What is MINSC?

MINSC is a European FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) that addresses the current and future challenges of mineral scale formation. The research themes of MINSC relate to the mechanisms of nucleation, growth and inhibition of mineral scale formation through experimental and field projects. Scale formation is a common and costly phenomenon in many industrial processes that deal with water or other fluid handling systems (i.e., wells, heat exchangers, tanks and delivery lines, etc.), where mineral precipitation in pipes, on equipment or as fracture filling has a detrimental effect on process efficiency, cost and lifetime of processing technologies. Scale formation is encountered in a large number of industries including paper-making, chemical manufacturing, cement operations, food processing, as well as non-renewable, (i.e., oil and gas) and renewable (i.e., geothermal) energy production. To learn more about MINSC, please click here.

Goldschmidt 2013

Several MINSC fellows have prepared abstracts for the Goldschmidt 2013 conference. Titles are available here and links will be provided to the abstracts following the conference.

Second MINSC Network Meeting (fellows and PIs)

The second MINSC network meeting will take place from June 17-21, 2013 in Denmark. Information about hotel accommodations for the 17th is posted here. A tentative agenda is available here. Important information about how to get to Maersk is posted here.

Progress Reports

Slides illustrating the first MINSC Progress Reports are now available here.

 Progress reports

Training schools

A list of training schools on State of the Art analytical techniques of potential interest to MINSC fellows can be found here.

First MINSC Network Meeting (fellows and PIs)

The first MINSC network meeting took place in Seefeld Austria from December 15-19, 2012. The minutes from the meeting are available here.

Photos are available here.

 Seefeld photos

MINSC publications

All MINSC fellows are requested to reference the MINSC network on their publications by using the information presented here.


Newly recruited MINSC fellows

All MINSC positions have now been filled. If you would like to learn more about the newly recruited fellows, please click here.