Tips for KOSUN Mud Agitator installation

Drilling mud agitator, as a tank equipment in drilling solids control system consists of reducer and explosion-proof electric motor, has got dominant application in mud mixing and concoction. It is easy to keep up, and suitable to operate in terrible outdoor working conditions. Its large agitating strength can extend to a large scale of drilling fluids and greatly reduce resisting moments when it starts. The plate surrounded by blades prevent solids from gathering together around lower blades, reduce resisting moments against blades and avoid burning the electric motor during overload start up process.

Mud agitator is consist of electrical motor, reducer, shaft & impeller. The driving motor & reducer box are mounted on the agitator base, while the shaft inserts into the mud tank, and the impellers which normally have three or four blades are equipped at the other end of the shaft. When the impellers rotate by the electrical motor, the drilling fluids would also move. This mechanical driving agitator has good performance in big & deep mud tank. But the disadvantage of this agitator is that there would exist some bland area that agitator can not move the fluids in these areas.

KOSUN Mud Agitator installation
1. Make certain the mounts in which the agitator will rest upon are heavy and secure enought to support the weight and torque of the agitator.
2. The agitator base is mounted and secured with four bolts, nuts and lock washers, the impeller shaft should now coupled to the gearbox shaft.
3. Check the electric motor for proper voltage wiring, the KOSUN mud agitators are wired 380 and 460 voltage unless specified.
4. The impeller should rotated clockwise when viewed from the top, if the rotation is incorrect, switch any two lead wires at the starter to reverse the rotation.
5. Check the oil level, oil should be filled to the bottom edge of oil level plug using the lubricant specification.

China KOSUN serves the oil & gas drilling industry for 20 years since its establishment in 1992 with horizontally mounted mud agitators which then are mounted on the top of mud tank. As we discussed previously that the mud agitator belongs to mechanical agitation, the purpose of which are to agitate the drilling fluids in the compartments of mud tank. Different type of drilling fluids would requires different horsepower of motors, as well as speed reduce ratio. Another key point is to decide the length of the shaft, and also the type of impellers. All of these depends on the drilling fluids property & mud tank dimension.