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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 1Adamaref, Solmaz
- 1Aghabarati, Mohammad
- 1Aghaie, Ermia
- 1Algosayir, Muhammad M
- 1Amirian, Ehsan
- 1Anas Khalil Sidahmed
- 5Chalaturnyk, Rick (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 4Nouri, Alireza (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 3Huang, Biao (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 3Leung, Juliana (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 3Sadrzadeh, Mohtada (Mechanical Engineering)
- 2Trivedi, Japan (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Spring 2018
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology widely used in Canada. Data available in SAGD industrial processes contain valuable information for monitoring, soft sensing, control, and optimization. This thesis focuses on data mining and optimization in the...
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Data-Driven Approaches to Estimate the Impact and Presence of Shale Barriers in SAGD Reservoirs
DownloadSpring 2019
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is one of the most successful in-situ techniques and has been widely adopted for heavy oil and bitumen recovery. Steam chamber development and SAGD production performance are highly sensitive to the reservoir heterogeneity, thus characterizing shale...
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Spring 2014
Evaluation of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) performance that involves detailed compositional simulations is usually deterministic, cumbersome, expensive (manpower and time consuming), and not quite suitable for practical decision making and forecasting, particularly when dealing with...
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Fall 2017
The present research was conducted with the intent of evaluating the degradation of OCTG (Oil Country Tubular Goods) steel used in SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) applications, and developing a promising surface modification method and a novel composite coating using a technique that will...
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Spring 2014
Oil sand reservoirs play an important role in the economy of Canada due to their significant recoverable reserves. Due to the high viscosity of the oil in these reservoirs, conventional methods cannot be used for production. The steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) method is an efficient way of...
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Spring 2018
Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) is a thermal recovery technology currently employed to extract heavy oil and high viscosity bitumen from Alberta oil sands. Due to the unconsolidated nature of oil sands, SAGD wells are prone to producing sand, hence, requiring sand control devices to...
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Experimental and Numerical Study into the Performance Assessment of Stand-alone Screens in Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage Operations
DownloadFall 2021
Sand production is a significant issue for weakly consolidated and unconsolidated formations. Sanding can erode the wellbore and surface facilities and plug the wellbore. In SAGD operations, wellbores are typically completed by stand-alone screens such as slotted liners (SL), wire-wrapped screens...
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Experimental Investigation of Near-well Fluid Mechanics on the Scaling Mechanism in Narrow Rectangular Slots
DownloadSpring 2020
This experimental study investigates the effect of near-well fluid mechanics on the scaling failure mechanism specific to SAGD production well. The scaling failure mechanism can be triggered by the pressure drop phenomenon and causes the plugging of the slots in the oilfields. The scale formation...
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Fall 2017
Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD), today is the most promising technique to extract heavy oil from oil sands reservoirs. Maintenance of integrity of the near-well area is crucial to help ensure that the reserves are produced properly without environmental or production optimization...
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Fabrication of Graphene-based Nanocomposite Membranes for Treatment of Process-affected Water
DownloadSpring 2020
Membrane separation processes are extensively used for separation of solutes such as ions, colloids, macromolecules, and organic matter from water. Among various membrane technologies, ultrafiltration (UF) and nanofiltration (NF) are progressively being employed for elimination of organic matter...