Experimental Study of Cuttings Transport in Coiled Tube Micro-Borehole Drilling
This research presented an experimental study of the cuttings transport in vertical micro boreholes. The cuttings settling and transport velocities were obtained under various conditions of cuttings (size, concentration) and fluid properties (flow rate, rheology) and annulus geometry. The results sh...
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Curtin University
2018
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| author | Zhang, Hongyang |
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| description | This research presented an experimental study of the cuttings transport in vertical micro boreholes. The cuttings settling and transport velocities were obtained under various conditions of cuttings (size, concentration) and fluid properties (flow rate, rheology) and annulus geometry. The results showed that it is inaccurate to predict the cuttings transport velocity based on the cuttings settling velocity. The lab results were compared with a series of field tests in both vertical annulus and curved pipe. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-683652018-06-20T05:20:21Z Experimental Study of Cuttings Transport in Coiled Tube Micro-Borehole Drilling Zhang, Hongyang This research presented an experimental study of the cuttings transport in vertical micro boreholes. The cuttings settling and transport velocities were obtained under various conditions of cuttings (size, concentration) and fluid properties (flow rate, rheology) and annulus geometry. The results showed that it is inaccurate to predict the cuttings transport velocity based on the cuttings settling velocity. The lab results were compared with a series of field tests in both vertical annulus and curved pipe. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68365 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Zhang, Hongyang Experimental Study of Cuttings Transport in Coiled Tube Micro-Borehole Drilling |
| title | Experimental Study of Cuttings Transport in Coiled Tube Micro-Borehole Drilling |
| title_full | Experimental Study of Cuttings Transport in Coiled Tube Micro-Borehole Drilling |
| title_fullStr | Experimental Study of Cuttings Transport in Coiled Tube Micro-Borehole Drilling |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experimental Study of Cuttings Transport in Coiled Tube Micro-Borehole Drilling |
| title_short | Experimental Study of Cuttings Transport in Coiled Tube Micro-Borehole Drilling |
| title_sort | experimental study of cuttings transport in coiled tube micro-borehole drilling |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68365 |