Provided are techniques for saturation logging a hydrocarbon well in a hydrocarbon reservoir. The techniques including conducting a pulsed neutron (PN) logging of the well to generate a carbon/oxygen (C/O) log, conducting a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging of the well to generate a viscosity log, conducting a temperature logging of the well to generate a temperature log, determining a relationship of oil API gravity to viscosity and temperature for the reservoir, determining an oil API gravity log for the well based on the viscosity log, the temperature log, and the relationship of oil API gravity to viscosity and temperature, determining, based on the oil API gravity log, an oil density log for the well, determining, based on the oil density log, an oil-carbon density log for the well, and determining, based on the oil-carbon density log and the C/O log, a continuous oil saturation log for the well.

A digital avatar may be used to represent, track, and/or monitor behavior of a tool (e.g., a downhole tool) to track particular tools based on specific characteristics of the tool. For instance, a thermal digital avatar may be used to track or predict thermal generation for particular job durations or power levels based on physical characteristics of the tool. For example, the thermal digital avatar may be used to predict thermal generation based at least in part on a thermal efficiency that is based at least in part on the age of the tool, changes or imperfections in heatsinks, results of after-manufacture thermal testing, or a combination thereof.

A method for ranking thermal reactivities for kinetics assignment in basin modeling may include obtaining information relating to various source rock samples. The method may include determining thermal reactivities of source rocks corresponding to the various source rock samples. The source rocks are at a same level of thermal maturity in an area of interest. The method may include ranking the thermal reactivities at different thermal maturities. The method includes comparing published, archived and measured kinetic parameters of source rocks in the area of interest. The method may include sorting kinetic parameters in organofacies of a source rock formation in terms of reactivity and maturity. The method may include assigning kinetic parameters derived from an immature source rock unit to mature source rock units in a source rock formation in a sedimentary basin. The method may include evaluating the reactivities to improve selection and assignment of the kinetic parameters in the basin modeling.

A system and a method for determining an object has been on a vehicle seat of a vehicle are provided. The processing circuitry may determine if passengers of the vehicle have left the vehicle. The processing circuitry may determine if a temperature of a vehicle cabin of the vehicle meets a threshold of temperature. The temperature of the vehicle cabin to a first temperature may be adjusted. A temperature of resistive filaments of the vehicle seat of the vehicle to a second temperature may be adjusted. A thermal image of the vehicle seat with a reference thermal image of the vehicle seat may be compared. The processing circuitry may determine if the object has been left on the vehicle seat.

One embodiment provides a heat conveyance module, including: a top plate, the top plate including an opening; at least two side plates, wherein each of the two side plates is mechanically coupled to a bottom face of the top plate; at least one pole coupled to the top plate, the at least one pole having an interior opening, wherein the lengthwise dimension of the at least one pole is perpendicular to the lengthwise dimension of the top plate; and at least one tamper detection device placed within the interior opening of the at least one pole.

A method and apparatus are provided for determining movement of a fluid into or out of a subsurface wellbore, to thereby enable accurate allocation of fluids being produced by or injected into each of several zones of the wellbore. A temperature change is effected in the fluid at a first location in the wellbore. A temperature of the fluid is measured at one or more sensing locations downstream of the location of the temperature change. A simulated heat flow profile is generated from a wellbore model. The simulated heat flow profile is compared to the measured temperature of the fluid at the one or more sensing locations. An inversion model is used to determine, for a plurality of points of interest, a fluid flow direction and/or a cumulative flow rate contribution.

A human identifying device includes a temperature sensing module, a temperature pattern recognizing module and a human body identifying module. The temperature sensing module senses temperature distribution within the target area. The temperature pattern recognizing module determines at least one matching region out of the target area based on a human-resembling temperature feature within the temperature distribution. The temperature pattern recognizing module identifies at least one matching temperature sensor that corresponds to the at least one matching region. The human body identifying module determines if distribution of the at least one matching temperature sensor resembles at least one part of a human body contour.

A prediction method for changes of physical parameters after earthquakes includes: obtaining a precipitable water vapor after an earthquake in a target monitoring area during a historical period; verifying the accuracy of the precipitable water vapor collected in the historical period; obtaining thermal anomaly data of the land surface temperature after the earthquake in the target monitoring area during the historical period; determining a time difference between peak of the precipitable water vapor and peak of the thermal anomaly of the land surface temperature; when the earthquake occurs again in the target monitoring area, detecting a time point corresponding to the peak of the thermal anomaly of the land surface temperature in the target monitoring area, adding the time point to the time difference to obtain a predicted time point of the peak of precipitable water vapor, and outputting the predicted time point as a time point of secondary disaster.

The invention relates to an apparatus 1 for holding a piece of bait 2, in particular a piece of bait 2 for pests 14, preferably for rodents, comprising: a housing part 3 which has a receiving space 6 for receiving a piece of bait 2 and can be inserted into a part of a sewer system, a detecting device 9, equipped to detect a first item of information, an output device 11, equipped to output a first item of information detected by the detecting device 9.

In certain aspects, an enclosure for a wireless power transfer pad is disclosed. The enclosure includes a cover shell configured to be positioned over a portion of the wireless power transfer pad configured to face a wireless power receiver when wirelessly transferring power, wherein at least a portion of the cover shell is made of a heat resistant material.