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Two-Dimensional Modeling of the Effect of Relative Humidity on Volatile Organic Compounds Adsorption in a Fixed Bed Adsorber
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Water vapor can affect adsorption of volatile organic compound (VOC) onto activated carbon. In this research, a two-dimensional heterogenous computational fluid dynamics model was developed and validated to understand the mechanism and kinetics during competitive adsorption between VOC and water...
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Spring 2021
CO2 flooding is a widely used enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method (Jarrell et al., 2002). Dimethyl ether (DME) is potentially a good solvent and has good compatibility with both CO2 and hydrocarbons (Catchpole et al., 2009; Ratnakar et al., 2016a). Due to the good solubility of DME in both CO2 and...
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Two-Stage Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Aggregation for the Flotation Separation of Fine and Ultrafine Minerals
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In mineral processing froth flotation is the most important technique to recover and separate different minerals. However, the flotation process deteriorates significantly with low efficiency and selectivity when mineral particles are smaller than 20 µm. Low flotation kinetics of fine hydrophobic...
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Fall 2019
Policy evaluation, learning value functions, is an integral part of the reinforcement learning problem. In this thesis, I propose a neural network architecture, the Two-Timescale Network (TTN), for value function approximation which utilizes linear function approximation for the value function...
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Spring 2011
This thesis examines the economic and time barriers to dietary adherence for T2D patients living in Edmonton by using utility theory, household production theory and the concept of health capital. Socio-demographic, food consumption, food purchase and time use information was obtained by...
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Fall 2015
Vibrio cholerae is a Gram-negative bacterial species that consists of over 200 serogroups with differing pathogenic potential. Only O1 serogroup strains have been associated with the pandemic spread of cholera, a disease characterized by watery diarrhoea that can lead to severe dehydration and...