Abstract: Fiberglass batts are installed between the side-by-side studs in the interior walls of a home or building to insulate the walls and minimize sound transfer. Each fiberglass batt has a paper backing that projects from the side edges of the batt to provide for attachment to the spaced, side-by-side wall studs that comprise the internal frame to which the walls are secured. However, a significant percentage of the backing is produced with a noncompliant, reduced width and thus those batts are discarded. In the present invention a stripper mechanism between an input conveyor that receives the inferior batts and an output conveyor strips the backing therefrom so that the fiberglass may be used in other applications.

Abstract: A stripping method for stripping a support plate from a laminate including a substrate and the support plate adhered to the wafer via an adhesive layer, in which the adhesive layer is formed from an adhesive compound soluble in a non-polar solvent or a highly polar solvent; and the stripping method includes supplying the non-polar solvent or the highly polar solvent, so that the non-polar solvent or the highly polar solvent is retained at least on an edge portion of that surface of the laminate which faces the support plate, and on a lateral surface of the laminate.

Abstract: The invention concerns vehicle wheel service machines, in particular automatic tyre changers, having a wheel or rim mounting device (2) which is mounted rotatably about an axis (11) and to which a wheel (1) is to be fixed. The vehicle wheel service machine comprises first and second detectors (6, 7) and a controller to detect the rotational speeds of the rim mounting device (2) and the wheel (1) respectively. Furthermore, a method for controlling the rotational speed of the rim mounting device (2) is provided. If the detected rotational speeds are different, slipping is determined and eliminated by approximating the rotational speed of the rim mounting device (2) to that of the wheel (1). A rim mounting device (2) can comprise a rim mounting plate (23) having a rim support surface (24) with a high-friction lining adapted to increase friction between the rim mounting plate (23) and the wheel (1).

Abstract: A covering for an architectural opening with improved insulating properties in one embodiment includes face-to-face cellular insulative components defining a fabric with dual layers of cells with the fabric being retractably mounted in a headrail so as to either be rolled about a roller or gathered adjacent to the bottom of the headrail. A first component of the fabric includes a pair of spaced parallel sheets of material interconnected with horizontally-extending flexible vanes so as to define a plurality of horizontally-extending, vertically adjacent cells of generally rectangular cross-sectional configuration. A second component of the fabric is mounted on one sheet of the first component of the fabric so as to form a plurality of vertically adjacent drooping segments of fabric forming a roman-shade appearance. Single or multiple layers of the components can be used with or without the other type of component.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing pulp. The manufactured pulp includes at least 30 w-% nanofibrillated cellulose material measured from the dried pulp. A raw material is introduced to a system. The raw material includes cellulose. At least one type of an optical brightening agent is dosed as a refining additive to the system. The raw material is refined in the presence of the dosed optical brightening agent in at least one pre-refining stage or fibrillation stage to form fibrillar cellulose material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improving the properties of a paper product and to the corresponding paper product, wherein the paper product is formed from a fiber-based material. According to the invention the fines fraction is separated from chemical cellulose fiber-based pulp substantially after refining, and the cellulose fiber-based pulp from which the fines fraction has been separated is formed into the paper product in a papermaking apparatus. In addition, the invention relates to a method for manufacturing an additive component and to the corresponding additive component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to aqueous compositions for increasing dry strength in paper, wherein the composition comprises cationic starch graft polymers and aluminium containing compounds. Said compositions may be added to paper stock suspensions prior to the sheet formation or applied to the surface of the paper web in order to increase the dry strength of the produced paper.

Abstract: A method for mixing a chemical into a process liquid including: injecting the chemical into the process liquid flowing through a flow pipe; forming reaction products by a reaction involving the chemical occurring in the process flow; applying an electric field or magnetic field to a region of the flow pipe adjacent to the reaction occurring in the process flow, and suppressing the precipitation of the chemical or the reaction products on the surfaces of the pipe due to the electric or magnetic field.

Abstract: A mechanical pulping apparatus including: a pre-treatment defibration device receiving comminuted cellulosic material; a primary refiner receiving the comminuted cellulosic material discharged from the pre-treatment defibration device; a source of a biological agent; a first conduit from the source of the biological agent coupled to pre-treatment defibration device, wherein the first conduit delivers the biological agent to or immediately upstream of an inlet to the defibration device; a source of a chemical agent, and a second conduit from the source of the chemical agent coupled to primary refiner, wherein the second conduit delivers the chemical agent to the primary refiner.

Abstract: A system for making a material having domains with insulated boundaries is provided. The system includes a droplet spray subsystem configured to create molten alloy droplets and direct the molten alloy droplets to a surface, a spray subsystem configured to direct a spray of an agent at deposited droplets on the surface. The agent creates insulation layers on the deposited droplets such that the droplets form a material having domains with insulated boundaries on the surface.

Abstract: A system for making a material having domains with insulated boundaries is provided. The system includes a combustion chamber, a gas inlet configured to inject a gas into the combustion chamber, a fuel inlet configured to inject a fuel into the combustion chamber, an igniter subsystem configured to ignite a mixture of the gas and the fuel to create a predetermined temperature and pressure in the combustion chamber, a metal powder inlet configured to inject a metal powder comprised of particles coated with an electrically insulating material into the combustion, wherein the predetermined temperature creates conditioned droplets comprised of the metal powder in the chamber, and an outlet configured to eject and accelerate combustion gases and the conditioned droplets from the combustion chamber and towards a surface such that conditioned droplets adhere to the surface to form a material having domains with insulated boundaries thereon.

Abstract: One embodiment is a method. The method includes providing a casting apparatus including a first chamber and a second chamber, wherein the first chamber is isolated from the second chamber. The method includes charging an alloy composition into a crucible present in the first chamber and melting the alloy composition in the crucible to form a molten alloy composition. The method includes discharging the molten alloy composition into a casting mold present in the second chamber; applying a positive pressure to the first chamber to create a first chamber pressure; and applying a vacuum to the second chamber to create a second chamber pressure, wherein the first chamber pressure is greater than the second chamber pressure. The method further includes casting a filament or a turbine component from the molten alloy composition in the casting mold. An apparatus for casting a filament or a turbine component is also provided.

Abstract: A device and method for recovering energy from a hot medium, in particular from hot wort or hot mash for a beer brewery, including a first heat exchanger device for a heat transfer medium that is arranged in particular downstream of a device for heating, boiling or keeping wort or mash warm and is designed such that the heat transfer medium can be heated while cooling preferably wort or mash, wherein at least one heat consumer of the brewery is heated with the heat transfer medium. The heat transfer medium cooled down during heating the heat consumer can be recirculated to the first heat exchanger device in the circuit.

Abstract: In a battery cooling device 1 that cools a battery 2 that is arranged in a battery accommodation space 5 by taking in the air in a passenger compartment 6 through an air intake port part 12 provided in a vehicle interior trim 7 and a first air intake pipe 13, the first air intake pipe 13 is provided with an auxiliary air intake port 31 that opens to a space 30 formed between the vehicle interior trim 7 and a vehicle interior panel 8 that is located at a passenger-compartment outer side of the vehicle interior to trim 7.

Abstract: Provides a cooling device (100) for cooling at least one pluggable module (200) each having a pluggable component (20) and a frame (32) for accommodating the pluggable component, the frame having an opening (33) on a top wall thereof. The cooling device comprises at least one thermal conductive block (40), a heat radiator (70) and a resilient thermal conductive pad (60). The resilient thermal conductive pad being adapted to be in a substantially released position when the pluggable component is decoupled from the frame and substantially biased when the pluggable component is inserted into the frame thus exerting a biasing force on the thermal conductive block and the heat radiator whereby the thermal conductive block is pressed through the opening of the frame into direct thermal contact with the pluggable element of the pluggable module for conducting the heat generated by the pluggable component to the heat radiator through the thermal conductive block and the resilient thermal conductive pad.

Abstract: A cooling tower system, including a principal cooling tower; an auxiliary cooling tower for receiving a portion of the warm water flow into the main tower; a central shaft mounted vertically in the auxiliary tower; a turbine mounted on a portion of the shaft; a cooling blade mounted on the upper end of the shaft; a water jetting system delivering warm water under pressure from the main cooling tower into the auxiliary cooling tower to impart rotation to the turbine blades for imparting rotation to the cooling blade; a quantity of high efficiency film fill in that portion of the tower below the turbine for receiving the water coming off of the turbine blades; air flow produced by rotation of the cooling blade upward through the fill in order to cool the water before it is returned to the main cooling tower.

