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Basic Technological Features of Production and Performance Evaluation of Proppants Used in Oil and Gas Production by Hydraulic Fracturing

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The results of studies of the structure, phase composition, and mechanical and chemical properties of aluminosilicate, magnesia-quartz, and glass-ceramic proppants (RosProp, BorProp, ForeRCP, Wauli, etc.) are reported. It is shown that glass-ceramic proppants outperform ceramic analogs because a highly efficient method of dispersing a melt jet into droplets is used to spherize the particles and because of the structural features manifested in the formation of a homogeneous dense material represented by microcrystals with pyroxene composition.

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Pavlyukevich, Y.G., Larionov, P.S. Basic Technological Features of Production and Performance Evaluation of Proppants Used in Oil and Gas Production by Hydraulic Fracturing. Glass Ceram 77, 463–468 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10717-021-00333-9

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