Industrial Production Equipment for Oil Field Drilling Fluid

Background / Requirement

1. Guar gum, a high-viscosity thickener, is highly hydrophilic and difficult- to-disperse without fisheyes
2. Gum dispersion is pumped into the wells to displace oil for recovery from porous rock
3. High-capacity, single-pass dispersion into hot or cold water.

Quadro's Approach

• ZC3 in-line disperser, skid mounted with a discharge PD pump arrangement for performance with high viscosities and high solids addition rates.

• Simple VFD pump control to provide:
  • Variable backpressure on ZC3 disperser controlling powder incorporation rate
  • Steady control of discharge concentration
  • Positive delivery of viscous gum dispersion to downstream processing
  • Powder feed system to maintain full charge in powder hopper
  • High/Low-level hopper detection with automated powder valve actuation.

Quadro Ytron^® ZC Powder Disperser Features

• Rapid incorporation and dispersion of solids - reduced batch times by as much as 90% versus conventional high HP in-tank, high-shear mixer processing
• Significantly reduced air entrainment
• Control of discharge concentration to avoid post-dispersion blending of viscous gum solutions
• Dispersion is possible in hot or cold water.