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A seismic recording device

Abstract

A method and a device for noting the moment of an explosion on a seismic recording is proposed, in which the moment of the explosion is recorded as a result of a break in an electrical circuit under the effects of the explosive charge used to excite the seismic waves. The electrical circuit being broken is connected to the same energy source as the electric detonator which initiates the explosion, which is attached to a high frequency, alternating current source, where the circuit being broken is either the primary or the secondary winding of a transformer, through which the electric detonator is switched in to the source. The moment the circuit is broken is determined from the ceasation of current in the circuit or by the sharp rise in voltage in the broken sector. The method makes it possible to more precisely fix the moment of the break than the existing methods. When insulated copper wires are used the recording of the time occurs 100 microseconds after the explosion.
Publication Date:
Jun 08, 1983
Product Type:
Patent
Report Number:
GB 2109933
Reference Number:
EDB-85-076929
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 13 May 1982; Other Information: PAT-APPL-8,213,881
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; 03 NATURAL GAS; SEISMIC DETECTORS; DESIGN; UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS; SEISMIC DETECTION; TIME MEASUREMENT; CIRCUIT BREAKERS; DETONATORS; OPERATION; RECORDING SYSTEMS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TIME RESOLUTION; DETECTION; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT PROTECTION DEVICES; EXPLOSIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RESOLUTION; SEISMIC ARRAYS; TIMING PROPERTIES; 020200* - Petroleum- Reserves, Geology, & Exploration; 030200 - Natural Gas- Reserves, Geology, & Exploration
OSTI ID:
5878173
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Availability:
Plenum Publishing Corp., New York, N.Y.
Submitting Site:
HEDB
Size:
Pages: v
Announcement Date:
Jun 01, 1985

Citation Formats

Dixon, R, Kind, A G, and Thompson, S R. A seismic recording device. United Kingdom: N. p., 1983. Web.
Dixon, R, Kind, A G, & Thompson, S R. A seismic recording device. United Kingdom.
Dixon, R, Kind, A G, and Thompson, S R. 1983. "A seismic recording device." United Kingdom.
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title = {A seismic recording device}
author = {Dixon, R, Kind, A G, and Thompson, S R}
abstractNote = {A method and a device for noting the moment of an explosion on a seismic recording is proposed, in which the moment of the explosion is recorded as a result of a break in an electrical circuit under the effects of the explosive charge used to excite the seismic waves. The electrical circuit being broken is connected to the same energy source as the electric detonator which initiates the explosion, which is attached to a high frequency, alternating current source, where the circuit being broken is either the primary or the secondary winding of a transformer, through which the electric detonator is switched in to the source. The moment the circuit is broken is determined from the ceasation of current in the circuit or by the sharp rise in voltage in the broken sector. The method makes it possible to more precisely fix the moment of the break than the existing methods. When insulated copper wires are used the recording of the time occurs 100 microseconds after the explosion.}
place = {United Kingdom}
year = {1983}
month = {Jun}
}