145results about "Ice drilling" patented technology

An apparatus includes a frame structure and one or more fracking fluid tanks carried by the frame structure. The one or more fracking fluid tanks arranged to contain a fracking fluid usable during a fracking procedure. One or more fracking pumps may be carried by the frame structure, the one or more fracking pumps being configured to pump the fracking fluid to a wellhead of a wellbore at high pressure. An integrated piping system connects with the one or more fracking pumps to carry fracking fluid that was contained in the one or more fracking fluid tanks toward the one or more fracking pumps. Mobility-enabling structure supports the frame structure, the one or more fracking fluid tanks, the one or more fracking pumps, and the integrated piping system, the mobility enabling-structure being configured to enable conveyance of the apparatus to a fracking site.

An auger assembly has a shaft supporting flight units having lug and recess connections allowing broken flight units to be removed from the shaft and replaced with another flight unit. The auger assembly is incorporated in an ice drill having a cordless electric motor and a cutting head. A coupling locks the auger assembly on the motor drive shaft.

An ice cutting apparatus including a driving mechanism, a shaft, a plate, a web and a blade. The shaft is connected to the driving mechanism. The plate has at least one opening therein, the plate being detachably connected to the shaft. The web borders a portion of the at least one opening. The blade is attached to the plate, and is shaped to accommodate the web.

The invention discloses a hot water core drill used at a glacier. The hot water core drill comprises a plunger pump, a two-way pipe, a heat insulation pipe, an ice core pipe, a drill bit and a flower divider, wherein the plunger pump is arranged in a pump storage pipe, the upper end of the plunger pump is connected with a water outlet pipe, the lower end of the plunger pump is connected with a water absorption pipe, the two-way pipe is connected to the lower end of the pump storage pipe, the lower end of the two-way pipe is connected with the heat insulation pipe, the ice core pipe is inserted in the heat insulation pipe, the drill bit is arranged below the heat insulation pipe and the ice core pipe, the flow divider is arranged on the lower portion of the two-way pipe and at the top end of the ice core pipe, the top end of the flow divider is connected with a hot water injection pipe, the lower portion of the flow divider is connected with a plurality of drainage pipes which are arranged in a gap between the heat insulation pipe and the ice core pipe, and hot water injected by the hot water injection pipe at the top end of the flow divider is injected into the drainage pipes through the flow divider. The hot water core drill has the advantages that due to the fact that the hot-melting drill bit is adopted for tapping and drilling of the hot water drill, and molten water is extracted to serve as a raw material of the hot water drill, cost is reduced, and the energy utilization rate is increased.

An ice auger attachment for attaching an ice auger to and operating the ice auger from a vehicle, such as an ATV. The ice auger attachment generally includes a support frame attached to a front end of the vehicle, a carriage assembly movable vertically along the support frame, and a motorized ice auger supported by the carriage assembly in a vertical orientation, the ice auger adapted to move vertically along the support frame with the carriage assembly. The carriage assembly and ice auger are generally raised and lowered via a winch, cable, and pulley operable from the seat of the vehicle. The ice auger may also be operated from the seat of the vehicle via a control unit that engages the motor of the ice auger. Various structures may be utilized to apply downward pressure structures upon the carriage assembly to ensure proper functioning of the ice auger.

The present invention is an auger transport and mounting system which facilitates the drilling and positioning of ice fishing or other holes in an outdoor surface.

The drill adapter for an ice auger is an adapter that allows an ice auger to be powered by a battery-powered drill. The device includes a receiver tube that is configured for attachment to an ice auger shaft, and an end cap with a removable driver bit for attachment to a battery-powered drill. The device also includes, as a safety feature, a floating shield that spins freely around the receiver tube thereby allowing rotation of the shield to be stopped while the device is powering an ice auger, and includes a spring within the receiver tube that absorbs vibration.

Method of introducing instruments / measuring equipment / tools into formations (9) in the earth's crust or other solid materials, such as ice, by means of a drilling device (1), material being liberated by, for example, rotation of a drill bit (2), or by melting, for example by means of a heating element, the liberated material thereafter flowing, or being pumped, past / through the drilling device (1) and being deposited in the bore hole (18) above / behind the drilling device (1). A drilling device (1) for practising the method described above, comprising necessary components, for example a drill bit (2), a driving motor (4), and a steering / control component (7), the drilling device (1) being provided with a cable magazine (10) containing a cable (12), and possibly with an output feeder (11).

