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US 11,629,574 B2Granted
Electrical submersible pump gas relief valve
AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsDonn Jason Brown, Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Casey Laine Newport, Trevor Alan Kopecky
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Abstract
The disclosure provides a pump system including a pump, a gas relief valve coupled to the pump, a motor configured to turn the pump, and a sensor configured to measure a parameter of at least one of a fluid or the pump system. The gas relief valve includes an actuator and a rotary disk system, and the rotary disk system includes a stationary disk and a rotary disk. The actuator is rotationally coupled to the rotary disk, and in a first position, the gas relief valve directs a flow of a fluid into a production tubing and in a second position, the gas relief valve directs the flow of the fluid into an annulus of a wellbore.
Claims20
A wellbore pump system, comprising:
- a pump;
- a motor configured to turn the pump;
- a gas relief valve coupled to the pump, wherein the gas relief valve comprises:
- a housing defining a production flow path and defining an exhaust port in a side wall of the housing;
- an actuator disposed within the housing, and
- a rotary disk system disposed within the housing comprising
- a stationary disk defining a first aperture that aligns with the production flow path of the housing and defining a second aperture that aligns with the exhaust port of the housing, and
- a rotary disk defining a flow aperture,
- wherein the actuator is rotationally coupled to the rotary disk,
- wherein, in a first position of the rotary disk, the rotary disk is configured to direct a flow of a fluid received by the gas relief value from the pump through the flow aperture of the rotary disk, through the first aperture of the stationary disk, and into the production flow path of the housing and the rotary disk is configured to block a flow of the fluid through the second aperture of the stationary disk and out the exhaust port of the housing, and
- wherein, in a second position of the rotary disk, the rotary disk is configured to direct the flow of the fluid through the flow aperture of the rotary disk, through the second aperture of the stationary disk, and out the exhaust port of the housing and the rotary disc is configured to block the flow of the fluid through the first aperture of the stationary disk and into the production flow path of the housing.
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A gas relief valve, comprising:
- a housing defining a production flow path and defining an exhaust port in a side wall of the housing;
- an actuator disposed within the housing;
- and
- a rotary disk system disposed within the housing comprising
- a stationary disk defining a first aperture that aligns with the production flow path of the housing and defining a second aperture that aligns with the exhaust port of the housing and
- a rotary disk defining a flow aperture,
- wherein the actuator is rotationally coupled to the rotary disk,
- wherein, in a first position of the rotary disk, the rotary disk is configured to direct a flow of a fluid within the gas relief valve through the flow aperture of the rotary disk, through the first aperture of the stationary disk, and into the production flow path of the housing and the rotary disk is configured to block a flow of the fluid through the second aperture of the stationary disk, and
- wherein, in a second position of the rotary disk, the rotary disk is configured to direct the flow of the fluid through the flow aperture of the rotary disk, through the second aperture of the stationary disk, and out the exhaust port in the side wall of the housing and the rotary disk is configured to block the flow of the fluid through the first aperture of the stationary disk and into the production flow path of the housing.
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A method, comprising:
- positioning a pump system having a gas relief valve in a wellbore, wherein the gas relief valve comprises:
- a housing defining a production flow path and defining an exhaust port in a side wall of the housing;
- an actuator disposed within the housing;
- and
- a rotary disk system disposed within the housing comprising
- a stationary disk defining a first aperture that aligns with the production flow path of the housing and defining a second aperture that aligns with the exhaust port of the housing and a rotary disk defining a flow aperture,
- wherein the actuator is configured to rotate the rotary disk between a first position and a second position,
- wherein, in the first position of the rotary disk, the rotary disk is configured to direct a flow of a fluid through the flow aperture of the rotary disk, through the first aperture of the stationary disk, into the production flow path of the housing, and into a production tubing and the rotary disk is configured to block a flow of the fluid through the second aperture of the stationary disk, and
- wherein, in a second position of the rotary disk, the rotary disk is configured to direct the flow of the fluid through the flow aperture of the rotary disk, through the second aperture of the stationary disk, and out the exhaust port in the side wall of the housing and the rotary disk is configured to block the flow of the fluid through the first aperture of the stationary disk and into the production flow path of the housing;
- activating a pump of the pump system;
- actuating the rotary disk system from the first position to the second position;
- releasing gas through the exhaust port in the side wall of the housing of the gas relief valve;
- and
- actuating the rotary disk system from the second position to the first position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.