Nobuo Maeda, Ph. D., P. Eng.

Area of Study / Keywords

Petroleum Engineering

About

Education

• PhD Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, 2001
• MSc Materials Science, JAIST, 1997
• BEng Applied Physics, Tohoku University, 1992

Honours and Awards

• Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2010)
• Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne (2012)

Professional Affiliations

• American Chemical Society
• Society of Petroleum Engineers
• Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering
• American Society for Engineering Education

Research

Research Interests

• Phase transitions
• Nucleation
• Gas hydrates
• Ice
• Flow assurance
• Surfaces and interfaces
• Colloids
• Wetting, adsorption, adhesion

Current research projects

Nucleation of ice and gas hydrates: Clathrate hydrates (gas hydrates) are ice-like crystalline solids in which small “guest” molecules are incorporated inside the hydrogen-bonded network of water. Gas hydrates are very similar to ice in some ways – one of the 18 known phases of ice has in fact been made by degassing the guest out of a gas hydrate. We have been systematically investigating the nucleation of ice and of gas hydrates. 

Nucleation of wax:

Teaching

• PETE 275
• PETE 484
• PETE 694