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

Let WRI help you develop, test and validate new feedstocks, processes, formulations and products for asphalt binders and recycling agents for flexible pavements or roofing applications. (For mesophase pitch, carbon fiber or other carbon materials, please see "Advanced Carbon Materials")

Research and Development for Asphalt/Bitumen Products

Product Development

• Alternative Binders & Extenders

  • Coal

  • Bio Based

• Recycling Agents/Rejuvenators

• Polymer Modification

• Low Aging Products

• Enhance Durability

• 3rd Party Verification

Waste Re-engineering Initiative (Circular Economy)

• Wind Turbine Blades

• Waste Composites

• Plastics - Wet/Dry

• Chemical Upcycling/Modification

Advanced SARA Separation SAR-AD

Asphalt Industry Research Consortium

Industrial Association Affiliations

Our Industry Partners

Products and Services

• SAR-AD

• Asphalt Rheology, Cracking, Thermal, & Aging

• Asphaltenes and Waxes

• Forensics-Diagnostics

• Automated Flocculation Titrimeter (AFT)

• Coking and Visbreaking

• Fouling Apparatus

Resources and Links

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

• Petersen Asphalt Research Conference

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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• Mission Statement

• About Laramie and the Region

• Board of Directors

• History

• Careers

• WRI Author Publications

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