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AssigneeHalliburton Energy Services, Inc.
InventorsNarongsak Tonmukayakul, Jeff Morris, Jason Bryant, Malcolm Talbot, Roger Schultz, Robert Pipkin
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A method of determining one or more bulk rheological properties of a particle laden fluid comprising providing a system comprising a vessel, a pump coupled to the vessel, and a flow-through apparatus coupled to the pump and the vessel, wherein the flow-through apparatus comprises a flow chamber, a bob rotatably disposed within the chamber, wherein the bob comprises an outer geometry adapted for continuous laminar flow in an axial direction, and a gap between the chamber and the bob, pumping the particle laden fluid into the flow-through apparatus, shearing the particle laden fluid within the gap of the flow-through apparatus, and collecting data from the bob and observing the particle laden fluid to determine one or more bulk rheological properties of the particle laden fluid.
A method of determining one or more bulk rheological properties of a particle laden fluid comprising:
A system for testing a particle laden fluid comprising:
An apparatus for testing a particle laden system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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By moving a body within the material: by using rotary bodies, e.g. vane
Earth materials: for hydrocarbon content
Investigating or analysing materials by determining their chemical or physical properties
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The subject matter of the present application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/166,992 filed Jul. 2, 2008 and entitled “Device and Method for Testing Friction Reduction Efficiency and Suspension Systems” and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/246,816 filed Oct. 7, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,392,842, and entitled “Proppant Suspension Testing Devices and Methods of Use,” each of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety for all purposes.
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For a more complete understanding of the present disclosure and the advantages thereof, reference is now made to the following brief description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and detailed description:
FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic view of an embodiment of components associated with a system for testing particle laden fluids.
FIG. 2 illustrates a cross-sectional schematic of an embodiment of a mixing vessel.
Certain terms are used throughout the following description and claims to refer to particular system components. This document does not intend to distinguish between components that differ in name but not function.
In the following discussion and in the claims, the terms “including” and “comprising” are used in an open-ended fashion, and thus should be interpreted to mean “including, but not limited to . . . ”. Also, the term “couple” or “couples” is intended to mean either an indirect or direct connection. Thus, if a first device couples to a second device, that connection may be through a direct connection, or through an indirect connection via other devices and connections.
It should be understood at the outset that although an illustrative implementation of one or more embodiments is provided below, the disclosed systems and/or methods may be implemented using any number of techniques, whether currently known or in existence. The disclosure should in no way be limited to the illustrative implementations, drawings, and techniques illustrated below, including the exemplary designs and implementations illustrated and described herein, but may be modified within the scope of the appended claims along with their full scope of equivalents.