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- 1Caverhill-Godkewitsch, Saul A.
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- 2Kumar, Amit (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
- 1Backhouse, Chris (Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo)
- 1Deutsch, Clayton V. (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Elliott, Duncan (Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta)
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- 1Kuznicki, Steven M. (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Development of a Framework for Assessment of Water-Energy Demand and Supply in Energy Sector
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Water resource planning and management has become more challenging over the years. To make well-informed long-term system planning decisions, policy makers and resource managers need to fully comprehend the water-energy nexus. There is a scarcity of tools for integrated assessment of greenhouse...
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Increasing wildfire growth modelling decision support using ensemble weather forecasts over the province of Alberta, Canada
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Across Alberta, wildfires ignite each fire season and a small number achieve a size greater than 100 hectares, which account for the vast majority of the area burned. These fires often require large suppression efforts that include wildfire growth simulation modelling in order to understand their...
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Life Cycle Assessment and Greenhouse Gas Abatement Costs of Hydrogen Production from Underground Coal Gasification
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Large amounts of hydrogen (H2) are required for the upgrading of bitumen from oil sands to produce synthetic crude oil (SCO). Currently, natural gas is used in the bitumen upgrading industry to produce H2 through steam methane reforming (SMR). This process has a significant life cycle greenhouse...
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Spring 2015
Evaluating the process performance of mining and petroleum operations requires numerical geological models of many related rock properties or variables. Taken together, they provide a characterization of the geologic deposit that forms the basis for engineering design and decision making. Complex...
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Spring 2015
Fault detection methods have become an important tool in the prevention of safety and reliability issues for industrial rotating machines. Faults in these machines often develop progressively and are not easily observed under operating conditions until severe damage has occurred and further...
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Modeling and Optimization of CO2 Fixation using Microalgae Cultivated in Oil Sands Process Water
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Biological fixation of CO2 using microalgae is a potential CO2 reduction strategy which can be applied to the oil sands operations in Alberta. These operations also produce large amounts of oil sands process water (OSPW), which can act as a growth medium for the microalgae. In this thesis, three...
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Fall 2015
Caverhill-Godkewitsch, Saul A.
The infrastructure necessary to support diagnostic and pathogen-detection processes does not exist in some regions of the world that need it most. Access to fast, inexpensive and portable diagnostic infrastructure could be a solution to this problem. Next generation lab-on-chip (LOC) systems that...
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Spring 2015
The objective of this dissertation was to find novel adsorbents addressing problems associated with acid gases. They are the most common contaminants in multiple aspects of petroleum processing and combustion gas clean up, which reduce the efficiency of petroleum refining and product quality....