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Skip to Search Results- 6Xu, Zhenghe (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 3Dew, Steven (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 3Gupta, Rajender (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 3Liu, Qingxia (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 3Stepanova, Maria (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 3Zeng, Hongbo (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Spring 2013
Solvents are ubiquitously used in oil sands extraction industry to enhance the separation of bitumen froth. With developing new technologies such as non-aqueous bitumen extraction, the need to track solvent interactions with oil sands components throughout the extraction process and to identify...
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Fall 2022
This thesis describes the theory, fabrication, and characterization of monolithic integrated membrane-in-the-middle (MIM) optomechanical Fabry-Perot resonators and elliptical birefringent Fabry-Perot optical resonators. Both types of devices were fabricated on a silicon wafer using a thin-film...
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Fall 2017
Asphaltene is the most difficult fraction of bitumen and heavy oil to upgrade, as it has low H/C, high molecular weight and metal content. Asphaltenes are insoluble in paraffinic solvents, and undergo aggregation and coke formation during refining and cracking processes. No attention is usually...
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Spring 2017
Interactions mechanisms of deformable air bubbles and liquid droplets play critical roles in many established and modern industrial processes. Understanding the interaction mechanisms of oil droplets and air bubbles is of fundamental and practical importance to solve many challenging issues,...
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Utilizing Asphaltenes and Polyethylene Terephthalate Fibres in Developing High-Performance Asphalt Concrete
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Asphalt pavement performance is significant in order to ensure safety, longevity, cost-effectiveness, environmental sustainability, and the overall socio-economic well-being. A substantial amount of financial allocation is dedicated every year to enhance the performance of asphalt pavement in a...