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.

Mud cleaners are important equipment in drilling mud system. At oil and gas field the mud system mainly process the drilling fluids. While the mud cleaner is a combination of hydrocyclones and shale shaker. What is the importance of mud conditioner?

Mud cleaners of AIPU solved problem for drilling company

As we know mud cleaner is also referred to mud conditioner. Ye, it can separate different size solids out of drilling fluids at certain drilling section. It helps to maintain good fluids condition at the earlier stage of mud system.

Mud cleaners for drilling mud

Last month, one drilling company called us for a problem they are facing. Their desilter cone doesn't spray the drilling fluids properly from bottom nozzle as expected. They called us but not the original manufacture since their existing supplier couldn't solve the problem. Our technician connected with client's operator and based on their practical situation and working condition

Finally, we found their desander cone and the pipeline configuration&structure are not proper. The equipment they are operating with over 4 years history. At the end, we proposed our mud cleaner instead of their separated hydrocyclone separators. Now the mud cleaner works well and gives client satisfied performance.

Oil and gas drilling fluids conditioner details

Majority of mud system in oil and gas well drilling including mud cleaner. However, some of clients prefer separated desander and desilter. Mud conditioner main specifications including flow rate, bottom shaker model, shaker motor, and so on

We select size and number of cones according to whole mud flow rate during oil and gas drilling. Some wells deep 4000m, or 7000m even 9000m. Different well and the geology condition request different mud pumps holding various of treating capacity.

Bottom shaker of mud cleaner, at AIPU, there are 2 main type. One is 3-panel the other is 4-panel. While for both type there are 2 options including single motion or dual motion

Other options of mud cleaner for drilling fluids system

We still can use separated desander and desilter instead of mud cleaner. But the different option is the bottom shaker of separated equipment. It can be standard shaker instead of the mini shaker or the slid channel.

Other detail configuration or design including the splash guard over shaker basket and the ball valve on cones.

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