Complex Fluids and Hydraulic Fracturing
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Author(s)
Desroches, Jean
Robisson, Agathe
McKinley, Gareth H.
Barbati, Alexander C
Date Issued
April 2016
Journal
Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Citation
Barbati, Alexander C., Jean Desroches, Agathe Robisson, and Gareth H. McKinley. “Complex Fluids and Hydraulic Fracturing.” Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 7, no. 1 (June 7, 2016): 415–453.
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Abstract
Nearly 70 years old, hydraulic fracturing is a core technique for stimulating hydrocarbon production in a majority of oil and gas reservoirs. Complex fluids are implemented in nearly every step of the fracturing process, most significantly to generate and sustain fractures and transport and distribute proppant particles during and following fluid injection. An extremely wide range of complex fluids are used: naturally occurring polysaccharide and synthetic polymer solutions, aqueous physical and chemical gels, organic gels, micellar surfactant solutions, emulsions, and foams. These fluids are loaded over a wide range of concentrations with particles of varying sizes and aspect ratios and are subjected to extreme mechanical and environmental conditions. We describe the settings of hydraulic fracturing (framed by geology), fracturing mechanics and physics, and the critical role that non-Newtonian fluid dynamics and complex fluids play in the hydraulic fracturing process.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-080615-033630
