Water-Redispersible Cellulose Nanofiber and Polyanionic Cellulose Hybrids for High-Performance Water-Based Drilling Fluids

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Cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) with nanoscale dimension, high aspect ratio, and easily modified surface chemistry show great potential as novel rheological and filtration modifiers in bentonite water-based drilling fluids (BT-WDFs). However, CNFs would suffer from poor redispersibility in an aqueous suspension if they were fully dried for transportation, storage, and field application. Herein, we report a simple, versatile, and scalable strategy to prepare water-redispersible CNFs through compounding them with a water-soluble, commercially available drilling fluid additive, polyanionic cellulose (PAC), and subsequent drying. The results revealed that the water redispersibility of CNF/PAC hybrids was dependent on the PAC's viscosity (i.e., low viscosity, LV; or regular viscosity, R) as well as drying method (i.e., oven drying, OD; or freeze-drying, FD). Among the obtained CNF/PAC hybrids, the CNF/PAC-R material prepared by FD exhibited optimal water redispersibility due to the enhanced suspending capacity of CNF suspension and the minimized capillary force. As a consequence, the CNF/PAC-R hybrids prepared by FD improved the rheological and filtration performance of BT-WDFs more pronouncedly than others, which could lead to better fluid carrying capacity for drilling cuttings and wellbore stability. The PAC acted not only as water-dispersible agents for CNFs but also as additives for modifying the rheological and filtration properties of BT-WDFs. PAC-coated cellulose nanofibers can be used as water-redispersible dry additive for drilling fluids with enhanced fluid performance.

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Li, M. C., Tang, Z., Liu, C., Huang, R., Koo, M. S., Zhou, G., & Wu, Q. (2020). Water-Redispersible Cellulose Nanofiber and Polyanionic Cellulose Hybrids for High-Performance Water-Based Drilling Fluids. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 59(32), 14352–14363. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.0c02644

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