3292 results about "Water production" patented technology

A method of hydraulically fracturing a hydrocarbon-bearing subterranean formation ensures that the conductivity of water inflow below the productive zone of the subterranean formation is reduced. The method consists of two principal steps. In the first step, a fracture in and below the productive zone of the formation is initiated by introducing into the subterranean formation a fluid, free of a proppant, such as salt water, fresh water, brine, liquid hydrocarbon, and/or nitrogen or other gases. The proppant-free fluid may further be weighted. In the second step, a proppant laden slurry is introduced into the subterranean formation which contains a relatively lightweight density proppant. Either the fluid density of the proppant-free fluid is greater than the fluid density of the proppant laden slurry or the viscosity of the proppant-free fluid is greater than the viscosity of the proppant laden slurry. The method limits undesirable fracture height growth in the hydrocarbon-bearing subterranean formation during the fracturing.

A filtering apparatus for use in a hydrocarbon producing well for reducing water production therein includes a filtering medium treated with a relative permeability modifier such that the relative permeability modifier reduces the permeability of the filtering medium if the relative permeability modifier contacts water production. The relative permeability modifier may be used to treat a metal portion of the filtering medium in the case of a wire wrap screen or a wire mesh screen or may be use treat a metal portion or the prepacked component of a prepacked screen. The relative permeability modifier may be a polymer of at least one hydrophilic monomer and at least one hydrophobically modified hydrophilic monomer, a hydrophobically modified polymer, a hydrophobically modified water-soluble polymer, hydrophobically modified copolymers thereof or the like.

Advanced submerged membrane systems are provided. Said submerged membrane systems have multiple membrane modules comprising of strips of flat sheet membrane, bundles of self-support hollow fiber membranes braided together for reinforcement, tubular membranes, and braid supported hollow fiber membranes. Said submerged membrane systems have alternating relay, or two-way floating switch or computer to control filtration and back flush/pulse cleaning. Said submerged membrane systems have an oscillating motor, and aerator which can generate liquid vortex (whirlpool) flow around membrane to keep membrane from fouling. The present invention provides advanced submerge membrane systems at very low cost for drinking water production, wastewater treatment and membrane bioreactors for biotech, pharmaceutical and other industries.

Recovery of viscous hydrocarbon from subterranean formations is assisted by using a plurality of novel U-tube type wells, each with dual wellheads, a moveable wellbore packer, a lateral section with a concentric communication zone and with sequential injection production perforations in which heat is injected into the proximal perforations and hot oil and produced fluids are produced from the distal perforations, the whole process being controlled by modulating the production flow where the wellbore fluids are controlled to act as a hydraulic seal to limit bypass of injected fluids. The injection-production displacement process moves axially along the wellbore in a sequential manner as hydrocarbon volumes are depleted by injected fluid displacement of oil and oil and water production.

A closed loop water purification system comprising a feed water line (42) to supply feed water, a high pressure feed pump (62), a filter assembly (66) having an inlet supplied by the high pressure feed pump, a distribution line (68) and a reject water line (70), the reject line returning reject water from the filter assembly to the feed water line, the distribution line supplying at least one purified water take off point (86) and returning to a junction (50) in the feed water line upstream of the high pressure feed pump. The reject water line is connected to the junction in the feed water line upstream of the high pressure feed pump. A first backflow prevention device (48) is on the feed water line upstream of the junction. A second backflow prevention device (100) is on the distribution line upstream of the junction and a third backflow prevention device (80) is on the reject water line upstream of the junction. A heater system (56) is in one of the distribution line, the reject line or the feed water line.

There is disclosed a system comprising a well drilled into an underground formation; a production facility at a topside of the well; a water production facility connected to the production facility; wherein the water production facility produces water by removing some ions and adding an agent which increases the viscosity of the water and/or increases a hydrocarbon recovery from the formation, and injects the water into the well.

Well treating composites are composed of an organic lightweight material and a weight modifying agent. The organic lightweight material preferably forms the continuous phase and the weight modifying agent forms the discontinuous phase. The apparent specific gravity (ASG) of the organic lightweight material is less than the ASG of the well treating composite. The composite of the invention is particularly useful in hydraulic fracturing fluids as lightweight proppants as well as in sand control methods, such as gravel packing and frac packing A subterranean formation may be treated by injecting the well treating composite into the formation in order to increase fracture conductivity, reduce the generation of fines, reduced unwanted water production and/or reduce particulate production.

A system of managing water production in a vehicle. The system comprises a water conducting element set to receive and conduct water generated as a product of an operation of a vehicle air conditioner of the vehicle to a water container, a gauge that measures the amount of water in the water container, and a manager that receives the measurement and instructs the operation accordingly.

