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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:

Shang, Bin

Title:

Design of Brine Disposal Wells in Depleted Gas Reservoirs via Artificial Intelligence Protocols

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

ANN
Brine Disposal
Depleted Gas Reservoirs

File:

Download Bin_Shang_Masters_Thesis_July_26_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member

Author:

Kamali Shahri, Seyed Mehdi Mehdi

Title:

STUDY OF AMINOSILICA ADSORBENTS FOR CO2 CAPTURE: EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CO2 adsorption
Kinetics
thermodynamics
heat of adsorption
efficiency
aminosilica material
type I adsorbent
surface chemistry
surface modification
CO2 adsorption modeling

File:

Download MehdiThesis--_Final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caroline Clifford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Pitakjakpipop, Pawnprapa

Title:

EFFECT OF SUPPORT FOR Ni2P CATALYSTS ON HYDRODEOXYGENATION OF BIO-OIL USING ANISOLE AND GUAIACOL AS MODEL COMPOUNDS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrodeoxygenation
Nickel Phosphide
TiO2-CeO2
Support effect
Bio-oil

File:

Download Dissertation_Pawnprapa_Pitakjakpipop.pdf

Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy L. Vander Wal, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Michael J. Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Singh, Madhu

Title:

Density-based rescaled exponential model for gas-condensate reservoirs during boundary-dominated flow

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

density-based
rescaled exponential
gas-condensate
boundary dominated flow
variable bottomhole pressure
multiphase flow
analytical model

File:

Download MadhuSingh_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Raman, Balaji

Title:

DEPOSITION OF MAGNETITE IN HIGH TEMPERATURE BOILER ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Deposition
fouling
magnetite
boilers
DLVO interaction energy

File:

Download Balaji_Raman-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Serguei N Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei N. Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarma V. Pisupati, Committee Member
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
James Adair, Outside Member

Author:

Pardede, Fabiola Marella

Title:

TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF UTILIZATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE AS A HEAT TRANSFER MEDIUM FOR GEOTHERMAL ENERGY EXTRACTION IN INDONESIA BASED ON SIMULATION STUDIES

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

geothermal
carbon dioxide
supercritical
Indonesia
IGCC
utilization
sequestration
simulation

File:

Download Pardede_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarma Pisupati, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yue, Wenting

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF A PRODUCTION DATA ANALYSIS MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION IN A PRODUCING OIL RESERVOIR

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

production data analysis
Ensemble Kalman Filter
Whole-field evaluation
Reservoir simulation
history matching

File:

Download Wenting_Ph.D._Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yilin Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yilin Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Steven Greybush, Outside 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:

Tchapda, Aimé Hilaire Ngongang

Title:

Design and Construction of a Lab Scale Pressurized Entrained Flow Reactor for Studying the Thermochemical Conversion of Solid Fuels at High Temperature

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Pressurized entrained flow gasifier
Thermochemical conversion of biomass and coal
co-gasification
co-pyrolysis
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)
Synergistic effects of coal and biomass conversion
High temperature pyrolysis
Thermal deactivation of char
Thermodynamic modeling
Tar characterization
High pressure
char morphology
reactor design

File:

Download Dissertation_Aime.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarma V. Pisupati, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarma V. Pisupati, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Mathews, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Yaw Yeboah, Outside Member

Author:

Agrawal, Sidharth

Title:

Quantifying the Economic Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing Proppant Selection in Light of Occupational Particulate Exposure Risk and Functional Requirements

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Proppant selection
Hydraulic fracturing
Risk analysis
Silica exposure
Health-related cost
Occupational particulate exposure risk

File:

Download Thesis_Sidharth_Agrawal.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy M. Gernand, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cuesta, Antonio Rafael

Title:

UTILIZING IMMOBILIZED BIOCATALYSTS ON ACTIVATED CARBON BLACK ADSORBENTS FOR CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE FROM SIMULATED AMBIENT AIR UNDER A pH SWING ADSORPTION PROCESS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CO2 Capture
Ambient Air Capture
CO2 Adsorbent
Swing Adsorption
pH Swing Adsorption
Activated Carbon Adsorbent
Immobilized Carbonic Anhydrase
Nitrogen Enriched Carbon Adsorbent
Potassium Enriched Carbon Adsorbent
Biocatalyst CO2 Gas Hydration
CCUS
Carbon Capture

File:

Download Antonio_Rafael_Cuesta_Master_Thesis_August_2017_FINAL_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Chunshan Song, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhou, Qiumei

Title:

ANALYSIS OF NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION AND FRACTURE FLUIDS FLOWBACK IN MARCELLUS SHALE USING DATA MINING APPROACHES

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Marcellus Shale
Data Mining
Fracture Flowback

File:

Download PS_Thesis_template_version_19_Qiumei_Zhou.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yilin Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yilin Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Andrew Kleit, Committee Member
Terry Engelder, Outside Member
Yitian Xiao, Special 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:

Sankara Raman, Gireesh Subramaniam

Title:

Evaluation and Modeling of Pressure Filtration of Coal Refuse Slurry

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal Refuse Slurry
Pressure Filtration
Artificial Neural Network
Waste Management
Dewatering
Coal
Fine Coal
Mineral Processing

