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Spring 2017

Thompson, Dominic K

Oilsands tailings are a waste product comprising primarily a stable alkaline suspension of clay in water. This waste product of oilsands mining is environmentally hazardous to store and expensive to safely dispose of. This work presents two novel ideas for dealing with the waste. The first is...

Fall 2017

Alighardashi, Hashem

The intensive competitive nature of the world market, the growing significance of quality products, and the increasing importance and the number of safety and environmental issues and regulations, respectively, have increased the need for fast and low-cost changes in chemical processes to enhance...

Fall 2017

Huang, Jun

Functional coatings have been extensively exploited for creating surfaces with desired functionalities in numerous engineering applications, which have received increasing attention over the past few decades. The objectives of this thesis research were to develop stable, hydrophobicity-tunable...

Spring 2018

Huang, Xinci

Fine sand and clay particles arise naturally in diverse industrial and environmental remediation contexts. Organic compounds for example from oil production or oil spills can adsorb on their surface and influence their oil water interfacial behaviors. To isolate the impact of contamination and...

Spring 2017

Hoseinzadeh Hejazi, Sayed Alireza

High-purity oxygen above 99.0% is required in many medical and industrial applications such as the pharmaceutical and aerospace applications. Due to the similar physical properties of oxygen and argon, this separation is very challenging. Adsorption separation techniques are more preferable to...

Spring 2017

Sedghi, Shabnam

Performance of the operating processes may change by time due to uncertainties and process condition changes. Hence, online operating performance assessment has attracted attentions from academia and industry. One of the main ingredients of performance assessment is optimality assessment. On one...

Fall 2017

Zhang, Wenfei

In order to keep the performance of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) at intermediate operating temperature range (500℃ - 700℃), thin and fully dense yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolytes are desired to provide shorter oxygen ion transport distance and prevent fuel crossover and internal...

Spring 2018

Chatelier, Corentin C

Microalloyed steels and heat treated steels are widely used in the pipeline industry. Microalloyed steels are a type of high strength low alloy steels containing small additions of C, N, Nb, Ti and other elements in amounts less than 0.1 wt%. They may also contain additions of other elements in...

Fall 2017

Turuga, Annapurna Sri Sowmya

Asphaltenes are a solubility class of bitumen known to have undesirable properties. As asphaltenes are insoluble in paraffinic solvents, they can be separated from bitumen by adding a solvent such as n-pentane or n-heptane to produce better quality deasphalted oil (DAO). This process is called...

Spring 2017

Li, Lin

Mussels can obtain strong underwater attachment to virtually all kinds of surfaces including rocks, metals, wood structures, polymers and concretes by secreting mussel foot proteins to form byssus. Great efforts have been dedicated to understanding this behavior and it is found that an catecholic...