types of high purity polyacrylamide an overview in europe

types of high purity polyacrylamide an overview in europe
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  • What is polyacrylamide?
  • Polyacrylamide is a term that has various definitions. For our purposes here, we will simply term polyacrylamide as a polymer that contains an acrylamide monomer at some level. Polyacrylamides make up the largest group of polymers in comparison to other synthetic polymeric polyelectrolytes.
  • What is high molecular weight polyacrylamide (PAM)?
  • Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative High molecular weight (106–3 × 107 Da) polyacrylamide (PAM) is commonly used as a flocculant in water and wastewater treatment, as a soil conditioner, and as a viscosity modifier and friction reducer in both enhanced oil recovery and high volume hydraulic fracturing.
  • What are the different types of polyacrylamide?
  • There is a wide range of diverse solution polyacrylamides available in the commercial marketplace (anionic, cationic, and nonionic). They cover a wide range of charges and can range in molecular weights from the thousands to one or two million Daltons.
  • What are the application areas of polyacrylamide?
  • Several of the application areas are discussed briefly in the following. Very high-molecular-weight polyacrylamides (both anionic and cationic) are used extensively in the area of hydraulic fracturing or stimulation for the increased production of natural gas, shale gas, tight gas, tight oil, and coal seam gas.