Patent ID: 7876982

Claim:
A distributed temperature sensing (DTS) sensing system for measuring the surface temperature of a object made up of a combination of complex geometrical surface portions comprising: a. one or more sensor segments in contact with the exterior surfaces of said complex geometrical surface portions; said sensor segments comprising a plurality of optical fibers; b. mounting rings coupled to the surface of said object at the interface between each complex geometrical surface portion; c. straps connected between each sequential mounting ring coupled to the surface of said object and connected to said sensor segments to provide support to said sensor segments and to maintain contact between said sensor segments and exterior surfaces of said complex geometrical surface portions; d. tensioners coupled to said one or more sensor segments, wherein the tension force applied by the tensioners increase thermal coupling between said sensor segments and said exterior surfaces of said complex geometrical surface portions; wherein said plurality of sensors segments is coupled to a distributed temperature sensing (DTS) unit configured to quantify a temperature of the object detected by the plurality of sensor segments by measurement of transmitted and backscattered light from the optical fibers of the sensor segments in contact with the exterior surfaces of said complex geometrical surface portions.