Study on Drilling Fluid Using Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT)

This paper discusses on the applications of Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT)
system in order to develop a new technique for assessing the drilling fluid. It is widely
popular and non-intrusive technique for sensing and measuring the spatial distribution,
voidage, and velocities of flow in vessel or pipe. Hence, it helps the mud engineer to
access the drilling mud circulation with real time monitoring inside the borehole
because traditionally, data collection was acquired at the surface in the mud pit. As kick
start of exploration ECT' s technique into drilling operation, this project is mainly
focusing on the evaluation of drilling fluid using the ECT. The drilling fluid will be
placed inside the vessel container with sensor to monitor the projected images at round
pixel map based on a set condition in static condition. The findings will give better
prediction of data patterns for dynamic condition of the drilling fluid.