Vibratory separator and separating method

• Main Authors: Koederitz, William Leo, Guggari Mallappa Ishwarappa, Mcclung III, Guy, Lamonte, Scott, Eric, Smith, George Edward, Stone, Lyndon Ray, Padalino, Norman, Mcdonough, Kevin, Seyffert, Kenneth, Wayne
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 22.05.2019
• Subjects: EARTH DRILLING; EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS; MINING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR ASLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS; OTHER SEPARATING BY DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL,e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SEPARATION; SEPERATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, ORSIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SORTING; TRANSPORTING

A drilling rig having a vibratory separator for separating solids from solids laden drilling mud and a system for managing vibratory separators, wherein vibratory separator comprises monitoring and analyzing apparatus for monitoring and analyzing a plurality of signals from a plurality of sensors and for transmitting signals indicative of information related to operation of the vibratory separator to a processor on the drilling rig, the processor including a set of health check rules for health checks comprising logical rules, inputs and outputs for defining events associated with the status of the vibratory separator, the processor for determining a severity code for each event and for reporting the events and severity codes to a central server, the events reported by the processor to the central server in a protocol defining a data structure, the data structure comprising a hierarchical tree node structure wherein results from application of the health check rules are a bottommost node of the tree node structure, and displaying the event severity codes on a display.