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- 21Oil Sands Research and Information Network (OSRIN)
- 10Oil Sands Research and Information Network (OSRIN)/RRTAC Reports
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- 2Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative
- 4Gupta, Rajender (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2De Klerk, Arno (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2Mitra, Sushanta (Mechanical Engineering)
- 2Nobes, David (Mechanical Engineering)
- 1Ania C. Ulrich (Civil and Environmental Engineering)/ Tong Yu (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Ania C. Ulrich (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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2013
Gardner Costa, J.M., Daly, c., Kovalenko, K.E., Dixon, D.G., Ciborowski, J.J.H., Slama, C.A., Kennedy, K., Foote, A.L., Liber, K., Smits, J.E.G., Frederick, K.R., Roy, M.C., Farwell, A.J.
Boreal wetlands play an important role in global carbon balance. However, their ecosystem function is threatened by direct anthropogenic disturbance and climate change. Oil sands surface mining in the boreal regions of Western Canada denudes tracts of land of organic materials, leaves large areas...
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Fall 2011
The fragmentation of large coal particles at high temperature is important to the efficient operation of Corex process of steelmaking, which uses raw coal instead of coke. The hypothesis is that the heterogeneity within coal particles affects the fragmentation. The interface of minerals and coal...
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Integrated techno-economic and environmental assessments of sixty scenarios for co-firing biomass with coal and natural gas
Download2016-01-01
Agbor, Ezinwa, Oyedun, Adetoyese Olajire, Zhang, Xiaolei, Kumar, Amit
Displacement of fossil fuel-based power through biomass co-firing could reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuels. In this study, data-intensive techno-economic models were developed to evaluate different co-firing technologies as well as the configurations of these...
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Fall 2013
Solvent extraction of coal is a method to produce low molecular weight products from coal. It also can be used as a pretreatment for Direct Coal Liquefaction to enhance its efficiency. Yield, rate and nature of coal dissolution at low temperatures (25-150°C) and short contact time have been...
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Fall 2014
An experimental facility was constructed in order to examine the feasibility of the coal bio-conversion under the application of confining pressure. The main purpose of this work was to investigate the effect of confining pressure on methane generation. Core-flooding experiments were conducted...
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Fall 2014
Microalgae grow heterotrophically and produce high value pigments, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, feeds, and biofuels. The growth rate, nutrient medium, growth density, and oil content strongly affect the economics of heterotrophic microalgae fermentation systems. This thesis explores the...
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Microcosm Evaluation of Community Level Physiological Profiling in Oil Sands Process Affected Water
Download2012-11-02
Eaton, B., Humphries, D., Davies, J.
A microcosm-based experiment was conducted to investigate the ability of community level physiological profiling (CLPP) to detect changes in an aquatic microbial community resulting from exposure to oil sands process affected water (OSPW). Detection of the microbial response was done by using...
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Spring 2012
Modelling of solvent extraction was studied using 1,2,3,4–tetrahydronaphtalene (tetralin) and Poplar coal (lignite). A kinetic model was developed taking into account temperature, mass transfer limitations and dominating events (physical or chemical) during coal liquefaction. It was found there...
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On-Line Solid Phase Extraction – HPLC – Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry for Screening and Quantifying Targeted and Non-Targeted Analytes in Oil Sands Process-Affected Water and Natural Waters in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
Download2014-01-23
In response to mounting evidence of local environmental contamination around the Alberta oil sands industry, the Alberta Environmental Monitoring Panel announced a new world class environmental monitoring program for the Alberta oil sands region in early 2011, and a new monitoring system is now...