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Jacob H. Masliyah

Jacob H. Masliyah

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Engineering and Technology
Canada
2025

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
88
Citations
22114
World Ranking
331
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For advancing the science and technology for recovery of bitumen from oil sands.
  • 1996 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Jacob H. Masliyah is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research spans fields including engineering and chemistry, with subfields focused on analytical chemistry, ocean engineering, mechanics of materials, water science and technology, and control and systems engineering.

Their work extensively covers topics related to petroleum processing and analysis, enhanced oil recovery techniques, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, minerals flotation and separation techniques, process optimization and integration, and computational drug discovery methods.

The scientist has authored several recent papers, including:

  • Comprehensive study on cleaner production of heavy oil from Athabasca oil sands using chemical additives in biodiesel-assisted ambient-aqueous bitumen extraction process (2020, Journal of Cleaner Production)
  • The effect of clay type and solid wettability on bitumen extraction from Canadian oil sands (2022, Fuel)
  • Festschrift issue section of The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering in honour of Dr. Krishnaswamy Nandakumar (2023, The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering)

Frequent co-authors include Qingxia Liu, Zhenghe Xu, Yeling Zhu, Yi Lu, and An Li.

Common publication venues for their research include the Journal of Cleaner Production, Fuel, and The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering.

Jacob H. Masliyah has been recognized with several awards, such as becoming a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for advancing the science and technology for recovery of bitumen from oil sands. They were named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996, associated with the Academy of Science, and hold membership in The Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Understanding Water‐Based Bitumen Extraction from Athabasca Oil Sands

    Jacob Masliyah;Zhiang Joe Zhou;Zhenghe Xu;Jan Czarnecki

  • Modeling forced liquid convection in rectangular microchannels with electrokinetic effects

    Chun Yang;Dongqing Li;Jacob H. Masliyah

  • Water-in-Hydrocarbon Emulsions Stabilized by Asphaltenes at Low Concentrations

    Harvey W. Yarranton;Hisham Hussein;Jacob H. Masliyah

  • Measurement of the Zeta Potential of Gas Bubbles in Aqueous Solutions by Microelectrophoresis Method

    Chun Yang;Tadeusz Dabros;Dongqing Li;Jan Czarnecki

  • Analysis of electroosmotic flow of power-law fluids in a slit microchannel

    Cunlu Zhao;Emilijk Zholkovskij;Jacob H. Masliyah;Chun Yang

  • ]Hindered settling in a multi-species particle system

    Jacob H. Masliyah

  • On water-in-oil emulsions stabilized by fine solids

    Nianxi Yan;Murray R Gray;Jacob H Masliyah

  • Mathematical Modelling of Flow Through Consolidated Isotropic Porous Media

    J. Prieur Du Plessis;Jacob H. Masliyah

  • Demulsification Mechanism of Asphaltene-Stabilized Water-in-Oil Emulsions by a Polymeric Ethylene Oxide−Propylene Oxide Demulsifier

    Erica Pensini;David Harbottle;Fan Yang;Plamen Tchoukov

  • QCM-D study of nanoparticle interactions

    Qian Chen;Shengming Xu;Qingxia Liu;Jacob Masliyah

  • Molecular Dynamics Study of Model Molecules Resembling Asphaltene-Like Structures in Aqueous Organic Solvent Systems

    Tetyana Kuznicki;Jacob H. Masliyah;Subir Bhattacharjee

  • Flow through isotropic granular porous media

    J. Prieur Du Plessis;Jacob H. Masliyah

  • Hydrodynamic Simulation of Horizontal Slurry Pipeline Flow Using ANSYS-CFX

    Kalekudithi Ekambara;R. Sean Sanders;K. Nandakumar;Jacob H. Masliyah

  • Bitumen-clay interactions in aqueous media studied by zeta potential distribution measurement

    J. Liu;Z. Zhou;Z. Xu;J. Masliyah

  • Asphaltene Subfractions Responsible for Stabilizing Water-in-Crude Oil Emulsions. Part 1: Interfacial Behaviors

    Fan Yang;Plamen Tchoukov;Erica Pensini;Tadeusz Dabros

  • Studies on Bitumen−Silica Interaction in Aqueous Solutions by Atomic Force Microscopy

    Jianjun Liu;and Zhenghe Xu;Jacob Masliyah

  • Roles of Various Bitumen Components in the Stability of Water-in-Diluted-Bitumen Emulsions.

    Zhoulin Yan;Janet A.W. Elliott;Jacob H. Masliyah

  • Creeping flow over a composite sphere: Solid core with porous shell

    Jacob H. Masliyah;Graham Neale;K. Malysa;Theodorus G.M. Van De Ven

  • Terminal velocity of porous spheres

    Jacob H. Masliyah;Marcel Polikar

  • A novel method of measuring electrophoretic mobility of gas bubbles.

    Aref Seyyed Najafi;Jaroslaw Drelich;Anthony Yeung;Zhenghe Xu

  • Non-linear flows in porous media

    Shijie Liu;Jacob H. Masliyah

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhenghe Xu
Zhenghe Xu University of Alberta
Jan Czarnecki
Jan Czarnecki University of Alberta
Subir Bhattacharjee
Subir Bhattacharjee University of Alberta
Krishnaswamy Nandakumar
Krishnaswamy Nandakumar Louisiana State University
Murray R. Gray
Murray R. Gray University of Alberta
Shijie Liu
Shijie Liu SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Suddhasatwa Basu
Suddhasatwa Basu Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Chun Yang
Chun Yang Nanyang Technological University
Jaroslaw Drelich
Jaroslaw Drelich Michigan Technological University
Dongqing Li
Dongqing Li University of Waterloo

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