PID (Particle Impact Drilling) is a new drilling technology which has been developing in the near decades. Utilizing steel particles with high speed to impact the rock stratum, this technology could be used in hard terrane. Compared with ordinary drilling technologies, PID has many advantages, such as long service life, high drilling speed, and low duty cycle, etc. During the process of recycling and separating, the steel particles will inevitably encounter a part of loss. In order to keep the sum of steel particle and working efficiency, the loss rules should be intensively studied. Based on experimental studies, this paper mainly works on the screening efficiency under various conditions including volumetric flow rate of drilling fluid, viscosity and steel particle ratio, etc. It was found that the loss rate of steel particle would increase with the increasing volumetric flow rate, viscosity and steel particle ratio. Furthermore, dimensional analysis was employed to analysis the relationship between loss rate and these factors and one empirical formula was proposed.
In particle impact drilling system, the steel particles would be recycled for economic reason. Thus, whether particles can return to the ground under certain conditions is an important problem. In this paper, the relationship between critical flow rate and annular gap is numerically studied using the Eulerian multiphase model in FLUENT software. Both the numerical and the experiment results show that the critical flow rate decreases with the increasing annular gap, and the simulation results correspond well with experimental results.
Particle Impact Drilling technology (PID) is a new drilling technology, which is designed especially to solve the oil and gas exploration under hard terrane. In PID system, the steel particles were added in the drilling fluid to impact rock. The particles would be recycled and put to use again, thus it is of great significance to adjust proper drilling fluid flow rate for steel particle’s reflux. The flow rate of drilling fluids carrying particles is influenced by the fluid viscosity, the annular gap between drill pipe and wellbore, the particle volume fraction and particle size, etc. This paper mainly studied the influence of the annular gap and the flow rate, while the other factors keep constant. Both experimental method and dimension theory were employed in the research. Furthermore, empirical formula was proposed to describe the mechanism.
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