Multi-Container Trailer for Unstabilized Drilling Waste
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing transport methods for unstabilized drilling waste are unsafe and inefficient, particularly due to the risk of spillage and environmental contamination, as they lack effective containment and segregation capabilities during transport and unloading, especially on challenging road conditions.
Innovation Solution
A transport trailer with multiple moon-shaped, V-shaped, or U-shaped container bodies, each capable of tilting for easy emptying, and a sealed lid section to prevent leakage, along with a frame and axle configuration that ensures stable weight distribution and secure transport, allowing for the safe movement of unstabilized drill cuttings containing liquids and solids.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If sealed end dump trailers are used to transport stabilized drill cuttings, then transport convenience and economy are improved, but safety risks increase due to potential spillage in accident conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The trailer is divided into multiple separate container bodies (first container, second container, etc.) instead of using a single large open-top container. Each container is independently sealed and can be separately secured, preventing catastrophic spillage if one container is compromised during transport accidents.
2Ease of operation
If open top sealed end dumps are used for transporting drill cuttings, then loading and unloading ease is improved, but environmental safety deteriorates due to potential leakage of flammable or toxic drilling mud
Solution Approach 1:
Each container body is equipped with a removable lid section that can be easily attached and detached. This flexible sealing mechanism allows for simple loading and unloading operations while maintaining a sealed environment during transport to prevent leakage of flammable or toxic drilling mud into the environment.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If multiple container bodies are used to improve safety and containment, then environmental protection is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The trailer employs multiple standardized container bodies that can be independently secured to the trailer frame. Each container is a self-contained unit with its own sealing mechanism, allowing for modular assembly that improves environmental protection while keeping individual container designs relatively simple and manageable.
4Productivity
If containers are designed to tilt for emptying, then unloading efficiency is improved, but structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Each container body is designed with the capability to tilt relative to the trailer frame, transforming from a static to a dynamic structure. This allows the container to be positioned at an angled orientation during unloading operations, enabling efficient emptying of drill cuttings while maintaining a simple sealed box structure when in the horizontal transport position.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution provides stable and spill-free transport of unstabilized drilling waste, maintaining regulatory compliance and environmental safety by preventing leakage and redistribution of weight during transit, enabling efficient unloading and segregation of different waste types at treatment facilities.
Implementation Method 1
each substantially moon shaped container body being able to be tilted along its length around a horizontal axis so as to empty the unstabilized drill cuttings comprising liquids and solids or cleaned drill cuttings substantially void of liquids from the container body
Data Source
AI summary
A transport trailer and method specifically adapted for safely transporting liquid containing unstabilized drilling waste from more than one waste generator or, multiple waste streams from one or more waste generators. Typically drilling waste is stabilized using binding agents like fly-ash, liquids absorbing pellets or sawdust. In many jurisdictions binding agents are required to stabilize the drill cuttings prior to transport. A sealed transport trailer comprising greater than one container on the transport trailer is described herein which is specifically designed, sized and positioned over a set of axles so as to provide for safe, non-spilling transport, and particular ease of emptying for unstabilized drilling waste.