Seyed Ahmad Hosseini
PhD Research in Mechanical Engineering
School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment
Ahmad joined GCU as a PhD researcher in July 2021. He holds a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Italy in Turin. His MSc thesis was in the area of flow assurance and salt precipitation in subsea pipelines with the support of Hydrafact Ltd. (Heriot-Watt University spin-out company) based in Edinburgh in 2016. Following his graduation, he started working as a reservoir engineer at the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) in Tehran. He worked comprehensively on formation damage challenges in porous media, along with PVT studies on organic and inorganic precipitates in hydrocarbon wells.
Ahmad's groundbreaking PhD research is focused on "Developing Smart Venturi Wet-Gas Meters to Foster Efficient Gas Production and Digital Transformation". Wet gas metering is essential to enable optimised and cost-effective production of natural gas. There is demonstrably significant industrial demand for a smart metering device with diagnostic capabilities. The project addresses major technological challenges, including low-cost measurement of the liquid loading, asset health monitoring with diagnostic capabilities, and models/correlations proven at field conditions through numerical simulation (CFD) and machine learning (ML) modelling.
The project partners, GCU, TUV-SUD-National Engineering Laboratory, and CENSIS, will contribute significant resources to design, manufacture, test, and train an AI-enabled instrument and bring a device to market that can play a vital role in bringing marginal fields into operation and optimising the production of natural gas.