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A Rheology Laboratory is being established at UT's Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering; this facility will
provide efficient and systematic characterization of rheology of oil-production-related fluids.
The Lab is currently focusing on the rheological characterization of EOR-related fluids, such as aqueous polymer
solutions, polymer gels and microemulsions; but the existing capability for drilling fluids and completion fluids is
being incorporated, and new capability will be gradually added.
Current lab equipment includes a rheometer (TA Instruments' ARES LS-1) which has independent strain and stress controls and can
measure the shear-rate-dependent viscosity, and the oscillatory viscosity and other viscoelastic properties of non-Newtonian fluids.
A Fann 50 viscometer which can measure shear viscosity at high temperature and a number of Fann 35 viscometers for routine measurements
of shear viscosity are also included.
Additionally, there is a LS-30 viscometer which measures the low-shear viscosity and a Brookfield viscometer that is
currently used for rheology of cement slurries.
For more information, please contact Dr. Do-Hoon Kim (dhkim@che.utexas.edu, 512-471-6186) or Prof. Chun Huh (chunhuh@mail.utexas.edu, 512-471-3252).
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