Patents by Inventor Xiaosen Li

Xiaosen Li 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).

  • 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: 11935049
    Abstract: Provided is a graph data processing method, including: acquiring a degree of association of each node in a network graph; splitting the network graph to obtain a dense subgraph according to the degree of association of each node; determining stable nodes in the network graph and coreness of the stable nodes based on the dense subgraph, the coreness of the stable nodes being greater than a preset threshold; obtaining a sparse subgraph in the network graph according to the preset threshold, and remaining nodes in the network graph other than the stable nodes and connecting edges between the remaining nodes; and determining the coreness of each node in the sparse subgraph based on the sparse subgraph and the stable nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jie Xu, Xiaosen Li, Wen Ouyang, Pin Xiao, Yangyu Tao
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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: 20230056760
    Abstract: A graph data processing method includes acquiring a directed graph, where a directed edge in the directed graph is represented as pointing to a destination vertex from a start vertex; representing the directed edge in a unified form according to a specified order between a vertex identifier of the start vertex and a vertex identifier of the destination vertex; generating a tagged edge for recording an original edge direction of the directed edge, to obtain a tagged directed graph; and identifying a category of a triangle constituted by a vertex in the tagged directed graph, a neighbor vertex of the vertex, and a common vertex commonly adjacent to the vertex and the neighbor vertex, based on tagged edges between two of the vertex, the neighbor vertex, and the common vertex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD
    Inventors: Jie XU, Xiaosen LI, Wen OUYANG, Pin XIAO, Yangyu TAO
  • Publication number: 20230033019
    Abstract: This application belongs to the technical field of artificial intelligence, and particularly relates to a data processing method, a data processing apparatus, a computer-readable medium, and an electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Jie XU, Wen OUYANG, Yangyu TAO, Pin XIAO
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20230013392
    Abstract: Provided is a graph data processing method, including: acquiring a degree of association of each node in a network graph; splitting the network graph to obtain a dense subgraph according to the degree of association of each node; determining stable nodes in the network graph and coreness of the stable nodes based on the dense subgraph, the coreness of the stable nodes being greater than a preset threshold; obtaining a sparse subgraph in the network graph according to the preset threshold, and remaining nodes in the network graph other than the stable nodes and connecting edges between the remaining nodes; and determining the coreness of each node in the sparse subgraph based on the sparse subgraph and the stable nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Jie XU, Xiaosen LI, Wen OUYANG, Pin XIAO, Yangyu TAO
  • 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: 20220299495
    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: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Yi WANG, Zhaoyang CHEN, Zhiming XIA, Gang LI, Yu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220301457
    Abstract: A device and a method for simulating layered stratum containing natural gas hydrates are provided. The device includes a reactor; wherein the reactor includes an upper cover, a lower cover, and a reactor body, wherein the upper cover and the lower cover are sealably attached to two ends of the reactor body to form a closed chamber; an overlying pressure layer, a superstratum layer, a hydrate layer and a substratum layer are sequentially formed throughout inside of the closed chamber from the upper cover to the lower cover, wherein each layer is respectively filled with different kinds of porous media and fluids and the each layer is provided with a stratal-fluid annular container; each stratal-fluid annular container has an outer periphery contacting an inner surface of the reactor body. The method is conducted using the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Zhaoyang CHEN, Yi WANG, Zhiming XIA, Gang LI, Yu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220298892
    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: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Zhaoyang CHEN, Yi WANG, Zhiming XIA, Yu ZHANG, Gang LI
  • Publication number: 20220298891
    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: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Zhaoyang CHEN, Yi WANG, Zhiming XIA, Gang LI, Yu ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11401784
    Abstract: An in-situ hydraulic jet exploiting device and method of a low-permeability natural gas hydrate reservoir. The device includes a high-pressure reaction kettle configured for formation, fracturing and exploiting of a hydrate, a stable-pressure gas supply module configured to adjust and control a gas flow rate, a constant-speed constant-pressure liquid supply module configured to control a liquid flow rate or keep liquid injection pressure constant, a thermostatic water bath configured to provide a constant-temperature environment for a device system, a back-pressure module configured to automatically control an exploiting rate or exploiting pressure, an in-situ hydraulic jet permeability enhancement module, a data collection and processing module configured to collect and process basic system parameters, and a pipeline connecting various components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Pengfei Shen, Gang Li, Zhaoyang Chen, Yu Zhang, Yi Wang
  • Publication number: 20220235632
    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: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Zhaoyang CHEN, Yi WANG, Zhiming XIA, Gang LI, Yu ZHANG