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Oil field centrifugal pump for solids control mud systems

BY admin 3 January 2022 solids control, Solids Control Equipments

There are many kinds of centrifugal pump for various material transfer in various field. The drilling mud centrifugal pump is also called as sand pump. Centrifugal pump is widely used for oil and gas drilling mud system,horizontal directional drilling (HDD) fluids transfer. GN Solids Control makes various sizes centrifugal pump to meet for various applications.

Impeller is an important part of centrifugal pump to transfer and convert energy. Through the impeller, the mechanical energy of the motor is transformed into pressure energy and kinetic energy. The impeller is composed of front and rear cover plates (impeller discs) and curved blades. According to whether there are front and rear impeller, it is divided into closed type, semi open type and open type impeller.

In general, the pump conveying sundries adopts open impeller. The tank injection pump and sand pump, as well as drilling mud pump adopts semi open impeller, while the slag pump adopts closed impeller. Through investigation, it is found that the most easily worn part of the semi open sand pump impeller is the origin of the blade. Due to the ball impeller out! High strength and uniform wear. At the same time, when the wear increases the gap between the suction end side cover plate and the front side, the performance of the pump is more stable.

GNSB Series centrifugal pumps are designed with the following characteristics. Below are some features of the GN Solids Control centrifugal pump design:

1. GN Solids Control centrifugal pump adapts composite mechanical seal. It means the mechanical seal is installed in the inner end of the sealing box, the auxiliary packing seal mounted in the outer end. The double sealing makes the sealing more reliable.

2. The impeller of GN Solids Control centrifugal pump adapts open vane structure.

The open vane structure impeller reduces the shaft load greatly, and it is running more smoothly and performs more efficiently.

3. GN Solids Control centrifugal pump is with Higher output and high efficiency. The impeller profile complying with the hydraulic principle, it can increase the output and efficiency.

4. GN Solids Control centrifugal pump adapts wear-resistant materials for the key parts to prolong the service life

5. More choice. GN Solids Control offers a variety of pump casing and impeller. It can meet different demands of different customers.

GN Decanter Centrifuges and Cuttings Dryers for Overseas Drilling Company

BY admin 27 December 2021 Decanter Centrifuge, Drilling equipments Company, drilling mud centrifuge, Drilling Waste Management, solids control, Solids Control Equipments

Some sets of drilling mud solids control decanter centrifuge and drilling waste vertical cuttings dryer are ready. They are customized for an international drilling company. It is not the 1st time the client buy from us. All their drilling rigs are equipped with GN Solids Control drilling waste management equipment. There is a fixed speed decanter centrifuge, a VFD decanter centrifuge and a vertical cuttings dryer for a drilling rig for drilling mud and drilling cuttings treatment.

There are fixed speed decanter centrifuges, Variable frequency speed decanter centrifuges included in the project. Even for the fixed speed decanter centrifuge, GN Solids Control can offer another set of pulley and belt for another fixed speed control.

GN Solids Control offer German brand NETZSCH pump as feeding pump for decanter centrifuges. The feeding pump screw pump control is inside the decanter centrifuge control panel. There are interlock between decanter centrifuge main motor and back drive motor, and the pump motor. As the 3 motors must be started and stopped in order. It is to protect decanter centrifuge from overload. With the interlock control the feeding pump can be stopped automatically in case of too much mud feeding.

There is a lubricating oil system for the vertical cuttings dryer. The lubricating system must be started before the vertical cuttings dryer main motor start running. The oil system drive pump motor is included in the vertical cuttings dryer control panel to start oil pump for some minutes and then to start the main motor. GN Solids Control offers German brand NETZSCH pump as flush pump for vertical cuttings dryer. Screw pump flush pump control is included inside the vertical cuttings dryer control panel.

GN Solids Control offers telescopic skid for decanter centrifuges, VFD control panel and screw pump are mounted on the skid. GN Solids Control offers heavy duty skid for vertical cuttings dryer. Screw conveyors are used together with decanter centrifuges and vertical cuttings dryer to transfer drill cuttings.

