Heat Pulse System

Active distributed temperature measurements provide information about thermal transport at all locations along a fiber optic cable. This insight can be crucial for monitoring fluid presence and flow in environments with limited natural thermal gradients, or for characterizing thermal properties in-situ. Silixa’s Heat Pulse System (HPS) allows the heating of a fibre optic cable by supplying time and power-controlled pulses. It operates with an electric power supply and an optical fibre cable with embedded heating elements. HPS can be combined with any Silixa distributed temperature sensor to provide a complete monitoring solution, with both units controlled by a shared interface. The total measurement time, frequency and intensity of the heating cycles can be set to meet the measurement requirements of the installation.