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Patent No.:

US 11938422 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2020

Differential pressure based automated sand detection and handling system for oil and gas well operations

Applicant:

Fmc Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Ryan Malone, Farmington, NM (US);

Sander Baaren, Houston, TX (US);

Eric Rasmussen, Austin, TX (US);

Richard Minter, Sealy, TX (US);

Assignee:

FMC Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:

Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP

Primary Examiner:

Bradley R Spies

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 21/24 (2006.01); B01D 21/26 (2006.01); B01D 21/30 (2006.01); B01D 21/32 (2006.01); B01D 21/34 (2006.01); B04C 5/00 (2006.01); E21B 43/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 21/32 (2013.01); B01D 21/245 (2013.01); B01D 21/267 (2013.01); B01D 21/302 (2013.01); B01D 21/34 (2013.01); B04C 5/00 (2013.01); E21B 43/2607 (2020.05);
Abstract

One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a separator vessel that is adapted to separate solids particles from a flow of a multi-phase fluid, a differential pressure sensing system that is adapted to measure a differential pressure of a column of the multi-phase fluid in the separator vessel and a control system that is adapted to determine at least one of a level, volume or weight of the separated solids particles within the separator vessel based upon at least the measured differential pressure of the column of the multi-phase fluid in the separator vessel.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Malone, Ryan. (2024). Differential pressure based automated sand detection and handling system for oil and gas well operations (U.S. Patent No. 11938422). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11938422

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