The invention provides an impacting type ice driller. The impacting type ice driller comprises a rack, a motor mounted on the rack and a drilling rod capable of being driven by the motor to rotate, and is characterized by further comprising a fixed part and a rotary part, which are oppositely arranged in the axial direction, wherein the rotary part is connected with the drilling rod, and can keep synchronous motion with the drill rod under the driving of the motor; irregular surfaces, which are matched with each other, are arranged on relative end faces of the fixed part and the rotary part; and the rotary part can do axial reciprocating motion relative to the fixed part through mutual contact and separation action of the irregular surfaces when the rotary part rotates. The impacting type ice driller has the advantages that the irregular surfaces, which are matched with each other, are arranged on the relative end faces of the fixed part and the rotary part, and the rotary part can do the axial reciprocating motion relative to the fixed part through the mutual contact and the separation action of the irregular surfaces when the rotary part rotates, so that an impacting effect is generated on an ice layer in an ice drilling process of the drilling rod, and the drilling effect is relatively good.

A tool for drilling holes through ice has a central drill rod (2) having a spiral (5) for lifting crushed ice formed by the drilling, a carrier (6) attached to one end of the drill rod (2) and being fixed to at least one cutting blade (12) extending substantially radially with respect the drill rod (2) and having a cutting edge (13) for cutting and thereby drilling into the ice upon rotation of the drill rod (2). A member is fixed with respect to the carrier (6) for support on the ice through a surface (15) at a distance in the direction of the axis of the drill rod (2) in the drilling direction behind the cutting edge of the cutting blade (12) for defining the cutting depth when drilling by the tool.

An ice auger adaptor for connecting a portable drill to an ice auger. The adaptor includes a connecting pin having a first end for connection to the chuck of a power drill and a second end configured to install on the shaft of an ice auger. Disposed on the connection pin between the two ends and proximate the first end is a flange. A retaining disc having a center aperture is installed on the connection pin so that it abuts against the flange. The center aperture has a diameter sufficiently larger than the diameter of the connection pin to permit free rotational movement therebetween. The retaining disc also includes two peripheral apertures which can be connected to the ends of an elastomeric retaining cord. The retaining cord has a length such that, when it is wrapped around the body of the drill, the retaining disc and remainder of the adaptor are secured snugly to the drill. The retaining disc and retaining cord cooperate to keep the ice auger secured to the drill and prevent accidental falls of the ice auger through the ice. They also serve to support much of the weight of the drill lid, thus preventing damage to the chuck.

The invention relates to a combustible ice drilling, mining and gasification separation integrated mining device and a combustible ice drilling, mining and gasification separation integrated mining method. The combustible ice drilling, mining and gasification separation integrated mining device is formed by a separation short joint, a suction short joint, a bottom drill bit, a drill cylinder, a hot water pipe and a water injection pipe, wherein the suction short joint is connected with the bottom drill bit; the drill cylinder is connected between the suction short joint and the separation short joint; the length of the drill cylinder is determined according to needs; the water injection pipe and the hot water pipe penetrate through the drill cylinder and the two short joints. According to the combustible ice drilling, mining and gasification separation integrated mining device disclosed by the invention, integration of drilling, mining and gasification separation of combustible ice can be realized through the cooperation of five links of cutting and crushing of the bottom drill bit, water injection and fluidization of the water injection pipe, hot water injection, heat transfer and energy transfer of the hot water pipe, suction of the suction short joint and separation of the separation short joint; a drilling technology, a mining technology and a separation technology are combined, a process is simplified, the period is shortened, the efficiency is increased, and the cost and the risk are reduced.

The invention discloses a hot-water driven self-rotation ice-layer coring and drilling method and device. According to the method, hot water is adopted as a power medium to drive a downhole drilling tool to rotate to complete coring and drilling, a swirl injector principle is adopted, through a current guiding channel designed in a drill bit, the hot water is guided to erupt from the side wall of the drill bit, a counterforce of the hot water drives the drill bit rotate, so that ice layers are cut, and the drilling is completed. The device includes a hot water pipe, a cable, a cable terminal, a grounding detection mechanism, a water diversion joint, an upper centering guide, an electric cabin, a lower centering guide, a transition pipe, a lower-portion dual-tube drilling tool and a lower-portion self-rotation drill bit. According to the method and device, the swirl injector principle is applied to downhole detritus, and rapid polar ice-layer coring and drilling can be achieved; a heat-machine mixed method is adopted to conduct sampling and the drilling, the hot water not only provides downhole power for the downhole drilling tool but also brings flake ice generated by the drilling out of hole bottoms and melts the flake ice, and the drilling efficiency and service life of the downhole power drilling tool are improved.

