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Author:

Raman, Balaji

Title:

Community Potential For Shared Solar Development in India

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

community solar
India
collective action
solar
microfinance
community
development

File:

Download Raman_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Witmer, Lucas Turner

Title:

The Impact of Solar Radiation on the Heating and Cooling of Buildings

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Solar
Building
Energy
Modeling
Solar Energy
Radiation
Irradiance
Irradiation
Energy Modeling
Thermal Comfort

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Stephen James Treado, Committee Member

Author:

Srikrishnan, Vivek Anand

Title:

Estimation of direct normal irradiance with multi-pyranometer arrays and artificial neural networks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

direct normal irradiance
multi-pyranometer array
neural networks
machine learning

File:

Download VivekSrikrishnan-Thesis-20150715.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Spencer Young, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

Author:

Feng, Ruishu

Title:

Electrochemical Corrosion of Carbon Steels in H2S-containing Brines

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Electrochemical Corrosion
H2S corrosion
High Pressure High Temperature
Arctic Corrosion
EIS
Tafel slope
Surface Analysis.

File:

Download Feng-Dissertation_0314.pdf

Committee Members:

Serguei Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kwadwo Osseo Asare, Committee Member
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Margaret Ziomek Moroz, Special Member

Author:

Bayrakci Boz, Mesude

Title:

GEOSPATIAL ANALYSES FOR SOLAR ENERGY: IMPACTS OF PV PENETRATION ON ENERGY DEMAND AND PRICE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Solar
Photovoltaics
GIS
Geospatial
Energy Demand
Solar Assesment
PV Penetration
Locational Marginal Prices
Copula
SUR

File:

Download BayrakciBoz_Mesude_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Susan W Stewart, Outside Member

Author:

Srikrishnan, Vivek Anand

Title:

Markov-Switching Models for Probabilistic Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Solar resource assessment
solar forecasting
Bayesian statistics
Markov-switching models
probabilistic modeling

File:

Download Srikrishnan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Spencer Young, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member

Author:

Shahriari, Mehdi

Title:

Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Renewable Power Generation Portfolios

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Renewable Energy
Electricity Market
Portfolio Optimization

File:

Download Dissertation_MehdiShahriari_Final_04142018.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guido Cervone, Committee Member
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member
Susan W Stewart, Outside Member

Author:

Ferster, Bronson P

Title:

Catalyzing Community-led Solar Development: Escaping the Prisoner's Dilemma by Enabling Cooperative Behavior

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

community solar
catalyzing
game theory
cooperative behavior
project development
onboarding
shared solar
Prisoner's dilemma
repeated games
social utility
collective action
solar
photovoltaics
PV
decision
strategy

File:

Download Thesis_Catalyzing_Community-led_Solar_Development__Escapaing_the_Prisoners_Dilemma_by_Enabling_Cooperative_Behavior.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhen Lei, Committee Member
Gretchen Macht, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Daiwei

Title:

To Invest or Not to Invest: The Exploration of Preferred Investment Strategies in Corporate Renewable Power Purchase Agreements

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-Objective Optimization Problem
Single-Objective Optimization Problem
Real Option Valuation
Power Purchase Agreement
Greenhouse Gas Emission
Wholesale Electricity Price
Binomial Lattice Pricing Method
Unit Commitment
Monte Carlo Simulation
Single-Objective Optimization Problem
Real Option Valuation
Power Purchase Agreement
Greenhouse Gas Emission
Wholesale Electricity Price
Binomial Lattice Pricing Method
Unit Commitment
Monte Carlo Simulation

File:

Download Daiwei_Li_Thesis_Final_0322.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair