23 results about "Brine mining" patented technology

The invention relates to the technical field of well mine salt mining, in particular to a twin-well brine mining device capable of increasing salt mine brine content and a multi-well series connection method thereof, the device comprises a newly-built well unit, a single-well convection brine mining process is set, and the newly-built well unit comprises a water injection well and a brine mining well; the old well unit adopts a twin-well convection brine extraction process and comprises a water injection well and a brine extraction well; the pipeline connecting system is used for communicating the brine extraction well of the newly-built well unit with the water injection well of the old well unit; the flow adjusting device is arranged on the pipeline connecting system and used for adjusting the flow in the pipeline; the central control system is used for monitoring and adjusting operation parameters of each well group; by establishing a series system between the newly-built well and the old well, graded utilization and circulation optimization of brine resources are achieved, a traditional independently-operated well group is converted into an organic whole for cooperative production, low-concentration brine generated during the groove building period of the newly-built well can be secondarily utilized by the old well, and therefore the utilization rate of the resources is remarkably increased.

The invention relates to a salt-cavern gas storage pressure-maintaining gas injection brine discharging system and an injection-production operation method. The salt-cavern gas storage pressure-maintaining gas injection and brine discharge system comprises a natural gas injection and production well communicated with the top of a salt-cavern gas storage, a brine injection and production well communicated with the bottom or the side edge of the salt-cavern gas storage, a natural gas conveying assembly and a brine conveying assembly, the natural gas conveying assembly is arranged in the natural gas injection and production well, and one end of the natural gas conveying assembly is connected with a natural gas source; the brine conveying assembly is arranged in the brine injection and production well, one end of the brine conveying assembly is communicated with the lower portion in the salt cavern gas storage, and the other end of the brine conveying assembly is connected with a brine injection and production pipeline. The device has the advantages that the process of'gas injection and brine discharge 'or'brine injection and exhaust' can be effectively realized, the constant pressure in the salt cavern gas storage can be realized, the available range of the brine mining old cavity is greatly expanded, bottom gas which is prevented from collapsing and shrinking and stored in the cavity for a long time can be completely utilized, and the working gas quantity of the salt cavern is greatly increased.

The utility model relates to a silt prevention device for a brine well, which comprises a protection piece (1), the protection piece is formed by connecting a plurality of protection cylinders (2), each protection cylinder comprises an upper support ring (21), a lower support ring (22), a connecting rod (23) and a filter screen cylinder (24), the upper support ring (21) is provided with a first connecting piece (211), the lower support ring is provided with a second connecting piece (221), and the connecting rod is respectively and fixedly connected with the upper support ring and the lower support ring. A plurality of connecting rods are arranged, and the plurality of connecting rods are annularly and uniformly distributed to form a cylindrical supporting structure. The filter screen cylinder sleeves the periphery of the supporting structure, two ends of the filter screen cylinder are fixedly connected with the upper supporting ring and the lower supporting ring respectively, and the inner side of the filter screen cylinder is fixedly connected with the connecting rod. Every two adjacent protective cylinders on the protective piece are fixedly connected through cooperation of the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece. The device can prevent the well wall of the brine well from collapsing and sediment deposition.

The invention discloses a rock salt dissolved cavity carbon dioxide geological sequestration construction method, and relates to the technical field of carbon sequestration. The rock salt dissolving cavity carbon dioxide geological storage construction method comprises the following steps that S1, a storage site is selected according to production requirements and risk assessment; s2, the original brine mining well of the dissolving cavity is evaluated, if the original brine mining well meets the construction requirement, the original brine mining well is transformed, and if the original brine mining well does not meet the construction requirement, the original brine mining well is blocked, and a new injection well is constructed; s3, cavity expanding operation and sealing transformation operation are conducted on the dissolving cavity; s4, carbon sequestration operation is conducted on the dissolving cavity through the shaft; and S5, sealing operation is conducted on the shaft. According to the rock salt dissolving cavity carbon dioxide geological storage construction method, by optimizing the construction method, the leakage risk during carbon dioxide storage under a rock salt stratum structure is reduced, and the storage efficiency and the storage reliability of carbon dioxide are improved.

