The 2017 Petroleum Institute

R&D Conference and Exhibition

Advance Program

March 21-22, 2017

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Organizing Committees Conference Overview

Advisory Committee The objective of the 2017 Petroleum Institute R&D
Dr. Marc Durandeau, Chair Conference and Exhibition is to showcase the latest R&D
Dr. Youssef Lotfy Abdel Magid innovations at the Institute in the oil and gas and broader
Dr. Ebrahim Al Hajri energy sectors. This years conference also hosts a half day
Dr. Ali ElKamel pedagogy workshop titled Increasing Student Academic and
Personal Success.
General Chair
Dr. Peter Rodgers The conference program includes sixty-six oral and forty-
eight poster presentations given by PI Faculty, Research
Program Chair
Associates and Graduate Students. These contributions are
Dr. Naji AlSayari representative of a broad range of research activities on
topics including:
Program Committee
Dr. Mohammed Abou Khousa
Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production
Dr. Akram AlFantazi
Dr. Nader Ayish Asset Integrity Optimization
Dr. Hadi Belhaj Renewable and Sustainable Energy Technologies
Dr. Igor Boiko Water Production and Management
Dr. Ehab El-Sadaany Environmental Challenges
Dr. Valerie Eveloy Advanced Materials and Corrosion
Dr. Afshin Goharzadeh High Voltage Engineering
Dr. Sadoon Morad Pedagogy
Dr. Samuel Osisanya
Dr. Dimitrios Reppas Conference attendance is free, but advance online registration
Dr. Paul Rostron is required to be made by Thursday, March 16, 2017, at:
Mr. Colin Toms http://www.pi.ac.ae/en/UpcomingEvents/Pages/PIRD_Confer
Dr. Lourdes Vega ence_Exhibition2017.aspx
Dr. Aldo Vesnaver
We hope that you will consider participating at this exciting
Multimedia forum and look forward to welcoming you at the event. For
Mr. Falah Al Matroushi further information please contact:
Mr. Ghassan Al Tork
General Chair
Logistics Dr. Peter Rodgers (prodgers@pi.ac.ae)
Mr. Suwaidan Al Nuaimi
Program Chair
Ms. Sonia Furtado
Dr. Naji AlSayari (nalsayari@pi.ac.ae)
Publicity Registration
Ms. Wadhha Al Jaberi Ms Sonia Furtado (sfurtado@pi.ac.ae)

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Schedule of Events

March 21, 2017

7.00 am - 8.00 am Attendee Registration
8.00 am - 8.05 am Welcome Remarks
8.05 am - 8.45 am Keynote Address
8.45 am 9.00 am Coffee Break
9.00 am - 11.00 am Session 1: Enhanced Oil Recovery Session 2: Energy Efficiency
11.00 am 11.20 am Coffee Break
11.20 am 1.00 pm Session 3: Geophysical Exploration Session 4:Water and Environment
1.00 pm - 2.15 pm Lunch and Poster Exhibition Pedagogy Workshop:
2:15 pm - 4.00 pm Session 5: Integrated Sensors and Increasing Student Academic and
Process Controls Personal Success
4.00 pm Day One Closure

March 22, 2017

7.00 am - 8.00 am Attendee Registration
8.00 am - 10.00 am Session 6: Reservoir Characterization, Session 7: Energy Sustainability
Drilling and Completion
10.00 am -10.30 am Coffee Break
10.30 am - 12.10 pm Session 8: Gas Processing Session 9: Flow Assurance
12.10 pm - 1.30 pm Lunch and Poster Exhibition
1.30 pm - 3.30 pm Session 10: Advanced Material and Corrosion
3.30 pm - 3.40 pm Coffee Break
3.40 pm - 3.55 pm Conference Awards: Best Oral and Poster Presentations
3.55 pm - 4.00 pm Closing Address

The Poster Exhibition is organized under eleven topical areas:

Geology
Geophysics
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Reservoir Modelling
Flow Assurance
Gas Processing
Advanced Materials and Corrosion
Energy Recovery
High Voltage Engineering and Power Electronics Applications
Water and Environment
Process Controls and Optimization

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Conference Program, March 21, 2017

