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Department of Chemical Engineering
Annual Report 2015
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SFI SUBPRO: SUBSEA PRODUCTION AND
PROCESSING CENTRE (2015-2022)
Subsea production and processing is a key technology for
exploitation of Norwegian and international oil and gas
resources. New solutions are needed to reduce
operation and development cost, to increase the
recovery factor, to reduce implementation time for field
developments, and to allow development of new more
demanding fields, such as in the Northern areas and the
Barents Sea. To overcome this challenge, the centre for
innovation (SFI) “subsea production and processing”
SUBPRO has been set up at NTNU. It gathers the
production and quality engineering, the petroleum
Engineering
applied
geophysics
and
chemical
engineering departments including Ugelstad Laboratory.
It aims to become a leading international subsea
research centre that provides top quality candidates,
knowledge, innovations and technology in partnership
with the most important industrial players in the field
Figure: Route of coalescence of two oil droplets
determined by a drop-bubble micropipette setup.
A)
Drops approachin
B)
Thinning of the aqueous film between the
droplets
C)
Breakage of the film
D)
Merging of the drops
E)
Completely merged drops