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UGELSTAD LABORATORY - group for surface, colloid and polymer chemistry

• ~30 persons • Experimental and modelling group • World-class instrumentation • 3rd floor K5 and PFI

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Colloidal systems

Two-phase systems: - particles/drops/bubbles dispersed in another phase or self-assembly systems

- dimensions between 1nm and 1µm (i.e. interfaces important)

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• Food industry (margarine, butter, salad dressings...)

• Pulp and paper industry (fibers, coating, strength...)

• Detergent industry (cleaning processes...)

• Agricultural industry (formulations, insecticides...)

• Mineral and mining industry (flotation...)

• Paint industry (film formation, pigments, viscosity...)

• Pharmaceutical industry (drug carriers, diagnostics, implants,…)

AND IN THE OIL INDUSTRY 3

Industrial applications of Colloid Chemistry

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Ugelstad Laboratory Head: Prof. Johan Sjöblom

Board of Ugelstad Lab

Colloid Chemistry in Crude Oil Production and

Processing Professor Johan Sjöblom

Colloid Chemistry in water side of Crude Oil

Production and Processing Professor Gisle Øye

Polymer and Colloid Chemistry to Flow

Assurance Associate Professor

Kristofer Gunnar Paso

Computational Chemistry

Associate Professor Brian Grimes

Research Topics: • Crude oil

characterization • Heavy oil processing • Oil sand processing • Emulsions • Separation • Transport • Surfactants • Naphthenic acids

Research Topics: •Produced water management •Separation •Fluid characterization •Water based EOR •Oil spill clean-up •Colloidal templates / nanostructures

Research Topics: • Pipeline restart • Wax rheology • Polymer additive

mechanisms • Organic coating • Precipitation processes • EOR

Research Topics: • Molecular dynamics • Density functional

theory • Interfacial mass

transport • Film drainage • Coalescence • Flocculation • Population balances • Multi-scale modeling

Laboratory Manager

Senior Engineer Camilla Dagsgård

Topics: •Contracts •Training •HSE •Day-to-day management of lab

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Petroleum production

R-COOH

R-COOH

R COOH

R-COOH

R-COOH

R-COOH

(RCOO)2Ca

Gas

Oil

Water

Pressure release

Increased pH (RCOO)2Ca

R-COOH

CO2

(RCOO)2Ca

Topics:

EOR

Flow assurance (wax, asphaltenes, hydrates)

Separation

Water treatment

Oil spill response

Approach:

Experimental

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General approach

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Extensive collaboration - Industry

- Research Institutes

- University groups

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TKP4525: Specialisation course (7.5 SP) TKP4 Industrial Colloid Chemistry TKP5 Surfactants and polymers in aqueous solutions

TKP4520 Specialisation project (15 SP) - Study of the Mechanism of Formation of Calcium Naphthenate Deposits by Isothermal Titration

Calorimetry. - Determination of Mass of Tetra Acid at the Water/Oil Interface by Combining Langmuir Trough with QCM

Measurements - Study of the efficiency of commercial and green demulsifiers on water removal efficiency» - Preparation and characterization of particle stabilized model oil emulsions - New PPD Formulations - Influence of dispersed nano-crystals on the non-Newtonian rheology of paraffinic oils - Interfacial characterisation of gas-liquid interfaces related to gas flotation in offshore produced water

treatment - Characterisation of liquid-liquid interfaces related to offshore produced water treatment - Investigation of loss of surfactant by adsorption onto clay minerals related to enhanced oil recovery

methods - Partitioning of surfactants between the water and oil phases related to enhanced oil recovery methods - Design of Smart Superparamagnetic Polymer Nanocomposites - Synthesis and Characterization of Chemically Stable FeCoPt Alloy Nanoparticles - Smart nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery - Introduction to molecular simulation of multi.component adsorption at liquid-liquid interfaces. - Introduction to modeling gravity separation of emulsions: Application to crude oil-water separations

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