WO2014165255A1 - Apparatus and method for sintering proppants - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates generally to the field of hydraulic fracturing of subterranean formations in the earth and, more particularly, to a system, method and apparatus for sintering ceramic proppant particles used in the process of hydraulic fracturing of wells.
- Frac sand is traditionally used as the proppant for most hydraulically fractured wells.
- the crush strength and spherical shape of frac sand is far inferior to that of ceramic proppants.
- Many Oil and Gas operators have turned to ceramic proppants to improve the conductivity or flow of the well after it has been hydraulically fractured. Due to the inherit superior spherical shape of ceramic proppants over frac sand, conductivity (flow) of ceramic proppants allows for enhanced gas and/or oil flow within the well. This is crucial for maximizing flow from the well.
- Carbo Ceramics, Inc. manufactures an extensive line of proppants that range from resin- coated sand to ceramic proppants.
- US Patent Application Publication No. US 2012/20231981 Al describes various processes for manufacturing proppant particles.
- sintering time within a rotary kiln is exceptionally long in order to reach a typical sintering temperature of 2,800°F to 3,000°F. Typical sintering times range from 30 minutes to over one hour. If temperature creeps beyond the sintering temperature, the lower melting point metals and/or minerals within the green proppant tend to melt and "plate" out within the kiln. Thus, the rotary kiln must be shutdown, cooled and repaired and of course adversely affects the plants production capacity.
- the present invention provides an apparatus for sintering green pellets to make proppant particles.
- the apparatus includes: (a) a vessel having an overflow disposed in a first end, an underflow disposed in a second end, a middle portion having a circular cross-section disposed between the first end and the second end, and a tangential inlet proximate to the first end such that a gas from the tangential inlet flows along a vortex path from the first end to the second end of the vessel; (b) a first electrode extending through the overflow and a second electrode extending through the underflow, wherein both electrodes are at least partially disposed within the vessel, spaced apart from one another, and axially aligned with one another along a central axis of the vessel from the first end to the second end; and (c) one or more feed tubes extending through the overflow proximate to the first electrode.
- the electrodes are used to create an open electrical arc that sinters or partially sinters the green pellets from the one or more feed tubes in a selected temperature range to form the proppant particles as the green pellets pass between the electrical arc and the gas flowing in the vortex path and exit the underflow.
- An apparatus includes: (a) a vessel having an overflow disposed in a first end, an underflow disposed in a second end, a middle portion having a circular cross-section disposed between the first end and the second end, and a tangential inlet proximate to the first end; (b) a first electrode extending through the overflow and a second electrode extending through the underflow, wherein both electrodes are at least partially disposed within the vessel, spaced apart from one another, and axially aligned with one another along a central axis of the vessel from the first end to the second end; and (c) one or more feed tubes extending through the overflow proximate to the first electrode.
- a gas is directed into the tangential inlet to flow in a vortex path from the first end to the second end of the vessel.
- An open electrical arc is created between the first electrode and the second electrode.
- the green pellets are dropped from the one or more feed tubes, such that the green pellets are sintered or partially sintered in a selected temperature range to form the proppant particles as the green pellets pass between the electrical arc and the gas flowing in the vortex path and exit the underflow.
- FIGURE 1A is a diagram of an apparatus for sintering proppants in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention
- FIGURE IB is a diagram of vessel that can be used in an apparatus for sintering proppants in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGURE 2 is a diagram of an apparatus for sintering proppants in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGURE 3 is a flow chart of a method for sintering proppants in accordance with another yet embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGURES 4A and 4B are a block diagrams of various embodiments of a system in accordance with another yet embodiment of the present invention.
- the apparatus 100 includes a vessel 106 having an overflow 108 disposed in a first end 1 10, an underflow 1 12 disposed in a second end 1 14, a middle portion 116 having a circular cross- section disposed between the first end 110 and the second end 114, and a tangential inlet 118 proximate to the first end 110 such that a gas 120 from the tangential inlet 1 18 flows along a vortex path 122 from the first end 1 10 to the second end 114 of the vessel 106.
- the interior of the middle portion 116 of the vessel 106 can be cylindrical shaped (e.g., FIGURE IB), cone shaped, funnel shaped or a combination thereof. Moreover, the interior of the middle portion 1 16 of the vessel 106 can be coated or lined with special materials to prevent heat transfer out of the vessel 106, change the chemical properties occurring with the vessel or any other desired result.
- the exterior of the vessel 106 can be any shape (see e.g., FIGURE IB).
- the vessel 106 can be a cyclone separator, a hydrocyclone, or a gas-sparaged hydrocyclone. Note also that, as shown in FIGURE IB, the underflow 112 at the second end 114 can be a tangential outlet, nozzle or other exit configuration.
