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Simulation of wellbore drilling energy saving of nanofluids using an experimental taylor–couette flow system

Rashidi, M ; Sharif University of Technology | 2021

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1007/s13202-021-01227-w
  3. Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V , 2021
  4. Abstract:
  5. Power consumption of wellbore drilling in oil and gas exploitations count for 40% of total costs, hence power saving of WBM (water-based mud) by adding different concentrations of Al2O3, TiO2 and SiO2 nanoparticles is investigated here. A high-speed Taylor–Couette system (TCS) was devised to operate at speeds 0–1600 RPM to simulate power consumption of wellbore drilling using nanofluids in laminar to turbulent flow conditions. The TCS control unit uses several sensors to record current, voltage and rotational speed and Arduino microprocessors to process outputs including rheological properties and power consumption. Total power consumption of the TCS was correlated with a second-order polynomial function of rotational speed for different nanofluids, and the correlated parameters were found using an optimization technique. For the first time, energy saving of three nanofluids at four low volume concentrations 0.05, 0.1, 0.5 and 1% is investigated in the TCS simulating wellbore drilling operation. It is interesting to observe that the lower concentration nanofluids (0.05%) have better power savings. In average, for the lower concentration nanofluids (0.05%), power was saved by 39%, 30% and 26% for TiO2, Al2O3 and SiO2 WBM nanofluids, respectively. TiO2 nanofluids have better power saving at lower concentrations of 0.05 and 0.1%, while Al2O3 nanofluids have saved more power at higher concentrations of 0.5 and 1.0% compared with their counterpart nanofluids. © 2021, The Author(s)
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  7. Alumina ; Aluminum oxide ; Boreholes ; Electric power utilization ; Energy conservation ; Infill drilling ; Oil field equipment ; Oil wells ; Oxide minerals ; Silica ; Silica nanoparticles ; Silicon ; SiO2 nanoparticles ; Tantalum compounds ; TiO2 nanoparticles ; Titanium dioxide ; Correlated parameters ; Drilling operation ; Optimization techniques ; Rheological property ; Second-order polynomial ; Total power consumption ; Volume concentration ; Water-based muds ; Nanofluidics
  8. Source: Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production ; Volume 11, Issue 7 , 2021 , Pages 2963-2979 ; 21900558 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13202-021-01227-w