Large Liquid Mud Plant with mixing tank and solids control tank for oil rigs

BY admin 6 August 2021 solids control, Solids Control Equipments

The largest size of Liquid Mud Plant that GN Solids Control has constructed is 35,500 bbls. It is composed of NO. 75 mud tanks. GN Solids Control built a small liquid mud plant for the client first. They are happy with the performance.

Later on, this year, the client order another big size liquid mud plant with totally 35,500 BBL storage capacity. The 35,500 BBL liquid mud plant include the solids control tank, mixing tank, Brine storage tank, WBM storage tank and OBM storage tank.

The solids control tank and mixing tanks are horizontal tank. The tank size is the same with 40ft container. The lifting is utilizing standard container lifting corners. All storage tanks are vertical type to minimize the footprint.

The solids control tank includes solids control equipment shale shaker and a dual decanter centrifuge package.
The shale shaker model is GNZS594F. It is GN latest design shaker model. It is a 4-panel single deck shale shaker. The shaker screens are complied with API RP13C standard and made from composite material frame.

The dual centrifuge package includes No. 2 high speed decanter centrifuge, the centrifuge model is GNLW363C. It is 14inch bowl size decanter centrifuge with fixed speed control. Clients can choose different sizes of pulley and belt to get another fixed speed. Besides fixed decanted centrifuge, GN Solids Control can offer VFD control and FHD control for GNLW363C centrifuge.

There are 2 mixing tank in the big liquid mud plant. Each mixing tank is composed of No. 2 shearing and mixing hopper, No. 2 mixing pump and No. 2 mud agitators.

Unlike other systems, submersible slurry pump is widely used in the liquid mud plant. Normally GN Solids Control use screw pump to feed for decanter centrifuge. But in this liquid mud plant, the client requests to use submersible slurry pump to feed for the dual centrifuge package.

The client does not use centrifugal pumps for mud mixing but they request submersible slurry pump as well.
Centrifugal pumps are used as transfer pump in the liquid mud plant.

Drilling mud cleaner and Mud gas separator for drilling company

BY admin 25 July 2021 Drilling mud system, Solids Control Equipments

GN Solids Control is a specialist to manufacture full line solids control equipment, drilling waste management, and various sizes replacement shaker screens. In order to offer clients better support, GN Solids Control is flexible to offer customized equipment and solutions to meet clients request.

Recently, GN Solids Control made a customized drilling mud cleaner and mud gas separator for a drilling company. The equipment are customized color and mud customized design.

The capacity of the drilling mud cleaner is 1500GPM. It is a 3-in-1 combo type shale shaker, which is powered by 2 vibration motors. The motor brand can be Italy Oli or U.S. Martin. The drilling mud cleaner is combined by a under flow shale shaker, no. 3 desander cones and no. 12 desilter cones. The hydra cyclone assembly can be removed and the combo type shale shaker as a single deck shale shaker. The standard color of GN equipment is green, color code RAL 6024. For this project, it is customized gray color per client’s request.

Mud gas separator, which is also called as poor boy degasser, it is fully customized per the order. There are HSE standard ladders with guardrails all along the mud gas separator tank body. For easy movement and easy transportation, there are lifting frame along the mud gas separator. In this case, it can be easily lay down on the ground.

Besides drilling mud cleaner and mud gas separation, GN Solids Control can also make full line solids control equipment: shale shaker, desander, desilter, decanter centrifuge, jet mud mixer, mixing hopper, shearing and mixing hopper, centrifugal pump, screw pump, submersible slurry pump,etc…

And GN Solids Control is capable to make full line drilling cuttings treatment equipment: big bowl decanter centrifuge, vertical cuttings dryer, high G drying shaker, screw conveyor, drilling cuttings solidification unit, dewatering unit, etc…

Plus, GN Solids Control can make various size oil sludge separation equipment, and contaminated soil washing system.

If clients have any questions about GN equipment. Welcome to contact GN Solids Control freely.

