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2005

Bhattacharya, Sujit

Spring 2012

Farasat, Ehsan

Unlike continuous processes, a batch process has a certain period of operation time, and there are a number of batches in a typical operation. Hence variables in a batch process have dynamics in two dimensions, along time and across batches. Besides, batch processes involve large transient phases...

Fall 2019

Alili, Aytan

Asphaltenes, defined as a solubility class, are soluble in toluene and insoluble in paraffinic solvents such as 𝐶5 and 𝐶7. Asphaltenes have high heteroatom and a low H/C ratio compared to bitumen’s other fractions. Moreover, they have a complex structure, high molecular weight, and high melting...

Fall 2017

Russell, Derek A.

Solvents are used in the oil sands industry to reduce the viscosity of bitumen and hence to assist recovery of bitumen prior to its upgrading. Solvents can also be added to the ores to reduce energy consumption during the aqueous-nonaqueous hybrid bitumen extraction process at ambient conditions....

Fall 2016

Liu, Li

The physiological milieu of the normal skin is slightly acidic with a pH value ranged between 4 and 6; for chronic or infected wounds with a higher bacterial load, its pH value is above 7.3. Motivated by the fact that monitoring the pH value is an effective way to monitor the status of the wound,...

Fall 2019

Homayun, Bahman

Oral delivery is the most attractive drug administration route due to many specific advantages. Ease of administration, large and diverse absorption surface area, applicability for solid formulations, patients’ compliance, and intensified immune response due to mucosal effects are usually...

Spring 2014

Amani, Mohammad Javad

The phase behavior and thermophysical properties of heavy hydrocarbons + water at elevated temperatures underpins development and implementation of coordinated production and refining processes, where for example, bitumen is produced by a SAGD method (steam assisted gravity drainage) and the...

Fall 2015

Dini, Yoann

Oil sands bitumen is increasingly recovered by injecting steam into reservoirs using the energy intensive Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) process. Interest in improving recovery and energy efficiencies have led to an interest in injecting light hydrocarbons along with or instead of steam...

Spring 2016

Ahitan, Sourabh

Global phase behavior calculations based on 150 n-alkane + aromatic and n-alkane + naphthenic hydrocarbon binary mixtures were performed. These calculations were compared with experimental measurements whenever possible, and additional measurements were made as part of this work. The widely used...

Fall 2012

Nikooyeh, Kasra

Unwanted phase separation of asphaltenes poses significant challenges in production and processing of heavy oils and bitumen. The analysis and prediction of asphaltene precipitation behaviors and asphaltene-diluent interactions are typically treated either from a solution thermodynamics or a...