Month: January 2025

From 13 to 15 January 2025, researchers from Ogrindo attended training to increase knowledge and competency regarding the PVT Cell 300 ml 700 bar Full Visibility Educational tool. This training was held by the Petroleum Engineering Study Program of the Bandung Institute of Technology and was carried out at the Purnomo Yusgiantoro EOR Lab, Labtek XVII Dato' Dr Building. Low Tuck Kwong 2nd Floor.

This training was guided by representatives from Sanchez Technologies, Core Lab from France. Also present were researchers from Purnomo Yusgiantoro EOR Lab ITB at this training.

The training event began with an introduction to the Full Visibility Educational PVT tool. After that, a trial determination operation was carried out bubble point pressure dari sampel minyak mentah. Lalu, pelatihan ditutup dengan demonstrasi prosedur untuk pembersihan alat PVT Full Visibility Educational setelah eksperimen dan pemeliharaan dasar.

Basically, PVT FV EDU FV can perform the entire range of experiments that PVT FV can perform with crude oil, volatile oil or gas condensate:

• Constant Compositional Expansion
• Constant Compositional Depletion
• Separator Test
• Differential Vaporization
• Fluid Envelop Phase
• Constant Volume Depletion

This tool also has the following characteristics:

• Constant temperature control system
• Stirring by magnetic coupling
• Automatic valves
• Control cabinet
• Calibrated pressure sensor and temperature sensor
• CCD digital video camera 6M pixels
• Data acquisition and processing system
• High pressure valves, pipes, and filters

The Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) collaborates with Udayana University to organize International Conference on Physics and Technology of Advanced Materials (ICPTAM) which is combined with 8th Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Symposium (NNS) Workshop 2024. The event will take place on the Island of the Gods, Bali, from 7 to 10 October 2024.

This conference aims to bring together researchers in the field of advanced materials, both from Indonesia and from various countries in the world. Apart from strengthening research collaboration, this event is also an opportunity for self-development and increasing insight into the latest developments in the field of research-based physics and materials technology.

As a biennial international symposium that has been running since 2008, ICPTAM continues to be an important forum for sharing knowledge and innovation. This year, the conference is supported by Materials Research Society of Indonesia (MRS-Id) and Physical Society of Indonesia (PSI).

At this conference, Ogrindo ITB had the opportunity to present two researchers as representatives to publish research with the title "Interfacial properties improvement of AEC surfactant via Titanium dioxide nanoparticles“. This research examines the addition of titanium dioxide (TiO₂) nanoparticles to Alkyl Ethoxy Carboxylate (AEC) surfactant to improve interfacial properties in applications. Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). The results show that TiO₂ significantly reduces the interfacial tension (IFT) to two orders of magnitude lower, although its effect on the contact angle is only slight. This combination has the potential to increase EOR efficiency by mobilizing trapped oil in the reservoir.

Also present was Prof. Osamu Sugino from The University of Tokyo, Japan and Prof. Hadi Nur from Malang State University, Indonesia as the two main speakers. Apart from that, there were also prominent plenary speakers from various countries, such as South Korea, Taiwan, Great Britain, Thailand, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Japan and Singapore.

This conference is open to all topics related to nanoscience and nanotechnology, including but not limited to:

• Advanced Materials
• Electronics Materials and Microsystems
• Materials for Medicine
• Materials for Energy and the Environment
• Biomaterials and Polymers
• Quantum Computing
• Nano Fabrication