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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:

Vacco, David Alfred

Title:

Modeling glacier-rock-climate interactions: Moraine deposition, stagnation events, and supraglacial debris

Graduate Program:

Earth Sciences

Keywords:

glacier
glacial
moraines
modeling
supraglacial
subglacial
debris
dynamics

File:

Download Dvacco_Dissertation_FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard B Alley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rudy Slingerland, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, 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:

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:

Al Enezi, Sultan Mohammad

Title:

EFFECS OF CLOSURE STRESS ON FRACTURE MORPHOLOGY AND MULTI-PHASE FLOW IN SHEAR FRACTURED BEREA SANDSTONE

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

shear fracture
fluid flow

File:

Download Microsoft_Word_-_PhD_THESIS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Phillip Michael Halleck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abraham Grader, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, 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

Author:

Sevilla, Winchelle Ian

Title:

Seismic velocity variations under island arcs: examples from the Philippines and Montserrat (Lesser Antilles)

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

subduction zones
Philippines
Montserrat
tomography
receiver functions
island arcs

File:

Download Sevilla-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles James Ammon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Barry Voight, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Nelson, Wendy Rae

Title:

Two-plume Dynamics beneath the East African Rift System: a Geochemical Perspective

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

HIMU
mantle plume
Afar
East African Rift
basalt

File:

Download Nelson_Dissertation_2009_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Tanya Furman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tanya Furman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member