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Apostolos Kantzas

Apostolos Kantzas

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
39
Citations
7220
World Ranking
7625
National Ranking
307

Overview

Apostolos Kantzas is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their research falls primarily within the field of Engineering, with significant contributions in the subfields of Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to petroleum and reservoir engineering. Key areas of research include:

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Petroleum Processing and Analysis
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • NMR spectroscopy and applications
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

Kantzas has published extensively in multiple venues, with a focus on journals such as:

  • Fuel
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • SPE Journal
  • The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Their recent notable publications include:

  • "A comprehensive review of microwave application on the oil shale: Prospects for shale oil production" (2021, Fuel)
  • "Enhanced oil recovery by emulsion injection in heterogeneous heavy oil reservoirs: Experiments, modeling and reservoir simulation" (2021, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering)
  • "On the Stability of Pickering and Classical Nanoemulsions: Theory and Experiments" (2023, Langmuir)
  • "Efficient nanoparticle transport via CO2 foam to stabilize oil in water emulsions" (2020, Fuel)
  • "Modeling of methane and carbon dioxide sorption capacity in tight reservoirs using Machine learning techniques" (2023, Fuel)

Their frequent collaborators include researchers with whom they have multiple joint publications, such as:

  • Steven L. Bryant
  • Saeid Khasi
  • Sepideh Maaref
  • Mazda Irani
  • Boxin Ding

Apostolos Kantzas's contributions show a multidisciplinary approach bridging traditional engineering with advanced computational and experimental techniques. Their work on particle-stabilized emulsions, enhanced oil recovery methods, and machine learning applications in reservoir analysis highlights intersections between material science and petroleum engineering.

Best Publications

  • Three-Dimensional Quantification of Macropore Networks in Undisturbed Soil Cores

    Johan Perret;S. O. Prasher;A. Kantzas;C. Langford

  • Relative permeability of CBM reservoirs: Controls on curve shape

    C.R. Clarkson;M. Rahmanian;A. Kantzas;K. Morad

  • Nanoparticle stabilized oil in water emulsions: A critical review

    Danial Arab;Apostolos Kantzas;Steven L. Bryant

  • On the Investigation of Gravity-Assisted Inert Gas Injection Using Micromodels, Long Berea Sandstone Cores, and Computer-Assisted Tomography

    I. Chatzis;A. Kantzas;F.A.L. Dullien

  • Enhanced Heavy-Oil Recovery by Alkali-Surfactant Flooding

    Jonathan Luke Bryan;Apostolos Kantzas

  • Heavy Oil Waterflooding: Effects of Flow Rate and Oil Viscosity

    A. Mai;A. Kantzas

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery by Inert Gas Injection

    A. Kantzas;I. Chatzis;F.A.L. Dullien

  • Insights Into Non-Thermal Recovery of Heavy Oil

    A. Mai;J. Bryan;N. Goodarzi;A. Kantzas

  • Potential for Alkali-Surfactant Flooding in Heavy Oil Reservoirs Through Oil-in-Water Emulsification

    J. Bryan;A. Kantzas

  • CFD Modeling and Validation of Bubble Properties for a Bubbling Fluidized Bed

    Ian Hulme;Eric Clavelle;Loni Van Der Lee;Apostolos Kantzas

  • Oil-Viscosity Predictions From Low-Field NMR Measurements

    J. Bryan;A. Kantzas;C. Bellehumeur

  • Early regional adaptation of periarticular bone mineral density after anterior cruciate ligament injury

    Steven K. Boyd;John R. Matyas;Greg R. Wohl;Apostolos Kantzas

  • A New Unified Diffusion--Viscous-Flow Model Based on Pore-Level Studies of Tight Gas Formations

    Mohammad R. Rahmanian;Roberto Aguilera;Apostolos Kantzas

  • Monitoring bitumen-solvent interactions with low-field nuclear magnetic resonance and X-ray computer-assisted tomography

    Y. W. Wen‡ and;A. Kantzas

  • A New Unified Diffusion-Viscous Flow Model Based on Pore Level Studies of Tight Gas Formations

    Mohammad Reza Rahmanian Shahri;Roberto Aguilera;Apostolos Kantzas

  • Bacteriogenic Mineral Plugging

    F.G. Ferris;L.G. Stehmeler;A. Kantzas;F.M. Mouritis

  • A comprehensive review of microwave application on the oil shale: Prospects for shale oil production

    Jaber Taheri-Shakib;Apostolos Kantzas

  • A Novel Method of Sand Consolidation Through Bacteriogenic Mineral Plugging

    A. Kantzas;L.G. Stehmeier;D.F. Marentette;F. G. Ferris

  • Pore-scale redistribution of water during wetting of air-dried soils as studied by low-field NMR relaxometry.

    Tiona R. Todoruk;Cooper H. Langford;Apostolos Kantzas

  • Estimation of Diffusion Coefficients in Bitumen Solvent Mixtures as Derived From Low Field NMR Spectra

    Y. Wen;J. Bryan;A. Kantzas

  • Investigation Into the Processes Responsible for Heavy Oil Recovery by Alkali-Surfactant Flooding

    Jonathan Luke Bryan;An Thuy Mai;Apostolos Kantzas

  • Computation of holdups in fluidized and trickle beds by computer-assisted tomography

    Apostolos Kantzas

  • Investigation of physical properties of porous rocks and fluid flow phenomena in porous media using computer assisted tomography

    A. Kantzas

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Bryant
Steven L. Bryant University of Calgary
Cooper H. Langford
Cooper H. Langford University of Calgary
Christopher R. Clarkson
Christopher R. Clarkson University of Calgary
Roberto Aguilera
Roberto Aguilera Curtin University
Brij B. Maini
Brij B. Maini University of Calgary
Zhangxin Chen
Zhangxin Chen University of Calgary
Todd Pugsley
Todd Pugsley University of Saskatchewan
Ole Torsæter
Ole Torsæter Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Mingzhe Dong
Mingzhe Dong University of Calgary
Shiv O. Prasher
Shiv O. Prasher McGill University

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