Consultancy: Science and Engineering
Science & Engineering has considerable expertise available. Services offered by the Faculty are diverse and range from testing, to R&D, to expert opinions. Examples of this includes corrosion testing, environmental monitoring, accident investigation, security, materials & structures testing, friction testing, and X-ray analysis, Pressure-Volume-Temperature (PVT) and reservoir management to name but a few. Please ask for more information on these services
This faculty is structured into the following areas:
- School of Science and Computing:
- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Department of Computing
- Department of Imaging and Applied Physics
- Department of Mathematics & Statistics
- Science and Mathematics Education Centre (SMEC)
- School of Engineering
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Petroleum Engineering
- Centre of Excellence in Cleaner Production
- CRC for Sustainable Resource Processing
- Woodside Hydrocarbon Research Facility
- WA School of Mines
- Department of Applied Geology
- Department of Exploration Geophysics
- Department of Spatial Sciences
- WASM Mine Surveying
- WASM Mineral Economics
- WASM Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy
- WASM Mining Engineering
- WASM Mining Geology
- Muresk Institute
The faculty is involved in such interdisciplinary activities as:
- Corrosion research
- Crystallisation research
- Environmental monitoring using biomarkers
- Insect study group
- Marine science and technology
- Motor vehicle accident investigation
- Plant tissue culture laboratory and plant breeding
- Scanning electron microscope facility security product testing
- Slurry testing and evaluation
- Surface friction testing
- X-ray analysis facility
Please request brochures on these areas.
We have various specialist petroleum research centres in:
- Petroleum engineering
- Petrochemistry/organic geochemistry
- Petroleum geology
- Exploration geophysics
- Exploration and production geophysics
Studies can be conducted in:
- Two and three-phase flows in porous media
- Effects of variations in interfacial tension
- Effect of changing phase composition
- Displacement by gas and by liquid
- Testing core samples at reservoir conditions
- Aquatic biology and bio-assessment
PVT Studies
The Pressure-Volume-Temperature (PVT) equipment at Curtin is the only fully automated and computerised system in the southern hemisphere, and can operate under the full range of natural gas processing and LNG operating conditions. A specially designed sapphire PVT cell works at pressures of up to 700 bar, in a temperature range of -161 degrees Celsius to +200 degrees Celsius. Mixtures can be observed under simulated production or process conditions.
Reservoir Management
Curtin has special expertise in reservoir management, especially optimisation and enhancement of the recovery of hydrocarbons from reservoir formations. Studies can be conducted in:
- Simulation of patterns of production
- Reservoir development
- Phase effects during depletion
- Miscible and immiscible displacement
- Evaluation of displacement strategies
Science & Engineering Faculty Consultancy Coordination Unit
Curtin University of Technology
Bldg 314, Room 116, Dumas Road, Bentley WA 6102
Contacts: Tina Sallis
Phone: +61 8 9266 1304
Fax: +61 8 9266 4801
Email: t.sallis@curtin.edu.au
