Safety Information and Usual Maintenance of Drilling Fluid Mud Gun in Solids Control

Mar 31, 2014

KOSUN Mud Gun is designed and manufactured for different drilling mud solids control system, has such three types as low pressure, medium pressure and high pressure, is mainly matched to centrifugal pump and mud pump, and also can match shear pump. It is very special equipment to clean the wall tube and prevent mud sediment in the mud tank. It is an ideal equipment to prevent mud sediment, with good performance, large cleaning area, cleaning more thoroughly, simpler structure, flexible operation, easy to use, etc.

Safety Information

1. Turn off, lock out and tag out the electrical power supply to the pumps feeding the mud guns before servicing.

2. Inspect the unit regularly, and replace damaged or worn components only with parts supplied by the original equipment manufacturer.

3. Before entering a mud tank for any reason, the mud agitators should be locked out and tagged out.
 

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Normal Maintenance

1. Grease the swivel once a week and add shots of a multi-purpose grease.

2. Visually inspect the mud gun assembly for any leaks, loose fittings once a week.

3. Inspect mud gun jet nozzle for excessive wear once a month

Once installation is complete, the unit can be started by turning the feed pump on. The direction of discharge may be modified to suit the operators requirements by rotating the swivel.

KOSUN has been a professional solids control manufacturer for 20 years, nowadays, KOSUN possesses three factories: two factories in Xi’an China, one specializing in producing solids control equipment and centrifuges, the other manufacturing all kinds of drilling fluid tanks, water tanks, oil tanks and pressure containers, and the third factory producing various drilling fluids tanks, oil tanks, water tanks and camps in Aktobe Kazakhstan. The products include shale shakermud cleaner, mud agitator, desander, desilter and decanter centrifuge. KOSUN also can provide complete solids control system and drilling waste management equipment, etc.