article thumbnail

MIT and Saudi Aramco augment existing collaboration; more energy research

Green Car Congress

MIT President Susan Hockfield and Saudi Aramco President and CEO Khalid A. Al-Falih signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, providing a framework that will greatly expand the research and education partnership between MIT and Saudi Aramco.

MIT 236
article thumbnail

New self-propelled robotic device pinpoints leaks in pipes more accurately than existing methods

Green Car Congress

Researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks in gas, oil and water pipelines at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure change at leak locations. Top ]: Solid model side view of Leak Detector.

MIT 231
article thumbnail

MIT engineers develop process that can treat produced water from gas wells at relatively low cost

Green Car Congress

A new desalination process developed by engineers at MIT could treat produced water—deep water, often heavily laden with salts and minerals—from natural gas wells at relatively low cost. The research is the work of a team including MIT postdoc Prakash Narayan, mechanical engineering professor John H. —John Lienhard.

MIT 210
article thumbnail

Aramco opens R&D center in Detroit area; fuels research with focus on novel fuels/engines systems for reduced CO2

Green Car Congress

Aramco’s global fuels research network encompasses Aramco’s Research & Development Center in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; a partnership with the Clean Combustion Research Center at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; and the Aramco Fuel Research Center, Paris, with the French petroleum research institute IFPEN.