- the apparatus 100 also includes a first electrode 124 extending through the overflow 108 and a second electrode 126 extending through the underflow 1 12, wherein both electrodes 124 and 126 are at least partially disposed within the vessel 106, spaced apart from one another, and axially aligned with one another along a central axis 128 of the vessel 116 from the first end 110 to the second end 1 14.
- the first electrode 124 and the second electrode 126 are used to create an electrical arc that produces a wave energy.
- the wave energy may include ultraviolet light, infrared light, visible light, sonic waves, supersonic waves, ultrasonic waves, electrons, cavitations or any combination thereof.
- the first electrode 124 and the second electrode 126 can be made of carbon or other suitable material.
- first electrode 124 and the second electrode 126 can be made of a material that coats or chemically reacts with the green pellets 102.
- a linear actuator or other device can be used to move the first electrode 124 to and from the second electrode 126 in order to strike the electrical arc as shown by arrows 134a.
- the second electrode 126 can also be moved using a linear actuator or other device as shown by arrows 134b.
- a DC power source 130 is connected to the first electrode 124 and the second electrode 126.
- the DC power source 130 can be one or more batteries or one or more solar powered batteries.
- the apparatus 100 includes one or more feed tubes 132 extending through the overflow 108 proximate to the first electrode 124.
- the one or more feed tubes 132 can be a single tube 132 having a larger diameter than the first electrode 124 such that the first electrode 124 is disposed within the single tube 132 and a gap separates the single tube 132 from the first electrode 124.
- This configuration synergistically forms a coaxial tube within a tube countercurrent heat exchanger.
- the countercurrent heat exchanger allows for preheating the green pellets 102 prior to exposure to the electrical arc.
- the one or more feed tubes 132 can also be a plurality of smaller feed tubes equally spaced around the first electrode 124.
- the one or more feed tubes 132 are a single smaller feed tube adjacent to the first electrode 124.
- the one or more feed tubes 132 can extend past the first electrode 124 as shown in FIGURE 1, or extend proximate to an end of the first electrode 124, or extend only to a point before the end of the first electrode 124.
- a linear actuator or other device can be used to adjust the position of the one or more feed tubes 132 as shown by arrows 136.
- the one or more feed tubes 132 can be made of an electrical insulating material, a material that coats or chemically reacts with the green pellets 102, or an electrically conductive material to form one or more third electrodes. Note also that a liquid can be mixed with the gas 120.
- the gas 120 is nitrogen because nitrogen is commonly used as a plasma gas.
- the gas 120 can be any other gas or combination of gases suitable to achieve the desired proppant particles 104.
- the green pellets 102 are typically made from minerals that commonly include fluoride. When heated within a large rotary kiln fluorine as well as nitrogen trifluoride are formed which must be scrubbed prior to emitting exhaust into the atmosphere. Not being bound by theory, it is believed that if any halogen species, for example fluorine and chlorine reacts with the nitrogen it will be destroyed within the present invention due to UV light.
- U.S. Patent No. 5,832,361 described an apparatus and method for destroying nitrogen trichloride (NCI3). Likewise, NF3 can be decomposed with UV light and heat.
- any scrubbing fluid can be flowed into inlet 1 1 while nitrogen is added with the scrubbing fluid and/or referring to FIGURE 3 of U.S. Patent No. 7,422,695 the porous tube 14 as gas 15.
- Nitrogen can easily be separated from air with an Air Separation Unit ("ASU").
- ASU's are very common within the oil and gas industry. As will be described in reference to FIGURE 2, using nitrogen as the gas for the present invention allows for a closed loop proppants sintering process.
- the electrodes 124 and 126 are used to create an open electrical arc that sinters or partially sinters the green pellets 102 from the one or more feed tubes 132 in a selected temperature range to form the proppant particles 104 as the green pellets 102 pass between the electrical arc and the gas 120 flowing in the vortex path 122 and exit the underflow 126.
- the selected temperature range is between about 1,200°C and 3,700°C.
- the selected temperature range can be based on a chemical composition of the green pellets 102, a size of the green pellets 102, a resonance time of the green pellets 102 within the vessel, or a combination thereof. Note that other parameters may also be used to determine the selected temperature range.
- any electrically conductive material may be used for the electrode, such as carbon, graphite or copper.
- the present invention can also use an electrode material that can be coated unto the proppants.
- titanium is a lightweight electrically conductive metal that is available in rods, bars or tubes which can be fed continuously for coating the proppants with a high strength lightweight metal.
- tungsten is a heavy electrically conductive metal that may be used to coat proppants.
