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- 44Xu, Zhenghe (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Thermal Treatment of Bitumen Froth at 400 °C: Impact of Water and Minerals on Bitumen Properties and Reaction Chemistry
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The production of oilsands bitumen from mining operations requires its recovery from the mineral matter through a hot water extraction process, which generates a bitumen froth comprising about 60 wt% bitumen, 30 wt% water, and 10 wt% mineral solids. The challenging separation of water and solids...
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Fall 2024
Bio-oil (BO) is a promising and renewable energy source that could alleviate dependence on fossil fuels, but its direct use faces challenges due to low thermal stability and high corrosiveness. Co-processing BO with vacuum gas oil (VGO) in existing refineries offers a solution without requiring...
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Spring 2018
The beneficial feature of the application of natural gas in the automotive industry is the lowest carbon content of any fossil fuel, which results in the lowest CO2 emissions. On the other hand, the concern of atmospheric pollution due to methane emissions from natural-gas vehicles (NGV) engines...
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Fall 2017
In this thesis, we propose a computationally efficient economic model predictive control (EMPC) design which is based on a well-known methodology --- the separation of the control and prediction horizon. The extension of the prediction horizon of EMPC is realized by employing an auxiliary control...
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A Facile Synthesis and Application of Protein-Shelled Microbubbles as Temperature-Responsive Drug Carriers with the Aid of a Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-block-(acrylic acid) Shell
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In this study, a novel synthesis of proteinaceous microbubbles (MBs) was introduced in an effort to substantially lengthen the short lifetime of the sonochemically-synthesized microbubbles using surface-treated proteins. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) as a representative protein, was treated with...
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Study of the Thermal Stability of Hydrotalcite and Carbon Dioxide Capture Capacity of Hydrotalcite-derived Mixed Oxides using Molecular Dynamics Simulation
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Hydrotalcites (HTlcs) or layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are used in a wide range of applications such as catalysis, electrochemical sensors, wastewater treatment and carbon dioxide (CO2) capture. In this study, molecular dynamics simulation was employed to investigate carbon dioxide adsorption...
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Dependence of the Mechanical Behavior of Alloys on Electron Work Function—A Promising Alternative Parameter for Materials Characterization and Design
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With rapid advance in materials technology, structural material design has been required to rely on more fundamental principles. Conventional metallurgical rules have been successfully used in materials design for centuries but limitations are still there. Many expensive and time-consuming...
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Modeling of the Effect of Run-out Table Cooling on the Microstructure of a Thick Walled X70 Skelp
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This thesis presents work performed to model and measure the effect of run-out table cooling on a thick walled X70 steel. During run-out table cooling, the steel undergoes several phase transformations that will affect its microstructure, and thus, its mechanical properties. To predict the steel...
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Spring 2018
Due to the natural heterogeneity of rock there exists a large variance between samples in geomechanical engineering testing. Additionally, the number of samples available for testing that meet the screening requirements for grain size, mineralogy, bedding orientation and moisture content can...
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Surface Interaction Mechanisms between Deformable Bubbles and Hydrophobic Surfaces in Aqueous Solutions
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Deformable bubbles in complex fluidic systems are crucial components in a variety of traditional and emerging industrial processes, where their surface interactions with hydrophobic surfaces play an important role in realizing the targeted functionalities. In this project, a bubble probe atomic...