Dewatering apparatus

Abstract

A submersible water pump and a dewatering system comprising the submersible pump. The submersible water pump includes a housing and an outer tube. The housing includes a housing dividing wall and a cylinder head having a bore therethrough through which the outer tube fits. The housing is in slidable engagement with the outer tube and the housing dividing wall. The dewatering system with the submersible pump is used to pump water from vertical coal bed methane wells.

1 . A dewatering system suitable for dewatering coal bed methane wells, comprising:
 a flow converter, said flow converter said flow converter has an overall cylindrical shape and comprises first ( 260 ) and second ( 280 ) horizontally opposed cylinders, the first and second cylinders  260  and  280  respectively define first ( 300 ) and second ( 320 ) flow converter bores, the first and second flow converter bores ( 300  and  320 ) each have an overall cylindrical shape, the first and second cylinders ( 260  and  280 ) are separated from each other by a flow converter dividing wall ( 340 ), wherein first and second pistons  360  and  380  are respectively disposed in first and second cylinder bores ( 300  and  320 ), the first and second pistons ( 360  and  380 ) are interconnected by a common piston rod ( 400 ) that passes through the flow converter dividing wall ( 340 ), the pistons ( 360  and  380 ) are arranged coaxial with respect to each other in their respective cylinders ( 260  and  280 ) and are interconnected by piston rod ( 400 );   a hydraulic pump;   an electric motor;   a controller; and   a submersible water pump, said pump comprising:
 a cylindrical housing, said cylindrical housing defining a cylindrical sidewall and a cylindrical pump-bore, said cylindrical sidewall defining an inner surface, said cylindrical housing having opposite top and bottom ends with a housing dividing wall disposed coaxially between said top and bottom ends of said cylindrical housing, said top end of housing defines a cylinder head, said cylinder head defines a cylindrical cylinder-head-bore therethrough, said housing dividing wall defines a perimeter, wherein said bottom end of said housing includes a traveling check valve, said housing dividing wall includes a standing check valve, wherein said inner surface of said cylindrical sidewall is in slidable engagement with said perimeter of said housing dividing wall, wherein said housing dividing wall divides said cylindrical pump-bore into upper and lower chambers, 
 an inner tubing means for removing water from said lower chamber, 
 a channel means incorporated into said inner tubing means, said channel means being in operable communication with said upper chamber, wherein during normal operation said channel means cyclically supplies and removes hydraulic fluid from said upper chamber, and 
   an outer tube, wherein said inner tubing means fits coaxially inside said outer tubing means, wherein said cylindrical cylinder-head-bore is sized to accommodate said outer tube, wherein said outer tube fits through said cylinder-head-bore and said cylinder head is in slidable engagement with said outer tube, wherein during normal operation said cylindrical housing engages in reciprocal linear motion in the form of up-strokes and down-strokes in the vertical plane while said housing dividing wall remains stationary.   
   
   
       2 . The dewatering system according to  claim 1  further comprising a screen assembly for preventing particulates of a predetermined size range from entering said submersible water pump via said traveling check valve.