• 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.

• 지질공학
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.35-45
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• 2018

이미징 기술은 매질 자체의 구조특성 뿐만 아니라 유체의 유동특성을 분석하기 위해 공극규모, 코어규모, 그리고 중급규모에서 다양하게 활용되고 있다. 본 기술보고에서는 코어규모에서 유동실험과 이미징기술을 연계하여 균질매질, 균열매질, 그리고 불균질매질에서의 이산화탄소($CO_2$) 유동 특성과 함께 $CO_2$ 주입시 주입관정 주변에서 발생할 수 있는 염침전 현상, 균질매질과 균열매질에서의 모세관압 평가, 그리고 $CO_2$ 주입이 완료된 이후 나타나는 포획메커니즘 평가 등에 대해 살펴보았다. 이미징기술을 통해 코어내에서 시간에 따른 $CO_2$ 플룸을 이미지화 함으로써 유동특성을 분석할 수 있으며, 특히 균열이 포함된 매질과 불균질한 매질에서의 유동 및 저장특성을 평가할 수 있다.