Abstract: The invention is a hybrid cooling system for condensing the exhaust steam of a steam turbine (10), which cooling system comprises a dry cooling circuit (11), a dry air-cooled unit (12) performing heat dissipation of cooling water flowing therein, and a wet cooling circuit (14) and a wet cooled unit (15) performing heat dissipation of the cooling water flowing therein. According to the invention, the cooling water flowing in the dry cooling circuit (11) is separated from the cooling water flowing in the wet cooling circuit (14), and the dry and wet cooling circuits (11, 14) are connected to a common condenser.

Abstract: A method to dissipate heat build-up in a structural component is disclosed. In one embodiment, the structural component is a composite pipe for carrying a hot fluid, e.g., petroleum products. The method comprises providing a protective sheath disposed around the structural component and forming an air space between the structural component and the sheath. The sheath has at least two gaps on its surface, with the gaps being sufficiently spaced apart to allow air flowing through the air space from one gap to another to dissipate heat build-up from the hot fluid contained within the structural component. In one embodiment, an intumescent material is applied near the gaps, which material expands when heated to a temperature in a fire to effectively close the gaps and protect the structural component from the fire.

Abstract: A process for cooling an acid that is withdrawn from an absorption apparatus of a sulfuric acid plant includes pumping the acid to be cooled from an acid pump tank and supplying the acid to a shell space of a heat exchanger. Water is supplied as a heat transport medium to heat transfer elements disposed in the shell space so as to at least partially convert, by heat transfer from the acid, the water to steam. The acid which was cooled in the heat exchanger is supplied back to the absorption apparatus. The water is separated from the steam in a steam drum. The separated water is recirculated to the heat exchanger using a pump.

Abstract: A thermal module and a method of manufacturing the thermal module are disclosed. The thermal module includes a heat pipe, at least one first linking member, at least one second linking member, and a mounting member having a plurality of stopping sections. The first and second linking member have a first and a second recess, respectively, for receiving and connecting to two opposite lateral sides of a heat-absorption end of the heat pipe; and a plurality of first and second engaging sections, respectively, for correspondingly connecting with the stopping sections, so that the first and second linking members, the mounting member, and the heat pipe are connected to one another to form an integral unit. With these arrangements, the heat pipe can be in direct contact with a heat source to absorb and transfer heat, allowing the thermal module to have effectively reduced thermal resistance and increased heat transfer efficiency.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic component, such as a processor, is thermally coupled to a heat sink via a heat pipe. The heat pipe may contain a working fluid configured to freeze below a threshold temperature corresponding to the minimum operating temperature of the electronic component. Accordingly, if the temperature of the electronic component and/or the working fluid is below the threshold temperature, then the working fluid freezes, decreasing the amount of thermal energy transferred from the electronic component to the heat sink. The electronic component may self-heat until it is at least above the threshold temperature. Above the threshold temperature, the working fluid is in a fluid phase and increases the amount of thermal energy transferred from the electronic component to the heat sink via the heat pipe, and thereby reducing the temperature of the electronic component.

Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of heat sinks, in particular to a fin heat sink with an improved structure and a processing method thereof. The fin heat sink with the improved structure comprises a pedestal and a plurality of cooling fins, wherein roots of the cooling fins are connected with the pedestal and provided with clamping grooves the bottoms of which are opened; clamping pieces corresponding to the clamping grooves are extended out of the pedestal; the cooling fins are clamped and connected with the clamping pieces through the clamping grooves; and the plurality of the cooling fins are subjected to layered arrangement to form a cooling fin group.

Abstract: An exemplary heat dissipation system includes a built-in heat dissipation module for being positioned in a computer case, a liquid pump communicating with the built-in heat dissipation module, and an add-on heat dissipation module for being positioned outside of the computer case. The built-in heat dissipation module includes cooling fluid. The add-on heat dissipation module includes a receiving frame and a heat dissipation device fixed to the receiving frame. The receiving frame engages with the heat dissipation device to receive the cooling fluid. The receiving frame communicates with the built-in heat dissipation module and the liquid pump, such that the cooling fluid can be circulated between the built-in heat dissipation module and the receiving frame under the control of the liquid pump.

