Avaliação de emulsificante baseado na borra de óleo de soja para fluidos de perfuração sintéticos.

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the performance of an emulsifier based on soybean oil sludge (EBO) in synthetic drilling fluid to n-paraffin base. The study of the emulsifier was conducted in three distinct stages: first, the characterization of the emulsifier through the TGA , DTA and FTIR tests; second, the evaluation of the emulsifier according to the standard EP-1EP-00028-Petrobras norm; and the third and last stage, the evaluation of the emulsifier according to the industry formulations which were evaluated by the rheological properties (apparent viscosities (AV), plastic viscosity (PV), yield limit (YL) and gel strength (GS)), the electrical stability (ES) and the filtrate volume HPHT (VF). From the results obtained it can be concluded that: the emulsifier obtained from soybean oil sludge (EBO) is formed from fatty acids with HC, C-O, C = O and C = C bond types, with peaks intensities and positions similar to pure soybean oil, with three-step thermal decomposition: The First Regarding Volatil loss material, the second carbonaceous matter ea Third thermal decomposition do EBO. Soybean oil sludge can be used as a primary emulsifier for synthetic drilling fluids and finally the EBO emulsifier with highest efficiency rheological properties (AV, PV, YL and GS) and filtering (FV) or synthetic fluids with water oil ratio 60/40. However, when it comes EE best results were obtained with a ratio of oil to water fluid 70/30.