The present invention relates to a brine valorisation system for recovering at least one mineral salt and / or at least one metal from a monovalent brine (MVB) stream and / or a polyvalent brine (PVB) stream, the brine valorisation system comprising: I. (a) an ultra-high pressure reverse osmosis (UHPRO) system (402) for processing the MVB stream (104a) into a UHPRO retentate and desalinated water; (b) either (I) an osmotically assisted reverse osmosis (OARO) system (404) comprising one or more OARO stage or (ii) a thermal evaporation unit, for concentrating the UHPRO retentate to produce a concentrated UHPRO retentate; and (c) a crystallizer system (406) for processing at least a portion of the concentrated UHPRO retentate to produce distilled water, a monovalent purge stream and a mineral salt, wherein the mineral salt comprises sodium chloride crystals; and / or II. two or more clarifiers for processing the PVB stream, wherein the two or more clarifiers comprise a calcium clarifier and a magnesium clarifier, and wherein the calcium clarifier produces a calcium rich sludge comprising a calcium salt and / or metal, and a low calcium supernatant, and the magnesium clarifier produces a magnesium rich sludge comprising a magnesium salt and / or metal, and a low magnesium supernatant. Also provided is a system for recovering at least one mineral salt and / or at least one metal from seawater and / or another high salinity solution using the brine valorisation system of the invention; as well as methods for recovering at least one mineral salt and / or at least one metal from a monovalent brine (MVB) stream and / or a polyvalent brine (PVB) stream.

Water desalination systems and methods are designed to provide high recovery of saline water and highly concentrated water while minimizing energy usage. The systems process pre-treated water using fluidly coupled pumps and filters. A pump increases the pressure of the pre-treated water to a desired value for a specific filter. The filter separates the pre-treated water into a permeate water stream and a concentrated water stream. The systems further include multiple brine-concentration (BC) membranes that are interconnected in either a series or a parallel arrangement. These membranes are coupled with optional upstream and downstream reverse-osmosis (RO) membranes to produce high-purity permeate water. Energy recovery devices are integrated into the systems to recover hydraulic energy from the concentrated water and thus reduce energy consumption. The systems utilize optional salinity-adaptive multistage reverse-osmosis (SAMRO) pretreatment to achieve recoveries beyond conventional reverse-osmosis systems.

The invention discloses a novel injection-production medium in well rock salt exploitation, and a preparation method of the novel injection-production medium comprises the following steps: (1) injecting unqualified impurity-containing alkali liquor produced by a brine well into an old brine well, and removing impurities through the filtering effect of the old brine well to obtain calcium-containing light brine; the old brine well is a brine well of rock salt or associated minerals which are long in mining life and after salt resources are developed; and (2) introducing the calcium-containing light brine with qualified impurity content into a storage barrel to obtain the novel injection-production medium, and re-injecting the novel injection-production medium into a working brine well through a brine extraction pump to carry out a normal brine extraction process. The method has the advantages that the method is simple in process and long in mining time limit, the waste rock salt obtained after salt resource development or the old brine well with associated minerals can well purify the alkali liquor, the content of calcium ions in the alkali liquor can be reduced while impurities such as silt are remarkably removed, and the novel injection-production medium obtained after purification can obtain better injection-production effect compared with traditional alkali liquor.

