Petro II
Development and implementation of geostatistical rock physics seismic inversion and geostatistical modelling tools within Petrobras' in-house modelling platform SIGEO (expected TRL7).
Coordinator
InterWell GSI Plug-in
Development and implementation of a versatile geostatistical seismic inversion plug-in in Beicip-Franlab's flagship software InterWell®. This plug-in has been incorporated in an extensive scale operational environment (TRL 9).
PiCE- Plastics in Circular Economy
| This project intends to answer two major modern civilization challenges - growing energy demand and the pilling of huge amounts of plastic residues that are a sub-product of an industrialized society like our own, and it is included in the concept of Circular Economy where the residues may be reused to produce new raw materials. |
Gasotransdelivery: Delivery vehicles of therapeutic gasotransmitters NO and H2S based on nanoporous materials
| New materials to store and release NO and H2S will be developed to deliver them at target sites in the human body for therapeutic action. By modifying nanoporous phases with appropriate polymer layers, new delivery vehicles will be obtained. The porous structure, chemical nature and external surface of the nanoporous materials will be optimized to assure a good storage capacity, the stability of the molecules inside the pores, a slow release of the gas molecules and excellent biocompatibility. |
PhytoCharMe - A circular economy approach for the valorisation of soils in abandoned mine sites by using phytoremediation combined with biochar
| A new methodology for the restoration/valorisation of abandoned mines sites, within the Iberian Pyrite Belt, in the SE of Portugal, is addressed. Considering the great environmental concern of the case study and always bearing in mind metals availability, the project focus on three main pillars: soil, biochar and plants. |
ALTITUD3 - Assessment of Low-cost Aerial Intelligent systems for natural Terrain 3D mapping
3D modelling of terrain and vegetation structure is essential in several environmental applications, and in industries such as agriculture or mining. Recently, small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) started to be used as LiDAR and photogrammetric platforms to provide high resolution representations of the terrain surface. Project ALTITUD3 aims at
(i) assess and optimize UAV acquisition field practices and image and pointcloud processing methods, for generation of accurate 3D models; and
SMOCK- Spatial Modelling for mapping COVID-19 risk
The lack of knowledge about the SARS-Cov-2 combined with a global pandemic crisis, caused by the rapid spread of COVID-19 disease makes the need for the development of tools suited to monitor and evaluate infection risk dynamics. This is valuable information for health authorities for containing and mitigating the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
JIP - Partex Oil and Gas
Development and implementation in real case applications (pilot application examples - TRL 7) of geostatistical methods for reservoir geophysics and history matching.
VEGETANTAR - Multitemporal vegetation mapping in the Antarctic Peninsula through multiscale remote sensing
| The main objective of VEGETANTAR is to make a multitemporal mapping of the vegetation in the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) through remote sensing. Although the most adequate satellite dataset covering the AP (Landsat series since the 1970s) does not have enough spatial resolution (30m and worse) to directly identify most of the sparse and patchy vegetated surfaces, their spectral unmixing with the aid of higher spatial resolution imagery can overcome this issue. |
RENEFUEL
| This project comprises the construction, test and optimized set-up of a system capable of generating fuel from renewable energy sources obtained from alkaline electrolysis of water using graphite electrodes without a membrane separating the generated gases. |