within the handheld characteristic analyzer, generating an output signal corresponding to the characteristic of the sample with the at least one detector, receiving the output signal with a signal processor communicably coupled to the at least one detector, and determining the characteristic of the sample with the signal processor.

US Patent:

20140061513, Mar 6, 2014

Filed:

Aug 31, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/600288

Inventors:

Ola Tunheim - Bryne, NO
Marshall E. Webster - Spring TX, US
Alexis Wachtel, II - Houston TX, US
Robert P. Freese - Pittsboro NC, US
James R. MacLennan - Aberdeen, GB

Assignee:

Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. - Houston TX

International Classification:

G01N 21/17

US Classification:

250564, 250206

Abstract:

Disclosed is a portable handheld characteristic analyzer used to analyze chemical compositions in or near real-time. The analyzer may include a portable housing, at least one optical computing device arranged within the portable housing for monitoring a sample, the at least one optical computing device having at least one integrated computational element configured to optically interact with the sample and thereby generate optically interacted light, at least one detector arranged to receive the optically interacted light and generate an output signal corresponding to a characteristic of the sample, and a signal processor communicably coupled to the at least one detector for receiving the output signal, the signal processor being configured to determine the characteristic of the sample and provide a resulting output signal indicative of the characteristic of the sample.