7.00 am - 8.00 am Attendee Registration
8.00 am - 8.05 am Welcome Remarks
Keynote Address: Overview of ADNOC R&D Challenges
8.05 am - 8.45 am
Speaker TBA
8.45 am - 9.00 am Coffee Break
Session 1: Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
Chair: Dr. Hadi Belhaj, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: ADCO Auditorium
9.00 am - 9.20 am Surfactant Polymer Formulation Design Targeting High Salinity High-Temperature
Carbonate Reservoir
Muhammad Mushtaq, Ali AlSumaiti and Waleed Alameri
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
9.20 am - 9.40 am Dimensionality-Dependent Foam Properties: SAG Foam Behavior in Radial Geometry
Simulation
Fu Dai and Hadi A. Belhaj
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
9.40 am - 10.00 am Laboratory Investigation of Polymer Flooding in High Temperature High Salinity
Carbonate Reservoirs
Yemna Qaiser, Muhammad Rehan Hashmet, Waleed S. AlAmeri and Ali M. AlSumaiti
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
10.00 am - 10.20 am Experimental PVT Study for EOS Modeling in CO2 EOR Projects in the UAE
Naeem A. Achuliwor and John M. Williams
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
10.20 am - 10.40 am Determination of Gas Mobility Reduction Due to Presence of CO2 Foam in High
Temperature and High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs
Eric Sonny Mathew, Muhammad Rehan Hashmet, Abdul Ravoof Shaik, Ali Al Sumaiti and Waleed
AlAmeri
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
10.40 am - 11.00 am Hybrid EOR Technology: Carbonated Water-Smart Water Flood Improved Recovery in Oil
Wet Carbonate Formation
Alibi Kilybay, Bisweswar Ghosh and Nithin Chacko Thomas
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Session 2: Energy Efficiency
Chair: Dr. Khalifa Al Hosani, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: ADRIC Auditorium
9.00 am - 9.20 am Mechanical and Heat Transfer Performance of Commercially-available, High Thermal Conductivity
Polymer Composite Materials for Application in Natural Gas Processing Heat Exchangers
Peter Rodgers, Antoine Diana, Ismail Darawsheh, Valerie Eveloy and Fahad Almaskari
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
9.20 am - 9.40 am Design and Implementation of a Robust State Feedback Control Law for a Grid-Connected
Doubly Fed Induction Generator Wind Rurbine
Mahdi Debouza1, Rachid Errouissi1, Ahmed Al-Durra1 and S. M. Muyeen2
1
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
Department of Electrical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
9.40 am - 10.00 am Sustainable Enhancement Initiatives of Power, Cooling and Fresh Water in Oil and Gas
Facilities
Valerie Eveloy, Peter Rodgers and Ali Al Alili
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
10.00 am - 10.20 am A Multitasking Control Algorithm for Grid-Connected Inverters in Distributed Generation
Applications Using Adaptive Noise Cancellation Filters
Rajasekharareddy Chilipi, Naji Al Sayari, Khalifa Al Hosani, and A. R. Beig
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
10.20 am - 10.40 am Combined Soil Resistivity and Seismic Tests for Obtaining Improved Accuracy in Soil Models
Mohammed Abu Geyab, Noureddine Harid and Huw Griffiths
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
10.40 am - 11.00 am Influence of Test Voltage Magnitude on the Sweep Frequency Response of Power Transformers
Anurag A. Devadiga, Abdulla I. Hammoud, Naji Al Sayari, Huw Griffiths and Noureddine Harid
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
11.00 am 11.20 am Coffee Break

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Session 3: Geophysical Exploration

