Our philosophy is to develop and apply scientific based methods to solve industrial problems. Significant contributions have through this philosophy been made to improve safety in the industry, and to reduce the negative impacts on environment from the oil and gas activity.
Research and development is a main activity for ComputIT, and our focus is on bridging the gap between science and technology. A major contribution to the scientific world of numerical combustion that has shown to be very useful for industrial applications is the Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) by Professor Bjørn F. Magnussen of ComputIT/NTNU, a concept that is implemented in most commercial CFD codes that are treating turbulent combustion. Professor Magnussen was also awarded the Statoil Research Price in 1995 for major contributions to the Norwegian oil and gas industry.
About 40% of ComputIT’s turnover is related to R&D activities. ComputIT has a scientific approach to practical problems, i.e. our focus is to develop practical tools that are based on scientific methods and models, and half the technical staff has a PhD. Our R&D projects are funded by our industry customers.
Our main fields of R&D:
- Contract research in all relevant application areas for turbulent flow and combustion (see Services)
- Continuous substantial ongoing development projects related to specific KFX® topics, today funded by Statoil, Hydro, Total, ENI-group, ConocoPhillips
- Substantial ongoing development project for LNG fire problems, today funded by Statoil and ENI group
ComputIT also carry out development in the field of numerical combustion for Sandia National Laboratories in USA, SNL. SNL is using KFX® under the brand name VULCAN for research purposes in USA.
The ComputIT R&D team is constantly improving the EDC - the core of Kameleon FireEx. The KFX® development and industrialization are done in collaboration with Statoil, Total, ENI-group, Hydro, ConocoPhillips, Gaz de France, Ruhrgas, BP, ExxonMobil, Sandia National Laboratories, engineering companies, risk management companies and universities world wide.
ComputIT has also been engaged by governmental bodies for investigation of fire accidents.
