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Acoustic Profiling of Bottom Sediments in Large Oil Storage Tanks

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Characteristic features of acoustic profiling of bottom sediments in large oil storage tanks are considered. Basic acoustic parameters of crude oil and bottom sediments are presented. It is shown that, because of the presence of both transition layers in crude oil and strong reverberation effects in oil tanks, the volume of bottom sediments that is calculated from an acoustic surface image is generally overestimated. To reduce the error, additional post-processing of acoustic profilometry data is proposed in combination with additional measurements of viscosity and tank density distributions in vertical at several points of the tank.

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  1. Andreev Acoustics Inctitute, Moscow, 117036, Russia

    V. D. Svet

  2. Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    S. A. Tsysar’

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Original Russian Text © V.D. Svet, S.A. Tsysar’, 2018, published in Akusticheskii Zhurnal, 2018, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 112–118.

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Svet, V.D., Tsysar’, S.A. Acoustic Profiling of Bottom Sediments in Large Oil Storage Tanks. Acoust. Phys. 64, 115–121 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063771018010177

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