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posted on 2018-06-11, 08:31 authored by M.Y.A. Alkaragoolee, Kambiz EbrahimiKambiz Ebrahimi, R. Whalley
In hydrocarbon well-drilling operations, self-excited, stick-slip vibration is considered as a source of drilling equipment failures, which also causes a reduction in the drilling penetration. This leads to delays and increase in the operational and equipment costs. A new approach using distributed-lumped (hybrid) modelling is considered as the first step in understanding the stick-slip phenomena in order to determine a solution to this problem. In this paper, a hybrid modelling scheme is the advocated modelling method proposed in contrast to the conventional lumped modelling. Three case studies are used to show that hybrid modelling is an accurate technique in the representation of stick-slip oscillations, particularly when the length of the drill string is high. The results show that the modelling technique adopted in this work can more accurately present the phenomena associated with stick-slip process.

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Published in

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics

Pages

146441931769785 - 146441931769785

Citation

ALKARAGOOLEE, M.Y.A., EBRAHIMI, K.M. and WHALLEY, R., 2017. A hybrid model for a drilling process for hydrocarbon well-boring operations. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics, 231 (4), pp.726-738.

Publisher

SAGE Publishing © IMechE

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-02-03

Publication date

2017

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1464419317697854. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.

ISSN

1464-4193

eISSN

2041-3068

Language

  • en