Screen cloth is the raw material of shaker screen panel. They are wire mesh woven by S.S wire. One screen panel is made from 2/3 layers wire mesh. The wire meshes are holding different wire diameter and mesh size or hole size

Screen cloth information

Screen cloth here means the single layer of wire mesh cut well for shaker screen panel. Usually, mesh size is ranged from 18 mesh to 325 mesh. And the wire diameter is ranged from 0.009 to 0.0011 inch. The screen cloth including plain woven and the twill woven one. And the same mesh size can be woven with different wire. The difference is the hole size or opening

Screen cloth

Screen clothes quality will impact shaker screen panel much. If the mesh and surface was not even, the separation point will vary even for same mesh size screen. Then API size will be not accurate enough. Furthermore, the screen surface and performance will be impacted because of coarse manufacture or technique.

Difference between screen cloth and shaker screens

Shaker screens are made from multiple-layer screen cloths. So, the cut point or the separation point should be based on complete panel or the combination of 3 layer cloth. Top layer/finest layer can not tell the actual separation point although it is the separation layer.

As we know, 3 layers combined together, there must be cross hole and wire among layers. That will certainly affect whole screen panel separation result

Shaker screen top layer test report

We won't use one single layer cloth to be shaker screen fit on shale shaker deck. And during the operation, the drilling fluids will stay on wire to narrow the hole. But not too much, so will stay in cut point range requested by certain API designation

How to get exact value on screen cloth and shaker screen

Test the screen cloth prior to making shaker screen by computer. It will give us a relatively accurate data. We also can measure the cloth by hand with microscope, that will be a bit higher tolerance than computer digital one

For shaker screens, test the cut point or exact separation point we need special device with powder and special shaking device to get the separation point of screen panel instead of single layer cloth

Please refer to previous articles to get more information on the shaker screen and screen cloth.

Screen panels are the part of shale shaker or hydrocyclone separators, mud cleaner. They are filter plates for solid removal. What is difference among them?

Screen panels for shaker

In solids control system, shale shaker is the first phase equipment to remove drilled cuttings or solid particles. Screen panels are the direct filtration material on shakers. The screens vary for different designed shaker. Such as the pre-tensioned framed shaker screen panel, the hook strap screen, and so on

The screen mesh size will be coarse, relatively to screens on further equipment. Kindly suggest screen openings equal or coarser than API120. We know, based on theory, shale shaker will filter solid larger than 100microns out of drilling fluid. And cater for flow rate demand, the screen panels should not be too fine

Screen panels for mud cleaner

Shaker screen on hydrocyclone separators

Hydrocyclone separators including the desander, desilter. Desander is used to separate particles larger than 45 microns, while desilter get rid of solid larger than 15 microns. They are the 2nd and 3rd phase solids control equipment

For desander and desilter, if we design downstream shaker screen we can configure mini bottom shaker or the commonly sized shakers. Difference including screen area and installation way. The screens can be downside tension or the common screen panels

Downstream shaker screen for mud cleaner

Mud cleaner is also referred as mud conditioner or 3 in 1 for drilling mud solids control. It's integration of hydrocyclone desander, desilter and shale shaker. There is only one difference between downstream screen and shaker screen, the mesh size

We know shale shaker for solids control request coarse separation. Mud cleaner is used to remove much finer solids. Thus the downstream screen should be selected much finer. Kindly suggest API 200 or smaller opening. Then mud cleaner will help us make disposal more dry and separate the particles as more as possible after separated by cones and previous equipment

The screen panels for mud cleaner including framed, hook strap type. Same as our shale shakers. Please feel free to contact Aipu solids control for more detail or any question

Shaker screen panel is expendables. All drilling rigs treat shaker screen panels as important wearing parts. No matter the quality or quantity for the drillers are key issues.

Why we need shaker screen sample

For all drilling contractors the shaker screens are very important thing in whole well drilling. As shale shaker always is emphasized critical equipment for oil and gas drilling. Shaker screen panel is key part on shale shaker, definitely request more attention and higher requirement

Many contractors will select original shaker screen panel to during whole drilling. They trust original ones provide better performance and longer life to save general cost and time. But screens are expendables and based on different condition the screen usable life will be rather different. Then many users begin seeking interchangeable ones to save much cost.

Shaker screen sample

Another problem came subsequently, whose replacement are qualified? Which screen manufacturer can be trusted? Just take it easy as we can test the shaker screen sample. Test shaker screen sample can result followings. We know they do fabricate shaker screen panel or not, we can find detail at least the appearance or technique of shaker screen, we get actual performance under certain condition, it's easier for us verify screens quality soon

Aipu provide free screen sample

Aipu produce high quality shaker screens. For many different brands or types. To promote our screens all over the world. We wish our screens get more and more appreciation. You can get free shaker screen panel sample. But please give us type or model number you need, quantity you request. Most important thing is you must give us actual feedback from drilling site. The feedback report should include working condition, mud property, drilling depth, shaker screen service life, failures, etc. and kindly stamp&sign it as authorized one.

We can receive many requests on free sample but we'll divid them into different classes then confirm which clients should be the testers. Aipu trust if customer send us special requirements with detail and promise us practical feedback they must give us helpful suggestion or comments on shaker screen panel improvement. And we trust they are very valuable clients.

How to request free shaker screen sample?

Just as we talked before. for shaker screen panel test we must confirm the screen type or model number we need. The mesh size or API size we request. According to actual working condition to confirm all related issues. If we can't make sure some information we'd better toward to our professional guidance or technical support

Shaker screen panel

Then tell us quantity you need give us your address with exact phone number and concerned people. We promise we Aipu will send the screen sample ASAP. Please also remember to give us sealed actual feedback. Let our time, efforts and all things be meaningful.

Aipu shaker screens are appreciated by more and more users we deliver samples under new rules below. We provide the free samples up to 4 panels for each model or mesh size if necessary. Then users or clients pay the freight charge. Against the firm order, we'll check the total amount and refund the sample freight charge to clients.

If you need free sample or your friends need shaker screen sample to test please contact us now.