scholarly journals Study on the Effect of the Oil-Water Ratio on the Rheological Properties of Hydroxyethyl Cellulose (HEC)

Geofluids ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Su ◽  
Zhanghua Lian ◽  
Yuan Yuan

Hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) is widely used in water-base drilling fluid as tackifier because of its good fluidity, stability, prop-carrying capacity, and good reservoir protection, while it has insufficient rheological property under higher temperature. In order to make use of its advantages and improve thermal stability, an innovative method that HEC was dissolved in the emulsion was proposed. Research indicated that compared with traditional water solution, the oil-water emulsion as solution could effectively improve the rheological properties and thermal stability. The oil-water ratio has an obvious effect on rheological properties. Firstly, with the decrease in the oil-water ratio, the apparent viscosity and shear stress were decreased; secondly, under constant oil-water ratio or temperature, the larger the shear rate, the lower the apparent viscosity, and the greater the shear strength; lastly under extremely low shear rate, HEC emulsion’s viscosity peaked at more than 50000 mPa·s, which can effectively solve the problem of sand carrying difficulty and being easy to form sand bed in horizontal well and high angle hole. In addition, the emulsifying stability was degradative with the increase in the oil-water ratio. The degradation was not obvious when the oil-water ratio was less than 30 : 70. On the contrary, the performance deteriorated drastically when the oil-water ratio was greater than 30 : 70. The separator liquid was more than 2 cm and was even about 1/3 when the oil-water was 50 : 50. On the basis of analysis of the experimental results, we can see that oil-water emulsion could effectively improve the rheological stability and thermal stability of HEC and the optimal oil-water ratio was 30 : 70. This study provided a new thought for application of HEC or other polymers in drilling fluid.

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinliang Liu ◽  
Fengshan Zhou ◽  
Fengyi Deng ◽  
Hongxing Zhao ◽  
Zhongjin Wei ◽  
...  

Abstract Most of bentonite used in modern drilling engineering is physically and chemically modified calcium bentonite. However, with the increase of drilling depth, the bottom hole temperature may reach 180 °C, thus a large amount of calcium bentonite used in the drilling fluid will be unstable. This paper covers three kinds of calcium bentonite with poor rheological properties at high temperature, such as apparent viscosity is greater than 45 mPa·s or less than 10 mPa·s, API filtration loss is greater than 25 mL/30 min, which are diluted type, shear thickening type and low-shear type, these defects will make the rheological properties of drilling fluid worse. The difference is attributed to bentonite mineral composition, such as montmorillonite with good hydration expansion performance. By adding three kinds of heat-resistant water-soluble copolymers Na-HPAN (hydrolyzed polyacrylonitrile sodium), PAS (polycarboxylate salt) and SMP (sulfomethyl phenolic resin), the rheological properties of calcium bentonite drilling fluids can be significantly improved. For example, the addition of 0.1 wt% Na-HPAN and 0.1 wt% PAS increased the apparent viscosity of the XZJ calcium bentonite suspension from 4.5 to 19.5 mPa·s at 180 °C, and the filtration loss also decreased from 20.2 to 17.8 mL.


Soft Matter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (34) ◽  
pp. 8002-8012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah M. H. Weijgertze ◽  
Willem K. Kegel ◽  
Michele Zanini

The use of rough and heterogeneous colloids as Pickering stabilizers fundamentally alters the properties of particle stabilized emulsions. Systematic variations in the emulsification shear rate, oil/water ratio and particle type reveal the influence of particle heterogeneity on the formation and formulation of emulsions.


