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- 1Aghabarati, Mohammad
- 1Aghaie, Ermia
- 1Algosayir, Muhammad M
- 1Amirian, Ehsan
- 1Anas Khalil Sidahmed
- 5Chalaturnyk, Rick (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 4Nouri, Alireza (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 3Huang, Biao (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 3Leung, Juliana (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 3Sadrzadeh, Mohtada (Mechanical Engineering)
- 3Xu, Zhenghe (Chemical 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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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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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...
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Fall 2014
The formation of stable water-in-oil emulsions during bitumen extraction poses problems for water separation from diluted bitumen, which leads to equipment corrosion and catalyst fouling in downstream operations. Demulsifiers are used to break the stable emulsions and assist the separation of...
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Spring 2014
Oil sand reservoirs play an important role in the economy of Canada due to their significant recoverable reserves. Due to the high viscosity of the oil in these reservoirs, conventional methods cannot be used for production. The steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) method is an efficient way of...
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Dynamic Demulsification Mechanism of Asphaltene-Stabilized Water-in-Oil Emulsions by Ethylcellulose
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In previous studies, nontoxic and biodegradable ethylcellulose (EC) was shown to be capable of breaking water-in-diluted bitumen emulsions. Nevertheless, the demulsification mechanism of EC has not been correlated to its effect on the physical properties of stabilizing interfacial asphaltene...
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Fall 2012
Stabilization of water droplets in froth treatment process results in poor de-watering efficiency and potentially affects final bitumen quality. The purpose of this research is to study the effect of solid contamination by diluted bitumen on water droplet stabilization in water in oil emulsions....