Chair: Dr. Sadoon Murad, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: ADCO Auditorium
11.20 am 11.40 am Potential of Seismic Wave Attenuation for Characterization of Abu Dhabi Oilfield
Reservoirs
Fateh Bouchaala1, Mohammed Y Ali1 and Jun Matsushima2
1
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute
2
Frontier Research Center for Energy and Resources, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
11.40 am 12.00 pm Broadband seismic Imaging of the Q Factor for Reservoir Characterization
Rongzhi Lin and Aldo Vesnaver
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute
12.00 pm 12.20 pm Seismic Traveltime Inversion Using Multi-arrivals in Anisotropic Media
Lijiao Zhang and Bing Zhou
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute
12.20 pm 12.40 pm Determination of Absolute Permeability of a Carbonate Rock Sample Using Digital Rock Physics
Khurshed Rahimov, Ali M AlSumaiti, Mohamed Soufiane Jouini and Moussa Tembely
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
12.40 pm 1.00 pm Elastic Properties and Permeability of Carbonate Reservoir Rocks
Pawel Nawrocki and Abdessamia Jebbouri
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Session 4: Water and Environment
Chair: Dr. Valerie Eveloy, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: ADRIC Auditorium
11.20 am 11.40 am Well-to-Grid Green House Gas Lifecycle Assessment of the United Arab Emirates Electricity Sector
Ali Almansoori, Mohammed Alkatheri and Alberto Betancourt-Torcat
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
11.40 am 12.00 pm CFD Modeling of Environmental Gas Dispersion in Sour Gas Fields
Peter Rodgers, Valerie Eveloy, Antoine Diana and Konglong Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
12.00 pm 12.20 pm Hydrophobic Deep Eutectic Solvents as Water-Immiscible Extractants
Maaike C. Kroon1, Danny J. G. P. van Osch2 and Carin H. J. T. Dietz2
1
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
Department of Chemical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.
12.20 pm 12.40 pm The Role of Hydrate Nucleation, Growth, & Separation Processes in Seawater Desalination
Using Hydrate Technology
Muhammad. N Khan1, H Xu2, Carolyn A. Koh2 and Cornelis J. Peters1
1
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
Colorado School of Mines, Chemical & Biological Engineering Department
Center for Hydrate Research, Golden, USA.
12.40 pm 1.00 pm Determination of Occupational Exposure to Benzene Vapor at Petrol Stations With and
Without Vapor Recovery Units (VRUs) Installed
Dr. Rodney J. Simmons1, Dr. Clarence C. Rodrigues1 and Raheel Yousuf Muhammad Yousuf2
1
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
ADNOC Distribution Company, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
1.00 pm - 2.15 pm Lunch and Poster Exhibition
Venue: ADRIC Cafeteria
Session 5: Integrated Sensors and Process Controls
Chair: Dr. Igor Boiko, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: ADRIC Auditorium
2.15 pm 2.35 pm Robust Hough Transformation Based Vision Controller for Autonomous Tracking of the Oil
and Gas Pipelines by an UAV
Amit Shukla, Hunag Xiaoqian and Hamad Karki
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2.35 pm 2.55 pm Simulator and Controller Tuning/Testing Rig for Artificial Gas Lift
Imad Matraji, Weiliang Wang, Igor Boiko, Ahmed Al-Durra, Ibrahim Yousif and Jing Shi
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2.55 pm 3.15 pm Optimal Design of Municipal Solid Waste Processing Network
Muhammad Rizwan1, Ali Almansoori1and Ali Elkamel1,2
1
Department Of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.

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Session 5: Integrated Sensors and Process Controls (Contd)

3.15 pm 3.35 pm Model Predictive Control of Industrial Compressors
Khalifa Al Hosani and Igor Boiko
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
3.35 pm 3.55 pm Corrosion Mapping Using Microwave Nondestructive Testing Techniques
Mohammad R. Ramzi and M. Abou-Khousa
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
3.55 pm 4.15 pm Design of an Energy Harvesting Device for Powering a Wireless Sensor Network in an Oil
Pipeline
Mustafa E. Abdelfattah1, Abdellatif Bouchalkha2 and Khalid Alhammadi1
1
Department of Electrical Engineering, 2Department of Physics, The Petroleum Institute
4.15 pm Day One Closure

