Complex Fluids - Rheology - Surface Science - Colloids and Interfaces
# CCUS #H2 # Sustainable Oil Recovery # Water Reuse
Principal Investigator
Dr. Japan J Trivedi, Ph.D., P.Eng
Professor - Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Mining and Petroleum
Office Location: 6-302 DICE
jtrivedi@ualberta.ca
(780) 492 1247
Google Scholar Profile, ResearchGate Profile
Current Members
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Farhad Ali (Jan 2022 - Ongoing)
Research: Stability of CO2-Water Emulsions Using Polymeric Surfactant for CCUS Applications
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Zixiu (Sept 2021 – Ongoing)
Research: Surfactant Interactions with Chelating Agents and Gelling Behaviour
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Moammer Elzwail (Sept 2020 – Ongoing)
Research: Machine Learning/Reinforcement Learning for CO2 Sequestration in Tight Reservoirs
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Karthik Sivaraman (Jan 2019 - Ongoing)
Research: Diffusion and Interfacial Kinetics between Solvent-Steam-Oil Systems
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Viralkumar Patel (Sept 2018 - Ongoing)
Research: Characterization of Oil-Field Produced Polymers using Asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation
Salomao Chissonde (Jan 2018 - Ongoing)
Research: Stability of Associate Polymer during Flow through Porous Media
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Saahil Gupta (Sept 2021 – Present)
Research: Life Cycle Assessment of H2 Production, Transportation, and Storage from Renewable Sources
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Simran Dhingra (Jan 2021 – Present)
Research: Life Cycle Assessment of Greenhouse Gasses during H2 Production with CO2 Sequestration in depleted Oil Reservoirs
Past Members
Visiting Faculty
Tushar Sharma (2019)
J. Prakash (2018)
Research Fellows
Madhar Azad (Feb 2019 – Sept 2020), Now Assistant Professor, KFUPM
Tinu Abraham (Feb 2019 – Feb 2020), Now Research Associate at University of Calgary, Canada
Rajan Patel (Jan 2018 – Feb 2019); Now Data Scientist at Suncor Energy, Calgary, Canada
Muhammad Imran Ul-Haq (2017 – 2018); R&D Project Leader, Saudi Aramco, Houston, USA
Ph.D. Students
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Xin Chen (Visiting Ph.D.: Jan 2022 - Jan 2023)
Najmudeen Sibaweihi (Sept 2018 - Jan 2023)
Research: Data Analytics for Steam Allocation for Heavy Oil Reservoirs
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Jose Leonardo Guevara (Jan 2018 - Jan 2023)
Research: Machine Learning for Heavy Oil Reservoir Optimization
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Alberta
Alana Almeida (Visiting Ph.D.: May 2017 - April 2018)
Research: Interfacial interaction between CO2-Low Salinity Water-Rock-Oil Systems
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow - Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brazil
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Madhar Azad (Jan 2015 - Dec 2018)
Research: Quantification of Viscoelastic Effects, Onset of viscoelastic flow in Porous Media, Injectivity Predictions, SOR reduction
Current Position: Assistant Professor - College of Petroleum Engineering & Geoscience, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
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Rajan Patel (Sept 2013 - Dec 2017)
Research: Advanced Closed-Loop Reservoir Management, Data Assimilation, Real-Time Production Optimization of SAGD Reservoirs
Current Position: Data Scientist at Suncor Energy, Calgary, Canada
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Donghai (Leo) Xia (Visiting Ph.D.: Oct 2013 - Feb 2015)
Current Position: Organic alkali for emulsification with crude oil
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Ali Telmadarreie (Jan 2013 - April 2017)
Research: Stability of CO2 foams using surfactant-polymer-nanofluids
Current Position: Co-founder and CEO - CNERGREEN
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Ehsan Rahmati (Sept 2010 – Dec 2015) (Co-supervisor: Ali Nouri)
Research: Numerical Assessment of Caprock Integrity in SAGD Operations Considering Mechanical Anisotropic Behavior of Shale Layers
Current Position: Data Scientist – Ambyint, USA
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Siavash Nejadi (Sept 2010 - Dec 2015)
Research: Data Assimilation and Uncertainty Reduction
Current Position: Data Scientist - Seaspan ULC
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MSc. Students
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Zifan (Gina) Zhang (Sept 2017 - Aug 2019)
