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High Speed Decanter Centrifuge for Drilling Mud Low Gravity Solids

BY admin 4 June 2022 Decanter Centrifuge, dewatering unit, Diamond Drilling, drilling mud centrifuge

GN Solids Control high speed decanter centrifuge is widely used for low gravity drilling mud solids control (LGS). The most popular size decanter centrifuge for drilling mud solids control system is 14 inch bowl.

There are mainly 3 applications of decanter centrifuges using in drilling mud solids control system.

Firstly, middle speed decanter centrifuge is used in drilling mud solids control system for HGS (High Gravity Solids).

Secondly, high speed decanter centrifuge are used to treat low gravity solids (LGS) removal.

The high speed decanter centrifuge and low speed decanter centrifuge are fixed speed control. GN Solids Control also make variable speed control decanter centrifuge which can fix for both high gravity solids removal and low gravity solids removal. Besides drilling mud solids control, GN Solids Control decanter centrifuge can also used for drilling waste management.

GN Solids Control decanter centrifuge standard color is green RAL6024. GN Solids Control can also make customized color per clients’ request. And GN Solids Control can put clients’ logo on equipment if they need.

Besides 14 inch decanter centrifuge, GN Solids Control makes other sides decanter centrifuge, includes but not limited to below models:

1. GN Solids Control makes 9 inch decanter centrifuge which are widely used in mining slurry separation. It is used together with mini size shale shaker and mixing hopper to complete as a solids removal unit (SRU).

2. GN Solids Control makes 18 inch and 22 inch decanter centrifuge for fine solids separation and dewatering treatment.

3. GN Solids Control makes the biggest size 30 inch decanter centrifuge for industry separation.

Besides various sides decanter centrifuge, GN Solids Control makes other liquid and solids separation equipment to offer turn-key solution to clients.

The major liquid and solids separation equipment GN Solids Control can offer: shale shaker, mud cleaner, desander, desilter, decanter centrifuge, mud agitator, …

Some transferring equipment GN Solids Control make: vertical slurry pump, centrifugal pump, screw conveyor, solids and vacuum transfer pump, …

Complete mud system GN Solids Control makes: various sizes solids removal unit and mud recycling system for various kinds of drilling activities, like for HDD, CBM, piling, pipe-jacking, etc…

Mini Solids Vacuum Pump and Mini Decanter Centrifuge for International Customer

BY admin 17 May 2022 Decanter Centrifuge, dewatering unit, Diamond Drilling, Drilling Waste Management, Mining Equipment

GN Solids Control vacuum pump is mainly designed for solids and slurry transfer. With its special design, the vacuum pump can reach discharging distance up to 500m or 1000m, it’s up to the models clients choose. The big size vacuum pump can discharge to 1000m away, and the even the smallest model vacuum pump can reach up transfer distance 500m away.

Recently, GN Solids Control offered a mini size vacuum pump applied for tank cleaning works. The client will use the mini size vacuum pump to suck the waste slurry from deep tanks. The model of the mini size vacuum pump is GNSP-10B. It is the smallest size vacuum pump made by GN Solid Control. The biggest model is GNSP-10B.

After tank cleaning, the client choose a GN mini size decanter centrifuge to do the liquid and solids separation. After the separation, the client can reduce the waste liquid, recover more usable liquid and reuse the water. It is a 9 inch baby centrifuge with high speed and high G force for water treatment and slurry recover. GN Solids Control mini size centrifuge is widely used at Industry Waste Water Treatment plant and Diamond Core Drilling Fluids Treatment.

GN Solids Control major advantage is to offer full package tank cleaning treatment system and solids removal unit for mining industry, which will consist of shale shaker separator, desander / desilter, decanter centrifuge, feeding pumps, control panels, mud tanks, and skids to holding all items. Sometimes, the chemical dosing unit will be used together with centrifuge to ultra fine solids separation.

GN Solids Control sludge vacuum pump, also named as solids transfer pump. It is a pneumatic slurry transfer vacuum pump. The pump is widely used for liquid, slurry, powder and solids transfer. GN vacuum pump is a high vacuum loading solids transfer pump, so it can be used at tough environmental for solids or sludge transfer especially used to suck and transfer the high density and high viscosity oil sludge from waste pits generated by oil and gas drilling. GN vacuum pump is working with high performance and less maintenance. The pump can transfer material with high gravity and high density, with dry solids material or slurry with solids content max. up to 80%.

