Maria A. Barrufet, P.E.
Assistant Department Head of Administration, Baker Hughes Endowed Chair of Petroleum Engineering, and Professor of Chemical Engineering

3116 TAMU - 407B Richardson Building

College Station, TX 77843-3116

Phone: (979) 845-0314

Fax: (979) 845-1307

e-mail: maria.barrufet@pe.tamu.edu

Course Materials

Dr. Maria A. Barrufet has been the principal or co-principal investigator on projects sponsored by the Department of Energy and various oil companies in the areas of Improved Oil Recovery using Thermal and Chemical methods. She has over 30 publications in the areas of thermodynamics, phase behavior and phase equilibria of fluid mixtures, profile modification, neural networks, and polymer flooding.

• PhD, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1987
• MS, Chemical Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina, 1983
• Chemical Engineer, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina, 1979

Research Interests and Areas of Specialization

• 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 pro