"Petroleum Drilling and Development Swelling Elastomers: Applications, Performance Analysis, and Material Modeling"

The main theme of this research monograph is the performance analysis of swelling elastomer seals used in petroleum drilling and development applications, using all three investigation methods: experimental, numerical, and analytical.

Swelling elastomers are being increasingly used as sealing elements in many applications in the petroleum industry. Pre- and post-swelling material characterization and performance analysis under actual field conditions are very important before the actual deployment of swell packers.
The major contributions and applications of this work include insight into the behavior of swelling elastomers and understanding of the swelling phenomenon, performance analysis and optimal selection of swelling elastomers for a given set of field conditions, and design improvement of swelling elastomer packers and other sealing applications.

Contents
1. Introductory Chapter: Swelling Elastomers in Petroleum Drilling and Development
2. Swelling Elastomer Applications in Petroleum Drilling and Development
3. Swelling Behavior of Elastomers under Water, Oil, and Acid
4. Experimental Setup for Swellable Elastomers in Cased and Open Holes
5. Long-Term Integrity Testing of Water-Swelling and Oil-Swelling Packers
6. Swelling Elastomers: Comparison of Material Models
7. Mechanical and Structural Behavior of Swelling Elastomers under Compressive Loading
8. Numerical Investigation of Elastomer Seal Performance
9. Swelling Elastomers and Tubular Expansion—Numerical Investigation
10. Analytical Model for Seal Contact Pressure
11. New Analytical Model for Swellable Materials


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