File:

Download Gireesh_Raman_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Mark S. Klima, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Mark S. Klima, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. William A. Groves, Committee Member
Dr. Jeremy M. Gernand, Committee Member
Dr. Herschel A. Elliott, 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:

Ozesen, Ahsen

Title:

ANALYSIS OF INSTANTANEOUS SHUT-IN PRESSURE IN SHALE OIL AND GAS RESERVOIRS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

ISIP
INSTANTANEOUS SHUT-IN PRESSURE
SHALE
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
UNCONVENTIONAL
MINIMUM HORIZONTAL STRESS

File:

Download PS-Thesis_AhsenOzesen.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yilin Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yavuz, Mehmet Zulkuf

Title:

AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION FOR EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF CYCLIC CO2 INJECTION IN NATURALLY FRACTURED BLACK-OIL RESERVOIRS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CYCLIC CO2 INJECTION
NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK (ANN)

File:

Download Mehmet_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Will, Ryan David

Title:

A GENERAL COMPOSITIONAL RESCALED-EXPONENTIAL MODEL FOR MULTI-PHASE, BOUNDARY-DOMINATED PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Rate transient analysis
gas condensate
volatile oil
analytical mode
compositional reservoir modeling
rescaled-exponential
boundary-dominated performance analysis

File:

Download Ryan_Will_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member

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:

Torrealba, Victor Antonio

Title:

Thermodynamics of Microemulsion Systems: Partitioning Relationships, Phase Behavior and Interfacial Tensions

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Surfactant
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Microemulsion Phase Behavior
Partitioning Coefficients
Interfacial Tensions

File:

Download VT_092517.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell T. Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell T. Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Themistoklis Matsoukas, Outside Member

Author:

Bayrakci Boz, Mesude

Title:

GEOSPATIAL ANALYSES FOR SOLAR ENERGY: IMPACTS OF PV PENETRATION ON ENERGY DEMAND AND PRICE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Solar
Photovoltaics
GIS
Geospatial
Energy Demand
Solar Assesment
PV Penetration
Locational Marginal Prices
Copula
SUR

File:

Download BayrakciBoz_Mesude_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Susan W Stewart, Outside Member

Author:

Yang, Yun

Title:

MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT FOR FLOWBACK RATE TRANSIENT ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Flowback Analysis
Rate Transient Analysis (RTA)
Production Data Analysis (PDA)
Fracture Characterization
Two-phase Flowback Model
Single-phase Flowback Model
Shale Gas
Tight Sand Gas

File:

Download Yun_YangMaster_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee 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:

Putcha, Venkataramana B

Title:

INTEGRATION OF NUMERICAL AND MACHINE LEARNING PROTOCOLS FOR COUPLED RESERVOIR-WELLBORE MODELS: A STUDY FOR GAS LIFT OPTIMIZATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

numerical simulation
machine learning
gas lift
neural networks
petroleum
production
optimization

File:

Download Venkat_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Jian

Title:

Development of Automated Neuro-Simulation Protocols for Pressure and Rate Transient Analysis Applications

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Neuro-Simulation
Machine Learning
Neural Network
Numerical Reservoir Simulation
Pressure Transient Analysis
Rate Transient Analysis

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Outside Member

Author:

Quan, Wenying

Title:

Selective Hydrogen Sulfide Removal from Biogas on Nitrogen-Modified Adsorbents

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

H2S Removal
Biogas Purification
Selective Adsorption
Nitrogen-Modified
Porous Materials

File:

Download Dissertation_Wenying_Quan.pdf

Committee Members:

Chunshan Song, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chunshan Song, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Wang, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Qian

Title:

The Development of an Artificial-Neural-Network-Based Toolbox for Screening and Optimization of Enhanced Oil Recovery Projects

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial neural network
Enhanced oil recovery
Proxy models
Particle swarm optimization
Graphical user interface
Artificial neural network
Enhanced oil recovery
Proxy models
Particle swarm optimization
Graphical user interface

File:

Download SunQian_Dissertation_ETD.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F. Ayala H., Committee Member
Eugene Morgan, Committee Member
C. Lee Giles, Outside Member

Author:

Purswani, Prakash

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL INSIGHT INTO CHEMICALLY TUNED WATERFLOODING IN OIL-WET CARBONATE RESERVOIRS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

potential determining ions
zeta potential
trace element analysis
wettability alteration
chemically tuned waterflooding

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Final_Draft_Prakash_Purswani_10-24-17.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T. Karpyn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Russell T. Johns, Committee Member
Dr. Randy Vander Wal, Committee Member
Dr. Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Dr. Serguei Lvov, Committee Member

Author:

Wen, Hang

Title:

CARBONATE DISSOLUTION IN POROUS AND FRACTURED MEDIA

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Upscaling
Mineral dissolution kinetics
Chemical weathering
Heterogeneous media
Reactive transport
Carbonate

File:

Download PhDdissertation_HangWen.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T. Karpyn, Committee Member
Jeffrey R. S. Brownson, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member