The invention belongs to the technical field of mining, salt manufacturing and alkali manufacturing industries, and particularly discloses a method for preparing gypsum through underground regulation and control of salt and alkali combined circulation. Calcium chloride in alkali manufacturing waste liquid and mirabilite resources in nitrate type salt mine are subjected to denitration treatment on the ground, so that the calcium chloride resources in alkali manufacturing calcium liquid are converted into calcium sulfate products, and the calcium sulfate products are recycled. The method not only can fully recover the mirabilite resource in the normally mined or abandoned mirabilite type salt mine resource and improve the utilization rate of the rock salt resource, but also solves the problem that the salt-alkali-calcium combined cycle production process is difficult to exert large-scale economic benefits due to the market capacity of calcium chloride products, is a supplement and improvement on the existing salt-alkali-calcium combined cycle process, and has a wide application prospect. Meanwhile, based on establishment of an injection well model, a quick calculation formula for regulating and controlling brine mining is provided, and the participation reaction amount of alkali-making calcium liquid, salt-making mother liquid and nitrate type ore brine for brine mining can be conveniently, quickly and accurately controlled.

The invention provides a gravel pore type brine exploitation method under the water supplementing condition, and belongs to the technical field of brine exploitation. The method comprises the steps that an extraction well and a gas injection well are constructed and built, gas is injected into the gas injection well through gas injection equipment, the injected gas forms a gas wall in a brine layer, and the gas wall is formed in the brine layer through water pumping equipment at the extraction well; the method comprises the following steps: firstly, extracting brine, located at the section of an extraction well and a gas injection well, of a brine layer, then closing gas injection equipment and water pumping equipment to recover the concentration of the brine to the concentration meeting the requirement, and then circulating the steps to carry out the whole brine extraction process. The problems that after brine is extracted from a brine layer at the same position for a long time, underground water in the section has no time to fully absorb underground mineral ions into water to form brine with the concentration meeting the requirement, the concentration of the brine extracted from the section is reduced, and the exploitation requirement is not met are solved.

The invention discloses a thin interbed salt cavern volume calculation method and device based on three-dimensional seismic exploration, and relates to the field of volume measurement, and the method comprises the steps: firstly, building a salt cavern geologic model according to a salt cavern development rule on the basis of analyzing and researching the stratigraphic structure and physical property parameter information of a salt mining area; establishing seismic response characteristics of the salt cavity model through forward modeling; the method comprises the following steps: selecting dominant attribute parameters reflecting salt cavern characteristics through extraction and analysis of seismic attributes by utilizing geometric, kinematics, dynamics and other characteristics represented by the seismic attributes; different parts of the salt cavern are depicted according to different advantage attributes, the spatial distribution state of the salt cavern is determined through seismic attribute fusion, and the seismic response volume of the salt cavern is calculated; according to the accurate salt well salt mining quantity index statistics and in combination with the salt mine-interlayer proportion, the salt mine grade, the salt ore density, the salt well brine mining rule and the like, the comprehensive cavity building rate of the salt cavity is analyzed; and calculating the effective volume of the salt cavern according to the earthquake response volume of the salt cavern depicted by the earthquake and the comprehensive cavern building rate.

The application provides a monitoring method and device for monitoring salt release capacity of a brine well in situ, and belongs to the field of hydrogeological monitoring. In view of the problem that the prior art is difficult to distinguish the salt source and release horizon, the application is based on the natural potential detection technology in the well, especially suitable for monitoring the salt release of the weakly permeable layer in the coastal brine mining area, so as to implement the in-situ and layered dynamic monitoring of the salt release of different horizons of the brine well, thereby simplifying the construction means, reducing the monitoring cost and having a good popularization and application prospect. Specifically, an electrical cable is vertically arranged along the well wall in the pumping well, a plurality of electrodes are arranged on the electrical cable at intervals, and the electrical cable is tightly attached to the well wall through a fixing mechanism; the natural potential data on the vertical profile are collected, the electrochemical potential change caused by the salt release is utilized, the potential anomaly at different depths is captured, the dominant horizon of the salt release in the weakly permeable layer is located and identified, and the relative rate of the salt release of each horizon is inversely estimated.

