Baker Hughes
is an international industrial service company and one of the world's largest
oil field services companies. The company provides the
oil and gas industry with products and services for
oil drilling,
formation evaluation,
completion, production and reservoir consulting.
They are also aggressively pursuing solutions in the area of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and we will collaborate with them primarily in these areas. They are particularly interested in CERE’s longstanding expertise in extended Uniquac, which is used to model thermodynamics and speciation in carbon capture processes. CERE’s long experience with this model and with electrolytes in general is enhanced and underpinned by our extensive electrolyte database, compiled over many years, originally by associate professor, now emeritus, Kaj Thomsen.
Work on CCS and electrolyte thermodynamics are currently very active fields of research for several faculty in CERE.