Patent attributes
A system and method of producing fluid from a wellbore, and that separates water from the fluid. The system includes an electrical submersible pumping system with a pump having impellers and diffusers, and a separation system at a discharge end of the pump. The separation system includes a helical flow path and separation chamber downstream of the path. Directing the fluid through the helical flow path centrifugally separates the water from the fluid. Thus when the fluid flows into the separation chamber from the helical flow path, the water migrates to the outer radius of the separation chamber. The separated water flows through ports on the outer sidewall of the separation chamber, and the lower density portion of the fluid flows through a port proximate a middle portion of the separation chamber.
