Hydrocarbon condensate detection and control
OwnerDean Groseinventor
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Abstract
Hydrocarbon condensate detection and control. The hydrocarbon condensate detection and control system includes detecting hydrocarbon in an aqueous mixture and controlling the flow of the aqueous mixture based on the hydrocarbon content of the aqueous mixture.
Claims20
A production water hydrocarbon detection and control system for sand and water-based production water aqueous mixture in fluid communication with a tanker truck tank, comprising:
- a controller having at least one input and at least one output;
- a hydrocarbon sensor having at least one of a fluorometer, a turbidity sensor, and a color sensor in a pipe in fluid communication with the tanker truck tank and a production site production water aqueous mixture tank coupled to a first input of the controller, the hydrocarbon sensor sensing a level of presence of hydrocarbon in the aqueous mixture flowing between the tanker truck tank and the production site aqueous mixture tank and providing a signal to the controller commensurate with an amount of hydrocarbon in the aqueous mixture;
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- a control device coupled to the controller output, the control device modifying flow of the aqueous mixture to stop flow of aqueous mixture between the tanker truck tank and the production site tank.
A tanker truck multi-input pipeline hydrocarbon detection and control system, comprising:
- a plurality of pipelines each pipeline terminating at an unloading station for fluid communication with a tanker truck tank, each pipeline to receive aqueous sand and water based process fluid from a single separate unloading station and discharge that aqueous sand and water based process fluid into a common process fluid manifold pipeline, each tanker truck unloading station having a processor containing instructions which, when executed by the processor cause the processor to;
- receive a hydrocarbon content signal coupled to an input from at least one of a fluorometer, a turbidity sensor, and a color sensor installed in one of the plurality of pipelines, the hydrocarbon content signal to indicate an amount of hydrocarbon content in the aqueous process fluid flowing into the pipeline from a tanker truck tank;
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- transmit a control signal to a control device coupled to an output, the control device to modify flow of the aqueous process fluid and stop flow of aqueous process fluid flowing from the tanker truck tank into the common process fluid manifold when the hydrocarbon content of the aqueous process fluid exceeds a predetermined amount.
A method of detecting hydrocarbon in an aqueous mixture flowing between a tanker truck tank and a production site tank and controlling flow of that aqueous mixture, comprising:
- receiving a hydrocarbon content signal from a hydrocarbon content sensor comprising at least one of a fluorometer, a turbidity sensor, and a color sensor in a pipe in fluid communication with the tanker truck tank and the production site tank disposed in an aqueous mixture;
- calculating hydrocarbon content of the aqueous mixture from the sensed hydrocarbon content sensor;
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- controlling the flow of the aqueous mixture to stop flow of the aqueous mixture between the tanker truck tank and the production site tank when based on the hydrocarbon content of the aqueous mixture exceeds a predetermined limit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.