WO2011028448A2 - Debris catcher with retention within screen - Google Patents
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- WO2011028448A2 WO2011028448A2 PCT/US2010/046178 US2010046178W WO2011028448A2 WO 2011028448 A2 WO2011028448 A2 WO 2011028448A2 US 2010046178 W US2010046178 W US 2010046178W WO 2011028448 A2 WO2011028448 A2 WO 2011028448A2
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01D—SEPARATION
- B01D35/00—Filtering devices having features not specifically covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D33/00, or for applications not specifically covered by groups B01D24/00 - B01D33/00; Auxiliary devices for filtration; Filter housing constructions
- B01D35/02—Filters adapted for location in special places, e.g. pipe-lines, pumps, stop-cocks
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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
- E21B27/00—Containers for collecting or depositing substances in boreholes or wells, e.g. bailers, baskets or buckets for collecting mud or sand; Drill bits with means for collecting substances, e.g. valve drill bits
- E21B27/005—Collecting means with a strainer
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01D—SEPARATION
- B01D2201/00—Details relating to filtering apparatus
- B01D2201/20—Pressure-related systems for filters
- B01D2201/204—Systems for applying vacuum to filters
- B01D2201/208—Systems for applying vacuum to filters by venturi systems
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- the field of this invention is debris catchers for subterranean use and more particularly those types that use eductors to induce flow into a lower end of the debris catcher.
- the present invention addresses this issue in a debris catcher that can be in modular form to increase capacity.
- Each module has an inlet tube that emerges in a preferably cylindrically shaped screen.
- the debris that enters with a fluid stream has to negotiate two hairpin turns inside a screened space before any debris can either exit or go to the next module. In the negotiation of such turns the debris can drop out.
- the fluid flow can get through a module by using the cylindrical portion of the screen or the top of the screen since there is a clearance volume around the cylindrical portion of the screen.
- the top of the screen has an open exit so that the flow with any still entrained debris can exit to the next module or out of the housing, depending on the application.
- a debris catcher uses induced circulation from a venturi to urge debris laden flow into the lower end of a housing.
- An inlet tube maintains velocity so as to keep the debris moving with the fluid stream as it goes up the inlet tube.
- a screen fits over the open end of the inlet tube and runs down around the inlet tube toward the entrance of the debris laden fluid into the lower end of the housing. There is a clearance around the cylindrical portion of the screen so some flow can exit that way. There is also an open exit through the top of the screen that can be reached after the fluid stream makes two hairpin turns.
- Many modules can be stacked. Each module has a large screen area for flow to exit and progressive modules can have smaller screen openings in an uphole flow direction.
- FIG. 1 is a section view of a two module assembly for the debris catcher showing the large available screen areas in each module;
- FIG. 2 is an alternative and the preferred embodiment to the FIG. 1 embodiment. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
- FIG. 1 parts of the FIG. 1 are schematic and that details of how such a debris catcher generates a circulation flow using an eductor are described in the patents mentioned above and most particularly USP 6,276,452.
- flow comes into housing 10 through an inlet 12 which is connected to a tubular string (not shown) that is connected at the surface to pumping equipment (also not shown).
- Threads 14 at the lower end of the housing 10 are connected to a mill (not shown) that generates cuttings and passes them internally of the mill to connection 14 via one or more connecting tubulars that are also not shown.
- the jet bushing or eductor assembly 16 uses flow from the surface represented by arrow 18 as the motive fluid.
- the eductor exit stream diverges and goes back uphole as represented by arrow 20 or downhole as represented by arrow 22.
- the flow going downhole is smaller than the flow going back to the surface.
- the flow going downhole represented by arrow 20 reaches the mill and takes away the cuttings through the inside of the mill and into the housing 10.
- the eductor assembly 16 reduces pressure in the housing 10 and induces the flow represented by arrow 24. That induced flow is what creates the recirculation that starts as arrow 22 and ends as arrow 24.
- the other circulation path with the surface is represented by arrows 18 and 20.
- inlet plate 28 With an opening 30 that leads to inlet tube 32.
- the tube 32 can be aligned with the axis 34 or skewed, as shown.
- a cylindrically shaped screen 36 has an annular clearance space 38 around it so that filtered flow that exits the top 40 of tube 32 can either go through the screen 36 or it can reverse direction and make a hairpin turn to get to the bottom 42 of exit tube 44 and then make a second hairpin turn represented by arrow 46 to get out unscreened through tube 44 with entrained debris that did not fall down onto plate 28 carried to the next stage 48.
- the top 50 of the screen 36 can preferably be a solid plate to aid in redirecting flow toward the bottom 42 of tube 44.
- the top 52 can be screen material.
- Arrows 54 and 56 represent flow that has gone around the solid top 50 and into the annular space 38 to reach the inlet 58 in plate 60 from which screen 62 extends.
- Module 48 can be one of many depending on the volume of debris storage required from the particular ongoing milling operation. It has an inlet tube 64 that has an open top 66. Screen 62 has a screen top 68 because screen 62 is the final and smallest size of debris removal and what gets through screen 62 can just become part of the inlet flow to the eductor represented by arrow 24.
- tube 44 is aligned with the inlet 58 to the next stage so that if circulation is stopped debris in tube 64 can fall into tube 44 and be trapped further down in housing 10 without accumulating in the space between the modules.
- the clearance around each screen in any stage such as 38 insures that the screen area for screen 36 is available and that any debris that does get through that screen will not get caught in the annular space because the width of the annular space is larger than the screen opening size that is used to form the annular space.
- FIG. 2 shows a stack of three screen assemblies 100, 102 and 104. The remainder of the assembly beyond what is described in this paragraph is the same as the FIG. 1 embodiment.
- Screen 100 is the lowermost and takes induced flow into inlet 106 that has entrained debris and carries it up flow tube 108. Flow into tube 108 flips the pivoting cover 110 as the path of least resistance as compared to flow through the screen 112 that sits just below the pivoting cover 110.
- An annular space 114 exists about all three screens 100, 102 and 104 with stabilizers 116 in the annular space 114 to keep the screens 100, 102 and 104 centered. Flow out of tube 108 slows down to drop solids in a surrounding annular space 118.
- the flow tubes are aligned between stages and any number of stages can be used depending on the expected debris loading.
- circulation is shut off the pivoting cover 110 closes to keep debris from falling back into inlet 106.
- Screen 112 allows fluid to move through the assembly when pulled out of the hole to avoid pulling a wet string.
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| GB1201342.1A GB2485090B (en) | 2009-08-25 | 2010-08-20 | Debris catcher with retention within screen |
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