Science-intensive Technologies Research Articles

Methodology of developing optimal nanotechnologies

The knowledge accumulated by chemical engineering makes it possible to create a methodology of the rational development of new science intensive technologies. One of the versions of such a methodology implies the formulation of principles and the revelation of methods for study, which shortens the way from the technological idea formation to its industrial implementation. This version implies passing from an a priori physicochemical model of phenomena which led to a technological idea to an a posteriori model of processes in industrial apparatuses where these phenomena should occur. In doing this, it seems expedient to combine numerical and real experiments with an iterative extension of the range of implementation conditions of phenomena from laboratory to industrial ones. The efficiency of such a methodological approach is evidenced by the experience of the development of the technology of an Ostim medicinal preparation.

New technologies in Russia’s electric power industry

In the 1920s, the GOELRO (State Commission for Electrification of Russia) plan was a powerful impulse for the development of the electric power industry and for the creation of advanced industry on its basis in our country. In the current century, power engineering, including electricity generation, should again become the foundation for the country’s economic transformation based on science-intensive technologies. The authors underpin this statement with their analysis of the current state and prospects for the development of all energy industries.

Information monitoring in the area of science-intensive technologies: Optimisation of information retrieval

Structured schemes of scientific information retrieval and analysis offer a wide variety of possibilities for information support of research in the area of science-intensive technologies. Statistical analysis and dynamics of publications distributions in databases allow one to evaluate the activity status in a particular thematic area, and to discover new exciting research areas and the practical application opportunities of scientific discoveries.

Thermodynamic Justification of Physical Fields Effect on Oil Dispersed Systems

In the paper the filtration processes of a single-phase viscous liquid with the influence of a radio-frequency electromagnetic field with considering the adsorption process is studied. The general system of equations describing this process includes the heat equation and the mass transfer equation taking into account adsorption process. As a result of the research, it was established that when the radio -frequency EM field is affected, the adsorption process slows down, which has a good effect on the filtration capacity of the saturated rock. In the special case, in the absence of a field, the adsorption process follows the classical Langmuir kinetics. The results of the research can find wide application in substantiating fundamentally new science-intensive technologies for the use of electric fields, particularly, in oil production, taking into account the adsorption interaction.