Vertical Cutting Dryer

On-line Drilling Cuttings is generated from the whole drilling process. The cuttings will be carried out by drilling fluids, and then separated by solids control / waste management systems. The first stage separating equipment is shale shaker.  After shaker separation, the fine cuttings will drop down to under tank with drilling fluids, and the coarse cuttings will be separated and treated by vertical cutting dryer.

The main function of vertical dryer is to recover the useful oil based mud, reduce the oil content on cuttings (OOC) and reduce the total volume of cuttings which will be finally treated by Thermal Desorption Unit. The recovered oil based mud will be returned to active mud system. Some conditions, the operator will adopt High G dryer or high G shaker to replace the Vertical dryer to achieve same functions. Even, the performance of High G dryer is not as good as Vertical Cutting Dryer, the oil on cuttings will be around 10% after high G dryer, but all choices is depends on the owner’s requirements.