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Author:

Madu, Christian Chidi

Title:

OPTIMIZATION OF THE TRANSPORT OF CO2 GENERATED FROM THE PRODUCTION OF THE MARCELLUS SHALE GAS IN PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CO2 transport
Emissions
Greenhouse Gases
Marcellus shale
Pipeline
Wells

File:

Download CHRISTIAN_MADU_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Oyewole Samuel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Oyewole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Frye, Evan James

Title:

THE IMPACT OF CO2 ON SURFACE AND GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY: A FEASIBILITY STUDY OF EMPLOYING GEOLOGIC CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN ERIE COUNTY, PA USA.

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Lake Erie
wastewater treatment
heavy metal
geologic carbon sequestration

File:

Download Evan_James_Frye_Master_of_Science_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Alrumah, Muhammad

Title:

A Study on the Analysis of the Formation of High Water Saturation zones around Well perforations

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

composite reservoir
water coning
water saturation

File:

Download M_Alrumah-Dissertation_15-August.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Savash Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Pamidimukkala, Phani Kiran

Title:

ANALYSIS OF SCALING POTENTIALS IN MARCELLUS SHALE GAS WELLS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Scaling potential
saturation index
scaling minerals

File:

Download Phani_Final_Thesis_12_.pdf

Committee Members:

Yilin Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yaw D Yeboah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Shihab, Rizvi

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF AN EXPERT SYSTEM USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR A FORWARD IN-SITU COMBUSTION PROCESS

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

in-situ combustion neural networks

File:

Download Rizvi_Thesis_July_27_.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert W Watson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Larry Grayson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

McGuire, Thomas Patrick

Title:

Permeability Evolution of Stressed Fractures Permeated by Reactive Fluids

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

fracture permeability evolution
pressure solution
stress corrosion cracking
carbon dioxide sequestration
fracture strain
fracture dissolution

File:

Download thomas_mcguire_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member

Author:

Izadi, Ghazal

Title:

Evolution of Permeability and Induced Seismicity within Fractured Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

permeability Evolution
Induced Seismicity

File:

Download Ghazal_Izadi_PhD_Dissertation_Final5.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Liwei

Title:

Three-phase Mixing Cell Method for Gas Flooding

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Three-hydrocarbon-Phase equilibrium
Pressure of an efficient displacement
mixing cell method

File:

Download Li_Liwei_mixingcellmodel_VFinal4.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell Taylor Johns, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Zhenzhen

Title:

A parametric study on reservoir cooling for enhanced oil recovery from CO2 injection

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

reservoir cooling
CO2 flooding
MMP reduction

File:

Download Thesis_-_Zhenzhen_Wang.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell Taylor Johns, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Connolly, Michael

Title:

Study of Scale Dependence of Dispersion Using Higher Order Schemes

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

dispersion
miscible gas flooding
TVD

File:

Download Michael_Connolly_etd_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell Taylor Johns, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Xinqian

Title:

Experimental investigation of carbon dioxide trapping due to capillary retention in deep saline aquifers

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Supercritical CO2
carbon sequestration
capillary trapping
initial-residual CO2 saturation
X-ray micro-computed tomography

File:

Download Li_Dissertation_document.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
R Larry Grayson, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Hangsheng Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Almousa, Talal Saeed

Title:

Development and Utilization of Integrated Artificial Expert Systems for Designing Multi-lateral Well Configurations, Estimating Reservoir Properties and Forecasting Reservoir Performance

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

ANN
Artificial Neural Network
Expert Systems
Well Design
Characterization
Forecasting
Reservoir Simulation

File:

Download Dissertation_by_Talal_S._AlMousa.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member

Author:

Chao, Tse-hua

Title:

Mineral Spatial Distribution and Flow Velocity in Determining Calcite Dissolution Rates in Porous Media

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

calcite dissolution rate
spatial heterogeneity
mineral spatial distribution

File:

Download Thesis_THC.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Fogarty, Rebecca Anne

Title:

