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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP1096958
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Shear heating in granular materials: micromechanics of thermal conduction and production. Oil, gas and geothermal exploration are amongst the major energy industries in Australia and must be optimised to enable efficient production. These processes are dominated by the transfer of heat through granular soil media. Past research was based on continuum heat-flow solutions, but these problems are governed by distinct networks of particle-particle contacts and interparticle pore-fluids. Heat-flow solutions depend on effective terms of thermal conduction, production and convection, but these change with loading. A systematic study must therefore be accomplished to formulate the micromechanics of the effective thermal properties, such that continuum solutions are refined to optimise energy exploration.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2010
End Date: 12-2013
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $442,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geomechanics | Geophysics Not Elsewhere Classified | Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy | Structural Geology |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Oil and gas | Earth sciences | Renewable energy not elsewhere classified (e.g. geothermal)
