Patents by Inventor Zhibo Yu

Zhibo Yu 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: 12331623
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for diagnosing control effectiveness of a fracture height in hydraulic fracturing by combining monitoring a pressure signal, comprising: obtaining engineering data and geological data; calculating a fracture slit fluid pressure, a double-logarithmic slope of the fracture slit fluid pressure, and a bedding fracture pressure; updating a growth time of the fracture height and a reference pressure based on the fracture height in hydraulic fracturing; based on determining whether a fracturing construction operation ends, updating the cumulative fracturing time or calculating a ratio of the growth time of the fracture height to the total time of hydraulic fracturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiyu Chen, Manqing Qian, Yongming Li, Jinzhou Zhao, Xia Dan, Linyao Yu, Zhibo Yu
  • Publication number: 20210270114
    Abstract: An optimization method for high-efficiently placing proppants in a hydraulic fracturing treatment includes steps of: (1) constructing a rock deformation governing equation during a fracturing process, and constructing a material balance equation of flowing of fracturing fluid and transport of the proppant; (2) constructing a model for representing a pumped volume fraction of the proppant; (3) calculating with given parameters, and obtaining corresponding fracture geometric size and volumetric concentration distribution of the proppant; (4) calculating a placement efficiency of the proppant for each set of parameters; (5) calculating an average placement efficiency of the proppant under different parameters; (6) selecting optimized parameters; (7) substituting the optimized parameters into the models constructed in the steps (1) and (2), calculating the placement efficiency of the proppant as step (4), and verifying whether the placement efficiency is maximum, which means the optimized parameters are optimal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Xiyu Chen, Yongming Li, Jinzhou Zhao, Huibo Wen, Bin Fu, Zhibo Yu