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336B Richardson Building
3116 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3116
Phone: 979-845-0314
Fax: 979-845-1307
Email: maria.barrufet@pe.tamu.edu
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1987
M.S., Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina, 1983
Chemical Engineer, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina, 1979
Honors & Awards
W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence, 1994-1995
Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award, 1995
Burlington Resources Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1993
General Electric Faculty of the Future Award, 1992
Sterling Who's Who, 1994
Research Interests
Evaluation of different methods to desalinate oilfield brines
Unit operation aspects of evaporators, membranes, osmotic separation, heat transfer, energy and mass balance computations
Enhanced Oil Recovery: Thermodynamics and transport phenomena applied to chemical, miscible and thermal recovery processes
Multiphase Flow: Pipe flow design, numerical methods, optimization, and statistics
Rock and Fluid Properties: Correlation and measurement of capillary pressures and relative permeabilities, polymer and gel rheology for profile modification and water control. Equations of State (EOS) for multiphase equilibria and modeling of paraffin and asphalthene deposition
