Faculty

Shimin Liu

Email: szl3@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-4491
Office Address: 224 Hosler Building
Title: Associate Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering
Unit: John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering
Webpage: https://www.eme.psu.edu/directory/shimin-liu

Research Interests:

• Reservoir assessment of unconventional gas resources
• Reservoir stress evolution with depletion
• Gas drainage from coal mine
• Geological carbon sequestration
• Porous rock imaging (neutron scattering, micro-CT, TEM, SEM)

About:

Dr. Shimin Liu is an Associate Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State University. He specializes in geomechanics and fluid dynamics and their applications in unconventional resources development, underground mining, carbon sequestration and natural hazard prevention. His current research interests include reservoir assessment of coal and shale resources; geomechanics modeling with continuous gas depletion; ground control for mines; coal mine gas control and management; carbon sequestration in deep rocks; nanoscale rock imaging.

Research:

Liu’s Unconventional Geomechanics Lab (UGL) is the host of various funded research projects related to rock/geomechanics, fluid transport in porous media, fluid-rock interactions, mine ventilation and ground control. UGL can conduct the top-notch multiscale rock characterization under best replicated in situ pressure and temperature conditions, including pressure-dependent permeability, sorption induced rock swelling, gas sorption and diffusion in stressed rocks, stress-path monitoring, single core envelope measurement etc. The UGL also provide services to various industrial stakeholders including coalbed methane companies, shale gas companies, mining and tunneling companies. To learn more about the lab facility, please refer to the “Lab Facility Prospectus”.