Mohammad Khoshkbarchi Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Managing Partner involved in various aspects of the technology development and operation of companyDesign and development of a next generation integrated simulation, modelling, planning and optimization environment for large scale chemical processes consisting of environmental, emission and process element, new opportunities across the enterprise, including engineering and techno-economic evaluations, integrated planning, feasibility assessments, carbon capture, sustainability, integrated in:TEAM: A powerful simulation software to identify optimal mitigation strategies in multiple industrial sectorsInsituSim: A technology evaluation simulation software for SAGD operation to capitalize on new and emerging energy opportunitiesHydrOpti: A sustainable water management planning tool for unconventional developmentsNexim: A powerful modeling, simulation and optimization toolDeveloped several AI and ML tools and models for chemical processes and integrated reservoir and production models.Led and/or participates Several process design projects such as:Plant-wide dynamic simulation and modeling, control strategy and surge modeling studies, hydraulic calculations, PINCH and energy integration and analysis, carbon capture, refinery reactors design.Design and implementation of an online and real-time monitoring systems collecting field data and integrating in dynamic simulation modelsDeveloped time-series and an adaptive soft-sensor model, based on just-in-time learning.Study, simulation and design of solvents on extractive distillation, wax and mercury in gas wells, heavy oil and bitumen pipelines, plant debottlenecking, solid stability, flow assurance studies for wax and asphaltene precipitation, air and pollutant dispersion from filed tanks to find the safest distance, Hydrate formation reduction design, LNG plants modeling and design.Technical consultant with NRC to implement a water and energy integration standard platform for the industrial plants

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Member of leadership team of the joint venture among Shell International, Petrobras and CMG to develop a next generation simulator for asset-wide, multi-fluid, EoS, integrated reservoirs, wells, geology and production facilities with features such as optimization, uncertainty analysis, up-scaling, distributed, multi-scale and parallel solvers.Managed R&D activities of a team consisting of a diverse and distributed group of experts from Shell, Petrobras and CMG working from Calgary (Canada), Rijswijk (The Netherlands) and Rio de Janerio (Brazil).Developed new and advanced models, methodologies, algorithms and workflows to develop an integrated multi-reservoirs, wells and production facilities simulator. Highlights of research include:A collaborative environment for integrated asset modelling (IPSM) where design disciplines such as the reservoir engineer, production engineer, geologist and well design expert can build the asset model at various fidelity levels into an intelligent field.Thermal-multiphase flow models and simulation for production facilities and unit operations including pipelines, chokes, two and three phase separators, pumps, compressors, etc.Modelling and simulation of emulsions in reservoirs, wells and facilities.Thermal-multiphase flow in wells, implicit and explicit, multi-string, multi-segmented, multilateral, and smart wells with down-hole equipment, gas lift, ESP and ICV and ICD. Well completions attached to fully gridded reservoirs as well as surrogate models and smart completions.Optimization, uncertainty analysis, history matching of all the asset components, under uncertainty, using adjoint, derivative free (PSO, simulated annealing), rule-based engine for heuristic optimization of wells.HPC solver and optimization methodologies in integrated environments.Workflows for converting simulation results to business decisions.

Calgary, Canada Area

Managed a multidisciplinary rteam located in Calgary, Boston and UK. • Responsible for design, development and delivering new technologies, architectural and detailed design and implementation of all aspects of HYSYS (Dynamic, Steady State process simulator), HYSYS-UpStream, RefSYS (Refinery wide simulator) and heat integration (pinch analysis) process simulators.• Technical lead of a strategic joint project with UOP to develop reactor and reaction technologies and integrate them into a new refinery-wide simulator. • Jointly researched with UOP specialists models for design of catalytic reactions and reactors (FCC, Hydrocracker, Hydrotreater, Visbreaker, etc.) and implemented in a new refinery-wide simulator, RefSYS.• Dynamic and steady state heat transfer, mass transfer and fluid flow chemical engineering models and algorithms for shell-tube heat exchangers, heat exchanger networks, distillation (extractive, reactive, pump-around, short-cut), pumps, compressors, reactors, air coolers, boilers, valves, separators, etc.• Control strategies/methodologies in dynamic simulations, control of distributed, nonlinear and hybrid networks and standard and specialized controllers such as CCC, PID, Fuzzy Logic, etc. • Intelligent Plants; Application of neural network, data mining, yield shifts, LP models and statistical methods to simulate unconventional systems, reactors and processes from multidimensional data and data reconciliation.• Strategies and algorithms for plant-wide flowsheeting, graph-theory, optimization (SQP, MILP, etc.).• Developed the first standard methodology for refinery planning and scheduling using XML.• New methodology for solvent selection and residue curve mapping.• Novel methods for conceptual design, process synthesis, PINCH analysis, water/Heat integration.• Hydraulic calculations of pipe networks and pigging.

Calgary, Canada Area

Managed the thermodynamics team.• Principal architect of COMThermo, a fully componentized simulation framework for a standalone compositional thermodynamic calculation used in process simulators (HYSYS, etc.) for asynchronous simulation and optimization. • Responsible for developing, designing and maintaining all thermodynamic and phase-equilibria calculations in Hyprotech simulators process design tools.• Researched, designed and developed several novel and new models and calculation methodologies for advanced thermodynamic and phase equilibrium models (equations of state, activity models, oil characterization, PVT, Black oil, flash calculation, miscibility calculation, physical property estimation using conventional and statistical methods such as neural network for heavy oil refining, hydrate, asphaltene and wax precipitation, gas processing, gas separation and purification, association systems, chemicals, petrochemicals, solid formation prediction, etc.). Some Examples are:ˍ A new equation of state based on grand canonical ensemble for heavy oil. ˍ A new excess Helmholtz energy mixing rule ˍ New models for wax and asphalting precipitationˍ Several flash calculation routines (P, T, U, H, S), azetropic, homotopy, tie line, stability analyses, etc.ˍ New methodologies for heavy oil and bitumen characterization.ˍ Miscibility calculation.• Developed tools and methodology for characterizing crude oils and calculating/estimating properties using a novel statistical method combined with advanced characterization methods.• State of the art petroleum blending methods and heavy-oil characterization and property estimation method• Formulation, design and simulation of reactive electrolytic multiphase processes. Design of the related chemical and environmental unit operations and integration of the OLI Inc. technology into this new framework. This project resulted in the successful commercial release of a functional simulator

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