Vertical Centrifuge Helps Meet Drilling Cuttings Discharge Requirements

The vertical cuttings dryer is a machine designed to reduce the operator’s total fluids cost and limit waste disposal volumes. This is achieved by directly recovering the fluids from the cuttings, and by recovering any weighted mud from the shaker screens avoiding that it can be lost due to a failure of the shaker, a movement of the rig or the occlusion of the screen. The machine helps meet certain fluid-on-cuttings discharge requirements that must be abided by.

Vertical Centrifuge is the ideal product for oil based drilling waste management. A stainless steel screen bowl traps “wet” solids and accelerates them up to 820 RPM with G force up to 360. Liquid is forced through the screen bowl openings, while “dry” solids are extracted by the angled flights attached to the cone, which rotates slightly less slowly than the bowl.

The Vertical Centrifuge (VC) is a continuous screen type centrifuge with automatic feed control designed for liquid-solid separation. The Vertical Centrifuge (VC) is designed to recover the liquid phase of the drilling fluid from drilled solids by exposing the latter to very high centrifugal acceleration forces which improve fluid separation from the drill cuttings. By further clarifying the costly liquid phase which can be returned to the active drilling mud system, the machine helps save money on the expensive drilling fluids. Often shaker screens get clogged and, as a result, expensive mud is lost overboard. The Vertical Centrifuge (VC) system catches any lost mud and returns it to the active mud system. The recovery systems work well with diesel, mineral and synthetic oil based mud.