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Conventional acidizing struggles to remove complex, organic-rich scales in oil wells, and while strong organic solvents can help, their high cost and safety risks limit field use. To overcome these shortcomings, we developed a low-cost, safe permeability-enhanced-dispersion (PD) technique that first loosens and disperses the scale and then applies acid for thorough cleanup. The PD fluid (DL) contains a mutually soluble fatty alcohol amide phosphate dispersant (DL-F), ethanol, a surfactant blend, and a self-generating acid. Shale-oil scale from the Chang 7 Member was compressed into cylindrical cores to mimic mixed (inorganic + organic) deposits, and a new two-step protocolPD pretreatment followed by acid floodingwas evaluated through pressure decline, weight-loss measurements, and 3-D surface morphology. Relative to direct acidizing, PD pretreatment increased acid dissolution power by ≈ 20%, doubled overall dissolution efficiency in core-flood tests, and generated multibranched etched channels that markedly improved cleanup uniformity. A field pilot on Well H1 (September 2024) confirmed laboratory findings: daily liquid production rose from 6.13 (47.7% water cut) to 11.95 m d (42.3% water cut) 6 months after treatment, adding ∼350 t of oil. These results demonstrate that the PD-acid sequence provides a fast, deep, and even damage-removal alternative to costly organic solvents, offering a safe, economical method for routine acidizing of homogeneous reservoirs and showing strong potential for wider field adoption.
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Org Lett
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College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nonmetallic Crystalline and Energy Conversion Materials, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, P. R. China.
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Inorganic Chemistry I Institute, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany.
Herein, we report a solid-state polycyclotrimerization of 1,4-diethynylbenzene using mechanochemical activation in a ball mill, yielding a highly porous and hydrophobic hyperbranched polymer (HBP) with a specific surface area of up to 570 m g. The reaction, catalyzed by Fe(hmds) and conducted under solvent-free conditions, was optimized by varying milling time and frequency. This method enables the efficient synthesis of insoluble, porous organic polymers with high yields (up to 95%) and offers an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional solution-based polymerizations.
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October 2025
Department of Chemistry and Technology of Drugs, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a class of organic salts with melting points below 100°C. Owing to their unique chemical and physical properties, they are used as solvents and catalysts in various chemical transformations, progressively replacing common volatile organic solvents (VOCs) in green synthetic applications. However, their intrinsic ionic nature can restrict the use of mass spectrometric techniques to monitor the time progress of a reaction occurring in an IL medium, thus preventing one from following the formation of the reaction products or intercepting the reaction intermediates.
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January 2025
Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390 United States.
At present, two competing hyperpolarization (HP) techniques, dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) and parahydrogen (para-H) induced polarization (PHIP), can generate sufficiently high liquid state C signal enhancement for in vivo studies. PHIP utilizes the singlet spin state of para-H to create non-equilibrium spin populations. In hydrogenative PHIP, para-H is irreversibly added to unsaturated precursors, typically in the presence of a homogeneous catalyst.
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September 2025
School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
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