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- 13Biofilms
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- 2Pant, Lalit M
- 1Baldygin, Aleksey
- 1Baliga, Chinmay R
- 1Chen, Yijun
- 1Dhaliwal, Harleen Kaur
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- 8Department of Mechanical Engineering
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- 2Mitra, Sushanta (Mechanical Engineering)
- 2Syamaladevi, Roopesh (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
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- 1Dr. Arvind Rajendran (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Spring 2024
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...
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Fall 2024
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...
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Efficacy of conventional and novel antimicrobial treatments on the inactivation of desiccated cells and biofilms of Salmonella
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Repeated isolation of Salmonella from the dry and wet environments of the food industry poses a significant concern to human health. It is crucial to understand the influence of the various environmental conditions on Salmonella’s survival. The overall objective of this research was to evaluate...
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Fall 2023
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...
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Spring 2022
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...
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Antimicrobial applications of treatments using light pulses emitted from light emitting diodes (LED)
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Low water activity (aw) foods have been associated with several foodborne outbreaks and recalls. Eradication of foodborne microorganisms like Salmonella and Escherichia coli from low aw foods is challenging, as they are resistant to conventional decontamination practices. High intensity light...
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Mass transfer at an organic solid – organic liquid interface within reservoir rock under creeping flow conditions
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There is a growing recognition that knowledge gaps related to the molecular and phase state complexity of hydrocarbon resources, and their interactions within production and processing environments have begun impeding development of new or improved processes that protect the natural environment...
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Fall 2017
This thesis studies operator splitting for flow equation coupled to a transport equation arising from two-phase (water-oil) model in reservoir simulation. We apply two different types of operator splittings and compare their accuracies. Summarized scheme and alternating triangle method (ATM) in...
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Fall 2017
Bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus can be found associated with plants, insects and vertebrate hosts, and their lifestyle can range from free-living to strictly host specific. Of the lactobacilli associated with vertebrates, the lifestyle of L. reuteri is particularly well understood. The...
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Spring 2017
We examine the transient evolution of a negatively buoyant, laminar plume in an emptying filling box containing a uniform porous medium. In the long time limit, τ→∞, the box is partitioned into two uniform layers of different densities. However, the approach towards steady state is characterized...