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square to an exaggerated rectangle. Drilled solids down to 177 microns are removed by 80-mesh screens, and 840-micron size particles by 20-mesh screens.
1. Fluid properties;
2. Particle properties; 3. Flow parameters;
4. Hydrocyclone parameters.
If the storage capacity is available, to increase the density of the drilling fluid, we simply add barite to the mud. Therefore, the known and unknown variables in this case are: Known: V1, r1, rB, r2 Unknown: V2, mB r1, V1 rB, VB r2, V2
Likewise, the total mass of mud and weight material must sum to the desired density-volume product
Discarded mud
Then the volume of fluid need to discard: Vd = Vi V1 ; With Vi is the initial mud volume.
Mass balance
Note that VwB is the volume of water need to add with one pound of barite. VwB = 0.01
Mixture density
Thus, 99.47 bbl of mud should be discarded before adding any API barite. The mass of API barite needed is given by
The volume of water to be added with the barite 0.01mB = 1,083 gal or 25.79 bbl.