Flow management systems and related methods for oil and gas applications
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsMaher Maqbool Shariff, Taras Yurievich Makogon
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Abstract
A flow management system includes an expandable device configured for attachment to a wall surface of a conduit and being adjustable between an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration, an electric actuator in fluid communication with the expandable device, and a control module. The control module is configured to control the electric actuator to flow a current to the expandable device to expand the expandable device for compacting a flow blockage within the conduit to create a channel adjacent the flow blockage and to terminate a flow of the current to the expandable device to collapse the expandable device for opening the channel to a fluid flow within the conduit.
Claims20
A flow management system, comprising:
- an expandable device configured for attachment to a wall surface of a conduit and being adjustable between an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration;
- an electric actuator in electrical communication with the expandable device;
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- a control module configured to control the electric actuator to:
- flow an electric current to the expandable device to expand the expandable device for compacting a flow blockage within the conduit to create a channel adjacent the flow blockage, and
- terminate a flow of the electric current to the expandable device to collapse the expandable device for opening the channel to a fluid flow within the conduit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.