Sara Borazjani

Sara Borazjani

School of Chemical Engineering

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

I completed my doctorate in 2016 at UoA, I gained the University Doctoral Research Medal for outstanding research. In 2017, I received an Early Career Adelaide Vice-Chancellor Research Fellowship, and in 2020 was a finalist for a University award for outstanding achievement in the category of excellence in research.I have established myself as a leading researcher in the mathematical modelling of two-phase flow in porous media – a complex and valuable research area with applications in the petroleum industry, Carbon capture and storage, environmental management, medicine, and drug delivery. I have been an integral member of the Formation Damage and Enhanced Oil Recovery (FDEOR) Group at UoA’s Australian School of Petroleum and Energy Resources (ASPER). The group has expanded since its inception in 2010 to become a leader in the field of hydrocarbon recovery and suspension flow in porous media, in part due to my unique contributions. I have actively participated in three ARC DPs, two LPs, three other projects with the industry, and one industry consultancy. I have published several peer-reviewed papers: in high-impact scientific journals, book chapters, and full papers in conference proceedings.

Research Profile

  1. Multiscale mathematical modelling for injecting CO2 and H2 into aquifers and depleted gas fields, accounting for geochemical reactions, dissolution, and fines mobilisation – with consequent formation damage. The work develops systematic multiscale modelling to address the fundamental experimental and modelling challenges for H2 injection into a reservoir with CO2 as cushion gas. Lab tests will be based on the mathematical models and the functions determined upscaled to predict CO2–H2 behaviour in fields. We will validate the theoretical methodology by applying it to the OITC H2–CO2 storage site.
  2.  Determination of relative permeability and capillary pressure during CO2 storage. Unsteady state method is developed for relatively long reservoir cores. During continuous injection of equilibrium saturated gas, the total rate, pressure drop across the core and its first section, and breakthrough component concentrations are measured. The extended Welge-JBN method, recently developed at ASPER for the cases of phase transitions and chemical reactions, is transformed for CO2 and hydrogen injection. For short cores, recently developed at ASPER so-called steady-state-transient-test (SSTT) is under development for CO2 flow in aquifers and depleted gas fields. This development is the result of 7-year sponsorship by Wintershall (Germany).       

  3. Multiscale theory physics theory for secondary migration of hydrocarbons. This work involves exact and asymptotic solutions of small- and large-scale equations of secondary migration of hydrocarbons. The project has developed a new multi-scale theory that can be applied to any petroleum basin to predict the filling of geological “traps” (reservoirs in which oil is trapped by geological seals).

     

Date Position Institution name
2022 - ongoing Adjunct associate lecturer University of Adelaide
2016 - 2022 postdoctoral fellow The university of Adelaide

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2017 Award The University Doctoral Research Medals The university of Adelaide Australia -
2017 Fellowship The University of Adelaide Research fellowship The University of Adelaide Australia -
2016 Award Dean's Commendations award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence The university of Adelaide Australia -
2012 Scholarship Adelaide Scholarships International The University of Adelaide Australia -

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
Persian Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date Institution name Country Title
The University of Adelaide Australia PhD

