发明申请
- 专利标题: PROPPANT SYSTEM
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申请号: US15455796申请日: 2017-03-10
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公开(公告)号: US20180257857A1公开(公告)日: 2018-09-13
- 发明人: Marc Kevin Fisher , Ronald William Gusek
- 申请人: PROPPANT EXPRESS SOLUTIONS, LLC
- 主分类号: B65D88/54
- IPC分类号: B65D88/54 ; B65G65/00 ; E21B41/00 ; B65D88/30
摘要:
A reusable proppant pod provides a containerized system for transport of oilfield proppant to a well location, and facilitates rapid discharge of the proppant in support of hydraulic fracturing operation. The proppant pod has a cylindrical sidewall, a top, and a frustoconical bottom that tapers towards a discharge gate. An external frame may be provided in rectilinear form to stabilize the proppant pod for road transport and to facilitate storage-stacking of a plurality of such proppant pods, one atop the other. The proppant pod is provided with fork lift tubes extending through the cylindrical sidewall. The proppant pod may have a solid top, in which case the proppant pod is inverted for filling operations that introduce proppant into the proppant pod through the discharge gate. A vent assembly is provided to facilitate entry of air during proppant discharge operations, where the vent assembly provides also a seal against proppant leakage during the inverted fill operation.