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Analysis of Nitrogen Species in Gas Oils Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry
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The nitrogen content of products derived from oil sands bitumen is important, as nitrogen causes problems in upgrading and hydrotreating. Normal phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has been previously used to attempt separation of the nitrogen group types (pyrrole and pyridine)...
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DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH PRESSURE-HIGH TEMPERATURE WELLBORE SIMULATOR FOR INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF CYCLIC STRESSES ON THE INTEGRITY OF WELLBORE SECTIONS WITH CEMENT/CASING INTERFACES
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An ideal cement job is expected to provide a perfect zonal isolation during the entire production life and even after the abandonment of the oil and gas wells. Variations of downhole stress conditions due to, for example, pressure cycles during the multistage hydraulic fracturing operations and...
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Determination of Hydrocarbon Group-Type of Diesel Fuels by Gas Chromatography with Vacuum Ultraviolet Detection
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Walsh, Phillip, Harynuk, J. James, Weber, Brandon M.
A GC-vacuum ultraviolet (UV) method to perform group-type separations of diesel range fuels was developed. The method relies on an ionic liquid column to separate diesel samples into saturates, mono-, di-, and polyaromatics by gas chromatography, with selective detection via vacuum UV absorption...
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2023-05-30
Saber, Sepehr, Narayanaswamy, Nagarajan, Ward, C. A., Elliott, Janet A. W.
The objective of this study was to investigate the prediction of the wetting characteristics obtained from the equilibrium adsorption analysis using the Zeta adsorption isotherm approach with an experimental study. Water vapor’s adsorption and wetting characteristics on a hydroxylated and...
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Fall 2015
Petroleum samples consist of hundreds to thousands of components and require well-designed experiments to accurately determine quality and composition. The challenges with petroleum samples in this thesis are three-fold, focusing on: alkyl phosphate contamination, group-type composition, and...
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Heavy Oil/Bitumen Recovery by Alternate Injection of Steam and Solvent (Hydrocarbon and CO2) in Fractured Carbonates and Oilsands
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The world energy demand is constantly increasing and fossil fuels are still by far the main energy resource that supplies the world energy consumption market, therefore increasing oil recovery from all types of reservoirs is an important matter. The burning of fossil fuels for energy purposes, on...
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Numerical investigation of the superfluid transition in low dimensions and in anisotropic systems
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The main theme of this thesis is the superfluid transition in reduced dimensions and in anisotropic and inhomogeneous systems. Using state-of-the-art computational methodology, we carry out large-scale, numerically exact computer simulations to study this topic, making use of classical and...
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Profiling Alkyl Phosphates in Petroleum Samples by Comprehensive Two-dimensional Gas Chromatography with Nitrogen-phosphorus Detection (GC×GC-NPD)
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The profiling of alkyl phosphates in petroleum samples is of particular interest to refineries that process conventional crude oil derived from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and other similar geologies. This is due to alkyl phosphate-based additives used during crude oil recovery...