It is possible by:
df['duration1'] = df['duration'].astype(str).str[-18:-10]
But solution is not general, if input is 3 days 05:01:11 it remove 3 days too.
So solution working only for timedeltas less as one day correctly.
More general solution is create custom format:
N = 10
np.random.seed(11230)
rng = pd.date_range('2017-04-03 15:30:00', periods=N, freq='13.5H')
df = pd.DataFrame({'duration': np.abs(np.random.choice(rng, size=N) -
np.random.choice(rng, size=N)) })
df['duration1'] = df['duration'].astype(str).str[-18:-10]
def f(x):
ts = x.total_seconds()
hours, remainder = divmod(ts, 3600)
minutes, seconds = divmod(remainder, 60)
return ('{}:{:02d}:{:02d}').format(int(hours), int(minutes), int(seconds))
df['duration2'] = df['duration'].apply(f)
print (df)
duration duration1 duration2
0 2 days 06:00:00 06:00:00 54:00:00
1 2 days 19:30:00 19:30:00 67:30:00
2 1 days 03:00:00 03:00:00 27:00:00
3 0 days 00:00:00 00:00:00 0:00:00
4 4 days 12:00:00 12:00:00 108:00:00
5 1 days 03:00:00 03:00:00 27:00:00
6 0 days 13:30:00 13:30:00 13:30:00
7 1 days 16:30:00 16:30:00 40:30:00
8 0 days 00:00:00 00:00:00 0:00:00
9 1 days 16:30:00 16:30:00 40:30:00