Sayeed Rushd

Sayeed Rushd
King Faisal University · Department of Chemical Engineering

PhD

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One of the significant challenges to designing an emulsion transportation system is predicting frictional pressure losses with confidence. The state-of-the-art method for enhancing reliability in prediction is to employ artificial intelligence (AI) based on various machine learning (ML) tools. Six traditional and tree-based ML algorithms were analy...
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Polylactic acid (PLA), the second most produced biopolymer, was selected for the fabrication of mixed-matrix membranes (MMMs) via the incorporation of HKUST-1 metal-organic framework (MOF) particles into a PLA matrix with the aim of improving mechanical characteristics. A deep learning neural network (DLNN) model was developed on the TensorFlow 2 b...
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The long‐distance pipeline transportation of heavy crudes demands optimal pumping procedures to abate overhead expenditures in the midstream phase. This can be facilitated by reducing both the oil viscosity and the frictional losses induced by the turbulent flow zone. The dualistic approach of reducing both viscosity and drag requires the optimizat...
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Gas–liquid flow is a significant phenomenon in various engineering applications, such as in nuclear reactors, power plants, chemical industries, and petroleum industries. The prediction of the flow patterns is of great importance for designing and analyzing the operations of two-phase pipeline systems. The traditional numerical and empirical method...
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been experiencing consistent growth in industrial processes and product use (IPPU). The IPPU’s emission has been following an increasing trend. This study investigated time-series and cross-sectional analyses of the IPPU sector. Petrochemical, iron and steel, and cement production are the leading source categories in...
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The importance of heavy oil in the world oil market has increased over the past twenty years as light oil reserves have declined steadily. The high viscosity of this kind of unconventional oil results in high energy consumption for its transportation, which significantly increases production costs. A cost-effective solution for the long-distance tr...
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Accurate estimation of volume fraction and pressure gradient is considered indicating parameters of efficient cuttings transportation. It is vital, in this regard, to consider all parameters that can affect cuttings volume fraction and pressure drop during enrollment of the drilling process. The analysis was conducted based on the turbulent flow of...
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Arsenic is a deleterious heavy metal that is usually removed from polluted water based on adsorption processes. The latest mode of modeling such a process is to implement artificial intelligence (AI). In the current work, a new artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed to predict the adsorption efficiency of arsenate (As(III)) from contam...
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The increasing interest in renewable and sustainable energy production as a means of attaining net-zero carbon emissions in the near future has spurred research attention in the development of fuel cells that convert chemical energy to electrical energy. In this study machine learning algorithms namely Support Vector Machine (SVM) regression, Regre...
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An artificial intelligence-based system was developed to efficiently predict settling velocity (SV) using a large dataset comprised of 2726 samples. The ranges of particle size and fluid viscosity were 0.212 − 98.59 mm and 0.02 − 92800 mPa.s, respectively. Properties of particle and fluid were fed to a model as the inputs to obtain SV as the output...
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Flow and thermal characteristics of mixed convection in a nanofluid filled wavy conduit was numerically investigated in this study. The conduit was considered to contain a pair of rotating cylinders. It was heated and cooled from its lower and upper wavy surface, respectively. The rotating cylinders were placed along the centerline of the wavy cond...
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Machine learning (ML) is recognized as an efficient prediction tool. However, very few attempts have been made to apply it to model pressure losses in the water-assisted pipeline transportation of unconventional crudes. The performances of conventional ML algorithms for predictions were analyzed in the current study based on a dataset comprised of...
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Water-lubricated flow technology is an environmentally friendly and economically beneficial means of transporting unconventional viscous crudes. The current research was initiated to investigate an engineering model suitable to estimate the frictional pressure losses in water-lubricated pipelines as a function of design/operating parameters such as...
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Terminal Settling velocity (Vts) is a significant phenomenon for two-phase solid-liquid flows in various process units, such as slurry pipeline, annular drillpipe, fluidized bed reactor, drier, and gasifier. A two-phase system operated below Vts encounters several technical issues, such as solid accumulation, surface wear, erosion, flow irregularit...
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The continuous growth in population, urbanization, and industrial development has been increasing the generation of solid waste (SW) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Consequently, the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emission is also following an increasing trend. The collection and use of greenhouse gases emitted from solid waste management practice...
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The traditional procedure of predicting the settling velocity of a spherical particle is inconvenient as it involves iterations, complex correlations, and an unpredictable degree of uncertainty. The limitations can be addressed efficiently with artificial intelligence-based machine-learning algorithms (MLAs). The limited number of isolated studies...
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Applications of machine learning algorithms (MLAs) to modeling the adsorption efficiencies of different heavy metals have been limited by the adsorbate–adsorbent pair and the selection of specific MLAs. In the current study, adsorption efficiencies of fourteen heavy metal–adsorbent (HM-AD) pairs were modeled with a variety of ML models such as supp...
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Despite some well‐known limitations of artificial neural network (ANN), the basic ANN and its derivatives are frequently used to predict the removal efficiency of different heavy metals like arsenic (As) using various adsorbents, including bio‐adsorbents. Notable examples of applying non‐neural network (NN) approaches, such as support vector regres...
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An annular water-film lubricates an oil-core by functioning as a barrier between the core and the pipe wall in the water-lubricated flow of non-conventional viscous oil. A dependable model for appraising the frictional energy losses in such a core annular flow system is necessary to ensure its widespread implementation in the industry. In the curre...
