The shale shaker is the first stage of solids control equipment in drilling purification system. It can remove cuttings above 75μm brought from the drilling well to leave the liquid with smaller particles into the tanks below, which will flow into next solids control equipment for further treatment. Shale shakers are the primary solids separation tool on a rig. After returning to the surface of the well, the used drilling fluids flows directly to the shale shakers where it begins to be processed. Once processed by the shale shakers the drilling fluids is deposited into the mud tanks where other solids control equipment begin to remove the finer solids from it. The solids removed by the shale shaker are discharged out of the discharge port into a separate holding tank where they await further treatment or disposal.

Shale shaker screen surface: usually, larger contact area screen will have better treating capacity, the more screen surface area you have means more volume that you can clean. Therefore, the vavy screen is better than flat screen; the larger area flat screen is better than small area flat screen.

Shale shaker screen selection: mesh size of screens is measured by the number of holes per square inch on the screen. Different mesh sizes control the size of the cuttings that you want to remove. The same mesh size will not work in all drilling conditions. Sizes will vary depending on the size of the cuttings and the type of formations you are cleaning.

KOSUN Solids Control Equipment include: Shale Shaker, Vacuum Degasser, Mud Cleaner, Desander, Desilter, Centrifuge, Shear Pump, Mud Agitator, Jet Mud Mixer, Ignition Device, Mud Tanks, Pumps, etc. KOSUN has a powerful technical team, the team is composed by much experienced engineers in this field. We can design the system according to clients’ actual demands.