Functions & Applications of Mud Gun

Jul 04, 2012

READ: KOSUN MG Mud Gun mainly jets drilling fluids with high pressure inside mud tanks, in a bid to avert depositing solid phase at each corner of mud tank and pump inlets, and to deliver drilling fluids amongst compartments.

KOSUN MG Mud Gun mainly jets drilling fluids with high pressure inside mud tanks, in a bid to avert depositing solid phase at each corner of mud tank and pump inlets, and to deliver drilling fluids amongst compartments.

So far, both domestic and foreign companies have applied rectangular circulating tanks for better installation and more flexible movement, but even the most capable mud agitator won’t be able to reach the difficult corners. For this reason, the tanks outside China are equipped with nozzled low-pressure hydraulic mixing pipelines while, at home, the problem is being tackled with the assistance of mud gun placed on top of tanks.

Though hydraulic mixing pipelines can reach the corners difficult for mechanical agitators, much interlocked pipelines may also break the convection current generated by agitator, accelerate its power and hampers the cleaning of setting sand. That is why no such pipelines are found in circulating tanks yet.

As far as the research demonstrates, it works effectively between depths of 1.5~2.7m and its size varies with mud densities, viscosities and nozzle velocities. Mud gun has found limited application since, as an auxiliary device for mechanical agitating equipment, it cannot stop solid phase from suspending. The mobile mud gun installed on top of tanks needs adjusting at any time, which though will not make it easier to reach the difficult corners. Besides, with solid phase already deposited, mud gun will easily clump that and block tricone nozzles or damage drilling pump.