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NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Nano science for new advanced metal-hydrogen systems towards applications

The advent of nanoscience and nanotechnology has contributed to an increased understanding of our nature as well as to the posibility to make better and more functional materials. In the field of metal hydrides and metal-hydrogen systems, nanostructuring has proven to be a viable method for incre...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Akershus

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

High Pressure Gas Liquid Separation

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Awarded: NOK 12.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Cost effective production of renewable liquid biofuel and biochemicals from Scandinavian wood materials

The principal objective of the project is to provide the necessary knowledge basis for development of an industrial process for efficient conversion of Scandinavian wood-based raw materials into fuel components. Because ethanol production alone is not eco nomically competitive, the aim of the pro...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

Development of customized barrier packaging by novel nanoparticle technology

By using novel nanoparticle technology one aim in this project to develop nanoparticle-based packaging materials with customized barrier incoporated at nanolevel in a sustainable way. Major actors in the Norwegian Institute sector, SINTEF, PFI and Matfo rsk are joining forces in order to achiev...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Hydrates in petroleum production - Assessment of Plug Risk

During transport of oil, gas and water in pipelines, solid gas hydrate plugs may form when the conditions are within the thermodynamic range of stability of natural gas hydrates. The cost of hydrate prevention is often a project stopper for small field de velopments. However, the presence of oil ...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Ice ages: subsidence, uplift and tilting of traps - the influence on petroleum systems

The proposed project will model the isostatic response of Cenozoic glaciations in the Barents Sea region and northern North Sea to constrain its potential impact on existing petroleum systems. With greatly improved geological boundary conditions, that is (1) more complete knowledge on timing and ...

Awarded: NOK 12.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Reliable Bulk Transport on Offshore Oil Rigs

This application is a collaborative research effort by the oil industry, process industry, university sector and the research institute sector. It is aimed at achieving cost effective drilling and safer and improved occupational hygiene on offshore oil ri gs. This application consists of two sub-...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Telemark

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Quantification of geological processes that govern basin scale fluid flow

We will assess geophysical characteristics and geological processes of focused fluid flow systems that may go through or connect to potential hydrocarbon reservoirs. The total number of hydrothermal vent complexes in the Norwegian offshore basins is estim ated to be between 2000 and 3000, and we ...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NANOMAT-Nanoteknologi og nye materialer

High efficiency Si-based solar cells employing nanostructured layers

This proposal addresses key scientific issues associated with increasing the efficiency of high-performance Si-based solar cells. Two main routes will be explored; the first one concerns reduction of surface and interface charge carrier recombination by i ntroducing nano-structured buffer layers ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

New Subsea and Downhole Instrumentation. Novel measurement methods for real-time reservoir control, e-field operation and subsea processing.

Recent advances in measurement science are attributed to aspects such as novel sensor technology, signal processing methods and finally multiple modality systems. The focus in this project will be to extract more information firstly from each measurement, and secondly from the combination of sev...

Awarded: NOK 17.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Quantitative interpretation of 4D seismic data for improved reservoir management

Prediction of how a hydrocarbon reservoir is being drained is often based on a numerical flow simulation model. 3-D seismic surveying is the most efficient technique to obtain reservoir information between wells. If seismic acquisition is repeated severa l times over the life of a field, it is p...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Optimisation of Glycol Loop Design and Operation

Glycol, usually monoethylene glycol (MEG), combined with corrosion inhibiting chemicals is often the preferred solution for hydrate inhibition and corrosion mitigation for long distance gas condensate pipelines transporting unprocessed well stream. The gl ycol is often circulated in a closed loop...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Akershus

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Modeling of capillary pressure and phase entrapment in porous media with account for wettability change

The development of efficient IOR technologies relies on understanding and accurate modeling of multiphase flow mechanisms encountered on various scales, from pore-scale to Darcy scale and further to geo-facies and reservoir scale. Such an integrated multi -scale modeling of water-alternating-gas ...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Rogaland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Honoring the complexity of the petroleum reservoir - a new modeling tool for sea bed logging

SBL is a new and expanding exploration technique with the potential of acting as a direct hydrocarbon indicator. This technique was pioneered by Statoil in close collaboration with NGI. The technology was later transferred to the commercial company EMGS, run by former members of Statoil's scienti...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Multipoint Methods for Improved Reservoir Models

The best method for accurately representing the distribution of petrophysical properties within a reservoir is by representing the geometries of the facies and then populating facies bodies with petrophysical properties. There are a few stochastic techn iques available for modeling facies: - O...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Tools for studying hydrate slurry transport in hydrocarbon transport lines - principally gas-condensate lines

