Dr. Assareh, Mehdi. , Assistant Professor
Dr. Assareh, Mehdi. , Assistant Professor
Petroleum Processing
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E-mail: assarehm [AT] iust.ac.ir |
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Tel: (+9821) 73228752 – 77240496 |
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Fax: (+9821) 77240495 |
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Postal Code: 13114-16846 |
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University of Science and Technology of Iran, University St., Hengam St., Resalat Square, Tehran, Iran. |
Education
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Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2008-2013 |
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M.Sc. in Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2006-2008 M.Sc. Thesis: Fluid phase behavior modeling for Iranian South-west petroleum reservoir using SAFT equation of state and comparison with cubic equations of state: Mehdi Assareh under supervision of Cyrus Ghotbi and Mohsen Masihi, Sharif university of technology, Tehran, Iran. (2007) |
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B.Sc. in Petroleum reservoir engineering, Petroleum University of Technology, Ahwaz, Iran, 2001-2005 B.Sc. Thesis: Thermodynamic analysis of gas condensate reservoir: Mehdi Assareh under supervision of Mohammad Jamialahmad, Petroleum university of technology, Ahwaz, Iran. (2003) |
Research of Interest
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Compositional reservoir simulation, black oil, fractured reservoir simulation |
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Fluid phase behavior, modeling, and experiments (PVT cell and Slim tube), thermodynamics of hydrocarbon |
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Practical implementation of control-volume finite element and control volume finite difference discretization in the problem involving flow through porous media. |
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Reservoir simulator software development (developed different options in commercial and non-commercial reservoir simulators (including diffusion, multiphase equilibrium, miscibility options, black oil PVT handling, well management) (programming language FORTRAN, C#, MATLAB) |
Experiences
Other Educations
- Ph.D. visiting studentship, Montan University of Leoben, Austria
- Compositional reservoir simulation, Heinemann Oil GmbH
- Fluid flow simulation in fractured reservoir, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry
- Advanced practical reservoir simulation, Sharif University of Technology
- PVT laboratory systems training, Sharif University of Technology
Employment
- Assistant professor, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2013 onward
- Hydrocarbon thermodynamics and compositional simulation consultant, Heinemann Oil GmbH, Austria, 2011-2012
- Reservoir engineer, Heinemann Oil GmbH, 2011, Leoben Austria
- Reservoir engineer, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, 2009-2011
- Reservoir fluid phase behavior, teaching assistant 2007-2012 (each year two semesters)
Collaboration with scientific journals
- Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Elsevier.
- Journal of Petroleum Science and Technology. Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran.
- Petroleum Research, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran.
- Engineering Education Journal, National Academy of Science. Tehran, Iran.
- Journal of natural gas science and engineering, Elsevier.
- Ingeniería y Ciencia
- International Journal of oil, gas and coal technology, inderscience.
- Fluid phase equilibria
- Industrial engineering and chemistry
- Energy and fuels
- International Journal of Exploration and Production Technology
- SPE Journal
Lectures
- Reservoir fluid phase behavior, graduate level
- Fractured reservoir engineering, graduate level
- Advanced reservoir simulation, graduate level
- Fluid flow through porous media, graduate level
- Reservoir fluid phase behavior, undergraduate level
- Reservoir simulation training courses for petroleum industry
- Enhanced oil recovery, graduate level
- Fundamental of reservoir engineering, undergraduate level
- Thermodynamic II, undergraduate level
- Thermodynamic I, undergraduate level
- Advanced thermodynamic, graduate level
- Thermodynamic modeling of special systems, graduate level
Honor And Awards
- First rank professor in educational excellence, School of Chemical Engineering, Petroleum and Natural gas, Iran University of Science and Technology
- Scholarship: National Elite Foundation, 2014-2015
- First rank: Ph.D. entrance examination
- First rank: high school, National Organization for Talented Students
Courses Taught
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Industrial interactions
Projects
- Cooperation in Iranian Reservoir simulator development project
- Compositional equation system optimization
- Diffusion implementation
- Equilibrium calculation routines
- Compositional initialization
- Compositional well management in simulation
- Non-equilibrium reservoir initialization
- Cooperation in preparation of the equation of state fluid model data bank for Iranian offshore oil company
- Serajeh, underground gas storage
- Balal fractured oil field simulation
- South pars oil layer simulation study
- South pars gas condensate compositional simulation
- Sabah fractured field production scheduling
- Intisar – A fluid characterization
- Intisar- E fluid characterization
- Waha – fluid characterization
- Harash – fluid characterization
- Fidda – fluid characterization
Team Management and Software Development
- for asphaltene precipitation and deposition from the reservoir fluid
- Team management and software development for detailed screening and optimization of EOR processes
- Team management and software development for scale precipitation from formation water
- Team management and software development for wax precipitation from the reservoir fluid