Wells – Processes – Cleaning or unloading well
Reexamination Certificate
2008-06-27
2011-12-27
Stephenson, Daniel P (Department: 3676)
Wells
Processes
Cleaning or unloading well
C166S163000, C175S424000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08082996
ABSTRACT:
Utilization of geothermal energy in depths above 5 km could contribute considerably to resolving the global problems related to a lack of energy and to glasshouse gases from fossil fuels. The invention describes innovative equipment which makes deep holes in geological formations (rock) by disintegrating the soil into blocks carried to the land surface through the excavated hole filled with liquid, using transport modules yielded up by gas buoyancy interaction in the transport module utilizing supercavitation. In an opposite direction—by help of negative buoyancy—the necessary energy carriers, materials and components, or entire devices required for rock excavation, are carried to the bottom. The opportunity to transport rock in entire blocks reduces energy consumption considerably, because the rock is disintegrated in the section volumes only. Some of the extracted rock and material carried from the surface is used to make a casing of the hole using a part of the equipment. The equipment also allows the generation of the necessary high pressure of liquid at the bottom of the hole, to increase permeability of adjacent rock. The equipment as a whole allows by its function that there is almost linear dependence between the price and depth (length) of the produced hole (borehole).
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Kocis Igor
Kocis Ivan
Kristofic Tomas
Hovey & Williams, LLP
Stephenson Daniel P
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