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Electrocoalescence of Water Droplets in Oil Emulsions: Effect of Electric Fields, Surfactants, and Chemical Demulsifiers
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Stabilization of water-in-oil droplets during bitumen extraction and refining process poses a major challenge in the oil sands industry. These crude oil emulsions are stabilized by rigid films at water droplet-oil interfaces. The salty water remaining in oil causes equipment corrosion, catalyst...
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Mechanisms of Aggregation and Separation of Water and Solids from Bitumen Froth using Cluster Size Distribution
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The large-scale corrosion and equipment damage caused by water and solids respectively in bitumen froth necessitate their removal using various methods. This study is aimed at understanding how water and solids aggregate (water-water, water-solid and solid-solid) in bitumen froth and what the...
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Modeling the transport of cryoprotective agents in articular cartilage for cryopreservation
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Loading vitrifiable concentrations of cryoprotective agents is an important step for cryopreservation of biological tissues by vitrification for research and transplantation purposes. This may be done by immersing the tissue in a cryoprotective agent (CPA) solution, and increasing the...
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Fall 2015
Cryopreserving cells for human health therapeutics is a multidisciplinary process with great complexity. Cryopreservation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) has facilitated vascular biology research since they were first isolated in 1973 [59]; however identifying key variables to...
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Fall 2014
Interactions between droplets were studied using two lattice Boltzmann methods (LBMs). The Shan-Chen LBM, in which repulsive forces between fluids maintain phase separation, was used to simulate systems with three immiscible components. The simulations demonstrated the three equilibrium...
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Fall 2012
The coalescence of emulsified liquid drops is critically important to many separations processes. It is, for example, central to the extraction of bitumen (a form of extra heavy crude oil) from the Alberta oil sands. This research concerns the colloidal interactions between bitumen droplets in...
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Versatile Polymer-Based Nanomedicines for Drug/Gene Delivery and Cell-based Therapy Applications
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Advances in polymer science and nanotechnology have allowed the development of biomaterials for cell-based applications, such as the delivery of a variety of drugs and genes, as well as supporting technologies, such as stem cell therapies, tissue engineering and cryopreservation. The progress in...