Gas Flooding Research Project

Professor
Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering
EMS Energy Institute and the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering,
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
Email: rjohns@psu.edu   EME Homepage

Research Interests
* Enhanced Oil Recovery
* Mathematics of multicomponent, multiphase flow in porous media
* Well testing in low-permeability formations

Associate Professor
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Email: Steven_Bryant@mail.utexas.edu    Personal Homepage

Research Interests
* Interfacial areas in porous media
* Modeling flow and transport in extremely heterogeneous rocks
* Tracers for evaluating groundwater remediation

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Physics
Cornell University
Email: dicarlo@mail.utexas.edu    Personal Homepage

Research Interests
* Applying advanced experimental techniques to understanding fluid flow
* Pore-scale physics
* Preferential and compositional displacements
* Gas injection processes.

Research Professor
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
University of Minnesota
Email: chunhuh@mail.utexas.edu    Personal Homepage

Research Interests
* Process modeling and simulation for EOR processes
* Sedimentary flow simulations for improved geologic modeling
* Development of improved surfactant- and polymer-based EOR methods
* Heavy oil recovery from unconsolidated sands

Professor
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
University of Illinois
Email: kpj@che.utexas.edu   Personal Homepage

Research Interests
* Colloid and Interface Science
* Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery of Proteins and Poorly Water Soluble Drugs
* Assembly of Pre-Synthesized Nanocrystals in Porous Materials and Block Copolymer Films
* Nanocrystal Design for Catalysis

Professor
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
Rice University
Email: larry_lake@mail.utexas.edu   Resume

Research Interests
* Geochemical Modeling
* Reservoir Characterization
* Enhanced Oil Recovery

Professor
Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Email: kamys@mail.utexas.edu   Personal Homepage

Research Interests
* Reservoir Simulation and Modeling of EOR Processes
* Application of Vector and Parallel Processing in EOR Simulation
* High-Resolution Numerical Schemes for Reservoir Fluid Flow Simulation
* Simulation of Naturally Fractured Geological Systems