Aipu oilfield cuttings dryer introduction

Oilfield cuttings dryer is the equipment to get rid of waste oil based drilling fluid, or oil mud sludge/sewage. It will benefit much on oil separation and waste management. Let’s find more details as below.

Vertical cutting dryer principle

All wells are drilled with the generation of wastes. The types of waste generated include drill cuttings, waste water, spent drilling fluids, completion fluids and filtration wastes. More and more strict environment regulations force operators and drilling contractors to decrease drilling cuttings disposal and reuse valuable products

The Vertical Cuttings Dryer uses centrifugal force to dry drilled solids in oil or synthetic base fluids. A stainless steel screen bowl traps “wet” solids and accelerates them up 900RPM with G force to 420G.

Cuttings dryer

Liquid is forced to pass through the screen bowl openings, while “dry” solids are extracted by the angled flights attached to the cone, which rotate slightly slower than the bowl. Tungsten carbide protects the flights from abrasive solids and ensures long operational life. This aids in maintaining a constant gap between the scroll and screen bowl, which is crucial for proper operation.

Aipu cuttings dryer description

Drilling cutting dryer designed to process drilling waste with cuttings. The disposal out of cutting dryer oil content by weight is about 5%.

In general view, we approach following four R’s

Recycle-recycle the useful material for reuse

Recover-recover the fluid property

Reduce-reduce the cost and waste disposal

Reuse-reuse the valuable products processed by cutting dryer

Drilling cutting dryer features and benefit

Aipu cuttings dryer holding high efficiency separation on drilling fluid and it will minimize drilling cuttings content in drilling fluids. The cutting dryer decrease disposal percentage benefit much on “0” disposal application. Separate drilling mud recycled by solids control system effectively. Recycle the lost mud caused by equipment failure, etc. The common spare parts are easy to be replaced. The wolfram carbide alloy knives on cones are changeable also minimize the whole device failure. Your any question is rather welcome