• Advances in nano research
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2020

Filter cake formation during rotary drilling operation is an unavoidable scenario, hence there is need for constant improvement in the approaches used in monitoring the cake thickness growth in order to prevent drill-string sticking. This study proposes an improved model that predicts the growth of mud cake thickness overtime with the consideration of the addition of nanoparticles in the formulated drilling fluid system. Ferric oxide, titanium dioxide and copper oxide nanoparticles were used in varying amounts (2 g, 4 g and 6 g), and filtration data were obtained from the HPHT filtration test. The filter cakes formed were further analyzed with scanning electron microscope to obtain the morphological characteristics. The data obtained was used to validate the new filtrate loss model. This model specifically presents the concept of time variation in filter cake formation as against the previous works of constant and definite time. Regression coefficient which is a statistical measure was used to validate the new model and the predicted results were compared with the API model. The new model showed R² values of 99.9%, and the predictions from the proposed filtration model can be said to be more closely related to the experimental data than that predicted from the API model from the SSE and RMSE results.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.437-454
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• 2016

Wellbore instability problem is one of the main problems that met frequently during drilling, particularly in high temperature, high pressure (HPHT) formations. There are large amount of researches about wellbore stability in HPHT formations, which based on the thermo-poroelastic theory and some achievements were obtained; however, few studies have investigated on the fully coupled thermo-poroelastoplasticity analysis of wellbore stability, especially the analysis of wellbore stability while the filter cake formed. Therefore, it is very necessary to do some work. In this paper, the three-dimensional wellbore stability model which overall considering the effects of fully coupled thermo-poroelastoplasticity and filter cake is established based on the finite element method and Drucker-Prager failure criterion. The distribution of pore pressure, wellbore stress and plastic deformation under the conditions of different mud pressures, times and temperatures have been discussed. The results obtained in this paper can offer a great help on understanding the distribution of pore pressure and wellbore stress of wellbore in the HPHT formation for drilling engineers.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.261-275
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• 2012

본 논문은 이수식 쉴드 TBM 굴착시 굴착면 안정에 큰 영향을 미치는 굴착면의 이수 침투에 따른 이막형성여부에 대하여 해석적 고찰을 수행하였다. 이러한 해석적 접근은 이수식 쉴드 TBM의 계획 및 설계시 최적 장비 형식 선정 및 시공계획 수립에 참고가 될 수 있으나, 이제까지 이에 대한 효과적인 해석적 방법에 대하여 제안된 것이 없는 상황이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 사질토 입자의 모델링에 효과적인 $PFC^{2D}$의 Fluid Coupling simulation을 이용하여 해석을 수행하였으며, 해석결과, 이수침투 특성은 굴착 대상지반의 투수성과 이수특성(비중, 점성계수등)에 따라 변화됨을 파악할 수 있었다. 본 해석적 접근방법을 통하여 이수식 쉴드 TBM의 계획 설계단계에서 대상지반 특성을 고려한 이수 점도관리 방안 수립과 함께 시공중의 초기굴진단계에서의 최적 이수점도의 재검증을 통하여 안전한 터널시공에 도움이 될 것이라 판단된다.

• 지질공학
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.429-435
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• 2006

케이싱 시추공 구간의 밀도검층에서 정확한 밀도 값의 산출을 위한 기초연구의 일환으로 세 종류의 서로 다른 밀도를 가진 보정 실험공에서 공벽과 검출기간의 이격 거리를 달리하면서 세 가지 다른 검출기 옵셋 거리에 따른 반응 값의 변화를 알아보았으며 과거 석유 검층에서 이수 보정에 활용되어 온 spine and ribs 기법을 활용함으로써 케이싱 속에서의 감마감마 측정치로부터 지층의 참 밀도를 찾아가는 효과적인 방안을 제시하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 The 6th International Symposium of East Asian Resources Recycling Technology
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• pp.122-131
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• 2001

Pakistan being the 6$^{th}$ largest sugar producer has over 75 sugar mills with annual production capacity of about 2.4 million tons during 1996-97. The contribution of Sindh with 27 sugar mills is recorded over 50% of the total sugar production. The majority of the mills in Pakistan use the Defecation-Remelt-Phosphitation (DRP; 24 mills), Defecation-Remelt-Carbonation (DRC; 21 mills) and Defecation-Remelt Carbonation and Sulphitation (DRCS; 11 mills) process. Seven of the 75 sugar mills in Pakistan also produce industrial alcohol from molasses, a by- product of sugar manufacturing process. These sugar industries also produce fly ash, which have been found to contain unburned carbon and reach as far as four-kilo meter area with the wind direction, threatening the community health of people living around, besides posing other aesthetic problems. The untreated wastewater, in many cases, finds its way to open surface drains causing serious threat to livestock, flora and fauna. One study showed that fly ash emitted from the chimneys contain particle size ranging from 38 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ to 1000 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. About 50 per cent of each fly ash samples were above 300 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ in size and were mostly unburned Carbon particles, which produced 85% weight loss on burning in air atmosphere at 1000${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. This fly ash (mostly carbon) was the main cause of many health and aesthetic problems in the sugar mill vicinity. The environmental challenge for the local sugar mills is associated with liquid waste gaseous emission and solid waste. This paper discusses various waste recycling technologies and practices in sugar industries of Pakistan. The application of EM technology and Biogas technology has proved very successful in reusing the sugar industry wastewater and mud, which otherwise were going waste.