Petroleum Extraction from Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources: An ExoMars Spin-off

一个Mini-PIPPS提议将来自ExoMars仪器开发的分析进展的知识转移到石油工业。亚临界水将用于从火星上的样品中提取碳氢化合物。通过控制温度和压力，可以选择性地溶解和转化有机化合物。在地球上，这些方法可以用来将非常规碳氢化合物转化为常规石油。全球非常规资源的数量使它们的常规资源相形见绌。与现有工艺相比，亚临界水处理工艺具有显著的环境效益和经济效益。这项将伦敦帝国理工学院和英国石油公司结合在一起的提议令人兴奋，也是热门话题，可能会对英国和全球经济产生巨大影响。

A Mini-PIPPS proposal to transfer knowledge from analytical advances from ExoMars instrument development to the petroleum industry. Subcritical water will be used to extract hydrocarbons from samples on Mars. Manipulation of temperature and pressure allows the selective dissolution and transformation of organic compounds. On Earth these approaches can be used to turn unconventional hydrocarbons into conventional petroleum. The global amounts of unconventional resources dwarf their conventional counterparts. Compared to existing procedures, subcritical water processing has substantial environmental and economical benefits. This proposal, which combines Imperial College London and BP, is exciting and topical and could have an enormous impact on the UK and global economy.