- Green pellets 102 are very soft and can easily be crushed, shredded and/or comminuted when placed within the vortex or whirling flow of a cyclone.
- the eye of the gas 120 flowing or whirling in the vortex path moves at a very low to near zero speed and is, therefore, an ideal feed point for delicate materials such as green pellets 102.
- This allows for rapid sintering of proppants 104 (i.e., seconds as opposed to 30 minutes or more).
- the one or more feed tubes 132 drop or feed the green pellets 102 into the eye of the gas 120 flowing or whirling in the vortex path. All or part of the gas may exit through the overflow 108.
- the sintering process may involve a single pass through a single apparatus 100, or multiple passes through a single apparatus 100, or a single pass through multiple apparatuses 100 (FIGURE 4B).
- the apparatus 100 may include a heated gas source connected to the one or more feed tubes 132 to pre-heat the green pellets 102.
- the heated gas source can be a high temperature blower, a high temperature compressor, an electrical heater or heated gas source, a burner, a thermal oxidizer, a jet exhaust, an oxy-fuel torch, a plasma torch, an internal combustion engine exhaust, or a combination thereof.
- the vessel 106 also includes a radio frequency source 138 (e.g., one or more radio frequency coils, a waveguide, or a combination thereof, etc.) attached to or disposed within the vessel 106.
- the microwave source and/or induction coils 138 can inductively couple to the plasma utilizing radio frequency in the range of 0.5 kHz to 300 MHz.
- the carbon arc may provide the excitation energy for either the microwaves or RF energy to couple to and form a global plasma within the eye.
- susceptors may be located within the vessel 106 in order to ignite the plasma and allow for coupling and sustaining the plasma.
- the inductively coupled plasma is sustained within the eye.
- the green pellets 102 drop down the vertical axis of the eye and through the inductively coupled plasma and are discharged through the bottom of the vessel 106.
- Plasma can couple to Radio Frequency Energy (e.g., inductively coupled ("IC”) plasma torches, etc.).
- IC inductively coupled
- the present inventor's Plasma Whirl ® Reactor is an IC Plasma Torch.
- the Radio Frequency ("RF") Spectrum ranges from about 3 kHz to 300 GHz. Induction heating commonly employs RF coils ranging in frequency from 0.5 kHz to 400 kHz. Likewise, microwave frequencies commonly found in household microwave ovens normally operate at 2,450 Mega Hertz (2.450 GigaHertz) and at a power of 300 watts to 1,000 watts. Commercial microwave ovens ranging in power from 6 kw to 100 kw typically operate at a frequency of 915 MHz (Mega Hertz).
- RF energy can couple to a gas and form plasma. Coupling efficiency is based upon several variables ranging from the gas type, gas flow rate, frequency, cavity and/or reactor shape and volume.
- the three major issues with plasma are igniting, sustaining and confining the plasma. Igniting and sustaining plasma with an electrical arc is fairly straightforward and simple.
- DC plasma torches utilize inertial confinement to maximize and transfer energy to the work piece. Likewise, plasma confinement is necessary to prevent melting of the torch itself.
- plasma ignition with RF energy is quite difficult. Consequently, many RF torches using an RF coil or a Microwave source typically employ a susceptor to ignite the plasma.
- the susceptor is simply a pointed metal rod that will absorb the RF energy, heat up and then emit an electron via thermionic emission. As a result, the spark ignites any gases present and forms the plasma. Note that using a DC plasma torch as the heater allows for increasing the bulk plasma volume by simply turning on the RF coil or Microwave generator and injecting wave energy in the form of photons emitted from the RF coil or the Microwave magnetron to enhance the plasma.
- Apparatus 200 includes the same apparatus 100 as previously described in reference to FIGURE 1 with the addition of a gas slide 202 and a gas line 204.
- Optional components include a gas-togas heat exchanger 206, a hot gas clean up device 208 and/or a gas compressor 210.
- the gas slide 202 has a first inlet 212 for the green pellets 102, a second inlet 214 for a feed gas 216 and an outlet 218 connected to the one or more feed tubes 132.
- the gas slide 202 also commonly referred to as air slides, provide a preferred conveyor for gently feeding green pellets 102 into the one or more feed tubes 132.
- Pneumatic air slides are common and available from such vendors as Dynamic Air, WG Benjey and FL Smidth ("Fuller ® AirslideTM Conveying Technology").
- Other mechanisms e.g., shaker trays, conveyors, etc.
- transferring the green pellets 102 to the one or more feed tubes 132 can be used.
- the feed gas 216 used for the gas slide 202 can be supplied in a variety of ways, such as a separate feed gas source 220, or a gas line 204 connecting the overflow 108 to the second inlet 214 of the gas slide 202 such that the feed gas 216 is at least a portion of the hot gas that exits the overflow 108.
