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Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.78, 257-264, October, 2019
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2019.06.004  Export Citation
Temperature dependence of relaxation time of hydrolyzed polyacrylamide solution for enhanced oil recovery
Pan-Sang Kang, Jong-Se Lim†, and Chun Huh1
  • Department of Energy and Resources Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Busan 49112, Republic of Korea
  • 1Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78731, USA
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Among enhanced oil recovery (EOR) polymers that are now commercial, partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) is the most commonly used polymer. The relaxation time, which is a key parameter describing the shear-thickening behavior of HPAM polymer solutions, was experimentally measured and quantitatively analyzed. From dynamic frequency sweep tests, the elastic modulus and viscous modulus of various polymer solutions (polymer concentration 500-3000 ppm, NaCl salinity 1000-10,000 ppm) were measured as a function of temperature (25.70 °C), where the cross-over method was carried out to obtain the relaxation time. The two parameters in the Williams-Landel-Ferry (WLF) equation for polymer melts, which describe the temperature effect on relaxation time, were calculated by fitting the measured relaxation time; the first parameter is universally constant, the second parameter depends on conditions of the polymer solution (polymer concentration and salinity). The estimated relaxation times using this proposed method matched well with the measured relaxation time with a root mean square error of 0.1261 s.
Keywords:Relaxation time;HPAM;Temperature;Enhanced oil recovery
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