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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2015
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Jose Alberto Ortega Andrade, Houston, TX (US);
Jiangshui Huang, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Bernhard Rudolf Lungwitz, Houston, TX (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for forming spheroidal particles including inducing flow of a slurry of particles and a reactant through one or more orifices, detaching an amount of the slurry from the slurry flow following exit from the one or more orifices, the detached amount forming a slurry body, forming the slurry body into a spheroidal shape, contacting the spheroidally shaped slurry body with a coagulation solution to form a stabilized spheroidal particle and drying and/or sintering the stabilized spheroidal particle.