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Active control of stick-slip torsional vibrations in drill-strings

Active control of stick-slip torsional vibrations in drill-strings
Active control of stick-slip torsional vibrations in drill-strings
This paper presents active vibration control to reduce the stick-slip oscillations in drill-strings. A simplified two degrees-of-freedom drill-string torsional model is considered. The nonlinear interaction between the rock and the bit is included in the model, where its parameters are fitted with field data from a 5 km drill-string system. Different proportional-derivative (PD)-control strategies are employed and compared, including the one that takes into account the weight-on-bit (axial force) and the bit speed. Optimization problems are proposed to obtain the values of the gain coefficients, and a torsional stability map is constructed for different weight-on-bit values and top-drive speeds. It is noted that the information of the dynamics at the bottom increases the performance of the PD-controller significantly in terms of the torsional vibration suppression, for the system analyzed.
1077-5463
Ritto, Thiago
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Ghandchi Tehrani, Maryam
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Ritto, Thiago
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Ghandchi Tehrani, Maryam
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Ritto, Thiago and Ghandchi Tehrani, Maryam (2018) Active control of stick-slip torsional vibrations in drill-strings. Journal of Vibration and Control.

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This paper presents active vibration control to reduce the stick-slip oscillations in drill-strings. A simplified two degrees-of-freedom drill-string torsional model is considered. The nonlinear interaction between the rock and the bit is included in the model, where its parameters are fitted with field data from a 5 km drill-string system. Different proportional-derivative (PD)-control strategies are employed and compared, including the one that takes into account the weight-on-bit (axial force) and the bit speed. Optimization problems are proposed to obtain the values of the gain coefficients, and a torsional stability map is constructed for different weight-on-bit values and top-drive speeds. It is noted that the information of the dynamics at the bottom increases the performance of the PD-controller significantly in terms of the torsional vibration suppression, for the system analyzed.

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Accepted/In Press date: 9 April 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 10 May 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 421479
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/421479
ISSN: 1077-5463
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Date deposited: 13 Jun 2018 16:30
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 20:10

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Author: Thiago Ritto

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