last updated: 10-NOV-2010

MSc Projects:                                   

Simulation/Control

Comments Student Title Row
2001 Bakhshi Model Predictive Inferential Control 1
2001 SanaeeZadeh Control of Reactive Distillation Columns Using GLC Approach 2
  Maddah   3
2002 Mohammadi Optimal Startup of Distillation Columns 4
2002 Yadegar Mixed Qualitative-Quantitative Modeling of Chemical Plants 5
2003 Boojari Adaptive Model Predictive Control of Chemical Reactors 6
2004, Co-supervised with Dr Shahrokhi Alizadeh Control of Reactive Distillation of Ethylene Glycol 7
2004, Co-supervised with Dr Shahrokhi Partovi Plant-wide Control Structure Design of Reaction/Separation/Recycle Processes 8
2004, Co-supervised with Dr Bozorgmehry Jarrahian Simulation and Optimization of Refrigeration Cycles Used in NGL Recovery Units 9
2004, Co-supervised with Dr Bozorgmehry Jaberi CFD Applications in Modeling, Simulation and Control of Chemical Reactors  10
2005 Kargar Simulation and Control of Membrane Reactors for Removal of Dissolved Oxygen from Water 11
2005 HadjEsma'ilzadeh Dynamic & Static Simulation of Aromatic Plants for Feasibility Study of Feed Alternatives 12
  Golshan   13
2006 Mostafavi Steady-state & Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of Modified Claus Process for Sulfur Recovery 14
2006 Sarabadani Study of Compensation Algorithms due to Control Valve Saturation on Tennessee Eastman (TE) Plants 15
2006 Shahmirzaloo Simulation and Static Optimization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells   16
2007 Bazarchi Balance-based Adaptive Control 17
  Masoori   18
2006 Tofangchi Dynamic and Static Simulation of a Catalytic Reactor for Oxidative Coupling of Methane (OCM) 19
2007 Asgari Nonlinear Optimal Control Using Iterative Ant-colony Algorithm 20
2007 Alamdaran Optimal control of Chemical Reactors Using Differential Evolutionary Algorithms 21
2009 Hemmati Simulation and Control of Multi-component Distillation Using Nonlinear Wave Theory 22
2009 Abbasian Simulation and Control of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) 23
2007 Tavassoli   24
2010 Mohammadi Optimal Control of Chemical Reactors Using Artificial Immune-based Optimization Techniques 25
2009 Esma'ilzadeh Nava Fuzzy Predictive Control of a Continuous Polymerization Stirred Tank Reactor (CPSTR) 26
2009 Fesahati Real Time Evolution (RTE) of Tennessee-Eastman (TE) Process 27
2010 Mirabi Development of a Reduced-order Model for the Control of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Systems 28
2009 Hasanzadeh, Bardia Optimal Nonlinear Control of Poly Vinyl Acetate CSTR 29
2010  Amini Optimal Control of Batch Cooling Crystallizers Using Inversion Approach 30
Currently active Mahfooz Fuzzy MIMO Control of Poly Vinyl Acetate Synthesis in CSTR 31
Currently active Amoozgar Simulation and Plantwide control studies on a Hybrid Distillation/Pervaporation MTBE Plant  32
Currently active Ebrahimkhani Reservoir Characterization and Parameter Estimation Using Ensemble Kalman Filter 33
Currently active Moradi Simulation and Optimization of poly-generation energy systems through Methanol plants 34
Currently active Sarrami   35
Currently active Amiri   36
Currently active Eskandari   37
Currently active Shafi'e   38

Process Engineering

Comments Student Title Row
2004, Co-supervised with Dr Rashtchian Zadjkaniha   1
2006, Co-supervised with Dr Rashtchian Kaveh Flare Gas Recovery and its Effect on Pollution Reduction 2
2005, Co-supervised with Dr Rashtchian Hayati Synthesis and Optimization of Reactor-Separator Network With Recycle Streams 3
2004, Co-supervised with Dr Farhadi Hosseinpour Dynamic Simulation of Methanol Synthesis Loop 4
2006, Co-supervised with Dr Rashtchian Raeesi Optimization of Hydrogen Network of Oil Refineries Using Ant Colony Algorithms 5
2009, Co-supervised with Dr Farhadi Khajehpour Non-linear Optimization of Refinery Hydrogen Management 6
2008, Co-supervised with Dr Rashtchian Sharifzadeh Systematic Heat and Mass Integration of Chemical Plants with Emphasis on EISEN 7

