EP0246943B1 - Verfahren und Anlage, um das Umlaufen von Flüssigkeiten durch Pumpen zu fördern - Google Patents

Verfahren und Anlage, um das Umlaufen von Flüssigkeiten durch Pumpen zu fördern Download PDF

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EP0246943B1
EP0246943B1 EP87401004A EP87401004A EP0246943B1 EP 0246943 B1 EP0246943 B1 EP 0246943B1 EP 87401004 A EP87401004 A EP 87401004A EP 87401004 A EP87401004 A EP 87401004A EP 0246943 B1 EP0246943 B1 EP 0246943B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/12—Methods or apparatus for controlling the flow of the obtained fluid to or in wells
    • E21B43/121—Lifting well fluids
    • E21B43/129—Adaptations of down-hole pump systems powered by fluid supplied from outside the borehole
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/34—Arrangements for separating materials produced by the well
    • E21B43/40—Separation associated with re-injection of separated materials
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04D13/00—Pumping installations or systems
    • F04D13/02—Units comprising pumps and their driving means
    • F04D13/04—Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being fluid driven

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  • the present invention relates to methods and installations for circulating fluids by pumping. More particularly, the invention relates to methods and installations for pumping fluids of high viscosity, for example heavy crude oils which are viscous and the pumping of which is very difficult with centrifugal hydraulics.
  • the liquid thus serves as the supply fluid for the turbine of the turbomachine providing the energy necessary for the operation of the pump.
  • the liquid also serves to reduce the viscosity of the fluid and thus make it acceptable so that the mixture of fluid and liquid can be pumped by centrifugal hydraulics.
  • the method is particularly useful in the case of a borehole, where the liquid must be sent anyway to the bottom of the borehole where the turbomachine is located, it is immediately accessible there, without the need for a pipe. special to bring him there.
  • the volume flow rate of the liquid sent to the inlet of the turbine represents from 0.5 to 3 times the volume flow rate of the fluid to be pumped. It is advantageous that the volume flow rate of the liquid mixed with the fluid to be pumped represents from 0.1 to 0.5 times the volume flow rate of the fluid to be pumped.
  • the liquid should have a low viscosity, be miscible with the fluid by reducing the viscosity of the mixture, contain little gas and preferably do not react on the fluid.
  • a liquid having a viscosity of 1 to 10 centistokes is used, having a mixture whose viscosity is less than 30 centistokes.
  • the method consists in separating the fluid which leaves the pump, in a first liquid stream and in the second stream, in compressing the first stream, in compressing the part of the expanded liquid which leaves the turbine and which does not is not mixed with the fluid and combine it with the first compressed current to send everything to the turbine inlet.
  • the invention also relates to a pumping installation, comprising a liquid source and a turbomachine comprising a pump having an inlet and an outlet, and a turbine which is stalled on the same shaft as the pump and which has an inlet and an outlet, characterized in that the outlet of the turbine opens into a conduit putting the source in communication with the pump and the installation comprises apparatus for separating a fluid into a first less viscous stream and into a second more viscous stream, the switchgear being provided with an inlet which communicates with the outlet of the pump, and two outlets one of which for the first current communicates with the inlet of the turbine and there is provided a conduit putting in communication the outlet of the turbine and the outlet of the apparatus intended for the first current, a compression pump being mounted on this conduit.
  • Fluid of high viscosity leaves a source 1 through a conduit 2.
  • a conduit 2 opens a conduit 3 coming from the outlet 4 of a turbine 5 of a turbomachine
  • This machine essentially comprises the turbine having the outlet 4 and a inlet 6 and a pump 7 having an inlet 8 and an outlet 9 and wedged on the same shaft 10 as the turbine 5.
  • a detailed description of this turbomachine can be found in patent FR-A 2 433 117.
  • the mixture of viscous fluid and less viscous liquid is sent under a pressure of between 10 and 150 bar, via a conduit 11 at the inlet of the pump 7.
  • the latter discharges it through the outlet 9 and through a conduit 12 into a separation apparatus 13 where the mixture, optionally after settling or centrifugation of the solid materials, is separated into a first stream going through the conduit 14, with compression in a pump 16 at a pressure between 20 and 300 bar, at the inlet 6 of the turbine 5 and in a second stream discharged through a pipe 15.
  • the additional liquid which leaves the turbine and which is not sent to the inlet of the pump is returned by a pipe 17, passing through a pump 18 which puts it under a pressure of between 20 and 300 bar, to a conduit 19 which joins the conduit leaving the pump 16 and going to the inlet of the turbine.

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1. Verfahren zum Pumpen eines Fluids hoher Viskosität, insbesondere schwerer Kohlenwasserstoffe oder Erdöle, bei welchem eine Flüssigkeit mit einer geringeren Viskosität als die des Fluids, die mit diesem mischbar ist, unter Druck dem Eingang (6) der Turbine (5) einer Strömungsmaschine zugeführt .wird, die eine Pumpe (7) umfaßt mit einem Eingang (8) und einem Ausgang (9) sowie eine Turbine (5), die einen Eingang (6) und einen Ausgang (4), welche von denen der Pumpe verschieden sind, aufweist und die auf der gleichen Welle (10) befestigt ist wie die Pumpe, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß ein Teil der entspannten Flüssigkeit der aus der Turbine kommt, dem Fluid zugemischt wird und daß die Mischung der entspannten Flüssigkeit und des Fluids vom Eingang der Pumpe angesaugt wird.
2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Volumenmenge der in die Turbine geleiteten Flüssigkeit die 0,5- bis 3-fache Volumenmenge des zu pumpenden Fluids bildet.
3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Volumenmenge der dem Fluid zugemischten Flüssigkeit die 0,1- bis 0,5-fache Volumenmenge des Fluids bildet.
4. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Fluid, welches die Pumpe verläßt, in einen ersten flüssigen Strom und in einen zweiten Strom getrennt wird, daß der erste Strom komprimiert wird, daß der Teil der entspannten Flüssigkeit, der von der Turbine kommt und nicht dem Fluid beigemischt wird, komprimiert wird und mit dem ersten, komprimierten Strom vereinigt wird um das Ganze zum Eingang der Turbine zu leiten.
5. Pumpenanlage, bestehend aus einer Flüssigkeitsquelle (1) und einer Strömungsmaschine bestehend aus einer Pumpe (7), die einen Eingang (8) und einen Ausgang (9) aufweist und einer Turbine (5), die auf der gleichen Welle befestigt ist, wie die Pumpe (7) und die einen Eingang (6) und einen Ausgang (4) aufweist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Ausgang (4) der Turbine (5) in eine Leitung (11) mündet, die die Quelle (1) mit der Pumpe (7) verbindet, wobei die Anlage eins Trennapparatur (13) aufweist zur Trennung eines Fluids in einen ersten, weniger viskosen Strom (14) und in einen zweiten stärker viskosen Strom (15), wobei die Apparatur mit einem Eingang (12), der in Verbindung steht mit dem Ausgang der Pumpe (7), und mit zwei Ausgängen versehen ist, von denen der eine für den ersten Strom mit dem Eingang (6) der Turbine verbunden ist, und daß eine Leitung (17) vorgesehen ist, die den Ausgang (4) der Turbine und den Ausgang der Apparatur (13), der für den ersten Strom bestimmt ist, verbindet, wobei eine Druckpumpe in diese Leitung (17) eingeschaltet ist.
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