Sourabh Ahitan
Research Assistant
email: ahitan@ualberta.ca
Degrees
- MSc. in Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, 2016
- Dissertation: Phase Behavior Modeling of Asymmetric n-Alkane + Aromatic and Naphthenic Hydrocarbon Mixtures
- B. Tech in Chemical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India 2011
Research Interests
- Phase behaviour of hydrocarbons
- Energy resources
Simulation Software Skills
- Aspen HYSYS
- Aspen Plus
- VMGSim
Work Experience
- Process Engineer, Larsen & Toubro Ltd., India
Scholarships
- Donald Lougheed Engineering Graduate Scholarship 2015
Publications
- Quantitative comparison between predicted and experimental binary n-alkane + benzene phase behaviors using cubic and PC-SAFT EOSAhitan, S.; Shaw, J. M., . Fluid Phase Equilibria 2016,428, 4-17.
- Ahitan, S.; Satyro, M. A.; Shaw, J. M., Systematic Misprediction of n-Alkane + Aromatic and Naphthenic Hydrocarbon Phase Behavior Using Common Equations of State. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data 2015, 60 (11), 3300-3318
Conferences - Presentations
- Ahitan, Sourabh; Shaw, J. M.; Bubble Pressure Measurement and Prediction for n-Alkane + Naphthenic Hydrocarbon Binary Mixtures. 67th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE) 2017, October 22 - 25, Edmonton, Canada (oral presentation).
- Ahitan, Sourabh; Luo, Miao; McLaughlin John; Shaw, John M.; On Cubic EOS Interaction Parameter Prediction for Long Chain n- Alkane + Aromatic Binary Mixtures. 21st European Conference on Thermophysical Properties (ECTP) 2017, September 3 - 8, Graz, Austria (oral presentation).
- Ahitan, Sourabh; Shaw, John M.; Bubble Pressure Measurement and Prediction for n-Alkane + Naphthenic Hydrocarbon Binary Mixtures. 21st European Conference on Thermophysical Properties (ECTP) 2017, September 3 - 8, Graz, Austria (oral presentation).
- Ahitan, Sourabh; Liu, Qingchen; Pourmohammadbagher, Amin; Shaw, John M.; Bubble Pressure, Enthalpy of Mixing and Excess Volume Measurement and Prediction for n-Alkane + Aromatic and Naphthenic Hydrocarbon Binary Mixtures. 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 13 -18, (oral presentation).
- Ahitan, Sourabh; Shaw, John .M., Satyro, M.; Systematic miss-prediction of aliphatic + aromatic and naphthenic hydrocarbon phase behavior using common equations of state", 65th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE 2015), Calgary, Alberta, 4-7 October 2015 (oral presentation).
- Ahitan, Sourabh; Shaw, John M.; Systematic misprediction of aromatic + aliphatic & naphthenic + aliphatic hydrocarbon binary phase behavior using cubic Equation of State, 12th Petroleum Thermodynamics NSERC Industrial Research Chair Advisory Committee Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, 6 March 2015 (oral presentation).
Other Interests
- Table Tennis