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Author:

Wang, Chunmei

Title:

INORGANIC-BASED PROTON CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR ELEVATED TEMPERATURE AND REDUCED RELATIVE HUMIDITY PEM FUEL CELLS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

proton exchange membrane fuel cell
composite membrane
proton conductivity
high temperature
low relative humidity
proton transport mechanism

File:

Download Thesis_Chunmei_Final_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Serguei Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
T C Mike Chung, Committee Member

Author:

Van Essendelft, Dirk Thomas

Title:

KINETICS OF THE ACID DIGESTION OF SERPENTINE WITH CONCURRENT GRINDING FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Chemical Kinetics
Computational Modeling
Serpentine
Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Mineral Carbonation
Strong Acid Dissolution

File:

Download Thesis_Master_3.2.pdf

Committee Members:

Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Mark Stephen Klima, Committee Member
James David Kubicki, Committee Member
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Dae Sung

Title:

DETERMINATION OF FLUID TRANSPORT PROPERTIES FROM CONE PENETROMETER SOUNDING DATA

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Hydraulic conductivity
soil permeability
cone penetration test

File:

Download Final_dissertation_Dae_Sung_Lee.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abraham S Grader, Committee Member
Peter B Flemings, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Committee Member

Author:

Long, Hui

Title:

INTERPRETING PORE PRESSURE IN MARINE MUDSTONES WITH PORE PRESSURE PENTROMETERS, IN SITU DATA, AND LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Overpressure
mudstones
penetrometer
IODP
consolidation
permeability
compression index
URSA

File:

Download Long_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter B Flemings, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abraham S Grader, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
John T Germaine, Committee Member

Author:

Faoro, Igor

Title:

CONTROL OF THE PERMEABILITY OF FRACTURES IN GEOTHERMAL ROCKS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

TCHM properties of fractures
permeability

File:

Download Igor_Faoro_thesis_PhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

Taron, Joshua

Title:

Geophysical and Geochemical Analyses of Flow and Deformation in Fractured Rock

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

permeability
rock fracture
fractured reservoir simulation
geothermal
volcanic dome
chemical creep

File:

Download Taron_PhD_Thesis_December_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James David Kubicki, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Barry Voight, Committee Member

Author:

Pone, Jean Denis Nda'si

Title:

CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION IN COAL: CHARACTERIZATION OF MATRIX DEFORMATION, SORPTION CAPACITY AND DYNAMIC PERMEABILITY AT IN-SITU STRESS CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

carbon dioxide sorption capacity in coal
coalbed methane
Sequestration
coal permeability
stress

File:

Download DPone_PSU_thesis_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

Fitzgerald, Michael Robert

Title:

Influence of drainage state on direct-push permeability profiling methods

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

soils
hydraulic conductivity
permeability
direct-push

File:

Download Fitzgerald_-_PhD_Thesis_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamini Singha, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member

Author:

Cakir, Recep

Title:

EFFECTS OF SITE RESPONSE ON EARTHQUAKE HAZARD IN THE EASTERN MARMARA REGION OF TURKEY

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Relative Spectral Amplification
Eastern Marmara Region
slowness-frequency method
Turkey
site amplification
site response
Seismic Hazard

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelton S Alexander, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Member
Richard R Paizek, Committee Member
Todd Smith Bacastow, Committee Member

Author:

Foroozan, Roozbeh

Title:

TRANSPORT AND DEFORMATIONAL SIGNATURES IN COUPLED GEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: INSIGHTS FROM FOREWARD AND BACKWARD MODELING

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Fluid dynamics
Volcano
Basin
Fault
Geodesy
Back Analysis
GPS

File:

Download Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Voight, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member

Author:

Rodriguez Santiago, Victor

Title:

ELECTROPHORESIS OF NANOPARTICLES IN HIGH TEMPERATURE AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

electrokinetics
zeta potential
high temperature
protonation reactions
nanoelectrophoresis

File:

Download Victor_thesis_final_073109.pdf

Committee Members:

Serguei Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member