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Fall 2024

Pereira Bassane, Joao Felipe

The production of oilsands bitumen from mining operations requires its recovery from the mineral matter through a hot water extraction process, which generates a bitumen froth comprising about 60 wt% bitumen, 30 wt% water, and 10 wt% mineral solids. The challenging separation of water and solids...

Fall 2020

Gill, Manjot Kaur

The depletion of fossil fuels as well as the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel use have led to growing interest in biofuel production from biomass. A new technology, thermo-catalytic reforming (TCR), is one of the contributing interests. TCR technology integrates intermediate pyrolysis...

Spring 2023

Abraham, Rosmi

This thesis investigates the thermo-mechanical behavior of picograms of fluids using a suspended microchannel resonator called microfluidic cantilever operating in dynamic mode by exploring the interfacial effects of liquids on the resonance frequency. Microfluidic cantilever is a promising...

Spring 2014

Kabiri, Maryam

The spontaneous assembly of polypeptides through non-covalent interactions at physiological conditions is the main focus of the presented work and will be discussed from two different perspectives: (i) the interaction of peptide chains with themselves leading to formation of higher order...

Spring 2018

Liu, Fanghui

Micro and nanoscale confinements and local curvatures, which are ubiquitous in natural and man-made materials and systems, cause significant impact on thermodynamic phase behavior. This effect has been extensively studied for single component solid's liquid phase transitions, but rarely for...

Spring 2013

Ansari, Nesma Nasir

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...

Fall 2020

Flood, Richard

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...

2006

Eastman, Craig Dennis

Spring 2015

Tan, XueHai

This thesis encompasses aspects of alloy design, fabrication and characterization of thin films, which are employed as model systems to enhance hydrogen storage kinetics and thermodynamics in magnesium hydride and to enhance the catalytic efficacy and corrosion stability of platinum-based...

Fall 2011

Luo, Jia

This thesis presents research on the selection and development of thin film deposition of materials and initial data on the integration of a pH measuring device suitable for evaluation. This device used two particular tantalum compounds deposited by dc magnetron reactive sputtering as functional...