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Author:: Fan, Long
Title:: Fluid transport behaviors of intact coal and coal measure rocks: applications for subsurface coal mine methane control and coalbed methane production
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Gob permeability
Gob compaction
Cyclic loading
Fracture permeability
Coal permeability
Fracture sliding
File:: Download Long_Fan_dissertation_edit-pdf.pdf
Committee Members:: Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffery L Kohler, Committee Member
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Committee Member
Mathieu Philippe Stienon, Outside Member
William Arthur Groves, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Carr, Jacob Lawrence
Title:: An Investigation into the Factors that Govern Success for New Safety and Health Technologies in the Mining Industry and the Efficacy of those Factors to Predict the Likelihood of Success for Emerging Technologies
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: mining
health and safety
safety and health
emerging technologies
File:: Download JCarr-Dissertation-Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Jeffery L Kohler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffery L Kohler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Committee Member
Michael Pate, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Tawfik, Miral Shereen
Title:: Multi-Scale Investigation of Wettability Alteration via Chemically-Tuned Waterflooding in Carbonate Rocks: Understanding the Effect of Oil Chemistry
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Chemical enhanced oil recovery
Wettability
Carbonates
Low salinity waterflooding
Micro-CT imaging
Image processing
Multiphase flow in porous media
Oil Chemistry
Total acid number
File:: Download Miral_Tawfik_Dissertation_Final4.pdf
Committee Members:: Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Outside Member
Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

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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

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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

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Author:: Zhi, Sheng
Title:: Permeability Evolution in Naturally- and Hydraulically- Fractured Microbially Enhanced CBM Reservoirs
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Coalbed methane
Hydraulic fracturing
Natural gas production
Biogasification
Proppant embedment
Gas adsorption
File:: Download Dissertation_Sheng_V3.pdf
Committee Members:: Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Amin Mehrabian, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Yang, Yun
Title:: MODELING OF GAS SORPTION AND DIFFUSION BEHAVIOR AND IMPLICATIONS ON COALBED METHANE PRODUCTION
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Coalbed Methane
Gas Adsorption
Gas Diffusion
Pore Structure
Cryogenic Fracturing
Fractal Dimension
Sorption Models
File:: Download Yun_Yang_PhD_Thesis__Plain_Text__Edited2.pdf
Committee Members:: Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Liu, Ang
Title:: Multi-mechanistic Transport Behavior of Multi-phase Fluids in Unsaturated Reservoir Rocks
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Sorption; Diffusion; Matrix swelling; Permeability; Time-Dependent Rock-Fluid-Geomechanics Model; Gas-water two phase flow
File:: Download Dissertation_draft_Ang_Liu_final_submission.pdf
Committee Members:: Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
William Arthur Groves, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Sang, Guijie
Title:: Experimental Investigation and Modeling of Water Vapor Sorption and Transport in Nano-Porous Shale
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Shale-water interaction
Nanopore structure
Condensation
Diffusion
Relative humidity
File:: Download Dissertation_Sang_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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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
File:: Download PhDdissertation_DachengXiao_revision_20201201.pdf
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

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