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Author:: Mol, Mevlut Furkan
Title:: ANALYZING PARTICULATE EMISSIONS CAUSED BY DISPOSAL AND TRANSPORTATION OF DRILL CUTTINGS FROM MARCELLUS SHALE WELLS IN PENNSYLVANIA
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Oil&gas waste
particulate matter concentration
Landfill pollutant exposure
Radioactive element released by landfills
Oil&gas waste transport
File:: Download ThesisFinalDraft-MevlutFurkanMol.pdf
Committee Members:: Jeremy Michael Gernand, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Zhong, Xuwei
Title:: Pressure Transient Analysis of Shale Gas Reservoirs with Horizontal Boreholes: An Artificial Intelligence Based Approach
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Artificial Neural Network
Pressure Transient Analysis
ANN
PTA
Shale Gas Reservoir
File:: Download Zhong_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Im, Kyungjae
Title:: FRICTION AND PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OF FRACUTRES AND FAULTS DURING STATIC REPOSE AND DYNAMIC REACTIVATION
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Fault permeability
Fault Friction
Rate and State Friction
Fault Reactivation
File:: Download Dissertation_KJ_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

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Author:: Udegbe, Egbadon Ajibola
Title:: Pattern Recognition for Fractured Reservoir Characterization using Subsurface Big Data
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: big data
data science
subsurface
fractures
seismic
unconventional reservoirs
shale
File:: Download Udegbe_PhD_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sanjay Srinivasan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Tieyuan Zhu, Outside Member

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Author:: Schwartz, Brandon
Title:: THE ROLE OF PORE STRUCTURE IN PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OBSERVED IN LABORATORY STUDIES OF MARCELLUS AND WOLFCAMP SHALE
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: permeability evolution
shale
pore structure
pore geometry
material stiffness
permeability enhancement
File:: Download Brandon_Schwartz_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member

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Author:: Mcwhorter, Heather Fennessey
Title:: Minimizing the Effect of Dermal Absorption and Transport of Optimal Chemical Vapors for Simulated Measurement of Workplace Protection Factors (WPF) of Respiratory Protective Equipment
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: respirator
dermal permeability
WPF
ethyl bromide
workplace protection factor
File:: Download Thesis_-_McWhorter_-_11.12.18_.pdf
Committee Members:: Sarma V Pisupati, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Michael Gernand, Committee Member
Mark Stephen Klima, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Singh, Madhu
Title:: Measurement, Characterization, Identification and Control of Combustion Produced Soot
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Carbon
Soot
Nanostructure
Microscopy
Spectroscopy
TEM
Carbon Black Functionalization
Laser-induced Incandescence
LII
Soot Source Identification
SSILD
Laser Derivatization
Time-resolved LII
Carbon Characterization
Health effects of combustion soot
Cytotoxicity
Diesel Particulate Filter
DPF
Cell viability
BEAS-2B male lung cells
XPS
XRD
TGA
Soot oxidation
NO2 Oxidation
TiRe-LII
Carbonizaton
graphitization
File:: Download MadhuSingh_Dissertation_2019.pdf
Committee Members:: Randy Lee Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Committee Member
Patricia Silveyra, Outside Member

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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

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Author:: Chakraborty, Nirjhor
Title:: Fundamental Investigation of Gas Storage and Transport in Shales
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: shale gas
supercritical fluids
nanopores and fluid confinement
gas densification
adsorption-desorption
surface diffusion
3D X-ray CT Imaging
sub-resolution and multi-scale imaging
petrophysics and characterization
multi-phase multi-mechanistic modeling
File:: Download Nirjhor_Chakraborty_Dissertation_Post-Defense_final_draft.pdf
Committee Members:: Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Michael Charles Hillman, Outside Member

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