Di-carboxylic acid cellulose nanofibril (DCA-CNF) as an additive in water-based drilling fluids (WBMs) applied to shale

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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Di-carboxylic acid cellulose nanofibril (DCA-CNF) as an additive in water-based drilling fluids (WBMs) applied to shale formations Yurany Villada . Marı´a Celeste Iglesias . Marı´a Laura Olivares . Natalia Casis . Junyong Zhu . Marı´a Soledad Peresin . Diana Estenoz

Received: 13 February 2020 / Accepted: 30 September 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020

Abstract This work proposes the application of dicarboxylic acid cellulose nanofibril (DCA-CNF) obtained through maleic acid hydrolysis as an additive in water-based drilling fluids (WBMs). Specifically, the use of DCA-CNF as a replacement of xanthan gum (XGD) in the WBM formulations was evaluated. The effect of DCA-CNF on the main functional properties of WBMs and their performance was evaluated and compared with that corresponding to XGD. To this end, interactions between DCA-CNF and bentonite (BT), as well as between DCA-CNF and polyanionic cellulose (PAC), were studied using quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D)

technique. The rheological analyses showed a shearthinning behavior of WBMs containing XGD similar to WBMs with DCA-CNF, while filtration properties and thermal stability improved by the presence of DCA-CNF. Results obtained by QCM-D indicated higher interaction between PAC and DCA-CNFs when compared to BT and DCA-CNF. The Sisko model was implemented to simulate the relationship between viscosity and shear rate. WBM for Argentina shale containing the double concentration of DCACNF exhibited similar rheological properties to the base fluid.

Y. Villada  M. L. Olivares  N. Casis  D. Estenoz (&) INTEC (Universidad Nacional del Litoral-Conicet), Gu¨emes 3450, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina e-mail: [email protected] M. C. Iglesias  M. S. Peresin Forest Products Development Center, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, 520 Devall Drive, Auburn, AL 36849, USA J. Zhu USDA Forest Products Laboratory, One Gifford Pinchot Dr., Madison, WI 53726, USA

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Keywords Di-carboxylic acid cellulose nanofibril  Maleic anhydride hydrolysis  Water-based drilling fluid  Surface interactions  Quartz crystal microbalance  Shale  Vaca Muerta

Introduction Cellulose nanomaterials (CNM) such as cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) are products derived from cellulose, which have at least one dimension in the nanometer range. CNM are obtained through various chemical and mechanical processes (Zhu et al. 2016). Their properties have attracted great attention in several fields, such as composites (Kargarzadeh et al. 2017; Ng et al. 2017), energy devices (Du et al. 2017), packing, films and coatings (Ferrer et al. 2017; Hubbe et al. 2017; Li et al. 2015a), aerogels and hydrogels (De France et al. 2017; Nascimento et al. 2018), biodegradable composites (Sharma et al. 2019), water remediation (Mahfoudhi and Boufi 2017; Voisin et al. 2017), medicine applications (Lin and Dufresne 2014; Seabra et al. 201