How does GN solids removal unit working in diamond drilling and mining industry?

BY admin 24 April 2022 CBM drilling, Decanter Centrifuge, dewatering unit, Diamond Drilling

GN Solids Control make small footprint solids removal unit (SRU) for diamond drilling and mining industries. solids removal unit (SRU) can help to separate the liquid and solids in the slurry waste generated from such mentioned drilling activities. After the shale shaker and centrifuge separation, the dry solids waste is with little water content, the volume is much smaller than the original waste. And it is easy for transport. And the solids waste can be used as construction material. The recovered liquid phase is with less solids, it can be reused for drilling and mud mixing.

Besides the shale shaker and decanter centrifuge separation, GN Solids Control equipped a small size mixing hopper with a mixing pump to prepare qualified new drilling mud to support a continue diamond drilling and mining activity.

The dirty drilling mud from drilling collar is first collected in a mud storage tank. There is a submersible slurry pump allocated on the storage tank to feed the dirty mud to shale shaker for coarse solids separation. The shale shaker is the 1st stage separation. GNZS752 shale shaker is used in the process. It is a min size shale shaker with single deck and 2 screen panels.

The coarse solids will be screened and discharged from the small shale shaker, the liquid phase will pass the screens and fall down into the #1 sand trap of the mud tank. And then there is a screw pump will suck the liquid from sand trap and feed to high speed decanter centrifuge for fine solids separation.

The replacement screens on the mini size shale shaker GNZS752 is fine in order to remove more solids phase, and to maximum reduce the mud weight. And it is to ensure that, after the shale shaker separation, the recovered liquid phase is qualified for decanter centrifuge separation. After centrifuge separation, the clean liquid will flow to the 2# centrifuge tank.
The mixing pump is capacity to suck the drilling mud from #1 sand trap and #2 centrifuge tank, with the power adding from the mixing hopper, the qualified new drilling mud will be send back to the tank compartment and waiting for sending back to rig via s supercharge pump.

Besides the 9 inch mini size decanter centrifuge, GN Solids Control is capacity to make other big sizes for various application, it includes but not limited to drilling mud solids control system, waste water dewatering system, oil sludge separation system, and drilling waste management system, etc…

Solids Control centrifuge and vertical cuttings dryer for drilling mud treatment

BY admin 5 December 2021 Decanter Centrifuge, Diamond Drilling, Drilling Waste Management

Decanter centrifuge is widely used in oil and gas drilling mud system and other liquid and solids separation applications. It can be used in solids control system to treat drilling mud. In this process, decanter centrifuge is used after shale shaker, vacuum degasser, desander and desilter. It is the 4th stage solids control equipment.

Decanter centrifuge can be used in slurry treatment system to drilling the waste water. GN Solids Control is capacity to design and make hydrovac slurry processing system for construction field waste water. It is also called hydrovac slurry waste treatment or waste slurry management system. It is used to reduce the solids waste and cover clean water for reuse. GN Solids Control hydrovac slurry processing system are widely used in U.S.A and Canada.

GN decanter centrifuge can be used in Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) Mud Recycling System. GN drilling mud recycling system with decanter centrifuge has been applied in many countries for HDD and CBM drilling operation. Especially popular in Australia ,Indonesia, India etc. With GN Solids America branch and GN Australia Partner, GN provide mud recycling system service and spares from Beijing, Houston, and Brisbane.

GN Solids Control decanter centrifuge can be used in Compact Solids Removal Unit (SRU). Solids Removal Unit (SRU) is used for drilling fluids solids control for the small mining rigs to do diamond drilling.

GN Solids Control decanter centrifuge can be used in liquid mud plant. The Liquid Mud Plant is in place for one primary purpose and that is to keep good drilling mud properties in the wellbore as much as possible. Within each drilling fluids supply base, you can usually find what “Mud” companies are working offshore from this base as they are represented in the form of a Liquid Mud Plant. This liquid mud plant is used to manipulate (mix, dilute, treat, adjust) various drilling fluids to be used in wells supported by this Supply Base.