Drilling Mud Vacuum Degasser and Centrifugal pump for Indonesia Client

BY admin 3 March 2021 Drilling equipments Company, Solids Control Equipments

Some sets of drilling mud vacuum degasser and centrifugal pumps are ready for shipment last week. The equipment will be shipped to an Indonesia client to service at their drilling rig mud systems.

GN Solids Control makes 2 types of drilling mud degasser for oil and gas solids control system: centrifugal degasser and vacuum degasser. All degassers in this project is vacuum type degasser model code GNZCQ270B. It is a 1200GPM capacity drilling mud vacuum degasser. Besides 1200GPM vacuum degasser, GN Solids Control has another vacuum degasser model for 1600GPM to service for big size deep drilling rigs.

ZCQ series Vacuum Degasser is a special-purpose solids control equipment for the treatment of gas in the drilling fluids. It can get rid of various gas of invasive drilling quickly. Vacuum degasser is very important for returning mud gravity, stabilizing mud viscosity and reducing drilling cost. Also, at the same time vacuum degasser can be used as a heavy-power agitator and supported applicable to all types of mud circulation purification system. The vacuum degasser design of the structure is scientific and rational. So it is able to achieve an effective gas-liquid separation, filter out impurities and to ensure that the exhaust pipe is always smooth.

Some centrifugal pumps are included in the shipment. Centrifugal pump is the most popular transfer device in drilling mud treatment system. It can be used as water pump to transfer water in water tanks. It can be used a trip pump at trip tanks. It can be used as feed pump for desander and desilter. It can be used as supercharging pump for triple mud pumps. In the mixing system, centrifugal pump can be used as mixing pump, as well as transfer pump to transfer mud between tanks and different tank compartments.

Besides vacuum degasser and centrifugal pump, GN Solids Control is also capable to make full line drilling mud solids control separation equipment, like shale shaker, mud cleaner, desander, desilter, decanter centrifuge, …. and different type of drilling mud processing equipment, like high G drying shale shaker, vertical cuttings dryer, screw conveyor auger, dewatering centrifuge, solidification unit, etc…

Centrifugal pump for drilling mud solids control system

BY admin 28 December 2020 Drilling equipments Company, Slurry separation plant, Solids Control Equipments

GNSB Series Centrifugal pump is a very common device used at drilling mud solids control system. GNSB Series Centrifugal pump can be used for oil field drilling mud system, HDD and CBM drilling mud recycling system, piling and micro tunneling desanding plant. GN Solids Control is a professional manufacturer of centrifugal pump in China.

GN Solids Control makes and supply centrifugal pump for solids control system. There is a wide range of applications of centrifugal pump in various applications drilling mud system. Below are some of the applications we normal use.

1. GNSB Series Centrifugal pump can be used as trip pump in the trip tank of the oil and gas drilling mud system. Trip tank is normally the first tank compartment inside drilling mud solids control system. The tank volume of trip tank is not big. It can be a separate smaller size tank other other tanks in the solids control system. It can also a compartment divided from shale shaker tank. Centrifugal pump size 3×2 or 4×3 are mostly used as trip tank trip pump.

2. GNSB Series Centrifugal pump can be used as feed pump for desander, desilter, mud cleaner. The pump transfer capacity should be matching the handling capacity of desander, desilter and mud cleaner. It can be a little big higher than the separation equipment, but it cannot be too much high. And the centrifugal pump transfer capacity cannot be lower than the separation equipment.

3. GNSB Series Centrifugal pump can be used as mixing pump of jet mud mixer and mixing unit. While add a T-pipe at the outlet of the mixing pump, the same pump can also be used as transfer pump.

4. GNSB Series Centrifugal pump can be used as transfer pump to transfer drilling mud or other slurries from one tank to another, or from one location to another.

5. GNSB Series Centrifugal pump can be used as suction or supercharging pump for drilling rig mud pump.

All GN model centrifugal pump use tungsten carbide mechanical seal, with international famous brand Bearing. And spare parts interchangeable with most of the international Brand pump which helps customer to source spare parts easily. Open impeller design that lowers axial thrust loads, and make it easier for installation, repair and maintenance.

