Well test burner

• US 5,219,456 A
• Filed: 03/27/1992
• Issued: 06/15/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Joseph G. Theriot
• Original Assignee: Joseph G. Theriot
• Inventors: Theriot, Joseph G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dority, Carroll B.
• Application Number:
  US07/858,882
• Time in Patent Office: 445 Days
• Field of Search: 239/403, 239/404, 431/158, 431/173, 431/278, 431/354
• US Class Current: 431/354
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 41/0071 Adaptation of flares, e.g. arrangements of flares in offshore installations flares of waste gases or noxious gases F23G7/08
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 11/103 with means creating a swirl inside the mixing chamber

Abstract

An oil well test burner provides for the use of a hollow body which defines a mixing chamber therein. A plurality of openings are formed in the body in communication with interior chamber for delivering oil and air into the interior chamber in such a manner, that an opening delivering oil into the chamber is disposed diametrically opposite at least one other opening which delivers air into the chamber. A pair of manifolds delivers oil and air, respectively, through a plurality of a corresponding number of emanating conduits which are attached to the body in a surrounding relationship to a respective opening in the body. Each manifold is provided with a flow regulating valve downstream from the conduits.

Claims

1. An oil well test burner, consisting of:

a hollow body defining an interior chamber therein, said body having a first closed end and a second, partially closed end;

said second end defining an inwardly converting conical opening, said opening fluidly communicating with the interior chamber;

a plate covering an outer end of said inwardly converting conical opening and a central opening in said plate;

a plurality of laterally spaced openings formed in said body in fluid communication with said interior chamber;

means for delivering oil into the interior chamber through one half of said laterally spaced openings; and

means for delivering air into the interior chamber through the second half of said laterally spaced openings, so as to cause intimate mixing of oil and air inside the chamber and discharge of that formed mixture outside of the interior chamber through said conical opening.

2. The burner of claim 1, wherein said oil delivering means comprises an elongated manifold provided with flow regulating means and a plurality of conduits emanating from said manifold upstream from said flow regulating means, each of said conduits being connected to a corresponding oil admitting opening in said body.

3. The burner of claim 1, wherein said air delivering means comprises an elongated manifold provided with flow regulating means and a plurality of conduits emanating from said manifold upstream from said flow regulating means, each of said conduits being connected to a corresponding air admitting opening in said body.

4. The well test burner of claim 1, further comprising means for igniting the formed mixture mounted exteriorly of said body.