- a valve or regulator attached to the gas line 204 can be used to control a pressure of the feed gas 216.
- the feed gas 216 can be heated to preheat the green pellets 102 using a heater (not shown) or the gas-to-gas heat exchanger 206.
- the gas- to-gas heat exchanger 206 is connected to the feed gas source 220, the second inlet 214 of the gas slide 202 and the gas line 204 such that heat from the hot gas exiting the overflow 108 is transferred to the feed gas 216.
- any gas may be used as the feed gas 216 and it is not necessary to use the hot gas exiting from the overflow 108.
- the heater may be selected but is not limited to a group that includes a high temperature blower or compressor, electrical heater or heated gas source, burner, thermal oxidizer, jet rocket, oxy-fuel torch, plasma torch and/or even the exhaust from an internal combustion engine such as a reciprocating engine or gas turbine engine.
- the utilization of engine exhaust allows for generating electricity while sintering proppants.
- the heater includes another electrode proximate to inlet 1 18.
- the heater can be the DC Plasma ArcWhirl ® Torch disclosed in US Patent Numbers 8,074,439 and 8,278,810 and 7,622,693 and 8,324,523.
- an ideal heater or heated gas source may be the thermal oxidizer shown in Figure 6 of US Patent Number 8,074,439 or the plasma rocket as disclosed in Figure 7 of US Patent Number 8,074,439.
- the gas line 204 can also be used to recirculate at least a portion of the gas 120 that exits the overflow 108 back into the tangential inlet 1 18 creating a closed loop or partially closed loop process.
- a hot gas clean up device 208 and/or a gas compressor 210 can be attached to the gas line 204 and the tangential inlet 118.
- Other components can be added to the apparatus 200 as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art.
- the use of multiple small diameter vessels fed from a common header provides for a compact proppant manufacturing plant or system that is efficient and scalable. Likewise, this configuration enables the plant to increase production capacity via small increments and not through the purchase of one long rotary kiln or one large plasma process.
- the present invention allows the proppants to be manufactured in a multi-stage sintering process wherein addition materials can be added to, coated or reacted with the proppants to produce new and improved characteristics.
- the ability to use off-the- shelf and/or modified high temperature and high pressure cyclones sourced from the oil and gas industry as a component for a plasma proppant manufacturing system allows for a relatively compact, modular and inexpensive plant that could be built in a timely fashion.
- the present invention provides a system that can be mounted on a skid, trailer, truck, rail car, barge or ship and operated at or near the drilling operation, which greatly reduces the cost of the proppants by saving expensive storage and transportation costs.
- An apparatus in block 302 that includes: (a) a vessel having an overflow disposed in a first end, an underflow disposed in a second end, a middle portion having a circular cross-section disposed between the first end and the second end, and a tangential inlet proximate to the first end; (b) a first electrode extending through the overflow and a second electrode extending through the underflow, wherein both electrodes are at least partially disposed within the vessel, spaced apart from one another, and axially aligned with one another along a central axis of the vessel from the first end to the second end; and (c) one or more feed tubes extending through the overflow proximate to the first electrode.
- a gas is directed into the tangential inlet to flow in a vortex path from the first end to the second end of the vessel in block 304.
- An open electrical arc is created between the first electrode and the second electrode in block 306.
- the green pellets are dropped from the one or more feed tubes in block 308, such that the green pellets are sintered or partially sintered in a selected temperature range to form the proppant particles as the green pellets pass between the electrical arc and the gas flowing in the vortex path and exit the underflow.
- Other steps may be provided as is apparent from the description of the apparatus 100 and 200 above, or will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
- FIGURE 4A shows a processing system 400a in which the green pellets 102 are processed (one pass or multiple passes) by each apparatus (100a or 200a; 100b or 200b; 100c or 200c; lOOd or 200d) in parallel to produce the sintered proppant particles 104.
- System 400a is easily scalable to accommodate increasing/decreasing demand.
- System 400a can be in a building or made portable by mounting the system on a skid, trailer, truck, rail car, barge or ship 402.
- FIGURE 4B shows a processing system 400b in which the green pellets 102 are processed by each apparatus (100a or 200a; 100b or 200b; 100c or 200c; lOOd or 200d) in series to produce the sintered proppant particles 104.
- system 400b can be setup as a tower or pancake arrangement in which the apparatuses are stacked or vertically aligned with one another.
- System 400b can be made scalable by disconnecting one or more of the apparatuses to accommodate increasing/decreasing demand.
- System 400b can be in a building or made portable by mounting the system on a skid, trailer, truck, rail car, barge or ship 402.
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