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Lab 2 Asd

This document discusses rheology and experiments testing drilling mud rheology properties. Experiment A tested mud viscosity using a viscometer, showing decreasing readings with decreasing cylinder rotation speed, indicating the mud is non-Newtonian. Gel strength tests showed strengths of 16 and 11 at 10 seconds and 10 minutes, respectively, for a water-based mud. Experiment B measured funnel viscosity of a water-based mud sample using a marsh funnel, obtaining a value of 511.36 ml/min, though this value does not represent an actual viscosity.

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Lab 2 Asd

This document discusses rheology and experiments testing drilling mud rheology properties. Experiment A tested mud viscosity using a viscometer, showing decreasing readings with decreasing cylinder rotation speed, indicating the mud is non-Newtonian. Gel strength tests showed strengths of 16 and 11 at 10 seconds and 10 minutes, respectively, for a water-based mud. Experiment B measured funnel viscosity of a water-based mud sample using a marsh funnel, obtaining a value of 511.36 ml/min, though this value does not represent an actual viscosity.

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DISCUSSION

Rheology is the study of the flow of matter: primarily in the liquid state, but also as soft
solids or solids under conditions in which they respond with plastic flow rather than deforming
elastically in response to an applied force. It is important to study the mud rheology because it
will help in designing the circulating systems required in drilling operation.
On the result of experiment A testing for mud determination using viscometer, it shows
the reading is decreasing as the rotation of the cylinder decrease. When the cylinder rotates at
different speeds, it will cause the fluid to shear at different rates and thus will give different
number of viscosity reading. At 600 rpm, the reading is 47.00 and it decrease to 34.67 at 300
rpm. The reading keeps decreasing at 20.33 on 200 rpm and 8.67 for 3 rpm. Assuming rpm is
proportional to shear rate and torque for the viscometer is proportional to shear stress, when a
torque versus rpm graph is plot it will give curve line graph because drilling mud is nonNewtonian fluid.
Second part of experiment 1 basically it tests the gel strength of the water based mud.
For time 10 sec, the gel strength is 16 100lb/ft 2 and for 10 minutes is 11 100lb/ft2. Some drilling
fluids are thixotropic, forming gelled strucctures when stangnant and liquefyingwhen sheared.
Drilling fluids with flats gels have similar 10s and 10 mins gel strenght remianing pumpable
while high gels is undesireable.
In experiment B, the aim is to measure viscosity of drilling fluid using marsh
funnel. In this experiment, 450 ml of water base mud is used. Then, the mud is allowed to flow
through the marsh funnel in order to determine the funnel viscosity. The funnel viscosity
obtained is 511.36 ml/min. Marsh funnel is used on rig to provide a quick test on the viscosity of
the mud. However, the viscosity given by the marsh funnel is not an actual viscosity compare to
using viscometer. The funnel viscosity serves as a qualitative measure on how thick the mid
sample is and used only for relative comparisons. The value obtain will be indicates the change
in viscosity and cannot be used to quantify the rheological properties such as plastic viscosity
and yield point.

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