Carbon-based Energy
Carbon-based energy refers to energy generated by carbon-based sources, including hydrocarbons such as oil and gas and biofuels like algae. SAFL's expertise in being able to build experimental deltas and build experiments looking at turbidity currents enables those in the oil and gas fields to better understand and predict where hydrocarbon deposits could potentially build or migrate. In the last decade, SAFL has held between 15-20 oil consortium workshops that consist of experiments and lectures that bring together what the stratigrapher sees in the rock column to the processes that create the deposits/stratigraphic features.
Over the past decade SAFL researchers have also conducted several experiments looking at biofuels and better understanding what makes a more productive biofuel.
Affiliated Faculty
Chris Paola
SAFL Researchers
Jeffrey Marr
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Broadway Pump Station Physical Model
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After a 2011 flood caused extensive damage in Minot, North Dakota, MWH Americas, Inc. was hired to design a pumping station as part of the Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Plan, to pump stormwater over the river levee during flood events. The applied engineering team at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory was then tasked to build a physical model of the proposed pumping station to identify and mitigate unanticipated/unacceptable flow patterns prior to construction.
Long-throated U-flume study
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SAFL researchers built a scale model of a round-bottomed long-throated flume, in order to validate Winflume software for this specific flume geometry.