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Total Suspended Solids Calculation Guide

This document summarizes methods for calculating low-gravity solids in drilling fluids using equations that take into account factors like filtrate density, barite density, low-gravity solids density, oil density and volume percentages. The total suspended solids can be calculated from the water volume percentage. For freshwater drilling fluids, the equation is simplified assuming densities of 2.6 for low-gravity solids and 4.2 for barite. As an example, a 12 ppg drilling fluid with 20% volume solids would contain 12.5% low-gravity solids.

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Total Suspended Solids Calculation Guide

This document summarizes methods for calculating low-gravity solids in drilling fluids using equations that take into account factors like filtrate density, barite density, low-gravity solids density, oil density and volume percentages. The total suspended solids can be calculated from the water volume percentage. For freshwater drilling fluids, the equation is simplified assuming densities of 2.6 for low-gravity solids and 4.2 for barite. As an example, a 12 ppg drilling fluid with 20% volume solids would contain 12.5% low-gravity solids.

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Chapter 3: Solids Calculation

By ASME Shale Shaker Committee


From Drilling Fluids Processing Handbook
Leon Robinson
Exxon, retired

OVERVIEW
Low-gravity solids in a drilling fluid may be calculated from the equation below:

 
where
 ?  f = density of filtrate, g/cm3
 ?  B = density of barite, g/cm3
 ?  LG = density of low-gravity solids, g/cm 3
 ?  o = density of oil, g/cm3
 V  S = volume percentage of suspended solids
 V  o = volume percentage of oil
 MW = mud weight, ppg
The density of the filtrate may be calculated from the equation:

 
where
 [NaCl] = concentration of NaCl in filtrate, mg/L
 [KCl] = concentration of KCl in filtrate, ppb
 [CaCl 2] = concentration of CaCl 2 in filtrate, mg/L
 [MgCl 2] = concentration of MgCl 2 in filtrate, mg/L.
The total suspended solids, V s, may be calculated:

 
where V w is the volume percentage of water.
Low-gravity solids calculated by the equation include bentonite. The quantity of drilled solids in the drilling fluid would be the difference
between the volume percentage of (%vol) low-gravity solids and the %vol bentonite.
For freshwater drilling fluids, assuming that the density of low-gravity solids is 2.6 and the density of barite is 4.2, the equation becomes

 
A 12.0-ppg drilling fluid with 20% volume of solids would contain 12.5% volume of low-gravity solids:

 
The retort is normally used to determine the volume percent solids in a drilling fluid

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