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Spring 2024
Microwave technology has emerged as a promising tool in the mining and minerals processing industry, offering selective heating capabilities that induce fractures along grain boundaries. This innovative pretreatment method not only targets minerals selectively but also contributes to significant...
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Fall 2020
Geothermal energy is a low-carbon, base-load, renewable energy resource that should form part of the future global energy portfolio as we seek to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate climate change. In Canada, geothermal resources are underdeveloped and require further investigation to facilitate...
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Spring 2023
As global greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, there is a growing focus on low-carbon initiatives, specifically renewable alternatives to conventional fossil fuels for energy production. Transitions to renewable energy sources may occur across scales, including community-scale energy...
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Nutritional value of heat-processed field pea and lentil grains as alternative feedstuffs for pigs
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Field pea and lentil grains are alternative starch and protein sources for swine; however, pulse grains have a lower energy digestibility in pigs than conventional feedstuffs, contain trypsin inhibitors that may reduce protein digestion, and may reduce feed efficiency (G:F). Processing using...
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Fall 2021
Newer energy codes for buildings in Canada now require energy losses associated with thermal bridging in smaller components to be accounted for. In masonry cavity wall systems, most of the energy losses from thermal bridging are due to structural penetrations at floor levels located at the shelf...
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Public Perception of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Oil and Gas Industry in Western Canada: What the Frack is Going On?
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Hydraulic fracturing (HF), colloquially known as fracking, is an extremely divisive topic. One of its associated risks is the potential for induced seismicity (IS). Although HF has been around since the 1950s in Alberta, factors affecting public perception of the risks of IS are not fully...
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Solving the radiative transfer problem in SPH simulations of contact binary mergers using FluxCal
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V1309 Sco was observed in 2008 as a luminous red nova and presents as some of the best time-resolved spectral data of a contact binary merger. However, the parameters of its progenitor and the physics behind the morphology of its light curve remain uncertain. We use the Smoothed Particle...