Abstract: A valve is provided that comprises a valve chamber including first and second valve port openings in communication with first and second inlet/outlets, respectively. A shaft is rotatably disposed in the valve chamber. A first valve plate is rotatably coupled to the shaft that is disposed in the valve chamber over the first valve port opening. The first valve plate has a first opening positioned so as to align with the first valve port opening. The first valve plate is configured to rotate from its closed position covering the first valve port opening to an open position, where rotation of the first valve plate adjustably positions at least a portion of the first opening over the first valve port opening. A second valve plate is configured to rotate with the first valve plate, and to cover the second valve port opening.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an actuating drive having a position transmitter for control of an actuating element with a position in a process installation. The position transmitter is equipped with a rotary measurement system whose pivoting range is mechanically limited, with the rotary measurement system having a shaft which is connected to a pick-up lever in an interlocking and unconfusable manner, which pick-up lever is articulated by means of the actuating drive or the actuating element. The shaft and the rotary measurement system are connected to one another via a slipping clutch. Markings are arranged isoazimuthally with respect to the rotation axis of the shaft, on the shaft circumference, and include angle information about the angle of the marking position with respect to the pick-up lever. The digital position transmitter has a sensor system for identification and evaluation of the markings. The slipping clutch has hysteresis.

Abstract: An arrangement for drawing fluid from a sump (10), comprising a pump (24), a draft tube (12) extending from the pump (24), into the sump (10), said draft tube (12) having an opening within the sump (10) and a canopy defined by roof and side walls surrounding said opening.

Abstract: A valve with an inlet and an outlet as well as a return. In the inlet a first screen is provided. This screen is designed sharp or short.

Abstract: A telescoping water outlet includes an inner pipe, at least a longitudinal portion of which is enclosed by an outlet pipe, forming an annular space between the two pipes. An inner pipe head is mounted to and closes the end of the inner pipe that is nearest the outlet opening, and includes an annular flange that bears displaceably against an inner wall of the outlet pipe. A blocking device that is slidably mounted between the inner pipe and the outlet pipe delimits a longitudinal end of the annular space, and a braking element delays or prevents a telescoping movement of the water outlet, in response to either a pressure change in the annular space, or a relative movement between the inner pipe and the outlet pipe.

Abstract: There is provided a gas piping system for a fuel cell in which a gas pipe is made of stainless steel containing no nickel and is fixed at normal room temperature to a suspension member or a fixing portion through a fixing tool by means of bolts/nuts. The fixing tool is constituted to include a bracket member and an elastic member, and this elastic member is arranged between the bracket member and the gas pipe. Moreover, the fixing tool is equipped with a notched portion such that the fixing tool may be self-ruptured when an excessive external force is applied to a fuel cell stack constituting a fuel cell system.

Abstract: Control valve with profiled packing element for making bidirectional flow-through with asymmetric intensity possible in a flow area. The packing element (1) has a first surface which can be abutted against a second surface in the valve housing (2). The packing element (1) has a first position in which said first surface (3) and said second surface (4) abut against one another, and a second position in which said first surface (3) and said second surface (4) are distant from one another. At least one of the surfaces (3, 4) is provided with a damage (5) by means of which when said packing element (1) is in its first position a first cross-section of flow is ensured between said abutting first and second surfaces (3, 4), which is smaller than a second cross-section of flow ensured by said packing element (1) when it is in its second position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid duct (10), especially for use in motor vehicles to feed liquid in order to wipe windows or headlights of said motor vehicle. Said fluid duct (10) comprises a flexible pipe (12) with at least one corrugated pipe section (22) and at least one plain pipe section (24) that adjoins the corrugated pipe section (22), at least one pipe joint (16, 20) with a pipe connecting section (26) which is inserted into a plain pipe section (24), and a support sleeve (36) for each pipe joint (16, 20). The support sleeve (36) surrounds the plain pipe section (24) receiving the pipe connecting section (26) and presses the plain pipe section (24) against the pipe connecting section (26).

Abstract: A cap includes a bill portion, a body formed by a plurality of gores, and a sweatband sewn on a lower edge of the body. The sweatband is substantially sewing-free among different sections and includes a third section connected to the bill portion, a second section connected to the first section which is made of uniaxial elastic fabric, and a first section connected to a portion of the body other than the bill portion. The second section is connected between the first section and the third section without a sewing portion.

