Complex copolymers for mobility control, water purification, and surface activity

Conference · Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988 · Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Pet. Chem., Prepr.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6920376

Meister, J J

Many processes that are basic to the extraction of natural resources are facilitated by addition of polymers. To be useful, the polymers must meet an interrelated list of chemical and physical properties as well as economic criteria. Two important properties demanded of the polymers are: 1. Rheology. Polymers are often added to change solvent or process flow properties. The addition of polymers almost always causes non-Newtonian flow behavior in the resulting fluid. Methods of controlling surface behavior are to: 1) create polar and nonpolar regions in the molecule thus producing a hydrophilic-lipophilic balance in the molecule, 2) charge the molecule by introducing ionic sites with the same or opposite charge as the boundary, or 3) introduce or remove functional groups in the molecule which produce binding reactions, such as a) hydrogen bond creation of b) nitrogen lone-pair donation, with the surface. This multitude of properties the polymer must possess dictate that better polymer performance is obtained from materials with complicated structures. Such polymers are complex polymers: random copolymers, block copolymers, graft copolymers, micellizing copolymers, and network copolymers. There has been a dramatic increase in the past decade in the number and complexity of these copolymers and it is these newly discovered polymers and their chemistry which will be described here. The synthesis, analysis, and testing of these polymers, with particular emphasis on those polymers designed for enhanced oil recovery, is presented.

• Research Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Detroit, 4001 W. McNichols Rd., Detroit, MI (US)
• OSTI ID: 6920376
• Report Number(s): CONF-880659-
• Journal Information: Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Pet. Chem., Prepr.; (United States), Vol. 33:1; Conference: ACS symposium on advances in oil field chemistry, Toronto, Canada, 5 Jun 1988
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
37 INORGANIC
ORGANIC
PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
COPOLYMERS
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
OIL WELLS
ENHANCED RECOVERY
FLUID FLOW
HYDROPHYLIC POLYMERS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PHASE STUDIES
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
SOLVENT EXTRACTION
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
VISCOSITY
COLLOIDS
DISPERSIONS
EXTRACTION
GELS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC POLYMERS
POLYMERS
RECOVERY
SEPARATION PROCESSES
TESTING
WELLS
020300* - Petroleum- Drilling & Production
400201 - Chemical & Physicochemical Properties