Pedagogy Workshop
Increasing Student Academic and Personal Success
1.15 pm 4.00 pm, March 21, 2017
Chair: Dr. Dimitrios Reppas, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: Building 2, Lecture Hall 2123
12.30 pm 1.15 pm Attendee Registration
1.15 pm 1.20 pm Welcome Remarks
Speaker TBA
1.20 pm 1.35 pm Awareness of Risk Management Among PI Engineering Undergraduates
Hwee Limand1 and Rodney J. Simmons2
1
Department of Communication, 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
1.35 pm 1.50 pm The Effects of a Freshman Year Experience Program on Students' Personal Development
Tanju Deveci and Nader Ayish
Department of Communication, The Petroleum Institute
1.50 pm 2.05 pm STPS201 Students Design and Develop Educational Computer Games that aim to Raise the
Level of Environmental Awareness Among UAE Middle School Students
Dragana Randelovic and Wael El-Sokkary
Department of General Studies, The Petroleum Institute
2.05 pm 2.20 pm An Investigation into the Impact of Frequent Peer Evaluation on Team Performance
Robert Craig, Andrea Dallas, Mark Wyatt and Caroline Brandt
Department of Communication, The Petroleum Institute
2:20 pm 2.35 pm Project-X: An Initiative to Increase Student Engagement Through Laptops
Tanju Deveci1, David Dalton1, Asli Hassan1 and Saed Amer2
1
Department of Communication, 2Department of General Studies, The Petroleum Institute
2.35 pm 2.45 pm Coffee Break
2.45 pm 3.00 pm The CAMP060 Pilot: A Step into the Right Direction
Hagop Aynedjian1, Ahmed Ameur2 and Ziad Aoudi3
1
Department of Physics, 2Department of Mathematics, 3Department of Chemistry, The Petroleum
Institute
3.00 pm 3.15 pm Using Google Apps to Collaborate Online and Prepare Students for Future Studies and
Work
Matthew Andrew
Academic Bridge Program, The Petroleum Institute
3.15 pm 3.30 pm Is There a Best Engineering Word List?
Theodore Burkett
Academic Bridge Program, The Petroleum Institute
3.30 pm 3.45 pm Successful Adoption of the Scale-Up Approach at the PI in Abu Dhabi
Curtis C. Bradley
Department of Physics, The Petroleum Institute
3.45 pm 4.00 pm Cognitive Tutors for Support of Flipped Learning in a Scale-Up Physics Classroom
Curtis C. Bradley
Department of Physics, The Petroleum Institute
4.00 pm Workshop Closure

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Conference Program, March 22, 2017

7.00 am - 8.00 am Attendee Registration
Session 6: Reservoir Characterization & Drilling and Completion
Chair: Dr. Samuel Osisanya, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: ADCO Auditorium
8.00 am - 8.20 am A New Genetic-Based Algorithm for the Interpretation of Pressure Transient Response in
Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Zinab Al Maqrami, Chakib Kada Cloucha and Mohammed Al Kobaisi
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
8.20 am - 8.40 am An Overview of Rock Drillability and Drilling Optimization and Steps Towards DOWD
(Drilling Optimization While Drilling)
Vassilios C. Kelessidis
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
8.40 am - 9.00 am Development of New Smart Drilling Fluids Using Nano-Materials for Unconventional
Reservoirs
S. Li, Samuel Osisanya and Mohammed Haroun
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
9.00 am - 9.20 am Analytical Solution to Stress Cage Problem with Particular Application to Wellbore
Instability
Liu Haoge and Md. Motiur Rahman
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
9.20 am - 9.40 am Variations of Acoustic Velocity as Function of Brine and Oil Saturation in UAE Carbonates
Ammar Elhusseiny, Oriyomi Raheem, Syed Nizamuddin and Sandra Vega
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute
9.40 am - 10.00 am Application of Frequency Domain Acoustic Waveform Tomography to Marine VSP
Walkaway Data
Eric Takam Takougang and Youcef Bouzidi
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute

Session 7: Energy Efficiency

Chair: Dr. Mohammed Abo Khousa, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: ADRIC Auditorium
8.00 am - 8.20 am Modelling and Optimization of ADGAS NGL Recovery unit
Ashwin Murali, Sulaimon Adegunju, Satyadileep Dara and Abdallah S. Berrouk
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
8.20 am - 8.40 am Multi Modular Converter Based Grid Connected Inverter with a Novel Voltage Balancing
Algorithm
Safia B. Bashir and Abdul R. Beig
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
8.40 am - 9.00 am Thermal Management of Solar Photovoltaic Modules in Desert Environments
Peter Rodgers and Valerie Eveloy
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
9.00 am - 9.20 am Vortex Generator Insert to Develop a High Performance Heat Exchange
Y. Xu, MD. Islam and N. Kharoua
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
9.20 am - 9.40 am Optimization of Corona Ring Design for High Voltage Insulators Simulation by COMSOL
Multiphysics
Alip Mohammed1, Esam Al Murawwi2, Zapaer Alip3 and Ayman El-Hag4
1
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
TRANSCO, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
3
Department of Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Canada.
4
Department of Electrical Engineering, American University of Sharjah
9.40 am - 10.00 am An Adaptive Notch Filter Based on Grid Impedance Estimation for LCL filter
Yuan Jing, Ahmed Al durra and Ehab Fahmy El-Sadaany
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
10.00 am - 10.30 am Coffee Break

