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- Title
Design of Tailor-Made Water-Soluble Copolymers for Enhanced Oil Recovery Polymer Flooding Applications.
- Authors
Riahinezhad, Marzieh; Romero‐Zerón, Laura; McManus, Neil; Penlidis, Alexander
- Abstract
The goal in this study is to shed light on the ambiguous procedure of making AAm/AAc copolymers for polymer flooding applications for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Despite the extensive use of these copolymers in polymer flooding, a well-established recipe for the required desirable properties of AAm/AAc copolymers does not exist in the literature. Therefore, the knowledge from copolymerization kinetics and copolymer structure/property relationships is implemented to tailor-make copolymers for polymer flooding. The detailed knowledge of the copolymerization kinetics enables to design copolymers with desirable properties, such as high molecular weight, high AAm content in the copolymer, and random distribution of anionic charges along the copolymer chain. Moreover, rheological properties show that copolymers with higher AAc content in the copolymer have higher solution viscosity and elasticity, both of which are desirable properties. In general, the main factors that should be considered when designing a polymer for polymer flooding for EOR applications are described.
- Subjects
WATER-soluble polymers; COPOLYMERS; ENHANCED oil recovery; POLYMER flooding (Petroleum engineering); MOLECULAR weights
- Publication
Macromolecular Reaction Engineering, 2017, Vol 11, Issue 1, pn/a
- ISSN
1862-832X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/mren.201600020