Applications of polymers in various aspects of oil and gas industry are targeted in the book. These applications include enhanced oil recovery, oil spill clean up, membranes, adsorbents and coatings, among others. The majority of the chapters review the current state of art of the polymer applications in these areas. In addition, ample fundamental insights have been provided to make the readers aware about the importance of polymers and polymer nanotechnologies prevalent in oil and gas industry as well as to tune their performance to achieve certain set of properties useful for their applications. In summary, the book serves as a ready reference to not only the new researchers, chemical, petroleum and mechanical engineers, and plastic technologies, but also practicing scientists in both industry and academia. The book also serves as a reference text for the post graduate university students in materials, polymer, chemical, petroleum and mechanical engineering disciplines. For more details, please go to https://centralwestpublishing.com
Table of Content
Chapters
Introductory/Overview Chapters
1. Nano-enhanced Polymer Applications in Oil and Gas Industry: A Review (pp. 1-18)
2. Application of Polymer Nanocomposites in Oil and Gas Industry (pp. 19-50)
EOR
3. Associative Polymer Applications in Chemical Injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery (pp. 51-74)
4. Xanthan Gum as Advanced Polymer System for Enhanced Oil Recovery (pp. 75-100)
Oil Spill Clean Up
5. Polymeric Materials for Oil Spill Clean Up and Phenol Removal (pp. 101-146)
6. Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Cryogel Nanocomposites for Oil Spill Clean Up (pp. 147-164)
Membranes and Adsorbents
7. Polyurethane Membranes for Gas Separation (pp. 165-202)
8. Polymer Modified/Enhanced Adsorbents for Gas Adsorption and Sweetening (pp. 203-230)
Coatings
9. Polymeric Pipeline Coatings for Oil and Gas Industry (pp. 231-262)
10. Biopolymer Coatings (pp. 263-292)
11. Epoxy Composite Coatings for Enhanced Corrosion Resistance (pp. 292-310)
Other
12 Thermally Conducting Polymer Nanocomposites: Synthesis, Properties and Applications (pp. 311-342)
About the author
Dr. Vikas Mittal worked as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at The Petroleum Institute (now part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Before, he was employed at BASF, Germany as polymer engineer and at Sun Chemical, UK as materials scientist. Dr. Mittal received his Ph D degree in 2006 from department of Materials and Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. He has been an active researcher in the field of polymer nanotechnology and its applications in various streams. He has published more than 125 peer reviewed papers on these subjects, along with 35 edited and authored books. His research accomplishments have also resulted in many patents. In addition, he has published many book chapters and has also delivered numerous keynote and invited lectures at the international conferences.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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