Cuttings transportation in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration

Cuttings transportation in micro-borehole annulus in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration was studied. The effect of cuttings size and mud properties as well as hole inclination was simulated physically using a flow loop. Computational fluid dynamics was applied to simulate lab experiments...

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Main Author: Kamyab, Mohammadreza
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1279
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description Cuttings transportation in micro-borehole annulus in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration was studied. The effect of cuttings size and mud properties as well as hole inclination was simulated physically using a flow loop. Computational fluid dynamics was applied to simulate lab experiments and do sensitivity analysis of various parameters. The results show significant differences in cuttings transport response in mineral exploration comparing to the oil and gas drilling applications.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-12792017-02-20T06:40:18Z Cuttings transportation in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration Kamyab, Mohammadreza Cuttings transportation in micro-borehole annulus in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration was studied. The effect of cuttings size and mud properties as well as hole inclination was simulated physically using a flow loop. Computational fluid dynamics was applied to simulate lab experiments and do sensitivity analysis of various parameters. The results show significant differences in cuttings transport response in mineral exploration comparing to the oil and gas drilling applications. 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1279 en Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Kamyab, Mohammadreza
Cuttings transportation in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration
title Cuttings transportation in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration
title_full Cuttings transportation in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration
title_fullStr Cuttings transportation in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration
title_full_unstemmed Cuttings transportation in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration
title_short Cuttings transportation in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration
title_sort cuttings transportation in coiled tubing drilling for mineral exploration
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1279