The invention relates to the technical field of underground brine treatment, in particular to a recyclable underground brine mining system. The device comprises an erecting base and a first portal frame fixed to one end of the erecting base, an exploiting and conveying circulating mechanism is assembled between the erecting base and the first portal frame and comprises an erecting opening, a high-pressure pump machine, an exploiting pipe and a conveying pipe, and the erecting opening is formed in one end of the top of the erecting base. By means of the structural design of the mining material conveying circulating mechanism, the brine treatment mechanism and the auxiliary filtering mechanism, after brine is pumped and mixed with liquid medicine, secondary filtering can be conducted in the purification filtering tank, filtered water meeting the discharge requirement is discharged into a mining well again through the mining material conveying circulating mechanism, and the discharging requirement of the mining well is met. The underground brine can form a virtuous cycle, the underground water level is prevented from falling in the mining process, the water quality is prevented from deteriorating, and the safety and the high efficiency of the device are improved.

The utility model provides a pipeline supporting device for brine extraction. The pipeline supporting device for brine extraction comprises a mounting shell, a pipeline supporting device and a pipeline supporting device, the at least two clamping assemblies are both mounted on the mounting shell, the at least two clamping assemblies are arranged in the circumferential direction of the mounting shell, each clamping assembly comprises a clamping piece, one end of each clamping piece penetrates into the mounting cavity, and the clamping pieces can move in the radial direction of the mounting shell so as to clamp the pipeline; the pipeline supporting device comprises a mounting shell and at least two supporting structures, the at least two supporting structures are both mounted on the mounting shell and arranged in the circumferential direction of the mounting shell, and the outer edges of the supporting structures form the maximum outer edge of the pipeline supporting device for brine mining. According to the technical scheme, the pipeline supporting device for brine extraction can solve the problem that in the process that a pipeline is placed into a brine hole, the moving pipeline makes contact with the inner wall of the brine hole, and consequently the pipeline is seriously abraded.

A system for sono-electrochemistry induced precipitation of carbonate minerals from brine or seawater. The system includes a first reactor (21), receiving the brine (22); a second reactor (30), receiving partially demineralized brine; a CO2 sprayer (23), spraying CO2 to the first reactor (21) and the second reactor (30); a power supply (24); an ultrasonic probe (25); a graphite electrode (26); a metal auxiliary electrode (27); and a chlorine gas product (28), whereby a solid precipitate (29) is produced; a valve (31) to collect the solid precipitate (29) and to control transfer of brine (22) between the reactors (21) and (30); a collection cup (33) connected to the valve (31) to collect solid precipitate (29); slides (34) to enhance vortex mixing of brine (22) inside reactors (21, 30); tubes (35) embedded inside the slides (34) to allow pumped brine (22) to return into reactors (21, 30); and a reference electrode (36).

The invention discloses a salt cavern gas storage low-position brine discharging well cavity entering target spot positioning method and device, a medium and a product, and relates to the technical field of salt cavern gas storage engineering. The method comprises the steps that the spatial range of a three-dimensional seismic sediment area and a salt cavern bottom plate are obtained based on three-dimensional seismic detection data and sonar cavity measurement data; checking a salt cavern bottom plate based on the well body structure and the well completion geologic horizon of the salt cavern brine mining well; based on the depth of the salt cavern bottom plate after checking, the range of a cavity entering target of the low-position brine discharging well is determined, and a cavity entering target depth plane is formed; constructing a three-dimensional geologic model based on the drilling and logging geologic data of the injection and production well; and in the three-dimensional geologic model, based on the depth plane of the in-cavity target, obtaining a positioning result of the in-cavity target of the low-position brine discharging well. Risk points during design of the low-position brine discharging well can be effectively avoided, high-position gas injection and low-position brine discharging are achieved, and then the utilization rate of the space volume of the salt cavern is increased.

