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Spring 2012

Zargarzadeh, Leila

For a pure bulk (unconfined) fluid, phase transition happens at the saturation pressure. In contrast, for a fluid inside a confinement of small size (commonly below micrometers), vapour and liquid coexistence may happen at pressures other than the saturation pressure; or an expected phase...

Spring 2019

Keshmiri, Kiarash

Viscosity reduction is critically important for heavy oil extraction and experimental studies have shown this can be achieved by injection of a light solvent into a reservoir and dilution of heavy oil in place. Solvent-based methods have challenges like slow diffusion process and oil production...

Spring 2020

Yan, Yuwei

Mild thermal cracking by visbreaking emerged as an important partial upgrading technology for reducing the viscosity of Canadian oilsands bitumen to enable pipeline transport. Under typical visbreaking conditions, the conversion of bitumen is described by first-order kinetics, which forms the...

Spring 2016

Jamieson, Marnie V.

The Capstone Design Course instructional team was selected to participate in the digital learning initiative at the University of Alberta. The goals of this initiative are to increase student engagement and promote flexible, independent learning. The objectives of the instructional team were to...

Spring 2012

Gibson, Stephen B

Experiments were conducted to test and characterize proton conducting electrolyte materials and layers formed by solid state reactions. Screen printed layers of yttrium doped ceria and alkaline earth carbonates were reacted at high temperatures on NiO-YSZ and NiO-CGO substrates with the intent...

Fall 2015

Rajagopalan, Ashwin Kumar

Carbon dioxide capture using adsorption based separation processes has shown promise but has not been exploited to full potential to be implemented on a commercial scale. This thesis examines two key stages in the development of adsorption based carbon dioxide capture processes, namely adsorbent...

Spring 2014

Kiasi, Fariborz

This study aims to develop a new framework to detect, isolate and estimate the magnitude of additive faults that occur in linear time invariant (LTI) systems. This study starts with introduction of a new framework to deal with additive step type faults to improve the shortcomings attributed to...

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...

Spring 2019

Tan, Yang

This research aims to improve oil sands tailings treatment by applying a combination of quick lime (calcium oxide) and anionic or cationic polymers in the flocculation process. A procedure including mixing lime, dilution of mature fine tailings (MFT) in the lime supernatant and addition of...

Fall 2015

Sharma, Shekhar

A number of industrial processes involve variables that cannot be reliably measured in real time using online sensors. Many such variables are required as inputs in control schemes to ensure safe and efficient plant operation. Laboratory analysis, which is a reliable method of measuring these...