Open AccessApplication of Empty Oil Palm Bunches as CMC to Prevent Loss Circulation
Author(s) -
Idham Khalid,
Novia Rita,
Muhammad Ridho Efras
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of earth energy engineering/journal of earth energy engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2540-9352
pISSN - 2301-8097
DOI - 10.25299/jeee.2021.4100
Subject(s) - carboxymethyl cellulose , palm oil , viscosity , drilling fluid , pulp and paper industry , tenera , iodine value , rheology , materials science , pour point , methyl cellulose , acid value , drilling , chemistry , composite material , cellulose , food science , metallurgy , organic chemistry , engineering , biochemistry , sodium
Drilling is an activity carried out to obtain the desired target. Furthermore, drilling mud a very significant material involved in the drilling process, and must, therefore, obtain a rational value from the rheology. A suitable technique to achieve this goal is the use of additives, for instance, Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) to improve the viscosity and air binding. This study, therefore, uses CMC produced from organic oil palm bunches as an alternative for industrial CMC. CMC of Oil Palm Empty Bunches have been tested by Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) to determine its composition. The Empty Oil Palm Oil which uses Tenera type was taken from Riau Province, Rokan Hulu Regency, Kunto Darussalam District. In this study, this experiment used CMC Empty Oil Palm and industrial CMC to find the value of viscosity, plastic thickness, melting point, gel strength, mud cake, and filtering volume of drilling mud and prevent the loss circulation with adding each CMC composition to mud samples with amount of 2 gr, 4 gr, 6 gr, 8 gr and 10 gr. According to the EDS analysis, the Carbon (C) and Oxygen (O) content of CMC from empty oil palm bunches were 58.85% and 41.15%, respectively. In addition, the industrial standard for plastic viscosity and yield point were not attained by using 8 gr and 10 gr of this CMC.