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Author:: Tsai, Chen-hao
Title:: Essays on Electricity Market Restructuring and nuclear Industry in the United States
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: nuclear energy
nuclear safety
electricity market
deregulation
File:: Download Chen-Hao_Tsai_Dissertation_20150327.pdf
Committee Members:: Zhen Lei, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhen Lei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Andrew Nathan Kleit, Committee Member
Edward Harris Klevans, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Special Member

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Author:: Husain, Taha Murtuza
Title:: Computational Modeling of Lava Domes using Particle Dynamics to investigate the effect of conduit flow mechanics on flow patterns
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: computational modeling
lava domes
File:: Download COMPUTATIONAL_MODELING_OF_LAVA_DOMES_USING_PARTICLE_DYNAMICS_TO_INVESTIGATE_THE_EFFECT_OF_CONDUIT_FLOW_MECHANICS_ON_FLOW__2nd_Draft_.pdf
Committee Members:: Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Voight, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member
Glen Mattioli, Special Member

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Author:: Kalaskar, Vickey Baliram
Title:: Ignition Behavior of Gasolines and Surrogate Fuels in Low Temperature Combustion Strategies
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Autoignition
Combustion
Compression ignition
Negative valve overlap
Ignition behavior
LTC
HCCI
PPC
File:: Download Kalaskar_PhD_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
James Szybist, Special Member

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Author:: Wang, Li
Title:: Understanding The Effects Of Mineral Spatial Distributions On Chromium Sorption and Calcite Dissolutoin In Porous Media
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Spatial pattern
Cr(VI) sorption
Dissolution
Heterogeneity
Connectivity
reactive transport
File:: Download Revised_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Member

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Author:: Gan, Quan
Title:: Analysis of induced seismicity and heat transfer in geothermal reservoirs by coupled simulation
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Geothermal reservoir
thermal front
induced seismicity
permeabiltiy evolution
breakdown pressure
File:: Download Quan_Gan_Analysis_of_induced_seismicity_and_heat_transfer_by_coupled_simulation_in_geothermal_reservoirs.pdf
Committee Members:: Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Special Member

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Author:: Gaddam, Chethan Kumar
Title:: Electron Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization for Soot Source Differentiation by Laser Derivatization
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: SSILD
HRTEM
pulsed laser heating
soot source identification
partial graphitization
radial profile analysis
File:: Download Gaddam_Chethan_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Randy Lee Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

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Author:: Li, Zhi
Title:: Three essays on energy economics and policy
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Innovation
Patent
Learning
Energy efficient
Industrial policy
Export restriction
Innovation system
File:: Download Dissertation_Zhi_Li.pdf
Committee Members:: Seth Adam Blumsack, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhen Lei, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhen Lei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joel Reid Landry, Committee Member
Kala Krishna, Committee Member

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Author:: Alqahtani, Mari
Title:: Shale Gas Reservoirs Development Strategies Via Advanced Well Architectures
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Shale
Shale Gas
Reservoir Development
ANN
Unconventional Reservoirs
Complex Wells
Artificial Neural Networks
File:: Download Shale_Gas_Reservoirs_Development_Strategies_Via_Advanced_Well_Architectures_-_Mari_Alqahtani_-_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis Ayala, Committee Member
Antonio Nieto, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member

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Author:: Cho, Joohyun
Title:: Four essays on economic analysis on increased wind power and battery energy storage system in restructured markets-in South Korea and Electric Reliability Council of Texas
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: energy storage system
windpower
hotelling's rule
File:: Download phd_thesis_cho_final_v2.1.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew Nathan Kleit, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Nathan Kleit, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Committee Member
George Young, Committee Member

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Author:: Hall, Derek M
Title:: Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the CuCl(aq)/HCl(aq) Electrolyzer for Hydrogen Production
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: CuCl HCl Electrolyzer
Thermodynamics
Kinetics
Efficiency
File:: Download Derek_Hall_PHD_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Serguei Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ljubisa R Radovic, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

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