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US 8,911,676 B2Granted
Treatment systems for fluids
OwnerGuy L. McClung, IIIinventor
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Abstract
Systems and methods for treating a fluid by passing fluid through a treatment structure, the fluid containing undesirable living things, the treatment structure containing electrically conductive nanomaterial with silver, flowing an electric current in the fluid in the treatment structure via the electrically conductive nanomaterial with silver or silver material to kill undesirable living things in the treatment structure, and killing undesirable things in the treatment structure.
Claims10
A system for treating fluid, the system comprising:
- a treater for receiving fluid, the fluid containing components,
- the treater having nanomaterial, the nanomaterial comprising electrically conductive nanomaterial, the electrically conductive nanomaterial responsive to an electric current flowing therethrough for affecting the fluid,
- a power source for providing the electric current to the nanomaterial,
- wherein the system produces treated fluid, the treated fluid contains the nanomaterial, and
- removal apparatus for removing nanomaterial from the treated fluid.
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A system for treating fluid, the system comprising:
- a separator for receiving fluid, the fluid containing components, the separator having a separating element for separating a component of the fluid,
- the separating element having nanomaterial, the nanomaterial comprising electrically conductive nanomaterial, the electrically conductive nanomaterial responsive to an electric current flowing therethrough for affecting the fluid,
- wherein the fluid is drilling fluid with solids therein and the separator is a shale shaker.
A system for treating fluid, the system comprising:
- a separator for receiving fluid, the fluid containing components, the separator having a separating element for separating a component of the fluid,
- the separating element having nanomaterial, the nanomaterial comprising electrically conductive nanomaterial, the electrically conductive nanomaterial responsive to an electric current flowing therethrough for affecting the fluid, the electrically conductive nanomaterial containing magnetically attractive material, the system producing treated fluid with magnetically attractive nanomaterial therein, and
- removal apparatus for removing the magnetically attractive nanomaterial from the treated fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.