The application provides a method for in-situ monitoring of the mining effect of a brine mining well, and belongs to the field of geophysical exploration and hydrogeological monitoring. In order to overcome the shortcomings of the prior art, such as high cost, long cycle and only point information can be obtained, the method comprises the following steps: arranging a cross-shaped resistivity measuring line on the ground, and using the resistivity difference between brine, stratum medium and fresh water to realize in-situ, real-time and dynamic monitoring of the influence radius of the water pumping well and the salt replenishment direction. Specifically, a Wenner four-pole device is used to measure the background apparent resistivity before brine mining, and a background apparent resistivity matrix is constructed; during the brine mining process, continuous apparent resistivity measurement is carried out, the space-time distribution characteristics of salt migration are inversed according to the apparent resistivity change; the influence radius of the brine mining well is determined according to the spatial range of the apparent resistivity change in the two cross sections, the advantage direction discrimination index is calculated according to the amplitude difference of the apparent resistivity change in the two sections, and the advantage direction of salt replenishment is quantitatively determined.

The utility model discloses an antisludging agent filling system applied to a salt cavern type gas storage brine mining cavity, which comprises a clear water inlet pipeline, a water inlet pipeline, a brine output pipeline, an unsaturated brine tank water inlet pipeline and an unsaturated brine inlet pipeline, and the clear water inlet pipeline and the unsaturated brine inlet pipeline are connected in parallel and then converge to the water inlet pipeline; an outlet of the water inlet pipeline is respectively connected to a brine output pipeline and an unsaturated brine tank water inlet pipeline, and the unsaturated brine tank water inlet pipeline is communicated to the unsaturated brine water inlet pipeline; the inlet section of the water inlet pipeline is further communicated with a scale inhibitor filling tank, a scale inhibitor filling device and a scale inhibitor filling control valve, and a scale inhibitor stored in the scale inhibitor filling tank can be injected into the water inlet pipeline after being pressurized and subjected to flow control. The device is simple in structure, salt deposition and scaling phenomena of ground equipment and facilities and pipelines of the ground equipment and facilities are greatly relieved, the risk of brine leakage is reduced, the service life of a mechanical sealing piece is prolonged, and the brine extraction cavity forming efficiency and quality of the brine extraction well are improved.

The utility model provides a brine well salt deposition prevention device and a brine well structure. The salt deposition prevention device for the brine extraction well comprises a mixing structure and a salt deposition prevention structure, the mixing structure is provided with a closed inner cavity and a liquid inlet communicated with the inner cavity, a one-way valve is arranged at the liquid inlet, and a water outlet of the one-way valve faces the inner cavity; the liquid inlet end of the liquid conveying pipeline is configured to be communicated with an external liquid supply device, the liquid outlet end of the liquid conveying pipeline is communicated with the inner cavity, and the liquid outlet end of the liquid conveying pipeline is in sealing fit with the joint of the mixing structure; the conveying pump is mounted in the inner cavity; the liquid inlet end of the liquid discharging pipeline is communicated with the liquid outlet end of the conveying pump. According to the technical scheme, the salt deposition prevention device for the brine mining well can solve the problem that a large-area well wall cavity is formed due to the fact that a chipping layer and a salt layer are possibly dissolved when an existing salt deposition prevention method is adopted.

The invention discloses a method for increasing brine output of brine mining wells in a salt lake mining area, which belongs to the technical field of brine mining and comprises the following steps: S1, arranging auxiliary wells in set intervals of the brine mining wells; s2, a wellhead of the auxiliary well is sealed, brine is injected into the auxiliary well, so that the brine in the auxiliary well reaches set pressure, and the brine injected into the auxiliary well carries debris in formation pores to enter the brine mining well through a falling funnel; s3, extracting the brine in the brine extraction well together with the debris; and S4, when the content of debris in the brine extracted by the brine extraction well is reduced to a set degree, stopping injecting the brine into the auxiliary well. According to the invention, the auxiliary wells are arranged around the brine mining well and the brine is injected into the auxiliary wells, so that the formation pores can be opened by using the pressure of the brine, and debris in the formation pores enters the brine mining well through the falling funnel, thereby increasing the brine output, improving the brine mining efficiency and reducing the production cost.

