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Assessment of the regulatory response to complaints related to unconventional oil and gas operations
DownloadFall 2016
Unconventional oil and gas development in Alberta has been rapidly expanding over the past couple of decades and has raised public concerns regarding the potential public health impacts and environmental contamination. The objectives of this thesis were to identify the types of unconventional oil...
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Construction, Operation, and Performance Evaluation of a Continuous Supercritical Fluid Extraction Process for the Recovery of Hydrocarbons from Drill Cuttings
DownloadFall 2020
The primary outcome of this research is the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of a novel, pilot-scale, continuous supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) process for recovering drilling fluid hydrocarbons from drill cuttings-water slurries. Counter-current flow of slurry and...
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Development, Modelling and Control of a Continuous Pilot Scale Supercritical Fluid Extraction Process
DownloadSpring 2017
In this thesis, the feasibility and operation of a continuous pilot scale supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) process for treatment of oil-contaminated solids, specifically drill cuttings, was investigated. For this purpose, a continuous pilot scale SFE process, the first of its kind, was...
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Enhancement of anaerobic biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in contaminated groundwater: laboratory mesocosm studies
DownloadSpring 2010
This project was a part of a study to evaluate natural attenuation (NA) as a viable remedial option for petroleum hydrocarbon (PHC) contamination at upstream oil- and gas-contaminated sites in Alberta, Canada. Laboratory mesocosms were set up using groundwater and sediment materials collected...
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Spring 2014
Laurence, Luke Andrew Stuart David
The objective of this thesis was to identify water reuse program management strategies, obtain a sample of accepted water reuse permitting practices, and establish program development strategies from selected US jurisdictions with a history of industrial reuse in order to assist industry...
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Fall 2021
Initial solubilities for whole bitumen and bitumen cuts of light gas oil (LGO), heavy gas oil (HGO), and vacuum residue (resid) were measured in supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) and SC-CO2 modified with 5 or 15 mol% toluene. The initial solubility measurements were performed on a bench-scale...