RESEARCH ARTICLE


Cuttings Transport Behavior and Simulation Analysis Affected by Hole Cleaning Tool



Sun Xiaofeng*, Yan Tie, Shao Shuai, Wang Kelin, Luan Shizhu
Daqing High-Tech Industrial Development Zone No.199, Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, 163318, China.

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Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2013
Volume: 6
First Page: 64
Last Page: 68
Publisher Id: TOPEJ-6-64
DOI: 10.2174/1874834101306010064

Article History:

Received Date: 15/05/2013
Revision Received Date: 13/9/2013
Acceptance Date: 16/9/2013
Electronic publication date: 18/10/2013
Collection year: 2013

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Abstract

Researchers have designed many kinds of hole cleaning tools to improve hole cleaning condition in the complex structural wells. In this paper a mathematical model was built to analyzing the cutting particles movement on the helical blades of hole cleaning tool. The relationships between blade helical angles and cuttings transport velocity in tangential direction and axial direction are obtained by solving the model. The results show that blade helical angle as a controlling variable has a significant impact on application effect of the spiral hole cleaning tool; tangential cuttings velocity increases and axial cuttings velocity decreases with the increase in the helical angle and adjusting the helical angle can reach the required cuttings velocity.

Keywords: Hole cleaning, hole cleaning tool, helical angle.