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Thermal Desorption Unit (Drill Cuttings, 2 TPH)
Location: Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Vulcan® Drying Systems personnel reconditioned and commissioned a plant for a client in Nigeria to remediate drill cuttings in a Vulcan Thermal Desorption Unit and Vapor Recovery System. The TDU's effort aims to reduce landfilling of drill cuttings and recycle diesel/oil based drilling fluids. The system was built around budgetary constraints of the customer, using reconditioned components primarily centered around a Metso Holo-Flite screw processor using hot oil as the heat transfer medium.
The system was designed to process 2 TPH of drill cuttings with oil-based drilling muds. The system uses No. 2 fuel oil fired burners.
Equipment Included:
- Feed Hopper
- Incline Screw Conveyor
- Discharge Screw Conveyor
- Primary Heat Transfer Unit
- Primary Combustion Blower
- Primary Fuel Pump
- Thermal Fluid Circulation Pump
- Portable Holo-Flite Heated Screw Desorber
- Vapor Condensing Tower
- Air Cooled Heat Exchanger
- Oil/Water Separator
- Quench Spray Pump
- Thermal Oxidizer
- Auxiliary Burner Fuel Pump
- Induced Draft Fan