Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Real-time ultrasound techniques to determine particle size distribution
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Application No.: US14895962Application Date: 2015-02-13
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Publication No.: US10400593B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Sandeep D. Kulkarni , Cato R. McDaniel
- Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC
- Agent Tenley Krueger
- International Application: PCT/US2015/015765 WO 20150213
- International Announcement: WO2016/130139 WO 20160818
- Main IPC: E21B49/08
- IPC: E21B49/08 ; E21B49/00 ; E21B21/06 ; E21B21/08

Abstract:
A well system including a drill string having an inlet and extending from a surface location into a wellbore and defining an annulus between the drill string and the wellbore; a fluid circuit that circulates a treatment fluid, the fluid circuit extending from the inlet, through the drill string to a bottom of the wellbore, back to the surface location within the annulus, and back to the inlet; and one or more ultrasound devices arranged at-line, off-line, or in-line with fluid circuit to monitor the treatment fluid and track a real-time particle size distribution (PSD) of one or more particles suspended within the treatment fluid.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160369627A1 REAL-TIME ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUES TO DETERMINE PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION Public/Granted day:2016-12-22
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