Drilling system for lithium recovery
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsKlemens Katterbauer, Abdulaziz S. Al-Qasim, Abdallah A. AlShehri, Ali Abdallah AIYousef
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Abstract
A drilling system, which includes a drilling body, a sensor unit disposed in the drilling body and a control system in electrical communication with the sensor unit, is provided. The drilling system is configured to extract lithium from a subsurface environment, the sensor unit is configured to determine a value of a concentration of ionic lithium in the subsurface environment and to transmit the value to the control system, and the control system is configured to control a drilling parameter based on the value.
Claims20
A drilling system comprising:
- a drilling body;
- a sensor unit disposed in the drilling body;
- and
- a control system in electrical communication with the sensor unit, wherein:
- the drilling system is configured to extract lithium from a subsurface environment;
- the sensor unit is configured to determine a value of a concentration of ionic lithium in the subsurface environment and to transmit the value to the control system;
- and
- the control system is configured to control a drilling parameter based on the value.
A method comprising:
- running a drilling body in a subsurface environment, wherein a sensor unit is disposed in the drilling body;
- gathering information concerning ionic lithium in the subsurface environment with an ion-selective sensor in the sensor unit;
- determining a value of a concentration of the ionic lithium with a microprocessor in the sensor unit;
- transmitting the value from the sensor unit to a control system in electrical communication;
- and
- controlling a drilling parameter based on the value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.