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Fall 2017

Perrott, Laurel A

The grain yields of feed barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) have increased at a slower rate than the yields of other major crops in Alberta, and seeded barley acres have declined over the past 20 years. Agronomic management and cultivar specific responses to management may provide solutions to increase...

Fall 2016

Hu, Wenkai

Alarm systems are critical assets of modern industrial plants to assist operators in managing plant upsets and hazardous situations. A good alarm system must detect abnormalities and warn the operators promptly and yet at the same time not mislead, overload or distract the operators. However, in...

Spring 2013

Kondaveeti, Sandeep Reddy

In the process industry, the alarm system acts as a layer of protection between the Basic Process Control System (BPCS) and the Safety Instrumented System (SIS). The BPCS is designed for automatic regulation of day to day process operation and SIS comes into picture when emergency shutdown is...

Spring 2018

Patel, Rajan G.

Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), an in-situ thermal oil recovery method is successfully utilized to extract bitumen from the Canadian oil sands. To improve the reservoir performance, an idea of closed-loop reservoir management (CLRM) was proposed that comprises near-continuous data...

Fall 2010

Iqbal, Mohammad Hasan

This research deals with the modeling and control of a plasticating twin screw extruder (TSE) that will be used to obtain consistent product quality. The TSE is a widely used process technology for compounding raw polymers. Compounding creates a polymer with improved properties that satisfy the...

Spring 2019

Masoud Mohammadalizadeh Shabestary

Grid-interactive smart inverters (GSIs) are becoming the main interface for integrating modern power units, such as renewable energies, energy storage systems, electric vehicles, distributed generation (DG) units, microgrids, and high-voltage direct-current transmission systems into smart power...

Fall 2023

Hossain, Saddam

Tribocorrosion, a synergistic impact of wear and corrosion, impacts the lifespan of machine parts in most sectors. Consequently, duplex coating has emerged as the most promising solution to address tribocorrosion. In this work, advanced noble duplex coating systems of TiAlN/WC-NiBSi/steel and...

Fall 2019

Vasylchuk, Yaroslav Valentynovych

Grade control in open pit mines establishes the final destination for mined material (e.g., plant, leach pad, stockpile, waste dump, etc.). In contrast to long- and medium-term mine planning, errors at this stage of a mine operation cannot be changed in the future; correct decisions bring a...

Fall 2022

Karami, Pooria

Treating contaminated hot streams is essential to reduce water cooling/re-heating needs and greenhouse gas emission in water reclamation processes, such as the Canadian in-situ oil-sand extraction processes that produce contaminated water at 80-90 C. Membrane separation processes have become one...

Spring 2013

Alam, Md. Noor-E-

Many real-world facility location problems can be approximated by a grid-based system of small sized cells, which can then be used to model a heterogeneous demand distribution. We can also relate an amount of supply for each cell from its supply distribution relationships with the various...