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2005

Wannas, David

Spring 2018

Zhang, Jiawen

Water plays an indispensable role in all aspects of life, including farming, domestic and industrial uses. In industries, water has been extensively applied in mining, production and surface treatment, producing a large quantity of contaminated water that threatens human health, endangers...

Fall 2019

Zhalmuratova, Dinara

This thesis describes materials and strategies developed to replace rigid and noncompliant plastic tube, which causes injuries to the heart at the junction between the tissue and the tube in an ex-vivo heart perfusion device. The research is composed of two main parts. The first part addresses...

Spring 2020

Shafi, Hareem

Reinforcement learning (RL) has received wide attention in various fields lately. Model-free RL brings data-driven solutions that learn the control strategy directly from interaction with process data without the need for a process model. This is especially beneficial in the case of nonlinear...

Spring 2023

Dogru, Oguzhan

Process industries involve processes that have complex, interdependent, and sometimes uncontrollable/unobservable features that are subject to a variety of uncertainties such as operational fluctuations, sensory noises, process anomalies, human involvement, market volatility, and so forth. In the...

Fall 2018

Zhang, Lisheng

In the mining industry, high wear rates in slurry pipelines can lead to premature/unplanned failure, causing operation outages and environmental incidents. Laboratory-scale wear studies and physics-based modelling are required to predict pipe wear. Recent studies have revealed a strong...

Spring 2010

Mani, Farnaz

In the development of a non-aqueous bitumen extraction process, a major obstacle is solvent loss due to hydrocarbon attachment to the reject sand grains. A proposed solution to this problem is to wash (i.e. remediate) the oil-contaminated sand grains with water and surfactants. This research is...

Fall 2013

Zeberoff, Anthony F

Stimulus response materials are a class of novel materials that are currently being explored in various technologies, including biomedical devices and components, food packaging, fabrics, energy harvesting and conversion, and other elementary components such as sensors and actuators. Hybrid...

Spring 2016

Ahad, Nuvaid

Fischer–Tropsch is a process whereby a gaseous mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2), called syngas, is converted into hydrocarbons, oxygenates and water. After the Fisher–Tropsch reaction the reaction product is cooled down and one of the product phases is a liquid stream known as...

Spring 2013

Liu, Kaiwen

Even though activated carbon is widely used in the removal of contaminants from effluents, it is difficult to be completely recovered by screening or classification. In this project, we prepared a magnetic form of activated carbon (M-AC) by co-precipitation of iron oxides onto activated...