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Desalination has been used for thousands of years. Greek sailors boiled water to evaporate fresh water away from the salt and Romans used clay filters to trap salt. The most matured and commercially implemented technologies include multi stage flash (MSF), multi effect distillation (MED), vapour compression distillation (VC), reverse osmosis (RO),...
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Water-lubricated pipe flow is an economically efficient and environmentally sustainable technology to transport unconventional oils like heavy oil and bitumen. The internal wall of the pipe carrying the water – heavy oil mixture can be "fouled" by the viscous oil in the large-scale applications of the flow technology. The hydrodynamic effect due to...
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In the lubricated pipe flow (LPF) of heavy oils, a water annulus acts as a lubricant and separates the viscous oil from the pipe wall. The steady state position of the annular water layer is in the high shear region. Significantly, lower pumping energy input is required than if the viscous oil was transported alone. An important challenge to the ge...
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The multiphase flow behavior of fluid in a pipe is predictable and the literature is abandon of its investigation. However, the multiphase flow behavior of fluid in a horizontal annulus is complicated to probe. Herein, we present the high-speed imaging technique to visualize the drilling conditions in a horizontal annulus. In addition, to study the...
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The multiphase flow behaviour of fluid in a horizontal annulus is challenging and complex to investigate.  Herein, we present the high-speed imaging technique to visualize the drilling conditions in a horizontal annulus.  The simple tool of visualization has enough potential in distinguishing the fluid phases, flow patterns and thicknesses of cut...
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Continuous water‐assisted flow (CWAF), where a water layer surrounds a viscous oil core, provides low energy, long distance transport of heavy oil and bitumen without requiring heating or solvent addition. In industrial applications of CWAF, the pipe wall is fouled by a thin coating of oil, an effect not considered in many studies of water‐lubricat...
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Estimation of pressure losses and deposition velocities is vital in the hydraulic design of annular drill holes in the petroleum industry. e present study investigates the effects of fluid velocity, fluid type, particle size, particle concentration, drill string rotational speed, and eccentricity on pressure losses and settling conditions using com...
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Horizontal drilling technology has shown to improve the production and cost-effectiveness of the well by generating multiple extraction points from a single vertical well. The efficiency of hole cleaning is reduced because of the solid-cuttings accumulation in the annulus in cases of extended-reach drilling. It is difficult to study the complex flo...
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Imaging with high definition video camera is an important technique to visualize the drilling conditions and to study the physics of complex multiphase flow associated with the hole cleaning process. The main advantage of visualizing multiphase flow in a drilling annulus is that the viewer can easily distinguish fluid phases, flow patterns and thic...
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The accurate prediction of terminal settling velocity of solid spheres in non-Newtonian liquids is important for various fluid-particle systems such as slurry pipelines, separation processes, hole-cleaning in drilling operations, and mineral processing. The standard practice for the prediction involves an implicit procedure that requires repeated i...
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Accuracy of prediction of pressure losses plays a vital role in the design of multiphase flow systems. The present study focused on the development of a computational fluid dynamics model to predict these parameters conveniently and accurately. The main objective was to validate the developed model through comparison of its simulation results with...
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Water-lubricated pipe flow technology is an economic alternative for the long-distance transportation of viscous oils, such as heavy oil and bitumen. In the industrial-scale application of this technology, a thin oil film is always observed to coat the pipe wall. The natural process of wall coating during the lubrication is often referred to as wal...
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CORE ANNULAR FLOW (CAF) is an economically efficient and environmentally sustainable technology for transporting heavy oil and bitumen, especially compared with conventional methods such as truck hauling, dilution, and heating. In CAF, heavy oil forms the core of the flow and a water sheath encloses this core by forming a continuous layer on the pi...
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Accurate pressure drop estimation is vital in the hydraulic design of annular drillholes in Petroleum Industry. The present study investigates the effects of fluid velocity, fluid type, fluid rheology, drillpipe rotation speed, drillpipe eccentricity and drillhole inclinationon on pressure losses with the presence of cuttings using both experiments...
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In the oil and gas industry, various methods involving Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) are used to predict pressure losses while cleaning/operating horizontal drilling facilities with non-Newtonian fluids. Studies on the factors which influence such predictions are important to the successful design, development and operation of wellbores. The eff...
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Three-dimensional CFD modeling of two-phase slurry flows is demonstrated in this paper. The flow domain consists of a vertically oriented annular pipe with outer and inner diameter of 0.125 m and 0.025 m, respectively. A mixture velocity range of 0.0738– 0.197 m/s and overall volumetric concentration range of 0.8%–1.8% with 0.23 mm grain size (dp)...
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In water-lubricated pipeline transportation of heavy oil and bitumen, a thin oil film typically coats the pipe wall. A detailed study of the hydrodynamic effects of this fouling layer is critical to the design and operation of oil–water pipelines, as it can increase the pipeline pressure loss (and pumping power requirements) by 15 times or more. In...
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In the water lubricated pipeline transportation of heavy oil and bitumen, a thin oil film typically coats the pipe wall, which is often referred to as ‘wall fouling'. A detailed study of the hydrodynamic effects of wall fouling is critical to the design and operation of oil/water pipelines, as the viscous layer can increase the pipeline pressure lo...
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Lubricated pipe flow (LPF) is a pipeline transportation technology for highly viscous oils. In this technology, a viscous oil-core is lubricated by an enveloping water annulus. A major technical challenge for LPF is the flow instability caused by a fouling layer of viscous oil on pipe wall. To monitor the thickness of this layer, application of a c...
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A beneficial method for transporting highly viscous hydrocarbons (e.g. heavy oil and bitumen) through a pipeline is known as Lubricated Pipe Flow (LPF). A major challenge for this technology is flow instability caused by the formation of a wall-coating of oil or the thinning and/or loss of the lubricating water layer in the pipe. This issue can be...

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