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Dr Faisal Awan

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Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 2655
Email: f.awan@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO27.307  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2394-0735

Faisal is a Technical Support Engineer at Edith Cowan University’s School of Engineering. He served as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Resources from February to December 2022. He also worked as a sessional academic from January 2018 to December 2021 at the School. Previously, Faisal also served as an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in the Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering at DUET in Pakistan.

Dr. Faisal has 10 years of technical support, teaching, research experience. He completed his PhD (ECU Joondalup, Australia), ME (MUET Jamshoro, Pakistan) and BSc (UET Lahore, Pakistan), all in Petroleum Engineering. His research interests are rock characterisation (in composite and particle form), wettability alteration, particle dispersion enhancement, flow through rocks/proppant packs, and application of nanoparticles in porous/fractured media. The skills that Faisal possesses are research articles, project planning and management, reviewing, and method design. Precisely, the software packages that Faisal can use are Eclipse-100, Origin graphing, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Powerpoint, Image-J, and several equipment / software (Zeta NanoSizer, Mastersizer, XRD, TOC, NMR, HPLC, GCMS, HPHT rolling ball viscometer, rheometer, porosimeter, streaming potential, HPHT core flooding, and API Fracture conductivity system). He is an active member of prestigious professional organisations such as Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), American Chemical Society (ACS), Energy Institute (EI) and Energy Club of Western Australia (EC-WA).

Research Areas and Interests

  • Carbon Geo-sequestration and Hydrogen Geo-storage
  • Petroleum Reservoir Engineering
  • Nano-Formulation and suspension stability

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Edith Cowan University, 2022.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Arif, M., Awan, F., Zhang, H., Hosseini, M. (2024). Coal Wettability: A Holistic Overview of the Data Sets, Influencing Factors, and Knowledge Gaps. Energy and Fuels, 38(16), 15069-15084. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.4c03052.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Awan, F., Farrokhrouz, M., Akhondzadeh, H., Iglauer, S., Keshavarz, A. (2023). Experimental investigation on coal fines migration through proppant packs: Assessing variation of formation damage and filtration coefficients. Gas Science and Engineering, 117(TBD), article number 205073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgsce.2023.205073.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Mohanty, U., Aftab, A., Awan, F., Ali, M., Yekeen, N., Keshavarz, A., Iglauer, S. (2022). Toward Improvement of Water-Based Drilling Mud via Zirconia Nanoparticle/API Bentonite Material. Energy and Fuels, 36(19), 12116-12125. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c01864.
  • Awan, F., Yaseri, AZ., Akhondzadeh, H., Iglauer, S., Keshavarz, A. (2022). Influence of mineralogy and surfactant concentration on zeta potential in intact sandstone at high pressure. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 607(February 2022), 401-411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2021.08.015.
  • Awan, F., Arif, M., Iglauer, S., Keshavarz, A. (2022). Coal fines migration: A holistic review of influencing factors. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 301(March 2022), Article number 102595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2021.102595.
  • Akhondzadeh, H., Keshavarz, A., Awan, F., Zamani, A., Iglauer, S., Lebedev, M. (2022). Coal cleat network evolution through liquid nitrogen freeze-thaw cycling. Fuel, 314(15 April 2022), Article number 123069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.123069.
  • Ali, M., Yaseri, AZ., Awan, F., Arif, M., Keshavarz, A., Iglauer, S. (2022). Effect of water-soluble organic acids on wettability of sandstone formations using streaming zeta potential and NMR techniques: Implications for CO2 geo-sequestration. Fuel, 329(2022), article number 125449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2022.125449.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Awan, F., Keshavarz, A., Azhar, MR., Akhondzadeh, H., Ali, M., Yaseri, AZ., Abid, H., Iglauer, S. (2021). Adsorption of nanoparticles on glass bead surface for enhancing proppant performance: A systematic experimental study. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 328(15 April 2021), Article number 115398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2021.115398.
  • Ali, M., Aftab, A., Awan, F., Akhondzadeh, H., Keshavarz, A., Saeedi, A., Iglauer, S., Sarmadivaleh, M. (2021). CO2-wettability reversal of cap-rock by alumina nanofluid: Implications for CO2 geo-storage. Fuel Processing Technology, 214(April 2021), Article number 106722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2021.106722.
  • Akhondzadeh, H., Keshavarz, A., Awan, F., Ali, M., Yaseri, AZ., Liu, C., Yang, Y., Iglauer, S., Gurevich, B., Lebedev, M. (2021). Liquid nitrogen fracturing efficiency as a function of coal rank: A multi-scale tomographic study. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 95(November 2021), Article number 104177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2021.104177.
  • Ali, M., Awan, F., Ali, M., Yaseri, AZ., Arif, M., Sánchez-Román, M., Keshavarz, A., Iglauer, S. (2021). Effect of humic acid on CO 2-wettability in sandstone formation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 588(15 April 2021), 315-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2020.12.058.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Memon, K., Mahesar, AA., Ali, M., Tunio, AH., Mohanty, US., Akhondzadeh, H., Awan, F., Iglauer, S., Keshavarz, A. (2020). Influence of cryogenic liquid nitrogen on petro-physical characteristics of mancos shale: An experimental investigation. Energy and Fuels, 34(2), 2160-2168. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b03700.
  • Awan, F., Keshavarz, A., Akhondzadeh, H., Al-Anssari, S., Iglauer, S. (2020). A novel approach for using silica nanoparticles in a proppant pack to fixate coal fines. APPEA Journal, 60(1), 88-96. https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ19031.
  • Akhondzadeh, H., Keshavarz, A., Awan, F., Yaseri, AZ., Iglauer, S., Lebedev, M. (2020). Coal fracturing through liquid nitrogen treatment: a micro-computed tomography study. APPEA Journal, 60(1), 67-76. https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ19105.
  • Akhondzadeh, H., Keshavarz, A., Yaseri, AZ., Ali, M., Awan, F., Wang, X., Yang, Y., Iglauer, S., Lebedev, M. (2020). Pore-scale analysis of coal cleat network evolution through liquid nitrogen treatment: A Micro-Computed Tomography investigation. International Journal of Coal Geology, 219(15 February 2020), Article number: 103370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2019.103370.
  • Awan, F., Keshavarz, A., Akhondzadeh, H., Al-Anssari, S., Yaseri, AZ., Nosrati, A., Ali, M., Iglauer, S. (2020). Stable Dispersion of Coal Fines during Hydraulic Fracturing Flowback in Coal Seam Gas Reservoirs—An Experimental Study. Energy and Fuels, 34(5), 5566–5577. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.0c00045.
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