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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2018
M-i L.l.c., Houston, TX (US);
Bradley N. Jones, Crestview Hills, KY (US);
Brian Carr, Houston, TX (US);
Mark R. Jolly, Raleigh, NC (US);
Russ Altieri, Cary, NC (US);
Anthony Hunter, Cary, NC (US);
M-I L.L.C., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and vibratory separators having a base, a separator housing movably connected with the base, the separator housing including a top having an inlet chute, a bottom having a liquid discharge chute, a cylindrical sidewall defining an axial centerline and having a discharge spout, and at least one screen mounted within the separator housing. A vacuum system proximate the at least one screen may also be incorporated. The apparatus further includes at least one circular force generator (CFG) disposed on the separator housing, and at least one sensor positioned on the apparatus for measuring an operating function associated with and enabled by the vibration profile, and a controller in electronic communication with the sensor and with the at least one CFG. The difference between the measured operating function and the prescribed operating function is reduced. The apparatus may also include at least one CFG having a plurality of imbalanced masses which rotate in a plane parallel the axial centerline. The CFG may be disposed in an annular ring arrangement on the top, on the bottom, or CFGs disposed on both the top and the bottom.