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Author:

Kamali Shahri, Seyed Mehdi Mehdi

Title:

STUDY OF AMINOSILICA ADSORBENTS FOR CO2 CAPTURE: EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CO2 adsorption
Kinetics
thermodynamics
heat of adsorption
efficiency
aminosilica material
type I adsorbent
surface chemistry
surface modification
CO2 adsorption modeling

File:

Download MehdiThesis--_Final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caroline Clifford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Pitakjakpipop, Pawnprapa

Title:

EFFECT OF SUPPORT FOR Ni2P CATALYSTS ON HYDRODEOXYGENATION OF BIO-OIL USING ANISOLE AND GUAIACOL AS MODEL COMPOUNDS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrodeoxygenation
Nickel Phosphide
TiO2-CeO2
Support effect
Bio-oil

File:

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Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy L. Vander Wal, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Michael J. Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Raman, Balaji

Title:

DEPOSITION OF MAGNETITE IN HIGH TEMPERATURE BOILER ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Deposition
fouling
magnetite
boilers
DLVO interaction energy

File:

Download Balaji_Raman-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Serguei N Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei N. Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarma V. Pisupati, Committee Member
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
James Adair, Outside Member

Author:

Yue, Wenting

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF A PRODUCTION DATA ANALYSIS MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION IN A PRODUCING OIL RESERVOIR

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

production data analysis
Ensemble Kalman Filter
Whole-field evaluation
Reservoir simulation
history matching

File:

Download Wenting_Ph.D._Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yilin Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yilin Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Steven Greybush, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Yi

Title:

Laboratory Estimation and Modeling of Apparent Permeability for Ultra-Tight Anthracite and Shale Matrix: A Multi-Mechanistic Flow Approach

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability Evolution
Analytical Modeling
Geomechanical Deformation
Unconventional Gas Flow
Laboratory Measurement

File:

Download Yi_Wang_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Outside Member

Author:

Tchapda, Aimé Hilaire Ngongang

Title:

Design and Construction of a Lab Scale Pressurized Entrained Flow Reactor for Studying the Thermochemical Conversion of Solid Fuels at High Temperature

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Pressurized entrained flow gasifier
Thermochemical conversion of biomass and coal
co-gasification
co-pyrolysis
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)
Synergistic effects of coal and biomass conversion
High temperature pyrolysis
Thermal deactivation of char
Thermodynamic modeling
Tar characterization
High pressure
char morphology
reactor design

File:

Download Dissertation_Aime.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarma V. Pisupati, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarma V. Pisupati, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Mathews, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Yaw Yeboah, Outside Member

Author:

Zhou, Qiumei

Title:

ANALYSIS OF NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION AND FRACTURE FLUIDS FLOWBACK IN MARCELLUS SHALE USING DATA MINING APPROACHES

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Marcellus Shale
Data Mining
Fracture Flowback

File:

Download PS_Thesis_template_version_19_Qiumei_Zhou.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yilin Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yilin Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Andrew Kleit, Committee Member
Terry Engelder, Outside Member
Yitian Xiao, Special Member

Author:

Abrahamson, Joseph Peter

Title:

Pulsed Laser Annealing of Carbon

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

carbon
carbonization
graphitization
graphitizable
graphitizability
odd membered carbon rings
laser annealing
microscopy
electron microscopy
carbon annealing
kinetics of graphitization
carbon black
coke
char
mesophase

File:

Download Abrahamson-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy Lee Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Semih Eser, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Sankara Raman, Gireesh Subramaniam

Title:

Evaluation and Modeling of Pressure Filtration of Coal Refuse Slurry

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal Refuse Slurry
Pressure Filtration
Artificial Neural Network
Waste Management
Dewatering
Coal
Fine Coal
Mineral Processing

File:

Download Gireesh_Raman_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Mark S. Klima, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Mark S. Klima, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. William A. Groves, Committee Member
Dr. Jeremy M. Gernand, Committee Member
Dr. Herschel A. Elliott, Outside Member

Author:

Lashgari, Ali

Title:

analysis of the efficacy of the MSHA respirable dust sampling program in surface metal/nonmetal mining industry

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Surface Mining
Occupational Health and Safety
Respirable Dust
Silica
Compliance Sampling
Classification and Regression Tree
Metal/Nonmetal Mining
Fugitive Dust
Dust Exposure
Quartz

File:

Download Dissertation-7-7-2017-AL.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffery Kohler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffery Kohler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy M. Gernand, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Dennis Murphy, Outside Member