Author(s)

Juan Zhao^1,2, Jian Zhang^1,2, Wensen Zhao^1,2, Wenjuan Chen^1,2, Haiyan Guo³, Quan Wang^1,2, Zhao Hua^1,2, Guang Yang^1,2

¹CNOOC Research Institute Co., Ltd., Beijing, China.
²State Key Laboratory of Offshore Oil Exploitation, Beijing, China.
³Sinopec Shengli Oil Production Plant Oil Production Management Zone 5, Dongying, China.

In view of the limited space of offshore platform and the large amount of polymer injection, the dissolution time method, solution viscosity method, conductivity method, undissolved filtration method and falling ball method are used as the rapid detection methods of polymer dissolution. The results show that the error of conductivity method is the largest, and that of dissolution time method is the second, and both methods are time-consuming. Solution viscosity method and insolubles filtration method have small error, but they are time-consuming, especially for offshore platforms, which makes detection inconvenient. The drop ball method is simple in operation and has a small error, so it is a promising method for rapid determination of polymer dissolution time.

Rapid Determination, Dissolution Time, Viscosity Method, Falling-Ball Method

Zhao, J. , Zhang, J. , Zhao, W. , Chen, W. , Guo, H. , Wang, Q. , Hua, Z. and Yang, G. (2020) A Method for Rapid Determination of Polymer Dissolution Time. Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, 8, 1-9. doi: 10.4236/msce.2020.85001.