The invention provides a treatment system and treatment method for biochemical effluent of industrial wastewater. The treatment system comprises a flocculation sedimentation unit, a filtration unit, an advanced oxidation unit, an ultrafiltration unit, a reverse osmosis unit, a nanofiltration unit, an electrodialysis unit and an evaporation unit which are sequentially connected; and the water production outlet of the ultrafiltration unit is connected with the water inlet tank of the reverse osmosis unit, and the concentrated-water outlet of the reverse osmosis unit is connected with the water inlet of the nanofiltration unit. According to the invention, the treatment system and the treatment method utilize the coupling and synergistic effects of a physical-chemical method and a membrane technology to overcome the limitation of using a single technology, and the advanced treatment and desalination reuse of the industrial wastewater are realized; and the treatment system and the treatmentmethod have the advantages of strong adaptability to raw water, a high recovery rate of fresh water, a high concentration multiple of concentrated water, low energy consumption of evaporation and crystallization and the like, greatly improve the reuse rate of the industrial wastewater, reduce the amount of wastewater discharging, can be applied to the deep treatment and desalination reuse of various effluent wastewater, and promote the promotion and application of the technology in related industries.

An optimal two stage NF₂ membrane pretreatment unit is synergistically combined with a following two stage SWRO₂ desalination unit, where each of the two stage NF₂ and SWRO₂ has an energy recovery device (ERD) turbocharger (TC) in between the stages to form a dual hybrid of NF₂-SWRO₂ (FIG. 1 ); alternatively the two stage NF₂ unit is synergistically combined with one stage ERD equipped SWRO, unit operated at up to 85 bar (FIG. 2 a, b); or the two stage NF₂ unit combined with one stage ERD equipped SWRO₁ unit, with part of its reject recycled constituting part of the feed to the NF units (FIG. 3 a,b). The process of this invention raises significantly the product water recovery ratio, producing SWRO hybrids that exceed all prior arts in efficiency, including water yield, product recovery ratio, dramatically reduces both the energy consumption and water production unit cost.

The large-scale green power, pure chilled, heated water and/or conditioned directed air are produced using wind, heat and vapor of the free humid air in the structured multi-unit space-saving vortex tower providing direct three-phase voltage induction with alternating magnetic whirl formed by pole radial self-orienting magnetic concentrators swirled via all-weather multi-step tornado-like flow supplementary energized, enhanced and controlled by a spatial system of fast directing and accelerating low-temperature steam jets injected through fleshing of recycled, separated and stored condensate slightly heated with any renewable, waste, secondary, or prime source of low-temperature heat, partly via combining with solar pond and heaters or/and geothermal media, or/and waste, secondary or initial heat of large thermal, atomic power plant or intensively energy consuming industry, reducing specific investment, energy and pure water costs, quality requirements, specific pollution and waste heat atmospheric injection, with possibilities of partial local weather corrections through conditioned directed waste tower air; a new sector with various directions can be widened, based on applying of the same principles of energizing, enhancement, control and usage of any kind of fast gaseous confined vortex flow via any kind of supplementary low-temperature steam

The invention discloses a device and method for measuring the permeability of hydrate-containing sediments under triaxial stress conditions. The measuring device includes a reaction kettle, a pressure control system, a hydrate saturation measurement system and a permeability measurement system. The system can simultaneously apply axial pressure and confining pressure to achieve precise control of axial pressure and confining pressure; the hydrate saturation measurement system uses a flexible time-domain reflection probe to minimize the impact on seepage channels; the permeability measurement system real-time Detect the change of hole pressure, outlet pressure and liquid output, and realize the automatic calculation of sample permeability, which is efficient and accurate, and avoids manual errors. Using this permeability measurement device and its corresponding test method, the permeability simulation experiment of hydrate-containing sediments under triaxial stress conditions can be carried out, and the simulated data of hydrate-containing sediment permeability and saturation under triaxial stress conditions can be obtained. It provides an effective theoretical basis for the law of water production and gas production in the process of depressurization of hydrates.

A valve for downhole use has the ability to throttle between fully open and closed and is fully variable in positions in between. The valve is preferably responsive to flowing fluid viscosity and uses a three dimensional flow through restrictor in combination with a relatively movable cover. At a given flow, a higher viscosity fluid will create a greater relative movement and make it possible for flowing fluid to bypass more of the flow through member. In a particular application involving production from a zone, an array of such valves can allow more production where the viscosity is higher and less production where the viscosity drops due to, for example, water production.

A device for simulating exploitation of a natural gas hydrate in a permeable boundary layer includes a high pressure reaction kettle, a formation simulation unit and an aquifer maintaining unit. A water bath jacket externally connected with constant temperature water bath is arranged on the outer wall of the high pressure reaction kettle for providing a necessary temperature condition for the high pressure reaction kettle. A simulative well at the center of the top of the high pressure reaction kettle is connected with liquid injection, gas injection, gas production and water production equipment. An aquifer interface at the bottom of the high pressure reaction kettle is connected to the aquifer maintaining unit through a pipeline. The simulation device simulates the geological environment of a hydrate reservoir, allowing comprehensive evaluation of hydrate exploitation under different formation permeability and different formation pressure gradients.

