Eric May
Research Areas/Expertise
• Density, viscosity and thermal conductivity of natural gas and condensates
• Microwave measurements of high pressure fluids
• Phase equilibria and behaviour in complex fluids
• Pressure, temperature and flow metrology
• Hydrocarbon process engineering
• Measurement and prediction of fluid thermophysical properties
• Fundamental metrology
Associate Professor, Chemical and Process Engineering
School of Mechanical Engineering,
The University of Western Australia
WA:ERA projects
Advanced pressure swing adsorption technology for improved feed treatment and enhanced LNG production efficiency
Measurement and correlation of PVT and VLE data for cryogenic LNG fluids to improve process design, simulation and operation
Extended fluid characterisation for improved flow assurance in crude oil and oil-water systems
Background
Eric May is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Petroleum, Fuels and Energy at the University of Western Australia. For his PhD he developed a microwave resonator for rapid measurement of gas condensate phase behaviour. Subsequently he won an American Australian Association Education Fellowship, allowing him to be a research fellow in the Process Measurements Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland, USA. In 2005 he was awarded the 2005 NIST-CSTL Technical Achievement Award for the development of next generation temperature and pressure standards. He then returned to Australia establishing a new research group, the Fluid Science Division at the University of Western Australia (UWA). He now leads several research projects within the Western Australian Energy Research Alliance (WAERA) and has secured over $4.9 M of funding since 2006 from Industry, the Australian Research Council and WAERA. He is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data. In 2009, he received the National Measurement Institute Award for excellence in measurement techniques for his contribution to gas measurements and the successful application of measurement techniques to resolving industrial problems.
Education
Ph.D. (Physics)
B.Sc.Hons (Physics)
Grants
Chevron Australia/ARC Linkage Project;
ARC LIEF Project.
UWA Research Grants Scheme
National Physical Laboratory
Publications
Contact
Email: eric.may(at)uwa.edu.au