The main goal of this project is the creation of a laboratory infrastructure for the measurement of physical chemical properties of oil, natural gas, natural gas rich in CO2 (its major contaminant in the pre-salt), pure CO2, and all the

This laboratory has testing facilities to carry out experiments with different supersonic technologies and for physical separation of gaseous mixtures through the concept of supersonic flow. The experimental test rig may be used to test gas mixtures at different concentrations.

The main goal of this project is to stablish the most adequate experimental conditions and methodologies to determine (and then proceed with the determinations) of fundamental properties, such as solubility, phase behavior/phase equilibrium, viscosity, density, pH, of gaseous mixtures (CO2,

The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a necessary support for the Environmental Licensing process of activities that cause significant environmental degradation, such as Carbon Capture, Storage and Transport Activities associated with the exploration and production of gas. Based on how

The objective of this project is to develop computational tools, based on molecular dynamics methods, to simulate the flow in ducts to transport CO2, CH4 and oil. The main goal is to have a better understanding of the interaction of

(Project concluded in July 08, 2020) The capture and storage of carbon dioxide (Carbon dioxide capture and storage-CCS) is a process consisting of separating CO2 from industrial sources and thermoelectric power generation and transporting to a storage location where it

The main goal of this project is to design and build prototypes of gas separation systems that employ supersonic flows. This will be achieved by means of conceptual designs of different geometries for supersonic separators, followed by analyses and optimisation

CCS requires the compression of CO2 to high pressures. The ejector (or a system of ejectros) is on device designed to achieve this: liquid is pumped with high pressure into the ejector and, due to its geometric-induced acceleration, gas is

The objective of the present project is to develop a computational tool to simulate the flow and heat transfer and to optimize the geometry of a supercritical CO2 compressor under the specified operating conditions. The present project also includes the

This project aims to evaluate the feasibility of implementing the carbon geological storage (CGS) technology in unconventional petroleum reservoirs in order to contribute to CO2 abatement in the southeast region of Brazil, which concentrates the major carbon emission sources within