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Author:

Mukherjee, Amrita

Title:

Micro-Hollow Cathode Discharge Analysis of Lunar Regolith Simulants

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Micro-Hollow Cathode Discharge
Plasma
Lunar Regolith Simulants
Optical Emission Spectroscopy

File:

Download MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy Lee Vander Wal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Seong, Hee Je

Title:

Impact of Oxygen Enrichment on Soot Properties and Soot Oxidative Reactivity

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

oxygen enrichment
soot properties
soot oxidative reactivity
diesel engines
diffusion flame burners
DPF

File:

Download PhD_thesis_Hee_Je_Seong.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Angela Lueking, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

Author:

Yehliu, Kuen

Title:

IMPACTS OF FUEL FORMULATION AND ENGINE OPERATING PARAMETERS ON THE NANOSTRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY OF DIESEL SOOT

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

diesel combustion
biodiesel
Fischer-Tropsch fuel
soot properties
soot reactivity
HRTEM image analysis

File:

Download KuenYehliu_Dissertation_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Angela Lueking, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Octavio Armas Vergel, Committee Member

Author:

Nyathi, Mhlwazi Solomon

Title:

Evaluation of co-cokes from bituminous coal with vacuum resid or decant oil, and evaluation of anthracites, as precursors to graphite

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

graphitization
coke
coking
coal
graphite
isotropic

File:

Download MHLWAZI_SOLOMON_NYATHI_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Harold Harris Schobert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caroline Elaine Clifford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Peter J Pappano, Committee Member

Author:

Kouame, Sylvain-Didier Brou

Title:

THE GOVERNING ROLE OF PRE-EXISTING LUBRICANT DEPOSITS IN SUBSEQUENT DEPOSIT GROWTH: A UNIFORM LAYER MODEL

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Deposits
Uniform layer
Dehydrogenation
Lubricant
Deoxygenation
Polymeric deposit
Aged Film Test
Carbon
Micro- Oxidaton
Aged Oil Test

File:

Download DOCTORAL_DISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Yaw D Yeboah, Committee Member
Joseph Manuel Perez Sr., Committee Member

Author:

Fernandez-Alos, Victor

Title:

IMPROVED MOLECULAR MODEL GENERATION FOR SOOT, CHARS, AND COALS: HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY LATTICE FRINGES REPRODUCTION WITH FRINGE3D

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

soot
molecular model
3D HRTEM lattice fringe images
char
low-rank coals

File:

Download ID_9438372_Victor_Fernandez_Alos_MSc.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harold Harris Schobert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ye, Peng

Title:

Investigation of impact of fuel injection strategy and biodiesel fueling on engine emissions and performance

Graduate Program:

Fuel Science

Keywords:

biodiesel
engine
efficiency
emissions
fuel injection strategy
fuel injection pressure

File:

Download PengYe_Dissertation_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Yaw D Yeboah, Committee Member

Author:

Gaddam, Chethan Kumar

Title:

Physical and Chemical Characterization of Gasoline Particulates and Differences Relative to Diesel Soot

Graduate Program:

Fuel Science

Keywords:

HRTEM
nanostructure
tortuosity
SIDI engine
carbon lamella
fractal dimension
root form factor

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Chethan.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy Lee Vander Wal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lilik, Gregory Kenneth

Title:

Advanced Diesel Combustion of High Cetane Number Fuels and the Impacts on the combustion Process

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Advanced Diesel Combustion
Total Hydrocarbons (THC)
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Ignition Quality
Equivalence Ratio

File:

Download Lilik_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Robert John Wagner, Special Member

Author:

Weismiller, Michael Raymond

Title:

Characterization of Ammonia Borane for Chemical Propulsion Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Energetic materials
Novel propellants
Hydrogen storage
Hybrid rocket
Boron

File:

Download Weismiller-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Prof Adrianus Van Duin, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Peluso, Stephen

Title:

An Experimental Study of Flame Response Mechanisms in a Lean-premixed Gas Turbine Combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion instability
flame response
flame dynamics
flame transfer function
flame response mechanisms
gas turbine

File:

Download Stephen_Peluso.pdf.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member

Author:

Prabhakar, Bhaskar

Title:

Examination of Egr Cooler Fouling and Engine Efficiency Improvement in Compression Ignition Engines

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

EGR Cooler Fouling
High Efficiency Combustion
Dual Fuel Combustion
Clean Diesel Technology

File:

Download Bhaskar_Prabhakar_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andre Louis Boehman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Special Member

