Simulation of Wellbore Drilling Energy Saving of Nanofluids Using an Experimental Taylor–Couette Flow System
Rashidi M. Sedaghat A. Misbah B. Sabati M. Vaidyan K. Mostafaeipour A. Hosseini Dehshiri S.S. Almutairi K. Issakhov A. Oloomi S.A.A. Malayer M.A. Arockia Dhanraj J.
July 2021Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology
2021#11Issue 72963 - 2979 pp.
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.
Energy saving , Nanofluid , Taylor–Couette system , Water-based mud , Wellbore drilling
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Electrical Engineering Department
Industrial Engineering Department
Faculty of Environmental Management
Environmental Assessment and Technology for Hazardous Waste Management Research Center
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Technology
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Cybernetics
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Young Researchers and Elite Club
Centre for Automation and Robotics (ANRO)
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