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Spring 2020
Steam allocation is an important decision to be made for bitumen thermo-recovery using the Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) technique. This is due to the significant amount of steam requirement and often limited steam generation capacity. Steam-to-oil ratio (SOR) is an important parameter...
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Spring 2012
Limitations of measurement techniques and increasingly complex chemical process render difficulties in obtaining certain critical process variables. The hardware sensor reading may have an obvious bias compared with the real value. Off-line laboratory analysis with high accuracy can only be...
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Fall 2014
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...
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Fall 2016
Recently, considerable research has been conducted into solid-acid catalyzed carbonylation of dimethyl ether (DME) to methyl acetate (MeOAc), which can be further used for the iodine-free production of ethanol or acetic acid. The zeolite mordenite (H-MOR) is known as a potential catalyst but is...
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Spring 2014
Energy and utilities costs often represent one of the largest operating costs at manufacturing plants and they are areas where companies can reduce cost if optimal operating strategy is applied for efficient steam distribution and electricity generation. In addition to the financial incentive,...
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Computationally effective optimization methods for complex process control and scheduling problems
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Over the years, how to reduce the operational cost, raise the profit and enhance the operational safety attracts tremendous interests in the chemical and petroleum industry. Since the regulatory control strategy may not achieve such rigorous requirements, higher level process control activities,...
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Microstructure-property correlation in magnesium-based hydrogen storage systems- The case for ball-milled magnesium hydride powder and Mg-based multilayered composites
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The main focus of this thesis is the characterization of defects and microstructure in high-energy ball milled magnesium hydride powder and magnesium-based multilayered composites. Enhancement in kinetics of hydrogen cycling in magnesium can be achieved by applying severe plastic deformation. A...
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Spring 2011
Balakrishnapillai Chitralekha, Saneej
The development of fast and efficient computer hardware technology has resulted in the rapid development of numerous computational software tools for making statistical inferences. The computational algorithms, which are the backbone of these tools, originate from distinct areas in science,...
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Spring 2011
Unsatisfactory performance of a control system may have different root causes, of which diagnosis and control have been subjects of interest. Numerous approaches have been used to identify the source of the oscillatory behavior of control systems. This work will focus on the nonlinearities...