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- 58Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
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Spring 2017
Model Predictive Control (MPC) is widely applied in the process industry nowadays. Chemical processes are corrupted by all kinds of uncertainties, such as measurement noises, disturbances and parameter uncertainties. Without consideration of uncertainties, conventional MPC will cause various...
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Fall 2023
At the heart of heavy oil and bitumen upgrading, thermal conversion technologies are found. One such process is visbreaking where bitumen is thermally converted into lighter materials. However, the conversion by visbreaking is limited by the onset of the formation of solid carbonaceous materials...
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Characterizing the Impacts of Shale Barriers and Lean Zones on SAGD Performance with Data-Driven Modeling Techniques
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Performance of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is influenced significantly by the distributions of shale barriers and lean zones, which tend to impede the vertical growth and lateral spread of a steam chamber. Reliable appraisal and prediction of SAGD require a comprehensive understanding...
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Colloid Science of Sand Remediation: A Study Motivated by the Non-Aqueous Extraction of Bitumen from Oil Sands
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The current water-based method of bitumen extraction requires withdrawal of fresh water from the Athabasca River — a practice which leads to the continual buildup of tailings ponds and other environmental concerns. As Alberta’s bitumen production is expected to more than double by 2020, there is...
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Fall 2013
Bitumen, as one of the most important unconventional sources of energy, has long been an attractive source for production of liquid fuels. It is important to improve the yield and quality of the useful products resulting from bitumen upgrading processes so that the best outcome can be achieved...
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Spring 2018
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology widely used in Canada. Data available in SAGD industrial processes contain valuable information for monitoring, soft sensing, control, and optimization. This thesis focuses on data mining and optimization in the...
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Data-Driven Approaches to Estimate the Impact and Presence of Shale Barriers in SAGD Reservoirs
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Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is one of the most successful in-situ techniques and has been widely adopted for heavy oil and bitumen recovery. Steam chamber development and SAGD production performance are highly sensitive to the reservoir heterogeneity, thus characterizing shale...
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Spring 2014
Evaluation of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) performance that involves detailed compositional simulations is usually deterministic, cumbersome, expensive (manpower and time consuming), and not quite suitable for practical decision making and forecasting, particularly when dealing with...
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Fall 2017
The present research was conducted with the intent of evaluating the degradation of OCTG (Oil Country Tubular Goods) steel used in SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) applications, and developing a promising surface modification method and a novel composite coating using a technique that will...