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Author:

Udegbe, Egbadon Ajibola

Title:

Economic Modeling of the Energy Management System for a Battery-solar Building-integrated Microgrid: A Comparison Between Lead-acid and Lithium Ion Battery Systems

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

microgrid
solar
energy management system
backup power
smart grid
grid stability
frequency regulation
peak-shaving

File:

Download Udegbe_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr David Riley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Stines, Zachary O'cain

Title:

Reducing the Impact of the Power Sector on Ozone Pollution: An Evaluation of Spatial and Temporal Differentiated Prices for Nitrogen Oxide Emissions

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Ozone
NOx
Electricity
Differentiated
Emissions
Spatial

File:

Download ZacharyStinesFinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dupuis, Alexia Violaine

Title:

Comparing Costs and Generation Mix Alternatives for the Application of the Clean Power Plan in the PJM Electricity Market: Application of Unit Commitment

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Clean Power Plan
Carbon dioxide emissions
Unit commitment
Electricity markets

File:

Download Alexia_Dupuis_-_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Garcia, Ismael

Title:

SENSITIVITY OF THE WESTERN U.S. ELECTRICITY POWER SYSTEM TO HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

water
WECC
vulnerability
drought
optimization
power system
high temperature
sensitivity
electricity
opf

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Karen Ann Fisher-Vanden, Committee Member

Author:

Valqui Ordonez, Brayam D

Title:

ENDOGENOUS ADOPTION DECISIONS OF COAL-BIOMASS CO-FIRING: AN EQUILIBRIUM FRAMEWORK APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Electricity Market
Biomass co-firing
Nash Equilibrium
Coal Plants
Endogenous decisions
MISO
Renewable Portfolio Standards

File:

Download Thesis_Brayam_Valqui_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Fisher-Vanden, Committee Member
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member

Author:

Karri, Kashyap

Title:

THE INTERACTION OF SYNTHETIC PETCOKE SLAGS WITH ALUMINA CRUCIBLES

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

petcoke
slags
refractory
refractory depletion
slag interaction
high-temperature viscometry

File:

Download Thesis_Kashyap_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chiara Lo Prete, Committee Member
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member

Author:

Ma, Haoming

Title:

THE IMPACT OF BLACKOUT COST RECOVERY ON STOCK BEHAVIORS AMONG ELECTRIC UTILITIES

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

stock behavior
event study
hurricane
large blackouts

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Haoming_Ma.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhen Lei, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member

Author:

Gendrue, Nathan

Title:

METHANE DISTRIBUTION AND VENTILATION OPTIMIZATION FOR A SCALED LONGWALL MINE WITH BLEEDER

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Longwall Mining
Ventilation Effectiveness
Ventilation System Optimization
Methane Gas
CFD
Scaled Model

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Gendrue.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Committee Member
William Arthur Groves, Committee Member

Author:

Wei, Tianyuan

Title:

Analysis of Depletion Factor in the Marcellus Shale Gas Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

resource policy
hydraulic fracturing in shale reservoirs
Monte Carlo simulation in uncertainty analysis

File:

Download Final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Keru

Title:

Permeability and Capillary Pressure Relationship in Porous Media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability
Capillary Pressure
Correlation

File:

Download Liu_Elswoth_2019_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member