Mud Bug –Mud Recycling System for Horizontal directional drilling(HDD)

Mud Bug –Mud Recycling System for Horizontal directional drilling(HDD)

Mud Bug is designed as a Mud Recycling System fir trenchless and directional drilling projects. A high-efficiency Mud Bug or Mud Recycling System can help contractor save cost for deploy new drilling mud, the used drilling mud can recovered back to the tank, The mud engineer can test the performance of the separated and recovered drilling mud, adding a small amount of chemical materials can continue to use, greatly reducing the cost of configuring new mud, reducing the time for configuring new mud, and improving construction efficiency. Reduce the cost of construction. At the same time, the use of this equipment can also reduce the discharge of waste mud, because most mud contains harmful substances, directly discharged into the natural environment will increase environmental pollution.

ZH has two types of Mud Bug for cleaning drilling mud for drilling rig.

One is integrated Mud Bug, and the other is Mud Recycling System.

Integrated Mud Bug for Horizontal directional drilling(HDD)

Integrated Mud Bug for Horizontal Directional Drilling

This Integrated Mud Bug is composed of Double-Deck Shale Shaker, cyclone (desanding cyclone, desilting cyclone), slurry pump, electric control cabinet, small mud tank, and manifold.

ZH Slurry Separation System for HDD project delivered to International Market
ZH Slurry Separation System for HDD project delivered to International Market
  1. Double-Deck Shale Shaker, Integrated Mud Bug always has Double-Deck Shale Shaker, the bottom coarse screen used for separate the big solids phase(rocks, clods of earth, which the size is bigger than 1-3mm) in the drilling mud. The top screen is used for dry the solids from the cyclones. Fluid will across the screen and down to the bottom mud tank.
  2. Cyclone (desanding cyclone, desilting cyclone),we can choose the desanding cyclone or desilting cyclone for the Integrated Mud Bug by the request of the project. The size of the cyclone different, the solids phase can be separated from the drilling mud will be different. The material of the cyclone has the Polyurethane(PU) ,Cast-Iron, Cast-Iron with Ceramic inlaid inside.
  3. Slurry pump, this slurry pump is used for feed the slurry in the bottom mud tank to the cyclone. The flow parts of the slurry pump are made of special alloy to ensure fluid supply, reduce pump maintenance material costs and reduce pump maintenance time into the pump
  4. Electric control cabinet, All of our electrical components are selected from well-known brands to ensure the safety of operators and equipment.
  5. Small Mud Tank, the Mud Tank in the Integrated Mud Bug is small, the volume is 1-3m3. The Mud Tank in the Integrated Mud Bug is not used for store the drilling mud, because the Integrated Mud Bug is usually placed on a mud tank, or work with others mud pit. The clean drilling mud from the Integrated Mud Bug is store in the mud pit.
  6. Manifold, for Integrated Mud Bug, there is always has the Slurry inlet, slurry outlet, slurry line, overflow line, return line and etc.

Mud Recycling System for Horizontal directional drilling(HDD)

This Mud Recycling System is composed of shale Shaker, Mud Cleaner (desanding cyclone, desilting cyclone), slurry pump, electric control cabinet, big mud tank, Mud Gun, and manifold.

Modular Slurry Separation System 500GPM
Modular Slurry Separation System 500GPM
  1. Shale Shaker, the traditional Mud Recycling System for Horizontal directional drilling(HDD) can be configured with single deck shale shaker, or double deck shale shaker. The single deck shale shaker with the coarse screen(20-60 mesh) to separate the big solids phase in the drilling mud. If configured with double deck shale shaker, the bottom coarse screen used for separate the big solids phase(rocks, clods of earth, which the size is bigger than 75micron) in the drilling mud. The top screen is used for dry the solids from the cyclones. Fluid will across the screen and down to the bottom mud tank.
  2. Mud Cleaner (desanding cyclone and desilting cyclone), if the traditional Mud Recycling System for Horizontal directional drilling(HDD) is configured with single deck shale shaker, there shale shaker is the first stage of separation, and the mud cleaner with desanding cyclone and desilting cyclone, the fluid from the shale shaker will be enter to the desander cyclone, Under the action of centrifugal force, the solid phase falls on the screen and discharged. The liquid phase enter to the mud tank. With the help of the slurry pump, the liquid phase from the desander enter to the desilter. Then solids phase run out of the system, and the fluid down to the mud tank.
  3. Slurry pump, there are two slurry pump on the Mud Recycling System, one of the slurry pump is used for feed the slurry in the mud tank to the desaner cyclone, the second one is used for feed the slurry from the mud tank to the desilter cyclone. The flow parts of the slurry pump are made of special alloy to ensure fluid supply, reduce pump maintenance material costs and reduce pump maintenance time into the pump.
  4. Electric control cabinet, All of our electrical components are selected from well-known brands to ensure the safety of operators and equipment.
  5. Big mud tank, the traditional Mud Recycling System always has big tank, and the tank has several cabins, one cabin for the fluid from shale shaker, one cabin for the fluid from the desander cyclone, and one cabin for the fluid from the desilter cyclone. If the Custer need the mixing the drilling mud, there will be Jet Mud Mixer on the tank, there is a cabin used for mixing the drilling mud.
  6. Mud Gun, the mud gun and agitator are used together to prevent mud from solids precipitation or to transport the mud;The quantity of the mud gun depends on the size of the mud tank, usually installed in the mud pipe of the mud tank;
  7. Manifold for traditional Mud Recycling System for Horizontal directional drilling(HDD), there is always has the Slurry inlet, slurry outlet, slurry line, line for Mud Gun, water line overflow line, return line and etc.