Patent Document ID: 20140129155
Application ID: 14155781
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of detecting an amount of delamination of an interior wall of a pipe that is transporting a known fluid, the computer-implemented method comprising: establishing, by one or more processors, a baseline vibration pattern from readings generated by a smart sensor that is affixed to the pipe, wherein the baseline vibration pattern is caused by a flow of the known fluid as the known fluid travels through the pipe in an unadulterated form; taking, by one or more processors, subsequent readings from the smart sensor to generate a new vibration pattern; in response to the new vibration pattern being different, beyond a predefined range, from the baseline vibration pattern, matching, by one or more processors, the new vibration pattern with a known vibration pattern in order to identify a specific contaminant of the known fluid, wherein the specific contaminant is a solid contaminant, wherein the known vibration pattern is known to occur when the specific contaminant is flowing through the pipe with the known fluid; determining, by one or more processors, a solid-contaminant-to-known-fluid ratio based on the new vibration pattern; determining, by one or more processors, a rate of solid contaminant introduction into the pipe based on the determined solid-contaminant-to-known-fluid ratio; determining, by one or more processors and based on the rate of solid contaminant introduction into the pipe, that the solid contaminant is caused by a delamination of an interior wall of the pipe; and determining, by one or more processors, an amount of delamination of the interior wall of the pipe by measuring an amount of time that the new vibration pattern is being generated.