Combination unit for managing fluids
AssigneeMud Maxx, LLC
InventorNorman Bradley Beason
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Abstract
A combination unit for vacuuming, cleaning and conditioning fluids. The unit may comprise a vacuum pump circuit and tank, a mixing tank and a centrifuge system. The invention also includes a combination tank comprising a vacuum tank partially incorporated into a mixing tank. A mixing tank may comprise a system of mixing conduits and mixing apparatuses to shear drilling fluids and additives, the mixing tank including a rounded base and a drain to cycle the fluid back through to the mixing tank.
Claims15
A combination tank for the intake and mixing of fluids to operate with a pump-pressurized matrix system for the conveyance of fluids into and out of the combination tank comprising:
- a mixing tank having an exterior and an interior, a first side and a second side, a top portion, and a bottom portion, and at its interior bottom portion a rounded base, the mixing tank having at its second side at least one port through which pressurized fluid flows, the mixing tank comprising:
- a first mixing conduit and a second mixing conduit disposed along the interior walls of the mixing tank, the first mixing conduit located on the first side and the second mixing conduit located on the second side, the first mixing conduit having
- a series of dispensers and a second mixing conduit having a series of dispensers disposed along the interior walls of the mixing tank, the first mixing conduit located above the rounded base of the first side and the second mixing conduit above the rounded base along the second side,
- the dispensers of the first mixing tank and second mixing tank propelling directed fluids down the sidewalls of the rounded base, staggered in position from the dispensers of the second mixing conduit, whereby the directed fluids leaving the dispensers of the first mixing conduit travel a first series of paths upwards an opposite end of the rounded base, the directed fluids propelled from the dispensers of the second mixing conduit and traveling a second series of paths upwards an opposite end of the rounded base, and
- whereby the first series of paths are incongruous with the second series of paths along the rounded base of the mixing tank;
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- a vacuum tank partially enclosed within the mixing tank, and capable of conveying fluid in and out of the into the vacuum tank from an external source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.