In oil and gas industry for solids control equipment, the centrifuges are more and more used for separating out the fine and extra fine particles from the drilling mud system. In fact, they are taking over the former position of hydrocyclones like the desander cones and desiter cones.

Depending on the applications, the centrifuges could be divided as following items. And GN Solids Control, as the leading centrifuge manufacturer in China oil and gas industry, GN has a complete series of centrifuges, and such centrifuges cover all applications needed in the solids control and waste management systems as below:

1. solids control centrifuge. This is the centrifuge used in solids control system, as the fourth step for separate out the solids from the drilling mud. Normally, there are 2 centrifuges used in a solids control system for a large horse power system, one is for separating the valuable drilling material barite, which is expensive in price and could be re-used in future projects, the other is for separating out the particles which are too fine for the desilter cones. In most cases, GN clients use GNLW452 for barite recovery and GNLW363-VFD for extra fine particles in solids control system.

2. waste management centrifuges, for further treatment of the drilling liquid, the dewatering centrifuge. When the drilling fluid is used and reused for several times, there are extra fine particles in the drilling fluid are too fine for the centrifuge itself to get them out. So the end users need to add chemicals to merge them to be bigger, big enough for the centrifuges. In this case, GNLW363CG-VFD is recommended as the dewatering unit. And also, GN has dewatering unit available.

3. waste management centrifuge for further treatment of the solids discharged from the solids control system. When the solids are collected from the solids control system, they are not dry enough and couldn’t be discharged directly. So for the water based mud, there’s a drying shaker of High-G force and for the oil based mud, there’s a vertical cuttings dryer before the decanter centrifuge. GNLW363CG-VFD of high speed decanter centrifuge is ideal for this application. And GN also has GNZS594HGE-LD drying shaker and GNCD930CD Vertical cuttings dryer for the complete system.