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Advances in the application of biomimetic surface engineering in the oil and gas industry
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Friction is widespread in almost every field in the oil and gas industry, and it is accompanied by huge energy losses and potential safety hazards. To deal with a series of questions in this regard, biomimetic surfaces have been developed over the past decades to significantly reduce economic losses. Presently, biomimetic surface engineering on different scales has been successfully introduced into related fields of the oil and gas industry, such as drill bits and the inner surfaces of pipes. In this review, we focused on the most recent and promising efforts reported toward the application of a biomimetic surface in oil and gas fields, indicating the necessity and importance of establishing this disciplinary study. Regarding the oil and gas industry, we mainly analyzed and summarized some important research results into the following three aspects: (i) applications in reducing the wear of exploration production equipment and its components, (ii) separation and drag release technologies in oil/gas storage and transportation, and (iii) functional coatings used in oil and gas development in oceans and polar regions. Finally, based on an in-depth analysis of the development of biomimetic surface engineering in the fields of oil and gas, some conclusions and perspectives are also discussed. It is expected that biomimetic surface engineering can be used in oil and gas fields more widely and systematically, providing important contributions to green development in the near future.
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Yanbao GUO. Associate professor, obtained his bachelor degree and Ph.D. degree in 2005 and 2011 from China University of Petroleum-Beijing. He worked with Prof. Tianmin Shao as a post doctor in Tsinghua University during 2011–2013. He worked as an associate professor since 2013 at China University of Petroleum-Beijing. From September 2016 to September 2017, he was invited to Texas A&M University in USA as a visiting scholar. His interested research areas include tribology and surface & interface engineering in oil and gas industry. He has participated in many research projects and has published more than 20 papers on international journals during the past 5 years.
Zheng ZHANG. He received his bachelor degree in mechanical engineering in 2016 from China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China. He is studying for his Ph.D. degree at the Mechanical and Transportation Engineering School of China University of Petroleum, Beijing. His research interests include tribology and failure analysis in oil and gas industry.
Siwei ZHANG. Professor of tribology and mechanical engineering of China University of Petroleum in Beijing. From 1982 to 1984, as a visiting professor, he studied in tribology of polymers at the Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron, and then at the Tribology Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan in USA. His professional interests include tribology and oilfield equipment. He mostly conducted and supervised in tribology of elastomers, friction materials, and tribological components of oilfield equipment. More recently, he is interested in green tribology and theoretical systems of tribology. He was the chairman of the Chinese Tribology Institution (CTI) in 2002-2006, and then the chairman of advisory board of CTI. Now, he is the vice-chairman of the supervisory committee of the State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication of Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, the associate editor-in-chief of the journal Lubrication Engineering (in Chinese). Also, he is the member of international advisory editorial board of journal Petroleum Science (English edition). In 2009, he received the Brilliant Contribution Award in tribology of CTI.
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