Variable speed decanter centrifuge for barite recovery, HGS, LGS, waste management

BY admin 21 July 2020 Decanter Centrifuge, dewatering unit, Drilling equipments Company, drilling mud centrifuge, Drilling Waste Management, Slurry separation plant, solids control, Solids Control Equipments

GN Solids Control is a professional manufacturer to make different sizes Solids Removal Variable Speed Centrifuge includes stand, feed pump and connecting hoses, and other processing equipment and accessory processing equipment before and after decanter centrifuge.

GN Solids Control makes Variable speed from 0 up to 4,000 RPM per different models. GN Solids Control is capacity to make both VFD control decanter centrifuge and full hydraulic drive (FHD) decanter centrifuge per meet clients’ request.
GN Solids Control brand decanter centrifuge is designed with high G-force to get a better separation performance.

GN Solids Control has big bowl decanter centrifuge vary from 18 inch to 22 inch, and max. to 30 inch for big fluid processing rate. In the world, few companies have the capability to make big bowl decanter centrifuge up to 30 inch. GN Solids Control is one of them who have the abilities.
GNLW553 VFD decanter centrifuge is a 22 inch bowl decanter.
GNLW453 VFD decanter centrifuge is a 18 inch decanter.
GNLW363 VFD decanter centrifuge is a 14 inch decanter.
Roughly, for the same conditions, 1 set 22inch decanter = 2 x 14 inch decanter centrifuge.

And 1 set 18 inch decanter = 1.4 x 14 inch decanter. The operators cannot expect to use an 18 inch decanter centrifuge to replace 2 x 14 inch decanter or to replace a 22 inch decanter.

GN Solids Control 14 inch, 18 inch and 22 inch decanter centrifuge can all be used for heavy mud solids control. And also some clients want to use the decanter centrifuge for different applications like for barite recovery, HGS (high gravity solids), LGS (low gravity solids), waste management, and dewatering treatment, or other different applications, the centrifuge features are not all the same. When GN Solids Control makes the design for standard models, GN Solids Control need to balance the performance for all the situations. If clients have fixed applications with the centrifuge, suggest clients to share the information to GN Solids Control sales engineer before order to get and best solution to suit for the projects and maximized the separation performance.

Full Hydraulic Drive (FHD) Decanter Centrifuge for drilling mud treatment

BY admin 12 June 2020 Decanter Centrifuge, Drilling equipments Company, drilling mud centrifuge, Drilling Waste Management, solids control, Solids Control Equipments

GNLW363 FHD centrifuge is a Full Hydraulic Drive decanter centrifuge. It is designed to remove low specific gravity solids from slurries. After the FHD centrifuge separation, the solids are removed and the liquid is returned for recirculation. Like in the drilling mud system, the recovered slurry is drilling fluids, it can be reused in drilling mud system, in waste water treatment system, the recovered slurry is water, which can be reused in the waste water treatment plant. And in some cases, like in the barite recovery treatment, the solids are returned to the active system and the liquid is discarded, or goes to further treatment processing.

GNLW363C-FHD decanter centrifuge is fully hydraulic drive. Th Full hydraulic driven system is imported from leading brand from Switzerland. The bowl speed and conveyer speed of GN FHD decanter centrifuge is adjustable within the permitted range. It can achieve independent, step-less and large-range speed regulation for the bowl and conveying. The bowl speed and conveyer speed during working is showing on the screen.

The advantage of the full hydraulic drive centrifuge is for use in high temperature ambient for heavy mud with flexible bowl and differential speed. The compact one skid design makes it easier for rig up.

GN FHD decanter centrifuge is composed of bowl assembly, collection box, hydraulic drive system, electrical control panel, drive motor, vibration switch (optional), case, base assembly, and skid.

