Patents by Inventor Bryan Chapman Lucas
Bryan Chapman Lucas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20180141012Abstract: In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, systems and methods for using containers, instead of pneumatic transfer, to move bulk material from a transportation unit to a blender receptacle of a blender are provided. A transportation unit may deliver one or more containers of bulk material to the well site, where one or more conveyors may deliver the containers to a location proximate the blender receptacle. A chute may extend from the bottom of each container to route bulk material from the one or more containers directly into the blender receptacle. Since the transportation unit is able to unload the containers of bulk material without pneumatic transfer, the containers may enable a cleaner and more efficient bulk material transfer at the site.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Bryan Chapman Lucas, Tim H. Hunter, Calvin L. Stegemoeller, Bryan John Lewis, Austin Carl Schaffner, Jim Basuki Surjaatmadja
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Publication number: 20180134507Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods for using containers of bulk material along with a bucket conveyor system, instead of a pneumatic transfer process, to move the bulk material from a transportation unit to a storage/delivery system are provided. A transportation unit may deliver one or more containers full of bulk material toward a fill hopper of the bucket conveyor system. The containers may be positioned proximate the fill hopper to release the bulk material directly into the fill hopper. The bucket conveyor may deliver the bulk material from the fill hopper into the storage/delivery system. Since the containers are maneuverable into a position to output bulk material directly into the fill hopper and without pneumatic transfer, the bucket conveyor system may enable a cleaner and more efficient bulk material transfer at the site.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Bryan Chapman Lucas, Tim H. Hunter, Calvin L. Stegemoeller, Bryan John Lewis, Austin Carl Schaffner, Jim Basuki Surjaatmadja
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Publication number: 20180105375Abstract: In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, systems and methods for using containers, instead of pneumatic transfer, to move bulk material from a transportation unit to a blender receptacle (e.g., hopper or mixer of a blender) are provided. A transportation unit may deliver multiple containers of bulk material to the well site, where multiple conveyors may deliver the containers to a location proximate the blender receptacle. Openings at the bottom of the containers are arranged adjacent one another so that the load of two containers may be delivered to the tight space occupied by the blender receptacle. Since the transportation unit is able to unload the containers of bulk material without pneumatic transfer, the containers may enable a cleaner and more efficient bulk material transfer at the site.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventors: Bryan Chapman Lucas, Tim H. Hunter, Calvin L. Stegemoeller, Bryan John Lewis, Austin Carl Schaffner, Jim Basuki Surjaatmadja
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Publication number: 20180028992Abstract: In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, systems and methods for managing bulk material efficiently at a well site are provided. The disclosure is directed to a container support frame that is integrated into a blender unit. The support frame is used to receive one or more portable containers of bulk material, and the blender unit may include a gravity feed outlet for outputting bulk material from the containers directly into a mixer of the blender unit. The blender unit with integrated support frame may eliminate the need for any subsequent mechanical conveyance of the bulk material (e.g., via a separate mechanical conveying system or on-blender sand screws) from the containers to the mixer. As such, the integrated blender unit may be lighter weight, take up less space, and have a lower cost and complexity than existing blenders.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Calvin L. Stegemoeller, Bryan Chapman Lucas, Bryan John Lewis, Austin Carl Schaffner, Timothy H. Hunter, Jim Basuki Surjaatmadja, Wesley John Warren
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Publication number: 20170334639Abstract: In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, systems and methods for efficiently managing bulk material are provided. The disclosure is directed to a portable support structure used to receive one or more portable containers of bulk material and output bulk material from the containers directly into the blender hopper. The portable support structure may include a frame for receiving and holding the one or more portable bulk material containers in an elevated position proximate the blender hopper, as well as one or more gravity feed outlets for routing the bulk material from the containers directly into the blender hopper. In some embodiments, the portable support structure may be transported to the well site on a trailer, unloaded from the trailer, and positioned proximate the blender unit. In other embodiments, the portable support structure may be a mobile support structure that is integrated into a trailer unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Thomas W. Hawkins, Bryan John Lewis, Tori H. Miller, Wesley John Warren, Austin Carl Schaffner, Glenn Ray Fowler, Bryan Chapman Lucas, Calvin L. Stegemoeller
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Publication number: 20170327326Abstract: In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, systems and methods for using one or more pre-filled, portable containers, instead of pneumatic transfer, to move bulk material from a transportation unit to a blender receptacle of a blender are provided. A transportation unit may deliver one or more containers of bulk material to the well site, where the containers may be disposed in an elevated position around the blender receptacle. A gravity feed outlet may extend from one or more containers to route bulk material from the one or more containers directly into the blender receptacle. Since the transportation unit is able to unload the portable containers of bulk material without pneumatic transfer, the stackable containers may enable a cleaner and more efficient bulk material transfer at the site.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Bryan Chapman Lucas, Tim H. Hunter, Calvin L. Stegemoeller, Bryan John Lewis, Austin Carl Schaffner, Jim Basuki Surjaatmadja
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Publication number: 20170313497Abstract: A material storage unit including a bin having a bottom end, a top end, and a sidewall extending therebetween and defining an interior configured to hold particulates, where a portion of the sidewall defines an angular air flow vent having a top air inlet and a bottom air inlet. The material storage unit further includes a fill line inlet extending through one or both of the bottom end of the bin or the sidewall of the bin and in fluid communication with the interior, a venting outlet extending through one or both of the top end of the bin or the sidewall of the bin and in fluid communication with the interior, and a discharge outlet extending through the bottom end of the bin and in fluid communication with the interior.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2014Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Austin Carl SCHAFFNER, Bryan Chapman LUCAS, Wesley John WARREN
