Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus, system and method for pumping gaseous fluid
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Application No.: US14062597Application Date: 2013-10-24
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Publication No.: US10371154B2Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Shiv Jayaram , Freddie George Walton , David Thomas Jolly , Steven Keith Tetzlaff
- Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: McGuireWoods LLP
- Main IPC: F04D9/00
- IPC: F04D9/00 ; F04D13/08 ; F04D13/10 ; F04D31/00

Abstract:
An apparatus, system and method for pumping gaseous fluid are described. The gas separator of the invention homogenizes at least a portion of produced well fluid and vents unhomogenized gas, improving the efficiency and decreasing the downtime of the assembly. A system for pumping gaseous fluid from an underground well includes a gas separator, the gas separator including an impeller configured to homogenize at least a portion of a gas and a liquid in a pumped fluid to obtain homogenized fluid, the impeller including a top side open to the diffuser and a truncated vane located at a mid-pitch location between at least two untruncated vanes starting from a bottom side of the impeller, and a gas separation chamber downstream of the impeller, the gas separation chamber configured to vent an unhomogenized gas, and a centrifugal pump arranged to receive the homogenized fluid from the gas separation chamber.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140050570A1 APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUMPING GASEOUS FLUID Public/Granted day:2014-02-20
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