Two allyldimethylalkyl quaternary ammonium salt (AQAS) monomers, N , N -dimethylallylphenylpropylammonium bromide (AQAS1) and N , N -dimethylallylnonylammonium bromide (AQAS2), were synthesized and used to prepare modified polyacrylamide materials. Two new drag reducers were synthesized from acrylamide (AM), sodium acrylate (NaAA) and a cationic modified monomer (AQAS1 or AQAS2) via aqueous solution polymerization, and the copolymers were named P(AM/NaAA/AQAS1) and P(AM/NaAA/AQAS2), respectively. The structures of the drag reduction agents were confirmed by IR and 1 H NMR spectroscopies. The molecular weight ( M w ) of P(AM/NaAA/AQAS1) was 1.79 × 10 6 g/mol. When the copolymer concentration was 1000 mg/L and the flow rate was 45 L/min, in fresh water the highest drag reduction rate was 75.8%, in 10,000 mg/L NaCl solution the drag reduction rate decreased to 72.9%. The molecular weight of P(AM/NaAA/AQAS2) was 3.17 × 10 6 g/mol. When the copolymer concentration was 500 mg/L and the flow rate was 45 L/min, the drag reduction rate reached 75.2%, and in 10,000 mg/L NaCl solution the drag reduction rate was 73.3%, decreased by approximately 1.9%. The drag reduction rate for partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) was also investigated, and the results showed that the drag reduction rates for 500 and 1000 mg/L HPAM solutions were merely 43.2% and 49.0% in brine, respectively. Compared with HPAM, both of the above copolymers presented better drag reduction capacities.
Chen-Guang Wang,Yi Pan,Zhi-Cheng Xu,Lei Zhang,Lu Zhang,Shuang-Chun Yang
Extended surfactant is a new type of oil displacement agent with excellent performance in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). In this paper, the novel extended surfactants with short hydrophobe (ethylhexyl) have been studied. The dynamic interfacial tensions (IFTs) between extended surfactant (C 8 P x E y C) solutions and n-alkanes were measured by the spinning drop method. The effect of surfactant concentration, polyoxypropylene (PO) numbers, polyoxyethylene (EO) numbers and electrolyte on the IFTs were investigated. The experimental results show that the interfacial activity of the extended surfactants mainly depends on the PO groups, and the short hydrophobe extended anionic surfactant shows the similar behavior of reducing IFT to that of long alkyl chain one. The IFTs decrease with an increase of the PO numbers against n-alkanes, and an increase of the EO numbers leads to the destruction of the tight arrangement of the adsorption film because the size of EO group is smaller than that of PO group, which results in an increase of IFT. The addition of electrolyte can reduce the IFTs by weakening the electrostatic repulsion between surfactant molecules at the interface, but it has little effect on its HLB. The long EO chain of extended surfactant prevents divalent cation from binding two surfactant counterions, which results in the little effect on reducing IFT. This study is of great significance for the insight of extended surfactants and their application in high-salt reservoirs.