Apparatus for cleaning heat amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

Patent · Tue Aug 04 04:00:00 EDT 1970

OSTI ID:5002928

New, R V

A portable apparatus is described for the cleaning of a cased well bore and its attendant equipment and the immediately adjoining natural oil and/or gas reservoir by use of heat. The method utilizes gases of suitable energy levels, and an electromagnetic wave transducer for exciting the atoms and molecules of the gas (i.e., to establish interaction between the gas and the electromagnetic waves effecting population inversion or collision, second kind) to emit radiation in the infrared sector of the electromagnetic spectrum. Injection of inert gas and heat radiation as described will vaporize water-block, melt paraffin, and remove all the production inhibitors by a combination of mechanical, erosive, and dissolving forces created by the temperature elevation and the physical changes produced. (7 claims)

• Assignee: EDB-82-160864
• Patent Number(s): US 3522847
• OSTI ID: 5002928
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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