In the golden October, China is rapidly recovering from the pandemic situation and China’s market is booming again although in the crude oil industry. And one of the international leading brands in the solids control and waste management industry, GN Solids Control has got more and more chances to provide to drilling companies in both domestic and abroad.

Weeks ago, GN Solids Control has finished the fabrication of some solids control equipment for a drilling company in China, they purchased a mud mixing hopper and a vertical cuttings dryer for their jobsite.

Mud Mixing Hopper: in a complete solids control system, there should be 5 steps separation with 4 of them for solids control purpose, including shale shaker ( 1st step solids control which removes solids particles larger than 100 microns, desanding cones (with 10 inch cone diameter for removing particles larger than 40 microns), desilter cones ( with 4 inch cone diameter for removing particles larger than 20 microns), then comes the decanter centrifuges as the 4th stept separation, normally there are middle speed centrifuge and high speed centrifuge, respectively for separating out the particles from 5 to 7 microns and 2 to 5 microns. And in between the shale shaker and desanding cones, there is always a vacuum degasser to remove the bubbles in the mud, in order to protect the cone feeding pumps.

A mud mixing hopper is located after the hydrocyclones, or after the decanter centrifuges when there are centrifuges in this system. A mud mixing hopper is made up by a venture hopper and a centrifugal pump, by using the venture force, the powder chemicals are sucked into the mud system. By the way, the centrifugal pumps are also one kind of GN core products, which has all parts interchangeable with Mission Magnum and of high quality and long service life comparing with their peers.

If you need more information, please feel free to contact GN Sales Team directly.