Prime mover and lube oil cooling assembly for fracturing pump transport
AssigneeTyphon Technology Solutions, LLC
InventorJeffrey G. Morris
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Abstract
A system and a method for cooling a prime mover and lube oil, comprising: a prime mover configured to drive a pump with a motor shaft; a prime mover cooling assembly that encases the prime mover, wherein the prime mover cooling assembly comprises: an air intake and an exhaust ventilator mounted above the prime mover; and a lube oil cooling assembly mounted above the prime mover, wherein the lube oil cooling assembly cools lube oil circulating within the pump and is mounted above the prime mover such that the lube oil cooling assembly does not hang off one or more sides of the prime mover and prime mover cooling assembly.
Claims20
A fracturing transport having at least one pump, the at least one pump having lube oil for circulating within the at least one pump, the transport comprising:
- a prime mover configured to drive the at least one pump with a motor shaft, the prime mover having plan dimensions defined by a length and a width of the prime mover;
- a first cooling assembly at least partially encasing the prime mover and comprising:
- at least one intake disposed on the first cooling assembly and delivering ambient air to the prime mover;
- and
- at least one exhaust disposed on the first cooling assembly above the prime mover and exhausting the delivered air from the prime mover;
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- a second cooling assembly disposed above the prime mover and within the plan dimensions of the prime mover, the second cooling assembly cooling the lube oil circulating within the pump,
- wherein the second cooling assembly is within a housing of the first cooling assembly.
A fracturing pump transport comprising:
- at least one pump having lube oil for circulating therethrough;
- a pump prime mover coupled to the at least one pump and configured to drive the at least one pump with a motor shaft, the pump prime mover having plan dimensions defined by a length and a width of the pump prime mover;
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- a cooling assembly at least partially encasing the pump prime mover and configured to cool the pump prime mover and the lube oil with ambient air, the cooling assembly comprising:
- a housing disposed above the pump prime mover;
- at least one intake configured to intake the ambient air to the pump prime mover;
- at least one exhaust disposed above the pump prime mover and within the housing, the at least one exhaust configured to exhaust the ambient air from the pump prime mover;
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- at least one heat exchanger exposed to the ambient air and circulating the lube oil to and from the pump, the at least one heat exchanger being disposed above the pump prime mover within the housing, and within the plan dimensions of the pump prime mover.
A fracturing pump transport comprising:
- at least one pump having lube oil for circulating through the at least one pump;
- an electric motor coupled to the at least one pump, the electric motor having plan dimensions defined by a length and a width of the electric motor;
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- a cooling assembly at least partially encasing the electric motor, wherein the cooling assembly is configured to:
- draw in air from one or more intakes with one or more blowers positioned on top of the electric motor;
- ventilate air heated from cooling the electric motor at a top side of the cooling assembly with one or more exhausts;
- draw in air through one or more lube oil heat exchangers positioned on top of the electric motor;
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- ventilate, at the top side of the cooling assembly, air heated from cooling the lube oil that circulates through the pump,
- wherein the one or more blowers and the one or more heat exchangers positioned on top of the electric motor are within the plan dimensions of the electric motor.
A method used with an electric motor driving a pump, the pump having lube oil for circulating therethrough, the method comprising:
- drawing in air through one or more intakes using one or more first blowers of a cooling assembly positioned on top of the electric motor;
- cooling the electric motor with the air drawn in through the one or more intakes;
- ventilating the air heated by the cooling of the electric motor out one or more exhausts at a top side of the cooling assembly;
- drawing air through a lube oil heat exchanger positioned on top of the electric motor;
- cooling the lube oil for circulating through the pump with the air drawn through the lube oil heat exchanger;
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- ventilating the air heated by the cooling of the lube oil at the top side of the cooling assembly,
- wherein the electric motor has plan dimensions defined by a length and a width of the electric motor, and
- wherein the one or more first blowers and the lube oil heat exchanger positioned on top of the electric motor are within the plan dimensions of the electric motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.