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Session 8: Gas Processing

Chair: Dr. Maryam Khaleel, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: ADCO Auditorium
10.30 am 10.50 am Process Design and Techno-Economic Analysis for Ultra Sour Natural Gas Sweetening
Using Membranes/Amines Hybrid Systems
Mohammed Alkatheri1, Ricardo Grandas1,2, Alberto Betancourt-Torcat1 and Ali Almansoori1
1
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia.
10.50 am 11.10 am Optimization of Operating Conditions to Remove Foam Creators from Industrial Lean
Amine Solutions Using Foam Fractionation Columns
Mohammed Keewan, Fawzi Banat and Emad Alhseinat
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
11.10 am 11.30 am Investigation of Gas Permeation in Carbon Molecular Sieve Membrane Derived from
Polyimide at 700C
Zhou He, Shaihroz Khan and Kean Wang
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
11.30 am 11.50 am Growth and functionalization of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and MOF Composites
for CO2 Capture
Jeewan Pokhrel1, Nidhika Bhoria1, Stavroula Anastasiou1, Suresh Kuppireddy1, C. S. Kannan1,
George Romanos2 and Georgios N. Karanikolos1
1
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Demokritos National Research Centre, Athens,
Greece.
11.50 am 12.10 pm CO2 Capture by Amine-Functionalized Graphene Oxide
Nidhika Bhoria1, Jeewan Pokhrel1, Stavroula Anastasiou1, George Romanos2 and Georgios N.
Karanikolos1
1
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Demokritos National Research Centre, Athens,
Greece.
Session 9: Flow Assurance
Chair: Dr. Afshin Goharzadeh, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: ADRIC Auditorium
10.30 am 10.50 am Experimental Investigation of Liquid-Gas Two-Phase Flows in a Horizontal Pipe with
Sudden Expansion
Dawei Zhang and Afshin Goharzadeh
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
10.50 am 11.10 am Ionic Liquids in Stabilizing Asphaltene under Miscible CO2 Injection
Nuhu Turosung Sulemana, Dr. Bisweswar Ghosh, Dr. Fawzi Banat and Nevin Mathew
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
11.10 am 11.30 am Numerical Study of the Multiphase Flow in an Innovative Gas-Liquid Separator
Nabil Kharoua, Lyes Khezzar, Mohamed Alshehhi and Mahmoud Meribout
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
11.30 am 11.50 am RANS and LES Modelling of Hydrate Slurry Flow in Pipelines
Peng Jiang and Abdallah Sofiane Berrouk
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
11.50 am 12.10 pm Influence of Pipeline Inclination on Gas-Liquid Conveying of Solid Particles
Peter Rodgers, Afshin Goharzadeh and Ahmed Nossair
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
12:10 pm 1.30 pm Lunch and Poster Exhibition
ADRIC Cafeteria
Session 10: Advanced Material and Corrosion
Chair: Dr. Akram AlFantazi, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: ADRIC Auditorium
1.30 pm 1.50 pm Thermal Aspects in Machining of Carbon Fiber Composites
Jamal Ahmad, Fahad Almaskari and Farrukh Hafeez
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
1.50 pm 2.10 pm Parameters Affecting The Thermal and Rheological Properties of HDPE-Organoclay
Composites
Abdullah Mohamed Yassin and Ebru Gunister
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute

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Session 10: Advanced Material and Corrosion (Contd)

