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Fundamentals and Physical Principles for Drilled Cuttings Transport—Cuttings Bed Sedimentation and Erosion. ENERGIES 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/en14030545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The increasing necessity of challenging wellbore structures and drilling optimization for improved hole cuttings cleaning has been growing along time. As a result, operator companies have been researching and applying different hole cleaning techniques. Some of these are applied as traditional rules of thumb but are not always suitable for the new and up-coming challenges. This may result in inefficient hole cleaning, non-productive times, pipe stocking and low rate of penetration (ROP), among other problems. Here are presented some results and improvements for hole cleaning optimization obtained by the different research groups. The different authors mainly focus on specific cuttings transport parameters and sometimes combination of some of them. For this reason, there has not been a study that takes into account all of the different factors at the same time to accurately predict the cuttings bed height, formation and erosion, critical fluid velocity and properties and other key parameters. Consequently, there is a lack of understanding about the relation between different factors, such as the cohesiveness of the drilled cuttings with the different interstitial drilling fluids within the cuttings-bed. This relation can be analyzed establishing a wet-granular approach to obtain more efficient cuttings transport mechanism in challenging conditions.
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Effect of the Particle Size on the Near-Wall Turbulence Characteristics of the Polymer Fluid Flow and the Critical Velocity Required for Particle Removal from the Sand Bed Deposited in Horizontal Wells. ENERGIES 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/en13123172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Water-based polymer drilling fluids are commonly used for drilling long horizontal wells where eliminating the drilling fluid-related formation damage and minimizing the environmental impact of the drilling fluids are the main concerns. An experimental study was conducted to investigate the turbulent flow of a polymer fluid over a stationary sand bed deposited in a horizontal pipeline. The main objectives of the study were to determine the effects of sand particle size on the critical velocity required for the onset of the bed erosion and the near-wall turbulence characteristics of the polymer fluid flow over the sand bed. Industrial sand particles having three different size ranges (20/40, 30/50, 40/70) were used for the experiments. The particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique was used to determine instantaneous local velocity distributions and near-wall turbulence characteristics (such as Reynolds stress, axial and turbulence intensity profiles) of the polymer fluid flow over the stationary sand bed under turbulent flow conditions. The critical velocity for the onset of the particle removal from a stationary sand bed using a polymer fluid flow was affected by the sand particle size. The critical velocity required for the particle removal from the bed deposits did not change monotonously with the changing particle size. When polymer fluids were used for hole cleaning, the particle size effect on the critical velocity varied (i.e., critical velocity increased or decreased) depending on the relative comparison of the sand particle size with respect to the thickness of the viscous sublayer under turbulent flow condition.
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Soepyan FB, Cremaschi S, Sarica C, Subramani HJ, Kouba GE, Gao H. Estimation of percentiles using the Kriging method for uncertainty propagation. Comput Chem Eng 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2016.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Soepyan FB, Cremaschi S, McLaury BS, Sarica C, Subramani HJ, Kouba GE, Gao H. Threshold velocity to initiate particle motion in horizontal and near-horizontal conduits. POWDER TECHNOL 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2016.01.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Data clustering for model-prediction discrepancy reduction – A case study of solids transport in oil/gas pipelines. Comput Chem Eng 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2015.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Soepyan FB, Cremaschi S, Sarica C, Subramani HJ, Kouba GE. Solids transport models comparison and fine-tuning for horizontal, low concentration flow in single-phase carrier fluid. AIChE J 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.14255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
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- Dept. of Chemical Engineering; The University of Tulsa; Tulsa OK 74104
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- McDougall School of Petroleum Engineering; The University of Tulsa; Tulsa OK 74104
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- Production Systems & Flow Assurance, Chevron Energy Technology Company; Houston TX 77002
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Pan Y, Si F, Xu Z, Romero CE. An integrated theoretical fouling model for convective heating surfaces in coal-fired boilers. POWDER TECHNOL 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2011.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Rabinovich E, Kalman H. Threshold velocities of particle-fluid flows in horizontal pipes and ducts: literature review. REV CHEM ENG 2011. [DOI: 10.1515/revce.2011.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Zhou MY, Chu LY, Chen WM, Ju XJ. Flow and aggregation characteristics of thermo-responsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) spheres during the phase transition. Chem Eng Sci 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Ramadan A, Skalle P, Saasen A. Application of a three-layer modeling approach for solids transport in horizontal and inclined channels. Chem Eng Sci 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Comments on “A mechanistic model to determine the critical flow velocity required to initiate the movement of spherical bed particles in inclined channels” by A. Ramadan, P. Skalle and S.T. Johansen (Chemical Engineering Science 2003, 58, 2153–2163). Chem Eng Sci 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.03.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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