MINSC

Mineral Scale formation: from the atomic to the field scale

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS    more  Organization address address: WOODHOUSE LANE city: LEEDS postcode: LS2 9JT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Martin Cognome: Hamilton Email: send email Telefono: +44 113 343 4090 Fax: +44 113 343 4058
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	3˙796˙029 €
EC contributo	3˙796˙029 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN
Funding Scheme	MC-ITN
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-06-01   -   2016-05-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS  Organization address address: WOODHOUSE LANE city: LEEDS postcode: LS2 9JT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Martin Cognome: Hamilton Email: send email Telefono: +44 113 343 4090 Fax: +44 113 343 4058	UK (LEEDS)	coordinator	1˙157˙352.90
2	KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET	DK	participant	585˙996.40
3	CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE  Organization address address: Rue Michel -Ange 3 city: PARIS postcode: 75794 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Patrick Cognome: Mounaud Email: send email Telefono: +33 5 61336080 Fax: +33 5 62172901	FR (PARIS)	participant	481˙218.10
4	MAERSK OLIE OG GAS AS  Organization address address: ESPLANADEN 50 city: KOBENHAVN postcode: 1263 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Karin Cognome: Svan Email: send email Telefono: 45336331718	DK (KOBENHAVN)	participant	290˙248.20
5	HASKOLI ISLANDS  Organization address address: Sudurgata city: REYKJAVIK postcode: IS 101 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Sigurdur Cognome: Gudnason Email: send email Telefono: +354 5254810	IS (REYKJAVIK)	participant	269˙567.10
6	ORKUVEITA REYKJAVIKUR SF  Organization address address: BAEJARHALS 1 city: REYKJAVIK postcode: 110 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Bergur Cognome: Sigfusson Email: send email Telefono: +354 6176991	IS (REYKJAVIK)	participant	269˙567.10
7	UNIVERSITETET I OSLO  Organization address address: Problemveien 5-7 city: OSLO postcode: 313 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Trine-Lise K. Cognome: Gørbitz Email: send email Telefono: 4722856435	NO (OSLO)	participant	269˙567.10
8	WEST SYSTEMS SRL  Organization address address: VIA DON MAZZOLARI 25 city: PONTEDERA PISA postcode: 56025 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Sandro Cognome: Mori Email: send email Telefono: 390587000000 Fax: 390587000000	IT (PONTEDERA PISA)	participant	245˙886.30
9	WESTFAELISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER  Organization address address: SCHLOSSPLATZ 2 city: MUENSTER postcode: 48149 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Katharina Cognome: Steinberg Email: send email Telefono: +49 251 8322151 Fax: +49 251 8321501	DE (MUENSTER)	participant	226˙626.40

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The MINSC Initial Training Network (ITN) is comprised of partners from first-rate universities and high-level industrial partners located in the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Norway, and Italy. The prime aims of this network is to provide research and training opportunities to a new generation of young fellows in fundamental and collaborative research projects related to the nucleation and growth of a series of relevant scale mineral systems in the absence or presence of inhibitors agents. The training will combine molecular level research with studies linked to clear industrial processes at the field-level. The ultimate goal is to better understand one of the highly relevant problems in oil, geothermal and food industrial processes: pipe clogging and surface corrosion by mineral scale precipitates during production. To achieve this, the network will combine training of early stage and experienced researchers in state-of-the-art techniques of mineral formation and characterization both in laboratory and industrial settings with research objectives that aim at quantifying the nucleation and growth of several mineral systems: carbonates, sulphates/sulphides, oxalates and silicates. Scaling can often be retarded via inhibitors but their role in affecting rates of formation of these minerals in solution, on surfaces as well as in real-world industrial settings (i.e., pipes, cores etc.) are unknown. We will determine these rates in laboratory experiments and implement and test these novel findings directly in industrial power plant systems. The prime industrially-driven science goal is twofold (a) to better understand what leads to the precipitation of a series of mineral scales causing a massive decrease in efficiency and increased cost for industrial processes (i.e., oil and gas production, geothermal energy, beer) and (b) to develop processes/inhibitors that can help mitigate and / or prevent scale formation in such environments.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Mineral scale and corrosion are two of the biggest problems in the oil and geothermal industries. Scientists are evaluating formation mechanisms and inhibition from the molecular scale up to field-level tests for major impact on efficiency and costs.