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Fall 2018
Unconventional oil reserves are taking an increasing importance globally due to the decrease of conventional sources of hydrocarbons. Oil sands industry plays an important role in the production of unconventional bitumen, through proven technologies such as surface mining and in situ extraction...
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Fall 2015
The rheological properties of heavy oil and bitumen depend on factors such as temperature, pressure, diluent type and diluent composition, as well as sample shear and thermal histories and shear conditions during measurements. Each of these factors can affect the value of apparent viscosity...
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Fall 2015
Canadian oil sands derived bitumen is a form of petroleum that has a high density and viscosity. One of the potential causes of the high viscosity of the oil sands bitumen is acid-base interactions. The main purpose of this project was to determine the influence of acid treatment and base...
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Spring 2013
The mining of oil sands ore and extraction of bitumen produces aqueous slurries containing bitumen, coarse sand and fine clays. The performance of key process units is highly dependent on the rheology of “carrier fluid”, which is comprised of the fine solids and water. Although viscosity is...
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MODELLING THE RHEOLOGY OF COMPLEX FLUIDS : Cases of Bitumen and Heavy Oils at low temperatures.
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As complex fluids such as heavy oil or bitumen pass from the field to process units, structural and compositional changes occur that are intimately linked with pressure (P), temperature (T), and shear histories. In this exploratory work, a modified Structural Kinetics Model is used to calculate...
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Study of the Intervening Thin Liquid Film between Deformable Oil Drop/Bubble and a Solid Surface in Oil Production
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Interactions involving deformable bubbles/oil droplets play a critical role in many industrial applications. Understanding the dynamic thin film drainage process and interaction forces involving deformable bubbles/oil droplets and solid surfaces in the oil sands extraction process is of great...
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Thermophysical Properties Measurement of Liquid Al and Al-Cu by the Discharge Crucible Method
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The demand to develop Materials Genomics and Integrated Materials Computation requires the availability of high temperature property data of liquid metals. High temperature metallurgical processes, such as refining, casting, welding and additive manufacturing, can be optimized and operate more...
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Use of a solvent in the oxidative desulfurization of bitumen via autoxidation; effects on viscosity and oxidation
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This work describes the effect that including a solvent in the reaction media of the autoxidation of Cold Lake bitumen has on the viscosity and also on the oxidation degree reached. The comparison of viscosity was performed both in the basis of equal residence time and equal oxygen conversion...