Best Shaker Screens for High-Volume Drilling Fluid Shale Shaker Applications
What makes high-volume jobs different High flow rate means less time for drilling fluid to sit on the screen. Fine solids blind the mesh fast. Fluid can overflow before solids get removed. If the primary shale shaker doesn't do its job, everything downstream,hydrocyclones, centrifuges,gets overloaded. Fluid cost goes up. Waste volume goes up. API Shaker Screen by TR Solids Control A good shaker screen for high-volume work has to handle three things at once: flow capacity, separation efficiency, and durability. Miss any one, and your whole solids control system pays for it. API RP 13C is not optional Forget old mesh counts. API RP 13C (ISO 13501) requires screens to be labeled with real numbers: D100 cut point, conductance, and non-blanked open area. If your shaker screen supplier isn't API RP 13C compliant, you can't compare screens from different brands. You're flying blind. How to pick the mesh Coarse screens (API 20–40): high flow rate, good for top-hole drilling wit...