Manufacturing Ceramic Proppants for Hydraulic Fracturing
2017-11-7 · They must also be crush resistant to withstand closure stresses which exceed 8,000 to 10,000 psi, which factors into the choice of ceramic over other materials such as silica sand (ScienceDirect, section 3.2). Most importantly, to remain profitable, proppant manufacturers must generate high yields when manufacturing batches of proppants, which ...
