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Smart Proppants With Multiple Downhole Functionalities: Performance of Dow's VORARAD™ RA Coatings

Dow has developed a new polymer coating called VORARAD for proppants that has multiple functionalities and requires no external activator, simplifying fracking operations. Testing shows the coating significantly reduces radium release from proppants under a variety of loading amounts. The document provides information on Dow's polyurethane expertise and VORARAD coating performance and contact information for more details.

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Smart Proppants With Multiple Downhole Functionalities: Performance of Dow's VORARAD™ RA Coatings

Dow has developed a new polymer coating called VORARAD for proppants that has multiple functionalities and requires no external activator, simplifying fracking operations. Testing shows the coating significantly reduces radium release from proppants under a variety of loading amounts. The document provides information on Dow's polyurethane expertise and VORARAD coating performance and contact information for more details.

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Smart Proppants with Multiple Downhole Functionalities

For more than 60 years, Dow’s polyurethane science, technology and material
expertise have focused on delivering innovation with significant positive impact on
society and in select markets where our customers will benefit.

Dow has developed a new polymer solution for proppants with a wide range of
multi-functionality and no external activator. VORARAD™ Smart Proppant Coating
Technology significantly simplifies the entire fracking operation by keeping radium
where it has been for millions of years: downhole.

Performance of Dow’s VORARAD™ RA Coatings

16000
Cumulative Radium Out (μCi)

Baseline — No VORARAD™

Plot depicting the predicted


12000 efficacy of a proppant mix
15% VORARAD™
with increasing loading
25% VORARAD™
of resin-coated sand with
8000
VORARAD™ technology
33% VORARAD™

4000
50% VORARAD™

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For more information and product samples, contact us at your convenience:

dowpolyurethanes.com Dow North America The Dow Chemical Company


dowpolyurethanes@dow.com Toll-Free +1 800-441-4369 2030 Dow Center
Toll +1 989-832-1426 Midland, MI 48674

®
™ Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) or an affiliated company of Dow.
© 2018 The Dow Chemical Company. All rights reserved. 89374. Form No. 109-52255-01

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