Research: Zwitterionic Surfactant for Oil Recovery in Tight Carbonate Reservoir: Physico-chemical Interaction and Microfluidic Study
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Benedicta Nwani (Sept 2017 - Aug 2019)
Research: Physico-chemical and Microfludic Investigation of Low Tension Water and Oil interactions
Current Position: Ph.D. Student - University of Calgary
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Sarah Zahibi (Sept 2015 - May 2017)
Research: CO2 Sequestration after Underground Coal Gasification
Current Position: Process Engineer - Worley, Canada
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Yogesh Dalsania (Sept 2014 - Dec 2016)
Research: Characterization of Oilfield High Molar Mass Polymers Under Different pH and Mono-Di ValentIon Environments Using Asymmetrical Flow Fluid Flow
Current Position: Sr. Advisor, Quantitative Risk at Capital Power, Edmonton, Canada
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Tarang Jain (Sept 2014 - Dec 2016)
Research: Data-Driven Proxy Models for Assisted History Matching of SAGD Reservoirs
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Shiv Vembadi (Sept 2011 - Dec 2015)
Research: Real-time Optimization and Control for SAGD Subcool Control
Ankit Doda (Sept 2012 - Jan 2014)
Research: Effect of Viscoelasticity and Alkali on Hydrolyzed PAM, and 'AA-NVP' Co- and Cross-Linked Polymers
Current Position: Production Lead - Petfoods, Canada
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Pavan Pramod Sripada (Sept 2012 - Dec 2014) (Co-supervisor: Dr. R Gupta)
Research: CO2 Adsorption Capacities of Gasified Coal Chars
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Yao Song (Sept 2012 - Jan 2014)
Research: System Identification based Proxy Models for Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Current Position: Manager at Bain & Company
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Daimeng Jia
Research: CO2 Foam for Heavy Oil Recovery: Stabilization of CO2 Foam by Nanoparticle and Polymer
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Maushomi Ghosh (Sept 2011 - Dec 2013) (Co-supervisor: Ergun Kuru)
Research: CO2 Microbubble Formulation for Sequestration and EOR
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Santhosh K Veerabhadappa (Jan 2010 – May 2012)
Research: Effects of Polymer Elasticity on Enhanced Oil Recovery
Current Position: Senior Research Engineer, Saskatchewan Research Council, Regina, Canada
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Shivana Samuel (Sept 2010 – Jan 2012) (Co-supervisor: Ergun Kuru)​
Research: Aqueous Colloidal Gas Aphrons for Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery
Current Position: Geologist, Alberta Energy – Geology and Engineering Department, Edmonton, Canada
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Amit Panwar (Jan 2010 – Sept 2012)
Research: Temperature Data for Assisted Data Assimilation and Model Update
Current Position: Geologist, Alberta Energy – Geology and Engineering Department, Edmonton, Canada
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Ali Gul (Sept 2009 – Aug 2011)
Research: Applications of Ensemble Kalman Filter for Characterization and History Matching of SAGD
Current Position: Production Engineering – Shell, Calgary, Canada
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Tolkyonay Urbissinova (Aug 2009 – Sept 2010) (Co-supervisor: Ergun Kuru)
Research: Effect of elasticity on the sweep efficiency in viscoelastic polymer flooding operations
Current Position: Falcon Oil & Gas, Kazakhstan
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Saddam Yazzan Kountar (Aug 2009 – Nov 2009)
Research: Dynamic spontaneous imbibition with variable inlet saturation and interfacial coupling effects
Current Position: WRFM Lead, Foothills Central Alberta, Shell
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Rodrígue, Rhamid Hortensi (July 2009 – Nov 2009) (Supervisor: Rick Chalaturnyk)
Research: Geomechanics in Streamline Simulation
Current Position: PEMEX, Mexico
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Research Assistants
Hillary Smith (2020 – 2021)
Tarang Jain (2017 – 2018)
Ankit Doda (2014 – 2015)
Yao Song (2014)
Santhosh K Veerabhadappa (2012)
M.Eng Students
Esther Teye (2020)
Yenny Carolina Arambula (2019)
Hamidreza Varveicy (2019)
Nishit Shah (2017)
Irfan Ullah Khan (Sept 2013)
Vajra Teji (Summer 2013)
Danish Nawaz (April 2013)
Mudit Chordia (April 2012)
Yash Agarwal (April 2012)
Bolat Akhmetov (Sept 2010)


Undergraduate Students
Diameng Jai
Frank Dong
Aditya Muralidharan


