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Spring 2014

Garcia, Jose Luis

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...

Fall 2009

Siddiqui, Shad Waheed

The confined impinging jet reactor gives efficient mixing performance as required for fast reactions. In this work the mixing performance of CIJR is characterized through three measures: estimates of the energy dissipation, micromixing efficiency based on the yield of a homogeneous...

Spring 2019

Santhanakrishnan, Ananthan

Metallurgical coke, a porous carbon material produced by carbonization of coking coal at high temperature, generally above 900 ○C, is an integral part of iron-making in the blast furnace. During iron making, coke serves several important roles in the blast furnace such as a source of energy, as a...

Spring 2011

Shalchi Amirkhiz, Babak

We have designed and engineered bi-catalyst magnesium hydride composites with superior sorption performance to that of ball milled magnesium hydride catalyzed with the individual baseline catalysts. We have examined the effect of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT)-metallic nanoparticle...

Fall 2015

Nusri, Saeed El Khair

Bitumen extraction from oil sands operation in Fort McMurray, Canada produces an immense quantity of slurry waste that is discharged to tailings ponds. These ponds now stretch over a region which is roughly 1.5 times the area occupied by Vancouver city mainly due to slow consolidation process of...

Fall 2024

Han, Sumin

Infections in the respiratory system not only cause individual illness but can also spread to others and potentially develop into pandemics or epidemics. Various types of vaccines have been used to control the spread of pathogens. However, vaccine development has limitations due to time-consuming...

Spring 2014

Saadat, Marzieh

Clay flocs exist in different streams of the oil sands extraction process and in tailings treatment. The clay fraction in these streams has a significant effect on design and operation of slurry pipelines, flotation efficiency, sludging in the separation vessel, froth treatment and tailings...

Fall 2021

Lawson, Matthew H.

Current mainstream fertilizers are disruptive to the environment. This includes pollution, soil quality degradation, and even air pollution. Alternative methods for supplying nutrients to plants is important, as there is a high demand for improving crop yields to sustain the growing population....

Fall 2012

Bu, Weida

The kinetics of vapor phase cracking of bitumen derived heavy gas oil and the quality of liquid products were investigated at temperatures of 600-700 °C. Fixed and condensed gases were analyzed by gas chromatography. The quality of liquid products was characterized using simulated distillation,...

Spring 2013

Ahmadi Khoshooei, Milad

A new method for collecting vapour-liquid equilibrium data for binary mixtures is proposed in this work. A modified differential scanning calorimetry technique was used by evaluating the sample temperature instead of the heat flow. This method was tested on three well known systems and the...