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Author:: Zhang, Yiming
Title:: CHARACTERIZATION OF TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS WITH STIMULATED RESERVOIR VOLUME: AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATION
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: SRV
ANN
Characterization
Tight gas reservoir
Stimulated reservoir volume
artificial intelligence network
File:: Download Zhang_Yiming_Master_Thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Program Head/Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

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Author:: Abdelmalek, Botros
Title:: Pseudo-pressure Type-curve approach for Permeability and Porosity estimation from Pressure-pulse Decay Data
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Permeability of Shale Gas
Pulse Decay
Pseudo Pressure
Type Curves
File:: Download AbdelmalekBotros-MS_thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Zuleima T Karpyn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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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

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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:: Lou, Xuanqing
Title:: Experimental Study of Gas-Liquid Diffusion in Porous Rocks and Bulk Fluids
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Gas-Liquid Diffusion
Diffusion Coefficient
Unconventional Porous Media
Pressure-Decay Technique
File:: Download Ms_thesis_Xuanqing_Lou_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Zuleima T Karpyn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

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Author:: Li, Xuanchi
Title:: Evolution of Permeability and Acoustic Velocity through Radio-Frequency Heating of Shale
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Shale
permeability
radio-frequency heating
p-wave velocity
Green River Shale
Marcellus Shale
File:: Download Final_Version_Xuanchi_Li_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, 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:: Purswani, Prakash
Title:: Relative Permeability Equation-of-State: The Role of Phase Connectivity, Wettability, and Capillary Number
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Relative permeability
Multiphase transport
Two-phase flow
Porous medium
Wettability
Capillary trapping
Equation-of-state
Pore structure
Pore-network modeling
Phase connectivity
Euler characteristic
Capillary number
Capillary pressure
Fluid-fluid interfacial area
Hysteresis
File:: Download Purswani_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amin Mehrabian, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Special Member
Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Outside Member
Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Magzymov, Daulet
Title:: Thermodynamics of Complex Fluids for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: thermodynamics
enhanced oil recovery
complex fluids
chemical EOR; EOR; phase behavior
microemulsion
flash calculation
characteristic length
solubilization
alkali
soap
viscous layer
emulsion
k-value
partitioning
viscosity
percolation
composition
ternary diagram
lowsal
low salinity
waterflooding
reservoir simulation
kinetics
dispersion
reactive transport
porous media
transport
thermodynamics enhanced oil recovery
EOR
chemical EOR
surfactant
phase behavior
equilibrium
K-value
File:: Download Daulet_Magzymov_PhD_Dissertation_Penn_State.pdf
Committee Members:: Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Xiao, Dacheng
Title:: Understanding controls of hydrologic and geochemical processes using model-data integration at the watershed scale
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Stream generation
Chemical weathering
Critical measurement
Watershed
File:: Download PhDdissertation_DachengXiao_revision_20201201.pdf
Committee Members:: Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

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