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- 2Liu, Qi (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Gupta, Rajender (Chemical and Material Engineering)
- 1Liu, Qingxia (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Ravin Narain (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Flocculation and dewatering of kaolinite suspensions and oil sands mature fine tailings using dual polymers
DownloadSpring 2015
The development of a method to consolidate and dewater Athabasca oil sands mature fine tailings (MFT) is one of the major challenges facing Alberta’s oil sands industry. This thesis presents studies performed on the flocculation and dewatering of kaolinite suspensions (the major clay component...
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Fall 2017
Rapid, efficient and economical water removal from fluid fine tailings represents a major challenge to many industries, including mineral processing, food processing, waste water treatment and oil sands extraction. In the absence of large-scale fine tailings processing facilities, there will be...
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Spring 2017
Dewatering of the oil sands mature fine tailings (MFT) is studied through pressure filtration following treatment by dual polymer flocculants. Polymer pairs consisting of anionic polyacrylamide (A3335) and cationic polyDADMAC (Alcomer 7115), and A3335 and non-ionic polyethylene oxide (PEO) are...
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Study of Bio-densification Process in Oil Sands Tailings: Modeling and Experimental Validation
DownloadFall 2012
Slow densification of mature fine tailings (MFT) is one of the major challenges in reduction of tailings inventory, pore-water recovery and reclamation of tailings for oil sands industry. Bio-densification is a new treatment method in which densification of tailings is accelerated through...
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Spring 2017
This thesis is composed of two parts. The first part deals with the fabrication of antifouling membranes based on polyethersulfone (PES) and cellulose nanocrystals (CNC). PES/CNC nanocomposite membranes were prepared by non-solvent phase-inversion method. The effects of PES/CNC composition on...