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Patent No.:

US 10557328 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 09, 2016

Thermal load based automatic valve arrangement and method

Applicant:

Jose Rafael Gonzalez Castillo, Fulshear, TX (US);

Inventor:

Jose Rafael Gonzalez Castillo, Fulshear, TX (US);

Assignee:

BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC, Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:

Cantor Colburn LLP

Primary Examiner:

Ljiljana V Ciric

Assistant Examiner:

Alexis K Cox

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 34/06 (2006.01); E21B 43/24 (2006.01); E21B 47/06 (2012.01); F16K 1/34 (2006.01); F16K 15/18 (2006.01); F16K 31/00 (2006.01); G05D 23/185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 34/06 (2013.01); E21B 43/2406 (2013.01); E21B 47/065 (2013.01); F16K 1/34 (2013.01); F16K 15/18 (2013.01); F16K 31/002 (2013.01); G05D 23/1852 (2013.01);
Abstract

A thermal load based automatic valve arrangement including an actuator responsive to fluid temperature flowing through the arrangement, a closure member operably connected to the actuator, and a seat receptive to the closure member to prevent or restrict fluid flow through the arrangement in a first direction when actuated while still allowing fluid flow in a second direction. A method for controlling steam movement in a production string of a SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) installation including sensing with an actuator, temperature of fluid moving through a valve arrangement, automatically adjusting the valve arrangement pursuant to thermal load on the actuator.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Castillo, Jose Rafael Gonzalez. (2020). Thermal load based automatic valve arrangement and method (U.S. Patent No. 10557328). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10557328

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