Petroleum Drilling Mud Agitator's Structure, Operating Principles and Daily Maintenance

Oct 21, 2013

Drilling fluids mud agitator is to keep uniformity of the drilling fluids and prevent the deposition of the solid particles in the pot-type cyclic system to guarantee the stable performance of the drilling fluids.

Structure

The mud agitator is composed by explosion-proof electric machine, reducer, engine base and impeller components. The electric machine, reducer and impeller shaft are connected with each other by solid couplings. Four leaf blades were welded on each impeller.

Operating Principles

The impeller can strengthen the stirring effect by making vortex of the drilling fluids. The tray installed between the leaf blades can prevent the deposition of the solid particles when the machine stopped, thereby, to reduce the moment of resistance inflicted by the sediment to the impellers when restarting the equipment, therefore, to avoid burnout of the machine.
 

Mud Agitator
 

Daily Maintenance

Daily maintenance consists of checking gearbox oil level and oil condition and greasing gearbox bearings at required intervals.

Before operation, lubricate gearbox with worn gear oil or with worn gear oil. Verify that lubricant level in the gearbox reaches the bottom of the oil level plug.

Bearings should be cleaned and re-greased on the same schedule as oil changing. After cleaning, fill bearings to one-third of their free.

After 100 hours of initial start-up, clean gearbox inside, add new grease oil. Then lubricated at every 2500-hour interval.

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