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Author:

Seong, Hee Je

Title:

Impact of Oxygen Enrichment on Soot Properties and Soot Oxidative Reactivity

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

oxygen enrichment
soot properties
soot oxidative reactivity
diesel engines
diffusion flame burners
DPF

File:

Download PhD_thesis_Hee_Je_Seong.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Angela Lueking, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

Author:

Yehliu, Kuen

Title:

IMPACTS OF FUEL FORMULATION AND ENGINE OPERATING PARAMETERS ON THE NANOSTRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY OF DIESEL SOOT

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

diesel combustion
biodiesel
Fischer-Tropsch fuel
soot properties
soot reactivity
HRTEM image analysis

File:

Download KuenYehliu_Dissertation_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Angela Lueking, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Octavio Armas Vergel, Committee Member

Author:

Kouame, Sylvain-Didier Brou

Title:

THE GOVERNING ROLE OF PRE-EXISTING LUBRICANT DEPOSITS IN SUBSEQUENT DEPOSIT GROWTH: A UNIFORM LAYER MODEL

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Deposits
Uniform layer
Dehydrogenation
Lubricant
Deoxygenation
Polymeric deposit
Aged Film Test
Carbon
Micro- Oxidaton
Aged Oil Test

File:

Download DOCTORAL_DISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Yaw D Yeboah, Committee Member
Joseph Manuel Perez Sr., Committee Member

Author:

Ye, Peng

Title:

Investigation of impact of fuel injection strategy and biodiesel fueling on engine emissions and performance

Graduate Program:

Fuel Science

Keywords:

biodiesel
engine
efficiency
emissions
fuel injection strategy
fuel injection pressure

File:

Download PengYe_Dissertation_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Yaw D Yeboah, Committee Member

Author:

Lilik, Gregory Kenneth

Title:

Advanced Diesel Combustion of High Cetane Number Fuels and the Impacts on the combustion Process

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Advanced Diesel Combustion
Total Hydrocarbons (THC)
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Ignition Quality
Equivalence Ratio

File:

Download Lilik_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Robert John Wagner, Special Member

Author:

Prabhakar, Bhaskar

Title:

Examination of Egr Cooler Fouling and Engine Efficiency Improvement in Compression Ignition Engines

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

EGR Cooler Fouling
High Efficiency Combustion
Dual Fuel Combustion
Clean Diesel Technology

File:

Download Bhaskar_Prabhakar_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Special Member

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