Influence of Alkyl Chain Length on the Performance of Inverse Emulsion Polyacrylamide Fracturing Fluid Thickeners
Ye Zhang,
Eryun Yan,
Qiaomei Chen
et al.
Abstract:The alkyl chain length of hydrophobic monomers significantly influences the properties of hydrophobic associative polymers. In this study, four hydrophobic monomers with varying chain lengths were copolymerized with acrylamide, using the inverse emulsion polymerization method. Four hydrophobic associative polyacrylamides were successfully synthesized and characterized using infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and radius of gyration detection, and they were compared with polyacrylamides (PA… Show more
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