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Fall 2019

Liyuan Feng

Bubble-particle interactions are ubiquitous and crucial to mineral fotation. The bubble-particle attachment process is mainly governed by three surface forces: van der Waals (vdW), electrical double-layer (EDL), and hydrophobic (HB) forces. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) has become the most...

Spring 2011

Wang, Shengqun

Removal of emulsified water is a challenge in oil sands and heavy oil processing. The flocculation and coagulation of emulsified water droplets depend on the interactions between the water droplets covered mainly by asphaltenes and oil-contaminated fine solids. To quantitatively evaluate the...

Spring 2023

Dixon, Daniel V.

The extraction of bitumen from oil sands is an energy and water-intensive process that produces a tailings byproduct containing sands, clays, water, and residual bitumen. Larger particles eventually settle out of the tailings, but fine particles – stabilized by the residual bitumen – remain...

Spring 2017

Shi, Chen

Interactions mechanisms of deformable air bubbles and liquid droplets play critical roles in many established and modern industrial processes. Understanding the interaction mechanisms of oil droplets and air bubbles is of fundamental and practical importance to solve many challenging issues,...

Fall 2024

Li, Sijia

Bio-inspired antifouling materials have been widely studied in recent years in a variety of engineering fields, such as biomedical devices, marine industry, oil/water separation, and water treatment. However, studies on the corresponding intermolecular interactions between the bio-inspired...

Fall 2014

Kaura, Aditya

Management of oil sands tailings from bitumen extraction operations remains a challenge for mineable oil sands producers. Promoting fine solids settling in tailings ponds is key to treating oil sands tailings. Present study explores two methods of tailings treatment – ATA process and polymer...

Fall 2012

Guo,Lina

Built on the established success of Al-PAM, an in-house synthesized, organic-inorganic hybrid polymer, for flocculation and filtration of fresh oil sands extraction tailings, this research is to understand working mechanism of Al-PAM, focusing on the effect of Al-PAM properties (molecular weight...

Fall 2010

Shenoy, Arjun Vsiwanath

Estimation theory is a branch of statistics and probability that derives information about random variables based on known information. In process engineering, state estimation is used for a variety of purposes, such as: soft sensing, digital filter design, model predictive control and...

Fall 2017

Naghizada, Nazim

Asphaltene is the most difficult fraction of bitumen and heavy oil to upgrade, as it has low H/C, high molecular weight and metal content. Asphaltenes are insoluble in paraffinic solvents, and undergo aggregation and coke formation during refining and cracking processes. No attention is usually...

Spring 2020

Vasudev, Kartik

ML80 and Grade 483 are heat treatable steels, produced by a quench and temper process, that are used in the oil and gas industry. The development of the microstructure during heat treatment is important to ensure that the correct properties are achieved for these steels. However, a real-time...