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Fall 2023

Fan, Chengkai

In oil sands mining, off-the-road trucks play a leading role in transporting bulk materials (ores and waste). The productivity of truck haulage (also referred to as truck productivity), defined as the truck payload per unit time in each truck haulage cycle, is of great interest to the mining...

Fall 2023

Liu, Zhanyuan

The main goal of this thesis is to evaluate the possibility of quantifying matrix and fracturing water contributions to the total produced water based on the water-flowback responses without analyzing water chemical data. We analyze flowback production data of 380 multi-fractured horizontal oil...

Spring 2023

Kedir, Nebiyu Siraj

Construction labour productivity (CLP) is a key performance indicator for determining the success of construction undertakings, and notably affects the profitability of construction companies. To this effect, the construction industry and researchers have pursued better ways of addressing the CLP...

Spring 2023

Guevara Urdaneta, Jose L

Finding optimal steam injection policies in the context of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) represents a major challenge due to the complex dynamics of the process. This complexity is reflected by: i) several concurrent sub-processes, e.g., heat transfer, counter-current flow, imbibition,...

Spring 2023

Sibaweihi, Najmudeen

Traditionally, reservoir model-based open-loop optimization is used to allocate an amount of steam to each injector well. In Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) recovery, the optimal real-time steam allocation from a shared steam generator to physically connected multi-pads can significantly...

Fall 2023

Arbuckle, Evan J.

Hydropower currently provides a small majority of all electricity generation in Canada. This gives the nation an early advantage for shifting toward lower-emission energy sources. Energy systems are changing rapidly to adjust to new realities regarding technologies, resource availability and...

Fall 2023

Mowafy Saad, Ahmed Gamal Abdelnaser Mohamed

The Black Swan events of the 1994 Northridge and the 2010-2011 Christchurch earthquakes brought seismic design philosophy under scrutiny, emphasizing need for resilient structure that prioritize life safety and facilitate rapid post-earthquake recovery with minimal repair costs. Hybrid...

Fall 2023

Alsakka, Fatima

The offsite construction industry continues to rely on experience-based average production rates (i.e., average quantity per unit of time) to estimate and schedule production operations. This approach is hindered by various sources of production variability, such as machine breakdowns and...

Fall 2023

Mirsoleimani Azizi, Seyed Mohammad

Anaerobic digestion (AD) stands as a pivotal process for sludge stabilization, resource reclamation, pathogen elimination, and biogas production. The integration of thermal hydrolysis (THP) as a pre-treatment for sludge has shown promise in bolstering methane yield and reducing solids content in...

Fall 2023

Niknejad, Parisa

To address the growing concern of environmental sustainability and waste management, recent research efforts have been dedicated to investigating innovative methods for the treatment and conversion of biodegradable disposables and bioplastics. These studies delve into the potential of high solid...