GN Mud tanks are widely used in solids control area, although the functions might seems quite resemble which are to storage the muds or wastes for different separation steps, all of these tanks play a vital important role in solids control.
Today we would like to share some info on how to design a GN mud tank roughly in a fast way.
To design a GN mud tank, we need to know the way that our customer going to transport in their region or the ship method to their country. Usually there are different land transportation limits in various countries, so these limitations are the first numbers we need to discuss with our customers. But all of these limitations are must be within a container.
So the second thing need to consider is the sea transport way. Will the solids equipment be put into container? Will the equipment be designed to the same size as the container? Or will the equipment be shipped in bulk? Depend on different shipping methods, the tank can be designed into different limited sizes.
If the tank is put into a container, the largest width is 2250 mm (including sand cleaning doors and lifting lugs); If the tank is designed as a standard container, than the largest width is 2588 mm; Or if the tank is a large capacity tank, the largest width is 2950 mm.
For all these tanks, we usually designed them with integer number, from 4m to 12m. It’s better the length is not beyond 13.5 m. If the tank (length is 6m) is made into 20 feet container, the length should be 6058mm; while for tank (length is 12m) is made into a 40 feet container, the length is 12192mm. Skid-mounted tanks should plus 250mm in both ends of the tank (which is 500mm in total), the final length is with 0.5m.
More details, we’ll share with you in our next blog.