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Accelerated Dewatering and Drying Treatment of Oil Sands Tailings by Electrical Resonant Auto-Transformer
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Canada has world’s third largest oil reserves in the form of oil sands and 20% of those are easily accessible by surface mining. The hot water bitumen extraction process has been used since 1967 and the process produces vast amount of tailings which are stored in ponds. Tailings ponds pose a...
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Fall 2019
Interfacial activity of SAGD PW endogenous surfactants, humic acids (HAs), and their interaction dynamics with naphtha-diluted Alberta oil sand bitumen (AOSB) present in model SAGD produced water has been addressed in the first part of this PhD thesis. Dynamic interfacial tension σ(t) between oil...
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Spring 2017
One of the central puzzles concerning the interaction of low Reynolds number (Re<<1) fluid transport with bacterial biomass is the formation of filamentous structures called bacterial streamer. Bacterial streamers can be tethered at one or both ends to solid surfaces, while the rest of the...
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Spring 2013
Biofilm formation in porous media is of significant importance in many environmental and industrial processes such as bioremediation, oil recovery, and wastewater treatment. In the present study, we fabricated a porous media mimic inside a microfluidic device to observe the growth of bacteria in...
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Comprehensive Study of the Bioconversion of Coal Using Laboratory Core Flooding Experiments
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Core flooding experiments were performed to understand in-situ coal bioconversion process. Subbituminous coal particles packed inside a biaxial core holder was inoculated with microbial culture and was continuously flooded with mineral salts medium and nitrogen rich nutrient solution....
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Conduction and Dielectric Relaxation Mechanisms in Oil Sands Influencing Electrical Heating
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Electrical heating has been proposed in the past as an alternative to conventional water based thermal methods for reducing viscosity of bitumen in oil sands reservoirs. This could reduce or even eliminate water use and associated problems like inefficient heat transfer in the reservoir, poor...
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Spring 2015
This thesis presents a thorough examination of the corrosion and fouling behaviour of crude oil at refining conditions on industrially applicable heat transfer surfaces. The depletion of light sweet crude oil reserves means that the processing of ever heavier and more sour crude oils is...
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Fall 2012
Dengue fever is a mosquito born viral disease that is reaching epidemic proportions. Despite of various control means, it is still flourishing and is becoming a major health concern around the world. In this thesis, a novel diagnosis method for the detection of Dengue virus has been developed....
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Development of an Electronic Nose for Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds Based on Nanoporous Microcantilevers by Using Photothermal Spectroscopy
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An electronic nose for identification and quantification of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) mixtures was developed using a nanopore-enhanced photothermal cantilever deflection spectroscopy (PCDS). PCDS provides highly selective detection of vapor mixtures of VOCs from specific molecular...
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Spring 2014
The development of rapid detection techniques to be applied at the point of use, has been gaining significant attention in the recent years. Rapid techniques are important and preferable methods in healthcare and environment sector due to the advantages they offer such as low-cost and reduced...