Mobilization of Heavy Metals upon Release of Marcellus Shale Wastewaters

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

desorption
heavy metals
hydraulic fracturing
Marcellus Shale
mobilization
cadmium

File:

Download MS_Thesis_RFogarty.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ren, Lijiao

Title:

Examination of Bioelectrochemical Systems with Different Configurations for Wastewater Treatment

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

microbial fuel cells (MFCs)
microbial electrolysis cells (MECs)
wastewater treatment
energy recovery

File:

Download LijiaoRen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce Ernest Logan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce Ernest Logan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Regan, Committee Member
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member

Author:

Cao, Peilin

Title:

Investigation of Cement Alteration and Associated Conductivity Change in Co2-rich Environments relevant to Carbon Sequestration

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

cement integrity
CO2 sequestration
cement alteration
conductivity evolution
reactive transport modeling
CO2-brine dynamic flow

File:

Download Cao_Dissertation_final2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Member

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

Author:

Zhao, Haining

Title:

PHASE EQUILIBRIA IN CO2-BRINE SYSTEM FOR CO2 STORAGE

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

CO2 solubility
CO2-brine system
Equation of state
NaCl
CaCl2
Na2SO4
MgCl2
KCl
Pitzer model
activity coefficient
PSUCO2

File:

Download D2014HZ.pdf

Committee Members:

Serguei Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William D Burgos, Special Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member

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

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:

Qiao, Changhe

Title:

GENERAL PURPOSE COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATION FOR MULTIPHASE REACTIVE FLOW WITH A FAST LINEAR SOLVER

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

PennSim
FASP
compositional simulation
reservoir simulation
reactive transport

File:

Download ChangheQiao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jinchao Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Chun Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Tianji

Title:

Numerical Investigation of Fractured Cement Degradation by Carbonated Brine Injection in A Tortuous Rough-Walled Fracture

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

cement
CO2
degradation
chemical
flow
fracture

File:

Download Thesis_ver4_.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bao, Chen

Title:

Understanding Hydrological And Geochemical Controls On Solute Concentrations At Large Scale

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrologic modeling
reactive transport
watershed geochemistry
concentration discharge relationship

File:

Download Chen_phd_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Special Member

Author:

Li, Xiang

Title:

Gas Transport, Sorption and Fracture in Shale

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

enhanced gas recovery
hydraulic fracturing
breakdown pressure
fracture complexity
adsorption
swelling
stress redistribution

File:

Download Xiang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chirs Marone, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member

Author:

Bischof, Angela Maria

Title:

Spectroscopic Investigation of Ground State Charge Transfer in Organic Mixed-valence and Charge-transfer Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

organic mixed-valence
organic charge-transfer
electron transfer

File:

Download Bischof_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
Li Li, Special Member

Author:

Alquisom, Mohammed Mattoq

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED EXPERT SYSTEM TO DETERMINE THE LOCATION OF HORIZONTAL WELL IN A THREE-PHASE RESERVOIR WITH A SIMULTANEOUS GAS CAP AND BOTTOM WATER DRIVE

Graduate Program:

Earth Sciences

Keywords:

Neural Network
ANN
Simulator
Reservoir
Cresting
Horizontal well
Gas Cap
Water Drive
Ertekin
Three-Phase

File:

Download Thesis-3-4-8_final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Member
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member

Author:

Bansal, Yogesh

Title:

FORECASTING THE PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE OF WELLS LOCATED IN TIGHT OIL PLAYS USING ARTIFICIAL EXPERT SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

forecasting production
Tight oil
infill drilling
ANN
optimized completion design

File:

Download Dissertation_YogeshBansal_December2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F. Ayala, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member

Author:

Mansor, Muammar

Title:

Isotopic and trace metal geochemistry of calcite, gypsum, and pyrite as proxies for ancient life and environments

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Achromatium
pyrite
Fe isotope
biosignature
sulfur isotope
molybdenum
biofilms
reactive transport modeling
gypsum
calcite

