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Shapour Vossoughi

Shapour Vossoughi

Professor

B. S., Chemical Engineering, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Grad. Diploma, Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Room: 4132C Learned Hall
Phone: (785) 864-2902
Fax: (785) 864-4967
E-mail: shapour@ku.edu

Research Interests

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
  • Rheology of Polymeric solutions and gels
  • Kinetics of crude oil combustion
  • Heavy oil recovery and in situ combustion
  • Oil and gas reservoir simulation

Publication List:

  • Audibert, A. and S. Vossoughi, "Thermo-chemical Alteration of Crude Oils," Chapter 8 of "Basic Concepts in Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes," edited by Marc Baviere, pp 241-269, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1991.
  • Kharrat, R., M. Jamialahmadi, M. P. Darvish, and S. Vossoughi, "Moving Boundary Heat Conduction in Porous Media Accompanied with Fluid Flow," Transport Phenomena in Thermal Engineering, Edited by J. S. Lee, S. H. Chung, and K.H. Kim, Vol. 1, (1993) 721-724.
  • Vossoughi, S., E. Sarapuu, and R.H. Crowther, "Demonstration of the Electrically Initiated Heat-Flooding Process in the Peru Sandstone -- A Fluvial-Dominated Deltaic Reservoir," Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 98, "Deltaic Reservoirs in the Southern Midcontinent." 293-295.
  • Kharrat, R., and S. Vossoughi, and E. L. Miller "Rheological Behavior of Drilling Fluids in the Presence of Polymers as Additives," presented at the XIIth International Congress on Rheology, August 18-23, 1996, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
  • Vossoughi, S. and K. Asghari, "Simulation of Fractured Gas Reservoir - An Overview,"SPE paper 39060 presented at the 5th Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference & Exhibition, August 30 - September 3, 1997, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Vossoughi, S., "New Advancement in Simulation of the Fractured Gas/Oil Reservoirs,"Invited Keynote Speaker, 3rd National Iranian Chemical Engineering Congress held in Ahwaz, Iran, March 8 - 10, 1998.
  • Vossoughi, S., "Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Porous Media," Chapter for the book, "Advances in the Flow and Rheology of Non-Newtonian Fluids," Editors: D.A. Siginer, R.P. Chhabra, and D. DeKee, Vol. 2, pp 1183-1236, Elsevier Science Publishing Company, 1999.
  • Raje, M., K. Asghari, S. Vossoughi, D.W. Green, G.P. Willhite, "Gel Systems for Controlling CO2 Mobility in Carbon Dioxide Miscible Flooding," SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering (April 1999).