Brendan Graham
Research Areas/Expertise
• Asphaltene Deposition
• Oil/Water Emulsion Formation/Stability
• Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Chromatography
• Gas Chromatography -Mass Spectrometry of Hydrocarbons
• Analytical Chemistry
Research Assistant Professor
School of Mechanical Engineering,
The University of Western Australia
WA:ERA projects
Extended fluid characterisation for improved flow assurance in crude oil and oil-water systems
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
Background
Prior to his current position at UWA, Brendan was working on the WAERA MRF sponsored project studying oil water emulsions. Prior to this Brendan was lecturing in Analytical Chemistry at Murdoch University where he also conducted post-Doctoral research into microbial degradation of heavy waste oil in oil refinery storage tanks.
Brendan has worked for Agilent Technologies providing practical training courses and seminars for their various analytical instruments in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and India. He has also worked for a small oil and gas company to set up an oil analysis laboratory in Nigeria and to train staff.
Education
Ph.D. (Chemistry)
B.Sc. (Chemistry)
Grants
NSERC Discovery Grant Imaging using inverse of generalized Radon transform.
PPSC support for students .
MITACS - POTSI PDF Generalized Radon Transform and its Inverse.
NSERC PGS B Geometric quantization of Poincar´e group
iCORE GSA Geometric quantization of Poincar´e group
Publications
Contact
Email: brendan.graham(at)uwa.edu.au