Influência da incorporação de sólidos nas propriedades de fluidos de perfuração sintéticos.

Abstract

This work presents a study about the influence of the incorporation of bentonite clay and carbonate calcium in n-paraffin synthetic drilling fluids properties. Thus, the research uses bentonite clay with particle size of 45 µm and 75 µm, besides calcium carbonate with particle sizes in the ranges of 2-44 µm and 2-74 µm to simulate the effects of the solid incorporation. The analysis of the influence of such contaminants is performed in the concentrations of 5%, 10% and 15% of the volume of the fluid sample (350 mL) considered by mass. To study the influence of these contaminants the density, electrical stability, electrical resistivity, flow behavior, plastic viscosity, apparent viscosity, yield point, gel strength, and volume filtered properties of the n-paraffin synthetic fluids are measured in laboratory. In addition to these tests, the characterization of contaminants through granulometric analysis and contact angle test is also performed. The results show that the type of solid contaminant exerts different influence on the fluids properties. The bentonite clay is responsible for the greatest effect on the rheological properties and the volume of the filtrated, while the calcium carbonate is more influent on the density and electrical stability. However, globally the bentonite clay exerts greater influence on the all properties. Finer particles cause greater effect on the studied properties. With respect to the concentration of contaminants is observed that the volume of filtrated is the property that suffers the greatest effect. However, the increase or decrease of one or other property does not occur linearly with respect to increasing the amount of contaminant.