Japan Trivedi

Japan Trivedi, PhD, P.Eng is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), CO2 Sequestration, Unconventional Reservoirs, and integration of Machine Learning in reservoir simulation. His lab operates at the Natural Resources Engineering Facility (NREF) under the School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering.

• Research Areas:
  • Chemical EOR (polymers, surfactants, nanofluids)
  • CO2 utilization for EOR and storage
  • Reinforcement Learning for SAGD optimization
  • Extensional rheology of complex fluids
• Techniques:
  • Reservoir simulation
  • Machine learning integration
  • Micromodel experiments
  • Field-scale modeling

Key Projects: Include CO2 EOR/sequestration, Tight Oil EOR, ASP polymer characterization, and real-time SAGD optimization. His group collaborates on underground coal gasification and fracture reservoir characterization.

Teaching: Offers courses like PET E 377 - Modelling in Petroleum Engineering and PET E 649 - Advanced Reservoir Simulation, emphasizing numerical methods, EOR processes, and simulation tools.