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- 12Porous media
- 7Laminar flow
- 2Adsorption
- 2Computational fluid dynamics
- 2Heat--Transmission
- 2Pant, Lalit M
- 1Baldygin, Aleksey
- 1Baliga, Chinmay R
- 1Bland, Sheldon Benjamin.
- 1Chen, Yijun
- 1Di Pietro, Thomas
- 9Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 6Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 5Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 2Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science
- 2Department of Chemical Engineering
- 1Department of Anthropology
- 2Mitra, Sushanta (Mechanical Engineering)
- 2Yu, Tong (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Co-supervisor: Dr. Jacob H. Masliyah, Dept of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 1Dr. Arvind Rajendran (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Flynn, Morris (Mechanical Engineering)
- 1Flynn, Morris R. (Mechanical Engineering)
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Fall 2012
Quantification of transport properties at pore scale is important for efficient oil extraction, improving fuel cell performance etc. An experimental methodology is developed for calculating permeability and porosity in microfluidic devices that contain structured and unstructured porous media....
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Spring 2016
Heterogeneous materials are omnipresent in several critical engineering applications such as polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs), coal bio-conversion process, geological storage of CO2 and membrane water filtration. These applications rely on physical processes such as transport (e.g., mass,...
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Spring 2017
One of the central puzzles concerning the interaction of low Reynolds number (Re<<1) fluid transport with bacterial biomass is the formation of filamentous structures called bacterial streamer. Bacterial streamers can be tethered at one or both ends to solid surfaces, while the rest of the...
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Determination of biokinetic parameters of wastewater biofilms from oxygen concentration profiles
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The process of scale-up and rational optimization of biofilm processes for effective wastewater treatment and reuse require better understanding of the biokinetic behavior of microorganisms in the biofilms. At present, no fast and accurate methods exist for determining kinetic parameters for...
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Spring 2013
The research was conducted to investigate effect of hydrodynamic conditioning on the flocculation of the oil sands fine tailings. The main focus was the effect of shearing on the structure of flocculated aggregates and the extent of reflocculation occurring upon cessation of shearing. An...
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Treatment of Oil Sands Process-affected Water (OSPW) Using Integrated Fixed-film Activated Sludge (IFAS) Reactors
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The oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) generated from bitumen extraction of oil sands, is currently stored in tailings ponds due to its toxicity to the aquatic organisms. The primary toxic constituents of OSPW are a complex mixture of alicyclic and aliphatic compounds containing carboxyl...
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Spring 2011
This study examines the effects of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PAO1) biofilm, with a concentration of cells similar to that reported for saturated aquifers, on the transport of poly(acrylic acid) stabilized nanoscale zero valent iron (pnZVI) in 14 cm long, saturated, laboratory packed columns, with...
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Fall 2017
High pressure carbon dioxide adsorption processes are employed in applications such as carbon dioxide capture and supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC). Carbon dioxide capture using adsorption has gained wide attention because of the promising materials that are developed for this application....