| Synthesis and Rheological characterization of a novel Acrylamide-based Terpolymer Nanocomposite Containing Silica Nanoparticles |
| Paper ID : 1355-ICNS |
| Authors |
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Ahmadreza Karimi1, Saeed Ghaderi2, Seyyedarash Haddadi3, Ahmad Ramazani S.A. *4 1Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 3School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, Kelowna V1V 1V7, Canada 4Sharif University of Technology |
| Abstract |
| Water-soluble polymers have been widely used in the oil and gas industry due to their unique properties such as enhanced rheological properties and high thermal stability. Water-soluble acrylamide terpolymer nanocomposite modified with hydrophilic groups of acrylic acid (AA) and hydrophobic groups of styrene (St) containing silica nanoparticles was synthesized using one-step reverse-emulsion terpolymerization and its rheological properties were studied. The structure of terpolymer silica nanoparticles was investigated using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and a field emission scanning electron microscopic analyze (FE-SEM), respectively. The rheological investigation of solutions of the nanocomposite was studied using the rheometric mechanical spectrum (RMS) and results showed that nanocomposite solutions have a shear-thinning behavior, and with increasing the temperature the shear viscosities increase interestingly. Temperature resistance behavior of PAAS can be ascribed to the presence of hydrophilic and hydrophobic blocks embodied in the polymer chain backbones that form a three-dimensional network of polymer chains, including silica nanoparticles added via in-situ polymerization. |
| Keywords |
| Nanocomposite, Polyacrylamide terpolymer; Rheological modifier, Temperature-resistance |
| Status: Abstract Accepted (Poster Presentation) |
