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- 2Bendrich, Michelle
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- 44Xu, Zhenghe (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 40Huang, Biao (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Oil Upgrading by Molecular Rearrangement and Cracking: A Study Using Model Compounds and Natural Chabazite
DownloadFall 2015
As demand for fuel increases, new technologies that can convert heavy oil and bitumen into light fuels are needed. Natural zeolites have been proven to catalyze reactions that decrease molecular weight, density, nitrogen, and metals content as well as vacuum residue content when mixed with raw...
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Spring 2021
Oiling-out, also termed as liquid-liquid separation (LLPS), is a phenomenon well observed in cooling crystallization when the solution becomes cloudy due to the formation of a second liquid phase. One of the methods to control LLPS is solvent exchange where surface droplets are produce in bottom...
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Spring 2020
Budnar Subramanya, Annapoorna Shruthi
Bitumen partial upgrading technologies aim to produce a product that meets viscosity and density specifications for pipeline transport with little to no addition of diluents. Thermal cracking processes are attractive for partial upgrading since they result in an increase in the light fractions....
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On Integrating Element Based Heat Capacity Correlations into Process Simulation Software - Tackling Pseudo Component Definition
DownloadSpring 2014
In the present work, available direct and indirect methods for isobaric liquid heat capacity estimation are evaluated relative to experimental data. The study focuses on identification of systemic and random deviations between specific calculation approaches and experimental data, based on...
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Fall 2015
The nature and structure of asphaltene nanoaggregates are frequently the subject of debate and speculation in the literature. The continental asphaltene nano-aggregate model, characterized by the presence of alkyl chains on their surface, and the archipelago nano-aggregate model, characterized...
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Fall 2011
The impact of mixing on diluted bitumen de-watering is studied in two stages using a fractional factorial design of experiments. The first stage evaluates the relative effects of bulk demulsifier dosage, local maximum energy dissipation, and mixing time. The second stage of experiments evaluates...
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On Organic Liquid Crystal Transfer from Bitumen-Rich to Water-Rich Phases: A Combined Laboratory and SAGD Field Study
DownloadSpring 2014
Hydrocarbon-based liquid-crystal domains were observed in unreacted heavy fractions extracted from Athabasca bitumen and bitumen derived hydrocarbon resource fractions. Transfer of these organic crystalline domains to the water-rich phase during SAGD production is explored here because there...
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ON THE APPLICATION OF SAFT TO MODEL FLUID-FLUID BEHAVIOR OF SOLVENT+ NON-ADSORBING POLYMER+NANOPARTICLE MIXTURES
DownloadFall 2018
Ternary mixtures comprising cyclohexane + polystyrene + silica nanoparticles were recently shown to exhibit a closed loop two-phase region comprising colloid-gas and colloid-liquid phases1. This two-phase region is surrounded by single-phase colloid-gas and colloid-liquid phase regions and there...