Year Citation
2024 Borazjani, S., Hashemi, A., Nguyen, C., Loi, G., Russell, T., Khazali, N., . . . Bedrikovetsky, P. (2024). Rock fines breakage by flow-induced stresses against drag: geo-energy applications. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 10(1), 89-1-89-28.
DOI Scopus6 WoS6
2024 Hemmati, N., Borazjani, S., Badalyan, A., Genolet, L., Behr, A., Zeinijahromi, A., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2024). Determining relative permeability and capillary pressure from mixed-wet core floods. Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 239, 212885-1-212885-18.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2023 Hemmati, N., Borazjani, S., Badalyan, A., Genolet, L., Behr, A., Bedrikovetsky, P., & Zeinijahromi, A. (2023). Effects of Salinity Alternation on Relative Permeability and Capillary Pressure as Determined from Steady-State-Transient Test. Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 227, 211916-1-211916-20.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2023 Hashemi, A., Borazjani, S., Nguyen, C., Loi, G., Khazali, N., Badalyan, A., . . . Bedrikovetsky, P. (2023). Particle detachment in reservoir flows by breakage due to induced stresses and drag. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 172, 105591-1-105591-21.
DOI Scopus6 WoS5
2022 Hemmati, N., Borazjani, S., Yang, S., Badalyan, A., Genolet, L., Behr, A., . . . Bedrikovetsky, P. (2022). Laboratory validation of steady-state-transient test to determine relative permeability and capillary pressure. Fuel, 321, 1873-7153-1-1873-7153-21.
DOI Scopus9 WoS9
2022 Bedrikovetsky, P., & Borazjani, S. (2022). Exact Solutions for Gravity-Segregated Flows in Porous Media. Mathematics, 10(14), 2455-1-2455-32.
DOI Scopus6 WoS4
2022 Yang, S., Hemmati, N., Russell, T., Zeinijahromi, A., Borazjani, S., Behr, A., . . . Bedrikovetsky, P. (2022). 3D effects in two-phase steady-state tests. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 208(Part C), 109533-1-109533-21.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2021 Borazjani, S., Hemmati, N., Behr, A., Genolet, L., Mahani, H., Zeinijahromi, A., & Bedrikovetski, P. (2021). Determining water-oil relative permeability and capillary pressure from steady-state tests. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 205, 108810-1-108810-23.
DOI Scopus21 WoS21
2021 Borazjani, S., Hemmati, N., Behr, A., Genolet, L., Mahani, H., Zeinijahromi, A., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2021). Simultaneous determination of gas-water relative permeability and capillary pressure from steady-state corefloods. Journal of Hydrology, 598, 126355-1-126355-22.
DOI Scopus16 WoS15
2021 Hajiabadi, S. H., Bedrikovetsky, P., Borazjani, S., & Mahani, H. (2021). Well Injectivity during CO2 Geosequestration: A Review of Hydro-Physical, Chemical, and Geomechanical Effects. Energy & Fuels, 35(11), 9240-9267.
DOI Scopus60 WoS49
2020 Borazjani, S., Dehdari, L., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2020). Exact Solution for Tertiary Polymer Flooding with Polymer Mechanical Entrapment and Adsorption. Transport in Porous Media, 134(1), 41-75.
DOI Scopus8 WoS8
2019 Borazjani, S., Kulikowski, D., Amrouch, K., & Bedrikovetski, P. (2019). Composition changes of hydrocarbons during secondary petroleum migration (case study in Cooper Basin, Australia). Geosciences, 9(2), 78-1-78-15.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2019 Borazjani, S., Behr, A., Genolet, L., Kowollik, P., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2019). Ion-exchange inverse problem for low-salinity coreflooding. Transport in Porous Media, 128(2), 571-611.
DOI Scopus28 WoS26
2018 Borazjani, S., Kulikowski, D., Amrouch, K., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2018). Composition changes of hydrocarbons during secondary petroleum migration. The APPEA Journal, 58(2), 784-787.
DOI
2017 Borazjani, S., Behr, A., Genolet, L., Van Der Net, A., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2017). Effects of fines migration on low-salinity waterflooding: analytical modelling. Transport in Porous Media, 116(1), 213-249.
DOI Scopus61 WoS49
2017 Abbasi, M., Nowrouzi, N., & Borazjani, S. G. (2017). Conversion of organic halides to disulfanes using KCN and CS₂. Tetrahedron Letters: the international journal for the rapid publication of all preliminary communications in organic chemistry, 58(45), 4251-4254.
DOI WoS12
2017 Borazjani, S., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2017). Exact solutions for two-phase colloidal-suspension transport in porous media. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 44, 296-320.
DOI Scopus37 WoS29
2016 Borazjani, S., Roberts, A., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2016). Splitting in systems of PDEs for two-phase multicomponent flow in porous media. Applied Mathematics Letters, 53, 25-32.
DOI Scopus41 WoS36
2016 Borazjani, S., Bedrikovetsky, P., & Farajzadeh, R. (2016). Analytical solutions of oil displacement by a polymer slug with varying salinity. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 140, 28-40.
DOI Scopus41 WoS27
2014 Borazjani, S., Bedrikovetski, P., & Farajzadeh, R. (2014). Exact solution for non-self-similar wave-interaction problem during two-phase four-component flow in porous media. Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2014, 731567-1-731567-13.
DOI Scopus11 WoS7
2012 Bedrikovetski, P., Vaz, A., Machado, F., Zeinijahromi, A., & Borazjani, S. (2012). Skin due to fines mobilization, migration, and straining during steady-state oil production. Petroleum Science and Technology, 30(15), 1539-1547.
DOI Scopus13 WoS15
2012 Zeinijahromi, A., Vaz, A., Bedrikovetski, P., & Borazjani, S. (2012). Effects of fines migration on well productivity during steady state production. Journal of Porous Media, 15(7), 665-679.
DOI Scopus33 WoS22

Year Citation
2018 Russell, T., Boechat Chequer, L., Borazjani, S., You, Z., Zeinijahromi, A., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2018). Formation Damage by Fines Migration: Mathematical and Laboratory Modeling, Field Cases. In B. Yuan, & D. A. Wood (Eds.), Formation Damage during Improved Oil Recovery: Fundamentals and Applications (pp. 69-175). Cambridge, MA; United States: Gulf Professional Publishing / Elsevier.
DOI Scopus37

