The purpose of this work was to apply experimental design to the study of composition effect binary mixtures of bentonite on the rheology of drilling fluids. Through the experimental design were defined the components proportions in the binary clays mixtures and then adjusted regression models relating the parameters, apparent and plastic viscosities and filtrate volume, with the proportion of each clay. The application of this tool allowed to delimit a strip of compositions that favors the improvement of the rheological properties of the dispersions of bentonite clays.
bentonite; clays mixtures; experimental design; rheology; drilling fluids
