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Fall 2020

Alili, Aligulu

Unconventional oil reserves, such as Canada’s oil sands, must replace dwindling conventional oil supplies to meet the globally increasing energy demands. Canada is home to the third largest oil reserves, primarily in the form of bitumen deposits. Unlike conventional oil, bitumen has some unique...

2002

Yu, Jianguo

2006

Ding, Xinlin

2005

Hu, Jing

Spring 2019

Cheung, Aaron

In oil sands extraction, the removal of heavy materials from a bitumen feed is often facilitated by solvent addition treatment processes. These processes mix solvent with bitumen feed to cause the precipitation of heavy products. The settling properties of these heavy products as they separate...

Spring 2020

Hou, Runfang

Due to its corrosion resistance, conductivity, and modifiable mechanical properties, CuNi alloy has found a wide range of applications, especially in the marine environment. It is highly desired if the mechanical strength and wear resistance of CuNi alloy can reach a level comparable to that of...

Fall 2012

Wang, Renfei

This investigation is aimed at developing ceramic materials applied in supercritical water, which is being considered as coolant for one of the next generation nuclear reactors. Cr2O3, a primary protective film on stainless steels, was found to be unstable in SCW due to the formation of soluble...

2004

Cui, Zhangming

Fall 2015

Yang, Ying

Normally chemically inert materials such as Au have been found to be catalytically active in the form of particles whose size is about 1 nm. Direct and indirect observations of various types of metal nanoparticles (NPs) in this size range, under catalytically relevant conditions for fuel-cell...

Spring 2020

Zhang, Dingfang

Albertan oil sands ores are becoming more difficult to process efficiently as the clay content of the ore increases and the grade of the ore worsens. A key to improving the extraction of bitumen from low-grade oil sands, thereby increasing the longevity of this critical resource, is reducing the...