Year Citation
2023 Shokrollahi, A., Borazjani, S., Mobasher, S. S., Prempeh, K. O. K., Amrouch, K., Schacht, U., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2023). Secondary Migration Modelling for Multivariant Exploration Planning: An Analytical Approach. In 84th EAGE Annual Conference and Exhibition Vol. 3 (pp. 2249-2253). Online: European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE.
2022 Hashemi, A., Borazjani, S., Dang-Le, B., Yin Loi, G., Nguyen Cao, C., Badalyan, A., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2022). Formation Damage by Fines Breakage and Migration. In SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Formation Damage Controll Vol. 2022-February (pp. 24 pages). Lafayette, Louisiana, USA: OnePetro.
DOI Scopus3
2022 Borazjani, S., Hemmati, N., Zeinijahromi, A., Badalyan, A., Genolet, L., Bahr, A., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2022). Determining Relative Permeability and Capillary Pressure from Steady-state-transient Test under Formation Damage. In SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control. United state.
2022 Hashemi, A., Borazjani, S., Nguyen, C., Loi, G., Badalyan, A., Dang-Le, B. A., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2022). Fines Migration and Production in CSG Reservoirs: Laboratory & Modelling Study. In Proceedings of SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition. Online: SPE.
DOI Scopus1
2022 Hemmati, N., Borazjani, S., Genolet, L., Behr, A., Zeinijahromi, A., Badalyan, A., . . . Bedrikovetsky, P. (2022). A Novel Method to Determine Relative Permeability and Capillary Pressure from Corefloods Application to CO<inf>2</inf>Storage. In Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition 2022, APOG 2022 (pp. 15 pages). Adelaide, Australia: OnePetro.
DOI Scopus1
2018 Borazjani, S., Behr, A., Genolet, L. C., Kowollik, P., Zeinijahromi, A., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2018). Fines-Migration-Assisted Waterflooding to Improve Sweep Efficiency Analytical Model. In Proceedings SPE International Symposium on Formation Damage Control Vol. 2018-February. SPE.
DOI Scopus5
2018 Borazjani, S., Chequer, L., Russell, T., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2018). Injectivity decline during waterflooding and PWRI due to fines migration. In Proceedings SPE International Symposium on Formation Damage Control Vol. 2018-February. SPE.
DOI Scopus20
2017 Borazjani, S., Behr, A., Genolet, L., Kowollik, P., You, Z., & Bedrikovetski, P. (2017). Low-salinity fines-assisted waterflooding: multiscale analytical and numerical modelling. In Proceedings of the 2017 SPE Reservoir Characterisation and Simulation Conference and Exhibition (pp. 249-266). Abu Dhabi, UAE: Society of Petroleum Engineers.
DOI Scopus4
2016 Borazjani, S., Behr, A., Genolet, L., Van Der Net, A., You, Z., & Bedrikovetsky, P. (2016). Analytical modelling of low-salinity waterflooding with fines migration. In 15th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery, ECMOR 2016 (pp. 443-464). Netherlands/USB: EAGE.
2014 Zeinijahromi, A., Borazjani, S., Bedrikovetsky, P., & Rodrigues, T. (2014). Low salinity fines-assisted water-flood: Analytical modelling and reservoir simulation. In Society of Petroleum Engineers SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition Apogce 2014 Changing the Game Opportunities Challenges and Solutions Vol. 2 (pp. 718-736).
Scopus1
2011 Bedrikovetski, P., Vaz, A., Machado, F., Zeinijahromi, A., & Borazjani, S. (2011). Well productivity decline due to fines migration and production: (Analytical model for the regime of strained particles accumulation). In Society of Petroleum Engineers - 9th European Formation Damage Conference 2011 Vol. 2 (pp. 1266-1274). Noordwijk: Society of Petroleum Engineers.
DOI Scopus13
2011 Bedrikovetski, P., Vaz, A., Machado, F., Zeinijahromi, A., & Borazjani, S. (2011). Productivity impairment due to fines migration: steady state production regime. In Society of Petroleum Engineers - Brazil Offshore Conference 2011 Vol. 2 (pp. 711-720). Macae, Rio de Janeiro: Society of Petroleum Engineers.
DOI Scopus1

2017-2018 -The University of Adelaide research fellowship 

UA182746 Low Salinity Fines-Assisted Waterflooding: reservoir prediction tools & field study, Contracting Party: Wintershall Dea GmbH, Years: 2019-2021, Investigators: Bedrikovetski, Pavel; Badalyan, Alexander; Borazjani, Sara; Carageorgos, Themis; Zeinijahromi, Abbas

Enhanced oil recovery

Formation damage and productivity enhancement

Transport and properties of porous media

 

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 Co-Supervisor Analytical Modeling of Carbon dioxide (CO2) with Low-Salinity Water Injection in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Kofi Ohemeng Kyei Prempeh

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2021 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Analytical and Data-Driven Modelling for Underground Gas Storage Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Amin Shokrollahi
2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor A novel laboratory method for simultaneous determination of relative permeability and capillary pressure from laboratory corefloods Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Nassim Hemmati
2017 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Analytical Modelling and Upscaling of Multicomponent Suspension-Colloidal Transport in Porous Media Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Gabriel de Veiga Cabral Malgaresi
2017 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Low Salinity Waterflooding: Effect of Fines Migration and Ion Type on Oil Recovery Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Alan Gussmann

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2020 - ongoing Associate Editor Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering Elsevier United Kingdom

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