Mixing Suspended Solids Trenchless Drilling Mud Agitator

Mud Agitator Is Used For Mixing Suspended Solids And Maintaining A Homogeneous Mixture Throughout The Mud System

APMA series drilling mud agitator is combination of gear box and motor. It's important to drilling mud process and fit on mud tanks as 3 meters per set. A mechanical agitator is driven by an explosion-proof motor, coupled to a gear box that drives the impeller shaft. The impellers transform mechanical power into fluid circulation or agitation. The objective is to obtain a uniform suspension of all solids

Mud tank size defines agitator number and model, besides, mud property will affect agitators selection. For example, usually we put one set agitator per 3 meters on tank. According to tank width and height, the agitator can be APMA7.5, or APMA15. And if the tanks are same size, then we'll consider the mud property. Such as mud gravity is 1.8sg we may need 7.5kw, while mud gravity is 2.4sg, we may need APMA15 driven by 20hp motor. Agitator speed defined by motor and gear box. For example, if we use APMA7.5 agitator, the motor is 10hp and speed is 1450rpm. The gear box reduce ratio is 25:1, then the agitator shaft/impller speed is 58rpm. If we use 10hp motor under 60Hz condition, its speed is 1740rpm then, and the reduction ratio is 25:1 still, then the shaft speed is about 70rpm

Except the shaker tank/compartment every tank and compartment will be fit with mud agitator. Mud agiators help to maintain mud property and keep the solids suspend for necessary mud propery and further mud process. Almost of agitator for drilling fluids system are horizontal design. On mud tanks, the separated control panel for each agitator is a good design.

Below technical specification for your reference. And some configuration are customizable. Please contact us for more details

How to select agitators? As we said just now, according to mud tank size and mud tank property. And before confirmation on agitator selection, we'd better to inquire professional engineer or consultant. There is a formula for agitator selection or design. Aipu will help user to get right solution at the best cost

Is there any other configuration on agitator type or drive system? Yes. Some clients prefer the hydraulic drive for some specific use. Some clients need the vertical agitator. And some clients prefer the stainless steel shaft and impeller. Different application and industry will request equipment much different If you have question or demand on mud mixers, please let us know and we'll help you to get ideal solution

In a complete mud system, how many sets agitator do we need? For oil and gas drilling, there are different configuration on tanks number, tanks size, so it's not easy to confirm. But we can take a system as an example. One mud system laying with 6 tanks, and tanks size are 9mX2.2mX2.3m. The normal proposal is 3 sets of agitator per tank. But there is a shaker tank, then we deduct 1 set. So, probably we need 17 sets of agitator. And the agitators are APM7.5 driven by 7.5kw motor.

Moreover, APMA series agitator are flexible on gear box and motor configuration. Such as worm and worm wheel  reducer, helical bevel reducer. The motor certified by IEC, ATEX, and so on