Stability Evaluation of Surfactant-Grafted Polyacrylamide Used in Oilfields by Evolution of Ammonia

Tingting Jiang; Baohui Wang; Haiyu Wang

doi:10.4236/msce.2014.25003

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Stability Evaluation of Surfactant-Grafted Polyacrylamide Used in Oilfields by Evolution of Ammonia ()

First Oil Plant, Daqing Oilfield Company Limited, Daqing, China.
Institute of New Energy Chemistry and Environmental Science, College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/msce.2014.25003 PDF HTML XML 3,051 Downloads 4,128 Views

Abstract

Surfactant-grafted Polyacrylamide (S-PAM) serves as a novel oil displacement agent in oilfield. The analysis on composition of S-PAM shows that due to its instability the harmful ammonia gas may be generated during the operation of S-PAM or high temperature. In this paper, stability of S-PAM was studied by measuring the ammonia release from solid and aqueous S-PAM at different temperatures. The results showed that ammonia release of the solid S-PAM was increased with raising temperature. The ammonia release from S-PAM produced by Haibo Company is more than one from Lianhua in the solid state. The ammonia emissions from Lianhua S-PAM are slightly higher than Haibo one in the solutions prepared by both clean water and oilfield water.

Keywords

Surfactant-Grafted Polyacrylamide, Stability, Ammonia, Oilfield

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Jiang, T. , Wang, B. and Wang, H. (2014) Stability Evaluation of Surfactant-Grafted Polyacrylamide Used in Oilfields by Evolution of Ammonia. Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, 2, 15-19. doi: 10.4236/msce.2014.25003.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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