Application of R/S Rheometer in Low Temperature Drilling Fluid Rheology Determination

Abstract:

With six-speed rotary viscometer measuring the rheology of drilling fluid at low temperature, during the high-speed process, the drilling fluid temperature is not constant at low temperature, which leads to the inaccuracy in rheological measurement. When R/S rheometer is used cooperating with constant low-temperature box , the temperature remains stable during the process of determining the drilling fluid rheology under low temperature. The R/S rheometer and the six-speed rotational viscometer are both coaxial rotational viscometers, but they work in different ways and the two cylindrical clearance between them are different.How to make two viscometer determination result can maintain consistentThe experimental results show that, The use of R/S rheometer, with the shear rate for 900s-1 shear stress values instead of six speed rotary viscometer shear rate for 1022s-1 shear stress values.Then use two-point formula to calculate rheological parameters.The R/S rheometer rheological parameter variation with temperature has a good linear relationship,Can better reflect the rheological properties of drilling fluids with low temperature changerule

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 490-495)
• Pages: 3114-3118
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.490-495.3114
• Online since: March 2012
• Authors: Xiao Ling Jiang, Zong Ming Lei, Kai Wei
• Keywords: Determination of Rheological Properties, Low Temperature Drilling Fluid, R/S Rheometer, Rheological Parameters

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