(95c) The Property Variations of Produced Polyacrylamide from Polymer Flooding Reservoirs and Their Effects on Concentration Detection
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2008
2008 Spring Meeting & 4th Global Congress on Process Safety
Fuels and Petrochemicals Division - Jointly Co-sponsored with ACS
Petrochemicals and Derivatives I
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 8:55am to 9:20am
Because the injected polymer often quickly breaks through to production wells during polymer flooding, its concentration detection is very significant. However, due to the variations in the relative molecular mass and the degree of hydrolysis of produced polymer, the conventional detection methods, including the viscosimetry and starch-cadmium iodide colorimetry, are no longer suitable to detect its real concentration.
This paper introduced a new detection method-ultra filtration concentration film's desaturation. By purifying and concentrating the produced polymer solution using an ultra filtration system, then dehydrating the aqueous and dry up the remains, this method can detect the concentration directly. The said method has been evaluated in the laboratory and compared with the other two conventional detection methods, verifying its adaptability and high exactitude.
The produced polymers from three different polymer flooding units have been detected using this novel method. The results show that the produced polymer relative molecular mass decreased greatly but its degree of hydrolysis increased dramatically. The reasons and differences have been analyzed. These corresponding variations makes the detected results by the conventional methods to be much lower than the actual value, which means the previous methods need to be improved.
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