Shimin Liu

Ph.D., Engineering Science / Southern Illinois University

Shimin Liu is an Assistant Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering and the Center for Geomechanics, Geofluids, and Geohazards (G3) at Penn State

His expertise is in gas storage and transport mechanism in coalbed methane reservoirs and carbon sequestration in geological formations, especially in the areas of laboratory characterization of gas-coal interaction, analytical modeling of gas transportation under in situ conditions for carbonaceous rocks, volumetric behaviors of coal with gas adsorption/desorption, CO2 sequestration in coal seams and enhanced gas production.

T: 814.863.4491
E: szl3@psu.edu

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