Auto test circuit using an intensifier
AssigneeFMC Technologies, Inc.
InventorJames Cook
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Abstract
A method includes providing a hydraulic connector having a hydraulic lock, wherein the hydraulic lock is operated using a hydraulic supply line and a hydraulic outlet line, and connecting the hydraulic connector to a component by activating the hydraulic lock. While the hydraulic lock is activated, a connection between the hydraulic connector and the component is pressure tested by directing a portion of the hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic supply line to a pressure testing system, using an intensifier in the pressure testing system to pressurize the portion of hydraulic fluid to a testing pressure, and directing the pressurized portion of hydraulic fluid to the connection to test a pressure rating of the connection.
Claims10
A system, comprising:
- a hydraulic connector comprising a hydraulic lock;
- a hydraulic supply line and a hydraulic outlet line fluidly connected to the hydraulic lock;
- a test port in fluid communication with a connection surface of the hydraulic connector;
- an intensifier fluidly connected to the test port;
- a pressure transducer fluidly connected between the intensifier and the test port;
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- a manifold, comprising:
- a test supply line fluidly connecting the hydraulic supply line to a test port of the intensifier,
- a test control valve positioned along the test supply line,
- a bleed supply line fluidly connecting the hydraulic supply line to a bleed port of the intensifier,
- a bleed control valve positioned along the bleed supply line,
- a bleed outlet line fluidly connecting the test control valve to the hydraulic outlet line, and
- a one way valve positioned along the bleed outlet line, and
- wherein the manifold fluidly connects the intensifier to the hydraulic supply line and the hydraulic outlet line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.