Automatic Control Scheme Design of Onshore Drilling Rig Pipe Handling System

Author

Xue-jun Hou ; De-li Gao

Author_Institution

MOE Key Lab. of Pet. Eng., China Univ. of Pet., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

17-18 July 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Automatic pipe handling system (PHS) is mainly used for offshore drilling platforms (ODP), and is rarely for onshore rig. The three-coordinate automatic PHS has been designed for inland drilling. Its main structure consists of four major parts: the major tong and parallel moving track system, the minor tong and parallel moving track system, the vertical moving track system and the control system. The main control system designs include control principle project overall design, PCL-839 stepping motor limit switch/drive design, control system hardware design etc. The system can control tongs to finish griping, hoisting, landing, moving evenly between the drilling floor and the racking board. The automatic PHS can achieve tripping, making a connection, casing running and carrying out pipe handling automatically without manual operation. It is the ideal control system for inland rig PHS.

Keywords

control system synthesis; drilling (geotechnical); pipes; stepping motors; PCL-839 stepping motor; automatic PHS; automatic control scheme design; automatic pipe handling system; casing running; control system hardware design; inland drilling floor; offshore drilling platform; onshore drilling rig pipe handling system; parallel moving track system; switch-drive design; three-coordinate automatic PHS; vertical moving track system; Hardware; Motor drives; Rails; Registers; Switches; Trajectory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits, Communications and System (PACCS), 2011 Third Pacific-Asia Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0855-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACCS.2011.5990138

Filename

5990138