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- 1Chen, Lingyun (Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Liu, Qingxia (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Masliyah, Jacob (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Zeng, Hongbo (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Bisson, Teresa M
- 1Briones, Adriana M
- 1Natarajan, Anand
- 1Primkulov, Bauyrzhan K
- 1Russell, Derek A.
- 1Zhang, Mei
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Fall 2016
Adsorption of asphaltenes at liquid-liquid and solid-liquid interfaces is an undesirable phenomenon and considered to be the major contributor to several complications found in petroleum industry. Although the adsorption of asphaltenes on mineral surfaces has been extensively studied, little work...
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Spring 2015
The minable oil sands extraction process can be understood on a scale of a single oil sand grain. When the oil sand ore is mixed with warm water, each sand granule is initially covered with bitumen film which ruptures under the composite effect of shear and interfacial forces, while water...
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Fall 2014
Mercury is an air pollutant emitted from coal fired power plants. Once released into the environment, mercury undergoes conversion to organomercury compounds, which cause health concerns for both humans and animals. Many studies have been completed with the goal of reducing mercury emissions...
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Spring 2014
This work aims to develop value-added applications of barley protein. Our previous work demonstrated that deamidation could significantly improve solubility and emulsifying properties of barley protein. In this research, barley protein with deamidation degree of 63% was separated by...
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Petroleum Diesel-Assisted Ambient Temperature Aqueous-Nonaqueous Hybrid Bitumen Extraction Process
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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....
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Probing the Molecular Interactions of Asphaltenes in Organic Solvents Using a Surface Forces Apparatus
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A fundamental understanding of the stability of water-in-bitumen emulsions stabilized by surface active agents requires a good description of the molecular interactions between the different materials in contact. Of these surface active agents, asphaltenes and oil contaminated fine solids are...
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Spring 2012
Viscosity, as a fundamental physical property of bitumen, has been studied extensively for the past several decades. By and large, nearly all the bitumen samples used in viscosity measurement were from hot water extraction processes that were further cleaned by solvents. A drawback of this...