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Sara Eghbali
eghbali1@ualberta.ca
PostDoc
Current PostDoc in Mechanical Engineering, PhD in Petroleum Engineering
Extraction of geothermal energy through wells
Research Interests : Geothermal heat extraction, transport phenomena, thermodynamics, multiphase behavior of heavy oil and solvents, reservoir engineering and simulation, production engineering
I have Bsc and Msc of petroleum engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and PhD in petroleum engineering from University of Alberta. I have been working as a PostDoc in Mechanical Enegineering department (Dr. Nobes Research team) since June 2019. My current research is modelling and designing closed loop systems for extracting geothermal energy to the surface. During my PhD studies at University of Alberta, I conducted an applied research in collaboration with Industry. During this period, I have focused on characterizing oil sand reservoirs, thermal reservoir simulation and optimization of thermal recovery methods such as Steam-Assisted-Gravity-Drainage (SAGD) and Solvent-Aided-Processes. I have two years of professional experience in industry as a reservoir and production engineer in Tehran Energy Consulting Company, I have been involved in several oil and gas projects where I have developed numerous petroleum engineering skills including geological modelling and data manipulation, production optimization, reservoir characterization
and modelling, production data history matching and reservoir simulation.
Publications
• Eghbali, S. and Dehghanpour, H., 2019. Simulation Study on Solvent-Aided Process using Light Hydrocarbon Solvents in Clearwater Oil-Sand Formation. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Under Review.
• Eghbali, S. and Dehghanpour, H., 2019. An Experimental and Modeling Study on Interactions of Cold Lake Bitumen with CO2, C3, and C4 at High Temperatures. Energy & Fuels.
• Eghbali, S., and Dehghanpour, H. 2018. An Experimental and Modelling Study of Solvent-Bitumen Phase Behavior at Elevated Temperatures using Cold Lake Bitumen. SPE Journal.
• Eghbali S., Dehghanpour H., Dragani J., Zhang X., Interactions of Cold Lake bitumen with CO2, propane and butane: An experimental and modelling study, paper number: SPE-189765-MS accepted at SPE Canada Heavy Oil Conference, Calgary, Mar. 2018.
• Zhu, D., Eghbali, S., Shekhar, C., and Okuno, R., A Unified Algorithm for Phase-Stability/Split Calculation for Multiphase Isobaric-Isothermal Flash, SPE Journal, 2017.
• Eghbali S., Dehghanpour H., An Experimental and Modeling Study of Solvent- Bitumen Phase Behavior at Elevated Temperatures using Cold Lake Bitumen”, SPE-187259-MS, ATCE Conference, San Antonio, Texas, Oct., 2017.
• Yassin M., Habibi A., Eghbali S., Zolfaghari Sharak A., Dehghanpour H., An Experimental Study of Non-equilibrium CO2-Oil Interactions, SPE-187093-MS, ATCE Conference, San Antonio, Texas, Oct., 2017.
• Eghbali S., Ayatollahi Sh, Bozorgmehry Boozarjomehry R., A New Expert System for EOR Screening in Non-Fractured Reservoirs, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Volume 293, 15 June 2016, Pages 80-94.
• Eghbali S., Okuno R., Successive Substitution Augmented for Global Minimization of the Gibbs Free Energy, SPE-175060-MS, ATCE Conference, Houston, Texas, Sep., 2015.