WO2012003386A2 - Durable pumps for abrasives - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
- F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
- F04D7/00—Pumps adapted for handling specific fluids, e.g. by selection of specific materials for pumps or pump parts
- F04D7/02—Pumps adapted for handling specific fluids, e.g. by selection of specific materials for pumps or pump parts of centrifugal type
- F04D7/04—Pumps adapted for handling specific fluids, e.g. by selection of specific materials for pumps or pump parts of centrifugal type the fluids being viscous or non-homogenous
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
- F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
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- F04D13/10—Units comprising pumps and their driving means the pump being electrically driven for submerged use adapted for use in mining bore holes
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
- F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
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Definitions
- Oilfields sometimes use electric submersible pumps staged in series to pump downhole fluids.
- a number of centrifugal pump stages can be stacked together along their axial direction for ganged lift in a subsurface environment.
- Such subsurface multistage pumps are frequently employed to move fluids consisting of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures that may have some mixed and suspended earth solids.
- the fluid may also contain gaseous components and water. Particles and chunks of rock and sand are usually present to some degree.
- Such heterogeneous "liquid sandpaper" may result in cavitation and abrasion issues for pumps, especially if the solids cause deposits to build up against some surfaces of the pump or if the fluid itself has a slurry-like consistency.
- the viscosity and other flow characteristics of a particular liquid mixture may result in high velocity flow of the abrasive fluid around certain pump parts.
- Impellers used in downhole centrifugal pumps experience significant abrasion of the downthrust washers (hereinafter, "thrust washers") when pumping fluids containing abrasives.
- thrust washers the downthrust washers
- the particular composition and behavioral characteristics of the abrasive fluid to be pumped often allow particular pumps to be custom- designed and optimized for particular types of unrefined fluids.
- an example centrifugal pump or pump stage for subsurface operation has a thrust washer located inside the circumference of a close-fitting clearance seal between an impeller shroud and the diffuser.
- the relocation of the thrust washer allows the clearance seal to protect the thrust washer from abrasives while the thrust washer supports the impeller against the reaction forces of axial fluid flow.
- the radius or size of a thrust washer or other seal-like feature is reduced in order to increase exposure of the bottom impeller shroud to pressured fluid, thus balancing pressure at the top and bottom of the impeller to decrease friction between the impeller and the thrust washer. Reducing the radius of the thrust washer also reduces surface area of the washer subject to friction and reduces the moment arm of a braking torque on the rotating impeller, thereby reducing power loss in the pump.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram of an example stage of a multistage subsurface pump for pumping fluids containing abrasives.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram of example inboard thrust washers for a subsurface pump for abrasives.
- Fig. 3 is a diagram of example reduction in diameter of an inboard thrust washer.
- Fig. 4 is a diagram of example reduction in diameter of a thrust washer to balance pressure areas to reduce friction.
- Fig. 5 is a diagram of an example reduction in thrust washer diameter to decrease friction and reduce power loss.
- Fig. 6 is a diagram of an example reduction in thrust washer diameter to decrease moment arm of a braking torque to reduce power loss.
- Fig. 7 is a flow diagram of an example method of making an abrasion-resistant subsurface pump.
- Fig. 8 is a flow diagram of an example method of increasing the durability and efficiency of an abrasion-resistant pump.
- Fig. 1 shows a cross-section of a centrifugal pump stage 1 00 of a multistage submersible pump stack 1 02.
- the multistage submersible pump stack 1 02 includes a number of the centrifugal pump stages 1 00 stacked together along their axial direction for ganged lift to generate axial fluid flow 1 04 in a subsurface environment.
- Fig. 2 shows example inboard thrust washers.
- Figs. 3-6 show reduction of the diameter of example thrust washers, and associated benefits.
- Figs. 7-8 show example methods of increasing the durability of pumps for abrasive fluids.
- Electric submersible pumps for abrasive fluids usually have at least one surface that is an impeller housing, or "shroud," i.e., a solid part of the impeller assembly extending radially outward from a more central hub to strengthen and attach the impeller blades on one side, and also serving to screen or shield the impeller blades, at least in part, from the fluid on the other side of the shroud, since the shroud is solid.
- Impeller blades are typically attached to the shroud, and the shroud is typically attached to a hub that receives the rotational drive power of the pump, or, the shroud is an extension of the hub itself.
- Such a shroud may "underlie” the bottom sides of the impeller blades, or two shrouds may enclose both the top and bottom sides of the impeller blades in a "closed-impeller” or “enclosed” design in which only the radial ends of the impeller blades are open, as opposed to open-style impeller blades that are exposed to the fluid being pumped on all sides of the blades.
- Open- style impellers (without a shroud) are more susceptible to abrasive wear than a shrouded impeller, because high velocity fluid on the impeller blades is in close proximity to the casing walls ("diffuser" or housing), creating rotating vortices that accelerate wear when abrasives are present in the fluid.
- Centrifugal pumps for moving fluids typically incorporate a single shroud, located on the bottom of the impeller, or an enclosed design with both top and bottom shrouds.
