A mud cleaner is a device commonly used in the oil and gas drilling industry. Its purpose is to remove unwanted solids and contaminants from the drilling fluid.

You may not be able to imagine what it is made of, so let me tell you! The mud cleaners are a combination of a desander and a desilter, mounted on a shale shaker with a fine mesh screen. Are you already imagining how this amazing device works? If so, keep reading!

How the mud cleaner works

The mud cleaners workflow includes the following steps: inflow, hydrocyclone separation, screening, and removal of cleaning fluid.

First, drilling fluid containing solids and impurities flows from the borehole into a mud cleaner. Next, the fluid passes through a series of cyclones that use centrifugal force to separate the solids from the fluid. In this scenario, the drilling fluid exits from the top of the cyclone, while the separated solids are collected at the bottom. To further separate finer particles, the shaker screen passes the effluent and the solids that have not yet been cleaned. Finally, the purified drilling fluid is discharged from the mud cleaner and returned to the mud recirculation system for reuse, while the separated solids are typically collected for the next step in the process.

What? You're asking what's so great about it? Then read on!

Features of Hunter Mud Cleaner

One of the primary benefits of a mud cleaner is its flexible processing capacity options. This enables them to adjust to different drilling environments and varying drilling fluid volumes, ensuring efficient cleaning and solids removal. The high-quality polyurethane hydrocyclones utilized in mud cleaners deliver superior performance and consistently separate solid particles from drilling fluids.

In addition, the mud cleaners are designed with a large screen area, which further enhances its ability to remove solids. This, combined with the use of high-quality materials and heat treatment throughout the vibrating screen, leads to a longer service life and reduced spare parts requirements, making it a cost-effective and reliable option for oil and gas drilling operations.

Dual motion shale shaker holding linear motion and balanced elliptical motion. Aipu produces 2 types of dual motion shaker. What difference between them?

Dual motion shale shaker with 3 motors

Before, we produce dual motion shaker with 3 motors. We control tacking mode controlling motors by shift button on control panel. 2 motors driven shaker is linear motion, 3 motors driven shaker is BEM. 2 motors are same size, same power, 1 motor is smaller.

3 motors running lead longitudinal vibration strength differs from transversal vibration force. So the material on screen surface move as a balance-elliptical tacking line.

Dual motion shale shaker

But 3 motors driving shaker is heavier than 2 motor dual motion shaker. And if considering spare part or maintenance cost, 2 motors shaker holding more superiority.

2 motors driving shaker with dual motion

Dual motion shale shaker is mounting with 2 motors are more popular than 3 motors one. Last year, we delivered over 20 sets such shaker and mud cleaner. The difference is one motor designed specially for dual motion, the other motor is same as common vibrating motor

2 motors dual motion shaker is lighter and also easy to operate by control panel. Control panel can control motor inside eccentric block to shift vibration strength

Shale shakers with dual motion

Common features of above dual motion shaker

Easy to operate and maintain

Little maintenance cost

Shifting vibration mode easily by control panel without stopping shaker

Better performance on filtration result

Eliminating the horseshoe effect

Decreasing screen block phenomenon

Aipu dual motion shaker feature

Aipu dual motion shale shaker popular model is Hunter-MG4. There are 2 motors, 4 panels composite frame shaker screen on the shaker. We cut sheets or profile by laser cutting machine, then the materials and whole shaker will be with high accuracy and beauty.

Last month, we got a repeat order on dual motion shale shakers. They are our regular client purchasing over 15 sets such shaker and cleaner. Customer and end-user are happy with shaker quality and performance

Besides dual motion shaker, Aipu manufactures dual motion mud cleaner. Same design as common mud cleaner, the difference is motors configuration.

Please feel free to contact Aipu solids for more information.