Cyclonic Desander

Sand and solids handling for all applications

Applications The cyclonic desander is a wellhead desander
■■ Post-frac flowback designed to remove solid particles from
■■ Shale gas completions hydrocarbon and water effluent during either
the early life of a well (well cleanup) or its
■■ Proppant removal
producing life (recovery of formation sand).
■■ Well head desanding The desander is also specifically designed
■■ Well cleanup and startup operations for flowback of effluent containing proppant
■■ Well intervention following a fracture treatment.
■■ Well stimulation The unit is positioned as close as possible to
the wellhead (upstream of the choke manifold)
Benefits
to intercept solids from high-velocity effluent
■■ Efficient cleanup operations with
streams before severe erosion occurs. During
advanced desanding capabilities
operation, the entire well stream is fed into
■■ Enhanced safety due to full wellhead the desander vessel, where separation takes
pressure rating place inside the cyclonic inserts. The separated
Features solids fall down into an accumulator, which
■■ Upstream solids removal can be isolated, depressurized, and flushed.
■■ Cyclonic separation of solids from effluent During this purging process, the desander can
■■ Protection of chokes, flowlines, be left online with solids collected in the holding
and manifolds from erosion space beneath the insert in the desander vessel.
These solids pass to the accumulator once it
■■ Removal of sand, proppant, perforation
is reopened to the process.
debris, and other contaminants
■■ Continuous operations Performance depends on effluent conditions
■■ Dual block and bleed isolation valves such as particle size distribution, effluent-to-
particle density contrast, effluent viscosity,
■■ Accumulator to collect captured solids
and inlet velocity. However, field results have
shown the device to be extremely durable
under a wide variety of operating conditions.

Cyclonic desander.
Cyclonic Desander
Specifications
CSRU-A SFCU-B SFCU-A
Service H2S H2S H2S
Fluid class DD DD DD
Working pressure, 10,000 [69] 10,000 [69] 5,000 [34]
psi [mPa]
Temperature, –20 to 350 [–28 to 177] –20 to 250 [–28 to 121] –4 to 250 [–20 to 121]
degF [degC]
Internal configuration 6- x 3-in cyclones Single cyclone Single cyclone
Online flushing capability Yes No Yes
Underflow cyclone capacity, L 98 30 0
Solids accumulator capacity, L 300 250 790
Connections
Fluid inlet 4-in Graylock 4-in Graylock 4-in Fig. 1002
Fluid outlet 4-in Fig. 1502 4-in Graylock 4-in Fig. 1002
Flushing water inlet 2-in Fig. 1502 2-in Fig. 1502 2-in Fig. 1502
Vent outlet 2-in Fig. 1502 2-in Fig. 1502 2-in Fig. 1502
Solids and water discharge 2-in Fig. 1502 3-in Fig. 1502 3-in Fig. 1502
Certifications
Design Type Approval, DVR† Type Approval, DVR Type Approval, DVR
Manufacturing CE CE CE
Documentation Quality file Quality file Quality file
Applicable Codes ASME‡ VIII Div. 2, ANSI b31.2, ASME VIII Div. 2, ANSI b31.2, ASME VIII Div. 2, ANSI b31.2,
H2S NACE MR0175, DNV§ 2-7.1 H2S NACE MR0175, DNV 2-7.1 H2S NACE MR0175, DNV 2-7.1
Weight and Dimensions
Footprint, ft [m] 8.0 x 9.2 [2.4 x 2.8] 16.1 x 8.2 [4.9 x 2.5] 9.5 × 7.3 [2.9 × 2.2]
Height, ft [m] 24 [7.2] 22 [6.7] 22 [6.7]
Weight, lbm [kg] 52,911 [24,000] 37,479 [17,000] 26,400 [12,000]
† Design Verification Review
‡ American Society of Mechanical Engineers
§ Det Norske Veritas

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