Pumps – Alternate series or parallel operation of plural pumps
Patent
1983-01-04
1985-09-17
Smith, Leonard E.
Pumps
Alternate series or parallel operation of plural pumps
417342, 417390, 417454, 417552, 91 39, 92171, F04B 2306, F04B 910
Patent
active
045417792
ABSTRACT:
A multicylinder, hydraulic driven, dual arranged mud pump is disclosed. The preferred embodiment consist of dual mud pumping units arranged to be selectively operated as individual pumps, as two pumps whose output flow is in parallel, or as two pumps whose output flow is in series. Each mud pumping unit is comprised of plural pumping assemblies with each assembly consisting of a pair of separate end to end cylinders, one cylinder being arranged to be driven by a second cylinder with the one cylinder further being arranged to pump mud and the second cylinder being arranged to be reciprocally driven in a sequential manner by pressurized hydraulic fluid. The pressurized hydraulic fluid is supplied to all operating second cylinders from common pressurized fluid source with the pressurized fluid being distributed to and returned from the second cylinder by an independently operated distribution valve, the volume of pressurized fluid flow being employed to synchronize the stroke and control the stroke length of the second cylinder which in turn controls the volume of pumped mud.
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