The invention provides a tool and a method for measuring the gas and hydrogen storage form of a butt-joint brine mining old-cavity salt cavern, and belongs to the technical field of salt cavern surveying and mapping, and the tool comprises a ground control system which comprises a ground adapter and a ground console; the underground salt cavern form detection system comprises a motor power system, an auxiliary detection telescopic system and a sonar detector; wherein the ground control system is connected with the underground salt cavern form detection system through a cable, and controls the underground salt cavern form detection system to detect the salt cavern form. According to the invention, the salt cavern detection range can be expanded.

The well group type brine solution mining system comprises an extraction well (1), an auxiliary well (2), a horizontal well (22), a gas fracturing device (3), a solvent supplementing device (4) and a brine mining device (5), the extraction well is arranged in a solution mining area (6), the lower end of the extraction well extends into a target salt mine layer (61), and the auxiliary well is arranged in the solution mining area and keeps a certain distance from the extraction well; and the lower end of the auxiliary well extends into the target salt mine layer. The horizontal well is arranged in the target salt mine layer and located at the bottom of the target salt mine layer, the two ends of the horizontal well communicate with the extraction well and the auxiliary well correspondingly, and the gas fracturing device fractures the target salt mine layer above the horizontal well to form a first crack (62). And the solvent supplementing device is communicated with the auxiliary well. And the brine mining device is used for mining ore dissolving brine in the extraction well. According to the method, the solvent can rapidly permeate into a target salt mine layer, and the ore dissolving efficiency and the target mineral content are improved.

The invention discloses a method for efficiently and newly building a brine well through one-injection and double-output of a well-rock salt ground well, and relates to the technical field of salt mine mining. The method comprises the steps that according to a preset design scheme, three brine well drill holes are formed in the ground and include the first drill hole, the second drill hole and the third drill hole, and the second drill hole located in the middle is firstly constructed; after construction of the second drill hole is completed, a cavity is built at the preset butt joint position, and an initial corrosion cavity is formed; and based on the cavity building position of the second drill hole, the first drill hole and the third drill hole in the two sides are constructed at the same time, and drilling is conducted in the direction of the initial corrosion cavity through the while-drilling orientation technology and is in butt joint and communicated. According to the method, the clear target spot is formed by drilling the hole in the middle in advance, the drilling-while-drilling orientation and near-target-spot corrosion technology is combined, the underground butt joint success rate is greatly increased, groove building and production are fused through the innovative one-injection double-output and circulating brine mining mode, the production period is remarkably shortened, and the production efficiency is improved. And the capacity is elastically regulated and controlled by flexibly switching the brine extraction channels, so that the service life of the well group is prolonged.

The utility model relates to a chute protection device which comprises a diversion trench (1) and a flow slowing trench (2), the cross section of the diversion trench (1) is U-shaped, a front baffle (11) is arranged at the front end of the diversion trench (1), the rear end of the diversion trench (1) is open, and the diversion trench (1) is used for being installed in a chute. The cross section of the flow slowing groove (2) is U-shaped, the front end of the flow slowing groove (2) is fixedly connected with the rear end of the flow guide groove (1), the width of the front end of the flow slowing groove (2) is the same as that of the flow guide groove (1), the width of the rear end of the flow slowing groove (2) is larger than that of the front end of the flow guide groove (1), a water blocking plate (21) is arranged in the flow slowing groove (2), and the flow slowing groove (2) is used for being installed at a water outlet of a chute. The bottom of the water blocking plate (21) is fixedly connected with the bottom face of the slow flow groove (2), and the two ends are fixedly connected with the inner side wall of the slow flow groove (2). The water slide channel and the brine conveying channel can be protected, and the salt pan dam and the slope surface of the brine conveying channel are prevented from being impacted and damaged by water flow when the brine pumping station pumps and discharges brine.