Abstract: Powder dispensing and sensing apparatus and methods are provided. The powder dispensing and sensing apparatus includes a tray support structure to receive a cartridge tray holding cartridges, a powder dispenser assembly including powder dispenser modules to dispense powder into respective cartridges of a batch of cartridges in the cartridge tray, a powder transport system to deliver powder to the powder dispenser modules, a sensor module including sensor cells to sense respective fill states, such as the weights, of each of the cartridges in the batch of cartridges, and a control system to control the powder dispenser modules in response to the respective sensed fill states of each of the cartridges of the batch of cartridges.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for delivering fluid or liquid to a container (e.g. a bottle), has a container holding device and a fluid delivery system delivering fluid to a dispensing outlet under control of an actuation member, which causes the fluid delivery system to deliver fluid in response to movement of the actuation member from its start position. A dispensing lock has a first position in which it blocks movement of the actuation member from its start position, and a second position in which it permits movement of the actuation member. A release member that releases the dispensing lock includes a movable release member which is moved by the container, during its insertion into the refill position, so as to release the dispensing lock by bringing the dispensing lock to said second position, thus enabling fluid to be delivered.

Abstract: A fluid transfer apparatus includes a cam locking assembly and a cooperating seal member apparatus. The cam locking assembly is in communication with the cooperating seal member apparatus. The cam lock assembly is affixed or connected with the cooperating seal member apparatus through complementary threading in some preferred embodiments.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided for enhancing its driving stability and braking performance on particular road surfaces. The pneumatic tire is provided with five main grooves, first and second lateral grooves, and first and second blocks. The five main grooves include a single first main groove, two second main grooves, and two third main grooves. The single first main groove is disposed on a tire equator. The first main groove is made of a see-through groove extending in the tire circumferential direction. The two second main grooves are disposed on two sides of the first main groove in the tire width direction. The first and the second lateral grooves are extending in the tire width direction. The first and the second blocks are formed in a center area of the tread surface between the two third main grooves. A sub-groove is disposed in each first block.

Abstract: A highly reliable and productive manufacturing method of boards and a manufacturing apparatus are provided. The manufacturing apparatus includes heater-punches (4a) and (4b) disposed above and under pressuring holes (24) provided on positioning stage (6) which positions and laminates board materials. The apparatus also includes a supplying and discharging means of a mold-releasing sheet, and the means is formed of supply reel (22), take-up reel (23), and guide rolls (25a) and (25b). The sheet is supplied and discharged passing between heater-punches (4a) placed above pressuring holes (24) and heater-punches (4b) placed under pressuring holes (24).

Abstract: A welding device includes a heated wedge having a top surface and a bottom surface, the top and bottom surfaces each including a generally planar portion and a curved potion. The curved portions of the top and bottom surfaces meet at a point. A first pressure plate includes a generally planar contact surface that contacts and covers substantially the entire planar portion of the top surface. A second pressure plate includes a generally planar contact surface that contacts and covers substantially the entire planar portion of the bottom surface.

Abstract: The invention is generally applicable to labeling apparatus, and relates to a device (10) for rotating Container plates in a labeling apparatus; such device (10) being engaged by at least two wheels (1) with a cam (5) for guiding and rotating it, so that the plate connected therewith is also rotated; each wheel (1) consisting of at least one rigid element (2) and at least one elastic disk (3) coupled thereto, having a greater outside diameter, so that the cam (5) is first contacted by said elastic disk (3). As the load between the elastic disk (3) and the cam (5) is increased, and such disk (3) is elastically deformed, the cam (5) is contacted by the rigid element (2).

Abstract: An adhesive tape dispenser, to which a tape roll having a roll of an adhesive tape can be mounted and which is composed of a main body, a tape roll holder, and a pressing roller. The main body includes a handgrip, a protective wall connected with the handgrip, and an assembly member. A receiving space is formed between the handgrip and the protective wall. The protective wall has a contact surface formed at one side thereof opposite to the other side thereof facing the handgrip. The tape roll holder is mounted to the assembly member and includes a rotatable member for installing the tape roll thereto. The pressing roller is mounted to the main body and includes a rolling member which is rotatable relative to the main body for rolling the adhesive tape pulled out from the tape roll.

