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US 12,180,817 B2Granted
Debris separator
AssigneeSandbox Enterprises, LLC
InventorsChad Trueheart, Casey Taylor, George Garcia, Derek Ussery
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Abstract
A debris separator may include a housing having an inlet end, an outlet end, and an internal bore therebetween having a tapered discharge transitioning to the outlet end; and a filter basket connected to the housing at the inlet end and extending into the internal bore, thereby forming an annulus between the filter basket and the housing, the filter basket having a mesh size selected to pass a slurry of proppant therethrough and retain solid objects of a larger size than the proppant.
Claims16
A fracking system, comprising:
- a blender configured to receive proppant and form a slurry of proppant;
- a manifold located downstream of the blender configured to receive the slurry of proppant from the blender;
- one or more frac pumps fluidly connected to the manifold, the one or more frac pumps configured to receive the slurry of proppant from the manifold via one or more low pressure lines and discharge the slurry of proppant from the one or more frac pumps under a high pressure to a wellhead via the manifold through one or more high pressure lines;
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- one or more debris separators located on an inlet of the one or more frac pumps, the one or more debris separators configured to filter the slurry or proppant to remove solid objects of a larger size than the proppant as the slurry of proppant enters the one or more frac pumps from the manifold,
- where the one or more debris separators comprises:
- a housing having an inlet end, an outlet end, and an internal bore therebetween having a tapered discharge transitioning to the outlet end;
- and
- a filter basket connected to the housing at the inlet end and extending into the internal bore, thereby forming an annulus between the filter basket and the housing, the filter basket having a mesh size selected to pass a slurry of proppant therethrough and retain the solid objects of the larger size than the proppant.
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A fracking system comprising:
- a blender configured to receive proppant and form a slurry of proppant;
- a manifold located downstream of the blender configured to receive the slurry of proppant;
- one or more frac pumps fluidly connected to the manifold, the one or more frac pumps configured to receive the slurry of proppant from the manifold via one or more low pressure lines and discharge the slurry of proppant from the one or more frac pumps under a high pressure to a wellhead via the manifold through one or more high pressure lines;
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- one or more debris separators located between the blender and the manifold, the one or more debris separators configured to receive the slurry of proppant from the blender, filter the slurry of proppant to remove solid objects of a larger size than the proppant, and deliver the slurry of proppant to the manifold,
- where the one or more debris separators comprises:
- a housing having an inlet end, an outlet end, and an internal bore therebetween having a tapered discharge transitioning to the outlet end;
- and
- a filter basket connected to the housing at the inlet end and extending into the internal bore, thereby forming an annulus between the filter basket and the housing, the filter basket having a mesh size selected to pass a slurry of proppant therethrough and retain the solid objects of the larger size than the proppant.
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A fracking system comprising:
- a blender configured to receive proppant and form a slurry of proppant;
- a manifold located downstream of the blender configured to receive the slurry of proppant from the blender;
- one or more frac pumps fluidly connected to the manifold, the one or more frac pumps configured to receive the slurry of proppant from the manifold via one or more low pressure lines and discharge the slurry of proppant from the one or more frac pumps under a high pressure to a wellhead via the manifold through one or more high pressure lines;
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- one or more debris separators located on the manifold, the one or more debris separators configured to filter the slurry of proppant to remove solid objects of a larger size than the proppant prior to the slurry of proppant exiting the manifold to the one or more frac pumps,
- where the one or more debris separators comprises:
- a housing having an inlet end, an outlet end, and an internal bore therebetween having a tapered discharge transitioning to the outlet end;
- and
- a filter basket connected to the housing at the inlet end and extending into the internal bore, thereby forming an annulus between the filter basket and the housing, the filter basket having a mesh size selected to pass a slurry of proppant therethrough and retain the solid objects of the larger size than the proppant.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.