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

Area of Study / Keywords

Professor 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

Teaching

• PETE 275
• PETE 484
• PETE 668

PET E 668 - Flow Assurance

Overview of flow assurance in oil and natural gas flowlines and pipelines. Fundamentals of surfaces and dispersions, nucleation and crystal growth, multiphase flows. Introduction to fast- forming and slowly forming flow assurance risk factors; gas hydrates, demulsification, dehydration, wax deposition, asphaltene precipitation, scale formation, sand erosion, pipeline corrosion, sensing and mitigation strategies. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

Browse more courses taught by Nobuo Maeda

• Brief Overview of Ice Nucleation
• Challenging the Chemistry of Climate Change
• Global Warming and Anthropogenic Emissions of Water Vapor
• Nucleation of gas hydrates
• Role of Humans in the Global Water Cycle and Impacts on Climate Change