2.10 pm 2.30 pm Fiber Optic Based Sensors for Internal and External Corrosion
Safieh Almahmoud1, Oleg Shiryayev1, Nader Vahdati1 and Paul Rostron2
1
Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2Department of Chemistry, The Petroleum Institute
2.30 pm 2.50 pm A Pioneering Initiative in Microbially-Influenced Corrosion in the UAE
James M.W.R .McElhinney and Ricardo P. Nogueira
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2.50 pm 3.10 pm NaCl Erosion-Corrosion of Mild Steel under Submerged Impingement Jet (SIJ)
Muhammed Sadique1, Sami Ainane1, Y.F. Yap1, Paul Rostron2 and Ebrahim Al Hajri1
1
Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2Department of Chemistry, The Petroleum Institute
3.10 pm 3.30 pm EIS for the Early Detection of Unexpected Corrosion Phenomena in Highly Resistive
Organic Solutions
Ricardo P. Nogueira1, N. de Oliveira1, C. Boissy2 and P. Mkarban3
1
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
Aperam Research Center, France
3
Arkema Research Center, France
3.30 pm - 3.40 pm Coffee Break
3.40 pm - 3.55 pm Conference Awards: Best Oral and Poster Presentations
3.55 pm - 4.00 pm Closing Address

The ADNOC Research and Innovation Center (ADRIC) at The Petroleum Institute (PI)

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Poster Exhibition, March 21-22, 2017

March 21: 1.00 pm - 2.15 pm
March 22: 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm
Chairs: Dr.Aldo Vesnaver, The Petroleum Institute
Dr. Paul Rostron, The Petroleum Institute
Venue: ADRIC Cafeteria
Topic Area I: Geology
Petro-Tectonic Analysis of the Granite Intrusions in the Khor Fakkan Block of UAE Ophiolites
Hosung Joun and Sotirios Kokkalas
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute
Geochemical and Sedimentological Characterization of the Bathonian to Oxfordian, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Wang Wen1, Aisha Al Suwaidi1, Dominik Hennhoefer1, Alessandro Menini2, Emmanuela Mattioli2
and Thomas Steuber1
1
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute
2
Laboratoire de Gologie de Lyon: Terre, Plantes, Environnement, Observatoire de Lyon, Universit Lyon, France
The Early Jurassic, Marrat and Hamlah Formations Stratigraphy in Abu Dhabi, UAE
Fatima Al Hosani1, Aisha Al Suwaidi1, Dominik Hennhoefer1, Alessandro Menini2, Emmanuela Mattioli2 and Thomas
Steuber1
1
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute
2
Laboratoire de Gologie de Lyon: Terre, Plantes, Environnement, Observatoire de Lyon, Universit Lyon, France
Geochemistry of Evaporite, Carbonate and Microbial Facies in the Coastal Sabkha of Abu Dhabi, UAE
Andreas Paul1, Peng Yuan1, Wang Jiayi1, Wesley M. Court1, Stephen W. Lokier1,Kirsten E. Dutton2, Cees van der Land2,
Luiza Lessa Andrade2, Angela Sherry2 and Ian M. Head2
1
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute
2
School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Topic Area II: Geophysics
Study on the Effect of Pressure in Crack Density of Carbonate Rocks: Preliminary Results
Jianming Chen and Sandra Vega
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute
Resistivity Anisotropy Inversion: Determination of Rock Conductivity Tensor and Imaging Near-Surface
Structures
Bang An and Bing Zhou
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute
Fracture Density from Micro-CT Images and Correlation with Shear Wave splitting
Syed Nizamuddin, Sandra Vega and Sotirios Kokkalas
Department of Petroleum Geosciences, The Petroleum Institute
Characterization of Thick Carbonates Transition Zones is a Key to Recovery Optimization
Abdessamia Jebbouri and Hadi Belhaj
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Topic Area III: Enhanced Oil Recovery
Eco-Friendly Surfactant for EOR in High Temperature, High Salinity Carbonate Reservoir
Bisweswar Ghosh and Soo Jin
Department Of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Modeling the Effect of Engineered Water Injection on Oil Recovery from Carbonate Cores
Jamiu O. Adegbite, Emad W. Al-Shalab and Bisweswar Ghosh
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Improved Smart Water EOR for Carbonate Reservoir Through PH Modulation
Nithin Chacko Thomas, Bisweswar Ghosh, Waleed S. AlAmeri and Alibi Kilybay,
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Smart Water Made Smarter: A Laboratory Development
Bisweswar Ghosh and L. Sun
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Numerical Investigation of Engineered Water Injection Effects on Oil Recovery from Carbonate Reservoirs
Jamiu O. Adegbite, Emad W. Al-Shalabi and Bisweswar Ghosh
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute

