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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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

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