Research

The Alberta Ingenuity Centre for In Situ Energy focuses its research upon the previous contributions of the principal investigators and targets the radical improvement of existing recovery processes, in in situ ultra-dispersed catalysts, and in-reservoir reactor designs and process conditions. The collaborative and multidisciplinary model of the Centre integrates chemical processing and catalysts, reservoir engineering and geosciences to target the development of underground or in-situ refineries that produce high-value energy and petrochemical feedstocks from simultaneous recovery and processing, with extremely low to zero environmental impact.

The Centre is focused on research in these core integrated research areas:
- Catalyst Design, Kinetics and Recovery
- Integrated Recovery and Upgrading Processes
- Bitumen and Reservoir Characterization
- Simulation
- Reactant and Catalyst Transport