Drill cuttings treatment system
AssigneeConfluence Energy, LLC
InventorMark Joseph Mathis
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure also involved a method of processing waste, such as drill cuttings, involving the operations of receiving a waste material comprising a liquid material and a solid material, the waste material received directly from a source wherein the waste material is warm. The source may be a drilling operation and the waste material may be drill cuttings from the drilling operation. The method further involving pumping the warm waste material to a separation mechanism, such as a dryer, that separates a portion of the solid material (e.g., cuttings) from a portion of the liquid material (e.g., drilling fluid). The method may further involve mixing the separated solid material with a bioremediation agent.
Claims22
A drill cuttings treatment system comprising:
- a drill cuttings separation mechanism configured to separate a fluid from drill cuttings;
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- a mixing mechanism configured to receive a bioremediation agent including wood particles derived from a mountain pine beetle-infected wood source, and mix the bioremediation agent with the separated drill cuttings.
A method of processing waste comprising:
- receiving a waste material comprising a fluid material and a solid material, the waste material received directly from a source wherein the waste material is warm;
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- pumping the warm waste material to a separation mechanism that separates a portion of the solid material from a portion of the fluid material.
A waste treatment apparatus comprising:
- a mobile platform;
- a sink supported on the mobile platform, the sink configured to received waste material;
- a conveyance mechanism coupled with the sink for receiving waste material from the sink, the conveyance mechanism moving the waste material to a separator;
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- the separator receiving the waste material and separating a portion of fluid waste from solid waste, the solid waste being deposited in a storage bin portion of the mobile platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.