Author(s):  
G. Shulga ◽  
V. Shakels ◽  
S. Skudra ◽  
V. Bogdanovs

The effect of softwood sulphate lignin modified by its oxidation in alkaline medium on its behaviour at the air-water and oil-water interface, where rapeseed oil and technical fish fat oil served as the oil phase, was investigated. It has been found that, irrespective of the рН values of the water solution, the ability of the modified lignin to be adsorbed at the interfaces exceeds that of unmodified lignin, which is obviously caused by the pronounced differentiation of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts of the molecular structure in the oxidised lignin and the decrease in the content of the high-molecular fraction (Mw is greater than 1000) in it. At low concentrations (≤ 0.01 g/dl), the stabilising action of the modified lignin in the rapeseed oil-water emulsion is the same as that of sodium dodecyl sulphate. The enhanced surface activity of the oxidised sulphate lignin enables it not only to substitute the 30% of the mass of the commercial surfactant in the detergent composition for washing stainless steel plates, used during fish smoking, but also to upgrade its properties.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Abdelgawad ◽  
Salaheldin Elkatatny ◽  
Tamer Moussa ◽  
Mohamed Mahmoud ◽  
Shirish Patil

The rheological properties of the drilling fluid play a key role in controlling the drilling operation. Knowledge of drilling fluid rheological properties is very crucial for drilling hydraulic calculations required for hole cleaning optimization. Measuring the rheological properties during drilling sometimes is a time-consuming process. Wrong estimation of these properties may lead to many problems, such as pipe sticking, loss of circulation, and/or well control issues. The aforementioned problems increase the non-productive time and the overall cost of the drilling operations. In this paper, the frequent drilling fluid measurements (mud density, Marsh funnel viscosity (MFV), and solid percent) are used to estimate the rheological properties of bentonite spud mud. Artificial neural network (ANN) technique was combined with the self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm (SaDe) to develop an optimum ANN model for each rheological property using 1029 data points. The SaDe helped to optimize the best combination of parameters for the ANN models. For the first time, based on the developed ANN models, empirical equations are extracted for each rheological parameter. The ANN models predicted the rheological properties from the mud density, MFV, and solid percent with high accuracy (average absolute percentage error (AAPE) less than 5% and correlation coefficient higher than 95%). The developed apparent viscosity model was compared with the available models in the literature using the unseen dataset. The SaDe-ANN model outperformed the other models which overestimated the apparent viscosity of the spud drilling fluid. The developed models will help drilling engineers to predict the rheological properties every 15–20 min. This will help to optimize hole cleaning and avoid pipe sticking and loss of circulation where bentonite spud mud is used. No additional equipment or special software is required for applying the new method.


2011 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 282-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Chen ◽  
Guang Sheng Zeng ◽  
Ping Jiang ◽  
Wei Lu ◽  
Wei Long Huang

EVA was added into PC/PLA blends as a modifier for improving the impact strength of blends, and meanwhile the thermal properties and rheological properties of blends should also be influenced. PC/PLA/EVA blends were prepared by melt blending and the catalyst DBTO was added into the blends in blending process to catalyze the transesterification of PC and EVA for improving the compatibility of blends. The effects of blend composition and transesterification on the thermal and rheological properties of blends were investigated. The results showed that the addition of EVA could improve the crystallinity of PLA in PC/PLA/EVA blends but had little influence on the thermal stability of blends,and the transesterification was beneficial to both the crystallization of PLA and thermal stability of blends. The addition of EVA and the transesterification of PC and EVA increased the apparent viscosity of blends, while the apparent viscosity of blends decreased drastically and the pseudo-plasticity characteristic of blend melts was weakened obviously with increasing PLA content and rising temperature.


TAPPI Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 601-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
JORGE H. SÁNCHEZ ◽  
GERMÁN C. QUINTANA ◽  
MERY E. FAJARDO

Rheological properties, such as yield stress and apparent viscosity, of pulp suspensions of bleached sugarcane bagasse were studied in a stress-shear rate controlled rheometer using concentric cylinders geometry. Results were statistically analyzed and presented as a function of the suspension consistency (0.5% ≤ Cm ≤ 4.0%) and temperature (20°C, 40°C, and 60°C). The yield stress was influenced by the consistency and temperature. The apparent viscosity was influenced only by the consistency. A power law model was fitted to the experimental results of yield stress. In flow tests, all the suspensions showed shear-thinning behavior, which was in agreement with the Carreau-Yasuda model.