1000GPM mud recycling system for HDD and trenchless drilling rigs

BY admin 5 January 2021 CBM drilling, Diamond Drilling, Drilling mud system

500GPM and 1000GPM are the most popular size drilling rig mud recycling system for Horizontal directional drilling, water well drilling, Coal bed methane drilling, and other trenchless drilling rigs.
500GPM mud recycling system is mostly a compact 1-tank system complete with separation equipment and mixing unit for compact design and easy movement.

Regarding 1000GPM mud system system, clients can choose 1-tank system or 2-tank system. 3-shaker mud recycling system and 4-shaker mud recycling system are the most popular proposal. 3-shake mud recycling system means 2 shale shakers plus a mud cleaner (3-1 mud cleaner, desander mud cleaner, or desilter mud cleaner).

Equipment list for 1000GPM mud system is normally as below:

1) At least 2 sets shale shaker. 4-panel or 3-panel shale shaker model are both fine. Single shale shaker model is min. 500GPM capacity. So for 2 shale shakers the handling capacity can reach to 1000GPM minimize.

2) 1 set of mud cleaner c/w shale shaker, desander and desilter, mud capacity is at least 1000GPM. It is the full functional and with compact design. As a 3-1 mud cleaner can save footprint. If clients want to reach a better separation performance, they can also choose a separate desander mud cleaner, or a desilter mud cleaner. Regarding the desander mud cleaner and desilter mud cleaner, clients can choose to equip with the same under flow shale shaker as the first stage shale shaker, or a mini size shale shaker with 2 screen panels. Clients can also choose a small desander or desander without shale shaker.

3) Feeding centrifugal pump for mud cleaner is 45kw or 55kw. The feeding pump can be located on tank skid or tank slope.

4) Mixing unit is C/W 6 inch mixing hopper. Mixing pump can be 45kw or 55kw. It is better to be the same model with mud cleaner feeding pump.

For 3-shaker system, all separation equipment and the mixing unit can be located on the same mud tank for company design. But if it is 4-shaker mud system, the first tank is recycling tank with separation equipment, the next tank is mixing tank.

GN 9 inch mini size high speed decanter centrifuge

BY admin 13 December 2020 Decanter Centrifuge, Diamond Drilling, Drilling Waste Management

GN Solids Control makes various sizes and types of decanter centrifuge for various applications. GN Solids Control various types of decanter centrifuge is designed for the drilling mud solids control and oilfield waste management. GN Solids Control VFD drive decanter centrifuge with variable speed allows drilling contractor or mud service companies to do the barite recovery, fine fine and ultra fine solids separation, dewatering centrifuge.

GN Solids Control makes the decanter centrifuge from 9 inch bowl to 22 inch bowl available for different applications. GN Solids Control decanter centrifuge bowl length and diameter ration is over 3, this gives the best result for the drilling fluids cleaning.

The smallest decanter centrifuge made by GN Solids Control is 9 inch. GN Solids Control makes 2 sizes of 9 inch bowl mini centrifuge. Besides GNLW224EP-VFD decanter centrifuge, GN Solids Control has another fixed speed decanter centrifuge with a shorter bowl length. The model type is GNLW223D.

The decanter centrifuge mostly supplied for the dewatering treatment process is GNLW224EP-VFD. The bowl of the centrifuge is 9 inch (220mm). As the compact design, GN Solids Control 9 inch decanter centrifuge is popular for client to use it in small capacity or limited space application for solids and liquid separation.

GN Solids Control 9 inch decanter centrifuge is also considered to be the ideal choice for experiment testing with decanter centrifuge. GN Solids Control 9 inch decanter centrifuge is optional in three types includes: fixed gear box drive, fully hydraulic drive, and variable frequency drive. GN Solids Control 9 inch decanter centrifuge is widely used for Industry Waste Water Treatment and for Diamond Core Drilling Fluids Treatment.

The centrifuge type is with 220mm diameter x 924 mm long Duplex Bowl. The duplex scroll with hardfacing and unique feed zone. Clients can also choose tungsten carbon tiles for more durable and for longer service time. The GNLW224EP-VFD decanter centrifuge is designed for 5000 RPM maximum speed, resulting in 3077 G force. While working with the VFD control panel, the type speed is ranging from 0 to 4500 RPM, and to generate maximum 2492 G force. All wetted area of GN decanter centrifuges are either Duplex or SS materials, all wear area’s are protected with replaceable Tungsten inserts.

