Objective The MINSC Initial Training Network (ITN) is comprised of partners from first-rate universities and high-level industrial partners located in the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Norway, and Italy. The prime aims of this network is to provide research and training opportunities to a new generation of young fellows in fundamental and collaborative research projects related to the nucleation and growth of a series of relevant scale mineral systems in the absence or presence of inhibitors agents. The training will combine molecular level research with studies linked to clear industrial processes at the field-level. The ultimate goal is to betterunderstand one of the highly relevant problems in oil, geothermal and food industrial processes: pipe clogging and surface corrosion by mineral scale precipitates during production. To achieve this, the network will combine training of early stage and experienced researchers in state-of-the-art techniques of mineral formation and characterization both in laboratory and industrial settings with research objectives that aim at quantifying the nucleation and growth of several mineral systems: carbonates, sulphates/sulphides, oxalates and silicates. Scaling can often be retarded via inhibitors but their role in affecting rates of formation of these minerals in solution, on surfaces as well as in real-world industrial settings (i.e. pipes, cores etc.) are unknown. We will determine these rates in laboratory experiments and implement and test these novelfindings directly in industrial power plant systems. The prime industrially-driven science goal is twofold (a) to better understand what leads to the precipitation of a series of mineral scales causing a massive decrease in efficiency and increased cost for industrial processes (i.e. oil and gas production, geothermal energy, beer) and (b) to develop processes/inhibitors that can help mitigate and / or prevent scale formation in such environments. Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryinorganic compoundsengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gasnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsarithmeticsprime numbersengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energygeothermal energy Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN - Marie-Curie Action: "Initial Training Networks" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-ITN - Networks for Initial Training (ITN) Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Address Woodhouse lane LS2 9JT Leeds GB See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments projects.administrative_contact Martin Hamilton (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 1 157 352,83 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS France EU contribution € 481 218,10 Address Rue michel ange 3 75794 Paris See on map Activity type Research Organisations projects.administrative_contact Patrick Mounaud (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Denmark EU contribution € 585 996,40 Address Norregade 10 1165 Kobenhavn See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments projects.administrative_contact Ivan Kristoffersen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window HASKOLI ISLANDS Iceland EU contribution € 269 567,10 Address Saemundargotu 2 101 Reykjavik See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments projects.administrative_contact Sigurdur Gudnason (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Germany EU contribution € 226 626,40 Address Schlossplatz 2 48149 Muenster See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments projects.administrative_contact Katharina Steinberg (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITETET I OSLO Norway EU contribution € 269 567,10 Address Problemveien 5-7 0313 Oslo See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments projects.administrative_contact Trine-Lise K. Gørbitz (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window MAERSK OLIE OG GAS AS Denmark EU contribution € 290 248,20 Address Esplanaden 50 1263 Kobenhavn See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) projects.administrative_contact Karin Svan (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window ORKUVEITA REYKJAVIKUR SF Iceland EU contribution € 269 567,10 Address Baejarhals 1 110 Reykjavik See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) projects.administrative_contact Bergur Sigfusson (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window WEST SYSTEMS SRL Italy EU contribution € 245 886,30 Address Viale donato giannotti 24 50126 Firenze See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) projects.administrative_contact Sandro Mori (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
