In-situ recovery methods for oils sands are applied to reservoirs containing bitumen that are too deep for mining. To date there has been only one commercially viable in-situ recovery method, Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD), involving high pressure steam injection and bitumen production using horizontal well pairs located near the base of oil sands formations. While […]

Babies who are born prematurely are at risk of developing a condition called Retinopathy of Prematurity (RoP), which if left untreated, can lead to permanent blindness. RoP causes characteristic changes in the retinal vasculature, which can be seen when looking into the eye. Because the infants need to be monitored regularly for this condition, and […]

About 65 percent of organizations worldwide have talent management (TM) practices in place, with 5 to 10 percent of their employees being identified as a talent annually. Seemingly unhindered by a lack of empirical evidence, in recent years organizations have decided to include more and more employees in their talent pools, with the goal of […]

This project focuses on solving problems related to safety and security of clients and personnel of the Calgary Drop-in & Rehab Centre Society. Their IT department tasked the Biometric Technologies Laboratory Lab, University of Calgary with determining what biometric technologies can be used for identification of clients for access to services, to monitor the safety […]

This study explores the unintended outcomes that have emerged following the performance management interventions enforced by university boards and the government on academics in the United Kingdom. To understand how these unintended outcomes are caused or controlled by universities, social learning and social contagion theories are used to analyze the contextual conditions that influence the […]

Studies on the personality-performance relationship have traditionally focused on relating stable individual differences in behaviour, thought, and emotion (i.e., personality traits) to stable individual differences in performance. Whereas this approach has undoubtedly advanced our understanding of the relationship between personality and performance, it is at odds with a recent call in the literature to conceptualize […]

The Project’s objective is to continue the upgrading work executed in the previous MITACS Converge project with a larger focus on more challenging biocrude oils such as heavy fractions, high viscosity, high nitrogen, high ash oils that are produced from feedstocks such as “feed gate residues” in the form of manures, biosludges and organics from […]

Shale reservoirs store gigantic volumes of petroleum (oil and gas). However, because of the complex nature of the reservoir rock, it is difficult to recover the oil and/or gas stored in shales. Under normal conditions, it is possible to extract only as much as 10% of the resources in place, thus leaving behind a huge […]

Shale reservoirs have become a very important source of hydrocarbons, especially in North America. Shales are rocks with very low permeability and therefore, produce the hydrocarbons stored in them is difficult. In order to do it, oil companies have to inject high pressurized fluids to break the rock. But, by using this unique strategy, most […]

Corrosion of internal reinforcement of concrete bridges represents a significant issue. Due to a presence of deicing salts, cycles of freezing and thawing, sustained and repetitive loads, the concrete loses its ability to protect the internal reinforcement. Unprotected reinforcement starts to corrode sooner than anticipated and, therefore, reduces the bridge service life. To avoid shortening […]

Alberta’s oil sands are one of the world’s largest known hydrocarbon deposits. Current commercial recovery methods such as Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) require large amounts of steam. This in turn means that large amounts of natural gas are burned to produce steam resulting in significant greenhouse gas emissions. Solvent injection is one initiative that […]

AlbCurrent commercial recovery method of Alberta’s oil sands is Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) which requires large amounts of steam. This means that large amounts of natural gas are burned to produce steam resulting in significant greenhouse gas emissions. Solvent injection is one initiative gaining interest to overcome the aforementioned limitations. Certain reservoir conditions, including […]