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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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Optimization of Outflow Control Devices Design in Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage Models with Wellbore Trajectory Excursions
DownloadFall 2018
Canada has giant oil reserves which ranks third worldwide with proven oil reserves of 171 billion barrels. Alberta alone contributes with 165.4 billion barrels found in oil sands. However, those oil sands are extremely viscous and only 10% are recoverable by means of open-pit mining. In-situ...
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Optimization of steam/solvent injection methods: Application of hybrid techniques with improved algorithm configuration
DownloadFall 2012
Heavy oil and bitumen recovery processes need to be optimized in order to increase the recovery, reduce costs, and minimize the environment impact. Most of the optimization studies published in petroleum engineering literature focus on a few design parameters by combining the elements of...
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Spring 2012
While numerical modeling and coupling techniques have been continuously studied, analytical solution or proxy modeling for geomechanical coupling of the steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) has not been clearly addressed in the literature. Simulations aside, there is no particular study on the...
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Real-Time Feedback Control of the SAGD Process using Model Predictive Control to Improve Recovery: A Simulation Study
DownloadSpring 2015
Scope of the Work: For over a decade, the oil industry has been moving to “smart fields”, which deploy wells with remotely operated valves and permanently installed downhole sensors for real-time pressure and temperature measurements. Real-time data from these “intelligent wells” provide key...
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Fall 2017
Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) technology has made possible the in situ production of bitumen at commercial scale. In this study, different mechanisms involved in heat transfer through porous media above SAGD steam chambers are investigated....
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Spring 2022
A noteworthy caprock failure occurred on the Joslyn Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) property in 2006 that continues to have a significant impact on the approval process for future SAGD projects. Two reports were released by Alberta government, which are AER Review and Analysis: Total E&P...
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Robust Gaussian Process Regression and its Application in Data-driven Modeling and Optimization
DownloadFall 2015
Availability of large amounts of industrial process data is allowing researchers to explore new data-based modelling methods. In this thesis, Gaussian process (GP) regression, a relatively new Bayesian approach to non-parametric data based modelling is investigated in detail. One of the primary...
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Fall 2021
Lignin is one of the most plentiful natural polymer on the earth, produced on a large scale as the waste of pulp and paper industries. The inherent properties of lignin, such as nontoxicity, cost-efficiency, and biocompatibility, make it suitable for the green modification of bulk and surface...
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Techniques for fast screening of 3D heterogeneous shale barrier configurations and their impacts on SAGD production behavior
DownloadSpring 2020
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) recovery process is strongly impacted by the spatial distributions of heterogeneous shale barriers. Though detailed compositional flow simulators are available for SAGD recovery performance evaluation, the simulation process is usually quite computationally...
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Spring 2021
Alberta’s oil sands deposits are the third-largest proven crude oil reserve in the world. However, only 20% of the bitumen in Alberta’s oil sands are shallow enough to be recoverable by surface mining techniques; the remaining 80% can only be extracted using in-situ techniques that involve the...