Electrolytic pumping system
OwnerFelix Antonio Torrent, Margarita Santainventors
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Abstract
An electrolytic pumping system for use in drilling including horizontal and deviated wellbores. The electrolytic pumping system may be configured with one or more chambers to cause oxidation, reduction, and/or redox reactions with liquid in a reservoir. For example, each chamber may include one or more anode and/or cathode to introduce positive and/or negative charges into the liquids and cause the formation of gas and a positive pressure proximate to the liquid being extracted.
Claims20
A pump comprising:
- a conical base at a first end of the pump, the conical base having an opening to allow reservoir liquid exterior to the pump to enter the pump as pumping liquid;
- a discharge head at a second end, the second end opposite the first end of the pump;
- a cylindrical body configured between the conical base and the discharge head;
- an interior body within the cylindrical body in fluid communication with the opening in the conical base and with the discharge head, the interior body to allow the pumping liquid to transition from the opening the conical base to tubing coupled to the discharge head;
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- a pumping chamber in fluid communication with the interior body, the pumping chamber including at least one anode to produce positive electrodes within the pumping liquid and at least one cathode to produce negative charges to the pumping liquid to cause redox reaction with respect to the pumping liquid producing gases and causing the pumping liquid to rise towards the discharge head.
A pump configured to be deployed at a bottom of a wellbore, the pump comprising:
- an opening at a first end, the opening to be in fluid communication with reservoir liquid during operations;
- an interior body in fluid communication with the opening;
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- a pumping chamber in fluid communication with the interior body, the pumping chamber including at least one anode to cause a reaction to electrically charge a portion of the reservoir liquid to form gases and a positive pressure with respect to the reservoir liquid.
A pump configured to be deployed at a bottom of a wellbore, the pump comprising:
- an opening at a first end, the opening to be in fluid communication with reservoir liquid during operations;
- an interior body in fluid communication with the opening;
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- a pumping chamber in fluid communication with the interior body, the pumping chamber including at least one cathode to cause a reaction to introduce a positive pressure in a portion of the reservoir liquid to cause the portion of the reservoir liquid to rise without use of a motor to provide mechanical based force or suction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.