Good mathematical models for the physico-chemical processes that govern the critical flow assurance aspects of direct well stream production are important for e-field operations as well as for the initial design. Such models are today inaccurate and immat ure or in some cases non-existent. This p...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Akershus

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Basement Heat Generation and Heat Flow in the western Barents Sea - Importance for hydrocarbon systems

The main objective of the project is to determine the basement composition in the western Barents Sea, primarily from geophysical data, in order to provide input to heat flow estimates; radiogenic heat production varies as a function of basement type and constitutes approximately 50% of the total...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

E-Well-Construction-Management

It is a strong focus on use of real time data in the petroleum industry. Several vendors can offer real time databases for drilling data. It is however a lack of tools for utilizing all the data to create information, decision support and closing decision /control loops. The project will develop...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Rogaland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Enabling production of remote gas

The main focus in project is to address the critical technology barriers related to floating production of natural gas from smaller fields through a coordinated effort by industry and research institutions. Specific challenges are: Safety, movement of pro cess equipment, weight and compactness as...

Awarded: NOK 27.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Enhanced Oil Recovery for Maximizing Tail Production

The increased oil price has lead to a new look at more cost intensive enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods especially for oil fields on decline. The reason is the large potential for increased tail production by chemical methods and miscible gas injection. In the 80?s these methods were studied e...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

The effect of hydrogen addition to automotive fuels in SI- CI- and HCCI internal combustion engines

The effect of adding hydrogen to alternative fuels for transportation is the main objective for this project. This includes studies of how different alternative fuels for Spark Ignition (SI) engines and Compression Ignition (CI) engines, respectively, res ponds to addition of hydrogen in small or...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

CLEAN ENERGY BY USING HIGH PERFORMANCE MEMBRANES

A FSC-membrane for selective CO2 removal is currently under development in the research group of the applicant; very promising results have been documented. Selectivities for CO2/CH4 > 1000 have been achieved, while the CO2-flux is currently measured at a pp. 0.014 m3(STP)/m2.bar.h. By succesful ...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Distribution 2020 - Fault Handling and Distributed Generation in MV Networks

The tasks of this project focuses on the two main challenges for the future power distribution system. These are fault handling to ensure reliable power supply of sufficient quality, and handling of distributed power generation. Both should be done at low est possible cost at the same time as all...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

CO2 Management Technologies for Future Power Generation - BIGCO2

BIGCO2 encompasses the whole chain of activities needed to make available large scale Carbon management. The most significant cost reduction potential can be found in the capture step but significant reductions can also be achieved in the transport and st orage elements if truly integrated concep...

Awarded: NOK 17.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

CO2 storage for geological timescales – Thermodynamic and kinetic stability of dawsonite

This study is motivated by the need to better understand the potential role of dawsonite in CO2 sequestration scenarios. Towards this goal, the first kinetic studies of dawsonite were conducted by the authors during March-April 2004 in corporation with Er ic H. Oelkers at Université Paul Sabatier...

Awarded: NOK 0.93 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

New process technology for production of hydrogen from natural gas

Specific research objectives within the frames of the proposed KMB project are related to developing process technology enabling new improved methods for hydrogen production, encompassing the following fields: - Selective oxidation of methane t o hydrogen (CPO) - Membrane stea...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PROSBIO-Prosess- og biomedisinsk industri

Industrial Crystallisation and Powder Technology

The aim is to develop knowledge and understanding of how crystallisation parameters influence the final particle characteristics and how to control bulk properties through the crystallisation step. The extent of nucleation, crystal growth, and agglomerati on determine the size and shape of the re...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Improved macroscopic sweep efficiency in CO2-flooding of North Sea reservoirs

The present research project is divided into four main activities: •Qualification of chemicals systems (foam or polymer) for sweep improving methods, including determination of system properties, interaction between chemical system and reservoir fluids, injectivity, retention of chemicals and ch...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Rogaland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Prediction of deposition and transport of sand in sand-liquid flows (STRONG)

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Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

CLIMIT-Program for CO2-håndtering

ZeroGen - Technologies for Zero Emission Power Plants

Hydrogen production and advanced hybrid systems integrating fuel cells with other systems are among the internationally prioritized R&D areas. The present ZeroGen program deals with new technologies for hydrogen production from natural gas with integrat ed CO2-capture. The process is based on s...

Awarded: NOK 15.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Akershus