Advantages of GN Solids Control packaged drilling mud system

BY admin 4 December 2020 CBM drilling, Diamond Drilling, Drilling mud system, HDD machinery, Microtunneling slurry separation, mud recycling, No Dig Mud System, Piling Slurry Treatment

GN Solids Control is one of the well-known International Brand for drilling Mud Solids Control System & Drilling Waste Management system. GN Solids Control offers the one stop solution for Solids Control treatment of oil gas drilling, CBM drilling, HDD, and water well drilling as well as the construction drilling mud treatment etc.

Nearly all drilling mud processing equipment containers shaker screen separation. Replacement shaker screen is a major wearing spare parts for drilling mud system. And it is a big and continue cost. GN Solids Control is specialized in high quality replacement shaker screen for various popular shaker models. GN Solids Control has his own R&D department for shale shaker screens. Clients can also contact GN Solids Control to make customized shaker screen.

Most solids control equipment manufacturer only make some kinds of processing equipment. Like some companies make shale shaker, mud cleaner and agitators, but they are not capacity to make decanter centrifuge or cuttings dryers. Some companies are only capacity to make centrifuges for various industries, they cannot make solids control separation equipment, like shale shaker, mud cleaner, degasser, etc…While some companies are only make pumps, they cannot make separation equipment. And there are some companies only make mud tanks, they are not capacity to make solids control separation equipment by themselves.

GN Solids Control is focusing on full line solids control equipment for various drilling mud. GN Solids Control is specialized in drilling mud liquid and solids separation. All the separation equipment are made by GN Solids Control. In this case, GN Solids Control knows more about the separation equipment, and can offer more reasonable proposal.

Furthermore, electrical control system is another essential point for separation equipment, especially VFD smart control panels for decanter centrifuges. GN Solids Control has his own electrical control department. GN Solids Control electrical engineering business department has comprehensive ability to provide solution for explosion-proof electrical control. GN is able to provide the electric control system, explosion-proof electrical enclosure design and development, fabrication, site installation, program debugging, and other services.

GN Explosion Proof Certification: GN Solids Control electrical control products have been certified by China National standard CNEx, International standard IECEx and European standard ATEX certificate, which enable GN’s products to meet high level market requirements.

Small Solids Liquid Separation Unit for Europe Client

BY admin 27 September 2020 CBM drilling, Decanter Centrifuge, Diamond Drilling, Drilling Fluids shale shaker, drilling mud centrifuge, Drilling mud system, mud recycling, No Dig Mud System, Slurry separation plant

GN Solids Control made a small liquid and solids separation system. The small system is customized for an Europe company per clients request. The client asked for a small recycling unit with cleaning capacity of about 12-15 m³ / hour. The client wants a small single centrifuge in the small recycling system.

GN Solids Control customized a compact system which is composed of a small size shale shaker and a mini size decanter centrifuge. The shale shaker and decanter centrifuge are located on a mud tank together with a centrifuge feeding pump and electric control cabinet for the whole system. Tank size for the whole system is 3900Lx2250Wx1300H (mm) for easy movement. It is a small capacity recycling system with turn-key solution. All connections inside the system are included.

The Shale shaker separator model is GNZS752F-MDZF. It is a 2-panel small size shale shaker with small footprint.

The Decanter centrifuge model is GNLW223D-VFD. It is a 9” baby centrifuge for fine solids separation. The Cut point of GNLW223D-VFD centrifuge is 2 ~ 5 microns.

The color, brand and logo are all customized per client’s request. GN Solids Control is capable to make other customized system per clients job site situation. Clients can contact GN Solids Control sales engineer to get customized solutions.

Besides the small mud recycling system, GN Solids Control makes various sizes of Mud Recycling System for HDD, water well drilling, Trenchless, Piling and TBM activities.

