“…In industrial production, considering the required separating density, viscosity and stability of the system, the selected weighting agents should have high density, be difficult to make muddy and to oxidize, and be easy to recycle 5 . In principle, media with a density higher than that of water can be used as the weighting agents 6 . Currently, the commonly used weighting agents in industry are magnetite, ferrosilicon, ilmenite, barite, pyrite and industrial waste, such as reduced iron and magnetic beads, which were industrially used by Hamidreza et al 7 and experimentally used by Ramadan et al 8 respectively.…”