Abstract: A sliding blind system (10) for covering a sliding first panel (12) located adjacent to a fixed second panel (14), the system comprising: at least one blind support bracket (11) mounted to an upper, generally horizontal edge of the first panel (12); a first blind (16) secured to the blind support bracket (11); a vertically extending first guide member (20) securable to a generally vertical first side edge of the first panel (12), and a second vertically extending guide member (22) securable to an opposing generally vertical second edge of the first panel (12), wherein the first blind is located generally between the first and second guide members; and a header panel (24) mountable to a fixed structure above the second panel (14); and a second blind (18) secured to the header panel (24), wherein the second blind (18) is mounted in front of the first blind (16) such that when the first panel (12) slides in front of the second panel (14), the first blind (16) slides behind the second blind (18).

Abstract: A modular blind transport system for a window blind application. The complete system may be assembled from a relatively small number of individual modules to obtain working systems for a very wide range of applications, including especially a category of counterbalanced blinds wherein a relatively small external input force may be used to raise or lower the blind, and/or to open or close the blind.

Abstract: A low-pressure casting apparatus that prevents molten metal that is a residue in a conduit from being oxidized. The low-pressure casting apparatus includes a compartment for holding a molten metal 1, a pressure chamber 2 that can communicate with the compartment, wherein the molten meal is pressurized in the chamber, an on-off valve 5 that opens and closes hole 4 through which the compartment can communicate with the pressure chamber, a conduit 7 that conducts the molten metal to the mold 6, wherein the base of the conduit is connected to a lower part of the chamber so as to communicate with the chamber, the end of the conduit being made so that it can communicate with a sprue for a mold 6, a float 9 that goes up and down in the pressure chamber, and a tank that stores an inert gas and that has a pipe 13 that is connected to the upper part of the pressure chamber 2.

Abstract: These inventions provide a method and an apparatus for setting a core used in a molding apparatus that produces flaskless molds, wherein the core-setting apparatus has a simple structure and the accuracy of the positioning of the core while setting it on the lower mold is improved. The inventions comprise: moving a first carrier 52 carrying a core-handling tool 51 which is holding the core 70 toward the cope flask 2 by means of a second carrier 53 when the cope flask 2 is located at the mold-stripping mechanism 12 being lifted to a lifted position by means of a flask-rotation mechanism 13; transferring the first carrier and the core-handling tool to the cope flask which is at the lifted position; lowering the cope flask 2, the core-handling tool 51, and the first carrier 52 by means of the flask-rotation mechanism 13 so that the core 70 comes close to or contacts the lower mold; and releasing the core 70 from the core-handling tool 51 to set the core on the lower mold.

Abstract: Processes and methods related to producing, processing, and hot working alloy ingots are disclosed. An alloy ingot is formed including an inner ingot core and an outer layer metallurgically bonded to the inner ingot core. The processes and methods are characterized by a reduction in the incidence of surface cracking of the alloy ingot during hot working.

Abstract: A modular, stackable, geothermal block system for use as a subterranean or submarine heat exchanger in a geothermal energy system which provides a heating/cooling means to an external load. The stackable blocks, which can be filled with a fluid and/or material of generally high heat retention characteristics or precast in such material, contain one or more continuous passageways that extend from the top face of the block through the opposing face, through which a rigid structural heat exchange tube, fabricated from material of high thermal conductivity, is placed. The blocks are stacked one upon another and slidably mounted on the tube(s). Each tube contains a helically wound, thermal transfer tubing comprising one leg of a U-shape configured loop. Each stackable block can contain multiple paired passageways permitting more than one U-shape loop within the system.

Abstract: An electronic device cooling apparatus includes a cooling unit that is thermally connected to an electronic device and is configured to induce heat generated from the electronic device to be conducted to a cooling medium that is channeled into the cooling unit; and a heat dissipating unit including a cooling chamber configured to cool the cooling medium that is heated by the heat conducted from the electronic device. The cooling unit and the heat dissipating unit are integrated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat-dissipating element and a heat sink having heat-dissipating elements. The heat sink includes at least one substrate and a plurality of heat-dissipating elements. The substrate includes a base portion and a plurality of extending arms. Insertion slots are provided between each extending arm and two adjacent extending arms. Each heat-dissipating element is inserted in the corresponding insertion slot of the substrate. The lateral surfaces of each extending arm abut against the corresponding surfaces of the each heat-dissipating elements. A plurality of embossed heat-dissipating portions protrudes from at least one surface of each heat-dissipating element. According to the above, the present invention avoids the use of solders and heat transfer loss. Via the embossed heat-dissipating portions, the surface area of the heat-dissipating element for heat dissipation can be increased and thus the heat-dissipating effect is enhanced.

