Screening of Synthesis Conditions of Polymers and the Effects on Viscosity Reduction Performance

Abstract

The optimum conditions were obtained by optimizing the reaction conditions of the polymerization. Under the conditions of monomer ratio of 1:1, the reaction temperature of 70 °C, the reaction time of 5h, self-polymers and binary copolymers of phenylethyl acrylate and styrene were prepared. By comparing the performance of viscosity reducer to heavy oil, the copolymer with octadecyl acrylate showed the best performance. When the viscosity reduction agent disperse heavy oil molecules, long chain can play a separation of heavy oil micelles, reduce friction, to prevent the combination of heavy oil molecules to achieve the role of viscosity reduction.