Maria Barrufet

Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Telephone: (979) 845-0314
Fax Number: (979) 845-6446
E-mail: maria.barrufet@pe.tamu.edu

Mailing Address...
336B Richardson Petroleum Building
3116 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3116

Education

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1987
M.S., Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina, 1983
Chemical Engineer, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina, 1979

Awards & Honors

W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence, 1994-1995
Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award, 1995
Burlington Resources Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1993
General Electric Faculty of the Future Award, 1992
Sterling Who's Who, 1994

Research Interests

Dr. Barrufet’s research interests include evaluation of different methods to desalinate oilfield brines; unit operation aspects of evaporators, membranes, osmotic separation, heat transfer, energy and mass balance computations; enhanced oil recovery: thermodynamics and transport phenomena applied to chemical, miscible and thermal recovery processes; multiphase flow: pipe flow design, numerical methods, optimization, and statistics; and rock and fluid properties: correlation and measurement of capillary pressures and relative permeabilities, polymer and gel rheology for profile modification.