Prof. Abbas Firoozabadi -
Senior Scientist/Director
A wide range of problems in petroleum engineering sciences, including:nano-particles in flow assurance in hydrocarbon energy production CO2 sequestration in the subsurface thermodynamics of surfaces and thin films physics and higher-order modeling of multiphase flow in complex permeable media multicomponent diffusions from irreversible thermodynamics |
Jiménez-Ángeles, F., and Firoozabadi,
A.: "Enhanced Hydrate Nucleation near the Limit of Stability,"
Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2015) 119, 8798-8804. Myint, P. C., and Firoozabadi, A.:
"Thin Liquid Films in Improved Oil Recovery from Low-salinity Brine,"
Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science (2015) 20, 105-114. Subramanian, D., Wu, K., and
Firoozabadi, A.: "Ionic Liquids as Viscosity Modifiers for Heavy and
Extra-heavy Crude Oils," Fuel (2015) 143, 519-526. Jin, Z., and Firoozabadi, A.: "Thermodynamic Modeling of Phase Behavior in
Shale Media," SPE Journal (2015, in press). Khoshnood, A., and Firoozabadi, A.: "Polar solvents trigger formation of
reverse micelles," Langmuir (2015, in press). Shahraeeni, E., Moortgat, J., and Firoozabadi, A.: "High Resolution Finite
Element Methods for 3D Simulation of Compositionally Triggered Instabilities in
Porous Media," Computational Geosciences (2015, in press). Sun, M., Firoozabadi, A., Chen, G.-J., and Sun, C.-Y.: "Hydrate Size
Measurements in Anti-agglomeration at High Watercut by New Chemical
Formulation," Energy and Fuels (2015, in press). Aslan, S., and Firoozabadi, A.: "Effect of Water on Aggregate Size, Viscosity, and Deposition of Asphaltenes in Flow-lines," Langmuir (2014) 30, 3658-3664. Jiménez-Ángeles, F., and Firoozabadi, A.: "Nucleation of Methane Hydrates at Moderate Subcooling by Molecular Dynamics Simulations," Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2014) 118, 11310-11318.Zidane, A., and Firoozabadi, A.: "An Efficient Numerical Model for Multicomponent Compressible Flow in Fractured Porous Media," Advances in Water Resources (2014) 74, 127-147. Jin, Z., and Firoozabadi, A.: "Effect of Water on Methane and Carbon Dioxide Sorption in Clay Minerals by Monte Carlo Simulations," Fluid Phase Equilibria (2014) 382, 10-20. Li, Z., Jin, Z., and Firoozabadi, A.: "Phase Behavior and Adsorption of Pure Substances and Mixtures and Characterization in Nanopore Structures by Density Functional Theory," SPE J (December 2014), 1096-1109. Jiménez-Ángeles, F., and Firoozabadi, A.: "Induced Charge Density and Thin Liquid Film at Hydrate/Methane Gas Interfaces," Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2014), 118, 26041-26048. Rezaei, N. and Firoozabadi, A.:
"Pressure Evolution and Production Performance of Waterflooding in n-Heptane Saturated Fired Berea Cores,"
SPE J
(August 2014), 674-686. Lukanov, B., and Firoozabadi, A.: "Specific Ion Effects on the Self-Assembly of Ionic Surfactants: A Molecular Thermodynamic Theory of Micellization with Dispersion Forces," Langmuir (2014), 30, 6373-6383. Rezaei, N., and Firoozabadi, A.:
"Macro- and Microscale Waterflooding Performances of Crudes which form w/o
Emulsions upon Mixing with Brines," Energy and Fuels (2014) 28, 2092-2103. |
2014 SPE Cedric K. Ferguson Award 2011 Member, National Academy of Engineering 2009 SPE Honorary Member 2004 John Franklin Carll 2002 Lucas Gold Medal 2000
Reservoir Engineering Award |