Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reducing fluid pressure spikes in a pumping system
-
Application No.: US15300938Application Date: 2015-03-30
-
Publication No.: US10393108B2Publication Date: 2019-08-27
- Inventor: Jonathan Wun Shiung Chong , Lewis Callaway , Kim Hodgson
- Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US TX Sugar Land
- Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Sugar Land
- International Application: PCT/US2015/023296 WO 20150330
- International Announcement: WO2015/153432 WO 20151008
- Main IPC: F04B1/00
- IPC: F04B1/00 ; F04B23/04 ; F04B23/06 ; F04B51/00 ; F04B49/06 ; F04B49/20 ; F04B17/03 ; F04B11/00 ; E21B43/26 ; F04B17/05

Abstract:
A pumping system including a plurality of pumps each having a pump fluid outlet, a drive shaft, a prime mover, and fluid displacing members operatively coupled with the drive shaft. A common fluid conduit may be fluidly coupled with each pump fluid outlet. A control system of the pumping system includes position sensors operable to generate information relating to phase and/or speed of each pump, pressure sensors operable to generate information relating to fluid pressure spikes, and a controller in communication with the position and pressure sensors. The controller is operable to cause the prime movers to adjust the phasing of the pumps with respect to each other, based on the information relating to fluid pressure spikes, and synchronize the speed of the pumps.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170016433A1 REDUCING FLUID PRESSURE SPIKES IN A PUMPING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-01-19
Information query