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- 8Hashisho, Zaher (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 5Gupta, Rajender (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 4Rajendran, Arvind (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 3Xu, Zhenghe (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2Chang, Scott (Renewable Resources)
- 2De Klerk, Arno (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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2021-04-30
Pang, Wanying, Wang, Yingnan, Jin, Zhehui
Shale/tight gas plays an increasingly important role to meet the growing global energy demand and reduce carbon emissions. Unlike conventional reservoirs, shale formations are subject to rock heterogeneity and have pore size distributions ranging from sub-1 nm to a few micrometers. Thanks to the...
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Comprehensive Study of the Bioconversion of Coal Using Laboratory Core Flooding Experiments
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Core flooding experiments were performed to understand in-situ coal bioconversion process. Subbituminous coal particles packed inside a biaxial core holder was inoculated with microbial culture and was continuously flooded with mineral salts medium and nitrogen rich nutrient solution....
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Fall 2013
Bitumen, as one of the most important unconventional sources of energy, has long been an attractive source for production of liquid fuels. It is important to improve the yield and quality of the useful products resulting from bitumen upgrading processes so that the best outcome can be achieved...
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Development of a hybrid wheat straw adsorption and microfiltration system for oily wastewater treatment
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Effective, economical, and sustainable treatment technologies are highly desirable for treating oily wastewater generated from various industries as well as municipal and commercial establishments. The performance of traditional polymeric membranes is largely constrained by their high fouling...
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Development of dynamic column breakthrough for multicomponent adsorption equilibrium and diffusion
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Pressure and temperature swing adsorption processes are increasingly being designed and optimized computationally. The reliability of these predictions are highly dependent on the quality of the experimental equilibrium and kinetic data used in these simulations. Consistent experimental...
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Development of Life Cycle Water-Demand Coefficients for Coal-Based Power Generation Technologies
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This paper aims to develop benchmark coefficients for water consumption and water withdrawals over the full life cycle of coal-based power generation. This study considered not only all of the unit operations involved in the full electricity generation life cycle but also compared different...
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Effect of adsorbate’s polarity, steric hindrance, aromaticity, and boiling point on competitive adsorption in a multi-staged countercurrent fluidized bed reactor using activated carbon and zeolite
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Understanding the multi-component adsorption of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is of essential importance for real-world engineering applications. Various properties of VOCs can affect their competitive adsorption when there is a mixture of these compounds in the process stream. This thesis...
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Effect of Desorption Purge Gas Oxygen Impurity on Heel Formation During Regeneration of Beaded Activated Carbon Saturated with Organic Vapors
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Irreversible adsorption or heel formation during cyclic adsorption/regeneration of high molecular weight volatile organic compounds (VOCs) onto activated carbon decreases its adsorption capacity and lifetime. The effect of regeneration purge gas oxygen impurity on activated carbon performance,...