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Spring 2024

Pratama, Randy Agra

Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) has proved to be a technically and commercially successful methodology for recovering heavy-oil in Canada. At present, there are 22 commercial SAGD projects with over 300 pads and 2,700 well pairs, contributing to over 1.5 million bbl/day of production. The...

Fall 2024

Sheikhi Mohammadabadi, Saeed

Understanding the dynamics of injecting fluids into porous media is essential for enhancing the reliability of subsurface storage/sequestration of fuels such as hydrogen or combustion byproducts such as carbon dioxide. In either case, significant progress has been made overcoming a variety of...

Fall 2023

Baliga, Chinmay R

Fixed beds are widely used in the chemical and process industry due to their simple yet effective performance. They find applications in heterogeneous catalysis (e.g., dry reforming of methane, methanol synthesis, etc.) and in adsorption (hydrogen from steam methane reforming, post-combustion CO2...

Spring 2022

Pouplard, Alban

This thesis research concerns controlling viscous fingering instability when a less-viscous fluid pushes another more-viscous one in a porous medium. This instability is called the Saffman-Taylor instability and has been extensively studied, primarily for simple Newtonian fluids. The resultant of...

Spring 2022

Menze, Lukas

The rapid isolation of specific rare target cells is of rising importance in current targeted patient treatment plans. Common cell sorting approaches such as stream-based dielectrophoresis (DEP) based cell sorters are limited by their spatial dimensions as only a number of cell types...

Fall 2022

Duarte Riveros, Pedro

Sclerotinia stem rot (SSR), caused by the necrotrophic fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, is one of the most devastating diseases affecting crops. More than 400 plant species around the globe are affected by this fungus. In canola, one of Canada’s most important crops, yield losses due to...

Fall 2021

Ho, Tsai Hsing

Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) in geological reservoirs is one of the mitigation strategies to slow down the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration due to human activities. Effectively characterizing the transport phenomena between CO2 and materials in reservoirs, including mass/heat...

Spring 2020

Zheng, Hanrui

In this study, we present a new application of droplet microfluidics in the field of mineral flotation with reactive oily microbubbles (Gas-in-Oil-in-Water Emulsion). Different designs of devices were studied. Different flow regimes were found at different flowrate ratios. We found the condition...

Fall 2020

Wu, Yucheng

Liquid phase oxidation is industrially important to produce valuable petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals. However, due to the complex nature of free-radical reactions in a non-catalytic oxidation process, it is a challenge to achieve desired selectivity at a high conversion. This study...

Spring 2018

Bhaduri,Swayamdipta

I studied a particular bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii (S. Pasteurii) which has a unique ability to cause chemical precipitation in an aqueous medium in the presence of certain molecules like urea. These precipitated chemicals can go deep inside a network of micro-scale pores and cause clogging....