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A General Framework of Optimal Stochastic Optimization with Dependent Data: Multiple Optimality Guarantee, Sample Complexity, and Tractability
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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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Experimental Investigation on Interfacial and Surface Phenomena of Clathrate and Semi-clathrate Hydrates
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Clathrate hydrates are compounds where guest molecules are trapped in cages formed between water molecules via hydrogen bonding. They have many promising applications, such as gas storage, energy storage, gas mixture separation and seawater desalination. They may also form inside the oil & gas...
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Spring 2019
In oil sands extraction, the removal of heavy materials from a bitumen feed is often facilitated by solvent addition treatment processes. These processes mix solvent with bitumen feed to cause the precipitation of heavy products. The settling properties of these heavy products as they separate...
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2017-12-05
Valloton, J., Gawor, S., Henein, H.
Numerous previous researchers have used nucleation models as part of their simulation of droplet solidification. None of these have verified the nucleation portion of these models with experimental results. In this work, a heterogeneous nucleation model based on the classical nucleation theory...
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Fall 2017
Bitumen froth is an intermediate product of bitumen upgrading which must be treated to remove solids and water. De-mineralization and de-watering occur through a settling operation in which the addition of a diluent and a demulsifier are crucial to its success. This work explores the effect of...
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Evaporation-triggered microdroplet nucleation and the four life phases of an evaporating Ouzo drop
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Tan, Huanshu, Diddens, Christian, Ly, Pengyu, Lohse, Detlef
Evaporating liquid droplets are omnipresent in nature and technology, such as in inkjet printing, coating, deposition of materials, medical diagnostics, agriculture, the food industry, cosmetics, or spills of liquids. Whereas the evaporation of pure liquids, liquids with dispersed particles, or...
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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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Fall 2016
Fluidized beds offer efficient solutions for segregation of clay and bitumen pellets in the oil production industry. However, the hydrodynamics of these systems is not well-known and they are mostly operated as ``black box''. The removal of clay pellets in the mechanical separation of oil sands...