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Topic Area IV: Reservoir Modelling

Advanced Discretizations for Next-Generation Reservoir Simulators
Wenjuan Zhang and Mohammed Al Kobaisi
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Well placement Optimization using Graph Theory
Chakib Klada Cloucha and Mohammed Al Kobaisi
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Application of Adjoint Based Gradient Methods on Dynamic Production Optimization
Chithra Chakra N C and Mohammed Al Kobaisi
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Numerical Simulation of Stress Distribution Around a Well Due to Fluid Flow in Poroelastic Formation: An
Application Using Finite Element Method
Zhang Hongtao, Andul Ravof Shaik and Md. Motiur Rahman
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Topic Area V: Flow Assurance
Black Powder Formation by Dewing and Hygroscopic Corrosion Processes
M. Colahan1,2, D. Young2, M. Singer2 and R. P. Nogueira1
1
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology, Ohio University, USA.
Study of Black Powder Deposition in Gas Pipelines
Nabil Kharoua, Mohamed Alshehhi, Lyes Khezzar and Abdelkader Filali
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Integrated One-Dimensional Modeling of Asphaltene Deposition in Wellbores/Pipelines
Q. Guan1, Y.F. Yap1, A. Goharzadeh1, J.C. Chai2, F.M. Vargas3, W.G. Chapman3 and M. Zhang4
1
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute , 2University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
3
Rice University, Houston, USA, 4Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, P.R. China
Modeling of Two-Phase Flow with Deposition in Vertical Pipes
X. Li1, Y.F. Yap1, A. Goharzadeh1, J.C. Chai2 and M. Zhang3
1
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute, 2University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
3
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, P.R. China
Mechanistic Study of Asphaltene Aggregation Behavior under the Influence of Temperature and Hydrocarbon
Gas Saturation
Bisweswar Ghosh and M. Abdul Rahman
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Theoretical Investigation of Interfacial Properties of Reservoir Fluids Using the Density Gradient Theory
Lus M. C. Pereira1,2, Antonin Chapoy2 and Bahman Tohidi2
1
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Ionic Liquids in Stabilizing Asphaltene under Miscible CO2 Injection
Nuhu Turosung Sulemana, Bisweswar Ghosh, Fawzi Banat, and Nevin Mathew
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
New Mathematical Models for Production and Pressure behavior of a Well Producing at Constant Bottomhole Pressure
Jing Lu, Shuaishuai Shi and Md. Motiur Rahman
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Boundary Dominated Flow in Low Permeability Reservoir with Threshold Pressure Gradient
Jing Lu, Fu Dai and Md. Motiur Rahman
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Towards A Zero Skin Well Completion with Non-damaging Non-corrosive Fluid
Ismail AlCheikh, Bisweswar Ghosh and Samuel Osisanya
Department of Petroleum Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Topic Area VI: Gas Processing
Process Simulation of a Membrane-based Nitrogen Removal Unit (NRU) for Natural Gas Processing
Arjun Ravikumar and Kean Wang
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Performance Loss of Molecular Sieves in Gas Drying Operation
Donald Reinalda, Abdul Fahim Arangadi and Azhagapillai Prabhu
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Oil in Water Emulsion Separation in PES (Polyethersulfone) and Nitrocellulose Microfiltration Membranes
Yang Yang and Kean Wang
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute

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Topic Area VII: Advanced Materials and Corrosion

