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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 353, Issue -, Pages 727-735Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2018.07.142
Keywords
3-Furaldehyde; Heat-activated persulfate oxidation; Fe (III); Hydraulic fracturing; High pressure; Halogenated organic byproducts
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- Science Alliance, A Tennessee Center for Excellence
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Persulfate is used as an oxidizing breaker in hydraulic fracturing fluids to breakdown gelling agents and clean out wellbores. Persulfate may be activated using conditions like those encountered in the wellbore, producing strong oxidizing radicals that degrade organic compounds. Thus, this study examined persulfate activated transformation of organic additives in a simulated hydraulic fracturing brine by investigating the transformation of furfural. Pseudo-first-order reactions kinetics of furfural degradation in conditions that mimic a fracture, including high temperature, acidified pH, ferric sulfate, and a laboratory simulated hydraulic fracturing brine, were established. The activation energies for furfural removal in acidic (pH 2.54) hydraulic fracturing brine was 105.6 kJ mol(-1) without ferric sulfate and 105.1 kJ mol(-1) with 23.3 mg L-1 ferric sulfate. A high-pressure reactor was used to simulate the effects of pressure on persulfate activation. Increasing pressure was shown to increase activation of persulfate at 55 degrees C. Applying 3000 psi to the reactor nearly halved the apparent furfural activation energy compared to experiments at atmospheric pressure. Finally, reaction byproducts were presented with the findings showing that halogenated organic byproducts form in hydraulic fracturing brine during persulfate use.
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