Guest Lectures
R&D in Multiphase Flow in the NEUM-UTFPR
November 21 , 2019
Professor Rigoberto E. M. Morales
R&D in Multiphase Flow in the NEUM-UTFPR
November 21 , 2019
Professor Rigoberto E. M. Morales
Doctor Morales is a Professor in the department of the Mechanical Engineering at The Federal University of Technology of Parana (UTFPR), Brazil.
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Charge, packing and molecular dynamics in polymer systems studied by magnetic resonance
Professor Ulrich Scheler
April 2, 2019
Second Lecture: Charge, packing and molecular dynamics in polymer systems studied by magnetic resonance
Professor Ulrich Scheler
April 2, 2019
Dr. Ulrich Scheler is Head of the Department of Polyelectrolytes and Disperesions at the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research in Dresden, Germany. Previously, he was Head of the Department of Surface Modification. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the MPI for Polymer Research with Prof. H.W. Spiess and performed postdoctoral work with Prof. R.K. Harris the University of Durham, England. He has twice been a Visiting Professor at the University of Orléans, France.
First Lecture: Molecular Dynamics In External Mechanical Fields Investigated By Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
April 1, 2019
Professor Ulrich Scheler
First Lecture: Molecular Dynamics In External Mechanical Fields Investigated By Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
April 1, 2019
Professor Ulrich Scheler
Dr. Ulrich Scheler is Head of the Department of Polyelectrolytes and Disperesions at the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research in Dresden, Germany. Previously, he was Head of the Department of Surface Modification. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the MPI for Polymer Research with Prof. H.W. Spiess and performed postdoctoral work with Prof. R.K. Harris the University of Durham, England. He has twice been a Visiting Professor at the University of Orléans, France.
Reservoir Fluid Geodynamics and
A New Thermodynamic Treatment of Reservoir Crude Oils
Doctor Oliver Mullins
March 25, 2019
Reservoir Fluid Geodynamics and A New Thermodynamic Treatment of Reservoir Crude Oils
Doctor Oliver Mullins
March 25, 2019
Dr. Oliver C. Mullins is a Schlumberger Fellow and member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He led the inception and development of Downhole Fluid Analysis (DFA) in well logging. Dr. Mullins also leads an active research group in petroleum science leading to the Yen-Mullins model of asphaltenes and the Flory- Huggins-Zuo Equation of State. His current interests include utilizing DFA technology and new asphaltene science to perform novel reservoir evaluation. This work is subsumed in the newly codified technical discipline he is leading “reservoir fluid geodynamics” that accounts for processes dictating fluid and tar distributions in oilfield reservoirs; this is the subject of his latest book to be released in 2019. He has won several awards including the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry from the American Chemical Society, the SPWLA Gold Medal for Technical Achievement and Distinguished Member, SPE. He has been Distinguished Lecturer 7 times for SPWLA and SPE (currently for SPE). He authored the award-winning book The Physics of Reservoir Fluids; Discovery through Downhole Fluid Analysis, coedited 3 books and coauthored 14 chapters on asphaltenes and related topics. He has coauthored 275 publications, ~1⁄2 on petroleum science, ~1⁄2 on oilfield applications, and has coinvented 121 allowed US patents. He has accumulated 17,000 citations on Google Scholar to his work. He is Fellow of two professional societies and is Adjunct Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Deriving Lattice Boltzmann Collision Operator using the Molecular-Dynamics-Lattice-Gas (MDLG) Approach
Ms. Aleksandra Pachalieva
December 5, 2018
Deriving Lattice Boltzmann Collision Operator using the Molecular-Dynamics-Lattice-Gas (MDLG) Approach
Ms. Aleksandra Pachalieva
December 5, 2018
Aleksandra Pachalieva is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, starting in July 2016. She did her master’s degree at Scientific Computing and Engineering in the Department of Informatics also at the Technical University of Munich. Her research interests encompass a wide range of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics using high- performance computing. Her major project for her Ph.D. is heat transfer using lattice Boltzmann methods. Aleksandra spent the last three months as a visiting scholar in the Department of Physics at the North Dakota State University working on a Molecular-Dynamics-Lattice-Gas analysis tool with Dr. Alexander Wagner.
Correlating Electrode Slurry Microstructure to Final Electrode Performance: A Rheological Approach
Professor Nicolas Alvarez
December 3, 2018
Correlating Electrode Slurry Microstructure to Final Electrode Performance: A Rheological Approach
Professor Nicolas Alvarez
December 3, 2018
Nicolas J. Alvarez earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida in 2006 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. After three years of postdoctoral work at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, he joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Drexel as an Assistant Professor in 2014. Alvarez’s research interests involve development of unique experimental tools to understand and characterize the behavior of polymers and surfactants in nonlinear flows, at interfaces, and in bulk. These tools are used to understand how certain processing windows lead to advantageous material properties. One such tool, used for the characterization of extensional rheology, has been commercialized by Alvarez and colleagues. Alvarez is developing a consortium of companies interested in the development of analytical tools to better understand the relationship between chemical structure, processing, and material performance. Alvarez teaches an elective course on non-Newtonian fluid mechanics that introduces students to real-world materials encountered in modern day chemical plants.
Microemulsions: Definition, Properties, Modeling, and Design
Professor Jeffrey Harwell
October 22-23, 2018
Microemulsions: Definition, Properties, Modeling, and Design
Professor Jeffrey Harwell
October 22-23, 2018
Jeffrey Harwell received his doctoral degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983. His research concerns surfactants and their applications, including consumer products, microemulsions, nanoparticles, environmental remediation, and oil production. During his 36 years at the University of Oklahoma he has been an author on over 200 refereed publications, holds over 40 issued patents, and has founded several technology start-ups. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He received the 1984 Victor K. LaMer Award from the American Chemical Society. He has served as Program Director of the Interfacial, Transport, and Separation Processes Program at the National Science Foundation, and chaired the 65th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium. He received Outstanding Paper awards from the National AlChE Meeting in 1992 and 1996 and the AOCS Soap and Detergent Association Distinguished Paper Award in 2003. He was recognized for an Outstanding Ground Water Remediation Project by the National Ground Water Association in 2006 for his work with Surbec Environmental, LLC.