Helping with Energy transformation
C-FER Technologies works with operating companies and equipment vendors from around the world to improve the safety, efficiency and environmental performance of clean energy technologies.
This includes conducting full-scale equipment tests in severe operating environments, and modeling to evaluate the techno-economic feasibility and life safety and environmental risk of novel processes and equipment.
C-FER is assisting industry in the Clean Energy sectors of: Hydrogen (H2), CO2 Management, Energy Efficiency, Nuclear and Geothermal.
- Evaluating the feasibility of converting natural gas pipelines to hydrogen service
- Qualifying equipment to ensure the integrity of underground hydrogen storage wells
- Developing a new ship design for transporting compressed hydrogen
- Testing the performance of hydrogen resistant coatings to protect infrastructure
- Comparing the performance of various non-welded crack repair methods for pipelines
- Implementing models to assess the risk associated with hydrogen pipelines
- Assessing the risks associated with underground CO2 storage
- Evaluating the reliability of CO2 pipeline design methods
- Measuring the impact of impurities from carbon capture processes on CO2 corrosion
Energy Efficiency
- Reducing heat losses in steam injection wells in oil sands operations
- Reducing steam and solvent use with downhole flow control devices (FCDs) in oil sands wells
- Improving pump efficiency in oil sands wells using solvent assist processes
Nuclear
- Determining fundamental performance parameters of small modular nuclear reactors (SMNR)
- Validating the design of permanent nuclear waste
disposal systems
Geothermal
- Evaluating the techno-economic feasibility of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS)
- Qualifying equipment from thermal oil sands wells for geothermal wells
- Improving multiphase flow performance in complex wellbores
