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A case study assessment of the energy consumption of LEED certified academic buildings in Ontario: Is LEED certification necessarily better?
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-21)With “commercial and institutional buildings account[ing] for 12% of Canada’s secondary energy use and 11% of [the] national greenhouse gas emissions” (National Resources Canada, 2014), the energy consumption of Canada’s ... -
A Case Study for Assessing the Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change at the Watershed Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-23)Since the advent of the industrial era atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases have been on the rise leading to increasing global mean temperatures. Through increasing temperatures and changes to distributions of ... -
A Case Study of a Hotel Solid Waste Management Program in Bali, Indonesia
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The main objectives of this study were: to provide a review of key concepts and issues relevant to solid waste management in developing countries; to analyse and evaluate the hotel solid waste management (HSWM) program in ... -
A Case Study of a Very Large Organization
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-04)Very Large Organization (VLO) is an organization that produces hardware and software, which together form products. VLO granted access to data pertaining to seven different products and their development projects. One ... -
Case Study of Feature-Oriented Requirements Modelling, Applied to an Online Trading System
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-12)The Feature-Oriented Requirements Modelling (FORM) combines the requirement engineering style structuring of requirements documents with the feature-orientation of the Feature Oriented Software Development, resulting in a ... -
Casting Shadow on the Photocatalytic Activity of Plasmonic Antimony Doped Tin Oxide Nanoparticles in Degrading Rhodamine 590
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-04)Increasing the feasibility of water purification systems at the manufacturing, technical and material engineering level is an urgent matter that is of global interest. Concerning materials engineering for water purification ... -
Casting the Dollhouse
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-09)The Dollhouse is a model of domestic life; its material framework, spatiality, passage, function and aesthetic describe the architectural construction of a domestic ideal. Yet, the dollhouse is not simply an architectural ... -
Catalyst Layers in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells: Formation, Characterization and Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)The structure of the catalyst layers (CLs) has a decisive impact on the performance, durability, and cost of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells – these are the main technical challenges to the commercialization ... -
Catalytic Combustion and NO Formation of Natural Gas
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)As the world energy demand increases and the utilization of non-traditional fossil fuels becomes more attractive, natural gas, from shale gas and in gaseous and liquefied forms, becomes one of the most promising alternative ... -
Catalytic Conversion of Waste Plastics into Value-Added Chemicals
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-08)Plastics are indispensable in many industries (such as packaging and transportation) owing to its durability, diversity and versatilities. However, the decomposition rate of plastic is far from generation speed. The plastic ... -
Catalytic Distillation: Modeling and Process Development for Fuels and Chemicals
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-09)Catalytic Distillation (CD) is a hybrid green reactor technology that utilizes the dynamics of simultaneous reaction and separation in a single process unit to achieve a more compact, economical, efficient and optimized ... -
Catalytic Glycerol Hydrogenolysis to Produce 1,2-propanediol with Molecular Hydrogen and in situ Hydrogen Produced from Steam Reforming
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-15)Biodiesel has shown great promise to supplement the fossil diesel since it is a renewable energy resource and is environmentally friendly. However, the major obstacle to biodiesel large scale commercialization is the high ... -
Catalytic Hydrogenation of Nitrile Rubber in High Concentration Solution
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-24)Chemical modification is an important way to improve the properties of existing polymers, and one of the important examples is the hydrogenation of nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) in organic solvent by homogeneous catalysis ... -
Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Glycerol to 1-Propanol Using Bifunctional Catalysts in an Aqueous Media
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-26)Biodiesel is an attractive alternative fuel obtained from renewable resources and glycerol is produced as a major byproduct in the biodiesel industry. Upgrading glycerol to other valuable chemicals will contribute to an ... -
The Catalytic Intramolecular Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Meldrum's Acid Derivatives and The Total Synthesis of Taiwaniaquinol B
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The intramolecular Friedel-Crafts acylation of aromatics with Meldrum?s acid derivatives catalyzed by metal trifluoromethanesulfonates and other Lewis acids is reported. Meldrum?s acids are easily prepared, functionalized, ... -
Catalytic Potential and Ligand Binding Properties of the Malachite Green RNA Aptamer
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-18)The malachite green aptamer was originally engineered for binding specificity to malachite green (MG). The environment inside the aptamer’s electronegative binding pocket was previously harnessed to catalyze an ester ... -
Catalytic Separation of Pure Hydrogen from Synthesis Gas by an Ethanol Dehydrogenation / Acetaldehyde Hydrogenation Loop
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-21)A novel catalytic process for producing high-purity, elevated-pressure hydrogen from synthesis gas was proposed and investigated. The process combines the advantages of low investment and operating costs with the flexibility ... -
Catching the Public Eye: The Body, Space, and Social Order in 1920s Canadian Visual Culture
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-05)In the cultural upheaval of the 1920s, Canadians became particularly invested in looking at and debating women’s images in public. This dissertation looks at how English-Canadians debated, accepted, and challenged modernity ... -
Categorization and Detection of Energy Bugs and Application Tail Energy Bugs in Smartphones
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-16)Smartphones are the most ubiquitous and popular hand-held devices because of their rich set of features and wide variety of services. However, their daily use is hampered by their high energy consumption, which forces ... -
Cationic Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCs) for Organic and Inorganic Colloids Flocculation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-27)Cellulose nanocrystals were modified for use as novel flocculants by taking advantage of the extended cationic polymeric chains on CNCs. They were evaluated using both organic colloids and inorganic bentonite clay particles. ...