File:

Download Final_thesis_Muammar_revised_April2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Fantle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher House, Committee Member
Christopher House, Committee Member
Li Li, 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:

Li, Liwei

Title:

EFFECT OF HYSTERESIS AND HETEROGENEITY ON GAS FLOODING PERFORMANCE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Enhanced oil recovery
Carbon storage
Gravity-enhanced process
Multiphase flow and hysteresis
Well injectivity

File:

Download Dissertation_Liwei_Li_VFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell T. Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell T. Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Mohebbi, Mina

Title:

ENHANCING THE BENEFICIAL USE OF FLY ASH IN CONCRETE AND IN MINE RECLAMATION: MEASUREMENT OF ORGANIC CARBON AND PREDICTING THE LONG TERM LEACHING OF HARMFUL ELEMENTS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Fly ash
mine reclamation
concrete
organic carbon
long-term leaching
reactive transport modeling

File:

Download Final_Submission-_PhD_Dissertation-_Mina_Mohebbi.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Li Li, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Aly Marei Said, Outside Member

Author:

Del Vecchio, Joanmarie

Title:

A record of coupled hlllslope and channel response to Pleistocene periglacial erosion in a sandstone headwater valley, central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

geomorphology
periglacial
cosmogenic nuclides
paleoclimate
critical zone

File:

Download Del_Vecchio_MS_thesis_final_August_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman A. DiBiase, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan L. Brantley, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member

Author:

Alsaffar, Mohammed Ahmed

Title:

IMPACT OF MICROBIAL IRON REDUCTION ON RESERVOIR SOURING DURING WATERFLOODING

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Reservoir Souring
SRB
FeRB
Iron Reduction
Sulfate Reduction

File:

Download PSU-Thesis-Mohammed-AlSaffar_Proofread_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell T. Johns, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Jian

Title:

Development of Automated Neuro-Simulation Protocols for Pressure and Rate Transient Analysis Applications

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Neuro-Simulation
Machine Learning
Neural Network
Numerical Reservoir Simulation
Pressure Transient Analysis
Rate Transient Analysis

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Outside Member

Author:

Wen, Hang

Title:

CARBONATE DISSOLUTION IN POROUS AND FRACTURED MEDIA

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Upscaling
Mineral dissolution kinetics
Chemical weathering
Heterogeneous media
Reactive transport
Carbonate

File:

Download PhDdissertation_HangWen.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
Jeffrey R. S. Brownson, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Dorley, Jancoba K

Title:

Understanding the relationship between climate change and concentration-discharge discharge: Agricutural Nitrate in the clear creek watershed.

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Concentration-discharge Dynamic
Nitrate export
Time series analysis
Climate projections

File:

Download Dorley_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Duffy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cibin Raj, Committee Member

Author:

Cai, Zhang

Title:

UNDERSTANDING REACTIVE TRANSPORT OF MARCELLUS SHALE WATERS IN AQUIFERS

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Reactive transport modeling
Marcellus Shale flowback / produced waters
Mineralogy
Mineral spatial heterogeneity
Natural attenuation
Rock-water interaction
Geochemistry

File:

Download Ph.D_Thesis_Zhang_Cai_0702-2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy M. Gernand, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Nathaniel R Warner, Outside Member

Author:

Chen, Yunxiang

Title:

QUANTIFYING FLOW RESISTANCE IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Flow resistance
Computational fluid dynamics
Structure-from-Motion
Subglacial conduit
Mountain streams
Roughness

File:

Download Yunxiang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Li Li, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Committee Member
Kenneth D. Mankoff, Outside Member

Author:

Ajemigbitse, Moses Ayo

Title:

On the Nature, Remediation, and Quantification of Radium in Hydraulic Fracturing Co-products

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Hydraulic fracturing
Marcellus shale
Radium
Produced Water
Solids
Accuracy

File:

Download Ajemigbitse_Dissertation_August2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Scott Cannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Li Li, Committee Member
Fred Scott Cannon, Committee Member
Sridhar Komarneni, Outside Member