2013 ◽  
Vol 747 ◽  
pp. 627-630
Author(s):  
Watcharapong Chookaew ◽  
Yanichsa Sukniyom ◽  
Somjate Patcharaphun ◽  
Narongrit Sombatsompop

The influences of shear rate and vulcanizing system on the rheological properties and melt fracture of natural rubber compounds were investigated by using a rate-controlled capillary rheometer. The rheological properties of rubber compounds were characterized with respect to the apparent viscosity and extrudate swell. The measured results indicated that the apparent viscosity tended to decrease with increasing shear rate. This was due to the pseudoplastic behavior of molten rubber compound. It was evident that rubber compound using EV system showed the lowest apparent viscosity as compared to those obtained by CV and NS systems, respectively. This was due to the occurrences of premature crosslink at the skin layer and the wall slip of rubber compound during the flow in capillary die. Furthermore, the onset of smooth surface was also observed which depending on the types of crosslink at the skin layer.


2005 ◽  
Vol 488-489 ◽  
pp. 333-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Li ◽  
X.W. Zhou ◽  
J.Y. Chen

In this paper a rheological model is presented which describes the rheological behaviors of liquid-like semisolid magnesium alloy under a simple shearing flow. On the basis of Chen and Fan’s mono-dispersion microstructure model of semisolid metal slurry, the particle size distribution is considered in this model. It is believed that it is the state of agglomeration which determines the rheological behaviors of the slurry, whereas the external flow conditions such as shear rate and shearing time, affect the rheological properties by changing the state of agglomeration. The expressions of collision rate between two agglomerates, effective solid fraction and the formula of apparent viscosity of Chen and Fan’s model are corrected according to the experimental results and statistical mechanics. Finally calculated apparent viscosity and the average number of the particles of AZ91D by the developed model as functions of shear rate are presented. These results show that there is a one to one coupling between the rheological properties of the magnesium alloy slurries and the state of the agglomeration.


2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 1113-1120
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Denka Kariyama ◽  
Xiaodong Zhai ◽  
Binxin Wu

Abstract. This literature review was conducted on the physical and rheological properties of animal manure slurries and their applications. The review revealed the importance of these properties in the design of anaerobic treatment plants, pipe systems to transport slurries to treatment and storage units, and other applications and management of raw and treated slurries. The selection of pumping and mixing equipment and their power requirements, the flow behavior, mass, and heat transfer, the quality of mixing, pressure head loss, and other applications of manure slurries are affected by the physical and rheological properties. The review shows that manure slurries generally exhibit non-Newtonian pseudoplastic fluid behavior with a decreasing apparent viscosity as the shear rate increases and that the power law equation can successfully be used to describe the relationship between shear stress and shear rate, especially for low total solids concentrations. Keywords: Animal manure slurries, Apparent viscosity, Non-Newtonian pseudoplastic fluids, Power law equation, Rheological properties.


PETRO ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Widia Yanti ◽  
Abdul Hamid ◽  
Ibnu Badar Bajri

<p>The unidealized of physical and rheological mud can occured when drilling on rock layers with high salt concentrations. It is therefore necessary to add an additive to balance the effect of the salt. The aims of this study is to see the effect of salt addition on various temperature drilling mud.</p><p>This research will use two types of mud with different oil-water ratio. The drilling mud will be divided into four compositions, ie LA, LB, LC, and LD. LA and LC compositions have an oil-water ratio of 80% oil and 20% fresh water. While LB and LD compositions have oil-water ratio of 75% oil and 25% fresh water. Then the study was conducted at various temperatures, ie 80 °F, 130 °F, 180 °F, 230 °F, 280 °F, and 330 °F. After observing of the physical properties and rheology of drilling mud, it was found that the effect of adding salt NaCl can improve the physical and rheological properties of mud such as density, viscosity, gel strengh, mud cake, and solid content. Conversely, the effect of adding NaCl salt may reduce the nature of electrical stability. While the increasing of the temperature can reduce the physical and rheological properties of mud and on the contrary the loss of water and mud cake will increase.</p>


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