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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 23, 2018
Applicant:

Caterpillar Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);

Inventors:

Zhijun Cai, Dunlap, IL (US);

Yanchai Zhang, Dunlap, IL (US);

Zhaoxu Dong, Dunlap, IL (US);

Assignee:

Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/008 (2012.01); F16K 37/00 (2006.01); E21B 43/26 (2006.01); G01M 13/003 (2019.01); E21B 43/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/008 (2020.05); F16K 37/0083 (2013.01); E21B 43/126 (2013.01); G01M 13/003 (2019.01);
Abstract

A rig management system is disclosed. The rig management system may gather, from a set of sensors, data that includes: vibration data related to vibration of a valve associated with a pump of a hydraulic fracturing rig during operation of the pump, and pump speed data related to a speed of the pump during operation of the pump. The rig management system may process the data to identify a trend related to the vibration data, wherein the vibration data has been normalized based on the pump speed data. The rig management system may determine a remaining useful life of the valve based on the trend and threshold data that identifies a set of thresholds related to the vibration of the valve. The rig management system may determine that the remaining useful life satisfies a threshold. The rig management system may schedule an operation to be performed on the valve.


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