Monitoring System for Reciprocating Pumps
    12.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230250817A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-10

    申请号:US18104722

    申请日:2023-02-01

    Abstract: A monitoring system for reciprocating pump having a plunger connected to a crankshaft by a crosshead and connecting rod assembly. The monitoring system includes a plurality of wireless temperature sensors which each have a temperature probe connected to a sensor head, a plurality of antennas which each have an antenna head configured to communicate wirelessly with a corresponding one of the sensor heads, and a signal processing unit connected to the plurality of antennas. Each temperature probe is positioned in contact with a corresponding crank pin bearing, wrist pin bearing or crosshead bearing. Each sensor head is mounted to the crosshead, and each antenna head is mounted to the pump at a location in which communication is enabled between the antenna head and its corresponding sensor head when the crosshead reaches a first position during each reciprocation of the crosshead. In operation, each antenna head transmits a radar pulse which is reflected by its corresponding sensor head, the reflected pulse is received by the antenna head and communicated to the signal processing unit, and the signal processing unit determines the temperature of the sensor head from the reflected pulse, which temperature is indicative of the temperature of its corresponding monitored bearing.

    POPPET VALVE ASSEMBLY
    13.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190195214A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-27

    申请号:US16301316

    申请日:2017-06-28

    Inventor: Glenn D. HATCH

    Abstract: A poppet valve assembly including a valve seat defining at least one inlet port configured to receive a working fluid, a valve guard coupled to or integral with the valve seat and defining at least one outlet port configured to discharge the working fluid therefrom, and a valve member disposed in a guide pocket defined in the valve guard. The valve member may include a primary impact surface configured to contact a planar surface of the valve guard facing the valve seat. The valve member may also include a secondary impact surface configured to contact a bottom portion of the valve guard within the guide pocket after a structural failure of the primary impact surface prevents substantially all of the primary contact surface from contacting the planar surface.

    Pump wear detection system
    17.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12078163B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-03

    申请号:US17660069

    申请日:2022-04-21

    Inventor: Travis Lee Bolt

    Abstract: A pump monitoring system may include a sensor for monitoring a parameter of a pump system. The sensor may include at least one of an ammeter in electrical communication with an electric motor driving a pump and a torque sensor on a drive shaft that drives a pump. The system may also include a controller in data communication with the sensor to receive sensor data. The controller may be configured to assess the performance of the respective pump in one or more ways. At least one of the one or more ways may include reliance on the sensor data from only one sensor to identify valve or seat wear or failure. Alternatively or additionally, at least one of the one or more ways may identify valve or seat wear or failure without reliance on pump output pressure.

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