Process Engineering
Discipline chair: Faisal Khan
Stephen Butt: Geomechanics, geophysical imaging and in situ characterization, drilling optimization, reservoir characterization non-destructive testing, geostatics
Kelly Hawboldt: Waste gas management and recovery, combustion/pyrolysis of waste gas, oil and gas processing, environmental effects monitoring, offshore produced water and drilling cuttings treatment and disposal
Tahir Husain: Environmental risk assessment, environmental modeling, air pollution, water resources engineering
Thormod Johansen: Reservoir engineering, mathematical modeling of fluid flow in wells and porous media, integration of simulators for characterization, analytical and numerical modeling of fluid flow, up-scaling of reservoir properties, enhanced oil recovery
Shawn Kenny: Cross-country pipeline design
Faisal Khan: Safety and risk engineering, reliability modeling, human health risk assessment
Vlastimil Masek: Instrumentation and control, smart sensors, robotics
Yuri Muzychka: Heat transfer, thermal design and optimization, two phase flow, fluid dynamics, process flow
Sui O'Young: Real time discrete-event system, hybrid systems, industrial automation, formal methods, robust control, computer-aided control system design
R. Seshadri: Development and implementation of innovative mechanical and structural integrity evaluation procedures for oil and gas production facilities, inelasticity, elevated temperature design, robust simplified methods, codes and standards
