Shaker screen life is treated as critical issue to tell quality of the screen usually. However, the performance of filtration and efficiency should be treated seriously, too.

Shaker screen life impacted by factors below

Shaker screen quality itself

Shaker screen rightness for drilling phase (Cuttings content, Geology condition)

Shale shaker condition (Any broken on shaker deck? Tensioning tool?)

Drilling mud property (density/gravity/viscosity)

Mud engineer professionality

Mud workers' operation is legal or not

Shaker Screen life

How to improve screen life?

Making sure that correct selection on screen mesh size and screen panel type for shaker. Let the operators be trained before operate shaker or screen. Especially for some screen replacement and handling. They should use the installation tools properly and legally.

Then, consult the engineer on screen operation or replacement during well drilling. Such as the mesh size, the hole pattern, and even the cut point (D100). More accurate selection provides better performance and better screen life

How to evaluate screen quality?

Not only consider the screen life but we should also consider the screen performance. Then how to evaluate screen performance? The filtration or cut point accuracy. We can test the mud after an operation while. Analyze the cuttings or solid content. Doing the test on drilling fluids property.

Or, we can evaluate mud loss or saving then calculate mud cost. If we have saved cost or increased cost. Of course, we need to do such evaluation at a certain same condition or similar condition

Have you ever faced problem on screen quality and performance? You may use the original NOV Brandt screen but last only 10 hours or less. You may use the screen made by Derrick but only last about 4 hours.

Screen life is not the only issue to evaluate screen quality. Please consider the factors completely and get the optimal products and suppliers.

Let us know if you need more information.

Screen performance is affected by different issues. Please find details below

Issues affecting screen performance

Users care much on screen performance as it is important for a shaker even a mud system performance. Shaker screen is key spare part to shale shaker we know the cost and the whole effectiveness impact users' selection.

What issues will affect screens performance during operation? We suppose the screen mesh size selection is correct. Then let's check if shaker is in good condition. The drilling mud property, the drilled solids content, the shaker G force, the screen installation proper or not, the operator ability, screen quality itself. If the screen API size was not selected properly performance will not be good neither

Screen performance

How to control screen performance?

After understanding above issues we know to get better screen performance have to control screen use and quality at the beginning.

From the quality control. Choosing suppliers strictly under quality control procedure. Also inspect screens by checking API size, the material certificate, the COC and so on;

From the working condition. Make sure the shakers are in good condition. Checking the rubber sealing, the springs, the screen compressing system, motor condition, etc;

screen performance at site

Form the operators capability. Train them for better ability, do some test to make sure they will handle screen problem properly, make sure they are responsible for minor failures or problem during operation;

Do the necessary assistant work on mud testing to get optimal screen selection

What performance of AIPU screen you can get?

AIPU Screen is high quality item. Replacement for almost shaker screen in oilfield all over the world can be found here. We promise the high quality raw material with S.S316 and S.S316L, the finer screen cloth with larger conductance, strict and professional manufacture procedure

How long can AIPU screen last? Screen performance defined by service life much. Our screens life range from 160hours to 520hours according to different clients' feedback on different model screen under different working condition. However, all of them are satisfied with our screen since they compared ours with original ones based on both time and cost

Please let us know the point you doubt. You will get solutions here

Screen performance is one issue verify or classify shaker screen quality. How to measure it?

Screen performance

Shale shaker screen performance is measured by the amount of solids that pass through them (conveyance) and the specific sized materials they are separating (cut point). The cut point or separation point is measured in microns.

In order to illustrate just how small the screen openings are, please consider these issues, knowing that 26000microns equals one inch. Actually, a human hair is approximately 90 microns in diameter. Talcum power is roughly 30 micron in diameter; thus, performance of solids control equipment is measure by its ability to remove particles in these size ranges

Screen performance

However, on each shaker, the shaker screen performance may slightly different. No matter how, shaker screens need to fit well and seal totally on the shaker bed.

Realize followings during operation

Most people do not realize how much material the shakers actually process. If we take a 12 1/4" hole being drilled to a depth of 8500ft, the screens have conveyed 382.56tons of drilled materials. This doesn't include the constant weight of fluid used to remove cuttings from the well bore

Most of this material is very abrasive on the top layer of wire cloth. If you had ever tried to tear a piece of 210 mesh wire cloth, you will understand how fragile it really is. So when you hear a consultant ask " Why did my screens fail in 3 days? " remember the figures we ever listed before you decide on premature failure of a screen

Shale shaker screen weight and performance

Some clients or users ask, why your replacement screen are heavier than OEM ones? Yes, some of our screen panels will be heavier than original ones, but this will not affect your operation and screen performance actually.

AIPU Shaker screens

Every manufacturer of shaker screen builds their screens in a different manner. Some screens are lighter than others, and some screens are heavier than others. Some are made of a lightweight composite material, while some are made from heavy steel tubings.

Please find below example:

If a shale shaker is under normal operating conditions, the shaker bed will be flooded with at least 50 gallons of drilling fluid. Some shakers will run 84 gallons of fluid. At 10 ppg this equals 840 pounds displaced over the 4 screens, an average of 210 pounds of fluid per screen.

Now, do you really think 8-10 pounds in screen weight will mater? If so, how can the shaker withstand 17ppg mud weight with an average of 357 pounds of drilling fluid per screen? As you can see the weight between OEM screens and replacement screens really making no sense on shaker in field application.

Please contact us freely for more shaker screen performance information