معرفی
Abbas Firoozabadi is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. His research focuses on hydrocarbon energy production, subsurface fluid dynamics, and molecular-level engineering of CO2 for enhanced oil recovery and sequestration. He has held academic roles at institutions including the University of Texas-Austin, Imperial College London, and Peking University. Firoozabadi leads the Reservoir Engineering Research Institute (RERI) funded by major energy companies and the US-DOE.
Education: Ph.D. (Gas Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1975), Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Michigan, 1976), and earlier degrees from Abadan Institute of Technology.
Research Interests: Molecular structure in hydrocarbon systems, interfacial thermodynamics, large-scale numerical simulation of multiphase flow, CO2 viscosification, and subsurface energy storage. His work bridges atomistic simulations with large-scale reservoir modeling.
Key Contributions: Developed functional molecules to increase CO2 viscosity for safer sequestration, pioneered interfacial elasticity studies for EOR, and advanced higher-order numerical methods for fractured media simulation. His lab addresses waterless fracking, CO2 mobility control, and kerogen swelling mechanisms.
- Awards: Anthony Lucas Gold Medal (SPE), Four SPE Major Awards, Member of US National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Grants/Projects: RERI consortium, US-DOE-funded research, industry partnerships in subsurface engineering
- Labs/Teams: The Firoozabadi Group at Rice University, focusing on CO2 utilization and reservoir engineering challenges
