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- 4Bayat, Alireza (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Fall 2014
Tailings ponds contain significant amounts of organic contaminants that cannot be released to the environment without further treatment. The use of mature fine tailings (MFT) was proposed as a potential source of microorganisms for biological treatment to remove dissolved organic compounds from...
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Biological Treatment of Naphthenic Acids and Other Organic Compounds in Oil Sands Process-Affected Waters
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The Alberta oil sands contain one of the world’s largest reserves of oil - over 169 billion barrels of bitumen are economically recoverable with current extraction technologies. Surface mining, whereby the ore is extricated from the earth and bitumen is obtained via a hot water extraction...
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Combined Adsorption and Biodegradation Processes for Oil Sands Process-Affected Water Treatment
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The oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) generated from bitumen extraction of oil sands by industries in Northern Alberta, Canada, is a great environmental concern because of the OSPW toxicity in the environment. This toxicity has been attributed to a group of alicyclic and aliphatic compounds...
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Fall 2014
The near wellbore region is subjected to cyclic loads due to repeated changes of the mean effective stress. These repeated loads result in plastic deformation and sanding problems which can occur in injection or production wells. The difficulty is more pronounced in weakly consolidated reservoirs...
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Spring 2014
Evaluation of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) performance that involves detailed compositional simulations is usually deterministic, cumbersome, expensive (manpower and time consuming), and not quite suitable for practical decision making and forecasting, particularly when dealing with...
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Spring 2014
Current design procedures for extended shear tab connections tend to be conservative and often do not include considerations for axial load. To address these problems, an investigation into the behaviour of extended shear tabs was completed by testing 23 full-scale specimens. Both unstiffened and...
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Developing and Testing a Framework to Measure the Sanitation Efficacy on a Random Particle Level in Composting Industry
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Both direct and indirect process validation regulations are being used to ensure the safety of compost products. The North American guidelines specify upper limits for certain pathogenic and indicator microbes, which are presumably achieved by exposing every particle of compost to temperatures...
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Development and Application of BowTie Risk Assessment Methodology for Carbon Geological Storage Projects
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The objective of this research is to develop a framework for risk assessment of CO2 geological storage projects. This is achieved using the BowTie approach as a framework for capturing the failure of CO2 geological storage, and using BowTie approach to combine different failure mechanisms such as...
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Spring 2014
Oil sand reservoirs play an important role in the economy of Canada due to their significant recoverable reserves. Due to the high viscosity of the oil in these reservoirs, conventional methods cannot be used for production. The steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) method is an efficient way of...
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Development and Implementation of an Adaptive Transit Signal Priority Strategy in Microscopic Simulation
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Transit Signal Priority (TSP) strategies are widely used to reduce bus travel delay and improve bus service performance. State-of-the-art TSP strategies help buses cross intersections without stopping, either by green extension or red truncation, and enable adaptive TSP plans that reflect...