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Fall 2019
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...
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Fall 2023
Biochar is a stabilized carbon with porous structure that can be used as an economical adsorbent for wastewater treatment. Since there are numerous types of biochars, it is important to understand how biochar characteristics influence adsorption performance by selecting or customizing biochars...
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Fall 2015
Pine sawdust biochars produced at 300 and 550 °C with and without steam activation were assessed for its sorption capacity for phosphate and copper (Cu (II)) in aqueous solutions using batch sorption experiments, including isotherm and kinetic studies. This study implied that pine sawdust...
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Spring 2010
The technique of Inverse Gas Chromatography (IGC) was employed for the study of the interactions between various organic solvents with various types of the major inorganic materials (clay minerals and sand) found in Alberta’s oil sands. Heat of adsorption (-∆H) was measured for each solvent with...
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Fall 2011
Air Separation is the largest industrial separation process in the world in which air is separated to its primary constituents including, nitrogen, oxygen, and argon. Technical gases are applied in many important industries such as steel industry, chemical processes, oil and gas production,...
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Adsorptive precipitation of vitamin D3 and vitamin E on gum arabic and sodium alginate using supercritical carbon dioxide
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Vilchez Athanasopulos, Andrea Carolina
Functional food products are formulated with added ingredients that provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition function. However, there are different challenges in the manufacturing of these products with fat-soluble vitamins, such as, vitamin D3 (VitD3), an essential nutrient responsible for...
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Fall 2015
High purity microporous vanadosilicate (EVS-10/AM-6) has been hydrothermally synthesized by a simple template-free, reducing agent-free method in the absence of titanosilicate ETS-10 seeds. Direct comparison between EVS-10 and ETS-10 showed successful isomorphous substitution of titanium with...
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Adsorptive Removal of CO2 by Amine Functionalized Sorbents: Experimental and Kinetics Study
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Adsorption processes using functionalized ordered mesoprous silica sorbents have shown a great potential for post-combustion CO2 capture from flue gas. In this work an experimental and theoretical investigation was conducted on the adsorptive removal of CO2 onto amine functionalized mesoporous...
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Spring 2014
Magnowski, Nicholas Brooks Kenneth
The natural gas industry recognises that the need for removal of CH4 from C2H6 feedstock C2H4 production and utilization. CH4 being a contaminant in the production of C2H4 and furthermore in the production of polymers from C2H4. Dethanizers in gas processing plants are energy intensive and...
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Spring 2013
Titanosilicate has unique properties in adsorptive separations such as air separations. In this study, Ag-ETS-10 was investigated for argon free oxygen production. During laboratory scale breakthrough experiments high purity (99.7+%) oxygen was produced at 100 kPa and 25 °C, with a recovery rate...