Fluid conditioning and/or treatment system
AssigneeMason Specialty Tools, LLC
InventorBenton T. Knobloch, Jr.
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Abstract
A fluid conditioning and/or treatment system is disclosed. A bell housing with a pressure relief element, for example a rupture disk, has an external shoulder to seat within a tubular. One or more filter chambers, with slots in the walls thereof, are releasably connected to the bell housing. A magnet mandrel is attached to the lowermost filter chamber. Fluids, for example drilling/completion fluids, are pumped downhole through the apparatus, and the filter chamber(s) and magnet remove solids and ferrous materials from the fluid stream. Threaded connections and connectors create a modular system, with the various elements easily changed out.
Claims6
Apparatus, comprising:
- a bell housing comprising an external tapered shoulder adapted to engage a mating internal shoulder within a tubular, said bell housing comprising a pressure relief component disposed therein, said pressure relief component comprising a rupture disk or a shear pin;
- a filter chamber comprising an elongated cylinder comprising openings in a wall thereof further comprising a flow disperser cone element comprising a cone at an uphole end thereof, positioned within said elongated cylinder, said diverter cone oriented so that an apex of said cone points toward said uphole end of said apparatus and wherein said diverter cone diverts substantially all fluids and solids;
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- said filter chamber releasably connected to a downhole end of said bell housing by a threaded connection,
- wherein said apparatus comprises an uphole end and a downhole end, whereby fluids may flow through said apparatus from said uphole end toward said downhole end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.