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Author:

Zhang, Kuangyuan

Title:

Essays on Mining Economics and System Modeling

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Mining Economics
Real Option Evaluation
Mean-reverting of Commodity Price
Material Criticality
Yttrium
China’s Rare Earth P

File:

Download Kuangyuan_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Nathan Kleit, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonio Nieto, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Nathan Kleit, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Antonio Nieto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Young, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Miao

Title:

ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE DURING EARLY-TRANSIENT MULTI-PHASE FLOW CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Analytical Solution
Unconventional Reservoirs
Multiphase Flow

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_manuscript_MZhang_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F. Ayala H., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F. Ayala H., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Mathieu Stienon, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Jian

Title:

Development of Automated Neuro-Simulation Protocols for Pressure and Rate Transient Analysis Applications

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Neuro-Simulation
Machine Learning
Neural Network
Numerical Reservoir Simulation
Pressure Transient Analysis
Rate Transient Analysis

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Rui

Title:

Investigation of Pore Structure and Sorption Behavior for Unconventional Gas Reservoir Rocks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

pore structure
adsorption
small-angle neutron scattering
coalbed methane
shale gas
unconventional natural gas

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_Rui_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Outside Member
Lilin He, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Fengyuan

Title:

flowback rate transient analysis of multi-fractured horizontal wells in tight and ultratight reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

flowback analysis
rate transient analysis
multiphase flow
tight and ultratight reservoir
fracture characterization

File:

Download Dissertation_8.0.pdf

Committee Members:

Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair