Apparatus for extinguishing oil well fires and separating oil/ga

Details Apparatus for extinguishing oil well fires and separating oil/ga Apparatus for extinguishing oil well fires and separating oil/ga

1991-04-24

1992-05-26

Focarino, Margaret A.

Fire extinguishers

Special applications

For oil or gas well

169 48, 169 52, A62C 306

Patent

active

051158698

ABSTRACT:
A very simple, safe, and robust device for extinguishing oil well fires consists of an inclined duct which is connected to a vertical duct placed over an oil well fire, and of suitably arranged baffles which are inserted into the inclined dust for redirecting or separating the oil and gas streams. The purpose of the inclined duct is to separate the oil and gas from the two-phase mixture which is produced by a burning well and consequently to decrease the oil evaporation area or volume of combustible gas and starve the fire when the air inflow from the bottom into the vertical duct is reduced or eliminated. The fire-extinguishing device contains only baffles as moving parts which can be operated remotely through pulleys. The separated oil stream can be discharged into the atmosphere or collected into a holding tank until the next phase of work associated with capping of the oil well is initiated, thus reducing the environmental pollution problems and creating a safe zone for personnel to work. The apparatus can be easily constructed and assembled in the field and placed over the burning fire by a bulldozer or crane. By changing the size of the apparatus by proportional scaling of dimensions it is possible to extinguish many different types of oil well fires.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1807498 (1931-05-01), Teed
patent: 1859606 (1932-05-01), Sievern et al.

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