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With the increasing exploitation of shale gas year by year, the amount of oil-based drilling cuttings that need to be treated is also increasing. Oil-based drilling cuttings are hazardous solid wastes, and their disposal costs account for a large proportion of drilling costs. To reduce the drilling cost, simplify the disposal process and reduce the safety risks caused by the transfer of oil-based drilling cuttings, the author’s team designed a skid-mounted high-temperature plasma gasification and melting treatment system and device. Each module of the system and its operating principle are introduced, and the structure design and heat transfer calculation of the key devices are carried out. At the same time, part of the experimental results of the system are checked. It is concluded that the calorific value of syngas produced by the system is 266844 kcal/h, which accounts for 81% of the calorific value of the input fuel.
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Wu, Sc. et al. (2022). Application and System of High-Temperature Plasma Gasification and Melting Treatment of Oil-Based Drill Cuttings. In: Lin, J. (eds) Proceedings of the International Field Exploration and Development Conference 2021. IFEDC 2021. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2149-0_339
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