high molecular weight medium anionic polyacrylamide road soil

high molecular weight medium anionic polyacrylamide road soil
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  • 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.
  • Does adding anionic polyacrylamide improve soil aggregation?
  • Adding anionic polyacrylamide (PAM) to soils stabilizes existing aggregates and improves bonding between and aggregation of soil particles. However, the dependence of PAM efficacy as an aggregate stabilizing agent with soils having different clay mineralogy has not been studied.
  • Can polyacrylamide be used as a soil conditioner?
  • The favorable effects of the environmentally friendly, nontoxic, anionic polyacrylamide (PAM) as a soil conditioner have long been established. Some uncertainties exist, however, regarding the effects of PAM molecular weight (MW) on its performance as a soil amendment and its ability to penetrate into aggregates and stabilize interior surfaces.
  • What is anionic polyacrylamide?
  • Anionic polyacrylamide is polymer with a large number of negatively charged moieties in the long chains of the PAM macromolecules. It can be obtained by partial hydrolysis of polyacrylamide neutral amide groups, which is shown in (3). This process occurs under moderate temperature by adding sodium hydroxide to the PAM solution [4, 6].