Energy & Sustainability – Page 38

Fabrication and Design of Carbon Nanomaterials Based Scale Monitoring Smart Sensor Systems

Younes H., Jelbuldina M., Sofela S.O., Tizan L., Al Ghaferi A., Saadat I., Masdar, AE

Scale is the creation of inorganic soluble salts from aqueous brines during oil and gas production. The scale deposits at the internal surface of the pipelines under the supersaturation conditions. The deposition of the scale [...]

Inert, Corrosion Resistant CVD Coating for Oil and Gas Service

Mattzela J.B., Smith D., Yuan M., Higgins M., Barone G., SilcoTek Corporation, US

Estimates of the cost of corrosion within US industries often exceed $150 billion. Challenges within the often complicated production techniques of the oil and gas industry have led to increased efforts to control these costs. [...]

Development of New Surfactants for CO2 Foam Enhanced Oil Recovery

Nguyen Q.P., Ren G., The University of Texas at Austin, US

Sweep efficiency in CO2 enhanced oil recovery processes are major problem owing to the unfavorable mobility of CO2. One method of controlling CO2 mobility is through the use of foam. CO2 foam in the past [...]

Field Application of Nanoparticle-Based Invert Emulsion Drilling Fluids

Borisov A., Husein M., Hareland G., nFluids, CA

Abstract. Application of nanotechnology in drilling fluids for the oil and gas industry has been a focus of several recent studies (Zakaria et al. 2012; Contreras et al., 2014). Zakaria et al. (2012) developed a [...]

Multifunctional Nanocomposites for Oil and Gas

Sherman A., Powdermet Inc/Terves Inc, US

The ability to design and manufacture highly engineered multiphase materials enables the independent (actually interdependent) control over physical and mechanical properties, and kinetic response of structural materials. The production of "materials that do more" offer [...]

Materials for Oil, Gas & Biofuels

Renewables-source Hydrogen Systems: Alternatives to Electricity for Transmission, Storage, and Integration

Leighty B., The Leighty Foundation, US

Electricity systems will be inadequate to humanity's urgent task of rebuilding its largest industry -- energy -- from ~85% fossil today to 100% renewable sources by Year 2100. To supply all energy, from all sources [...]

Gasification Technology Developed for the Production of Renewable Hydrogen

Dodd D.M., Hazard J., Sierra Energy, US

Hydrogen fuels from renewable sources are considered some of the most promising alternative fuels for reducing oil consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution. Sierra Energy’s FastOx technology is a ﬁxed-bed gasification system that breaks [...]

Tuning of Nafion® by HKUST-1 as coordination network to Enhance Proton Conductivity for Fuel Cell Applications

Kim H.-J., Talukdar K., Choi S-J, Kyungpook National University, KR

MOFs have highly ordered structures and modular nature that can serve as a scaffold to anchor acidic groups and improve efficient proton transfer pathways. HKUST-1, a MOF material containing CuII–paddle wheel type nodes and 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate [...]

Catalytic Performance Enhancement by Low Temperature Plasma Treatment

Miley G.H., Srivastava S.N., Chen G., UiUC/NPL Associates, US

Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell electrocatalysts are composed of noble metals (e.g. platinum), which are scarce and expensive. A simple plasma-surface modification method is described to increase the performance of PEM fuel cell catalytic [...]