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US 12,241,368 · App. 18/035,294 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Synchronization method for an MWD mud pulse telemetry system

Inventors: Jing Ou (Beijing, CN); Jiansheng Du (Beijing, CN); Wenxiu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Xinzhen He (Beijing, CN); Xiaolong Li (Beijing, CN); Yuliang Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
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Patent No.
US 12,241,368
App. No.
18/035,294
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a synchronization method for an MWD mud pulse telemetry system. The method comprises: determining a synchronous training sequence on the basis of a frame structure of downhole sent data; constructing a correlation between the down-hole sending synchronous training sequence waveform and the uphole synchronous training sequence local waveform by means of the irrelevance of the trigonometric function; and performing correlation calculation on the synchronous training codeword waveform, which is received uphole and is subjected to the first modulation, and the synchronous training sequence local waveform, which is subjected to the second modulation, so as to obtain a correlation curve, and finding a synchronous position by means of the correlation curve.

Claims (22)

1. A synchronization method for a measurement while drilling (MWD) mud pulse telemetry system, characterized by comprising steps below:

determining a synchronous training sequence on a basis of a frame structure of downhole sent data;

constructing a correlation between a downhole sending synchronous training sequence waveform and an uphole synchronous training sequence local waveform by means of an irrelevance of a trigonometric function;

performing, uphole, correlation calculation on a received synchronous training sequence waveform which is subjected to a first modulation and the synchronous training sequence local waveform which is subjected to a second modulation, so as to obtain a correlation curve; and

finding a synchronous position according to a peak of the correlation curve.

2. The synchronization method for an MWD mud pulse telemetry system according to claim 1 , wherein the determining the synchronous training sequence on the basis of the frame structure of the downhole sent data comprises:

determining the frame structure of the downhole sent data;

determining the synchronous training sequence according to the frame structure of the downhole sent data; and

sending the synchronous training sequence waveform subjected to the first modulation through a shear valve.

3. The synchronization method for an MWD mud pulse telemetry system according to claim 1 , wherein the performing, uphole, the correlation calculation on the received synchronous training sequence waveform which is subjected to the first modulation and the synchronous training sequence local waveform which is subjected to the second modulation, so as to obtain the correlation curve comprises:

sending the synchronous training sequence waveform subjected to the first modulation through a shear valve; and

collecting, uphole, the received synchronous training sequence waveform subjected to the first modulation via a pressure sensor and performing the correlation calculation on the same with the synchronous training sequence local waveform subjected to the second modulation so as to obtain the correlation curve.

4. The synchronization method for an MWD mud pulse telemetry system according to claim 1 , wherein the constructing the correlation between the downhole sending synchronous training sequence waveform and the uphole synchronous training sequence local waveform by means of the irrelevance of the trigonometric function comprises:

sending frequency-shift keying (FSK) modulated synchronous training codeword waveform downhole and using on-off keying (OOK) modulated local waveform uphole.

5. The synchronization method for an MWD mud pulse telemetry system according to claim 1 , wherein the constructing the correlation between the downhole sending synchronous training sequence waveform and the uphole synchronous training sequence local waveform by means of the irrelevance of the trigonometric function comprises:

sending on-off keying (OOK) modulated synchronous training codeword waveform downhole and using frequency-shift keying (FSK) modulated local waveform uphole.

6. The synchronization method for an MWD mud pulse telemetry system according to claim 1 , wherein the finding the synchronous position according to the peak of the correlation curve comprises:

taking a peak position in the correlation curve as a result of synchronization output.

7. The synchronization method for an MWD mud pulse telemetry system according to claim 1 , wherein prior to synchronization, the method further comprises:

steps of downhole coding and modulation, mud continuous wave channel attenuation and interference on a useful signal, uphole denoising, and uphole matched filtering which are implemented in sequence.

8. The synchronization method for an MWD mud pulse telemetry system according to claim 1 , wherein after the constructing the correlation between the downhole sending synchronous training sequence waveform and the uphole synchronous training sequence local waveform by means of the irrelevance of the trigonometric function, the method further comprises:

steps of uphole equalization and uphole demodulation and decoding which are implemented in sequence.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 9, 2023
From: OU, JING; DU, JIANSHENG; ZHANG, WENXIU; HE, XINZHEN; LI, XIAOLONG; WANG, YULIANG
To: INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202011513488.X · Dec 18, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230407742A1 · Dec 21, 2023
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