Estudo da viabilidade da aplicação de PET reciclado como agente de contenção de areia em poços de petróleo / Study of the viability of the application of recycled PET as sand control agent in oil wells

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2008

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This work analyses the viability of applying recycled poly(ethylene terephthalate), PET, as sand control agent, using virgin PET and poly(methylene oxide), POM, for comparison means. The polymer samples were characterized by carbon-13 magnetic nuclear resonance (13C-NMR), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermal gravimetric analysis (TG), scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) and size exclusion chromatography (SEC). Also, mechanical experiments were performed, in order to determine the grain pack permeability, according to API RP 61 and API RP 58. In this way, a predefined amount of polymer grains were separately confined into cylindrical metallic cells, with substances commonly used to treat hydrocarbon formations (15 % HCl, 10 % potassium diethylene triamine pentaacetate and a solvent mixture, like xylene 45 %, diesel oil 45 % and EGMBE 10 %) and sea water and petroleum, likewise. The samples were submitted to a temperature of 70oC, a pressure of 24,1 MPa, which were maintained constant. Cell rotational agitation did not varied in the experiments. The exposure time was 24 and 96 hours, for the aggressive chemical products, and 172 days for sea water and oil. During the latter period, samples were periodically collected to test the polymer conditions, using all the above techniques, but the 13C-NMR. The pack permeability was analyzed only by the end of each established exposition period. The test results were compared to those obtained to non-exposed polymers and they have shown that POM was degraded by 15 % HCl. On the other hand, PET samples did not present significant changes under test conditions. Therefore, it has being concluded that the use of recycled PET as sand control agent is viable.

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areia poly(ethylene terephthalate) petroleum petróleo pet sand poli(tereftalato de etileno) pet polimeros e coloides

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