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- 3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 2Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 1Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 1Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- 1Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
- 3Kresta, Suzanne (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2Kresta, Suzanne (Chemical Engineering)
- 1Dr. Carlos F. Lange
- 1Dr. Mark Loewen (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta)
- 1Dr. Mark R. Loewen (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
- 1Dr. Mohamed Gamal El Din (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta)
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Fall 2011
The impact of mixing on diluted bitumen de-watering is studied in two stages using a fractional factorial design of experiments. The first stage evaluates the relative effects of bulk demulsifier dosage, local maximum energy dissipation, and mixing time. The second stage of experiments evaluates...
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Concentration and Mixing Effects on the Production of Amine Hydrochloride Salts in a Confined Impinging Jet Reactor
DownloadFall 2013
A Confined Impinging Jet Reactor (CIJR) was used to react 4, 4’-methylene dianiline (MDA) with hydrogen chloride (HCl) in order to study formation of the aminehydrochloride (AHC) salts, unwelcome byproducts in the manufacture of polyurethanes. The effects of several processing variables (local...
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A General Framework of Optimal Stochastic Optimization with Dependent Data: Multiple Optimality Guarantee, Sample Complexity, and Tractability
DownloadSpring 2023
We consider stochastic optimization in settings where the distribution of unknown parameters is observable only through finitely dependent training samples. Using the Sample Averaging Approximation ({SAA}), we specifically study the data-driven procedure in which, instead of receiving samples...
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Spring 2016
There is a fundamental need to improve grit removal techniques for municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) to meet newer effluent standards and to deal with the rapid growth of urbanization and industrialization. In response to this need, secondary and tertiary treatment processes are being...
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Spring 2010
Carbon isotope analyses of gases extracted from drilling muds while drilling in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) can be used to create carbon isotopic depth profiles. These profiles provide essentially continuous data through the stratigraphic section, offering a unique opportunity to...
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Spring 2015
Colloidal-collector interactions are of fundamental importance in separation and filtration technologies. Here, the effect of collector grains on the behavior of colloidal particles was studied in two different experimental systems, i.e., column studies with stationary collectors and batch mixing...
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The Effects of Mixing, Reaction Rate and Stoichiometry on Yield for Mixing Sensitive Reactions
DownloadSpring 2010
Competitive-Consecutive and Competitive-Parallel reactions are both mixing sensitive reactions; the yield of desired product from these reactions depends on how fast the reactants are brought together. Recent experimental results have suggested that the mixing effect may depend strongly on the...