An ice auger has a rotatable rod adjacent and parallel to the central shaft supported at the bottom in a cylindrical receptacle. A vertical ice reaming blade is attached to the rod above the receptacle and a retaining loop affixed to the shaft and positioned above the blade prevents the rod from rising out of the receptacle. A right angled handle at the top of the rod extends outward above and in the same plane as the blade. A spring biased latch assembly disposed near the top of the shaft engages the handle with the blade in rest position. Releasing the latch frees the rod to rotate 180° and move the blade to use position extending outward beyond the standard auger members to ream the bottom of the ice hole. Vertical support posts stabilize the system and prevent wobble. One post functions as a stop and back support for the blade during use.

An ice auger reversal attachment which couples in-line with an ice auger to selectively reverse direction of the ice auger blade. The ice auger reversal attachment generally includes a mounting assembly adapted to be mounted to an ice auger motor. The mounting assembly includes a locking assembly which is adapted to selectively engage / disengage with an auger reversal assembly which is secured between the ice auger motor and the ice auger blade. Using the locking assembly and auger reversal assembly, the direction of rotation of the ice auger blade may be efficiently transitioned between a forward and reverse direction to aid in removal of slush when drilling a hole through a layer of ice.

The invention discloses a water taking vehicle used for water environment detection in winter, comprising a bottom plate, wherein a mounting box is arranged on the top wall of the bottom plate, a motor is arranged on the inner bottom wall of the mounting box, a first bevel gear is arranged at the driving end of the motor, a hollow pipe is arranged in the mounting box, the top end of the hollow pipe runs through the top wall of the mounting box and extends to the upper side of the mounting box, the bottom end of the hollow pipe sequentially runs through the bottom wall of the mounting box and the top wall of the bottom plate and extends to the lower side of the bottom plate, two rotary slots are symmetrically formed in the top wall and the bottom wall of the mounting box, and a second limiting plate is arranged in each of the two rotary slots. According to the invention, labor is greatly saved due to adoption of drilling machinery for tapping of an ice surface, so that water quality sampling is completed more conveniently, and compared with the prior art, the water taking vehicle is high in tapping speed and regular in hole shape, so as to avoid damage of the working face around theholes to prevent the occurrence of dangers, and eliminate potential safety hazards.

The invention discloses a drilling system and method for improving tundra drilling efficiency. The drilling method comprises the following steps of: adopting a downward drilling pipe column, starting a nitrogen gas compressor and a high-pressure pump unit; pumping liquid nitrogen into a shaft from a continuous oil pump, providing power to an underground motor, cutting shaft-bottom rocks by a PDC drill bit, and starting drilling operation; spraying out the liquid nitrogen through a spray nozzle of the drill bit to form liquid nitrogen jet flow which is matched with cutting of the PDC drill bit; upwards returning and circulating nitrogen gas along with rock debris to ground along an annular space, and recycling through a sand remover, a back pressure valve and a gas purifier; and drilling to a target layer, thereby completing drilling operation. Liquid-nitrogen fracturing effect is beneficial for expanding cracks generated inside rocks, so that rock breaking efficiency is effectively improved; the temperature of liquid nitrogen is extremely low, and liquid nitrogen is vaporized to absorb heat in an upward return process, so that decomposition of natural gas hydrates is effectively restrained, a well wall is kept stable, and underground complexity is prevented; and in an operation process, liquid nitrogen is recycled, so that the process is simple, is economical and is good in field applicability.

The invention provides a frozen soil layer parasitic pipe-provided vacuum sleeve cementation heat insulation cooling system and a cooling method. The heat insulation cooling system involves a centralpipe, a vacuum heat insulation sleeve, a low-temperature fluid injection pipe, a low-temperature fluid return pipe, a refrigeration system, a low-temperature fluid pool, a valve flowmeter and a vacuumpump; and the cooling method comprises the following steps of carrying out geological investigation to determine the position and thickness of a frozen soil layer of a stratum, and after the frozen soil stratum is drilled, cementing the frozen soil stratum by using the sleeve, and arranging the central pipe. The annular space between the central pipe and the vacuum heat insulation sleeve circulates low-temperature fluid and absorbs the high-temperature drilling fluid heat in the central pipe; and refrigeration equipment is arranged on the ground, the low-temperature fluid circulated back to the ground is subjected to cooling treatment, the cooled fluid enters the annular space again, and the steps are repeated until the whole drilling operation is finished. The system and the method effectively solve the technical problem that in the drilling construction process of the frozen soil stratum, the high temperature drilling fluid upwards returned from the deep stratum exchanges heat withthe shallow frozen soil so as to cause collapse, caused by melting of the frozen soil, of the well wall at the frozen soil layer.

