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Edgar (Ed) B. Bowles Jr.
Director B.S., Mechanical Engineering,
Mr. Bowles' primary interests are fluid dynamics and heat transfer. He has experience with both analytical and experimental engineering projects. During his 29 years at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Mr. Bowles has been involved with a variety of projects for the oil and gas industry. He is currently Director of the Fluids and Machinery Engineering Department. His department includes four technical sections: rotating machinery, plant engineering, machinery piping design analysis, and multiphase flow. The department primarily serves the needs of the oil and gas industry.
His previous work experience includes ten years managing the Metering Research Facility at SwRI. This large-scale test facility was built in 1991 for the purpose of advancing the state of the art of natural gas flow measurement in the United States and abroad. Other oil and gas related experience includes designing and testing flow control and safety shutoff valves used in oil and gas production wells, conducting experimental investigations of oil/water/gas separators and the effect of offshore platform motions on separator efficiency, optimizing the transport and removal of drill bit cuttings in highly deviated well bores, and investigating the slosh-induced internal loads on ballast water tanks used in semi-submersible offshore platforms in order to minimize the number of internal baffles required. He has also designed safety systems for gas storage facilities, devised chemical injection distribution systems for sub-sea production well clusters, designed sucker-rod pumping systems for low volume oil wells, and assisted with the development of down-hole pulsation dampeners for sucker-rod pumping applications.
In addition to his work for the oil and gas industry, Mr. Bowles has been involved in a variety of research and development programs on drag reducing additives for liquid transport through closed conduits, solar energy system design for industrial steam generation applications, conceptualization of specialized air conditioning systems for submarines and oil well logging trucks, ship tank sloshing remediation associated with cryogenic liquid transport, fuel delivery system design for jet engine test stands, and static mixer design for gasoline additive mixing processes.
Mr. Bowles has also taught courses at SwRI on gas flow measurement, two-phase gas-liquid flow phenomena, and technical project management. In addition, he has taught numerous classes on natural gas measurement at various industry training schools throughout the United States. He is also a contributing technical editor to Pipeline and Gas Technology magazine.
MEMBERSHIPS: American Gas Association Transmission Measurement
Committee, American Petroleum Institute Committee on Gas Fluid
Measurement, Consultative Committee for Mass - Working Group Flow of the
Comité International des Poids et Mesures of the Bureau International
des Poids et Mesures, International School of Hydrocarbon Measurement
organizing committee, American School of Gas Measurement Technology
organizing committee, Gulf Coast Gas Measurement Society treasurer, Pi
Tau Sigma, and Kappa Mu Epsilon.
For more information about compressor system and pump system analyses
capabilities at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI,
please contact
Buddy
Broerman at
ebroerman@swri.org or (210) 522-2555. We can offer you the best
approach for solving your compressor system or pump system analysis
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