Progress Reports: 1st semester

Progress reports for the first six months on the MINSC project are provided by each of the fellows. Illustrative slides from each report are available below.

Christopher Hawkins: University of Oslo

Precipitation on rough surfaces near laminar and turbulent flow. For more information, please click here.

Hawkins Semester 1

Ulf Niklas Berninger: CNRS Toulouse

Reaction kinetics of Mg-carbonates. For more information, please click here.

Berninger Progress Report Semester 1

Giulia Montanari: University Copenhagen

Growth inhibitors on calcite. For more information, please click here.

Cristina Ruiz Agudo: University of Muenster

The influence of pH on barite nucleation and growth. For more information, please click here.

Diwaker Jha: University of Copenhagen

Optimization and analysis of tomograms. For more information, please click here.

Stan Jelavic: University of Copenhagen

Interaction of clay minerals with saline solutions and organic molecules. For more information, please click here.

Daniela Meier: University of Leeds

Silica precipitation under geothermal conditions. For more information, please click here.

Fernando Berro Jimenez: West Systems

This period has been especially focused on updating software used to predict the behavior of the monomeric silica in geothermal waters based in an old code carried out by Weres et al (1980). This task required gaining insight into the kinetics of silica polymerization (by searching for this information in different books and articles) and also producing some experiments to compare the results and chemical laws. For more information, please click here.