The invention relates to an ice worthy jack-up rig that may extend the drilling season in shallow water off shore Arctic or ice prone locations. The inventive rig would work like a conventional jack-up rig while in open water with the hull jacked up out of the water. However, in the event of ice conditions, the hull is lowered into the water into an ice defensive configuration. The hull is specifically shaped with a lower portion that is an ice-bending surface to bend and break up ice that comes in contact with the hull while in the ice defensive configuration. Furthermore, the ice worthy jack-up rig that comprises at least two derricks so as to double the exploration efficiency and lower the relating costs.

The invention discloses an air reverse circulation for a polar region ice layer. The system comprises an air compressor, an air circulating pipeline, an air reverse circulation double-pipe drilling tool and an ice flake and core collecting device. The air compressor is connected with an air inlet pipe of the air circulating pipeline, the air compressor provides circulating air with pressure for the air circulating pipeline, the air reverse circulation double-pipe drilling tool is assembled at the lower end of the air circulating pipeline, and the ice flake and core collecting device is connected to an outlet of the air circulating pipeline and used for collecting ice flakes and cores drilled out by the air reverse circulation double-pipe drilling tool. The system has the advantages that the whole system is compact, light, easy to operate, high in reliability, high in drilling speed, short in auxiliary time and suitable for coring or comprehensive drilling in the polar environment.

The invention discloses an ice layer pore wall coring system and method. The ice layer pore wall coring system comprises an electric generator, an earth surface control system and a pore wall coring drilling tool, wherein the electric generator is connected with the earth surface control system, and the earth surface control system is connected with the pore wall coring drilling tool through an armored cable. The coring method comprises the steps that step one, the pore wall coring drilling tool is lowered to a pore inner designated position; step two, the earth surface control system gives aninstruction to a pore inner electrical unit to stop power supply to a supporting electric push rod; step three, the earth surface control system stops power supply to a coring electric push rod through the pore inner electrical unit; step four, a hot melting drill bit is driven to descend in an ice layer for hot melting and coring; step five, power of the hot melting drill bit is cut to enable the hot melting drill bit to stop working; step six, a push rod in the supporting electric push rod is taken back into a sleeve; and step seven, the coring work is finished. The ice layer pore wall coring system and method have the beneficial effects that the structure is simple and compact, the weight is light, the size is small and transportation is convenient, no pollution to the environment is achieved, and earth equipment can be shared with existing drilling equipment.

The invention discloses a hot-gas ice layer core-taking drilling tool. The hot-gas ice layer core-taking drilling tool comprises a negative pressure vacuum water pump, a water storage tank, a samplingtube, a heating tank and a drill bit. The negative pressure vacuum water pump is arranged at the top of the water storage tank and communicates with an inner cavity of the water storage tank, the sampling tube and the drill bit are arranged on the lower portion of the water storage tank in sequence, and the dill bit is fixedly connected to the bottom of the sampling tube. The water storage tank communicates with a plurality of water absorption tubes, water inlets of the multiple water absorption tubes are arranged around the drill bit in a surrounding mode, the heating tank is arranged belowthe sampling tube in a sleeving mode, and a plurality of air inlet pipes are arranged at the upper end of the heating tank in a communicating mode. Through the air inlet pipes, cold air can be fed into an inner cavity of the heating tank to be heated by the heating tank, the heating tank further communicates with a jet opening, the jet opening is formed in the lower part of the heating tank, and the heated air in the inner cavity of the heating tank is sprayed out by the jet opening. The hot-gas ice layer core-taking drilling tool has the beneficial effect that snow and ice particles melt or sublimate rapidly under the impact of hot gas so that the drilling efficiency can be faster. The hot gas drilling is clean and environmental protection, and the hot-gas ice layer core-taking drilling tool has great use values in the special polar environment.

