Mud Solids Control Equipment

Big Bowl, large Extruder rate, PLC control is the development trend of centrifuge production, especially for oil & gas drilling fluids decanter centrifuge. VFD and Hydraulic are 2 kinds of drive method, both of them have their own advantages, but VFD control decanter centrifuge is much more popular and easy maintenance at present. Here I will introduce and compare some world famous VFD big bowl decanter centrifuge.

BIG BOWL VFD CENTRIFUGE

According to the chart above, their bowl size, bowl length is similar to each other, but the G-force, motor power, differential speed etc specification has big difference. Also the treating capacity varies by different model, different brand centrifuge.

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written by GN solids Control \\ tags: big bowl, BRANDT HS-2172, decanter centrifuge, DERRICK DE-7200VFD, MI-SWACO CD-600, PLC OCNTROL, VFD

GN designed centrifuge mud tank for oilfield and dredging project, with 1 unit of GNLW553VFD decanter centrifuge(or other model available) and Nemo pump to feed the centrifuge, the centrifuge tank is divided into 2 compartment, the mud after treated by shale shaker, desander/desilter flow or be pumped to compartment 1, then Nemo pumppumped it from the compartment 1 to the centrifuge for processing, the clean drilling mud dropped into compartment 2, which can be pumped to other application or flow to anywhere required.

centrifuge mud tank

In oilfield application, sometimes mud hopper unit also installed on centrifuge mud tank, the mud which will be feed to centrifuge is with solids smaller than 20 microns, it has been separated by desilter cone. After treated by decanter centrifuge, the max solids remained in the drilling fluids is smaller than 5 microns, it is called “clean mud”. The clean mud may be weighted in pill tank/compartment and mixed by mud mixing hopper & mixing pump.

In Dredging project, centrifuge mud tank is applied after dredging slurry separation system, after treated by the desander ( or sometimes desilter), the solids remained in the slurry may be too fine to be separated out by the centrifuge, so you need a flocculation tank before centrifuge mud tank. After flocculation, the mud is concentrate so It is easy for centrifuge to separate it, this is for better performance. So you have to use a positive displacement pump to pump the flocculated mud to centrifuge, otherwise the centrifugal pump will break it off. Sometimes filter press will replace the centrifuge, but efficiency of filter press is not so dissatisfied, so people use large treating capacity centrifuge instead.

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written by GN solids Control \\ tags: centrifuge. decanter, cone, desilter, dredging, filter press, flocculation tank, mud hopper, mud tank, Nemo pump, screw pump, slurry, VFD

Brandt HS-3400 centrifuge is used to process unweighted and weighted, water-based and oil based drilling fluids(mud). Here we made a comparison between Brandt HS-3400 centrifuge and GNLW363VFD centrifuge.

GNLW363VFD decanter centrifuge

What is the difference and specs in common?

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written by GN solids Control \\ tags: Brandt centrifuge, centrifuge bowl, decanter centrifuge, HS-3400, NOV Brandt, Solids control, VFD

GN exported our drilling fluids decanter centrifuge to Mexico, Except for traditional model decanter centrifuge, GNLW452S middle speed decanter centrifuge, GNLW363G high speed decanter centrifuge, We also have 4 new model drilling fluids decanter centrifuge.

drilling fluids decanter centrifuge

GNLW452S is developed based on our traditional model LW450x1000, after improvement on the design and performance, now its bowl length reach 1100mm(100mm larger than previous one) ,actual treating capacity can reach 40m3/h, and max bowl speed can reach 2200rpm, with all other features of middle speed decanter centrifuge.

GNLW363G is developed from GLW355x1250 model, after improvement, the bowl diameter is 5mm larger and bowl length is 20mm larger than before. Now the actual treating capacity can reach 30m3/h, and the bowl speed can be choose by using various size pulleys. The max bowl speed it can make is 3900rpm. Different with other suppliers, GN showed the actual treating capacity( process rate) on the paper, not the nominal processing rate 40m3/h.

GN new model drilling fluids decanter centrifuge compared with MI-SWACO drilling fluids decanter centrifuge:

GNLW364VFD is similar and large than SWACO 518. The bowl size of 518 is 356 x 1422mm, the bowl size of GNLW364G is 356x1510mm, the bowl length is more than 518 centrifuge. And the centrifuge is precision-balanced for smooth operation over long periods at speed of 1800 to 3900rpm, generating centrifugal forces up to 3000G.

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written by GN solids Control \\ tags: 518 centrifuge, CD-600 centrifuge, drilling fluids decanter centrifuge, high speed centrifuge, MI-SWACO centrifuge, middle speed centrifuge, VFD

GN solids control have VFD decanter centrifuge for sale. Welcome to inquiry us for drilling fluids decanter centrifuge GLW-V-355x1250N .

decanter centrifuge for sale

GN decanter centrifuge mainly used for drilling fluids processing, barite recovery, drilling waste treatment, mud weighted, etc projects. We also produce related equipments fitted for the centrifuge, to be assembly as a complete drilling mud processing system, including mud tank, mud agitator, mud mixer, shale shaker, etc.

Safety Device of GLW-V-355x1250N decanter centrifuge

1. Anti-overload

The device protects the Compensating gear from torque overload, which is installed in the outside end of the Compensating gear. The torque of gear is limited with a spring clutch by which power can be imputed. While overload cuts off spring clutch with driving shaft, the face of spring move the gland down to outside for 6mm and the stroke faucet switch on to switch off the power of main motor and fluid supply pump.

1. Electric interlock device (only dual motor driving system)



In the dual motor driving system without inverter speed-adjustable device, the correct program for starting a centrifuge is:

1)        Firstly start the auxiliary motor.

2)        After thirty second, the main motor allows to be started.

The correct program for stopping a centrifuge is as follow:

1)        Firstly stop the main motor.

2)        After ten minutes, the electric interlock device will automatically switch the power of the auxiliary motor.

With the electric interlock device, the correct program can be automatically carried out and unexpected result from wrong operation can be avoided.

GLW-V-355x1250N Advantages:

1. width rotary speed to satisfy technical requirement;
2. Smooth and silence when start;
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written by GN solids Control \\ tags: barite recovery, decanter centrifuge, drilling mud processing system, drilling waste management, mud agitator, mud mixer, mud tank, shale shaker, variable frequency centrifuge, VFD