Predictions of the Viscosity Behavior of Long Alkanes and Linear Polymers with a Molecular-Based Approach
Eduard Cane, Flix Llovell and Lourdes F. Vega
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
One Pot Synthesis of Amide modified Vegetable Oils for Use as Corrosion Inhibitors
Paul Rostron, Sonia Kashanna, and Hiba Aoudi
Department of Chemistry, The Petroleum Institute
Application of Multivariate Statistical Techniques to Temporal Metabolite
Selena Richards1, Yulan Wang2, Dennis Lawler3, Sunil Kochhar4, Elaine Holmes2, John C. Lindon2and Jeremy K.
Nicholson2
1
Department of Chemistry, The Petroleum Institute
2
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
3
Nestle Research Center, St Louis, MO, USA
4
Nestle Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland
Effect of Impressed Current Interference on the Behavior of Sacrificial Anodes
Dyana Merline, Tahnoon Mohammad Kamal, Nelu Rusalim and Ricardo Nogueira
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Sulfide Stress Corrosion Study of a Super Martensitic Stainless Steel in H2S Sour Environments: Metallic Sulfides
Formation and Hydrogen Embrittlement
R. P. Nogueira1, V. Roche2 , M Monnot3 and M. Mantel3
1
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
Department of Chemical Engineering, Universit de Grenoble, France.
3
Ugitech Research Center, France.
Topic Area VIII: Energy Recovery
Waste Heat Recovery in Microelectronic Systems: Opportunities and Challenges
Peter Rodgers and Valerie Eveloy
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Energy Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste: Opportunities and Challenges for Adoption in Hydrocarbon
Processing Facilities
Peter Rodgers and Valerie Eveloy
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Topic Area IX: High Voltage Engineering and Power Electronics Applications
Bidirectional Single Phase AC/DC Converter
Amal Majed Abdelhady Youssef and Abdul R. Beig
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Simulation of High Voltage Discharges using FDTD
Alaa Atef Loubani, Noureddine Harid, Huw Griffiths and Naji Al Sayari
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Lightning Protection of a Guyed FM Radio Station Tower
Andri Haryono, Noureddine Harid and Huw Griffiths
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Measurement of Building Grounding System Resistance
Bharath Kumar, Noureddine Harid, Huw Griffiths and Ameer Abdul Qadir
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Topic Area X: Water and Environment
Pharmaceuticals removal from Water Effluents by Adsorption in Activated Carbons
Lourdes F. Vega1 and Daniel Bahamon2
1
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
2
IQTC, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Multi-objective Optimization of a Pressurized Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Gas Turbine Hybrid System Integrated
with Seawater Reverse Osmosis
Valerie Eveloy, Peter Rodgers and Ali Al Alili
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Application of Molecular Modeling for the Rationale Design of New Low Global Warming Potential Refrigerants
Wael A. Fouad and Lourdes F. Vega
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Return of the Brine: A brief overview of Environmental Impacts and Governance
Riaan van der Merwe
Department of General Studies, The Petroleum Institute

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Topic Area XI: Process Controls and Optimization

Surface Defects Inspection Using Phased Array Ultrasonic (PAUT)
Abdallah Yassin and Fahad Almaskri
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
Targeting Compression Work in Refinery Hydrogen Networks
Anoop Jagannath and Ali Almansoori
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute
PDE Based Model of Artificial Gas Lift Dynamics
Ibrahim Yousif, Igor Boiko and Ahmed Al-Durra
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute

About the ADNOC Research and Innovation Center

The ADNOC Research and Innovation Center (ADRIC) at The Petroleum Institute (PI) commenced
operation on August 1, 2016. The ADRIC building represents approximately 23,000 m2 of surface
developed over four levels with approximately 8,000 m2 of laboratory facilities equipped with state-
of the-art research technologies. These laboratory facilities are organized into thirty six discrete
state-of-the-art topical laboratories and offer a multi-user environment for all PI Faculty, Researchers
and Students. Six of the laboratories were developed with PI industrial partners with the objectives
to use up-to-date proven technology and reduce its implementation time. These laboratories are:
PVT Laboratory, developed in association with TOTAL;
MicroCTScanning laboratory, developed in association with TOTAL;
EOR Lab 1: core-flooding units with in-situ monitoring mainly dedicated to low salinity
water injection project, developed in association with BP;
EOR Lab 2: core-flooding units with in-situ monitoring using Medical CTscanner dedicated
to any EOR processes, developed in association with STATOIL;
Automated Chemical formulation Unit for chemical flooding projects, developed in
association with SOLVAY;
Automated Chemical formulation Unit for gas foam projects, developed in association with
SOLVAY.
Centers of Excellence are currently being established in the ADRIC to provide a platform for
industrial collaborations, which will support PI long term strategic fundamental and applied research
and ensure that it produces exploitable deliverables that can be commercialized. Each Center of
Excellence will synergize the expertise from various PI departments to provide a comprehensive
solution through a multi-disciplinary approach.
Currently fifty research engineer, technicians and support staff are working full time in ADRIC, in
addition to project based researchers, students and faculty.

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