The major applications of GN mud recycling system covers below field, but not only limited to below:
1) Trenchless HDD Project
2) Bored Pile Project
3) Micro TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine)
4) Diamond Drilling, Water Well Drilling etc

Below are some Mud Recycling desanding plant Models GN can make:
D Series Mud Recycling Models:
1)GNMS-200D Capacity: 200GPM, 50m3/h
2)GNMS-500D Capacity: 500GPM, 120m3/h
3)GNMS-1000D Capacity: 1000GPM, 240m3/h
4)Other models should be customized per clients’ request

Solids Liquid Separation Small Decanter Centrifuge For South America Client

BY admin 20 March 2020 Decanter Centrifuge, dewatering unit, Diamond Drilling, Microtunneling slurry separation

GN Solids Control sells many 9 inch small size decanter centrifuges to South America every year. A few days ago, some sets of Solids Liquid Separation Small Decanter Centrifuge for South America Client are ready for shipment.

9 inch is a small size decanter centrifuge used for solids and liquid separation. It is normally used in diamond drilling slurry separation system. The 9 inch Solids Liquid Separation decanter centrifuge is also popular used in mining industry waste water treatment system.

GN 9 inch Solids Liquid Separation Small Decanter Centrifuge is specially designed for small capacity, small footprint, and fine solids separation.

The Bowl material GN 9 inch Solids Liquid Separation Small Decanter Centrifuge is SS 304 by forging. Similar as popular size 14 inch decanter centrifuge, the Screw protection of GN 9 inch Solids Liquid Separation Small Decanter Centrifuge is with Tungsten Carbide Tiles for longer life time and for easier replacement.

Bowl solids discharge port of GN 9 inch Solids Liquid Separation Small Decanter Centrifuge is protected by Ceramic casing, solids blocking ring avoid solids building up. Bowl assembly supported by tighten belt for protection bearing during transportation.

Besides 9 inch Solids Liquid Separation Small Decanter Centrifuge, GN Solids Control is also capacity to make other solids liquid separation equipment, like other sizes decanter centrifuge. Shale shaker, mud cleaner, etc…

Besides centrifuges, shale shaker and mud cleaner, GN Solids Control makes full line drilling mud processing equipment, like mud agitator, centrifugal pump, vacuum degasser, mud gas separator, jet mud mixer, screw conveyor, slurry pump, solids sludge vacuum pump, screen vacuum unit, vertical cuttings dryer, high G dryer, dewatering system, solidification unit, etc…

GN Solids Control can also make full package drilling mud purification and recycling system to treat drilling mud and drilling cuttings from various drilling activities (oil and gas drilling, HDD, CBM, water well drilling, TBM, piling, micro tunneling).

GN dewatering centrifuge for TBM mud treatment to Southeast Asia

BY admin 15 January 2020 Decanter Centrifuge, dewatering unit, Diamond Drilling, drilling mud centrifuge, Microtunneling slurry separation

This is the last working week before Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, after that offices and workshops will be closed for a 2-week holiday. All GN workers are working day and night in order to ship as more as orders before the 2-week holiday.

Some dewatering centrifuge units are dispatched to sea port, they will be exported to a Southeast Asia client. The dewatering centrifuge units will be used for TBM mud treatment. TBM is short for Tunnel Boring Machine, it has a wide application in railway, hydropower, transportation, mining, municipal and other tunnel projects.

Drilling mud is used to lubricate drilling bits during Tunnel and Boring drilling activities. For environment protection, the drilling mud and waste water must be recycled and reused during and after the drilling activities. Besides normal mud desanding plant, dewatering centrifuge unit is also requested in some application to treat the waste water.

GN dewatering centrifuge unit consists of big bowl big ratio decanter centrifuge, and chemical dosing unit. The decanter centrifuge and chemical dosing system is combined as a full package unit to remove as more ultrafine solids as it can do. The decanter centrifuge and chemical dosing system are both allocated inside a fabricated container. The full package can be shipped as a shipper owner container during international shipment. And the containerized design can protect the centrifuge and chemical dosing system, which values much. And they are easy for shipment between different jobsites.

Decanter centrifuge itself is a Physical separation machine. It can only separate solids by particle sizes. It cannot remove ultrafine solids smaller than the cut point. By chemical dosing, the ultrafine solids can be flocculated, and reach the centrifuge cut point for solids removal.

Besides dewater centrifuge unit, GN Solids Control makes full line desanding separation equipment for TBM and other trenchless no dig activities, like shale shaker, desander, desilter, etc…