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Publication number: 20170291779Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods for passively reducing or preventing dust formation in a particulate handling system are provided. In some embodiments, the handling system includes a silo for holding bulk material used to form a well fracturing treatment fluid. The silo may include a chute to deposit a portion of the bulk material from the silo into a blender and a cyclone mounted to the silo to separate dust from a pneumatic air flow and to release a substantially clean air into the atmosphere. In other embodiments, the handling system may include a horizontally oriented cyclone assembly mounted to a blender storage tank, cyclone assembly including a horizontally oriented cyclone separator to separate dust from a pneumatic airflow and a dust collection container to receive the dust and output the dust into the storage tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2014Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventors: Bryan Chapman Lucas, James Ray Troutman, Wesley John Warren, Calvin Lynn Stegemoeller, Chad Adam Fisher
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Publication number: 20170277765Abstract: In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, an inventory management system and method are provided. The inventory management system and method utilize an inverted database architecture that stores all the individual information related to each inventory item with the item itself, rather than just an identification number. Successive local, regional, and enterprise databases may be constructed from the item level up. That way, each inventory item effectively becomes a database, storing all its own data, and the higher level databases may be updated to reflect the information from the lower level databases when communication is available. This inventory management system of nested databases may be of particular use in the management of bulk material (e.g., powder, granular, or liquid) inventory for remote supply, transportation, and use applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2015Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Donald Anthony Belcher, Wesley John Warren, Bryan Chapman Lucas
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Patent number: 9771512Abstract: A system for mixing fracturing gel includes a dry gel mixing chamber having a bladed impeller carried to rotate in the mixing chamber. The mixing chamber has a dry gel inlet and hydrating fluid inlet. A valve is fluidically coupled to the hydrating fluid inlet to automatically maintain a specified flow condition of hydrating fluid into the mixing chamber over multiple different values of the flow condition to the hydrating fluid inlet.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Bryan Chapman Lucas
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Publication number: 20170137701Abstract: A system for mixing fracturing gel includes a dry gel mixing chamber having a bladed impeller carried to rotate in the mixing chamber. The mixing chamber has a dry gel inlet and hydrating fluid inlet. A valve is fluidically coupled to the hydrating fluid inlet to automatically maintain a specified flow condition of hydrating fluid into the mixing chamber over multiple different values of the flow condition to the hydrating fluid inlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventor: Bryan Chapman Lucas
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Patent number: 9592479Abstract: A system for mixing fracturing gel includes a dry gel mixing chamber having a bladed impeller carried to rotate in the mixing chamber. The mixing chamber has a dry gel inlet and hydrating fluid inlet. A valve is fluidically coupled to the hydrating fluid inlet to automatically maintain a specified flow condition of hydrating fluid into the mixing chamber over multiple different values of the flow condition to the hydrating fluid inlet.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Bryan Chapman Lucas
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Patent number: 9194216Abstract: A manipulatable filtering system for use in a wellbore servicing system is disclosed. The system includes a first wellbore servicing system component configured to communicate a fluid via a first fluid conduit and a second wellbore servicing system component comprising a second fluid conduit. A filter system having an input conduit is in fluid communication with the first fluid conduit. The filtering system includes a plurality of input flow paths, each in fluid communication with the input conduit. The system further includes a plurality of filter housings, each in fluid communication with one of the plurality of input flow paths. A filter is disposed within each of the filter housings. A plurality of output flow paths are in fluid communication with the filter housings and an output conduit is in fluid communication with each of the output flow paths and the second fluid conduit.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Bryan Chapman Lucas, Wesley John Warren
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Publication number: 20140318810Abstract: A wellbore servicing system comprising a first wellbore servicing system component configured to communicate a fluid via a first fluid conduit, a second wellbore servicing system component comprising a second fluid conduit, and a filter system comprising an input conduit in fluid communication with the first fluid conduit, a plurality of input flow paths, wherein each input flow path is in fluid communication with the input conduit, a plurality of filter housings, wherein each filter housing is in fluid communication with one of the plurality of input flow paths, a filter disposed within each of the filter housings, a plurality of output flow paths, wherein each output flow path is in fluid communication with one of the filter housings, an output conduit in fluid communication with each of the output flow paths and the second fluid conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2013Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Bryan Chapman LUCAS, Wesley John WARREN
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Publication number: 20130308414Abstract: A system for mixing fracturing gel includes a dry gel mixing chamber having a bladed impeller carried to rotate in the mixing chamber. The mixing chamber has a dry gel inlet and hydrating fluid inlet. A valve is fluidically coupled to the hydrating fluid inlet to automatically maintain a specified flow condition of hydrating fluid into the mixing chamber over multiple different values of the flow condition to the hydrating fluid inlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Bryan Chapman Lucas
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Patent number: D780883Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Austin Carl Schaffner, Glenn Ray Fowler, III, Bryan Chapman Lucas, Calvin L. Stegemoeller, Wesley John Warren, Bryan John Lewis, Tim H. Hunter, Tori H. Miller, Thomas W. Hawkins, Jim Basuki Surjaatmadja
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Patent number: D783771Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Calvin L. Stegemoeller, David Wayne Murrell, III, Bryan Chapman Lucas, Austin Carl Schaffner, Wesley John Warren, Arunkumar Nattamai Santharam
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Patent number: D783772Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Calvin L. Stegemoeller, III, Thomas W. Hawkins, Bryan Chapman Lucas, Wesley John Warren
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Patent number: D801874Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Wesley John Warren, Keith Douglas Pewitt, III, David Wayne Murrell, Bryan Chapman Lucas