It is more often heard about dewatering unit in drilling industry but most of the persons in this industry are not very familiar with the dewatering unit. In this article, we may give a simple introduction on what is dewatering unit and the application.
Dewatering unit we can also call it ultra fine solids removing system. It always includes the polymer mixing system and fine solids separation system.
What is the composition of the dewatering unit
1. Automatic polymer mixing system.
GN dewatering unit automatic polymer mixing system is 2 tanks system. It is equipped with medical feeding system, water injection system, delivery system and mixing system, gauge system and electrical control system. This APM system has 2 screw conveyors, one is used to transfer the powder medicines to the hopper on the mixing tank, and the other screw conveyor is located under the hopper to deliver the powder into the pre-mixing tank. The pre-mixing tank would receive the powder from the screw conveyor and the water from the water injection pipe which could automatically inject the water as per the control of the control panel when the water flow gauge send the signal to the control panel. The mixing tank is divided into 2 parts and 2 compartments is same design and the function is also the same. According to the signal send to the control panel, one of the either compartments is mix the medicine while the other one is already full and to start the output of the flocculation.
2. Feeding System
GN’s dewatering system has 2 screw pumps used for transferring the flocculation and the slurry to the decanter centrifuge. The chemicals and the slurry meet at the feeding pipe of the decanter centrifuge and the flocs also produced here. Then the slurry with large size flocs gets into the centrifuge together and there for separation.
3. GNLW553-VFD dewatering centrifuge for separation
GN dewatering unit choose GNLW553 various frequency drive model as the separation centrifuge. The control panel is designed as four various frequency drive for the centrifuge main motor, back motor and two feeding pumps for slurry and medicals. After the separation of the centrifuge, the large size flocs would be removed out, then the ultra fine solids is separated out.
GN’s dewatering unit is also equipped with pre-separation system. The separation includes the shale shaker and mud cleaner which could remove the large size solids then make the drilling fluids could be fed into the centrifuge for dewatering process.