Browsing by Subject "Proppants"
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(2009-05-15)The research objectives are to develop experimental and computational techniques to characterize and to study the influence of polymer coating on the mechanical response of walnut shell particles to be used as proppants. ...
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(2019-07-25)Currently, many engineering challenges addressing the flow of mixtures exist. Slickwater hydraulic fracturing is an economical method of unconventional resource extraction that can accelerate mixture flow. For this thesis, ...
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(2012-07-16)Proppants are a specific application of granular materials used in oil/gas well stimulation. Employment of hard and soft particle mixtures is one of the many approaches availed by the industry to improve fracture resistance ...