The invention provides a method for pre-pumping coal roadway stripe gas of a single soft protruded coal seam of an unexploited area and relates to the technical field of gas pumping. Through the method, outburst removal of the area with a single soft hypotonic protruded coal seam coal roadway stripe can be achieved. The method for pre-pumping the coal roadway stripe gas of the single soft protruded coal seam of the unexploited area comprises building a concordant layer horizontal well which is 3-6m away from the coal seam from the ground to a top plate and a base plate of the single soft protruded coal seam of the unexploited area, performing segmented fracturing after oriented perforating, enabling top plate and base plate rock terrane where coal seam gas is sealed and stored originally to be transformed into a pumping liberation layer with developed fracture networks, enabling the pumping liberation layer to be communicated with the coal seam in a large-area mode through the fracture networks, performing decompression and aerogenesis by dewatering, determining whether to perform negative pressure pumping according to water production conditions, enabling the coal seam gas to be desorbed and diffused continuously, and pumping the gas massively by pumping a horizontal well opening in the liberation layer. By pumping the gas massively, the outburst prevention index in the coal roadway stripe can be reduced to below the safety standard in the outburst prevention rules, and safe and speedy drivage is achieved.

An apparatus for producing in the home hydrogen-dissolved drinking water that is suitable for drinking, has a high dissolved hydrogen concentration, and a long dissolved hydrogen life. A hydrogen-dissolved drinking water production apparatus includes an electrolytic cell through which water can pass for producing drinking water having a pH in a range of 2.5 to 8.5, and in particular, in a range of 5.8 to 8.5, and a dissolved hydrogen concentration of 0.1 ppm or more by supplying high-purity water having a conductivity of 50 μS/cm or less. The hydrogen-dissolved drinking water production apparatus is characterized in that the electrolytic cell includes a vertical anode chamber having a water-permeable plate-like anode electrode and a vertical cathode chamber having a plate-like cathode electrode, the anode chamber and the cathode chamber are separated by a diaphragm formed from a fluorine-based cation exchange membrane, the water-permeable plate-like anode electrode is closely adhered to the diaphragm formed from the fluorine-based cation exchange membrane, and an ion-exchange resin is filled in a space between the diaphragm and the cathode electrode.

The invention discloses a chemical cleaning method of an ultrafiltration membrane. The chemical cleaning method is mainly used for treating the membrane pollution form of inorganic scale coating with organic scales, and comprises the following steps of (1) preparing a basic cleaning solution; (2) performing alkali washing: performing cyclic cleaning on the ultrafiltration membrane by the basic cleaning solution; controlling the pH value of the cleaning solution to be 10.5 to 11.5; controlling the cleaning temperature at 38 to 41 DEG C; (3) performing primary flushing; removing basic cleaning liquid remained in the ultrafiltration membrane; (4) preparing an acid cleaning solution; (5) performing acid washing: performing cyclic cleaning on the ultrafiltration membrane by the acid cleaning solution; controlling the pH value of the cleaning solution to be 1.5 to 3; controlling the cleaning temperature at 38 to 41 DEG C; (6) performing secondary flushing to remove the acid cleaning solution remained in the ultrafiltration membrane. The method provided by the invention has the advantages that various organic matters intercepted on holes of the ultrafiltration membrane can be effectively removed; the water production flow rate of the ultrafiltration membrane can be improved; the operation pressure of the ultrafiltration membrane can be reduced; the stable operation of a landfill leachate ultrafiltration membrane treatment system is ensured.

A degassing device (10), a hydrogen dissolving device (12), and a palladium catalyst column (17) are provided in that order downstream of a high-purity water production device (1), and an impurity removal device (19) is connected to the exit side of treated water of the palladium catalyst column (17). The impurity removal device (19) removes impurity ions which are eluted into the water to be treated or impurity particulates which mix in with the water to be treated during the treatment in the palladium catalyst column (17). The impurity removal device (19) comprises an ion exchange device (20) and a membrane treatment device (21) such as a ultrafiltration membrane device, a reverse osmosis membrane device or the like. By providing an impurity removal device (19) in this manner, it is possible to remove impurities generated during hydrogen peroxide removal treatment by the palladium catalyst and to prevent degradation in quality of hydrogen-dissolved water.

The present invention provides a solar boiler and a circulated thermal pipe, and relates to a solar collecting, conversion, heat transfer and heat exchanging device. The solar radiation is reflected and congregated to a heat absorption pipe arranged on a axial line of a reflector of single-curved surface by the reflector of single-curved surface, converted into heat energy after the absorption of sunshine by a coating layer, and the heat energy is delivered to a heat exchanger by a circulated thermal pipe, and the continuous working ranging from dozens of DEG C to 1,700 DEG C is achieved by the adoption of the working fluid of mutual solution. The circulated thermal pipe has automatic adjustment of the flow rate, rapid heat transferring of large power, large falling, long distance and small temperature differences, working of high temperature and low pressure, using of cold regions minus 40 DEG C and safe using. The present invention has lower failure rate by adopting a device intermittently and unified driving the reflector to track the solar device, stable and adjustable heating parameters by phase change thermal storage of paralleled connected small containers, multifunction and combined using of high, middle and low temperature, wide ranges of application, and can be used for the industrial heating of hydrogen production, power generation, refrigeration, freshwater production, pure water production, gas supplying, heat supplying, chemical and oil, etc.