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US 10,001,464 B2Granted
Beach detection sensors for vibratory separator
AssigneeM-I L.L.C.
InventorsEdward Kronenberger, Venkata Amaravadi, Colin Stewart
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Abstract
An apparatus including a screen capable of separating solids from a liquid-solid mixture and a first probe disposed beneath the screen. The first probe is provided to determine a position of a beach between the liquid-solid mixture and separated solids. The apparatus may measure a property of a local volume of a probe disposed beneath a first separator deck. The probe may then send a first signal to database. Based on the signal a location of a beach may be determined.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a separator deck capable of separating solids from a liquid-solid mixture;
- a first probe disposed beneath the separator deck to determine a position of a beach between the liquid-solid mixture and separated solids.
A method comprising:
- measuring a property of a local volume of liquid with a first probe disposed beneath a first separator deck;
- sending a first signal from the first probe to a database;
- and
- determining a location of a beach based on the first signal.
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A method comprising:
- monitoring a region proximate at least one probe to determine a presence of a liquid, wherein the at least one probe is disposed beneath a first separator deck of a vibratory separator;
- sending a signal from the probe to a database;
- determining a location of a beach of the separator deck based on the presence of the liquid;
- and
- at least one of adjusting or maintaining operating conditions of the vibratory separator based on the location of the beach.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.