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Spring 2019

Tischler, Cody

Cellular automata consistently grow in relevance to engineering and science as computation becomes more important for design and theoretical analysis. Although cellular automata have been used for a variety of tasks a means of representing objects has not yet been devised. This is a severe...

Spring 2019

Hosseini Anvari, Monir

Interfacial properties have a regulatory role in processes which involve the coexistence of different phases. Although such macro-scale properties are determined by the intrinsic nature of the interface-sharing phases, it is possible to alter them in favor of the process objectives. This,...

Fall 2019

Li,Rui

The spontaneous displacement of a fluid in another immiscible one on a solid surface is essential for many technical applications, such as painting, detergency, bitumen extraction and enhancing oil recovery. This project was motivated by exploring a process of high viscosity bitumen displaced by...

Fall 2019

McDonald, Kieran

Methanotrophic bacteria are capable of converting single carbon sources such as methane or methanol, two common industrial waste products, into value-added compounds like bioplastics or biofuels. These microorganisms have significant potential for the mitigation of these low-value industrial...

Fall 2019

Maryam Razi

Interfacial activity of SAGD PW endogenous surfactants, humic acids (HAs), and their interaction dynamics with naphtha-diluted Alberta oil sand bitumen (AOSB) present in model SAGD produced water has been addressed in the first part of this PhD thesis. Dynamic interfacial tension σ(t) between oil...

Fall 2019

Fong, Shirley

During thermal cracking of bitumen, olefins are formed via free radical reactions and are mainly concentrated in the naphtha and distillate cut of the upgraded bitumen. Olefins are undesirable in the upgraded bitumen product because they are associated with equipment fouling. As a result, these...

Fall 2019

Vega Mesquida, Ileana Magdalena

The rise in motor vehicle ownership has become not only an environmental issue, but also a public health threat as pollutants emitted negatively affect human health (Deng et al., 2017). One such pollutant is particulate matter, which has been regulated by a variety of countries because it...

Fall 2019

Sivaramakrishnan, Kaushik

The common theme of this work was to investigate the relationships between multi-dimensional experimental data and the physical and chemical properties of certain reacting systems that have industrial relevance. Three particular systems of increasing complexity in terms of composition of the...

Spring 2019

Subramanian Balashankar, Vishal

A simplified proxy model based on a well-mixed batch adsorber for vacuum swing adsorption (VSA) based carbon dioxide capture from dry post-combustion flue gas is presented. A graphical representation of the model output allows for the rationalization of broad trends of process performance. The...

Fall 2019

Jing Liu

The non-aqueous extraction (NAE) technique for recovering bitumen from oil sands ore has been proposed as a potential substitute to the conventional water-based extraction method in order to reduce the environmental and carbon footprint of extracting this natural resource. In the NAE process,...