Drilling Equipment for Hard Rock Drilling TCI Tricone Drill Bit

Drilling Equipment For Hard Rock Drilling TCI Tricone Drill Bit
 
Roller cone bit consists of a bit body with three moveable conical rollers equipped with cemented carbide inserts. The idea is the crush the rock by rolling the inserts against the rock with appropriate rotation speed and feed force. Three types of cemented carbide inserts are used for roller type bits being Chisel, Conical, and Hemispherical. Carbide inserts are distributed over the three rollers in such a manner that the entire bottom of the hole is worked on when the drill bit is rotated.  Roller bits for hard and abrasive rock generally have spherical cemented carbide inserts closely spaced. Roller bits for softer rock may have the chisel and conical carbide teeth or quality milled steel teeth as the cutters. A roller bit will utilize nozzles from which the compressed air escapes to lift the cuttings from the bottom of the hole.
IADC 6 SERIES DRILL BITS The medium formation TCI tricone bits features aggressive chisel tungsten carbide inserts on the heel rows and inner rows. This design provides a fast drilling rate and added cutting structure durability in medium to medium hard for mations. The HSN rubber O-ring provides adequate sealing for bearing durability. IADC 6 SERIES DRILL BITS These bits are used to drill high-compressive strength, medium hard formations. A small amount of cone offset and low insert projection is used to prevent cutting structure damage when hard streaks are encountered. Increased numbers of blunter, smaller diameter inserts are used to increase life in harder, more abrasive formations.
Application
Tricone drill bit is the best all-purpose drill bit and can be used for many different types of rock formations, such as Soft Rock Formations (consist mainly of sand, clay, limestone or shale), Medium Rock Formations (calcites, dolomites, hard limestones, and some hard shale), Hard and Abrasive Formation (hard shale, calcites, mudstones, chert, pyrite, granite, quartzite, and cherty lime stones).