Dehydrator system and methods of using the same

• US 10,086,316 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2016
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Q'Max Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Q'Max Solutions, Inc.
• Inventors: Pazan, Herbert Raza
• Primary Examiner(s): Menon, Krishnan S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Spies, Bradley R
• Application Number:
  US15/275,064
• Publication Number:
  US 20170165594A1
• Time in Patent Office: 739 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 21/0042 Baffles or guide plates
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 21/0045 Plurality of essentially parallel plates
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 21/0087 Settling tanks provided with means for ensuring a special flow pattern, e.g. even inflow or outflow B01D21/2411 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 21/01 using flocculating agents for purifying water C02F1/52; for liquid radioactive waste G21F9/10
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 21/08 provided with flocculating compartments
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 21/2422 Vertically arranged feed points
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 21/245 Discharge mechanisms for the sediments
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 21/10 using driven stirrers
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 2101/305 Treatment of water, waste water or sewage
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 2101/49 Mixing drilled material or ingredients for well-drilling, earth-drilling or deep-drilling compositions with liquids to obtain slurries
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 23/43 using driven stirrers
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 23/45 using flow mixing
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 25/4231 using baffles
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 25/4521 the components being pressed through orifices in elements, e.g. flat plates or cylinders, which obstruct the whole diameter of the tube
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 27/113 Propeller-shaped stirrers for producing an axial flow, e.g. shaped like a ship or aircraft propeller
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 27/192 with dissimilar elements
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 33/8212 with moving and non-moving stirring devices
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 35/712 for feeding fluids
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/5227 Processes for facilitating the dissolution of solid flocculants in water
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/5281 Installations for water purification using chemical agents
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/56 : Macromolecular compounds
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 11/121 : by mechanical de-watering
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 11/147 : using organic substances C02F11/148 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2001/007 : Processes including a sedimentation step
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2201/008 : Mobile apparatus and plants, e.g. mounted on a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2301/022 : Laminar
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2301/024 : Turbulent
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 21/066 : with further treatment of the solids, e.g. for disposal

Abstract

Dehydrator systems having a core dehydrator and a mixing unit are described herein and methods of using the same. The core dehydrator comprises a turbulent flow mixing compartment the turbulent flow mixing compartment with plate openings having a turbulent flow transition zone where linear speed of fluid flow is reduced, a clarifying sediment chamber, where fluid flow is substantially laminar) comprising a plurality of small deflector plaques and a plurality of large deflector plaques and a flocculation pipe. In the turbulent flow transition zone, fluid flow transitions from turbulent flow to laminar flow. The mixing unit comprises a plurality of vertical flocculators. The mixing unit further comprises a rapid mixing manifold. The rapid mixing manifold contains drilling fluids and flocculant polymers.

Claims

1. A dehydrator system comprising a core dehydrator comprising a clarifying sediment chamber having plurality of small deflector plaques and a plurality of large deflector plaques and a water distribution channel, and a mixing unit comprising a rapid mixing manifold positioned in the mixing unit and a plurality of flocculator chambers, wherein the rapid mixing manifold is positioned in the mixing unit and in fluidic communication with the flocculator chambers, the clarifying sediment chamber is in fluidic communication with the distribution water channel, the distribution water channel is in fluidic communication with the plurality of flocculator chambers, and each of the plurality of small deflector plaques being positioned at different heights.

2. The dehydrator system of claim 1, wherein the core dehydrator comprises a turbulent flow mixing compartment having a turbulent flow transition zone, and the clarifying sediment chamber in fluidic communication with the turbulent flow transition zone of the turbulent flow mixing compartment, each said plurality of plaques in fluidic communication with the turbulent flow transition zone.

3. The dehydrator system of claim 2, further comprising a flocculation pipe in fluidic communication with the turbulent flow mixing compartment wherein the flocculation pipe is in fluidic communication with the rapid mixing manifold.

4. The dehydrator system of claim 3, wherein drilling fluids and polymer solution is mixed in flocculation pipe.

5. The dehydrator system of claim 2, wherein fluid flow transitions from turbulent flow to laminar in the turbulent flow transition zone.

6. The dehydrator system of claim 2, wherein drilling fluids and flocculant polymers are discharged into the rapid mixing manifold.

7. The dehydrator system of claim 6, wherein the mixing unit comprises a water collector tank, a plurality of stir tanks for dissolving polymer, a double paddle axial flow swirl generator and a stir tank for sludge conditioning.

8. The dehydrator system of claim 7, wherein each of the stir tanks has one or more agitators.

9. The dehydrator system of claim 1, wherein the mixing unit comprises a mud conditioning tank in fluidic communication with the rapid mixing manifold.

10. The dehydrator system of claim 5, wherein the mixing unit comprises three flocculators.

11. The dehydrator system of claim 2, further comprising one or more of the components selected from the group of a gearbox, a drawer storage gearbox, a connector shaft in fluid communication with an agitator, a bocin, a plurality of inclined palettes for axial flow, a plurality of radial vanes or palettes, a drag solid transition zone, a circular cone, a circular cylinder, a plurality of solid discharge pipes, one or more positive displacement pumps, one or more water well transporters, a distributor water channel, a water discharge valve to recirculate and improve water quality, a water discharge valve for evacuating drilling system, one or more suction pipes, a water distribution manifold, a plurality of solid removal jets, and a solids discharge pipe in fluid communication with the positive displacement pump.

12. The dehydrator system of claim 2, further comprising one or more components selected from the group of a skid, a plurality of telescopic columns, and a plurality of ears, wherein the component is used for transporting the system.