Patents Assigned to Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Patent number: 11946345
    Abstract: A device and a method for experimental exploitation of natural gas hydrates in full-sized production wells are provided. The device includes a full-diameter well, and the full-diameter well includes a heating circulation tube, a temperature sensor tube, an upper sealing unit and a lower sealing unit. Perforations are provided along a body of the full-diameter well. A reactor includes an upper cover, a lower cover, and a reactor body. The method is conducted by using the device and the reactor. The device and method allow simulation of sand-control wellbores in actual exploitation of natural gas hydrates, and realize horizontal and vertical sand-control experiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Zhaoyang Chen, Yi Wang, Zhiming Xia, Gang Li, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11919978
    Abstract: A hydrate kinetic inhibitor, which is prepared by a polymerization of mercaptoethanol and N-vinylcaprolactam, is hydroxyl terminated poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) having a structure of formula (I) below, wherein n=10 to 1000. The inhibitor is a novel hydrate kinetic inhibitor, which has low effective concentration and high cloud point, and is effective when the degree of supercooling is relatively high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Deqing Liang, Li Wan
  • Patent number: 11899005
    Abstract: A divisible device and a method for sand production and sand control experiment for natural gas hydrate exploitation. The experimental device includes a reactor system, a feeding system, a separation and measurement system, a water-bath jacket system, a support and safety system, and a software recording and analyzing system. In the reactor system, the reactor units can be combined in different ways depending on the experimental conditions and purposes. The reactor units include: left/right reactor units, secondary reactor units, central reactor units, and caps. The combination of a left/right reactor unit with a cap gives a hydrate formation reactor without sand control screens. Combining the left/right reactor unit, secondary left/right reactor units and central reactor units with other accessories allows the reactor system to carry out the simulation experiments with either zero, one, or two view zones, and with either one or two wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Yi Wang, Zhaoyang Chen, Zhiming Xia, Gang Li, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11879322
    Abstract: A comprehensive three-dimensional exploitation experimental system for large-scale and full-sized exploitation wells includes a reactor, configured to prepare a natural gas hydrate sample, for simulating an environment for forming a natural gas hydrate reservoir in seafloor sediments. The reactor includes a reactor body, an upper cover disposed at an upper surface of the reactor body, and a lower cover disposed at a lower surface of the reactor body; a gas introducing module, configured to introduce gas to the reactor during hydrate formation; a liquid introducing module, configured to introduce liquid to the reactor during hydrate formation; a temperature regulating module, configured to regulate a temperature in the reactor; a data collecting-processing-displaying module, configured to collect, store, process and display data of the comprehensive three-dimensional exploitation experimental system during an experiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Yi Wang, Zhaoyang Chen, Zhiming Xia, Yu Zhang, Gang Li
  • Publication number: 20230366369
    Abstract: A floating oscillating water column-type wave energy power generation apparatus includes a first runner chamber and a protective cap, wherein a nozzle is mounted inside the first runner chamber, a flow-guiding cone is coaxially mounted below the nozzle, the flow-guiding cone is conical and arranged with a tip facing down; an impeller is coaxially mounted above the nozzle; a power generator is coaxially mounted above the impeller; the protective cap is mounted at the top of the first runner chamber; and a gap is provided between an edge of the protective cap and an edge of the first runner chamber for air circulation. According to the floating oscillating water column-type wave energy power generation apparatus, as the nozzle with the flow-guiding cone structure is used, the flow-guiding cone can guide air flowing, and increase the air flowing speed in the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xianguang LIANG, Yaqun ZHANG, Songwei SHENG, Yin YE
  • Patent number: 11795785
    Abstract: A device for measuring stratum deformation caused by natural gas hydrate dissociation is provided. The device is configured to be disposed inside a natural gas hydrate reactor, wherein the natural gas hydrate reactor is configured to simulate natural gas hydrate formation layers in the natural gas hydrate reactor, and the natural gas hydrate formation layers include a superstratum layer, a sediment layer and a substratum layer from top to bottom. The device includes a displacement sensor fixing plate, displacement sensors and a flexible elastic plate. A plurality of displacement sensors are provided and evenly distributed, wherein a first end of each displacement sensor is fixed to the displacement sensor fixing plate and a second end of each displacement sensor is stretchably and sealingly fixed to the flexible elastic plate. The flexible elastic plate is tightly attached to the superstratum layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Yi Wang, Zhaoyang Chen, Zhiming Xia, Yu Zhang, Gang Li
  • Patent number: 11773697
    Abstract: An expandable liner and a method for running the same including a base pipe, wherein the base pipe is provided with a passage extending through an axial direction of the base pipe, a connection structure disposed at both ends of the base pipe, and screen openings on a wall of the base pipe; a porous expandable layer is fixedly attached to an exterior of the base pipe and made of a non-memory formed and compressible material. The expandable liner and the method, by adopting a non-memory porous expandable layer, realize a sand-control performance and a wellbore-supporting capability of a technology where memory materials are used in manufacturing, operating and running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Fucheng Deng
  • Patent number: 11746647
    Abstract: A flow field measurement device and a method for a scale model of a natural gas hydrate reservoir are provided. The measurement device includes non-central vertical well pressure sensors, non-central vertical well outlet valves, communicating vessel valves, differential pressure sensors, a communicating vessel, a central vertical well outlet valve, and a central vertical well pressure sensor. By providing differential pressure sensors, between a measuring point of the central vertical well and a measuring point of each of the non-central vertical wells, to measure pressure differences, the flow field measurement device enables a reasonable distribution of a three-dimensional space inside the reactor to analyze gas-liquid flow trends in the reactor with a simulated flow field. Determining whether to turn on the differential pressure sensors according to a predetermination based on a feedback from the pressure sensors, allows flow field measurements in the reactor under both high and low pressure differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Yi Wang, Zhaoyang Chen, Zhiming Xia, Gang Li, Yu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230268881
    Abstract: A device for supplying cold energy, heat energy and electrical energy by efficiently converting renewable deep-space energies includes a solar-energy conversion device, a radiation refrigeration device, a rotary bracket, a dip-angle adjustment component, and a support base. The solar-energy conversion device and the radiation refrigeration device are connected to the rotary bracket in a mutually perpendicular manner, and the rotary bracket is connected to the dip-angle adjustment component which is connected to the support base. The dip-angle adjustment component is configured to adjust a dip angle between the rotary bracket and a horizontal plane, and the rotary bracket is configured to drive the solar-energy conversion device and the radiation refrigeration device to rotate, such that a sunward side of the solar-energy conversion device is always perpendicular to light rays irradiated by the sun, and a reflective surface of the radiation refrigeration device is always parallel to the light rays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Kaijun DONG, Bobo ZHANG, Qin SUN, Haifeng GUAN, Zhanchao TANG
  • Publication number: 20230250998
    Abstract: A heat-pipe type heat extraction integrated with combined cooling power and heating exploitation-utilization integrated geothermal system includes an underground heat pipe, a steam pump, a first absorption bed, a second absorption bed, a first condenser, an electronic expansion valve, an evaporator, a liquid storage tank, a balance valve, a steam turbine, an generator connected to the steam turbine, a second condenser, a heat utilization device connected to the second condenser, a pressurizing pump connected to the second condenser, and relevant linkage valve assemblies. The system controls a flow direction and a flow rate after heat pipe steam is extracted from the ground through the steam pump and the regulating valves on the refrigeration side and the power generation side, so as to select the refrigeration/electric heating single-mode heat utilization or adjust flow distribution during refrigeration/electric heating dual-mode combined use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Fangming Jiang, Juanwen Chen, Wenbo Huang, Jiwen Cen, Wenjiong Cao
  • Publication number: 20230243556
    Abstract: A heat pump system and a method for implementing efficient evaporation by using a geothermal well are provided. The system includes a stepped underground evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, a liquid storage tank, and a throttle. The underground evaporator includes an inner pipe and an outer pipe. The inner pipe is designed into a multi-section structure. Each section includes a gas guiding pipeline, a baffle plate, and a seepage hole. Under the action of the structure, a liquid working medium flowing into the underground evaporator flows downwards along an inner wall of the outer pipe, and absorbs heat from an underground rock mass and gasifies into a gas working medium; and the gas working medium flows upwards to ground. Compared with the prior art, neither gas-liquid re-entrainment nor a liquid accumulation effect can occur in the underground evaporator designed according to the system and method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Wenbo HUANG, Fangming Jiang, Juanwen Chen, Jiwen Cen, Wenjiong Cao
  • Patent number: 11708748
    Abstract: A device and a method for gas-water-sand separation and measurement during a simulated exploitation of natural gas hydrates are disclosed. The device includes a natural gas hydrate formation and dissociation system and a filtering unit. The natural gas hydrate formation and dissociation system includes a compressed air pump, a reactor, and a water-bath temperature regulating unit. The filtering unit includes a kettle body, wherein an inlet end of the kettle body is connected to the sand-control liner zone, an outlet end of the kettle body is connected to a water-collecting container, and a plurality of filtering layers are disposed inside the kettle body from the inlet end to the outlet end. The method is conducted using the device. The device and the method realize the gas-water-sand separation and measurement of produced gas-water-sand mixture during a simulative exploitation process, allowing for a direct inspection on a sand production and sand control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Zhaoyang Chen, Yi Wang, Zhiming Xia, Yu Zhang, Gang Li
  • Publication number: 20230194080
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing pollutants from organic solid waste by pyrolysis coupled with chemical looping combustion are provided. The apparatus includes: an air reactor, a fuel reactor, and a pyrolysis gasifier. The pyrolysis gasifier is sleeved outside the fuel reactor, and the air reactor is connected with the fuel reactor. A top end of the air reactor is connected with a top delivery pipe; the top delivery pipe is connected with a first cyclone separator; and the first cyclone separator is connected with an oxygen carrier refeeder provided at a top end of the fuel reactor. The apparatus forms a two-stage reaction unit of pyrolysis and chemical looping combustion by decoupling the pyrolysis process from the chemical looping combustion, which avoids the contact between the complex ash of organic solid waste and the oxygen carrier, thereby improving the service life of the oxygen carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Zhen HUANG, Yan LIN, Haoran YUAN, Guoqiang WEI, Anqing ZHENG, Kun ZHAO, Zengli ZHAO, Haibin LI
  • Publication number: 20230184446
    Abstract: A system and a method for comprehensive utilization of renewable energy and waste heat of a data center are provided. The system includes a data center, a water cistern, a water circulating system and a refrigerant circulating system. The water cistern is used to adopt heating capacity of the data center to complete a heat storage process within a set first period, and adopt the heating capacity stored in the heat storage process to supply a heat release process within a set second period. The water circulating system is provided with a plurality of water circulating loops. The refrigerant circulating system is provided with a plurality of circulating systems. The heat storage process and the heat release process are implemented by cooperation of the plurality of water circulating loops and/or the plurality of circulating systems, which may effectively reduce heat costs of users in winter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Bobo ZHANG, Kaijun DONG, Qin SUN, Weimin LUO
  • Patent number: 11608482
    Abstract: The invention discloses a device for producing biogas with high methane content by utilizing livestock and poultry feces, wherein the interior of a tank body of a biogas fermentation tank is divided by a baffle, so as to form a main reaction chamber and an auxiliary reaction chamber which are communicated in upper portions, so that a reactant flows into the auxiliary reaction chamber only after entering the main reaction chamber via a relatively low feeding hole and then reaching a high position of a liquid level, and extension of fermentation time is realized, meanwhile, scales formed at the top of fermentation broth flow into the auxiliary reaction chamber along with liquid, so that the interior of the main reaction chamber keeps a liquid state all the time, and sealing and reduction of quantity of anaerobic bacteria are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: South China University of Technology, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: XiaoJun Niu, MengYu Lv, Xia Li, Li Zhang, NingYu Tu, XingYao Ye, DongQing Zhang, LiHua Cheng, HuaFang Guo
  • Patent number: 11566493