The invention discloses a vortex tube type heat preservation sampling drilling tool which comprises a double-wall drilling rod, a heat-insulation heat preservation layer, a coring barrel, a vortex tube, an upper rolling bearing, a lower rolling bearing, a hot-melt drilling bit and a spiral blade. The heat-insulation heat preservation layer is arranged on the inner wall of the double-wall drilling rod in a clinging manner, the coring barrel is arranged inside the heat-insulation heat preservation layer, the spiral blade is coaxially arranged on the outer side of the coring barrel, and a cold air spiral channel is formed between the heat-insulation heat preservation layer, the coring barrel and the spiral blade; the vortex tube is arranged at the upper end of the double-wall drilling rod. The vortex tube type heat preservation sampling drilling tool has the advantages that the vortex tube type heat preservation sampling drilling rod is simple in process, high in acquisition efficiency for rock core samples of ice cores and natural gas hydrate in plateau frozen soil districts and low in disturbance on primary statues of the ice cores and the natural gas hydrate; outstanding effects can be realized during coring and drilling; air is used as power, accordingly, the vortex tube type heat preservation sampling drilling tool is free of pollution, additional external mechanical torque can be omitted, the service life and the reliability of the vortex tube type heat preservation sampling drilling tool can be guaranteed, the problem of insufficient water resources in the plateau frozen soil districts can be solved, and the integral cost performance of the vortex tube type heat preservation sampling drilling tool can be greatly improved.

The invention discloses an armored cable type electric mechanical impact rotary drilling tool for polar drilling. The armored cable type electric mechanical impact rotary drilling tool for polar drilling comprises a rock cuttings chamber, a water pump, a driving motor, a variable speed system, a mechanical impact system and a drill bit; the rock cuttings chamber is formed in the upper part of thewater pump, a liquid outlet of the rock cuttings chamber is in communication with a liquid inlet of the water pump, the driving motor is arranged on the lower part of the water pump, and the lower endof the driving motor is connected with the variable speed system, the water pump and the variable speed system are driven by the driving motor to work, the lower part of the variable speed system isconnected with the mechanical impact system, the variable speed system drives the mechanical impact system to work, the drill bit is assembled on the lower part of the mechanical impact system, and the drill bit is driven by the mechanical impact system to work. The armored cable type electric mechanical impact rotary drilling tool for polar drilling has the beneficial effects that on the basis ofrotary cutting of the drilling tool, impact drilling is added, and the risk of complex drilling accidents such as stuck drilling is reduced; and the drilling tool has the advantages of simple structure, reliable system, wide application range and high drilling efficiency, and can be used for drilling in various working conditions such as ice layers, ice rock interlayers and under-ice bedrock layers.

The invention relates to an ice worthy jack-up rig with a conical piled monopod working together to drill wells and produce hydrocarbons in ice prone locations. The inventive rig would work like a conventional jack-up rig while in open water with the hull jacked up out of the water. However, in the event of ice conditions, the legs are held in place by cans embedded in the sea floor to resist lateral movement of the rig and in sockets attached to the conical piled monopod. Both the hull and conical piled monopod are shaped with ice-bending surfaces to bend and break up ice that comes into contact.

An autonomous laser-powered vehicle designed to autonomously penetrate through ice caps of substantial (e.g., kilometers) thickness by melting a path ahead of the vehicle as it descends. A high powered laser beam is transmitted to the vehicle via an onboard bare fiber spooler. After the beam enters through the dispersion optics, the beam expands into a cavity. A radiation shield limits backscatter radiation from heating the optics. The expanded beam enters the heat exchanger and is reflected by a dispersion mirror. Forward-facing beveled circular grooves absorb the reflected radiant energy preventing the energy from being reflected back towards the optics. Microchannels along the inner circumference of the beam dump heat exchanger maximize heat transfer. Sufficient amount of fiber is wound on the fiber spooler to permit not only a descent but also to permit a sample return mission by inverting the vehicle and melting its way back to the surface.

A device is designed for optionally connecting a crank (3) and a motor shaft with a drill rod (2) of a tool for drilling holes through thick outdoor ice, on lakes and the like, by rotating the drill rod, for converting the tool between a tool for hand driven and a tool for motor driven drilling. The device has for this sake locking members for locking the crank and the motor shaft, respectively, to the drill rod, which are releasably arranged for removing the crank and the motor shaft, respectively, from the drill rod.

An autonomous laser-powered vehicle designed to autonomously penetrate through ice caps of substantial (e.g., kilometers) thickness by melting a path ahead of the vehicle as it descends. A high powered laser beam is transmitted to the vehicle via an onboard bare fiber spooler. After the beam enters through the dispersion optics, the beam expands into a cavity. A radiation shield limits backscatter radiation from heating the optics. The expanded beam enters the heat exchanger and is reflected by a dispersion mirror. Forward-facing beveled circular grooves absorb the reflected radiant energy preventing the energy from being reflected back towards the optics. Microchannels along the inner circumference of the beam dump heat exchanger maximize heat transfer. Sufficient amount of fiber is wound on the fiber spooler to permit not only a descent but also to permit a sample return mission by inverting the vehicle and melting its way back to the surface.