| Synthesis and Evaluation of Rheological Properties of Acrylamide-based Nanocomposites Containing Silica Nanoparticles in the Presence of Different Salts |
| Paper ID : 1579-ICNS |
| Authors: |
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Saeed Ghaderi1, ali babaie2, Ahmadreza Karimi3, SeyyedArash Haddadi4, Ahmad Ramazani S.A. *5 1Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2chemical engineering at sharif university of technology 3Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 4School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, Kelowna V1V 1V7, Canada 5Sharif University of Technology |
| Abstract: |
| Water-soluble polymers have been widely used in the oil and gas industry due to their unique features such as enhanced rheological properties and high thermal stability. Water-soluble acrylamide terpolymer nanocomposites modified with hydrophilic groups of maleic anhydride and hydrophobic groups of styrene containing silica nanoparticles were synthesized using in-situ terpolymerization and its rheological properties were studied. The morphology and particle size of the terpolymer and silica nanoparticles were measured using a field emission scanning electron microscopic (FE-SEM). Rheological behavior of terpolymer and nanocomposites solutions including viscosity, complex viscosity and storage modulus at different temperatures as well as in the presence of different concentration of NaCl, MgCl2 and CaCl2 salts were studied using rheometric measurement system (RMS). The results illustrated that with an increase in temperature as well as increase in salts concentrations, the viscosity increases considerably. The unique results obtained from the rheometery test showed that the synthesized nanocomposites can be used in applications with high temperatures and high salinity environments. |
| Keywords: |
| Nanocomposite, Terpolymer, Rheological properties, Salt-resistance. |
| Status : Abstract Accepted (Poster Presentation) |