Due to the low success rate in high-temperature gas well
drilling
or workover operations, a new type of biobased temporary sealing material
was synthesized using vanillin, succinic anhydride (SA), cellulose,
and acetylacetone zinc hydrate (AZH) as catalysts. Infrared analysis
proved the synthesis of vanillin-derived epoxy and the formation of
a vitrimer with hydroxyl ester. The results of thermodynamic properties
tests show that it has excellent thermal stability with a high glass
transition temperature (T
g). The dynamic
mechanical test results show that the characteristic relaxation time
of the material at 120 °C is 3500 s and the self-healing rate
can reach 61% within 20 min. The test results of mechanical properties
show that under 10 MPa pressure, it has good elastic deformation performance,
the rebound rate is more than 36%, and the crushing rate is less than
17%. The degradation performance results show that the decomposition
increases to 80% under 120 °C and 1.2% NaOH. The comprehensive
performance evaluation results show that the new temporary plugging
material has good compatibility, and its plugging performance is better
than those of a gel, composite material, and shape memory polymer.
The maximum fracture plugging capacity is 5 × 4 mm, with a pressure
up to 10 MPa.