Adeline Dupas

• Aims: Characterization of polymers used in enhanced oil recovery- determination of guidelines for oil industry to foresee polymer mechanical degradation • Formulation of polymer solutions with flexible polymer and polyelectrolyte in different solvents • Core flooding tests: influence of mechanical degradation on polymer injectivity in porous media • Use of size-exclusion chromatography with multi-angle light scattering to study physical chemistry of polymers solutions • Rheological characterization

• Development of Aquaset™ acrylic resins for buildings insulation: formulation and tests of Aquaset™ properties • Experimental tests of Aquaset™/Additives (surfactants) system: contact angle measurement, water uptake tests • Work on customers project, oral presentation in English, writing English reports

• In partnership with IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil Malmaison, FRANCE • Subject: Mechanical degradation of polymer solutions used in enhanced oil recovery • Studies followed in IFP training: Drilling and production, Petroleum Economics, Motors and English

• In partnership with the Ecole des Mines de Paris and Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers • Studies followed: polymers (process and characterisation), formulation, physical chemistry, nanotechnotechnologies