Author:

Srouji, Abdul Kader

Title:

Transport Studies in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells With Porous Metallic Flow Field at Ultra-high Current Density

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Fuel Cell
Mass Transport
PEM
Oxygen Reduction
Cathode
Platinum Catalyst
High Current Density

File:

Download AK_Srouji_Thesis_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew M Mench, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member

Author:

Goverapet Srinivasan, Sriram

Title:

Hyperthermal Oxidation and Pyrolysis of Carbon based Materials: Chemistry and Dynamics using the Reaxff Reactive Force Field

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

ReaxFF
Graphite oxidation
Diamond oxidation
Fullerene fragmentation
Gas surface interaction
hyperthermal etching

File:

Download Sriram_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Adrianus C Van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Cheng-yu

Title:

hydrogen storage in select metal-organic frameworks via hydrogen spillover

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

adsorption
catalysis
hydrogen spillover
metal-organic framework

File:

Download Dissertation_06_format_review.pdf

Committee Members:

Angela Lueking, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Gaddam, Chethan Kumar

Title:

Electron Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization for Soot Source Differentiation by Laser Derivatization

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

SSILD
HRTEM
pulsed laser heating
soot source identification
partial graphitization
radial profile analysis

File:

Download Gaddam_Chethan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy Lee Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

Author:

Togai, Kuninori

Title:

Kinetic Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis of Plasma-assisted Combustion

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

plasma-assisted combustion
low-temperature combustion
chemical kinetics
plasma chemistry
nonequilibrium plasma

File:

Download Dissertation_Togai.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member

Author:

Jiang, Xiao

Title:

Palladium-Copper Bimetallic Catalysts for Selective Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation to Methanol

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CO2 hydrogenation
Methanol
Pd-Cu bimetallic catalysts
Pd-Cu alloy.

File:

Download Ph.D._dissertation_XJiang_111915.pdf

Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee 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:

Singh, Madhu

Title:

Measurement, Characterization, Identification and Control of Combustion Produced Soot

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Carbon
Soot
Nanostructure
Microscopy
Spectroscopy
TEM
Carbon Black Functionalization
Laser-induced Incandescence
LII
Soot Source Identification
SSILD
Laser Derivatization
Time-resolved LII
Carbon Characterization
Health effects of combustion soot
Cytotoxicity
Diesel Particulate Filter
DPF
Cell viability
BEAS-2B male lung cells
XPS
XRD
TGA
Soot oxidation
NO2 Oxidation
TiRe-LII
Carbonizaton
graphitization

File:

Download MadhuSingh_Dissertation_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy Lee Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Committee Member
Patricia Silveyra, Outside Member

Author:

Jiang, Jimeng

Title:

DEMETALLATION OF BIOCRUDE FROM HYDROTHERMAL LIQUEFACTION OF MICROALGAE

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Demetallation
hydrothermal liquefaction
microalgae
kinetic
modeling
iron
hemin
porphyrin

File:

Download Thesis_Jimeng_Jiang.pdf

Committee Members:

Phillip. E. Savage, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Phillip. E. Savage, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert M Rioux, Committee Member
Xueyi Zhang, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Wenjia

Title:

Iron-Copper Bimetallic Catalysts for Direct Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation to Higher Hydrocarbons

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CO2 hydrogenation
bimetallic catalyst
hydrocarbon

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Wenjia_Wang_111419_v5.pdf

Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Outside Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shabnam, Sharmin

Title:

ReaxFF reactive force field investigations in combustion and nascent soot formation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

ReaxFF
Combustion
Soot Formation
Pyrolysis and Oxidation
Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Inert Dilution
Nickel
Fuel Mixtures

File:

Download Dissertation_Sharmin_MAY2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Adrianus C Van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Outside Member
Karen Ann Thole, 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:

Li, Jiaxi

Title:

Temperature and pH Effect on the Contact Angle in Quartz/Water/N-decane System

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Quartz
Contact Angle
Temperature
pH
Wettability

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Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Serguei Lvov, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Committee Member

Author:

Thepwatee, Sukanya

Title:

Light-enhanced Oxidative Adsorption Desulfurization Of Dibenzothiophene In Diesel Fuel Over TiO2-ZrO2 Mixed Oxides

Graduate Program:

Fuel Science

Keywords:

Desulfurization
Diesel fuel
Photooxidation
Titanium dioxide
Zirconium dioxide
Adsorption
Dibenzothiophene

File:

Download Dissertation_Sukanya.pdf

Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Special Member