WO2011138575A2 - System and method for fluid treatment - Google Patents
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- WO2011138575A2 WO2011138575A2 PCT/GB2011/000630 GB2011000630W WO2011138575A2 WO 2011138575 A2 WO2011138575 A2 WO 2011138575A2 GB 2011000630 W GB2011000630 W GB 2011000630W WO 2011138575 A2 WO2011138575 A2 WO 2011138575A2
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- This invention relates to systems and methods of treating fluids associated with servicing wellbores.
- Suitable fluid supplies are sometimes required to perform wellbore servicing operations and to produce wellbore servicing fluids.
- a fluid supply may be abundant but nonetheless unusable and/or undesirable due to the presence of bacteria, non-beneficial microorganisms, and/or other undesirable organic compositions of the fluid supply.
- Some systems utilize ultraviolet (UV) radiation to improve usability of the fluids for wellbore servicing operations and for producing wellbore servicing fluids.
- Some UV fluid treatment systems require a pump upstream from the UV treatment chamber, such as a centrifugal pump, to deliver fluid to the UV fluid treatment system. The use of an upstream pump for delivering fluid to the UV fluid treatment system is costly in terms of equipment and labor.
- the UV treated fluid may be treated at different dosage rates of UV radiation. Additionally, the fluid rate must be controlled to ensure the tank is not overfilled or emptied. Accordingly, there is a need for a UV fluid treatment system and method that does not require an upstream pump to supply fluid to the UV fluid treatment and/or does not require storage of treated fluid in fluid stores prior to use of the UV treated fluid.
- the invention relates to a method of treating a wellbore servicing fluid.
- the method may comprise disposing an ultraviolet treatment chamber in fluid communication with an inlet of a pump, operating the pump, and drawing a wellbore servicing fluid through the ultraviolet treatment chamber in response to operating the pump.
- the invention in another aspect, relates to a method of servicing a wellbore is disclosed.
- the method may comprise transporting an ultraviolet fluid treatment system to a location near the wellbore, connecting the ultraviolet fluid treatment system to a blender, operating a pump of the blender, drawing a wellbore servicing fluid through the ultraviolet treatment system in response to operating the pump of the blender, and delivering the wellbore servicing fluid into the wellbore.
- Figure 1 is a simplified schematic view of an ultraviolet fluid treatment system according to an embodiment of the disclosure
- Figure 2 is a simplified partial oblique top view of the ultraviolet fluid treatment system of Figure 1;
- Figure 4 is a simplified side view of the ultraviolet fluid treatment system in a transport position
- Figure 6 is another simplified schematic view of the ultraviolet fluid treatment system in a circulation configuration
- Figure 7 is a simplified side view of a UV treatment chamber of the ultraviolet fluid treatment system of Figure 1;
- FIG. 4 shows the UVFTS 100 installed on the trailer 130 and further shows the UVFTS 100 and the trailer 130 in a transport position.
- Figure 5 shows the UVFTS 100 and the trailer 130 in an operating position where the centralized plane 134 of the UVFTS 100 is substantially parallel to level ground 136.
- a UVFTS may comprise more than two chambers 102 and may comprise backup and/or redundancy chambers 102 in case of failure of one or more primary chambers 102.
- the UVFTS 100 may eliminate a need for separate flow meters and management of flow meters for a blender 120 and a UVFTS 100.
- the flow rate though the blender 120 may be substantially equal to the fluid flow rate through the UVFTS 100.
- the fluid flow rate through the UVFTS 100 may be substantially similar to the rate at which fluid is delivered downhole in a wellbore, for example, during a wellbore fracturing operation.
- the wellbore servicing system 1100 comprises a blender 1 1 14 that is coupled to a wellbore services manifold trailer 1118 via flowline 1 1 16.
- wellbore services manifold trailer includes a truck and/or trailer comprising one or more manifolds for receiving, organizing, and/or distributing wellbore servicing fluids during wellbore servicing operations.
- the wellbore services manifold trailer 1118 is coupled to eight high pressure (HP) pumps 1 120 via outlet flowlines 1122 and inlet flowlines 1124. In alternative embodiments, however, there may be more or fewer HP pumps used in a wellbore servicing operation.
- the produced water may comprise dissolved and/or entrained organic materials, salts, minerals, paraffins, aromatics, resins, asphaltenes, and or other natural or synthetic constituents that are displaced from a hydrocarbon formation during the production of the hydrocarbons.
- the water 1106 may be flowback water that has previously been introduced into the wellbore during wellbore servicing operation.
- the flowback water may comprise some hydrocarbons, gelling agents, friction reducers, surfactants and/or remnants of wellbore servicing fluids previously introduced into the wellbore during wellbore servicing operations.
- R R i+k*(R u -Ri), wherein k is a variable ranging from 1 percent to 100 percent with a 1 percent increment, i.e., k is 1 percent, 2 percent, 3 percent, 4 percent, 5 percent, ...50 percent, 51 percent, 52 percent, ..., 95 percent, 96 percent, 97 percent, 98 percent, 99 percent, or 100 percent.
- any numerical range defined by two R numbers as defined in the above is also specifically disclosed.
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