Generation of 3D-networks by mixing inexpensive HC-polymers, amphiphiles, and cross-linkers as a practical CO2-thickener

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For the last two decades, many polymers have been tested to increase CO2 viscosity for enhanced oil recovery using CO2 (CO2-EOR). Unfortunately, conventional HC-polymers were inactive for viscosity enhancements due to their poor solubility in supercritical CO2 (scCO2). Recent SANS studies (RB1610015 and RB1720361) found FC-HC amphiphiles to form HC-core/FC-shell aggregates, which could also solubilize custom-made CO2-philic HC-polymers in scCO2. The aggregates were elongated with adding the HC-polymers, or also introducing hydrogen bonding groups. To develop inexpensive HC-polymer-based CO2-thickners for CO2-EOR, this proposed SANS experiment will examine formation of 3D-structured polymer networks in scCO2 by mixing cheap and conventional HC-polymers, amphiphiles, and cross-linkers. It will provide important information and enable the development of inexpensive CO2-thickeners.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.99690553
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/99690553
Provenance
Creator Professor Masanobu Sagisaka; Miss Georgina Moody; Dr Sajad Kiani; Dr Shirin Alexander; Professor Julian Eastoe; Mr Christopher Hill; Dr Robert Dalgliesh
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-11-29T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-12-05T07:26:43Z