Abstract: A heat sink for cooling a heat-generating device includes a base and a cooling section coupled thereto for cooling the device. The cooling section includes a plurality of flow tubes, each flow tube having an inlet, an outlet, and a bounding wall that defines a closed fluid flow path from the inlet to the outlet. Each of the flow tubes includes a central axis that is substantially parallel to a reference plane of the heat-generating device. The flow tubes may be arranged in a layered stack and include a bounding wall that has a thickness that decreases with increasing distance in the layered stack. The flow tubes may also include a cross-sectional area that decreases with increasing distance in the layered stack. Furthermore, the bounding wall of the flow tubes may have a non-planar configuration in a direction generally parallel to the central axis.

Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a heat sink, a fan placed on a top of the heat sink for providing an airflow through the heat sink and a fan duct located at a side of the heat sink. The heat sink includes a plurality of upwardly extending first fins and a plurality of laterally extending second fins located below the first fins. A plurality of first airflow channels are defined in the adjacent first fins and a plurality of second airflow channels are defined in the adjacent second fins. The fan duct guides a significant part of the airflow produced by the fan to the second airflow channels from a lateral side of the heat sink to have a sufficient contact with the second fins of the heat sink.

Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a fin group, a fan and two fan holders fixing the fan onto a front side of the fin group. The fin group defines two elongated slots in two opposite lateral side thereof and two receiving grooves in two opposing inner faces of each elongated slot. The receiving grooves have openings defined at a top of the fin group. Each fan holder has a main plate attached to a lateral side of the fin group and a locking plate connected to an inner side of the main plate and being inserted into the two receiving grooves of a corresponding elongated slot from the openings at the top of the fin group.

Abstract: A dual-chamber fluid pump is provided for a multi-fluid electronics cooling system and method. The pump has a first fluid path for pumping a first fluid coolant and a second fluid path for pumping a second fluid coolant, with the first fluid path including a first pumping chamber and the second fluid path including a second pumping chamber. The first and second pumping chambers are separated by at least one diaphragm, and an actuator is coupled to the diaphragm for transitioning the diaphragm between a first position and a second position. Transitioning of the diaphragm to the first position pumps first fluid coolant from the first pumping chamber while concurrently drawing second fluid coolant into the second pumping chamber, and transitioning of the diaphragm to the second position pumps second fluid coolant from the second pumping chamber while concurrently drawing first fluid coolant into the first pumping chamber.

Abstract: A flexible heat pipe for use with evaporator and condenser elements for removing heat from electronic components. The flexible heat pipe includes a bellows member fixed at one end to a condenser member and at an opposite end to an evaporator member. A cable artery is disposed within the bellows and is fixed at one end to the evaporator, and slidingly engages the condenser at the opposite end. The bellows acts as a flexible vapor envelope, and the cable artery acts as a flexible wick for directing condensed working fluid from the condenser back to the evaporator. The sliding connection between the cable artery and the condenser allows relative axial movement, and the inherent flexibility of the cable artery allows relative lateral movement. Thus, the condenser and evaporator can move in all directions with respect to each other, which can provide desired vibration isolation of the two components.

Abstract: A heat sink for dissipating a thermal load is disclosed that includes one or more heat sink bases configured around a central axis of the heat sink so as to define an interior space, at least one heat sink base receiving the thermal load, a thermal transport connected to the at least one heat sink base receiving the thermal load so as to distribute the thermal load in the heat sink, and heat-dissipating fins connected to each heat sink base, the heat-dissipating fins extending from each heat sink base into the interior space of the heat sink, each heat-dissipating fin shaped according to the location of the heat-dissipating fin with respect to the location of the thermal load and the location of the distributed thermal load in the heat sink.

Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided which has an easy-to-manufacture structure, is inexpensive, and has high quality and reliability while keeping high heat exchanging performance. The heat exchanger has first substrates (26) having first slits (30) and second slits (40) disposed substantially in parallel, and second substrates (28) having third slits (50) with substantially the same shape as that of first slits (30). The longitudinal length of second substrates (28) is set shorter than that of second slits (40). First substrates (26) and second substrates (28) are stacked so that first slits (30) communicate with third slits (50). First slits (30) and third slits (50) form tube external flow channels (60). Second slits (40) and second substrates (28) form tube internal flow channels (70). The heat exchanging section including only tubes can be formed of substrates having a slit, so that the heat exchanger can be manufactured easily and inexpensively.