- the shroud(s) also provide additional structural support and reinforcement to protect against blade collapse or deformation.
- Such enclosed or semi-open impeller designs are well suited for handling solids in applications where the blades might encounter high impact loads from rocks and solids.
- a semi-open impeller also has an ability to pass solids in a manner similar to that of an open impeller type. With a single shroud the semi-open impeller is also relatively easy to manufacture.
- High axial thrust is the primary drawback of semi-open and enclosed impeller designs: the rotating impeller creates a net fluid flow 104 along the axial direction but also creates large reaction forces, which thrust the shrouded impeller back in the opposite direction of the axial fluid flow.
- the entire backside surface of the shroud is subject to the full impeller discharge pressure.
- the front side of the shroud is at suction pressure at the eye of the impeller, where the fluid is inlet, and increases along the impeller radius due to centrifugal action.
- the differential between the pressure profiles along the two sides of the shroud creates the axial thrust imbalance, referred to herein as downthrust.
- the downthrust can be countered with a thrust washer, which radially supports the backside of the shroud.
- a thrust washer which radially supports the backside of the shroud.
- the downthrust forces are resisted by thrust washers on each stage for floater style pumps.
- Impellers of the mixed-flow type usually have balance rings which assist to keep these forces within acceptable limits.
- radial-flow impellers do not have such balance rings due to the need to minimize the stage axial length.
- the height of the wear rings, thrust washers, or other balance rings in the axial direction is of primary concern because this height directly affects the overall height of each pump stage, which is critical in many multistage pump designs. Therefore, radial impellers tend to have high thrust loads which lead to high mechanical friction power losses and a high thrust washer wear rate.
- a portion of the fluid exiting from the rotating impeller characteristically leaks back to the pump suction by traveling through the gap between the impeller shroud and the casing.
- a semi-open impeller typically has wear rings or a front seal to control this leakage.
- the outer edges of the thrust washer may perform this leakage-control role.
- the thrust washer may also aim to provide a fluid seal.
- the thrust washers control recirculation through flow restriction, and may also be used in conjunction with impeller balance holes to control the axial thrust.
- the flow restriction created by tight clearances between rotating and stationary thrust washer faces causes very high local fluid velocities and thus a high wear rate.
- Conventional thrust washers because they are subject to this high flow velocity, have a short life span in an abrasive environment, even when hard materials and treated surfaces are used.
- an outboard thrust washer 202 is located radially outward from an impeller- to-diffuser shroud clearance seal 204 or other seal.
- a clearance seal 204 is typically a finely machined, close-fitting, close-running, metal- to-metal interface between the impeller shroud 206 and the diffuser (casing walls) 208 of the pump.
- the conventional wisdom of this arrangement is to support the impeller 210 against reactive forces from axial fluid flow 1 04, supporting the impeller 210 around a ring that has a substantial diameter under the impeller at some median radius of the impeller shroud 206.
- a shortcoming of the outboard thrust washer 202 arrangement is that abrasive particles carried by fluid leakage from the impeller tip tend to accumulate at deposit location 212 in Fig. 2. This build-up of abrasive particles is due to the fact that the thrust washer axial clearance is larger than the radial clearance of front seal action and therefore the front seal acts as a particle dam. Accumulated abrasive particles rapidly wear the outboard thrust washer 202.
- the thrust created by the impeller 210 in each stage of a submersible pump can be problematic in a variety of submersible pump types, including pumps with mixed flow stages and pumps with radial flow stages.
- a significant portion of power loss in the pump is due to thrust friction occurring at an outer thrust washer due to relatively high friction-induced torque at this radially outlying position. If the outer thrust washer is removed from the floater style stage, however, the lack of any seal functionality increases leakage loss.
- an example pump impeller 214 has an inboard thrust washer (pad, ring) 216 that is relocated inboard in relation to a seal 204 that defines a boundary of a fluid chamber of the diffuser (i.e., the stationary housing around the impeller).
- the relocation of the inboard thrust washer 216 "behind” the seal 204 protects the inboard thrust washer 216 from abrasive fluids being pumped and thus, from conventional abrasion and wear.
- the term "inboard,” as used herein, means “radially inward, toward, or closer to the axial center of rotation of the pump,” while “outboard” means “radially outward, away from, or further from the axial center of rotation of the pump.”
- the aforementioned seal 204 may be a wear ring, or may be a finely machined, close-running interface between a rotating part of the impeller 214, usually an impeller shroud 218, and the stationary diffuser housing: i.e., an impeller shroud-to-diffuser clearance seal 204.
- an impeller shroud-to-diffuser clearance seal 204 With regard to abrasive fluid, since the protecting seal 204 is upstream from the inboard thrust washer 216 (with respect to fluid trying to return from the impeller 214 to the pump inlet 220) the amount of abrasive particles reaching the protected inboard thrust washer 216 is greatly reduced or eliminated.
