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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:

You, Fan

Title:

Unit Commitment Problems: A Comparison of Algorithms and Heuristics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Unit Commitment
Dynamic Programming
PCA
Neural Networks

File:

Download FanYou-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose Antonio Ventura, 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:

Dalvi, Sourabh Prabhakar

Title:

THE VALUE OF FLEXIBILITY IN ELECTRICITY MARKETS FROM GAS TURBINE UPGRADES: A STOCHASTIC MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Stochastic Optimization
Power System
Electricity Markets
Unit Commitment
Flexibility

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Sourabh.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, 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

Author:

Li, Daiwei

Title:

To Invest or Not to Invest: The Exploration of Preferred Investment Strategies in Corporate Renewable Power Purchase Agreements

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-Objective Optimization Problem
Single-Objective Optimization Problem
Real Option Valuation
Power Purchase Agreement
Greenhouse Gas Emission
Wholesale Electricity Price
Binomial Lattice Pricing Method
Unit Commitment
Monte Carlo Simulation
Single-Objective Optimization Problem
Real Option Valuation
Power Purchase Agreement
Greenhouse Gas Emission
Wholesale Electricity Price
Binomial Lattice Pricing Method
Unit Commitment
Monte Carlo Simulation

File:

Download Daiwei_Li_Thesis_Final_0322.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wasserman, Ian

Title:

Study of Petroleum Coke Ash as an Alternative Low-Cost Oxygen Carrier for Chemical-Looping Combustion

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Chemical-Looping Combustion
Petroleum coke
Sustainability
Waste resource recovery
Advanced combustion

File:

Download ThesisFinal_IanWasserman_iww5045.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarma V Pisupati, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xueyi Zhang, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Isaac-Onwah, Uzoezi

Title:

Risk Preference Amongst Undergraduate Engineering Students - The Effects of Time Pressure, Optimism, Sleep and Available Information

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Risk
Risk aversion
Decision Making
Engineering Decision Making
Risk Seeking
Risk Preference
Time Pressure
Optimism

File:

Download Uzoezi_-_Thesis_.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Michael Gernand, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Yijie

Title:

An Extended Musket Differential Mass Balance Equation Applied to Declined Curve Analysis For Wells Undergoing Combined Drived Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Material Balance
Decline Curve Analysis
Combined Drive
boundary-dominated flow
Segereated flow
Aquifer Modeling
Dispersed flow
Forchheimer
gas injection
water injection
primary gas cap

File:

Download Thesis_v13.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory R King, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Committee Member
John Wang, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ren, Zihan

Title:

Application of Data Driven Machine Learning Methodologies for Predicting Reamining Useful Life of Equipment

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Remaining useful life estimation
turbofan engine
Oil and gas equipment

File:

Download MS-thesis-ZihanRen.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay Srinivasan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Sanjay Srinivasan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yen, Shao Hsien

Title:

TOWARDS ACCURATE EVALUATING THE VALUE OFOPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY OF COMBINED-CYCLE UNITS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Flexibility
Combined-cycle unit
configuration formulation
dynamic ramping
unit commitment
Flexibility
Flexibility
Combined-cycle unit
configuration formulation
dynamic ramping
unit commitment
Combined-cycle unit
configuration formulation
configuration formulation
dynamic ramping
unit commitment

File:

Download Jimmy_s_Penn_State_Master_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Chen, Guanzhou

Title:

Sand Screen Performance Prediction Using Numerical Analysis

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

sand screen
CFD-DEM
sand screen performance prediction
numerical simulation
permeability change prediction
gravel pack

File:

Download Thesis_Guanzhou_Chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Springer, Renaldo

Title:

Development of an all aqueous thermally regenerative ammonia battery using Cu(I,II) redox reactions

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Thermally Regenerative ammonia battery
TRAB
energy storage
all aqueous TRAB

File:

Download SpringerR_MSc_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Derek M Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei Lvov, Committee Member
Christopher A Gorski, Committee Member