Milind D. Deo

Professor & Associate Dean

Milind D. Deo

Education

B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

Post-doctoral Fellowship, Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Curriculum Vitae

See Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Faculty Web Page

http://www.che.utah.edu/~mddeo/

Class Web Pages

CH EN 3553: Chemical Reaction Engineering

CH EN 5303: Environmental Applications of Chemical Engineering

CH EN 6553: Chemical Reaction Engineering

Research

Director, Petroleum Research Center
Directorate, Utah Heavy Oil Center

  • Multiphase flow in porous media; oil and gas reservoir engineering, large-scale reservoir simulation and enhanced oil recovery, large-scale, three-dimensional simulation of subsurface remediation processes.
  • Reservoir characterization; conditional stochastic simulations; fractured reservoir characterization and simulation.
  • Parallel processing; finite difference and finite element methods.
  • Complex hydrocarbon mixtures (contaminant) chemistry characterization; high-temperature gas-chromatography (HT-GC), GC-MS and supercritical fluid chromatography.
  • Supercritical fluid extraction; liquid-vapor, liquid-liquid, solid-liquid and solid-liquid-vapor phase behavior of complex hydrocarbon systems, absorption and adsorption technologies.
  • Subsurface remediation; distribution of LNAPLs and DNAPLs in soils, thorough knowledge of contaminant chemistry, and characterization, monitoring and remediation techniques (including conventional pump and treat, air sparging and bioventing technologies and unconventional surfactant assisted technologies); conversant with most of the computer models employed for evaluating subsurface remediation technolgies.
  • Mathematical modeling and simulation
  • Pyrolysis kinetics, fixed and fluidized-bed reactors

Selected Publications

Yang, Yi-kun and Deo, M. D., A Flux-Conservative Control Volume Finite Element Method for Multiphase Flow in Porous Media, In Review, SIAM J.

Oh, K., Ring, T. A. and Deo, M. D., 2004, Asphaltene Aggregation in Organic Solvents, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 271, 212-219.

Oh, K. and Deo, M. D., 2002, Effect of Organic Additives on the Onset of Asphaltene Precipitation, Energy & Fuels, 16, 694-699.

Parra-Ramirez, M. and Deo, M.D., 2001, Comparison of first and multiple-contact carbondioxide induced precipitation, SPE 65019, Paper presented at the SPE International Symposium in Oil Field Chemistry, Feb. 13-16, 2001, Houston, Texas.

Kim, J. and Deo, M. D., 2000, A Finite Element, Discrete-Fracture Model for Multiphase Flow in Porous Media, AiChE J., Volume 46, #6, 1120-1130.

Deo, M. D., Forster, C. and Schamel, S., 1999, Strategies for Steam Flood Optimization in a High-Water Saturation Reservoir in the Midway Sunset Field, SPE 54075, Proc. of the International Thermal Operations and Heavy Oil Symposium, Bakersfield, CA.