The Ceramic Proppant is one of the most well known

The Ceramic Proppant is one of the most well known and also eco-friendly materials made of ceramic such as the sintered bauxite. It carries a much higher fracturing strength which is used with downhole support in order to provide a very efficient conduit for the fluid production from reservoir to wellbore that way adding output to gas and oil companies.This bauxite proppant comes from bauxite mixed with other additives that way the proppant has on its composition aluminium oxide, iron and silicate.It is a round shaped particle that is much better for fracturing of deep oil and also gas stratum with a lot of pressure. The rounder the better when it comes to withstanding higher amounts of pressure. This kind of proppant is also very good to make the conductivity go higher.When compared to other proppants,ceramic has a much smoother texture,higher fracturing hardness;it is acid proof and also alkali proof.

the new high-strength bauxite proppant

This paper discusses laboratory studies of the new high-strength bauxite proppant, describes field applications of the proppant, and summarizes factors affecting hydraulic fracture stimulation. The field results have shown that the benefits predicted from laboratory studies can be realized. Wide spread use of the new high-strength proppant is expected in the future.

MAIDE Ceramics Company has worked to develop high crush proppants.

MAIDE Ceramics Company has worked for several years to develop improved, high crush proppants. A wide variety of materials weretested in the laboratory under simulated reservoir conditions. One material,sintered bauxite proppant particles, showed greatly improved properties particles,showed greatly improved properties over any material available in the past andit has been field tested to date in 12 wells--all deeper than 10,000 ft.

Ceramic proppant demand for oil rising rapidly increasing

Petroleum proppant known as oil fracturing proppant . After deep mining at the oil and gas, high pressure low permeability Deposits closed after fracturing treatment, the rock cracked hydrocarbon, oil and gas passage from the cracks formed collection out, then need to inject fluid rock grassroots to exceed formation fracture pressure strength, so that cracks the rock around the wellbore to form a channel with a high-level flow capacity to keep the cracks open after fracturing the formation of oil and gas product can smoothly pass. Petroleum lightweight proppant along with high-pressure solution is filled into the formation in rock fissures, cracks do not play a supporting closed due to stress release effect, thereby maintaining high conductivity, so that oil and gas flow, increase production.

Oil fracturing proppant equipment, is summed up in the basis of our previous production of ceramic sand production line equipment, drawing on a number of technical advantages of domestic export enterprises ultra lightweight proppant used, and with Henan University and other key state institutions and laboratory cooperation, through each section of the production line equipment, structure, configuration, operation, improvement and optimization of testing and other aspects, so that oil fracturing proppant ceramic sand production equipment have greatly improved in quality, production, operating costs and so on. The ceramic sand production equipment to meet the production process of oil fracturing proppant suppliers products. Capable of producing anti-fragmentation and 69Mpa to 53Mpa conventional products, and anti-fragmentation of 86MPa and 102Mpa products, grain diameter of 0.2 ~ 0.9mm, in full compliance with Q / SH0051-2007 standards.

How to produce high-quality oil fracturing proppant

Oil fracturing proppant production process, increase the moisture in the spray granulation process required to evaporate the moisture also increase, which will cause the particles to form a small hole in its strength reduces water evaporation fracking process , while there will be particles of roundness unbalanced shape, that is not too small particles of irregular shape. Under the formula remains unchanged, if the water is less than the mud 20mas%, because the flow is too low and will not be out of the ball mill, ball mill will be trapped in the mud. Some will even out of stagnation in the pipe mill and mixing tank between, so that production can not be along the line; if the water is greater than the mud 28 mass%, so all of them can flow into the mud stirred tanks. However, due to excessive moisture, proppant production in spray granulation process smaller particles, about 90% of the particles between 0.1-0.2 mm, reach the next step process requirements, while extending the time required for dehydration, cause the particles are not completely dry falls splice apparatus, causing mutual bonding between the particles and the particles together to form larger irregular particles, can not play the advantages of spray granulation, under the influence of anterograde step process.

Ceramic proppant

The main raw materials are bauxite, while China is a country rich bauxite , bauxite distribution is highly concentrated, Shanxi, Guizhou, Henan and Guangxi in four provinces (regions ) ceramic proppant suppliers accounted for 90.9% of the total reserves of the country's total reserves ( Shanxi 41.6% , 17.1%, Guizhou , Henan, 16.7% , 15.5%, Guangxi ) , and the rest owned bauxite 15 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities accounted for only 9.1% of the total reserves of the country's total reserves. Chinese ceramic proppant manufactured good support for its ability to gradually replace conventional proppant sand, into the U.S. market . So far, the bauxite proppant Chinese -made ceramic proppant ceramic proppant has occupied the entire North American market share of 13% , the average annual business volume of $ 3 billion .