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Experimental Models of Demonstration Pit Lakes: Evaluating Long-Term Effects on Water Quality, Biogeochemical Processes, and Metagenomic Profiles in Oil Sands Tailings
DownloadFall 2024
Bitumen extraction from oil sands reserves in northern Alberta, Canada, has already disturbed large expanse of land and created huge volume of tailings as wastes. The pore water of a tailing contains high concentrations of dissolved organic and inorganic compounds that adversely affect living...
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Influence of Fill Scheme on Oil Sands Tailings Consolidation Modelling in a Geotechnical Centrifuge
DownloadSpring 2021
A series of geotechnical centrifuge modelling experiments were conducted on a kaolinite slurry and treated fluid fine tailings (FFT) material to assess consolidation behaviour. Consolidation modelling for both materials was conducted using both a single and layered fill scheme, and the results...
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Physiological Tolerance Mechanisms of Boreal Forest Tree Species to Climatic and Anthropogenic Stress Factors
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Boreal plant and tree stress responses under climate change and anthropogenic disturbances have become an important research area due to a strong climate warming signal and large-scale anthropogenic pollution. This thesis investigates tree physiological response mechanisms to a variety of...
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Spring 2020
Near one billion cubic meters tailings have been released to the environment as the result of oil sands mining operations in Canada. These fluid fine tailings are alkaline slurries of water, clays, and residual bitumen that after 3 to 5 years of gradual sedimentation form a thick mud-like slurry...
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Spring 2023
The extraction of bitumen from oil sands is an energy and water-intensive process that produces a tailings byproduct containing sands, clays, water, and residual bitumen. Larger particles eventually settle out of the tailings, but fine particles – stabilized by the residual bitumen – remain...