Overview of mud cleaner with desilter cone

Drilling fluids enters from the mud compartment under vacuum degasser into desander via the force of its pump, flows into the compartment under desander after treatment, accesses desilter by mud pump and then goes for further treatment in decanter centrifuge through spillway trough afterwards.

mud cleaner

Mud Cleaner is a key member of solid control equipments of drilling fluid that efficiently removes silt sized particles between 20~74 micron cut.It is comprised of one shale shaker,one desander and on desilter. It can efficiently handle the shale shake underflow, which can lead to high drilling speed with low cost.

In whole mud solids control system, drilling fluids enters from the mud compartment under vacuum degasser into desander via the force of its pump, flows into the compartment under desander after treatment, accesses desilter by mud pump and then goes for further treatment in decanter centrifuge through spillway trough afterwards.

Mud cleaner is the second class and the third class solids control equipment. It occupies small space and the function is powerful, mud cleaner is the ideal device of the 2nd and 3rd class solids control to treat the drilling fluids. It is also called three-in-one mud cleaner and oilfield drilling mud conditioner.

Normally mud cleaner is a combinition of desander and desilter. Desander is mounted on the top of the first mud tank together with shale shaker and vacuum degasser, while desilter is mounted together with decanter centrifuge. Sometimes to save the top area of the mud tank, desander and desilter are combined together to work as high efficient mud cleaner.

Desander and desilter consist of hydrocyclones, high pressure flow pipes and a small shale shaer at the bottom. For desanders and desilters, only one vibration motor is used to drive the screen basket. while for high efficient it would need two motors.
There would be equipped with two 10″ or 12″ iron hydrocyclones for desander just as the solids need to be separated is relatively big, and include some sands in the mud. While for desilter, it would be equiped 6 to 12 pcs 4″ hydrocyclones. which are made of wear-resisting plastic.