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Author:: Tayari, Farid
Title:: Techno-economic Assessment of Industrial Co2 Storage in Depleted Shale Gas Reservoirs
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Wind Power
Variability Cost
Water Heater
Load Management
Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Injection
Storage
Cost
Shale
File:: Download Farid_Tayari_PhD_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Seth Adam Blumsack, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Rj Briggs, Special Member

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Author:: Yang, Junjie
Title:: The Development Of A Numerical Model Applicable To Dual Porosity Hydrocarbon Reservoirs With Complex Well Structures
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Multilateral wells
Local grid refinement
Numerical simulation
File:: Download Dissertation_Junjie_Yang_v3.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis Ayala, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member

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Author:: Bukhari, Abdulwahab
Title:: Optimizing Corporate Decisions for Dominant Hydrocarbon Producers under Uncertainty
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Optimization
Risk Analysis
Decision Analysis
VOI
petroleum economics
optimization
monte carlo simulation
stochastic
File:: Download Bukhari_PhD_Dissertation_Submitted.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anastasia Shcherbakova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis Ayala, Committee Member
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member
Paul Griffin, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Anastasia Shcherbakova, Special Member

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Author:: Ozdemir Yilmaz, Mine
Title:: Development of Burnup Dependent Fuel Rod Model in Cobra-tf
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: COBRA-TF
CTF
FRAPCON
FRAPTRAN
subchannel
fuel performance
thermal conductivity degradation
TCD
REA
Halden
fuel centerline temperature
MATPRO
File:: Download Mine_Yilmaz_Dissertation_ETD_Version_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Maria Nikolova Avramova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Jens G Munthe Andersen, Special Member

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Author:: Nwankwo, Princess Christiana
Title:: A New Equation of State of State for Better Liquid Density Prediction of Natural Gas Systems.
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: Equation-of-State
Thermodynamic properties
Phase behavior
Natural Gas
Gas Compressibility Factor
Liquid Densities
File:: Download Report_on_PhD_Dissertation__1_-1.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Adebola Adewumi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Mku Thaddeus Ityokumbul, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member

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Author:: Heidari, Peyman
Title:: Effects of physical and chemical heterogeneities on transport and reaction processes in porous media
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: Mineral Dissolution
Chemical Heterogeneity
Fluid Flow in Porous Media
Solute Transport
Non-Fickian Transport
File:: Download PeymanHeidariFinalDissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member

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Author:: Enyioha, Chukwuka
Title:: An Investigation of the Efficacy of Advanced Well Structures in Unconventional Multi-phase Reservoirs
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: Unconventional
advanced well structures
artificial intelligence
production prediction
field development
history matching
File:: Download DISSERTATION.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member

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Author:: Seales, Maxian Burton
Title:: Analysis of Fracture Fluid Cleanup and Long-term Recovery in Shale Gas Reservoirs
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: Shale Gas
Fracture Fluid Cleanup
Dual Porosity
Flowback water composition
File:: Download M_Seales_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Yilin Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yilin Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Gorski, Committee Member
Antonio Nieto, Committee Member

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Author:: Nojabaei, Bahareh
Title:: Phase Behavior And Flow Analysis Of Shale Reservoirs Using A Compositionally-extended Black-oil Approach
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: Shale reservoirs
phase behavior
reservoir flow simulation
capillary pressure
File:: Download BNojabaei_thesis_2015.pdf
Committee Members:: Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Luis Ayala, Committee Member
James Terry Engelder, Special Member

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Author:: Alqahtani, Mari
Title:: Shale Gas Reservoirs Development Strategies Via Advanced Well Architectures
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Shale
Shale Gas
Reservoir Development
ANN
Unconventional Reservoirs
Complex Wells
Artificial Neural Networks
File:: Download Shale_Gas_Reservoirs_Development_Strategies_Via_Advanced_Well_Architectures_-_Mari_Alqahtani_-_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis Ayala, Committee Member
Antonio Nieto, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member

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