Working with SET

Sustainable Emerging Technologies (SET) is a dedicated team of scientists, engineers and technicians devoted to advancing sustainable technologies from the initial concept to commercialization.

• The SET team advances technologies with a “safety first” culture to protect staff, projects, and facilities

• Advancing emerging technologies from bench scale through pilot scale studies

• Specific heavy oil upgrading and conversion studies

• Analytical services to support ongoing studies as well as third party analyses

• Custom design of laboratory and pilot scale reactors and systems

Heavy Oil Technology Center (HOTC)

• Partial upgrading technology

  • Heavy oil thermal conversion with the
    WRITE process

  • Heavy oil solvent deasphalting technologies

• Pilot and demo-scale plant development

Analytical Services

• Routine petroleum and fuels analyses

• Specialized analyses upon request

Emerging Technology Development (ETD)

• Process Design, Safety, and Fabrication

• Catalyst evaluation studies to yield fuels and chemicals

• Technologies for conversion of municipal solid waste and other wastes to fuel and energy

• Chemoautotrophic fixation of carbon dioxide

Selected Past and Current Projects

• Waste plastics to fuels and chemicals

• MEG Energy HI-Q® bitumen partial upgrading technology development

Overview

WRI’s Asphalt and Petroleum Technology (APT) group is a leader in asphalt, petroleum, coal and hydrocarbon research. The group has several decades of experience leading research at the federal level to characterize, diagnose and predict asphalt and heavy oil properties and performance, and thermal processing of heavy oils.

Petroleum Processes & Products

• Automated Flocculation Titrimeter (AFT)

• Coking and Visbreaking

• Fouling Apparatus

Technology and Product Development

• Automated Flocculation Titrimeter (AFT)

• ExpliFit Correlation Analysis & Machine Learning

• Micro-Sampling, extraction, aging and 4mm-DSR

• SAR-AD

• Waxphaltene Determinator (WD)

Services and Support

• Asphalt Mixture

• Asphaltenes and Waxes

• Chemistry and Microstructure

• Forensics-Diagnostics

• Asphalt Rheology, Cracking, Thermal, & Aging

Resources and Links

• AASHTO Accreditation for Asphalt Binders

• Asphalt Industry Research Consortium (AIRC)

• FHWA (White Papers, Tech Briefs, NCHRP, SHRP)

• Processing Improvements of Problematic Crudes
  (PIP-C), formerly Heavy Oil Research Consortium

• Petersen Asphalt Research Conference

• Presentations & Reports

• The WRIte Toolkit

• WRI Author Publications

Overview

WRI applies a diverse portfolio of analytical and modeling tools that provide molecular, chemical and physical characterizations, including several unique patented tools, to intelligently guide development of precursor formulations for the next generation of advanced carbon materials, such as carbon fiber, carbon foams, graphene, carbon nanotubes, etc., including fabrication processing methods.

Science & Technology Development

• Feedstock, Intermediate Analysis & Development

• Analytical Chemistry & Molecular Characterization

• Mesophase Pitch

• Carbon Fiber

• Carbon Nano Material

• Carbon Foams

Collaborations & Partnerships

• Consortium for Production of Affordable Carbon Fibers in the U.S.

• Grossman Group at MIT

• ORNL

• University of Wyoming

• Southern Research Institute

Resources & Links

• U.S. DOE EERE VTO Program

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Presentations & Reports

• National Coal Council: Coal in a New Carbon Age, Powering a Wave of Innovation in Advanced Products and Manufacturing

Overview

Western Research Institute (WRI), located in Laramie, Wyoming, is a multi-million dollar, not-for-profit, research organization renowned for work in advanced energy systems, environmental technologies and highway materials research and technologies.

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