Publications, Activities, and Awards
- Bitumen Froth Cleaning and Upgrading using Hydrothermal Treatment Plus Hot Filtration
- A Janus facilitated transport membrane with asymmetric surface wettability and dense/porous structure: enabling high stability and separation efficiency
- A new synthesis process for the mass production of core/shell magnetic beads with tunable and uniform sizes, high magnetic susceptibility, and excellent acid resistance
- Asphaltene adsorption on sodium-citrate-modified magnetite nanoparticles
- Asphaltene Behaviors and Models
- Bio-inspired, facile and scalable surface functionalization approach with small molecules for multitasking oil decontamination
- Bitumen Froth Cleaning Using Hydrothermal Treatment Plus Hot Filtration
- Bitumen Froth Cleaning Using Hydrothermal Treatment Plus Hot Filtration
- Destabilization of Bitumen-coated Fine Solids in Organic Media Induced by Water-assisted Biomolecule Flocculants Extracted from Guar Beans
- Effect of charge density of reverse emulsion breaker on demulsification performance for steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) emulsions under high temperature and high pressure
- Effects of low-temperature hydrothermal treatment on the properties and removal of fine solids from nonaqueous extraction (NAE) bitumen
- Electrodeposition of bitumen-, asphaltene-, or maltene-coated kaolinite from cyclohexane suspensions.
- Evaluation of polyethylene hildebrand solubility parameter evolution with temperature.
- Facile and scalable surface functionalization approach with small silane molecules for oil/water separation and demulsification of surfactant/asphaltenes-stabilized emulsions
- Fine solids removal from NAE bitumen by surface functionalized magnetic particles
- High Molecular Weight Guar Gum Assisted Settling of Fine Solids in Diluted Bitumen: Effect of Solvents
- High-efficiency and Durable Removal of Water-in-Heavy Oil Emulsions Enabled by Delignified and Carboxylated Basswood with Zwitterionic Nanohydrogel Coatings
- In-Situ Hot Filtration of Bitumen Streams to Produce Dry and Solids-Free Bitumen Product
- In-Situ Hot Filtration of Hydrothermally Upgraded Bitumen Products
- Innovative Process for Bitumen Froth Cleaning Using Hydrothermal Treatment Plus Hot Filtration
- Interfacial Behavior and Interaction Mechanism of Pentol/Water Interface Stabilized with Asphaltenes
- Kaolinite surface charges developed in cyclohexane suspension with dissolved Span 80 or bitumen: Electrodeposition and adsorption/desorption studies.
- Novel polymer nanoparticles with core-shell structure for breaking asphaltenes-stabilized W/O and O/W emulsions
- Probing Molecular Interactions of Bitumen-coated Mineral Solids in Organic Solvents
- Probing the Interaction Mechanism between Air Bubbles and Bitumen Surfaces in Aqueous Media Using Bubble Probe Atomic Force Microscopy
- Probing the interactions between Pickering emulsion droplets stabilized with pH-responsive nanoparticles
- Probing the interactions between Pickering emulsion droplets with pH-responsive nanoparticles
- Probing the Surface Forces between Air Bubbles and Bitumen via Direct Force Measurements: Effects of Aqueous Chemistry
- Removal of fine solids from bitumen by hetero-aggregation and magnetic separation using surface-modified magnetite nanoparticles. Part I: Proof of concept.
- Removal of fine solids from bitumen by hetero-aggregation and magnetic separation using surface-modified magnetite nanoparticles. Part II: role of surface modification
- Removal of Fine Solids from Bitumen by Polymer Flocculants during Non-aqueous Extraction of Oil Sands
- Removal of hydrophobic bitumen-coated fine solids from bitumen using water droplets with amphiphilic chemicals during non-aqueous extraction of oil sands
- Removal of hydrophobic bitumen-coated fine solids from NAE bitumen using guar gum
- Removal of hydrophobic bitumen-coated fine solids from NAE bitumen using water droplets with modified interfacial chemistry and bio-inspired polymers
- Stabilization Mechanism and Chemical Demulsification of Water-in-Oil and Oil-in-Water Emulsions in Petroleum Industry: A Review
- Surface Interaction Mechanisms in Mineral Flotation: Fundamentals, Measurements, and Perspectives
- Surface Interaction Mechanisms of Air Bubbles, Asphaltenes and Oil Drops in Aqueous Solutions with Implications for Interfacial Engineering Processes
- Surface-modified magnetite nanoparticles for fine solids removal from non-aqueous extracted bitumen
- Techniques for treating slop oil in oil and gas industry: A short review
- The solubility of non-polar polymers in cyclohexane: molecular dynamics estimation of the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter.
- The temperature dependence of the Hildebrand solubility parameter of selected hydrocarbon polymers and hydrocarbon solvents: a molecular dynamics investigation.
- Tunning water ionicity in water-assisted settling of bituminous fine solids.
- Understanding the Complex Interfacial Behaviors and Molecular Interaction Mechanisms of Asphaltenes at the Oil/Water/Solid Interfaces
- Understanding the Interfacial Behaviors and Molecular Interaction Mechanisms of Asphaltenes Using Experimental and Theoretical Methods
- Understanding the Properties of Bitumen Froth from Oil Sands Surface Mining and Treatment of Water-in-oil Emulsions
- Water-mediated adhesion of oil sands on solid surfaces at low temperature