Abstract: An apparatus for conveying a cooling air flow for at least one motor vehicle heat exchanger has a fan frame, a fan wheel, a fan control unit, and a cooling body. The fan frame has a frame opening, which the fan wheel rotates within. The fan control unit is arranged in an edge region of the frame opening. The cooling body cools the fan control unit and has cooling domes. A first cooling dome is arranged entirely radially exterior to the frame opening and a second cooling dome is located partially radially within the frame opening and partially radially exterior to the frame opening. The first cooling dome exchanges heat with an auxiliary flow that flows radially exterior to the frame opening with respect to the center of the fan wheel when the fan wheel rotates.

Abstract: A method is provided for adjusting several parallel connected heat exchangers supplied with a coolant medium. The aim of the invention is to simplify the adjustment. For this purpose, the method consists in a) determining a specific value of heat requirement for each heat exchanger in a predetermined time period; b) comparing the specific values of all heat exchangers therebetween and c) in modifying the adjustment of the heat exchanger having the lowest specific value of heat requirement in such a way that the heat requirement thereof is increased.

Abstract: A bidirectional jarring tool that allows repetitive firing in one direction without firing the tool in the opposite direction. One of the tubular members provides up and down anvil surfaces, and the other member provides up and down hammer surfaces. Inner and outer tubular members define a hydraulic chamber with a restricted section that divides the chamber into an upper section and a lower section. Upper and lower pistons, each with a valved flow channel, reciprocate through the restricted section to produce up and down jarring impacts. When the restricted section is disposed between the upper and lower pistons, the tool is in a neutral position and can be jarred repetitively in either direction.

Abstract: An expandable device comprising a plurality of expandable cells. The cells may be bistable cells or other types of cells that are expanded from a contracted position towards an expanded position. Additionally, the cells may be combined with locking mechanisms to hold the structure in an expanded position.

Abstract: An anchor tool for anchoring a downhole tool within a casing, a well, or any other downhole, hollow space. The tool has a longitudinal tool body with a center axis extending through the tool body in the center of the body, a first recess, a second recess, a third recess, and a fourth recess in the tool body; and a first anchor, a second anchor, a third anchor, and a fourth anchor. The first anchor is provided in the first recess, and so forth, and the anchors are outwards movable in the recesses for anchoring the tool. Each anchor provided in the recesses extends through the tool body transverse to and across the center axis and the anchors and the corresponding recesses are situated in the tool body for providing a symmetrical anchoring of the anchor tool.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for determining injected fluid vertical placement in a formation. The apparatus includes a borehole drilled through a formation, and an injection conduit within the borehole. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a fiber optic cable within the borehole wrapped helically around the injection conduit such that the fiber optic cable reads temperatures at specific depths and radial angles throughout the borehole. The apparatus includes a thermal insulation layer interposed between the injection conduit and the fiber optic cable such that the fiber optic cable detects the formation temperature rather than the injection conduit temperature. The apparatus includes a computer programmed to determine the vertical placement of the injected fluid within the formation based on the temperature readings. The apparatus detects an induced hydraulic fracture height, and detects whether an induced hydraulic fracture has deviated from the plane of the borehole.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods to analyze downhole fluids are described herein. A disclosed example method involves obtaining a sample of a downhole fluid. Additionally the example method involves ionizing at least a portion of the sample to decompose molecules having a relatively high molar mass into molecules having a relatively lower molar mass. Further, the example method involves analyzing the ionized portion of the sample to determine a parameter of the downhole fluid sample.

Abstract: Methods and systems are described for stimulating a subterranean hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir, one method comprising contacting the formation with a treating fluid, and monitoring the movement of the treating fluid in the reservoir by providing one or more sensors for measurement of temperature and/or pressure which is disposed on a support adapted to maintain a given spacing between the sensors and the fluid exit. In some embodiments the support is coiled tubing.

