The Effect of Partial Replacement of GGBS on the Rheological Properties of Oil Well Cement Slurries

Wissal A. Hussein; Ahmed S. Ali

doi:10.52716/jprs.v16i2.1046

Authors

Wissal A. Hussein Ministry of Oil, Midland Refineries Company, Karbala Refinery, Karbala, Iraq.
Ahmed S. Ali Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v16i2.1046

Keywords:

cement slurries; non-Newtonian fluids; rheology; viscosity; yield stress; GGBS and OWC.

Abstract

The rheological properties of cement slurries play a crucial role in the identification and mitigation of gas-migration issues in oil field applications. Rheological properties give for more fundamental investigation, more precise phenomenological description of flow properties and serve as datum for numerical simulations. Standard commercially available rheometers are typically utilized to implement those measurements. This work presents the constitutive modelling of cement slurries use cement type G as defined by the API. The categorisation established by the American Petroleum Institute is conducted at varying rates. Ground-grained blast furnace slag (GGBS) at 15% intervals ranging from 15% to 75%. Continued. Cement slurries often display multifaceted non-linear fluid behaviour, including viscoelasticity, yield stress, shear-thinning effects, thixotropy, and other related phenomena. Two crucial rheological properties of cement, the shear viscosity and the yield stress, have been intensively investigated. We found the optimal percentage of partial replacement of cement type G with GGBS, water/cement ratio, mixing methods, temperature, shear rate, pressure, and the thixotropic behavior of cement with GGBS. The result shows that when increase the partial replacement of GGBS the plastic viscosity and yield point increase with increase the percentage of GGBS and the optimal percentage is 45% and then decrease until reaching the percentage 75%.

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