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Professor Murry R Gray

Director of the Centre of Oil Sands Innovation, University of Alberta, Canada

May 27, 2010 02:00 PM, Room 617

Topics:

1. What Binds Asphaltenes into Nano-aggregates?

2. From Black to Gold: Nanotechnology in Upgrading of Heavy Oil

3. Thin Film Pyrolysis of Oil Sands Asphaltenes for Structural Analysis

Biography:

Dr. Murray Gray has over 20 years of research experience in upgrading of heavy oil and oil sands bitumen. He is currently Director of the Centre of Oil Sands Innovation at the University of Alberta. His success in collaborative research with industry has been recognized by numerous awards and prize, including the Syncrude Innovation Award(1996), and the Industrial Practice Award of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering(2003). In 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In 2006 he was awarded a Canada Research Chair and an Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1984. He also holds a M. Eng. Degree with a specialization in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Calgary(1980) and a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (with honours) from the University of Toronto(1978).