Ian D Gates.docVIP

Ian D. Gates Associate Professor P.Eng. Room: ENB 204E T: (403)-220-5752 F: (403)-284-4852 EMail:ian.gates@ucalgary.ca(Preferred) ? ? B.Sc. with Distinction, Chemical Engineering, University of Calgary (1989)M.A.Sc. Chemical Engineering, University of British Columbia (1992)Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota (1999) I joined the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary in 2004 after working a total of 7 years in industry.? I am a registered professional engineer in the Province of Alberta and have been a consultant for many small and large energy companies. My current research interests are in heavy oil and oil sands recovery process design and optimization, thermal and thermal-solvent oil recovery processes, reservoir engineering and simulation, and heat and mass transfer, and fluid mechanics, biofilm evolution in porous media,?and bioreactor design (think of the reservoir as a bioreactor).?My previous work includes: design of thermal and thermal-solvent recovery processes, thermal and compositional reservoir simulation, automated optimization of recovery processes, analysis of steam and steam-solvent transport in depletion chambers in oil sands processes, thermal-solvent gravity drainage oil recovery processes (simulation and physical model experiments), steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), solvent-enhanced steam-assisted gravity drainage (ES-SAGD), cyclic steam stimulation (CSS), optimization of steam scheduling, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, modeling and experimentation of coating flows, analysis of free surface flows by using the Galerkin/finite element method, linear stability analysis of free surface flows, coating flows.?? Current Research Projects Thermal (CSS, SAGD, JAGD) and thermal-solvent (ES-SAGD, SA-CSS) recovery process design and optimization Smartwells for heavy oil and oil sands applications and Reservoir Production Machines Transport phenomena at the edge of steam and st