During decanter centrifuge operation, drilling mud or slurry is pumped through the feed tube into the center of the rotating conveyor, where it splashes against the feed accelerator. Screw pump is widely used as feeding pump for decanter centrifuge, besides screw pump, centrifugal pump and submers. The high velocity slurry is then dispersed out four feed nozzles mounted in the periphery of the conveyor cylinder. Rotating at a higher speed than the conveyor, the bowl creates an additional shearing effect, which further increases the slurry’s acceleration. The depth of the slurry in the bowl (pond depth) is determined by the setting of weirs on the liquid bowl head (large end of the bowl).

DGMS Explosion Proof Certified Shale Shaker for India Client

BY admin 8 June 2020 Drilling Fluids shale shaker, Drilling mud system, Solids Control Equipments

GN Solids is a major manufacturer for drilling mud solids control equipment, drilling waste management equipment, and replacement shaker screens for various brand shale shakers. As more than half of GN products are exported to international market, GN Solids Control has more understanding on international market and for different markets.

For examples, GN Solids Control can offer VFD decanter centrifuge with explosion proof A/C cooling system for high temperature ambient areas and regions, GN Solids Control can offer waste management system with heating function for low temperatures areas in Russia and Siberia. GN Solids Control is the 1st API certified solids control company in China, also certified by: Europe DNV CE, HSE, ISO9001, ISO14001 ISO 28001, Russia CU-TR certificate. DGMS Explosion Proof standard is specially requested for India market.

Last week, some sets of dual tandem shale shaker for India clients. The dual tandem shale shakers will be used at oil and gas drilling field of a major oil company in India.

Shale shaker is a basic separation equipment for all kinds of drilling activities, like oil and gas drilling solids control mud system, Horizontal directional drilling mud recycling system, water well drilling mud recycling system, TBM, piling, tunneling and micro tunneling desanding plants. Per different applications, clients can choose double deck shale shaker, singe deck shale shaker, 2-panel compact design shale shaker, 3-panel or 4-panel big capacity shale shaker. And for different applications, clients can choose dual tandem shale shaker, or triple tandem shale shaker.

Besides various models of shale shakers, GN Solids Control is capacity to make full line drilling mud processing equipment, like mud cleaner, desander, desilter, vacuum degasser, centrifugal degasser, mud gas separator, mud agitator, pumps, decanter centrifuges, and drilling waste management equipment, like vertical cuttings dryer, high G dryer, high speed decanter centrifuge, screw conveyor, dewatering unit, etc… Other GN Solids is capacity and experience on zone-discharge closed loop mud recycling system for oil and gas drilling field.

Safe protection on screw conveyor auger

BY admin 21 April 2020 Drilling Waste Management, Solids Control Equipments

This week, a client contacted a sales manager of GN Solids Control; he said he wanted to order some Augers. He asked GN Solids Control sales manager to inquire what augers can GN Solids Control make, and he also want to know what the safety protections on GN Solids Control auger are equipped, so someone will not be hurt while using it.

GN Solids Control recommends the client some of the same safe standard for a major Oil copany in Middle East. Below are some of the HSE standards suggested to the client:

1) GN Solids Control can equip grab wire along the auger length: operator can stop the auger at any place along the auger. And in case the auger cover is opened, or not closed well, the auger will be stopped automatically. In this case, operators will not be hurt.

2) Control panel can be equipped with E-stop and with control for the grab wire, to switch off power supply to the auger automatically in case the auger covers are opened or removed or not closed or not appropriately fixed.

3) Another optional safety protection is Audio and / or visual alarm system on auger control panel: the voice and light alarm will automatically switch on once the power is switched on, and the Audio and / or visual alarm system keep for some seconds before the auger start rotating. The alarm gives time for the nearby operator to know the screw conveyor will start rotating, and reminder them to keep away.

Auger is also known as screw conveyor. It is widely used at oil and gas drilling flied. Screw conveyor can be located under shale shaker, mud cleaner, desander, desilter, or decanter centrifuge, to collect drilling cuttings discharged from solids control equipment, and transfer the drill cuttings to drilling waste management equipment, like high G force shale shaker and vertical cuttings dryer.