System for reducing vibrations in a pressure pumping fleet
AssigneeU.S. Well Services, LLC
InventorsJared Oehring, Robert Kurtz
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Abstract
The present technology provides an electrically powered hydraulic fracturing system having pumps for pressurizing fracturing fluid, piping for carrying fracturing fluid, and vibration reducing equipment for use with the piping. The vibration reducing equipment includes helical coils that support the piping. The coils are made of a wire rope made of strands of steel cable twisted together. Grooved fittings are provided on some piping connections, and which allow pivoting between adjacent fluid conveyance members. Swivel joints are strategically located in the piping which allow rotational flexing between adjacent sections of the piping; thereby attenuating vibration in the piping but without stressing the piping.
Claims15
A hydraulic fracturing system for fracturing a subterranean formation comprising:
- an electrically powered fracturing pump having a discharge side;
- a discharge branch of piping having therein pressurized fracturing fluid supplied from the fracturing pump;
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- swivel connections strategically located in the discharge branch of piping, so that when pressurized fracturing fluid flows through the discharge branch of piping, a section of the discharge branch of piping is axially rotatable with an adjacent section of the discharge branch of piping.
A hydraulic fracturing system for fracturing a subterranean formation comprising:
- an electrically powered fracturing pump having a suction side;
- a suction branch of piping having fracturing fluid therein;
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- a tubular suction lead having an end mounted to the suction side and an opposite end coupled to an end of the suction branch by a grooved connection, and which is pivotal with respect to the suction branch;
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- a discharge branch of piping having therein the pressurized fracturing fluid supplied from the fracturing pump;
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- swivel connections strategically located in the discharge branch of piping, so that when the pressurized fracturing fluid flows through the discharge branch of piping, a section of the discharge branch of piping is axially rotatable with an adjacent section of the discharge branch of piping.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.