Chemical Engineering
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Chemical Engineering .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
Recent deposits
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Starch modification for sustainable and functional material applications
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-07)Among biodegradable polymers, starch has attracted significant interest and is currently used in numerous industrial applications. This is because of its renewability, biodegradability, abundance, and cohesive film-forming ... -
Robust Optimization of a Post-combustion CO2 Capture Absorber Column under Process Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-07)In recent years, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a global concern due to high concentrations of these gases in the atmosphere. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been suggested as an attractive alternative to curb ... -
High Temperature Co-Sintering for Metal Supported-Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Fabrication
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Metal supported-solid oxide fuel cells (MS-SOFC) are third generation solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). In these cells the primary support is a porous metal upon which the active cell layers (anode, electrolyte, and cathode) ... -
Flexible Energy Storage Systems Based on Electrically Conductive Hydrogels
(Elsevier, 2019-01)To power wearable electronic devices, various flexible energy storage systems have been designed to work in consecutive bending, stretching and even twisting conditions. Supercapacitors and batteries have been considered ... -
Development of a predictive model for the VAPEX process.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)Heavy oil in-situ recovery in Canada is largely achieved through energy intensive and en- vironmentally detrimental steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). By exchanging steam for a vapour solvent, it has been shown ... -
Optimal Renewable Energy Integration into the Process Industry and Energy Infrastructure Using the Multi-Energy Hub Approach with Economic and Environmental Considerations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-08)Fossil fuels are an integral part of the current energy infrastructure and the major contributor towards carbon emissions. Energy intensive industries and local energy framework, inclusive of the transport sector, can be ... -
Application of Flow Cytometry and Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Monitor and Predict the Fermentation Activity in a Vaccine Manufacturing Process
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-07)Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative coccobacillus, pathogenic and aerobic bacterium responsible for causing whooping cough, which is an upper respiratory tract infection in humans. To prevent this disease whole cellular ... -
Generation and Characterization of Dual-Fluorescent Influenza Virus-like Particles (VLPs) in Insect Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-04)The Baculovirus Expression Vector System (BEVS) has been widely used to produce recombinant proteins, especially for complex biopharmaceuticals. In recent years, the insect-baculovirus system has proved its value as a ... -
3D N-doped hybrid architectures assembled from 0D T-Nb2O5 embedded in carbon microtubes toward high-rate Li-ion capacitors
(Elsevier, 2019-02)Herein, a unique nitrogen-doped T-Nb2O5/tubular carbon hybrid structure in which T-Nb2O5 nanoparticles are homogeneously embedded in an in-situ formed nitrogen-doped microtubular carbon is synthesized, utilizing a facile ... -
Reducing Environmental Impacts of The Petroleum Refining Operations: Studies Related to Water Treatment and Carbon Dioxide Emissions Management
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-21)Petroleum refining is one of the most important chemical processing industries, converting crude oil into many usable and useful products, but it can cause adverse environmental impacts. Two environmental issues were ... -
Synthesis of Novel Polythiophenes Having Alkylamide Substituents for Organic Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-20)Solar energy is one of the most important sustainable energy resources which can satisfy increasingly growing demand of power and energy and reduce carbon footprint. In order to utilize the solar energy, solar cells are ... -
Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Fault Detection and Classification
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-20)Deep Learning is one of the fastest growing research topics in process systems engineering due to the ability of deep learning models to represent and predict non-linear behavior in many applications. However, the application ... -
Development of Novel Π-conjugated Polymer Semiconductors for Organic Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-20)Bulk heterojunction polymer solar cell (PSC) is a promising photovoltaic technology for clean and renewable energy sources due to its superior advantages such as mechanical flexibility, light weight, low-cost fabrication, ... -
A Framework for Explicit Model Predictive Control using Adjustable Robust Optimization and Economic Optimization of an Industrial-Scale Sulfuric Acid Plant
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-20)Optimization plays an important role in the operation of chemical engineering systems. Due to their typical size, different optimization tools and techniques are required to improve the efficiency in process operations. ... -
In-situ MnO2 Electrodeposition and its Negative Impact to Rechargeable Zinc Manganese Dioxide Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-19)Achieving high rechargeability with the economically feasible and environmentally friendly Zn-MnO2 batteries has been the goal of many scientists in the past half century. Recently, the stability of the system saw a ... -
Implications of inherent inhomogeneities in thin carbon fiber-based gas diffusion layers: A comparative modeling study
(Elsevier, 2019-02-01)Thin porous media are present in multiple electrochemical energy devices, where they provide key transport and structural functions. The prototypical example is gas diffusion layers (GDLs) in polymer-electrolyte fuel cells ... -
A Multi-scale model for CO2 capture: A Nickel-based oxygen carrier in Chemical-looping Combustion
(Elsevier, 2018-01-01)In this work, we present a multi-scale modelling framework for the Ni-based oxygen carrier (OC) particle that can explicitly account for the complex reaction mechanism taking place on the contacting surface between gas and ... -
An integrated personnel allocation and machine scheduling problem for industrial size multipurpose plants
(Elsevier, 2018-01-01)This paper describes the development and implementation of an optimization model to solve the integrated problem of personnel allocation and machine scheduling for industrial size multipurpose plants. Although each of these ... -
Multilevel Monte Carlo for noise estimation in stochastic multiscale systems
(Elsevier, 2018-12-01)The purpose of this study is to adapt Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) sampling technique for random noise estimation in stochastic multiscale systems and evaluate the performance of this method. The system under consideration ... -
Recent advances on first-principles modeling for the design of materials in CO2 capture technologies
(Elsevier, 2018-11-10)Novel technologies in consideration of industrial sustainability (IS) are in urgent need to satisfy the increasing demands from the society. IS realizes the production of materials and while maintaining environmental and ...
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