Abstract: A body temperature regulating garment apparatus that removes heat from blood flow then releases the heat to the atmosphere by evaporative cooling lowering the temperature of a body. Heat of the blood is absorbed by a moist superabsorbent material, that in turn is maintained at a temperature cooler than the blood by a removable and condition able thermal pack used to store temperature. The enclosure device used to store the superabsorbent material is formable around the thermal pack and around a separable clothing garment such as a scarf or a bandanna. The scarf or bandanna is used to secure the enclosure device to a body part where gathering forms the enclosure to the body part shape, maximizing contact with the area and secured with a gathering means. The clothing garment can be used for displaying advertising, brands or characters, making it more valuable to providers.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for an air conditioner of a motor vehicle is provided. The heat exchanger has at least one pipe for guiding a fluid and air conduction component arranged adjacent to the at least one pipe for conducting an air flow to flow around the at least one pipe. The air conduction component thereby has at least one separating section, which is embodied to separate the air flow into a first partial air flow and a second partial air flow. The at least one separating section is formed by an adhesive applied to the air conduction component, wherein the adhesive contains a volume-increasing component for increasing a volume of the adhesive.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger header, wherein said header includes a lower portion (3) having two longitudinal edges (7), an upper portion (4) forming a cover, and at least one flange (9, 10, 30). According to the invention, said flange (9, 10, 30) has a profile (11, 17, 37) that enables the longitudinal edges (7) of the header, which are provided at least locally folded, to be received at the flanks (12, 19, 38) thereof, so as to simultaneously crimp the flange (9, 10, 30) onto said cover (4) and retain the cover (4) on said lower portion (3).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat transfer pipe comprising a pipe element and a number of ribs arranged around the outer circumference of the pipe element and extending outwards, annular segments being formed encompassing the ribs on the pipe element and fastened to one another with a spring-elastic clamping device, in particular on two annular segments respectively forming a half shell.

Abstract: A process (or method) for manufacturing a heat exchanger includes inserting at least one plate for heat emission between two adjacent corrugations of a corrugated body. The corrugations are pressed against each other such that the inserted plate is clamped in between the corrugations in a positive-locking and non-positive manner. The heat exchanger for cooling fluids includes a tube, which is designed partially as a corrugated body and has at least one plate inserted for heat emission between two corrugations of the corrugated body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a road lamp cooling management device including a plurality of cooling pipes installed into fins of an LED light source coupled to the large road lamp, and an open end of each of cooling pipes is inserted and fixed directly into a fixing hole base of an upper lamp casing, such that high heat generated by the LED light source can be cooled by the fins as a first-stage cooling and circulated and cooled by the plurality of cooling pipes as a second-stage cooling.

Abstract: A heat dissipation device for a heat-generating component includes a heat dissipation fin group and a side plate. The heat dissipation fin group comprises a plurality of heat dissipation fins arranged one on the other, each of the heat dissipation fins comprises a base plate and a fold extending vertically from a side of the base plate. The folds of the heat dissipation fins located at a common side are combined with each other to form a side surface. The side plate covers the side surface of the heat dissipation fin group, and an exposed surface of the side plate includes a plurality of strips formed thereon.

Abstract: A passive heat exchanger for gimbal thermal management is disclosed. In one embodiment, a thermal management system includes one or more electronics and/or sensor equipment. Further, the thermal management system includes a thermally conductive shell configured to house the electronics and/or sensor equipment. Furthermore, the thermally conductive shell includes an external surface and an internal surface. In addition, at least some portion of the external surface and the internal surface of the thermally conductive shell include an extended surface configured to reduce thermal resistance between an interior region of the thermally conductive shell and ambient air.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for using a low-energy source for controlling the air temperature in a room space (5). In the invention, the ratio of the desired inside air temperature in the room space (5) to the outside air (10) temperature is compared. Furthermore the temperature of a heat transfer liquid coming from an extraction circuit (1) is determined. On the basis of these detected temperature levels, heat energy of the heat transfer liquid is regulated, if necessary, after which the heat transfer liquid is channelled to a supply air radiator (15) controlling the temperature of air (7) to be supplied to the room space (5) in order to control this air temperature. At the end of the circulation, the heat transfer liquid is channelled via a return circuit (3) of means back to the extraction circuit (1).

Abstract: A thermal hydrocarbon recovery apparatus comprises: a plurality of steam injector tubes each provided with a plurality of injector autonomous inflow control devices, AICDs, spaced apart from each other along the length of each steam injector tube; a plurality of production tubes each provided with a plurality of production autonomous inflow control devices, AICDs, spaced apart from each other along the length of each production tube; wherein said injector AICDs are arranged to inject steam into a geological formation so as to reduce the viscosity of hydrocarbons in the formation; and wherein said production AICDs are arranged to permit the flow of heated hydrocarbons into said production tubes for movement to the surface.

