KOSUN Vertical Cutting Dryer
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KOSUN Vertical Cutting Dryer can effectively recover the liquid phase in drilling cuttings, making the solid phase become very dry. It is suitable for water-base mud, oil-base mud and synthetic base mud.
In drilling operations large quantities of drilling cuttings are obtained as a result of drilling deep beneath the ocean surface or on the ground to extract the fossil fuel or oil as we commonly know it.
The drilling operations typically yield two kinds of waste – drilling fluids and drilling cuttings. While drilling fluids like mud are used intentionally to aid the process of drilling through well-drilling method, drilling cuttings are the byproduct of the process. This mix of fluid and solid is brought to the surface for further treatment. The separation of two is carried out with mechanical means, the core equipment in the process being a “ Cutting Dryer ”.
Before we understand the process better, let us look into the need for this drilling waste management, why so much importance is attached with such an ordinary task? Well, the answer is much more complicated than you would expect.
The oil and gas wells have been drilled for over a century now and the companies and authorities have grown more aware of the environmental impact of the drilling waste management. Stricter rules and regulations are deployed to companies that has prompted the researchers to find out better ways of dealing with this drilling waste. Naturally the stakes are high for all the parties involved.
One of the most modern approaches of dealing with drilling waste management is returning the drilling cutting waste back to the deep zone where they originally came from – the deep reservoirs, and there are various equipments deployed for supporting the process but before the disposal it is imperative that the drilling cuttings are well treated for the removal of any harmful drilling elements. The usage of cutting dryers makes that possible.
What it does is separate the fluid from the drilling cuttings in a most efficient way, to recover the oil on cuttings and leave remaining waste more suitable for further disposal. So it will be fair to conclude that the cutting dryers are actually at the heart of drilling waste management process.
Some of other traditional methods of drilling waste disposal are: land-spreading and land-farming, evaporation and burial onsite, underground injection, incineration and other thermal treatment, bioremediation and composting, and reuse and recycling.