| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Progress towards Understanding the Synthesis and Behavior of Metals Far from Equilibrium: A SMD Symposium Honoring Enrique Lavernia on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
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| Presentation Title |
Tracer Impregnated nc-materials and Dissolvable Solids for Controlled & Bulk Release Machinable into Downhole Tools for Sensing and Characterization |
| Author(s) |
Indranil Roy, Ting Chen Roy, Jing Zhou |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Indranil Roy |
| Abstract Scope |
Water and oil soluble tracers, wherein tracer material is a nc-powder or liquid are often used in oilfield for sensing and reservoir characterization. Many attempts have been made to integrate tracers in light weight high strength nc-materials and dissolvable alloys, however unsuccessfully. Here we present our novel approach to include tracers, including quantum dots on silica substrates and nano-electronics into the DNA of nc-alloys and dissolvable materials. Mechanisms encompass matrix mixing and impregnating, in a permeable and porous dissolvable scaffold for controlled & bulk release as well as downhole characterization. Applications are many-fold. Tracer impregnated nc-materials and dissolvable solids can be of any shape or form, for example ball for packers to isolate zones; rings deployed anywhere in a wellbore or proppants to be blended with conventional particulates and injected in the formation. Tracers released from such alloys on reaction with deployed environments can be made to act as timers. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Undecided |