• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제23권6_2호
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• pp.1033-1042
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• 2020

Shale shaker which is one of the mud circulation systems is composed of a basket, a vibrator and a screen. Its purpose of a shale shaker is to induce drilling fluid to flow through a screen, transport solids across a screen surface, and discharge solids off the end of the screen. The new shale shaker for the on-shore drilling system is designed to be smaller than the original shale shaker which has the same capacity with the new on to enable to transport and to operate on the trailer. In this study, structural and vibrational analysis of shale shaker was carried out to evaluate the appropriateness of the design in terms of the structural stability.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제23권4_2호
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• pp.617-626
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• 2020

The drilling mud is essentially used in oil and gas development. There are several roles of using the drilling mud, such as cleaning the bottomhole, cooling and lubricating the drill bit and string, transporting the cuttings to the surface, keeping and adjusting the wellbore pressure, and preventing the collapse of the wellbore. The fragments from rocks and micro-sized bubbles generated by the high pressure are mixed in the drilling mud. The systems to separate those mixtures and to keep the uniformly maintained quality of drilling mud are required. In this study, the simulation is conducted to verify the performance of the mud tank's agitation capacity. The primary role of the mud tank is the mixing of mud at the surface with controlling the mud condition. The container type is chosen as a mud tank pursuing efficient transport and better management of equipment. The single- and two-phase simulations about the agitation in the mud tank are performed to analyze and identify the inner flow behavior. The convergence of results is obtained for the vertical- and axis-direction velocity vector fields based on the grid-dependency tests. The mixing time analysis depending on the multiphase flow conditions indicates that the utilization of a two-stepped impeller with a smaller size provides less time for mixing. This study's results are expected to be utilized as the preliminary data to develop the mixing and integrating equipment of the onshore drilling mud system.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.479-490
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• 2016

해저 착저식 시추 시스템은 해저 광물자원 시추를 위해 최근 들어 사용이 증가하고 있는 시추 시스템이다. 2016년 3월 일본 근해에서 수행된 해저 착저식 시추 시스템 실해역 테스트의 과정, 결과 및 착저식 시추 기술과 관련된 국제동향을 보고한다. 해저 착저식 시추기는 선상 탑재식 시추기와 비교하여 1000~3000 m 사이 수심의 좁은 면적에 산재하여 분포하는 광체를 100 m 내외의 깊이로 시추하는데 유리한 시추 시스템이다. 해저 착저식 시추 시스템은 시추에 필요한 동력, 시추로드 및 코어베럴 등을 착저식 시추기에 장착한 후 해저 착저를 시켜 시추를 수행한다. 시추 시 획득되는 암추 시료는 시추기와 함께 회수한다. 본 실해역 시험 시추에서 회수된 시료는 모두 현무암으로, 시추 시료 회수율은 약 55%를 보인다. 그러나 현무암 보다 연약한 열수 광체를 시추 할 경우 이보다 회수율이 낮을 것으로 판단된다. 회수율을 높이기 위해 전통적인 암추 시료 회수 방법에 부가하여 무암추 시료 회수 방법을 이용하기도 하며, 최근에는 보다 안정적인 무암추 시료 회수를 위해 reverse circulation 방법 적용이 고려되고 있다. 착저 방식에 있어서 세 개 및 네 개의 다리를 이용하여 착저하는 방법이 경쟁하고 있으나, 더 많은 시추 결과를 통해 해저 착저에 유리한 방안을 고려하여야 한다.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.413-422
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• 2017

The objective of this study was to prove possible effects of a habitable place for fish around semi-submersible drilling rig which measured underwater radiated noise, irradiance distribution of rig's light and conducted experimental fishing in Malaysia territory and observed for distribution of fishes around the rig by ROV during drilling operation in the East Sea of Korea. As a result underwater radiated noise was $130dB/{\mu}Pa$ from 156.25 to 187.50 Hz, irradiance distribution of light was between 21.5 and 43.1 lx. Despite this result, underwater radiated noise was not a threat to fish around rig and low irradiance distribution of light also played a role in the luring influence of the fishes at night. Fish showed up in the beginning of drilling operation and at the end of drilling operation. However, there are few fish in the midst of drilling operation. The main reason for this result was the destruction of the habitable place due to blow out mud and broken pieces of ground formation in drilling hole. The results are expected to contribute to reasonable fishery management around rig.