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Is the total solubility of fracturing sand acid consistently exceeding standards? Check these five pieces of equipment

2026-06-30

Petroleum fracturing proppants have strict requirements for the roundness, acid solubility, and turbidity indicators of quartz sand. Shanlu Heavy Industry provides specialized production line equipment for fracturing sand, including crushing and shaping, grading and screening, magnetic separation, flotation, and drying. It is suitable for the production of fracturing sand with specifications such as 20-40 mesh and 40-70 mesh, and meets the requirements of SY/T5108 standard.

Taking the typical fracturing sand dry processing process route as an example: the raw ore is roughly crushed by jaw crusher and then sent to ZSL vertical sand making machine for fine crushing and shaping. The equipment adopts the principle of stone crushing and crushing, with the discharge particle size controlled within the range of 0.5-4.5mm, and the finished sand particle shape is cubic with a roundness of over 0.7. The crushed material is sent to the YBF square swing screen for precise classification through a bucket elevator. The screening machine designed by Shanlu Heavy Industry adopts flat rotary motion, with a screening efficiency of over 95%, and can separate multiple specifications of products such as 20-40 mesh, 40-70 mesh, 70-140 mesh at once. The coarse particles on the sieve are returned to the sand making machine for further crushing, while the fine powder on the sieve is collected as a by-product.

The graded coarse sand often contains iron and heavy mineral impurities, which affect the acid solubility index. Shanlu Heavy Industry is equipped with CTB permanent magnet drum wet magnetic separator in the production line for iron removal pretreatment. This device uses rare earth neodymium iron boron magnetic material, with a magnetic field strength of 4000Gs on the cylinder surface, which can effectively adsorb strong magnetic particles such as magnetite and hematite, and control the Fe ₂ O3 content of the sand material below 150ppm. After magnetic separation, the sand material enters the LXS spiral chute for re-election, using the difference in specific gravity to separate heavy minerals such as garnet and zircon, further reducing the content of acid insoluble substances.

For mineral sources with high silicate impurities such as feldspar and mica, Shanlu Heavy Industry introduced SCF flotation machine for flotation impurity removal. Flotation uses amine collectors to raise impurities such as feldspar under acidic or neutral pH conditions, leaving quartz at the bottom of the tank. After flotation, the feldspar content in the sand material significantly decreases, and the acid solubility can be reduced from 8% -10% to below 5%, meeting the requirements of first-class fracturing sand. After dehydration, the flotation fine sand is sent to the HGS triple pass drum dryer for drying treatment. This dryer is composed of three concentric cylinder sets, with a long material travel and sufficient heat exchange. Its thermal efficiency is about 30% higher than that of a single cylinder dryer. The moisture content of the discharged material can be controlled within 0.5% to meet the requirements of packaging, storage, and transportation.

After drying, the sand material enters the YBF square swing screen for final re screening to ensure that the particle size distribution of the finished product strictly meets the requirements of the standard range. The products that pass the re screening are measured, packaged and stored by an automatic packaging machine.

Shanlu Heavy Industry is located in Shandong and has over 20 years of experience in designing and manufacturing mining machinery. Its products cover a full range of categories including crushing, screening, magnetic separation, gravity separation, flotation, drying, and grading. Shanlu Heavy Industry can provide customized services from single machine selection to whole line integration based on the characteristics of the customer's original sand and mineral source and the requirements of fracturing sand indicators.

In terms of equipment details, the hammer head of the ZSL sand making machine is made of high chromium wear-resistant alloy, which extends its service life; YBF swing screen mesh tensioning device achieves rapid screen replacement; The CTB magnetic separator cylinder is coated with wear-resistant stainless steel to prevent slurry erosion; The SCF flotation machine impeller is covered with a wear-resistant rubber layer; The HGS dryer has good sealing at the inlet and outlet ends, with low heat loss. These designs reduce the daily maintenance costs for customers.

If you need equipment parameters or incoming material test data for the fracturing sand production line, please call Manager Zhang at 13583776655 (same as WeChat).


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