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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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