Mud Cleaner Linear Motion Drilling Mud Equipment Drilling Customizable

A mud cleaner is a combination of desanders and/or desilters mounted over a shaker with a fine mesh screen. A mud is fed to the inlet of the hydrocyclone (desander and/or desilter) to separate particles and the underflow passes to the fine screen mesh where particles larger than barite are discarded and thrown away.

Mud Cleaner also referred to as Mud conditioner. It's a piece of equipment consisting of a shaker, desander cone, and desilter cone. We call it three in one, too. For the oil drilling mud process, the desander cone is sized 8-12''. The desilter cone is 4'' or 5''. Different size cones hold different treating capacity. When we confirm the configuration or design of the mud cleaner, we should consider the general flow rate of all cones. For example, 4" cone capacity is about 20m³/h and we request a 240m³/h flow rate we need to configure 12 cones at least. To consider some heavy mud and large solids content we suggest 125% of rated capacity.

Drilling mud is transferred to cones by a centrifugal pump from the shaker tank. Desander cone and desilter cone are fed by different pumps. This will provide better results. Under pump pressure, the fluids will run into cones and flow with centrifugal force. Then the heavy particles will deposit down and pushed out of the cone drop in Apex.

After the mud cleaner processing, the solids larger than 15 microns will be separated out of drilling fluids. The drilling mud with solids sprays out of cones drop down to bottom screen panel. Under vibration and filtration, the solids will be drier and save many fluids for a good drilling. The cleaned mud is transferred to a centrifuge.

Cones of Hunter mud cleaner are all high-quality polyurethane. Including 4'', 10'' or 12''. Such cones are durable and anti-corrosive, oil-resistant, high temperature-resistant. They are very suitable for the drilling fluids process. For some clients, they prefer flexible capacity adjustment during operation so we'll install ball valves on the cones inlet line.

Some clients don't know the difference between desander and desilter. Actually, it's very easy to identify them. Bigger cone separate larger particles, smaller ones separate the finer particles. And fluids will be separated by desilter after processed by desander. 

Besides mud conditioner, the separated desander and desilter is another option for users. Please refer to information on desander and desilter for more reference. The bottom shaker under the mud cleaner cone is used to dry fluids out of the cone. So, the mesh size is rather high and the capacity is enough for discharge from the cone but not the same as the previous shaker

For more information, please don't hesitate to contact AIPU solids control. You will get an optimal solution on mud conditioner or any other demand.