Acknowledgements

The authors would like to extend their appreciation to Grace Hicks and Tayler Hunt from the Chemical Engineering Department, University of New Brunswick, for their technical involvement during the rheological evaluation of the SAP-AP systems. The authors are grateful to Sasol Chemicals and SNF Floerger for providing surfactant and polymer samples. Financial support from the University of New Brunswick through the Sabbatical Research Grant and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is also acknowledged.
