| abstract |
Water soluble, substantially linear, polymers having single point intrinsic viscosity above about 3 are formed from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer that includes a group --B n A m R where A is propoxy or butoxy, B is ethoxy, n is zero or an integer of 2 to 100 and m is zero or an integer less than n, and R is a hydrophobic group of at least 8 carbon atoms and comonomer selected from non-ionic monomers and dialkylamino alkyl (meth) -acrylates or -acrylamides wherein at least one of the monomers is tertiary amine acid addition or quaternary ammonium salt. The resultant water soluble, high molecular weight, cationic polymers are useful as flocculants and as viscosifiers of aqueous acid solutions such as downhole acid stimulation fluids. |