A vacuum degasser, also known as a negative pressure degasser, is a high-efficiency solids control device specifically designed for treating gaseous drilling fluids. In drilling operations such as oil, natural gas, and geological exploration, drilling fluids (mud) often contain various gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide. The presence of these gases not only alters the density and rheological properties of the drilling fluid, affecting drilling efficiency, but can also pose safety hazards. The vacuum degasser was developed specifically to address this problem, quickly and effectively removing gases from drilling fluids, restoring the mud’s specific gravity, stabilizing its properties, and ensuring smooth drilling operations.
Product Features
High-Efficiency Degassing: Utilizing advanced vacuum degassing technology, it can significantly reduce the gas content in drilling fluids in a short time, achieving high degassing efficiency and significantly improving drilling fluid quality.
Stable Performance: The equipment operates stably and reliably, adapting to the complex and changing working environment of drilling sites. Its performance does not degrade even after continuous long-term operation, ensuring the continuity of drilling operations.
Easy to operate: The user-friendly design and simple, easy-to-understand interface allow operators to quickly master the equipment’s operation after minimal training, reducing labor costs and operational error rates.
Convenient maintenance: The equipment’s rational structural design facilitates disassembly and assembly, making daily maintenance and upkeep simple and quick. This effectively reduces downtime and improves equipment efficiency.
Energy-saving and environmentally friendly: During the degassing process, it effectively recovers and processes gases, reducing environmental pollution. The equipment itself has low energy consumption, meeting energy conservation and environmental protection requirements.
Applications
Vacuum degassers are commonly used in various mud circulation purification systems and are widely applied in the following fields:
Oil drilling: In onshore and offshore oil drilling operations, they are used to treat drilling fluids, remove gases, maintain the stability of drilling fluid performance, and improve drilling efficiency and safety.
Natural gas drilling: Vacuum degassers effectively solve the problem of natural gas easily mixing into drilling fluids during natural gas drilling, ensuring the normal operation of natural gas drilling.
Geological Exploration: In geological exploration drilling, degassing of drilling fluids ensures the accuracy and reliability of exploration data and provides high-quality drilling fluid samples for geological research.
Other Drilling Projects: Other types of drilling projects, such as coalbed methane drilling and shale gas drilling, also require vacuum degassing machines to treat drilling fluids to meet the requirements of different drilling processes.
Technical parameters:
| Model | CQ270 | CQ360 |
| Tank Diameter (mm) | 820 | 920 |
| Treatment Capacity (m³/h) | ≤270 | ≤360 |
| Vacuum Degree (Mpa) | -0.02~-0.04 | -0.02~-0.04 |
| Treatment Efficiency | ≥95% | ≥95% |
| Main Motor Power (kW) | 22 | 37 |
| Vacuum Pump Power (kW) | 1.5 | 5.5 |
| Rotational Speed (rpm) | 870 | 860 |
| Explosion – Proof Standard | ExdllBt4/IECEx/A-TEX | ExdllBt4/IECEx/A-TEX |
| Inlet Pipe Size | DN125 | DN150 |
| Outlet Pipe Size | DN150 | DN200 |
| Weight (kg) | 2250 | 2373 |
| Overall Dimensions (mm) | 1950×1156×1670 | 2100×1455×1712 |