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Spring 2024
Malamace da Silva, Victor Hugo
The oil sands of Western Canada are among the most abundant and economically important unconventional petroleum resources. Hydrocarbon extraction from oil sands is conducted using warm water or in situ technologies that face considerable environmental challenges. Oil sands can also be valorized...
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New Fast and Accurate Steady-State Analysis Approach for Design, Optimization, and Simulation of General Power Converter Systems
DownloadSpring 2023
Accurate steady-state analysis of power converters are essential for converter design and optimization. Steady-state responses are also useful for component selection, loss calculation, identification of soft switching operation, and small signal modeling of power converters. Normally, a...
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Numerical Study on the Hydraulics of Stormwater Catch Basin Grate Inlets under Clean and Clogging Conditions
DownloadSpring 2023
Accurate assessment of urban drainage system is vital for municipalities. Stormwater catch basin (CB) inlets are critical linkages between the two dimensional (2-D) urban street flow and the 1-D underground sewer network flow. So far, extensive studies have been conducted to quantify the...
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Fall 2023
The downturn of the world economy and the increasingly severe competition among mining giants puts forward higher requirements for open-pit mining, which is the dominant method for humans to obtain minerals from the earth. Among these so-called higher requirements, reducing mining costs as much...
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Optimization of Outflow Control Devices Design in Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage Models with Wellbore Trajectory Excursions
DownloadFall 2018
Canada has giant oil reserves which ranks third worldwide with proven oil reserves of 171 billion barrels. Alberta alone contributes with 165.4 billion barrels found in oil sands. However, those oil sands are extremely viscous and only 10% are recoverable by means of open-pit mining. In-situ...
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Production Improvements in Offsite Construction Facilities Using Simulation and Lean Principles
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To capitalize on the efficiency observed in the manufacturing sector, the industrialization of construction has been used to update traditional construction methods. By applying manufacturing principles to the construction process in offsite construction facilities it is possible to transform...
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Fall 2021
Each year, 10-20% of newborns (about 13-26 million babies) worldwide will need help to breathe at birth. Helping babies breathe is the cornerstone of neonatal resuscitation. Healthcare providers (HCPs) must perform many tasks quickly and correctly to help babies breathe and prevent irreversible...
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Fall 2021
Traffic congestion is a severe problem in many cities. One way to reduce it is by optimizing traffic signal timings. Experts spend a lot of time analyzing traffic patterns to produce good handcrafted timing schedules. However, these timing schedules can be less responsive when there is a sudden...
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Fall 2021
This thesis describes a framework to analyze the impacts of job sequencing on a window manufacturing company through implementation of various dispatching rules. In order to develop the framework, a study is carried out at a window manufacturing facility in order to gain comprehensive knowledge...
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Fall 2018
The goal of this thesis work was to develop an idealized adult nasal airway geometry capably of mimicking average regional nasal deposition of droplets emitted from pharmaceutical nasal sprays. The first part of this thesis examined regional deposition within the nose for nasal sprays over a...