Abstract: A cleaning tool (1) for use in cleaning ferrous material from a wellbore has a magnetic cleaning functionality by provision of magnets (5) in an Halbach array on a downhole tool component of a workstring. The Halbach array may be an Halbach cylinder positioned on a mandrel wherein the magnetic field is external to the cylinder with substantially zero magnetic field within the tool.

Abstract: A grapple for controlling, monitoring and stopping the flow of oil, natural gas and the like from a broken, flanged pipe. A housing encloses a ring of material that is more ductile than the broken pipe flange. The force applied by a weight, presses a driving device against the broken pipe flange periphery, the force so applied distorts the ductile ring, thereby establishing a fluid-tight seal between the flange and the housing.

Abstract: A sonic oil recovery apparatus for use in a well has an injector tubing extending interior of the casing of the well, and a resonator tube affixed to or within the injector tubing. The resonator tube has an interior flow pathway so as to allow a fluid to flow therethrough from the injector tubing. The resonator tube is suitable for transmitting an acoustic signal approximately equal to the resonate frequency of a formation in the well. The resonator tube can have a plurality of orifices plates formed therein such that the fluid flowing through the resonator tube generates the acoustic signal. The resonator tube can alternatively be a solid state acoustic resonator therein.

Abstract: A downhole tool for use in a well. A pumpable plug is used to urge bottom hole assemblies to a desired location in a well. The pumpable plug has a diameter greater than the maximum outer diameter of the casing in which the bottom hole assembly is to be located.

Abstract: The invention provides for a jetting tool for use with a drillstring. The tool generally includes a tubular main body having an inlet and an outlet arranged in fluid communication via a fluid conduit, the main body defining at least one aperture along its length. The tool also includes an elongate outer ring assembly configured for fitment about the main body to enclose the at least one aperture. This ring assembly defines an upper circumferential fluid port and a lower circumferential fluid port, each port configured to operatively direct fluid towards the other. The tool also typically includes a valve assembly receivable inside the fluid conduit, the valve assembly displaceable between a drilling position, wherein fluid is able to pass from the inlet to the outlet via the fluid conduit, and a jetting position, in which fluid is diverted from the inlet to the upper and lower fluid ports via the aperture.

Abstract: A well screen assembly includes an elongate base pipe, a shroud layer about the base pipe, and a mesh layer between the shroud layer and the base pipe. A portion of the mesh layer overlaps another portion of the mesh layer to form an area of overlap. A spine is positioned proximate substantially an entire length of the area of overlap, and transmits a force from the shroud layer to the mesh layer that compresses and seals the area of overlap against passage of particulate.

Abstract: Operators manufacture a wellscreen by forming a wire-wrapped screen on a base pipe. Rather than stopping and restarting winding, the desired length of screen is completed along the base pipe, and then the wire screen is segmented into a plurality of screen sections as required for the various zones and details of the implementation. Operators arrange the screen sections relative to one another on the base pipe, which can have different lengths with and without perforations. On the free ends of these separate screen sections, mating split ring components fit around the free ends and the base pipes. Male edges of one split ring component mate to complementary female edges of another to form the end ring around the screen section and base pipe, and longitudinal welds made in seams along the mating edges affix the split ring components together.

Abstract: Methods of isolating a portion of a wellbore comprising placing a sealant composition into a subterranean formation after drilling of the wellbore therein and subjecting the sealant composition to ionizing radiation wherein subjecting the sealant composition to the ionizing radiation alters the set modifier. The sealant composition comprises a set modifier selected from the group consisting of an accelerator, an oxidizing agent, a set retarder, and combinations thereof. And the sealant composition comprises a polymeric component.

Abstract: An assembly for monitoring load on a drum during an operation in a well with a well access line deployed from the drum. The assembly may include multiple line detection mechanisms for acquiring real-time information relative to dynamic characteristics of the lone over the course of the operation. The assembly also includes a processor for computing the real-time information in light of pre-stored information relative to physical characteristics of the line and the drum. As a result, real-time monitoring of a load on the drum may be achieved. Thus, the operation may be adjusted in real-time as necessary to avoid over- loading of the drum. Additionally, a drum load history may be recorded so as to better account for the true condition of the drum following successive operations.

