Method of assessment of the quality of the burn of the gases in the flare and adjustment to the vapor flow rate in a continuous and constant way
US12392488B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 18, 2022 |
| Grant date | Aug 19, 2025 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 21, 2043 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF23N2237/22
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention presents a method of assessing the quality of the burning of the gases in the flare and adjusting the vapor flow rate in a continuous way and with flexibility to integrate with different instrumentation topologies of the flare control system. The state of the flare flame is identified from an image set of the flame, classifying it into one of four: flame with excess vapor, optimized flame, flame with soot or images with insufficient information to classify them as one of the previous states of the flare flame. In addition, it is further able to quantify the height of the flame. The invention comprises the following components: flare, camera, image stream manager, edge computer, data historian, alert manager, information visualization panels, distributed digital control system, DDCS, and cloud storage and computing.
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