TUDRP provides a unique environment, with one of largest flow loops in the world. It contains all components of a real rig mud system. Experiments involving cuttings transport, two-phase gas-liquid flow and foam flow in the pipe annulus can be conducted.

The facilities include: Drillpipe/Coiled Tubing Buckling Facility, Full Scale Test Rig, Single Cutter Bit Testing Facility, Drillpipe Fatigue Testing Facility, and a NEW Fluids Characterization Lab. The lab includes a patented Foam Generator and Viscometer Apparatus, Dynamic Testing Facility, Fann 75 HPHT Viscometer, and Bubble Characterization Cart.

In addition, the Advanced Cuttings Transport Facility is a large-scale experimental facility for investigation of the hydraulics and cuttings transport properties of both compressible and incompressible fluids at elevated temperatures and pressures.

Our Fluids Lab was created to centrally locate fluids characterization equipment to support the research being done on the low pressure and high pressure test loops. The new Bubble Characterization Cart allows researchers to withdraw a sample of foam from the flow loop and conduct bubble experimentation resulting in high-tech analysis through micro-photography.

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