Oil Reservoir Engineering

Comments Student Title Row
2004 Shahbazi Development of a Petroleum Reservoir Simulator based on SUPG Finite Element Method 1
2005, Co-supervised with Dr Badakhshan Moarefian Development of a New Oil Resevoir Simulator based on Boundary Element Method (BEM) 2
2006, Co-supervised with Dr Taghikhani Khodabakhshi Reservoir Simulator based on Continuous Thermodynamics 3
2007 Biniaz Design and Development of a 2-D and 2-Phase Reservoir Simulator Using Green Element Method (GEM) 4
2008, Co-supervised with Dr Bozorgmehry Rahmati, Hossein Reservoir Characterization through Differential Evolutionary Optimization Method using Production/Injection History 5
2006 MommadShafi Oil Production Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms 6
2008, Co-supervised with Dr AminShahidi Forooqnia Optimization of  Oil-well  Production Using  Artificial  Gas-Lift with Differential  Evolution Method 7
2008, Co-supervised with Dr Badakhshan Mesgari Integration of Well-log and Seismic Data Using Artificial Neural Network for Porosity Prediction of Oil Reservoirs 8
2006, Co-supervised with Dr Bozorgmehry Sadeghnejad Characterization of Rock Reservoir Properties Using Wavelet Transformation 9
2008, Co-supervised with Dr Bozorgmehry Jafarpour Simulator Development for Thermal Operation (Pre-heating) of SAGD Techniques 10
2010, Co-supervised with Dr Bozorgmehry Khorsandi Thermal Study of Wax Deposition from Paraffinic Mixtures 11
2009, Co-supervised with Dr Badakhshan Shoja'e History Matching Using Stream-line Simulation 12
2010, Co-supervised with Dr Masihi Vaziri Characterization of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Intelligent Integration of Diverse Data Sources 13
Currently active, Co-supervised with Dr  AminShahidi Afshari Optimization of well placement and number of wells in one of Iranian oil reservoirs using streamline simulation 14
2009, Co-supervised with Dr AminShahidi Rahmati, Ehsan Study of production design in smart wells for simultaneous production 15
Currently active, Co-supervised with Dr Bozorgmehry Nasiri Simulation of GAGD Process to Study the Impact of Effective Parameters on Operability Range and Recovery Factor 16
2010, Co-supervised with Dr Manzari Karimian, Erfan Multi-scale Finite Volume Simulation of Multi phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media 17
Currently active, Co-supervised with Dr Rasaie Nekoui, Hashem Upscaling Dynamic Model of Reservoirs Using Wavelets 18
Currently active, Co-supervised with Rafi'ePour   19
Currently active, Co-supervised with Dr Bozorgmehry Khani Simulation of Retrograde Behavior of Hydrocarbons around the production Wells in Gas-Condensate Reservoirs 20
Currently active, Co-supervised with Dr Jamshidi Bagherinejad Simulator Development for 3-D, 2-phase Flow in Heterogenous Porous Media Using Green Element Method 21
Currently active, Co-supervised with Dr Masihi CharkhtabBasim Development of a 2-phase, Heterogenous Simulator Using Control Volume-based Finite Element Method (CVFEM) 22
Currently active, Co-supervised with Dr Jamshidi Rafi'e, Javad An Artificial Neural Network Surrogate Model Development for GAGD Process 23
Currently active, Co-supervised with Dr Bozorgmehry Ansari Development of a Surrogate Simulator for Gas-Injection Processes Using Trajectory Piecewise Linearization (TPWL) Method 24
       
       

Polymer Engineering

Comments Student Title Row
2006, Co-supervised with Dr Shojaie Fahimian Investigation of Thermal Conductivity of Composite Friction Materials 1
2007, Co-supervised with Dr Shojaie Farahi Optimization of Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) Process 2
2009, Co-supervised with Dr Shojaie Eghbal Optimization of Curing Cycle of Thick Composites Using an Artificial Neural Network 3

Others

Comments Student Title  
2003, Co-supervised with Dr Abdekhoda'e Tahmasbian Thermo-Regulatory Control of Human Bodies 1
2006, Co-supervised with Dr Rashtchian Behdani Modeling and Optimization of Energy Utilization in Mixed Batch-Continuous Polyethylene Plant 2
2007 Raeesi    
2009, Co-supervised with Dr Rashtchian Saber Impact of Internally Heat-integrated Distillation Column Configuration on Energy Saving 3
2009, Co-supervised with Dr Farhadi Goshayeshi

Modeling and Dynamic Simulation of an Industrial Thermal Cracker

 4
2004, Co-supervised with Dr SeifKordi Omidvar Dynamic Simulation of Potato Juice Concentration Process 5
  Johnfada   6
  Deylamipour   7
  Montazeri   8