Bentonite and the Use of Drilling Mud in Trenchless Projects
In trenchless engineering methods bentonite is widely used for drilling mud as a lubricating and supporting agent in subsurface tunneling operations such as horizontal directional drilling HDD and pipe Mud is also known as drilling mud mud mix and slurry What is Bentonite Bentonite belongs to the smectite mineral family of non metallic clays
Effect of drilling mud bentonite contents on the fluid loss
Commercially available bentonite was used in preparing the drilling muds The particle size distribution of the bentonite is compared to the field clay soil in Fig 1 In the bentonite ther was 84% clay particles <2 μm compared to 40% clay in the field soil Bentonite content in the drilling mud was varied between 2% and 8% by the weight of