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Author:

Louw, Enette

Title:

Structure and combustion reactivity of inertinite-rich and vitrinite rich South African coal chars: quantification of the structural factors contributing to reactivity differences

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal
char
reactivity
structure
molecular modeling
South Africa

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Enette_22July.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member
Semih Eser, Committee Member

Author:

Farrokh, Ebrahim

Title:

Study of Utilization Factor and Advance Rate of Hard Rock TBMS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

TBM
Hard Rock
Advance Rate
Utilization
Cutter Life
Learning Phase

File:

Download Thesis-rev3.pdf

Committee Members:

Jamal Rostami, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamal Rostami, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr R Larry Grayson, Committee Member
Antonio Nieto, Committee Member
Dr Prasenjit Basu, Special Member

Author:

Barrows, Clayton Paul

Title:

Flexible Network Topologies and The Smart Grid in Electric Power Systems

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Power System Analysis
Optimization
Electricity Markets
Complex Network Science

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Andrew Nathan Kleit, Committee Member
Luis Ayala, Committee Member
Paul Hines, Committee Member

Author:

Nago, Annick Blanche Christelle Logbochy

Title:

Application of numerical, experimental and life cycle assessment methods to the investigation of natural gas production from methane hydrate deposits using carbon dioxide clathrate sequestration

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Natural gas hydrates
CO2-CH4 exchange in hydrates
numerical modeling
life cycle assessment
CO2 emissions
natural gas production

File:

Download ANNICKNAGO_PHDTHESIS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonio Nieto, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonio Nieto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Dr Luis Ayala, Committee Member
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member
John Richard Hellmann Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Kyungsoo

Title:

The effect of hydrocarbon structure on nickel catalyst deactivation in steam reforming of hexane and benzene

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

steam reforming
catalyst
deactivation
hydrocarbon
hexane
benzene
nickel
XANES

File:

Download Thesis_KyungsooKim_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Yongsheng Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yongsheng Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caroline Elaine Clifford, Committee Member
Semih Eser, Committee Member
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Special 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:

Alavi Gharahbagh, Ehsan

Title:

Development of a Soil Abrasion Test and Analysis of Impact of Soil Properties on Tool Wear for Soft-ground Mechanized Tunneling

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Soil Abrasion
Tool wear
Soft-ground mechanized tunneling
EPB and Slurry TBM
Wear Prediction
Soil Conditioning

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jamal Rostami, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamal Rostami, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Larry Grayson, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Antonio Nieto, Committee Member

Author:

Aslan, Erhan

Title:

Development and Testing of an Advanced Coalbed Methane Numerical Reservoir Simulator

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coalbed methane
local grid refinement
coalbed methane simulator
shrinkage and swelling
parallel processing

File:

Download Erhan_Aslan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Landry, Christopher James

Title:

Pore-scale imaging and lattice Boltzmann modeling of single- and multi-phase flow in fractured and mixed-wet permeable media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Pore-scale
lattice Boltzmann
fluid flow
porous media
fractured porous media
permeability
fracture-matrix fluid transfer

File:

Download Dissertation_CJLandry.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Li Li, Committee Member
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Member
Dr Maria Lopez De Murphy, Committee Member

Author:

Sahraei Ardakani, Mostafa

Title:

Policy Analysis In Transmission-constrained electricity Markets

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Policy analysis
Electricity markets
Pennsylvania act 129
Carbon tax
Supply Curve
Transmission network
Topology optimization
FACTS devices

File:

Download Mostafa_Sahraei-Ardakani_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Adam Blumsack, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Nathan Kleit, Committee Member
Dr Anastasia Shcherbakova, Committee Member
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Member