https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/CI-1040-(PD18
Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) is often used during hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations as a fluid viscosifier to facilitate proppant delivery. However, the accumulation of residual CMC at fracture faces can result in formation damage, thereby impeding oil and gas recovery. Whereas harsh chemical oxidizers are typically added to disrupt these polymer accumulations, there is now industrial interest in developing clean, biological approaches for the degradation of CMC under fracking conditions. Using a methanogenic cultur