Centrifuge
Centrifuge used in well drilling mud solids control is decanter centrifuge, also referred as decanting centrifuge. It is rather popular with drilling contractors or fluids service company. Strictly speaking, centrifuge is the 5th purification or cleaning equipment for drilling fluid. It is set after desilter cone or mud cleaner. It is mainly used to separate solids sized 2~7 microns
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Description of decanter centrifuge
Decanter centrifuge including low speed, middle speed and high speed one. Different speed will produce different centrifugal force, treating capacity, and separation point. Centrifuge consists of scroll conveyor, drum, motor, differential, inlet port, discharge port, solid discard port, and so on. Decanter centrifuge will be fed by submersible slurry pump or screw pump with drilling fluid for finer separation of solid
Centrifuge procedure
The material feeding into the inlet port, under centrifugal force generated by drum and scroll conveyor rotation, the solid will be dried and discharged via solids discard port. We know, on the centrifuge bowl or drum there are liquid zone and drying zone. Cleaned drilling fluids will flow out centrifuge via the clean liquid effluent at liquid zone end
Decanter centrifuges manufacturer
Derrick Equipment
M-I SWACO
Notes and reference
Drilling fluid process handle book
