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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2022
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Rae Andrew Younger, Aberdeenshire, GB;
Richard Mark Pye, Aberdeen, GB;
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Abstract
An evaporative cooler for cooling drilling fluid includes a flow pipe having an inner surface in contact with drilling fluid and an outer surface in contact with an evaporative medium. The flow pipe has a serpentine configuration within a transportation frame. A system for cooling a drilling fluid includes a mud circulation system connecting the drilling fluid between a well and a surface where an evaporative cooler is coupled to the mud circulation system and has a serpentine flow pipe in a transportation frame. A method includes pumping heated drilling fluid from a wellbore to an evaporative cooling system, with an evaporative cooler to cool the heated drilling fluid, and sending the cooled drilling fluid back to the wellbore. Another method includes using an intermediate cooler, wherein the intermediate cooler comprises a heat exchanger and an intermediate fluid.