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- 46Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
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- 2Mechanical Engineering, Department of/Progress in Canadian Mechanical Engineering, Volume 5
- 16Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 15Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 5Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 5Department of Physics
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- 3Lange, Carlos (Mechanical Engineering)
- 3Nikrityuk, Petr (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2Hayes, Robert (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2Nikrityuk, Petr (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2Pogosyan, Dmitri (Physics)
- 2Zhu, David (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Fall 2017
Current oil sands mining and bitumen extraction methods produce a significant amount of tailings. Recent legislation in Alberta aims to guarantee operators treat their tailings and reclaim them 10 years after the end of mine life. Since 2012, oil sand companies have spent more than $1.3 billion...
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CFD Simulation Of Condensation Heat Transfer In Mini/Micro-Channels—Application In Waste Heat Recovery
Download2022-06-01
Ebrahimnia-Bajestan, Ehsan, Gharibnavaz, Mehrdad, Jin, Mingchao, Li, Ri, Brinkerhoff, Joshua, Milani, Abbas
The recovery of waste heat from low-temperature flue gas can be improved by capturing the latent heat part through the condensation of the vapor component. For this purpose, investigating the important parameters in designing efficient heat exchangers is necessary. Therefore, this study aims to...
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Fall 2022
Complex concentrated slurry flows in horizontal pipelines are widely seen in many industries for transportation of solid particles or process wastes. i.e., tailings. Slurry flows can occur in a turbulent regime, and the carrier fluid usually shows a non–Newtonian behavior. Understanding the flow...
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Fall 2012
Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is a process in which coal is converted to syngas in-situ. UCG has gained popularity recently as it could be used to extract energy of deep-lying coal seams, and it reduces the footprints attributed to the gasification process. In this study, two models have...
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Fall 2015
This work is devoted to the CFD analysis of multiphase flow using Euler-Euler model. In particular, Euler-Euler multiphase model is applied to study numerically the behaviour of gas-solid system and solid-liquid system. The main objective of this work is to validate Euler-Euler multiphase model...
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Challenges in computational modeling of two-phase transport in polymer electrolyte fuel cells flow channels: a review
Download2017-01-01
Excess of liquid water in gas channels of polymer electrolyte fuel cells is responsible for malfunctioning of these devices. Not only it decreases their efficiency via partial blockage of reactants and pressure drop, but it can also lead to the irreversible damage due to oxygen starvation in case...
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Validation of Rooftop Wind Regime in Complex Urban Environment
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This thesis presents a validation methodology for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) assessments of rooftop wind regime in urban environments. A case study is carried out at the Donadeo Innovation Centre for Engineering (DICE) building at the University of Alberta campus. A numerical assessment...
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Fall 2012
To understand the water cycle on Mars, details of mass and energy transfer between the surface and the atmosphere are of importance. A complete model, involving transient variations of the water in gaseous and solid phases in the atmosphere and the regolith, is developed and solved numerically...
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Design, Deployment, Performance and Assessment of Downhole and Near Surface Monitoring Technology for Geological CO2 Storage
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Early carbon storage research and development efforts in Canada and elsewhere began with “value-added” projects such as CO2-enhanced oil recovery or CO2 enhanced coalbed methane, where the increase in production helps to offset the costs of CO2 and of its potential long-term storage. These...
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Developing New Methodologies to the Simulation of Emulsion Mixtures with Transport of Particles in OpenFOAM
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Sand separators are commonly equipped inline in the oil and gas production to separate produced sand from the extracted fluids, usually a mixture of oil, water and gas. To ensure the equipment can satisfy the work conditions, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is widely used. However, the...