A paper appeared in Chemical Engineering Research and Design. Scientists of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies have obtained new results in the field of physicochemical hydrodynamics, characterizing the influence of surface tension and boundary wetting angle on the adsorbed amount of surfactants. Understanding the role and strength of factors affecting adsorption of surface-active agents (surfactants)...
A joint paper with Samaraneftegaz and SamaraNIPIneft saw light in Processes. In the course of recent research, the KFU team proved that highly concentrated binary compositions are capable of releasing more gas and heat in the process of thermal-gas-chemical reaction. The development provides effective thermochemical treatment of downhole zones of wells. "In order to increase the coverage...
Dilyara Kuzina (Laboratory of Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology and Paleomagnetism) is among the 19 KFU winners of the latest round of Russian Science Foundation funding. Kuzina’s PhD thesis was dedicated to magnetic methods of detecting space substances in sedimental rocks; she has also partaken in an expedition for meteorites. Her new project is aimed at studying magnetic properties of...
The In-Situ Combustion Lab continues its field testing in Samara Oblast. Commissioned by RITEK, KFU scientists arrived at Aksyonov oil field on 22 November to organize a field test of a catalyst precursor based on iron, nickel, and cobalt. Lab Head Alexey Vakhin comments, "The effectiveness of this catalyst precursor in regard to oil refining was...
The Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery has studied the influence of sodium metal nanoparticles on oil recovery. Unfavorable geological conditions and low economic efficiency of oil production intensify innovation activities for the creation and further application of new technologies. Among the technological innovations are nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, in particular, organic dispersion of metallic sodium nanoparticles. It...
The conference was organized at Perm State University of Humanities and Pedagogy on 4 – 6 October. Among the topics were environmental issues of the Kama Region, regional infrastructure, synergy between education and the industry, and new energy sources. Four workgroups comprising experts from various fields were formed, and each group was to defend its own project...
A new paper saw light in Energy & Fuels. “We have obtained an effective catalytic composition based on a copper compound using an organic compound as a ligand. This catalyst accelerates the oxidation of heavy oil in porous media, reducing its viscosity and the content of heavy compounds in its composition,” says co-author Seyedsaeed Mehrabi-Kalajahi, Junior Research Associate...
A joint paper by KFU, University of Zanjan (Iran), and Bochum University of Applied Sciences appeared in Acta Geophysica. The introduction of machine learning reduces the limitations arising from tomographic imaging of rock samples: it becomes possible to improve the detail of sufficiently large samples, which in the future may contribute to the direct validation of numerical modeling...
Center for Liquid Hydrocarbons submitted a new paper to Geoenergy Science and Engineering. The search for a solution to the problem of representativeness of core material sizes, on which pore space structure studies, filtration characteristics measurement, and chemical studies are carried out, has been going on for several decades. The most widespread today is the deterministic approach,...
Rais (Governor) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov helmed the event. Rector Lenar Safin spoke about the Center’s main activities, “Research is conducted in three main areas. It is about developing technologies for prospecting and exploration of large fields on the shelf and unexplored territories, creating new technology for the development of giant fields that have been exploited...