Abstract: Reservoir fractures are characterized directly in situ without need to acquire and analyze formation sample cores. A magnetic fluid is injected into an isolated section of the reservoir. The magnitude and directional properties of the enhanced magnetic susceptibility in the section where magnetic fluid injection occurs is measured with a down hole magnetometer. Logs obtained of the enhanced magnetic susceptibility are analyzed to characterize fractures, and petrophysical properties of interest, such as porosity, permeability, and permeability anisotropy of the formation in the vicinity of the fluid injection.

Abstract: Evaluating a subterranean formation fluid by lowering a testing tool to a depth in a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation, limiting wellbore fluid convection near the depth with the testing tool, heating formation fluid in the subterranean formation near the depth, obtaining a sample of the heated formation fluid from the subterranean formation, and evaluating at least a portion of the sample of heated formation fluid obtained from the subterranean formation.

Abstract: A whipstock includes deflector movable from a retracted to a deployed position. In the deployed position, the retractor is capable of guiding a tubular member away from the whipstock as the tubular member passes downwardly along the whipstock.

Abstract: Enhanced recovery of crude oil from an oil well is provided by in-situ cracking of an oxygenated organic compound to form hydrogen. The crude oil is then hydrogenated and hydrogenation reaction products and crude oil are recovered from the oil well.

Abstract: A method for enhanced oil recovery in an oil-bearing formation having high permeability zones, constituting preferential passages for the injected liquid, involves blocking the preferential passages by injecting into the formation an aqueous solution based on water soluble polymers at a concentration such that the viscosity of the aqueous solution is higher than the viscosity of the oil. Once the blocking step is completed, an aqueous solution is injected having an identical composition to that used in the blocking step, but at a lower polymer concentration.

Abstract: The migration of coal fines within a bed is reduced, inhibited or constrained by contacting the fines with nanoparticles, such as magnesium oxide crystals having an average particle size of about 30 nm. These nanoparticles may coat a proppant during the fracturing of a subterranean formation to produce methane from a coal bed therein. The nanoparticles may also treat a proppant pack in a fractured coal bed. The nanoparticles cause the coal fines to thus bind to or associate with the proppants. Thus, most of the coal fines entering fractures away from the near-wellbore region will be restrained or controlled near their origin or source and the production of methane at a desired level will be maintained much longer than a similar situation than where the nanoparticles are not used.

Abstract: A fracturing and gravel packing tool has features that prevent well swabbing when the tool is picked up with respect to a set isolation packer. An upper or jet valve allows switching between the squeeze and circulation positions without risk of closing the wash pipe valve. The wash pipe valve can only be closed with multiple movements in opposed direction that occur after a predetermined force is held for a finite time to allow movement that arms the wash pipe valve. The jet valve can prevent fluid loss to the formation when being set down whether the crossover tool is supported on the packer or on the smart collet.

Abstract: A method for minimizing the amount of metal crosslinked viscosifier necessary for treating a wellbore with proppant or gravel is given. The method includes using fibers to aid in transporting, suspending and placing proppant or gravel in viscous carrier fluids otherwise having insufficient viscosity to prevent particulate settling. Fibers are given that have properties optimized for proppant transport but degrade after the treatment into degradation products that do not precipitate in the presence of ions in the water such as calcium and magnesium. Crosslinked polymer carrier fluids are identified that are not damaged by contaminants present in the fibers or by degradation products released by premature degradation of the fibers.

Abstract: A cementing tool for cementing a casing in a well has an inner mandrel that defines a central flow passage and has at least one fluid port defined through a wall thereof. An outer mandrel is disposed about the inner mandrel and the inner and outer mandrels define an annular space therebetween. The outer mandrel has at least one sealing element affixed thereto. An opening sleeve is positioned in the inner mandrel and is movable from a closed position to an open position in which the fluid port is uncovered. An expansion cone is positioned in the annular space. Fluid pressure applied through the central flow passage, and the fluid port will pass into the annular space and will urge the expansion cone through the annular space which will plastically deform the outer mandrel so that sealing elements affixed to the outer mandrel engage a previously installed casing in the well to seal thereagainst.

Abstract: A system configured to heat a portion of a formation includes a plurality of heat sources. At least one production well is in the formation. A bottom portion of the production well is a sump in an underburden of the formation below the heated portion of the formation. Fluids from the heated portion of the formation are allowed to flow into the sump. A pump system has an inlet in the sump. A production conduit is coupled to the pump system. The production conduit is configured to transport fluids in the sump out of the formation.