TEMPERATURE LIMITED HEATERS USING PHASE TRANSFORMATION OF FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL

• Main Authors: HORTON, Jr. Joseph Arno, BRADY, Michael Patrick, VITEK, John Michael
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 12.12.2018
• Subjects: ALLOYS; CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLING; EARTH DRILLING; EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS; METALLURGY; MINING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR ASLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; SYSTEMS FOR REGULATING ELECTRIC OR MAGNETIC VARIABLES; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS

Systems, methods, and heaters for treating a subsurface formation are described herein. At least one method for providing power to one or more subsurface heaters is described herein. The method may include monitoring one or more operating parameters of the heaters, the intermittent power source, and a transformer coupled to the intermittent power source that transforms power from the intermittent power source to power with appropriate operating parameters for the heaters; and controlling the power output of the transformer so that a constant voltage is provided to the heaters regardless of the load of the heaters and the power output provided by the intermittent power source.