Oil field pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11536122-B2
Application number	US-202016793386-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 18, 2020
Priority date	May 31, 2019
Publication date	Dec 27, 2022
Grant date	Dec 27, 2022

Abstract

An oil field pump is installed within a pipe that connects to an oil field, and feeds accumulated extraction oil in a predetermined direction, the oil filed pump including a rotor with an internal flow path for the extraction oil, a stator installed on the outer circumference of the rotor, a thrust bearing that supports the axial weight of the rotor and the stator, a supply pipe that supplies a portion of the extraction oil in the flow path to the thrust bearing, and a filter that is installed at further upstream on the flow path than the supply pipe along the flow direction of the extraction oil, and traps foreign matter.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An oil field pump installed within a pipe that connects to an oil field, the oil field pump being configured to feed accumulated extraction oil in a predetermined direction, the oil field pump comprising:
a rotor;
a stator mounted on an outer circumference of the rotor;
a flow path for flow of the extraction oil, the flow path connecting a first area formed within the rotor to a second area formed between the rotor and the stator, the first area being upstream of the second area with respect to a flow direction of the extraction oil along the flow path;
a thrust bearing that supports an axial weight of the rotor;
a supply pipe that supplies a portion of the extraction oil in the flow path to the thrust bearing; and
a filter that is installed farther upstream on the flow path than the supply pipe and traps foreign matter,
wherein the filter is a circular plate fixed to the stator so as to be capable of vibration, and wherein the filter is arranged farther upstream than an inlet of the first area, and is arranged such that a surface of the filter which faces the inlet of the first area covers an entire opening of the pump.

2. The oil field pump according to claim 1 , wherein
the supply pipe branches from the flow path at a branching position.

3. The oil field pump according to claim 2 , wherein the branching position is a coupler between the stator and the rotor of the flow path.

4. The oil field pump according to claim 1 , further comprising a turbulence generator installed at the inlet of the first area and that generates a turbulent flow in a flow of the extraction oil,
wherein the turbulence generator has a blade or vane shape, and is installed at a plurality of positions along a rotational direction.

5. The oil field pump according to claim 1 , wherein the filter is formed with through holes penetrating through a thickness direction of the circular plate.

6. The oil field pump according to claim 1 , wherein
the thrust bearing includes a protrusion part fixed to the outer circumference of the rotor and rotating as one piece with the rotor, and a facing part fixed to the stator and facing opposite a surface of the protrusion part in the axial direction, and
the extraction oil is filled between the protrusion part and the facing part.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Yokoyama Shimpei
• Kunitake Nobuhiro
• Hori Takumi
• Shinohara Tanehiro
• Takei Norihisa

Classifications

• E21B43/128 Primary

  Adaptation of pump systems with down-hole electric drives · CPC title

• F04B47/06

  having motor-pump units situated at great depth · CPC title

• F04D29/046

  Bearings · CPC title

• F04B53/20

  Filtering · CPC title

• F04C13/008 Primary

  Pumps for submersible use, i.e. down-hole pumping · CPC title