114680/1111 Department of Materials Science and Engineering 2011 Annual Report Annual Report NTNU – Innovation and Creativity The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim represents academic eminence in technology and the natural sciences as well as in other academic disciplines ranging from the social sciences, 2011 Annual Report the arts, medicine, architecture to fine arts. Cross-disciplinary coopera- tion results in ideas no one else has thought of, and creative solutions that change our daily lives. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway www.ntnu.edu EXTRACURRICULAR ActIVITIes 22nd International Oil Field Chemistry Symposium, Geilo, Fray International Symposium, Cancun, Mexico, Norway, March 27-30, 2011. Chairman. Presentation on: November 27 - December 1, 2011. Keynote lecture on: “Potential for improved well productivity through utilization “Thermodynamic characterization of molten salts by of sand consolidation technology”. vapour pressure”. Member of the TEKNA Oil field chemistry symposium The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, board. Conference Chairman for the conference in March Norway, December 12, 2011. Memorial speech on Terkel 2011 and in a program committee meeting in Oslo, October Rosenqvist. 19, 2011. ICE-HT, FORTH Patras, Greece, June 18 - July 7, 2011. Study visit. Project meeting with Statoil and M-I SWACO, August 12, Table of Contents 2011. Planning sand consolidation with the QNC technology developed by Temasi AS for the Heidrun field. Editorial ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Project meetings with Statoil and Sintef Petroleum Professor emeritus Terkel Rosenqvist in memory .................................................................. 5 Research, on the understanding of scale formation under International conferences and courses ................................................................................................. 6 turbulent flow conditions, Stjørdal, Norway, August 17, Science stories ...................................................................................................................................................................... 13 2011. Publications in international peer review journals, books and patents ....... 30 Conference proceedings, other reports and publications .............................................. 35 Presentations of scale prediction data for the Culzean field, Laboratories and equipment ............................................................................................................................... 37 Mærsk, Copenhagen, September 14, 2011. Chemistry Building II (KII)-seminars, energy and materials ...................................... 43 International MultiScale courses, Exprogroup AS, Guest lecturers ...................................................................................................................................................................... 45 Haugesund, Norway, September 5-8, 2011, Petrobras, Rio PhD seminar series on aluminium ............................................................................................................. 46 de Janeiro, Brazil, for the flow assurance group at Cenpes, Staff ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 November 21-25, 2011 and at Petrobras University, Rio de Graduate studies ................................................................................................................................................................. 51 Janeiro, Brazil, November 28 - December 2, 2011. PhD projects in progress .......................................................................................................................................... 59 PhD projects co-supervised in other departments ................................................................ 63 Harald A. Øye Chairman of the Technical Committee ISO TC 226 Course program ................................................................................................................................................................... 64 (Materials for the Production of Primary Aluminium). M.Sc. students ........................................................................................................................................................................ 66 Graduated M.Sc. students with titles of their diploma works ................................... 68 TMS 2011, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, February Extracurricular activities .......................................................................................................................................... 71 27 - March 4, 2011. ISO Meeting, Standard Norge and NTVA Industrial Council, Oslo, Norway, March 8, 2011. ISO/TC 226 Meeting, Bratislava, Slovakia, April 5-9, 2011. The 15th Course on Fundamentals and their Application in Aluminium Production, Trondheim, Norway, May 9-20, 2011. Director. Picture on front page: Samples for powder x-ray diffraction. Hydro Aluminium, Sunndal Verk, Norway, May 11, 2011. Photo: Julian Tolchard. Plant visit. The 30th International Course on Process Metallurgy of Aluminium. Trondheim, Norway, May 23-27, 2011. Director Annual report for and Lecturer on: “The principles of aluminium production”, Department of Materials Science and Engineering “Safe behaviour in the potroom” and “Cathode failure and Norwegian University of Science and Technology cell service life for modern cells”. NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway Internet address: http://www.ntnu.edu/mse Molten Salts 9, Trondheim, Norway, June 5-9, 2011. Lecture on: “Early times in molten salt research”. Third International Congress Non-Ferrous Metal 2011, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, September 7-8, 2011. Lecture on: “Health, outer and inner environment and safety”. The editor thanks RUSAL Khakas Aluminium Smelter, Sajanogorsk, Russia, ✔ Brit Wenche Meland, Hilde Martinsen Nordø, Elin Kaasen and Hege Knutsdatter November 21-26, 2011. Project meeting. Johnsen for collecting the administrative data and taking care of the process of printing the report. ✔ Skipnes Kommunikasjon AS for printing. 79 FROM THE EDITORS Department of Materials Science and Engineering equal to 7 full courses, and instead open up for two continues to produce exiting scientific results at a new courses, “Steel Offshore” and “Resources, Energy high rate. Some of the activities are highlighted in and Environment”. Also, our two courses covering this year’s report. Research, teaching and the many electrolysis of light metals are merged into one administrative tasks related to operating a flourishing course, “Electrolysis of Light Metals”. Further, the two department is only possible by a cooperative effort international master programs are merged into one from many dedicated people, and dedication is a key new program called MSc in Light Metals, Silicon and word in describing the people at the Department. Ferroalloy Production. Most of the year, Knut Marthinsen has acted as Head The Department operates a large variety of of Department as Arne Petter Ratvik temporarily was laboratories, often in cooperation with SINTEF, our heading Department of Chemistry. The Department main research partner. The process of establishing wants to acknowledge this exceptional effort by Knut, a new laboratory infrastructure (Solbygg), mainly to who also had to manage his other responsibilities accommodate expansions within research on solar during this period. energy, unfortunately came to a standstill in 2010. To compensate, a joint decision of SINTEF and NTNU to Excellent student recruitment to our programs establish a silicon crystallization laboratory within continued in 2011. Unfortunately, we see that many the existing smelting metallurgy pilot laboratory was students drop out early in the study. This seems to be taken. The building of the crystallization laboratory a general trend at the University, although, with some was accomplished during 2011 after several contractor variations between study programs. Counteracting delays. In spite of much frustration during the this trend is a priority, however, the lack of identified construction period we now have a top laboratory, see causes makes reversing this trend challenging. separate presentation in this report. 2011 became a challenging year with respect to Health, safety and environment (HSE) continue to teaching all our courses. Several employees were be a high priority at the Department and significant on maternity leave in addition to sabbaticals. Hence, resources is being used to improve our routines as several temporary lecturers had to be hired for well as improving safety issues in our laboratories. selected courses to prevent excess workload on our To overcome some of the challenges of being an open staff. university, we are now in the process of installing card keys in all our laboratories to prevent unauthorized The many good master students, PhD candidates access. Also the master students are now required to do and post docs contribute significantly to most of the a risk assessment as part of their master thesis work. scientific production at the Department. The majority of the research activities are
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