Author:

Marcon, Virginia Margaret

Title:

THE EFFECT OF LITHOLOGY ON (BIO)GEOCHEMICAL WEATHERING: SANDSTONE TO SERPENTINITE

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

biogeochemical weathering
critical zone
Shale Hills
87Sr/86Sr
mineral biosignatures
δ13C
porosity

File:

Download MarconDissertation_Formatted_Nov2019b.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Roman Alexander Dibiase, Committee Member
Li Li, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Jiehao

Title:

Propagation, Proppant Transport, and the Evolution of Transport Properties of Fluid-Driven Fractures

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Hydraulic fracturing
Proppant transport
Fracture conductivity
Natural fracture
Gas fracturing
Dynamic gas fracturing

File:

Download Jiehao_Wang_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Committee Member
Li Li, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhi, Wei

Title:

Understanding hydrological and biogeochemical control on solute export pattern at watershed scale

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

watershed
watershed model
watershed biogeochemical reactive transport model
solute export
land use
soil carbon and nitrogen
climate change
water quality

File:

Download Dissertation___Wei_Zhi__Jan15_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fan, Liyan

Title:

Evaluating the impact of a constructed floodplain wetland on water quality in an urban stream in State College, PA

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Best Management Practice
pollutants removal efficiency
constructed floodplain wetlands
Chesapeake Bay

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Version_Liyan_Fan__3_.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Lauren Mc Phillips, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Member
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Bing

Title:

Model development and application on coupled hyporheic exchange flux in river-hyporheic zones

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hydrology
hyporheicFoam
Hyporheic exchange flux
OpenFOAM
Transient storage model
mass transfer coefficient
hyporheic zone
heterogeneous

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Major Field Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ying Pan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stewart, Bryn

Title:

From above and below: controls of external climate drivers and internal subsurface structure on catchment hydro-biogeochemistry

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

water quality
catchment
hydrology
biogeochemistry
reactive transport modeling
climate change
solute export
dissolved organic carbon
dissolved inorganic carbon

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Boyer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Li Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Major Field Member
Nathaniel Warner, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Boualavong, Jonathan

Title:

Energy-Rate Trade-offs in Electrochemical Carbon Capture

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

electrochemistry
carbon capture
separations
absorption
Gaussian process
adaptive sampling

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Li Li, Outside Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Minor Member
Bruce Logan, Major Field Member
Christopher Gorski, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Mc Devitt, Bonnie

Title:

Assessing Oil and Gas Produced Water Disposal to Western U.S. Surface Water: Implications for Beneficial Use as Disposal Management

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

isotope geochemistry
salinization
radium geochemistry
contaminant fate and transport
human health
ecological health
drinking water
wastewater treatment
arid
agriculture
beneficial use
NPDES
oil and gas
produced water
sediment
isotope tracer
freshwater mussels
barite
carbonate
phytoremediation

File:

Download McDevitt_Bonnie_Final_Dissertation_7-2-2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Nathaniel Richard Warner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Heather Elise Preisendanz, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Feng, Dapeng

Title:

Differentiable Hydrologic Models: A Systematic Integration of Deep Learning and Physical Models for Large Scale Hydrologic Simulation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Physics-constrained deep learning
Differentiable hydrologic models
Prediction in ungauged regions
Data integration
Streamflow prediction
Large scale hydrologic modeling

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Major Field Member
Chaopeng Shen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jenni Evans, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chaemchuen, Piyaphat

Title:

Suspended Sediment Concentration prediction using Deep Learning across the Contiguous United States

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Suspended Sediment Concentration prediction
Deep Learning
Long Short-Term memory model
The Contiguous United States
Large-scale modeling

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Chaopeng Shen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member

Author:

Xiao, Dacheng

Title:

Understanding controls of hydrologic and geochemical processes using model-data integration at the watershed scale

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Stream generation
Chemical weathering
Critical measurement
Watershed

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair