Patents by Inventor Prasad D. Dhulipala
Prasad D. Dhulipala 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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Patent number: 11162017Abstract: Corrosion and/or calcium scale deposition on a surface in contact with corrosion forming components and/or scale forming components within a subterranean formation may be decreased, prevented, and/or inhibited by contacting the surface with at least one protein. The protein(s) may be or include, but is not limited to, at least one aspein protein, at least one aspolin protein, at least one dentine protein, at least one DRICH-1 protein, at least one nacrein protein, at least one SMDT-1 protein, derivatives thereof, fragments thereof, mimetics thereof, and combinations thereof. The surface may be or include, but is not limited to a metal surface, a plastic surface, a ceramic surface, a painted surface, a coated surface, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles David Armstrong
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Patent number: 10947433Abstract: Proteins with antibacterial properties may be used in additive compositions, fluid compositions, and methods for decreasing or removing sulfur-containing compounds and/or acid-containing compounds from recovered downhole fluids and/or the subterranean reservoir wellbore from which the downhole fluid was recovered. The fluid composition may include at least protein and a base fluid. The protein(s) may be or include a labiase, a lysozyme, a lysostaphin, a hexose oxidase, a cecropin, a thermolysin, a serine protease, a cysteine protease, and combinations thereof. The base fluid may be or include a drilling fluid, a servicing fluid, a production fluid, a completion fluid, an injection fluid, a refinery fluids, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles D. Armstrong
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Patent number: 10934471Abstract: Corrosion and/or calcium scale deposition on a surface in contact with corrosion forming components and/or scale forming components within a subterranean formation may be decreased, prevented, and/or inhibited by contacting the surface with at least one protein. The protein(s) may be or include, but is not limited to, at least one aspein protein, at least one aspolin protein, at least one dentine protein, at least one DRICH-1 protein, at least one nacrein protein, at least one SMDT-1 protein, derivatives thereof, fragments thereof, mimetics thereof, and combinations thereof. The surface may be or include, but is not limited to a metal surface, a plastic surface, a ceramic surface, a painted surface, a coated surface, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles David Armstrong
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Publication number: 20200347718Abstract: This disclosure is directed to the use of a portable Surface Enhance Raman Spectroscopy method to detect, quantify, and/or monitor corrosion inhibitors that are present in fluids in a wide range of concentrations in order to manage corrosion treatment in oil and gas production and refining systems or other industrial systems and to reduce the amount of time spent in obtaining data that is reliable and useful for corrosion control.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Sankaran Murugesan, Prasad D. Dhulipala, Zhengwei Liu, Sunder Ramachandran
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Publication number: 20190119554Abstract: Corrosion and/or calcium scale deposition on a surface in contact with corrosion forming components and/or scale forming components within a subterranean formation may be decreased, prevented, and/or inhibited by contacting the surface with at least one protein. The protein(s) may be or include, but is not limited to, at least one aspein protein, at least one aspolin protein, at least one dentine protein, at least one DRICH-1 protein, at least one nacrein protein, at least one SMDT-1 protein, derivatives thereof, fragments thereof, mimetics thereof, and combinations thereof. The surface may be or include, but is not limited to a metal surface, a plastic surface, a ceramic surface, a painted surface, a coated surface, and combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles David Armstrong
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Publication number: 20190119555Abstract: Corrosion and/or calcium scale deposition on a surface in contact with corrosion forming components and/or scale forming components within a subterranean formation may be decreased, prevented, and/or inhibited by contacting the surface with at least one protein. The protein(s) may be or include, but is not limited to, at least one aspein protein, at least one aspolin protein, at least one dentine protein, at least one DRICH-1 protein, at least one nacrein protein, at least one SMDT-1 protein, derivatives thereof, fragments thereof, mimetics thereof, and combinations thereof. The surface may be or include, but is not limited to a metal surface, a plastic surface, a ceramic surface, a painted surface, a coated surface, and combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles David Armstrong
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Patent number: 10196554Abstract: Corrosion and/or calcium scale deposition on a surface in contact with corrosion forming components and/or scale forming components within a subterranean formation may be decreased, prevented, and/or inhibited by contacting the surface with at least one protein. The protein(s) may be or include, but is not limited to, at least one aspein protein, at least one aspolin protein, at least one dentine protein, at least one DRICH-1 protein, at least one nacrein protein, at least one SMDT-1 protein, derivatives thereof, fragments thereof, mimetics thereof, and combinations thereof. The surface may be or include, but is not limited to a metal surface, a plastic surface, a ceramic surface, a painted surface, a coated surface, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles David Armstrong
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Patent number: 10174240Abstract: A treatment method for a hydrocarbon well includes placing a well treatment fluid containing a viscosifying agent in the well and, using the viscosifying agent, attaining a first viscosity of the fluid in the well. The method includes combining a porphyrin compound with the fluid and, using the porphyrin compound, decreasing viscosity of the fluid in the well to a second viscosity less than the first viscosity. A hydrocarbon well treatment fluid includes an aqueous carrier fluid, a polymer viscosifying agent, and a chlorophyll compound.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, C. David Armstrong
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Publication number: 20180208822Abstract: Proteins with antibacterial properties may be used in additive compositions, fluid compositions, and methods for decreasing or removing sulfur-containing compounds and/or acid-containing compounds from recovered downhole fluids and/or the subterranean reservoir wellbore from which the downhole fluid was recovered. The fluid composition may include at least protein and a base fluid. The protein(s) may be or include a labiase, a lysozyme, a lysostaphin, a hexose oxidase, a cecropin, a thermolysin, a serine protease, a cysteine protease, and combinations thereof. The base fluid may be or include a drilling fluid, a servicing fluid, a production fluid, a completion fluid, an injection fluid, a refinery fluids, and combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2015Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles D. Armstrong
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Publication number: 20170267917Abstract: A treatment method for a hydrocarbon well includes placing a well treatment fluid containing a viscosifying agent in the well and, using the viscosifying agent, attaining a first viscosity of the fluid in the well. The method includes combining a porphyrin compound with the fluid and, using the porphyrin compound, decreasing viscosity of the fluid in the well to a second viscosity less than the first viscosity. A hydrocarbon well treatment fluid includes an aqueous carrier fluid, a polymer viscosifying agent, and a chlorophyll compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, C. David Armstrong
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Patent number: 9683166Abstract: A treatment method for a hydrocarbon well includes placing a well treatment fluid containing a viscosifying agent in the well and, using the viscosifying agent, attaining a first viscosity of the fluid in the well. The method includes combining a porphyrin compound with the fluid and, using the porphyrin compound, decreasing viscosity of the fluid in the well to a second viscosity less than the first viscosity. A hydrocarbon well treatment fluid includes an aqueous carrier fluid, a polymer viscosifying agent, and a chlorophyll compound.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, C. David Armstrong
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Publication number: 20170137790Abstract: Cysteine synthase or O-Acetyl-L-Serine Sulfhydrylase enzymes, such as those derived from the Aeropyrum pernix bacterium, may be used in additive compositions, fluid compositions, and methods for decreasing or removing hydrogen sulfide from recovered downhole fluids and/or the subterranean reservoir wellbore from which the downhole fluid was recovered. The fluid composition may include at least one cysteine synthase enzyme and a base fluid, such as a drilling fluid, a servicing fluid, a production fluid, a completion fluid, an injection fluid, a refinery fluids, and combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2017Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles D. Armstrong
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Publication number: 20170096595Abstract: Corrosion and/or calcium scale deposition on a surface in contact with corrosion forming components and/or scale forming components within a subterranean formation may be decreased, prevented, and/or inhibited by contacting the surface with at least one protein. The protein(s) may be or include, but is not limited to, at least one aspein protein, at least one aspolin protein, at least one dentine protein, at least one DRICH-1 protein, at least one nacrein protein, at least one SMDT-1 protein, derivatives thereof, fragments thereof, mimetics thereof, and combinations thereof. The surface may be or include, but is not limited to a metal surface, a plastic surface, a ceramic surface, a painted surface, a coated surface, and combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles David Armstrong
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Patent number: 9587159Abstract: Cysteine synthase or O-Acetyl-L-Serine Sulfhydrylase enzymes, such as those derived from the Aeropyrum pernix bacterium, may be used in additive compositions, fluid compositions, and methods for decreasing or removing hydrogen sulfide from recovered downhole fluids and/or the subterranean reservoir wellbore from which the downhole fluid was recovered. The fluid composition may include at least one cysteine synthase enzyme and a base fluid, such as a drilling fluid, a servicing fluid, a production fluid, a completion fluid, an injection fluid, a refinery fluids, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles D. Armstrong
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Publication number: 20160160105Abstract: Cysteine synthase or O-Acetyl-L-Serine Sulfhydrylase enzymes, such as those derived from the Aeropyrum pernix bacterium, may be used in additive compositions, fluid compositions, and methods for decreasing or removing hydrogen sulfide from recovered downhole fluids and/or the subterranean reservoir wellbore from which the downhole fluid was recovered. The fluid composition may include at least one cysteine synthase enzyme and a base fluid, such as a drilling fluid, a servicing fluid, a production fluid, a completion fluid, an injection fluid, a refinery fluids, and combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles D. Armstrong
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Publication number: 20160152887Abstract: A treatment method for a hydrocarbon well includes placing a well treatment fluid containing a viscosifying agent in the well and, using the viscosifying agent, attaining a first viscosity of the fluid in the well. The method includes combining a porphyrin compound with the fluid and, using the porphyrin compound, decreasing viscosity of the fluid in the well to a second viscosity less than the first viscosity. A hydrocarbon well treatment fluid includes an aqueous carrier fluid, a polymer viscosifying agent, and a chlorophyll compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2014Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, C. David Armstrong
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Publication number: 20160039697Abstract: Hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans may be catalytically removed from a fluid stream by introducing to the fluid stream a sulfide quinone reductase (SQR) enzyme.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2014Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Prasad D. Dhulipala, Charles David Armstrong, Qi Qu