- an outboard thrust washer 202 may be in direct contact or even fully immersed in the fluid being pumped. The thrust washer 216 thus relocated and protected counteracts and supports against reactionary downthrust forces generated by the pumping impeller while providing higher wear and longer life than in conventional pumps used for pumping abrasive fluids in a multistage,
- the diameter (size, or "ring-size") of a seal or a thrust washer at the bottom (i.e., back) of the impeller is strategically reduced in order to expose more surface area of the bottom impeller shroud to the pressured fluid being pumped.
- a seal, wear ring, or close-fitting interface between moving impeller and stationary diffuser forms the extent of the fluid space under the impeller, while in other designs the thrust washer 202 itself plays this role.
- the thrust washer 202 will be used as an example for the sake of description below, since it plays the additional role of a "wear ring" type seal in some pumps.
- a conventional thrust washer 202 defines the extent of a fluid chamber 402 at a bottom impeller shroud 206.
- the top of the impeller 210 has a fluid chamber 404 that exposes a greater amount of surface area at the top of the impeller 21 0 to pressured fluid, resulting in a pressure imbalance area 406, which thrusts the impeller 210 down into the thrust washer 202, where friction results in power loss.
- Downthrust forces tend to be high because pressure acting on the impeller bottom shroud surface 206 is sealed at the outside diameter 408 of the thrust washer 202, while pressure forces acting on the impeller top shroud surface 41 0 are sealed at the diffuser hub inside diameter 412.
- ⁇ ( ⁇ /4)( ⁇ 1 2 - d 2 2 ) (1 )
- d 1 is the conventional outside diameter of the pressure imbalance area 406
- d 2 is the outside diameter of the reduced pressure imbalance area 418.
- the lift may not be a physical movement of the impeller 420 off the thrust washer 216, but may be a reduction in the net downthrust force acting on the impeller 420, or a reduction in the normal force F n on the friction surface of the thrust washer 21 6, thus sparing the thrust washer 216.
- the friction on the surface of the thrust washer 21 6 may be approximated by the dry friction expression in Equation (2):
- F f is the force of friction exerted by each surface on the other, and is parallel to the surface in a direction opposite to the net applied force;
- ⁇ is the coefficient of friction, which is an empirical property of the materials used to make the thrust washer 216, and F n is the normal force exerted by each surface on the other, directed perpendicular (normal) to the surface.
- the diameter of the thrust washer 21 6 (or other seal) can thus be selectively reduced to strategically balance the exposed surface area and pressure at the bottom of the impeller 420 with the exposed surface area and pressure at the top of the impeller 420 to reduce friction and power loss.
- This balancing of pressures at the top and bottom of the impeller 420 through seal or washer size selection also provides additional benefits.
- the reduced diameter of the smaller thrust washer 216 also reduces power loss because of less surface area for friction to occur on the smaller thrust washer 216.
- the reduction in surface area for friction to occur is given by Equation (3), using the radii shown in Fig. 5:
- Equation (4) For a reduction in the outside diameter of a conventional thrust washer 202 in which the new outside diameter of the smaller thrust washer 216 still remains larger than the initial inside diameter of the conventional thrust washer 202, the reduction in surface area for friction to occur may be given by Equation (4):
- ⁇ ( ⁇ / 4)( ⁇ ⁇ 2 - d 2 2 ) (4)
- d is the outside diameter of the conventional thrust washer 202 and d 2 is the outside diameter of the new, smaller thrust washer 216.
- the moment arm 602 of the incidental braking force is reduced 604.
- the braking force is a high-friction-induced torque acting between the rotating shroud and the thrust washer 216, or between the stationary diffuser and the thrust washer 21 6, depending on set-up, as the thrust washer 21 6 undesirably acts like elements of a disk brake.
- Equation (6) the reduction in frictional braking torque may be given by Equation (6), using the radii shown in Fig. 6:
- Relocating the seal or thrust washer may also increase efficiency of the pump and reduce wear by placing the thrust washer 216 or other seal where there is less agitation and turbulence in the abrasive fluid and/or where there is improved laminar flow away from closely interacting moving parts.
- Fig. 7 is an example method 700 of making an abrasion- resistant subsurface pump. In the flow diagram, the operations are summarized in individual blocks.
- a pump for moving fluids containing abrasives in a subsurface location including an impeller, a casing, and a thrust washer.
- a seal and a thrust washer are placed in relation to each other to resist a flow of the abrasives to the thrust washer.
- Fig. 8 is an example method 800 of increasing the durability and efficiency of an abrasion-resistant pump. In the flow diagram, the operations are summarized in individual blocks. [0036] At block 802, an impeller for pumping a fluid is made, including a thrust washer for supporting the impeller and for restricting a flow of the fluid.
- the diameter of the thrust washer is reduced to balance a first pressure at the bottom of the impeller with a second pressure at the top of the impeller, to reduce a friction of the impeller on the thrust washer.
- the diameter of the thrust washer is reduced to reduce a surface area subject to friction and to reduce a moment arm of a braking torque on the impeller, to reduce power loss in the pump.
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