SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

The society's development is mainly determined by the performance of its educational process as this process leads to the training of specialists. A highly efficient academic system presupposes an existing high level of scientific research, based on a research-teaching synergy and expert trainers in the teaching and research process. Research and development (R&D) represent a first step towards world recognition of the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti (PGU). The teaching staff from PGU strives for a quality and quantity based research work. Their research work goes in two main directions, the development of traditional fields/specializations of our University, on the one hand, and the foundation of newly created specializations, on the other.

Research profile

Research contracts in the traditional fields such as natural resources, products and industrial technologies, chemistry, engineering, but also in multidisciplinary fields such as information technology, environmental technology.
Main research fields:

Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

• oil field,
• petrochemical and refining equipment design and construction,
• oil equipment reliability and maintenance,
• tribology,
• machine-tools and mechanical processing,
• automation of chemical,
• drilling and distribution processes,
• electrical equipment and plants,
• applied electronics ;

Faculty of Petroleum Engineering

• well drilling,
• oil and natural gas production,
• reservoir engineering,
• fluid transportation,
• storage and distribution,
• petroleum geology,
• applied geophysics,
• mineralogy-petrography,
• hydrocarbons spectroscopy,
• microphysics and relativity ;

Faculty of Petroleum Refining and Petrochemistry

• chemical reactions kinetics,
• catalysts,
• chemical processes engineering,
• modern technologies for refining and petrochemistry,
• clean technologies,
• simulation and optimization of chemical processes,
• organic syntheses,
• corrosion;

Faculty of Economic Sciences

• economics;

Faculty of Letters and Sciences

• law,
• mathematics,
• informatics,
• literature,
• cultural studies,
• theoretical and applied linguistics .

Competence centers

Nine Research Centers have been created and are recognized by CNCSIS.

1. Research Center of Materials and Technologies in Petroleum Equipment Manufacture* Director: Prof.dr.eng. Niculae Napoleon Antonescu nnantonescu@upg-ploiesti.ro
2. Research Center of Reliability, Diagnosis and Technical Safety of Petroleum and Petrochemical Equipment* Director: Prof.dr.eng. Ion Voicu - ivoicu@upg-ploiesti.ro
3. Research Center of Strength, Stability, Dynamics and Durability of Structures from Petroleum and Petrochemical Equipment* Director: Prof.dr.eng. Nicolae Posea
4. Research Center of Advanced Automatic Control in Chemical Processes* Director: Prof.dr.eng. Nicolae Paraschiv - nparaschiv@upg-ploiesti.ro
5. Second Degree Testing Laboratory authorized by ICPLUAT, Prahova district Laboratory Director: Prof.dr.eng. Mihail Minescu - mminescu@upg-ploiesti.ro
6. Electronics-Electrotechnics Department Research Center Director: Prof.dr.eng. Doru Georgescu - dgeorgescu@upg-ploiesti.ro
7. Research Center of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering* Director: Prof.dr.eng. Iulian Nistor - nistor@upg-ploiesti.ro
8. Research Center of Modern and Ecological Technologies in Drilling and Production* Director: Prof.dr.eng. George Iordache
9. Research Center for Petrochemical & Petroleum Processing* Director: Prof.dr.eng. Costica Stratula - cstratula@upg-ploiesti.ro

* Research centers recognized by the National Council for Research in the Higher Education (C.N.C.S.I.S. in Romanian).

Financing research

Our professors play an important role in obtaining new funds, which allow highly efficient research work.
The research activity carried out is based on three main financing sources:

• government budget-programs, which are competition based;
• direct contracts with companies;
• external financing within European Programs.

Results:

Multidisciplinary laboratories, patents and publications. Research outputs are published in our own scientific Journal “Buletinul UPG”, a scientific publication internationally recognized which has already been the object of international publication exchange agreements, and through national and international scientific journals.

The high level of our research activities is proved by the great number of specialists trained in our University who hold, at present, executive positions in the Romanian and world industry. Our graduate students have successfully taken part in scientific research clubs coordinated by the teaching staff. Due to various research contracts, we have recently finished multidisciplinary authorized laboratories, from prestigious research institutes.