Título: | MECHANICAL DEGRADATION OF POLYMER SOLUTIONS IN EXTENSIONAL LAMINAR FLOW | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
LUA SELENE DA SILVA ALMEIDA |
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Colaborador(es): |
MARCIO DA SILVEIRA CARVALHO - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 28/JUN/2021 | Língua(s): | ENGLISH - UNITED STATES |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
Notas: |
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=53446&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=53446&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.53446 | ||||||||||||
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Due to their physical-chemical behavior, water-soluble polymers are used
extensively in various phases of drilling, completion, workover, and production of
oil and gas wells. Therefore, it is fundamental to predict and to control in-situ
porous medium behavior in order to understand polymer performance. Experiments
were conducted to study the degradation of a semi diluted (2000 ppm) aqueous
solution of PEO, using two capillaries with different entrance diameter (100 micrometers
and 200 micrometers) both with 50 micrometers radius constriction, creating Fast-Transient Flows in their center. Different injection rates were imposed in order to observe different
shear and extensional rates in the system. The effluent of the flow was collected,
and reinjected, and rheological properties of the fluids were used as proxies for the
degradation of the solution. We observed that for the more abrupt contraction, the
minimum flow rate needed for degrading the polymer solution is lower. This result,
when analyzed purely under shear rate perspective, is not reasonable, since the
constriction shear rates to which the polymer is subjected are equal at both
capillaries. Therefore, we inferred that the abruptness of the contraction plays a
role in the degradation, which means elongational rate may be responsible for the
lower critical flow rate. It was also observed a pattern for how the degradation
occurs with subsequent injections. We could infer that subsequent injections cause
incremental degradation before approaching a stabilization plateau and that higher
flow rates generated lower degradation plateaus.
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