In situ exploitation-separation-backfilling integration apparatus used for natural gas hydrates

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11434727-B2
Application number	US-202117537437-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 29, 2021
Priority date	Feb 1, 2021
Publication date	Sep 6, 2022
Grant date	Sep 6, 2022

Abstract

An in situ exploitation-separation-backfilling integration apparatus for natural gas hydrates is disclosed, consisting of a cyclonic suction device for coarse fraction, a jet flow device for sand discharge and a spiral cyclone device for fine fraction. The cyclonic suction device for coarse fraction is provided with a vortex trough and a cyclonic auxiliary flow channel; the jet flow device for sand discharge mainly consists of a sand discharge sliding sleeve, a sand discharge jet cylinder and a spring, wherein the sand discharge sliding sleeve can control the spraying out of hydraulic fluid and it is provided with a sand discharge butting head; inside the spiral cyclone device for fine fraction is a tapered structure and its upper portion is provided with a centering bracket.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An in situ exploitation-separation-backfilling integration apparatus for natural gas hydrates, which is configured as a double-layer tube structure and comprises a jet flow device for sand discharge, a cyclonic suction device for coarse fraction and a spiral cyclone device for fine fraction as an outer layer structure as a whole, and a hydraulic fluid tube ( 12 ) as an inner layer,
wherein the whole jet flow device is located at the bottom end of the apparatus,
an upper end of the jet flow device is connected to the cyclonic suction device through screw threads, the cyclonic suction device is connected to a lower end of the spiral cyclone device through screw threads;
the jet flow device comprises a sand discharge jet cylinder ( 1 ), a spring I ( 2 ), a sand discharge sliding sleeve ( 3 ), a spring II ( 4 ) and a spring plate ( 5 ), the lower end of the sand discharge sliding sleeve ( 3 ) abuts the spring I ( 2 ) and the upper end of the sand discharge sliding sleeve ( 3 ) abuts the spring II ( 4 ), the spring plate ( 5 ) seals the spring I ( 2 ), the sand discharge sliding sleeve ( 3 ) and the spring II ( 4 ) within the sand discharge jet cylinder ( 1 ), the sand discharge sliding sleeve ( 3 ) is configured to slide along the axial direction of the sand discharge jet cylinder ( 1 ), at least one portion of the hydraulic liquid tube ( 12 ) is configured to be assembled within the sand discharge jet cylinder ( 1 );
the cyclonic suction device comprises a conical flow stabilizing rubber cylinder ( 6 ), a fixing ring I ( 7 ), a positioning sleeve ( 8 ), a cyclone generation plate ( 9 ), a fixing ring II ( 10 ) and a cyclonic suction outer tube ( 11 ), wherein, the conical flow stabilizing rubber cylinder ( 6 ) is fixed to the hydraulic liquid tube ( 12 ) through the fixing ring I ( 7 ), the positioning sleeve ( 8 ) is mounted on the upper end of the fixing ring I ( 7 ), the cyclone generation plate ( 9 ) is fixed to the upper end of the positioning sleeve ( 8 ) through the fixing ring II ( 10 );
wherein, the spiral cyclone device comprises a recovery cylinder for spirally crushed cements ( 13 ), a fixing ring III ( 15 ) and a centering bracket ( 14 ) axially fixed to the inner wall of the recovery cylinder for spirally crushed cements ( 13 ) through the fixing ring III ( 15 ).

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the upper end of the sand discharge jet cylinder ( 1 ) is arranged with flat adapter threads I ( 101 ), the lower end of the sand discharge jet cylinder ( 1 ) is arranged with male buckle taper threads ( 103 ), the sand discharge jet cylinder ( 1 ) is circumferentially configured with a sand discharge hole ( 102 ), the inner portion of the sand discharge jet cylinder ( 1 ) is configured with a groove ( 105 ) and a concave cone surface ( 106 ) adjacent to the groove ( 105 ), the inner layer of the sand discharge jet cylinder ( 1 ) has a pipeline seal ring groove ( 104 ), the top end of the sand discharge jet cylinder ( 1 ) is configured with a jet cylinder threaded hole ( 107 ).

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the sand discharge sliding sleeve ( 3 ) from the bottom up comprises a sliding sleeve lower conical surface ( 301 ) at the bottom, a lower step I ( 302 ) adjacent to the sliding sleeve lower conical surface ( 301 ), a sand discharge butting head ( 303 ) circumferentially distributed at the sand discharge sliding sleeve ( 3 ), a middle step II ( 304 ), a sand collection chamber ( 306 ) at the inner portion of the sand discharge sliding sleeve ( 3 ) and a sliding positioning cylinder section ( 305 ) at the uppermost end of the sand discharge sliding sleeve ( 3 ), the lower step I ( 302 ) abuts the upper end of the spring I ( 2 ), the middle step II ( 304 ) abuts the spring II ( 4 ), the sliding positioning cylinder section ( 305 ) is in a clearance fit with the spring plate ( 5 ) fixed above the sand discharge sliding sleeve ( 3 ) through a bolt.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the conical flow stabilizing rubber cylinder ( 6 ) is a hollow rubber cone made of rubber material, a rubber conical surface ( 601 ) of the conical flow stabilizing rubber cylinder ( 6 ) deforms longitudinally under pressure, the lower end of the conical flow stabilizing rubber cylinder ( 6 ) is integrally molded with a labyrinth seal ( 602 ).

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the cyclone generation plate ( 9 ) comprises a circumferentially centering plate ( 902 ) and a flow baffle ( 901 ) located at the upper portion of the circumferentially centering plate ( 902 ).

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the upper portion of the cyclonic suction outer tube ( 11 ) is circumferentially arranged with a vortex trough ( 1101 ), and a circumferential speed is generated when fluid flows into the vortex trough ( 1101 ).

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the lower end of the hydraulic liquid tube ( 12 ) is configured with a hydraulic fluid ejection hole ( 1201 ) for ejecting hydraulic fluid, the tube wall of the hydraulic liquid tube ( 12 ) is welded with a fixing step ( 1202 ) for axially fixing the cyclone generation plate ( 9 ).

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the outer wall of the recovery cylinder for spirally crushed cements ( 13 ) from the bottom up is configured with a suction bowl connection threads ( 1302 ), a circumferential spline keyway ( 1304 ) for positioning the centering bracket ( 14 ) and drill rod female buckle threads ( 1305 ), the inner portion of the recovery cylinder for spirally crushed cements ( 13 ) from the bottom up is configured with a cyclonic auxiliary flow channel ( 1301 ) and a tapered flow channel ( 1303 ).

Assignees

• Univ Southwest Petroleum

Inventors

• Tang Yang
• Li Zeliang
• Wang Guorong
• Liu Qingyou
• Zhao Jinhai
• Yuan Guangjie
• Wang Jinzhong
• He Yufa
• Li Qingping
• Ma Chuanhua
• Huang Yuan

Classifications

• E21B41/0099 Primary

  specially adapted for drilling for or production of natural hydrate or clathrate gas reservoirs; Drilling through or monitoring of formations containing gas hydrates or clathrates · CPC title

• E21B43/01 Primary

  specially adapted for obtaining from underwater installations · CPC title

• E21B43/40

  Separation associated with re-injection of separated materials {(E21B43/385 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• E21B43/385

  by reinjecting the separated materials into an earth formation in the same well · CPC title

• E21B43/35

  specially adapted for separating solids (down-hole drilling fluid separation systems E21B21/002; separating solids from drilling fluids E21B21/065) · CPC title