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Author:

Zhang, Kuangyuan

Title:

Essays on Mining Economics and System Modeling

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Mining Economics
Real Option Evaluation
Mean-reverting of Commodity Price
Material Criticality
Yttrium
China’s Rare Earth P

File:

Download Kuangyuan_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Nathan Kleit, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonio Nieto, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Nathan Kleit, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Antonio Nieto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Young, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Vardcharragosad, Pichit

Title:

Long-term Well Performance Prediction in Unconventional tight Gas And Shale Gas Reservoirs: A Density Approach

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

A Density Approach
Well Performance Prediction
Tight Gas
Shale Gas
Production Data Analysis

File:

Download 53_Thesis_Master_File_Corrections_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F Ayala H, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Mathieu Philippe Stienon, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member

Author:

Gokhale, Jaidev Madhav

Title:

A Coupled Pseudo-pressure/density Approach To Decline Curve Analysis Of Natural Gas Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Decline
Curve
Natural Gas

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis Ayala, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yilin Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gan, Quan

Title:

Analysis of induced seismicity and heat transfer in geothermal reservoirs by coupled simulation

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Geothermal reservoir
thermal front
induced seismicity
permeabiltiy evolution
breakdown pressure

File:

Download Quan_Gan_Analysis_of_induced_seismicity_and_heat_transfer_by_coupled_simulation_in_geothermal_reservoirs.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Rui

Title:

Methane and Carbon Dioxide Adsorption Capacity Estimation and Modeling on Coals

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

methane
carbon dioxide
adsorption
modeling
coal

File:

Download Master_thesis_-_Aug_6_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhao, Xu

Title:

Investigations of Gas Sorption-induced Strain for Sorptive Rocks Using a New Optical Method

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal
Shale
Sorption-induced Strain
New Optical Method

File:

Download Thesis_by_Xu_Zhao.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Braun, Keith Eric

Title:

Inversion Scheme for Predicting Petrophysical Properties in the Blake Ridge Methane Hydrates Field from 3d Seismic Survey Data

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

hydrates
bayesian inversion
MCMC
petroleum

File:

Download 1-Thesis042016.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene C Morgan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Abdelmalek, Botros

Title:

Pseudo-pressure Type-curve approach for Permeability and Porosity estimation from Pressure-pulse Decay Data

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability of Shale Gas
Pulse Decay
Pseudo Pressure
Type Curves

File:

Download AbdelmalekBotros-MS_thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Miao

Title:

ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE DURING EARLY-TRANSIENT MULTI-PHASE FLOW CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Analytical Solution
Unconventional Reservoirs
Multiphase Flow

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_manuscript_MZhang_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F. Ayala H., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F. Ayala H., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Mathieu Stienon, Outside Member

Author:

Fang, Zhicheng

Title:

Summer graduation

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability
Pulse-decay experiment
Analytical solution
Numerical simulation
History-matching method
Pressure-dependent gas properties

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Adams, Benjamin T.

Title:

Experimental and Analytical Investigations of the Relative and Interactive Effects of Physicochemical Fluid Characteristics on the Incipient Motion of Granular Particles Under Laminar Flow Conditions

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

soil erosion
incipient motion
pH
ionic strength
viscosity
laminar
granular

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation__Benjamin_T._Adams__-_Post_Defense.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Eslambolchi, Safa

Title:

ANALYSIS OF THE CHANGES IN THE OPERATIONAL STRUCTURES AND SAFETY MEASURES OF U.S. UNDERGROUND COAL MINES ACROSS DIFFERENT MINE-SIZE CATEGORIES, 2000-2014

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Underground Coal Mine
Mine size
Policy Analysis
Safety Measures
Stochastic Processes
Economic Analysis

File:

Download 2016_12_06_Seyed_Safa_Eslambolchi_Dissertation__Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy M. Gernand, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy M. Gernand, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Blumsack, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Matthew Reimherr, Outside Member

Author:

Sobhbidari, Farnood

Title:

The Role of Mineral Transformation due to CO2 Sequestration on the Shear Behavior of Reservoir Rock

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Carbon Sequestration
DEM Simulation
Mineral Transformation
Shear Behavior

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Farnood_Sobhbidari.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Schwartz, Brandon

Title:

THE EFFECT OF THERMAL CYCLING ON THE PERMEABILITY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SHALE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability
Bulk Modulus
Shale
Thermal Cycling

File:

Download Brandon_Schwartz_MASTERS_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Ziyan

Title:

CO2 and N2 injection to enhance shale gas recovery

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

enhance shale gas recovery

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Ziyan_Li.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Cai, Yuzhe

Title:

PREDICTION OF BOUNDARY-DOMINATED FLOW FOR LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS USING EARLY-TRANSIENT DATA

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

unconventional gas
shale gas
tight gas
linear flow;
well performance

File:

Download Thesis_YUZHE.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F. Ayala H., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Yi

Title:

Laboratory Estimation and Modeling of Apparent Permeability for Ultra-Tight Anthracite and Shale Matrix: A Multi-Mechanistic Flow Approach

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability Evolution
Analytical Modeling
Geomechanical Deformation
Unconventional Gas Flow
Laboratory Measurement

File:

Download Yi_Wang_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Outside Member

Author:

Lashgari, Ali

Title:

analysis of the efficacy of the MSHA respirable dust sampling program in surface metal/nonmetal mining industry

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Surface Mining
Occupational Health and Safety
Respirable Dust
Silica
Compliance Sampling
Classification and Regression Tree
Metal/Nonmetal Mining
Fugitive Dust
Dust Exposure
Quartz

File:

Download Dissertation-7-7-2017-AL.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffery Kohler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffery Kohler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy M. Gernand, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Dennis Murphy, Outside Member

Author:

Fang, Yi

Title:

Induced Microearthquakes and Seismicity-Permeability Relationships in Fractures

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Induced microearthquakes
Frictional parameters
Permeability evolutions
Preexisting fractures
Fracture minerals
Fracture surface roughness
Enhanced Geothermal System
Geological sequestration of carbon dioxide

File:

Download Fang_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Wenpeng

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED ALGORITHMS FOR DETECTION OF JOINTS AND ESTIMATION OF ROCK STRENGTH IN ROCK STRUCTURES BY USING DRILLING PARAMETERS OF THE INSTRUMENTED ROOF BOLTER

Graduate Program:

Mining Engineering

Keywords:

Joint Detection
Rock Strength Estimation
Drilling Parameters
Roof Bolter
Pattern Recognition Algorithms
Wavelet Analysis
Ground Support Optimiztion
Ground Control
Composite Parameters
Mining Health and Safety
Roof Bolts

File:

Download PhD_THESIS-Wenpeng_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Jeremy M. Gernand, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Outside Member
Jamal Rostami, Special Member

Author:

Kermani, Elnaz

Title:

SIMULATIONS OF GRANULAR COLUMN COLLAPSE USING SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS AND DISCRETE ELEMENT METHODS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Discrete Element Method
Dynamic Collapse
Energy Dissipation
Granular Flow
Quasi-Static Collapse
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

File:

Download Elnaz_Kermani.pdf

Committee Members:

Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Outside Member

Author:

Kermani, Behnoud

Title:

Experimental and Numerical Study of Subgrade Soil Migration into Pavement Subbase and Mitigation Using Geotextile

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Cyclic loading; Faulting; Flexible pavement; Geosynthetics; Geotextiles; MMLS3; Particle transport; Pore water pressure; Pumping; Rigid pavement; Rutting; Subgrade fines migration; Traffic loading

File:

Download Doctoral_Dissertation_-_Behnoud_Kermani__bzk5102_.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelley Marie Stoffels & Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelley Marie Stoffels & Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Liew, Min

Title:

FIELD AND LABORATORY CHARACTERIZATIONS OF IN SITU COAL SLURRY

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Coal Tailings
Coal Slurry
Seismic Survey
Seismic Monitoring
Wave Velocity
Elastic Modulus
Peak Particle Velocity
Liquefaction Potential
Geotechnical Properties
Liquefaction Susceptibility
Mineralogical Characterization

File:

Download MinLiew_MasterThesis_7.9.2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Jintai

Title:

SEISMIC PERFORMANCES OF A LIQUEFIABLE SAND DEPOSIT USING 1-G SHAKE TABLE TESTING CONSIDERING AGING AND SHAKING HISTORY EFFECTS AND THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SAND LIQUEFACTION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

1-G SHAKE TABLE TESTING
SHAKING HISTORY EFFECT
AGING EFFECT
CPTu TESTING
NUMERICAL SIMULATION
PM4Sand
LIQUEFACTION

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Jintai_Wang_VITA.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Im, Kyungjae

Title:

FRICTION AND PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OF FRACUTRES AND FAULTS DURING STATIC REPOSE AND DYNAMIC REACTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Fault permeability
Fault Friction
Rate and State Friction
Fault Reactivation

File:

Download Dissertation_KJ_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Madara, Benjamin James

Title:

Laboratory Studies of Permeability Evolution: Roles of Fracture, Shear, Dynamic Stressing, and Reservoir Rock Properties

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

permeability evolution
permeability
dynamic stressing
fracture
shear
permeability enhancement

File:

Download Dissertation_Madara.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Schwartz, Brandon

Title:

THE ROLE OF PORE STRUCTURE IN PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OBSERVED IN LABORATORY STUDIES OF MARCELLUS AND WOLFCAMP SHALE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

permeability evolution
shale
pore structure
pore geometry
material stiffness
permeability enhancement

File:

Download Brandon_Schwartz_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Shushu

Title:

SENSING MECHANISM AND REAL TIME (SMART) COMPUTING FOR GRANULAR MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Railroad
Geotechnical Engineering
Ballast
SmartRock

File:

Download Shushu_PhD_Dissertation_1031.pdf

Committee Members:

Hai Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hai Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Rui

Title:

Investigation of Pore Structure and Sorption Behavior for Unconventional Gas Reservoir Rocks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

pore structure
adsorption
small-angle neutron scattering
coalbed methane
shale gas
unconventional natural gas

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_Rui_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Outside Member
Lilin He, Special Member

Author:

Ahmadipur, Amir

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF IMPACT FORCE FROM A DRY GRANULAR SLIDING MASS ON A RIGID OBSTRUCTION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Basal friction
Compression wave
Dynamic force
Flume test
Granular flow
Impact
Deposit morphology
Flow dynamics
Granular avalanches
Inclined surface
Static force
Flow velocity

File:

Download Amir_Ahmadipur_Ph.D._Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Chakraborty, Nirjhor

Title:

Fundamental Investigation of Gas Storage and Transport in Shales

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

shale gas
supercritical fluids
nanopores and fluid confinement
gas densification
adsorption-desorption
surface diffusion
3D X-ray CT Imaging
sub-resolution and multi-scale imaging
petrophysics and characterization
multi-phase multi-mechanistic modeling

File:

Download Nirjhor_Chakraborty_Dissertation_Post-Defense_final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Michael Charles Hillman, Outside Member

Author:

Singh, Manik

Title:

QUANTITATIVE INVERSION OF MICROSEISMIC DATA: BAYESIAN MODEL SELECTION USING FAST PROXIES FOR FRACTURING AND WAVE PROPAGATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Microseismic
Hydraulic Fracturing
Bayesian Model Selection
Quantitative Inversion
Tight Oil/Gas
Petroleum Engineering
Reservoir Engineering

File:

Download ManikSingh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay Srinivasan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Chaoyi

Title:

MINERALOGICAL AND TEXTURAL CONTROLS ON SHEAR STRENGTH, SLIP STABILITY AND PERMEABILITY OF FAULTS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Induced Seismicity
Frictional Instability
Mineralogical and Textural Controls
Permeability of Faults and Fractures
Modeling of Mechanical and Rheological Responses of Faults

File:

Download ChaoyiWang-Dissertation-ver5.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Sagzhanov, Daulet

Title:

3D DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK FOR CLEAT-SCALE MODELING OF DYNAMIC COAL BEHAVIOR

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal Cleat
Discrete Fracture Network

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Mohammad Rezaee, Committee Member

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

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

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:

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

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:

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

Author:

Salam, Sajjad

Title:

Cyclic Behavior of Fine Coal Refuse and Seismic Stability of Coal Tailings Dams

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

cyclic behavior
coal tailings
liquefaction
physical modeling
PM4Silt
seismic stability
stochastic modeling
aging
strain history

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Sajjad_Salam.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Xiao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ming Xiao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

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

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

Author:

Yu, Jiayi

Title:

Shear related reactivation of fractures/faults and the effects on permeability evolution and induced seismicity

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Induced seismicity
Unconventional shale reservoir
Fracture-proppant conductivity evolution

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Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Chris Marone, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shimin Liu, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Major Field Member

Author:

Hu, Guanglong

Title:

BIOSTIMULATION IMPACT ON GAS ADSORPTION CAPACITY AND MICRO-SCALE GAS TRANSPORTATION FOR ILLINOIS COAL

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Coalbed methane
biostimulation
Adsorption Capacity
Micro-scale Gas Transport

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Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

Author:

Lou, Xuanqing

Title:

Investigation of Rock Properties Governing Gas Storage Capacity in Nanoporous Shales

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Unconventional reservoirs
shale gas
storage capacity
X-ray CT
Digital rock analysis

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Zuleima Karpyn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shimin Liu, Major Field Member
Luis Ayala H, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Hajek, Outside Unit & Field Member

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

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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

Author:

Torabi, Saboor Ahmad

Title:

Characterization of forms of silica with varying degrees of crystallinity in respirable mine dust

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

respirable coal mine dust
crystalline silica
quartz
amorphous
dust
XRD

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Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara J Arnold, Committee Member
Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Committee Member

Author:

Tran, Kien

Title:

Unified Density-based Production Data Analysis Under Multiphase Flow Conditions

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Production Data Analysis
Multiphase Flow

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Committee Members:

Gregory King, Major Field Member
Shimin Liu, Major Field Member
Matthew Rau, Outside Unit & Field Member
Luis Ayala H, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jeremy Gernand, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

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:

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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

Author:

Yu, Jiayi

Title:

Conductivity Evolution in Propped Fractures During Reservoir Drawdown

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Proppant; Propped fracture conductivity; Proppant embedment; Proppant crushing

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Prabhu, Sudheer Sudhakaran

Title:

Mechanical behavior of sand subjected to impact loading

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Impact Loading
Sand
DEM
Particle Crushing
Equation of State
SHPB

File:

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Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Outside Field Member
Tong Qiu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Todd Palmer, Outside Unit Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Ziyan

Title:

Predicting Induced Seismicity and Permeability Evolution through Laboratory Experiments and Machine Learning Methods

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

induced seismicity
permeability evolution
machine learning method
frictional behavior of fractures

File:

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Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shimin Liu, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Major Field Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair