ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Abstract Australia is an inexperienced player in field abandonments with early efforts proving complex, high cost, and with last minute approvals due to regulatory and social concerns. Whilst many companies are on top of the costs, they are often isolated from the latest innovations or focused on the ...
Several compounds from marine organisms have been studied for their potential use in aquaculture. Among the red algae, Asparagopsis taxiformis is considered one of the most promising species for the production of bioactive metabolites with numerous proposed applications. Here, the in vitro antibacterial ...
Aluminum alloys are vulnerable to penetrating and peeling failures in seawater and preparing a barrier coating to isolate the substrate from corrosive medium is an effective anticorrosion method. Inspired by the lotus leaves effect, a wetting alloy surface with enhanced anticorrosion behavior has been ...
Abstract Ice accretion on vessels and offshore structures is a serious operational hazard. Heavy ice accumulation on vessel's deck can influence the stability and potentially capsize smaller vessels. It also creates unsafe operational conditions on vessel and offshore platform decks. Accurate estimation ...
Abstract Ice accretion is a hazard for offshore operations on cold northern waters. Icing on vessel surfaces can be caused by a variety of phenomena, including cold air temperature, low water temperature, freezing rain, and supercooled fog, among others. A single salt water droplet's phase change behaviour ...
Abstract As the demand for energy resources grew, the oil and gas industry looked north for exploration and development of offshore hydrocarbon resources. Significant discoveries were made in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions; however, these environments can be particularly unforgiving on pipelines and ...
Abstract Flexural failure of sea ice is of interest in many different applications, ranging from understanding rubble formation processes to modeling bending failure of ice sheets against sloped structures and ship hulls. In this paper we present a brief summary of recent in-situ experiments carried ...
Abstract Ocean-Ice prediction systems maximize the information value of scarce in-situ ocean and ice observations. They provide assessed and forecast ocean and ice conditions that combine satellite observations and in-situ observations along with ocean and ice physics. Such information supports many ...
Abstract This paper presents an overview of a five year research and development project aiming to develop dynamic positioning (DP) system technologies specifically for ice-rich environments. It has been initiated by the Centre for Marine Simulation (CMS) at the Fisheries and Marine Institute (MI) ...
Abstract The rising level of industrial activity in the Barents Sea region will result in more SAR operations. Oil and gas companies develop their own emergency response organizations in order to obtain the governmental permits required to operate. Where commercial shipping and fisheries are concerned, ...
Chemosynthetic symbioses are partnerships between invertebrate animals and chemosynthetic bacteria. The latter are the primary producers, providing most of the organic carbon needed for the animal host's nutrition. We sequenced genomes of the chemosynthetic symbionts from the lucinid bivalve Loripes ...
Background Collective animal behavior, such as the flocking of birds or the shoaling of fish, has inspired a class of algorithms designed to optimize distance-based clusters in various applications, including document analysis and DNA microarrays. In a flocking model, individual agents respond only ...
The paper presents progress made in research and development (R&D) of emerging plasma-based technology for well intervention applications. The technology potential for various upstream applications has been presented at some other SPE conferences (March and September 2015 and January 2016). Current ...
Municipal wastewater effluent (MWWE) and its constituents, such as chemicals of emerging concern, pose a potential threat to the sustainability of fish populations by disrupting key endocrine functions in aquatic organisms. While studies have demonstrated changes in biological markers of exposure of ...
Abstract Hybrid zones allow for the investigation of incipient speciation and related evolutionary processes of selection, gene flow, and migration. Interspecific dynamics, like competition, can impact the size, shape, and directional movement of species in hybrid zones. Hybrid zones contribute to ...
Abstract The use of tissue homogenate has greatly aided the study of the functioning of mitochondria. However, the amount of ATP produced per oxygen molecule consumed, that is, the effective P/O ratio, has never been measured directly in tissue homogenate. Here we combine and refine existing methods ...
Abstract The paper describes the technology challenges for year-round oil and gas production on 74°N in the Norwegian part of the Barents Sea. The northernmost blocks in the ongoing 23rd licensing round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) are at 74°N and the physical environment in this area differs ...
Abstract Existing standards and codes do not comprehensively address and provide all necessary guidance and requirements for the design of Arctic offshore structures. Reliably assessing ice loads on offshore structures remains a challenge for industry, especially as ""new"" Arctic platform concepts ...
Video surveillance is needed to control many activities performed in underwater environments. The use of wired media can be a problem since the material specially designed for underwater environments is very expensive. In order to transmit the images and videos wirelessly under water, three main technologies ...
In this paper an Internet of Things (IoT) architecture for soil-less food production systems is introduced. The architecture emphasize the control of water quality in distributed soil-less food production systems by adhering to Industry 4.0 standards. Although IoT has been applied for monitoring soil-less ...