Shaker screen is an expensive wearing parts for drilling field shale shaker. The proper mesh size, right way for operation and maintenance can reduce the wearing of the screen and may prolong the life time of the screens.
How to choose the right screen mesh?
Usually, when the shale shaker is first stage solids control equipment the shaker screen can be 30-100mesh. When the shale shaker is a part of mud cleaner, the screen can be 80-200mesh.
Shaker screen maintenance
1) Before every shut off, the shaker should run without any medium for 5-10 minutes, at the same time, use clean water to flush screen clean
2) Every time finish operation, the shaker frame and screen should be flushed by water (summer) or steam (winter), there should be not much sediment on shaker frame and shaker screen. Especially when the drilling mud has large viscosity and high density or screen is finer than 60 mesh. Otherwise, the particles and fine sand on screen will block screen hole, when we start shale shaker, it will decrease filtration result and lead drilling mud flow away, lose much unnecessary cost
Replacement shaker screens:
During operation ,while the screens are broken , or cannot separately well,it needs replace the screen.GN can make high quality shaker screens for its own brand shale shaker as well as other famous brand. And also, GN can customize screens according to your dimensions. If you have any question, please feel free to contact GN group for solution.
