Research area: Natural resources and extraction

We aim to understand fundamentals and applications of methods and approaches for harvesting materials and energy from underground natural resources in an environmentally responsible manner, increase productivity while achieving lower emissions, underground carbon storage and recycling.​

Areas include hydrocarbon extraction, geothermal energy, carbon storage, waste recycling, hydrogen generation and critical minerals extraction. We work with industries to adapt our technologies and develop prototypes to test their efficacies in scaled-up systems.

Expertise

  • Flow though porous media​

  • Heavy oil & bitumen upgrading. Converting Solid Plastic Waste (PSW) into liquid fuel

  • High temperature, high pressure phase behavior and fluid properties​

  • Naturally fractured reservoirs​

  • Routine and special core analysis ​

  • Shale petroleum reservoirs

  • Solid characterization for porosity (nitrogen adsorption) and surface groups (diffuse-reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy, DRIFTS)​

  • Thermal cracking​