Patent ID: 7001505

Claim:
A slurry monitoring system configured to monitor a characteristic of a slurry flowing through a slurry flow chamber, said system comprising: a base plate coupled to a wall of said slurry flow chamber; a filter having pores of a predetermined diameter coupled to said base plate, configured to extract a portion of said slurry flowing through said slurry flow chamber, configured to filter said portion of said slurry to produce a filtered slurry with debris having a diameter less than or equal to said predetermined diameter, and configured to pass a first portion of said filtered slurry back to said slurry flow chamber; a filter chamber encompassed by said filter and configured to contain said filtered slurry; an outlet pipe having an inner diameter substantially twice said predetermined diameter, coupled to said filter chamber, and configured to pass a second portion of said filtered slurry; and a monitoring device coupled into said outlet pipe and configured to monitor said characteristic of said second portion of said filtered slurry.