Introduction

GAIC has a large number Academic and Industrial Collaborations from UK, EU, China, and so on, including:

Academic Collaborations

Deltares Institute

Industrial Collaborations

Kuwait Oil Company
STRABAG Tunnelling
N2-Applied

Deltares Institute

Deltares Institute is an independent knowledge institute for applied research in the field of water and subsurface. GAIC and Deltares Institute work together on a project entitled Machine Learning for water and geotechnical engineering. This project will integrate fundamental physics into the training process of deep learning processes, engaging computational modelling and deep neural network, and establish a new generation of physics informed deep learning methods, which can provide accurate and quick estimates of groundwater system response. The outcome of this work will highly benefit to geotechnical engineering and groundwater protection (COUPLED with surface water) in climate changing scenarios, for instance in the forecasting of drought.

For More information: https://www.deltares.nl/en/

Kuwait Oil Company

Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) was founded in 1934 and is the only authorized company to drill and produce oil from Kuwait's oil & gas fields. The Centre is working with KOC to explore GREEN Oil by developing a joint force on Carbon Geological Research. Our research aims to understand and plan ahead for the carbon sequestration (CS) process in oil’s and depleted reservoirs. Many reservoirs in Kuwait started to drop pressure, and steam injections project were used to revive that pressure. However, CS has not applied yet. This research utilizes the mixture coupling theory to model the carbon transport in the porous media (geological formation), allowing better planning for such projects.

For More information: https://www.kockw.com/sites/EN/Pages/Default.aspx

N2-Applied

N2-Applied is a leading EU industry in farming. GAIC with strengths from N2-Applied aim to develop a slurry system that provides good performance for crops but also aids flood management provided by farms to the wider landscape. We collborate a project entitled Temperature-water-plant-soil coupled modelling and sustainable agriculture. It will investigate the influence of coupled roots-microbes-slurry functioning on nutrients transport (N2), and the physical properties of soils (e.g. permeability, macropores, stability) under extreme weather conditions. We will work together to harness waster product for food production in a world where raw materials for fertilisers are running short, and optimise slurry application and design for agricultural soils to help them buffer against flooding and droughts remains a challenge.