Shale shaker is utilized in many different industries, such as coal cleaning plant, mining, petroleum drilling, and natural gas exploitation, etc. and the shakers that are currently used in petroleum drilling were initially introduced from the coal cleaning industry. It can remove the solids that is over 75μm diameter. As solids over this diameter is much harmful on the drilling fluids property. They must be removed from the drilling mud at the first stage of solids control system. And shale shaker with API 200 mesh (75μm) is designed and manufactured basing on this principle.

Shale shakers can be divided into linear motion shale shaker and ellipse & round motion shaker, basing on the difference of their screen basket moving tracks. As the most important equipment in solids control system, shale shakers are widely used in almost all kinds of drilling rig, and they take an important part in drilling fluids cost as well as total drilling drilling cost. So it is necessary to choose right type of linear motion shale shaker according to the viscosity of drilling fluids & solids density.
 

KOSUN Shale Shaker

KOSUN shale shakers are generally consist of skid, vibration isolation member, screen, screen basket, back tank ( or called mud feeder), vibration motor, etc. no matter it is linear motion shale shaker, or ellipse shaker. The drilling fluids flows directly into the back tank through the flow line after the mud comes out of the surface of the well. The solids that precipitates in the back tank would be discharged through the bottom hole, and drilling fluids would flow onto the screen surface. The solids that are bigger than the meshes would be separated and threw out of the shale shaker through other end of shale shaker screen. and the fluids with smaller particles would go through the meshes and enter the mud tank for further separation.

Shale Shaker Structure

The screen of shale shaker can be pieces of panels, or one integrated panel. The angle of the screen can be horizontal, or with a certain angle, or adjustable within a angle range, such as -1° ~ +5° or -3° ~ +6°. The screen can be one layer, or double layers. The engineer must choose the right type of shale shakers according to the geological and drilling fluids requirement. When the drilling fluids volume is large, double or triple shale shakers could be operated, such the purification ability of the shale shaker would be much improved.

KOSUN solids control is main professional manufacturer of solids control system in China, KOSUN is a vital part of the world hydrocarbon exploration and production industry, as well as one of top three solids control equipment suppliers in China, which offers its products for CNPC, CNOOC ,HH, Gazprom, RG, etc . If you want to know more information about solids control system and oil drilling solids control equipment shale shaker,you can contact us online.