ANNUAL REPORT - The Petroleum Institute
ANNUAL REPORT - The Petroleum Institute
ANNUAL REPORT - The Petroleum Institute
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Petroleum</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> | Annual Report - Academic Year 2011 - 2012<br />
Research Projects 2011-2012<br />
Faculty Name<br />
Dr. Ebrahim Al Hajri<br />
Dr. Valérie Eveloy<br />
Dr. Yves Gunaltun<br />
Dr. Ebru Günister<br />
Dr.Didarul Islam<br />
Dr. Hamad Karki<br />
Dr. Lyes Khezzar<br />
Research Project Title<br />
High Efficiency Energy Recovery Utilizing Micro-channel Heat Exchangers<br />
(Funded by Gas-subcommittee)<br />
Enhancement of Polymerization Process in a Microchannel Reactor<br />
(Under the EERC. Funds are not available at PI)<br />
<strong>The</strong>rmal Management of Solar Photovoltaics in Hot Environments for<br />
Power Generation in Oil and Gas Facilities (funded RAGS Project No.<br />
12072)<br />
Waste Heat Utilization in the Oil and Gas industry (non-funded research<br />
project with on-going publications)<br />
GRC (GASCO) projects: development of chemistry and materials<br />
laboratory<br />
GRC (GASCO) projects H2S corrosion esozoic in cooperation with Ohio<br />
University<br />
Research Project “Polyethylene/Clay Nanocomposites<br />
Design, Construction and Modeling of a solar pressure cooker” project<br />
no-2071.<br />
Study of Drill String Vibration (with the University of Maryland).<br />
Development of a mobile platform for extreme environments (with the<br />
University of Maryland).<br />
RAGS project- Characteristics of Viscoelastic flows for High Weissenberg<br />
Numbers of Relevance To Polymer Melt Flows<br />
ADCO project – Multiphase flow in separators<br />
Black powder project from the GRC<br />
Development of a Long Range UT inspection tool.<br />
Dr. Fahrettin Ozturk<br />
Dr. Peter Rodgers<br />
Prediction of forming a limit diagram using an improved analytical model.<br />
Research Initiation on Multiphase Flow Measurement and Characterization<br />
for <strong>Petroleum</strong> Engineering Applications (RAGS Project No. 12067, with<br />
Dr. Afshin Goharzadeh<br />
<strong>The</strong>rmal Management of Solar Photovoltaics in Hot Environments for<br />
Power Generation in Oil and Gas Facilities (RAGS Project No. 12072, with<br />
Dr. Valerie Eveloy)<br />
Waste Heat Utilization in the Oil and Gas Industry (with Dr. Valerie Eveloy)<br />
Nonlinear torsional vibration absorber<br />
Dr. Oleg Shiryayev<br />
Trigonometric collocation for calculation of steady state responses of<br />
cracked structures<br />
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