2024-2 Shell TechXplorer Digest: Open innovation
Technology has the power to change the world and improve the quality of life for everyone. This issue of TechXplorer Digest presents some excellent examples of open and collaborative innovation.
Shell TechXplorer Digest 2024-2"Collaborative innovation is crucial for sustaining our technology leadership and supporting future business success"
Regular features
| Foreword
Technology has the power to change the world and improve the quality of life for everyone. Open collaboration is a vital part of this, and throughout my career at Shell I have supported collaborations with external research and technology partners.
Selda Gunsel
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President Technology for the Shell Group
Read the entire foreword (PDF)
| Interview
How to hook a reader: Writing for TechXplorer. Evren Unsal, Executive Editor, and Tony Murfin, Senior Technical Editor, discuss what makes a good article.
Read about how to write for TechXplorer (PDF)
| Perfect partners
Collaboration with a commercial focus: Driving innovation at Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam. Evren Unsal speaks to Tim Baart-Meijering, Business Development Manager 鈥� Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam, about unleashing the power of collaborative innovation.
Upstream
| Subsea production chokes
Predicting flow-induced vibration and erosion in subsea production chokes. Shell researchers set out to test the reliability and integrity of a new, next-generation production choke when subjected to high pressure differentials and flow-induced vibration with cavitation present.
Read about vibration/erosion (PDF)
| Fault damage zones
Can lost circulation materials cure losses across fault damage zones? Historically, lost circulation material treatment was believed to be ineffective across fractured or faulted zones. However, closer examination suggests that the efficiency of the treatment is highly dependent on the deployment strategy.
| Open source sharing
Stimulating collaborative research through open-source sharing of methodology. Shell is sharing fundamental best-practice methods for interpreting the results of core flooding experiments, by making the modelling code open source.
Transition
| Decarbonising India
Decarbonising India through industrial clusters. Researchers in the energy and carbon management research team at Shell India have worked with Accenture India to assess the potential of clusters for decarbonising the industry sector.
| Lubricating oils in China
Passenger car drivetrain electrification: Impact on lubricating oils in China. New energy vehicles are an important part of China鈥檚 carbon-neutral vision, but the rapid development of drivetrain technologies brings challenges for lubricant development.
Read about lubricants in China (PDF)
| Graphene-infused concrete
A high-performance, graphene-infused concrete with potential to reduce emissions. In a first-of-a-kind application, a team at Shell Technology Centre Bangalore (STCB) has developed and trialled a new graphene-infused concrete that can maintain strength and increase durability while reducing embodied carbon.
Open source: The once and future innovation method
The inner source enablement team is working towards an open-source future for Shell.
More in Transition
| Hydrogen education
HySET at Erasmus Mundus: A partnership for hydrogen education. The HySET master鈥檚 programme is a good example of Shell鈥檚 active participation in university鈥搃ndustry research consortia.
Read about the co-op with the university (PDF)
| Liquified hydrogen
Smart management of boil-off gas across the LH2 supply chain. Developing an effective supply chain for low-carbon liquefied hydrogen requires careful consideration of strategies for boil-off gas management.
| Blockchain mining
GTL-based immersion cooling fluids for blockchain mining applications. Laboratory benchmarking tests show Shell Immersion Cooling Fluid S3 X provides improved cooling performance and physical, electrical and chemical properties compared with a polyalphaolefin-based competitor fluid.
Read more about fluids for mining (PDF)
| Copper mining
Shell GTL supporting copper mining. Shell Technology is helping copper producers bridge supply gaps and improve their solvent extraction operations in terms of environmental and safety scores, without compromising plant performance.
| GTL oils in banana production
Powering progress 鈥� powering lives: The use of GTL oils in banana production. Shell has conducted trials exploring the use of Shell Risella X 415 for protection against black sigatoka disease.
