Patent ID: 11965298
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E | IPC E

Claim 0:
1. A system for detecting and locating sand accumulation in an enclosure and for removing the detected and located sand accumulation, comprising:
a sand accumulation locator assembly adapted to detect and locate one or more accumulations of sand in the enclosure;
a sand removal mechanism adapted to remove the detected one or more accumulations of sand;
a controller communicatively coupled to the sand accumulation locator assembly and the sand removal mechanism, said controller being adapted to:
control the sand accumulation locator assembly to detect and locate the one or more accumulations of sand in the enclosure; and
control the sand removal mechanism to remove the one or more detected accumulations of sand based on corresponding one or more locations of accumulated sand detected by the sand accumulation locator assembly; and

a monitoring apparatus communicatively coupled to the controller and adapted to monitor performances of the sand accumulation locator assembly and the sand removal mechanism, said monitoring apparatus comprising an alert indicator for issuing an alert to an operator upon detecting a malfunction or failure.