    Abstract: A device and a method for physical characterization in a large-scale natural gas hydrate experimental system are provided. The device includes a reactor, horizontal wellbores, and vertical wellbores. The reactor includes an upper cover, a lower cover, and a reactor body, and the upper cover and the lower cover are sealably attached to two ends of the reactor to form a closed chamber. The physical characterization device further includes lateral vertical well assemblies and temperature-pressure-resistance assemblies, wherein the lateral vertical well assemblies and the temperature-pressure-resistance assemblies are disposed to penetrate the reactor from the upper cover to the lower cover. The physical characterization method is conducted using the physical characterization device, including a step of producing contour plots using a data processing software with three-dimensional matrix data collected by the pressure measuring tubes, the temperature measuring tubes, and the resistivity measuring columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Zhaoyang Chen, Yi Wang, Zhiming Xia, Gang Li, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11555478
    Abstract: A deep-sea multi-energy integrated platform for complementary power generation, production, living and exploration includes a platform body and a sustainable power supply system, where the platform body includes a column cabin, an upper platform housing, a lower platform housing and a current guide column; the column cabin, the current guide column, the lower platform housing and the upper platform housing are mutually connected to form a triangular platform with a hollow cavity, and a net is disposed in the hollow cavity to form a mariculture zone; the sustainable power supply system includes a wind-driven generator disposed at an end of a top surface of the upper platform housing, a solar panel disposed above a middle portion of the top surface of the upper platform housing, a wave power generation apparatus disposed on the current guide column, and several tidal current power generation apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Songwei Sheng, Kunlin Wang, Yin Ye, Hongjun Lin, Zhenpeng Wang, Bing Du
  • Publication number: 20220403716
    Abstract: An expandable liner and a method for running the same are provided. The expandable liner includes a base pipe, wherein the base pipe is provided with a passage extending through an axial direction of the base pipe, a connection structure disposed at both ends of the base pipe, and screen openings on a wall of the base pipe; a porous expandable layer is fixedly attached to an exterior of the base pipe and made of a non-memory foamed and compressible material. The expandable liner and the method, by adopting a non-memory porous expandable layer, realize a sand-control performance and a wellbore-supporting capability of a prior art technology where memory materials are used, which significantly reduces costs in manufacturing, operating and running.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Fucheng DENG
  • Patent number: 11486232
    Abstract: An exploiting method and device of marine facies natural gas hydrate. The exploiting method comprises the following steps: (1) after the construction of a vertical well, a fixed pipe is constructed, the exploiting well is set in the center of the fixed pipe, and the mixture is filled between the inner wall of the fixed pipe and the outer wall of the exploiting well; (2) the self-excited oscillating jet nozzle enters the exploiting well along the vertical well to the designated position through an orifice on the exploiting well and sprays the mixture, so that the mixture is broken evenly to form artificial fractures; (3) under the corresponding temperature, the hydrate decomposes to produce gas by depressurized exploiting; (4) the gas-liquid mixture exploited by the exploiting well is separated into liquid and gas in the gas-liquid separation device to collect liquid and gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Pengfei Shen, Gang Li, Zhaoyang Chen, Yu Zhang, Yi Wang, Jianwu Liu
  • Publication number: 20220325697
    Abstract: A deep-sea multi-energy integrated platform for complementary power generation, production, living and exploration includes a platform body and a sustainable power supply system, where the platform body includes a column cabin, an upper platform housing, a lower platform housing and a current guide column; the column cabin, the current guide column, the lower platform housing and the upper platform housing are mutually connected to form a triangular platform with a hollow cavity, and a net is disposed in the hollow cavity to form a mariculture zone; the sustainable power supply system includes a wind-driven generator disposed at an end of a top surface of the upper platform housing, a solar panel disposed above a middle portion of the top surface of the upper platform housing, a wave power generation apparatus disposed on the current guide column, and several tidal current power generation apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Songwei SHENG, Kunlin WANG, Yin YE, Hongjun LIN, Zhenpeng WANG, Bing DU