dc.description.abstract | With its wide application in areas such as electronics, the car-, machine- and tool-making
industries, energy technology, the optics industry, and textile, environmental, and medical
technology, plasma technology is improving the quality and performance of many products and
processes. Similarly, this thesis work researches into the laboratory-scale feasibility of the use of
plasma technology to remove scale.
Scale has been a long-standing challenge to the effective production of oil and gas from various
petroleum fields across the world. Though there are various solutions utilised in the industry, they
have been questioned of their environmental-friendliness, cost-effectiveness, and operationalefficiency.
In view of these major industrial concerns, plasma technology presents industry
professionals with an approach which is more environmentally-friendly, cost-effective, and
operationally-efficient.
This thesis work thus takes a look at the opportunities, challenges and remedies of the use of
plasma technology in the removal of scale. From an experimental point of view, the thesis work
attempts to establish the viability of using plasma-based technology to remove scale during the
production life of a well. | nb_NO |