DE SANDER

Definition: A hydrocyclone device that removes large drill solids from the

whole mud system. The desander should be located downstream of the shale shakers and
degassers, but before the desilters or mud cleaners. A volume of mud is pumped into the
wide upper section of the hydrocylone at an angle roughly tangent to its circumference. As
the mud flows around and gradually down the inside of the cone shape, solids are separated
from the liquid by centrifugal forces. The solids continue around and down until they exit
the bottom of the hydrocyclone (along with small amounts of liquid) and are discarded. The
cleaner and lighter density liquid mud travels up through a vortex in the centre of the
hydrocyclone, exits through piping at the top of the hydrocyclone and is then routed to the
mud tanks and the next mud-cleaning device, usually a desilter. Various size desander and
desilter cones are functionally identical, with the size of the cone determining the size of
particles the device removes from the mud system.
Desander are solid control equipment with a set of hydrocylone that separate sand from the
drilling fluid in the drilling rig. Desander are installed on top of the mud tank following the
shale shaker and degasser, but before the desilter, Desander removes the abrasive solid
from the drilling fluid which cannot be removed by the shakers
Nevertheless, desander is a significant part of the mining and drilling process. The simple
container helps filter out grainy solids from drilling liquid, often in mud form, that is brought
up from a drilling hole, located close to the end of the entire purification process, but not
the last step, desanding is famous for its simplicity and lack of moving parts. Its effectiveness
has seen this technique adapted into many industry that is utilizing the drilling fluid
recovery.
Generally, colourful named tools such as gas busters, gumbo removal equipment, shale
shaker, mud cleaners and vacuum degasser are all used to break down the fluid to the stage
where the desander can remove small grains. After the desander is utilized, many industries
also use a desilter to further purify the liquid.