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Spring 2020

Bo, Song

Open-loop irrigation is a common practice in agriculture which leads to excessive consumption of water resources. Closed-loop is a promising alternative to reduce water consumption and to better maintain the health of crops, which requires soil moisture information of the investigated fields. An...

Fall 2011

Hooshiar Fard, Mohammad Ali

Production of oil from the second largest oil deposit in the world, i.e., the Alberta oil sands containing approximately 13% of total proven oil reserves in the world (169.9 billion barrels), has been shown to be significantly influenced by clay minerals. Clay minerals in particular play a key...

Fall 2015

Mani, Farnaz

High purity microporous vanadosilicate (EVS-10/AM-6) has been hydrothermally synthesized by a simple template-free, reducing agent-free method in the absence of titanosilicate ETS-10 seeds. Direct comparison between EVS-10 and ETS-10 showed successful isomorphous substitution of titanium with...

Fall 2014

Abdollahi, Javad

There are varieties of time-varying processes in chemical engineering industrial applications. These processes are abundant among lumped and distributed parameter systems and in batch systems they involve time-dependent change of parameters and/or geometry within lumped and/or distributed...

Fall 2019

Raveendran, Rahul

Process monitoring involves ensuring that the process systems are run safely and operated in the most profitable manner. On the other hand, causal modelling involves studying the causal interactions among the variables in a process system. The knowledge of these interactions is useful in process...

Fall 2018

Bendrich, Michelle

Mechanistic proposals for the different selective catalytic reduction (SCR) subreactions are integrated into one surface reaction mechanism that describes the main SCR reactions (Standard SCR, Fast SCR, NO2 SCR), transient effects due to nitrate storage, as well as the production of the side...

Spring 2018

Li, Chaoqun

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...

Fall 2014

Zhang, Jing

Large-scale complex chemical processes increasingly appear in the modern process industry due to their economic efficiency. Such a large-scale complex chemical process usually consists of several unit operations (subsystems), which are connected together through material and energy flows. Because...

Fall 2016

Ma, Jun

Strain aging of microalloyed steel pipes, manufactured for oil and gas transmission, can occur during the anti-corrosion fusion bonded epoxy coating process (180°C - 250°C) and/or during long term storage or use. The primary mechanism of strain aging involves the segregation of interstitial...

Fall 2020

Somaye Nasr

Over the past several decades, there have been environmental concerns over anthropogenic emissions of methane, highlighting the need to minimize methane emissions. Natural gas has been employed as one of the alternatives for gasoline combustion engines. Methane is the main constituent of natural...