Abstract: A method for managing a fracturing operation. In one implementation, the method may include positioning a seismic source and at least one seismic receiver near a hydrocarbon reservoir; pumping a fracturing fluid into a well bore of the hydrocarbon reservoir such that the fracturing fluid may include an additive that enhances acoustic impedance between the fracturing fluid and subsurface formations in which the hydrocarbon reservoir is located and that produces a foam; performing a seismic survey with the seismic source and the at least one seismic receiver during the fracturing operation; and identifying locations of the fracturing fluid within subsurface formations in which the hydrocarbon reservoir is located.

Abstract: A process for the recovery of hydrocarbon such as bitumen/EHO from a hydrocarbon bearing formation in which are situated an upper injection well and a lower production well, the method comprising the steps: preheating an area around and between the wells by circulating hot solvent through the completed interval of each of the wells until sufficient hydraulic communication between both wells is achieved; injecting one of more hydrocarbon solvents into the upper injection well at or above critical temperature of the solvent or solvent mixture, thereby causing a mixture of hydrocarbon and solvent to flow by gravity drainage to the lower production well; and producing the hydrocarbon to the surface through the lower production well.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and instructions encoded in a computer-readable medium can perform operations related to simulating injection treatments applied to a subterranean formation from multiple well bores in the subterranean formation. A subterranean formation model representing rock blocks of a subterranean formation is received. Information on multiple injection treatments for multiple well bores in the subterranean formation is received. The subterranean formation model and the information on the injection treatments is used to predict a response of each of the rock blocks to forces acting on the rock block during the injection treatments. The injection treatments may include, for example, multiple fracture treatments for simultaneous application to the subterranean formation. In some implementations, injection treatments may be designed for a multiple-well bore system based on the predicted response of the rock blocks.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for producing hydrocarbons from reservoirs. A provided method includes drilling a first horizontal well substantially proximate to a base of a reservoir and drilling a second horizontal well at a horizontal offset from the first horizontal well. Fluid communication is established between the first horizontal well and the second horizontal well through cyclic production processes. A mobilizing fluid is injected through the second horizontal well and fluids are produced from the first horizontal well.

Abstract: A method relates to improving production rate and recovery of heavy oil or bitumen and reducing heat loss to over and under burden in a steam-assisted production process. The method includes strategically injecting recycled carbon dioxide into the reservoir between production wells. The heat insulation and solvent effects provided by carbon dioxide dissolved in the oil phase facilitate the desired improvement on oil recovery, and simultaneously sequester the CO2 back into the reservoir.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for producing hydrocarbons from reservoirs. A provided method includes drilling a first horizontal well substantially proximate to a base of a reservoir and drilling a second horizontal well at a horizontal offset from the first horizontal well. Fluid communication is established between the first horizontal well and the second horizontal well through cyclic production processes. A vertical mobilizing agent is injected into the reservoir and a lateral mobilizing agent is imposed on the reservoir. Fluids are produced from the first horizontal well.

Abstract: A gravel packing assembly gravel packs a horizontal borehole. Operators wash down the borehole using an inner string in a first position by flowing fluid from the inner string through the apparatus' toe. Operators then gravel pack by moving the inner string to one or more flow ports between a screen and the toe. Slurry flows into the borehole from the flow ports, and returns from the borehole flow through the screen. The gravel in the slurry can pack the borehole in an alpha-beta wave from toe to heel. In another condition, operators can move the inner string to a second flow port so slurry can flow into the borehole through a shunt extending from the second flow port. When gravel packing is done, operators move the inner string to a port collar in a liner of the assembly to cement the liner in the borehole.

Abstract: Methods and fluids are provided for the placement of a water-swellable polymer into a subterranean formation. The methods and fluids include a placement fluid that has an acidic aqueous phase. The water-swellable polymer does not substantially swell in the acidic aqueous phase. The acid is allowed or caused to be spent downhole, whereby the water-swellable polymer can then swell in the formation. In an embodiment, an oil-external emulsion having an internal acidic water phase is provided for placement of a water-swellable polymer into a subterranean formation. Preferably, the oil-external emulsion is adapted to break as the acid contained in the internal water phase is allowed or caused to be spent downhole.