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Author:: Welch, Amy P
Title:: Distributed Cellulosic Ethanol: A County Level Investigation of Sustainable Production Potential
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: renewable energy
calculator
sustainability
biofuel
biomass
File:: Download Welch_MSThesis_12.08.pdf
Committee Members:: Amy Glasmeier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Tabatabai, Behnam
Title:: TISSUE CULTURE AND TRANSFORMATION STUDIES OF JATROPHA CURCAS, A SECOND GENERATION BIOFUEL CROP
Graduate Program:: Environmental Pollution Control
Keywords:: genetic engineering
Jatropha curcas
biofuel
tranformation
tissue culture
File:: Download Thesis_final_draft4.pdf
Committee Members:: Sairam Rudrabhalta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sairam V Rudrabhatla, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Tanjore, Deepti
Title:: BIOLOGICAL PRETREATMENTS OF CORN STOVER BIOMASS THROUGH AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC SOLID SUBSTRATE FERMENTATION
Graduate Program:: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Keywords:: ensilage
storage
pretreatment
biomass
corn stover
fermentation
ethanol
biofuel
lignocellulosic biomass
white rot fungi
File:: Download Final_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Thomas Lehman Richard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Lehman Richard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Patrick Cirino, Committee Member
Ali Demirci, Committee Member
John Michael Regan, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member

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Author:: Minihan, Erin Smith
Title:: The Impact of Ethanol Production on Agricultural Land Use in Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:: Agricultural Economics
Keywords:: ricardian rent
land use
biofuel
chesapeake bay
File:: Download ESMthesis_5.pdf
Committee Members:: James Samuel Shortle, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Rezaei, Farzaneh
Title:: ELECTRICITY FROM COMPLEX BIOMASS USING MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS
Graduate Program:: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Keywords:: biofuel
complex biomass
Microbial fuel cells
cellulose
File:: Download Rezaei_dissertation_Fall_08.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Tom Richard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Lehman Richard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce Ernest Logan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Demirci, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member

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Author:: Boudreau, Kate Brown
Title:: A COMPARISON OF SPEED OF SOUND AND ACOUSTIC NONLINEARITY PARAMETERS AS BIOFUEL CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES
Graduate Program:: Engineering Mechanics
Keywords:: nonlinear parameter
nonlinear acoustics
speed of sound
biofuel
biodiesel
File:: Download Boudreau_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Xu, Yu
Title:: SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 7002: A ROBUST AND VERSATILE CYANOBACTERIAL PLATFORM FOR BIOFUELS DEVELOPMENT
Graduate Program:: Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology
Keywords:: carbohydrate
metabolic engineering
biofuel
cyanobacteria
hydrogen
gene expression
organic acid
co-culturing
File:: Download Yu_Xu_thesis_4.pdf
Committee Members:: Donald Ashley Bryant, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald Ashley Bryant, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John H Golbeck, Committee Member
Joseph M Bollinger Jr., Committee Member
Stephan C Schuster, Committee Member
John Michael Regan, Committee Member

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Author:: Wang, Jun
Title:: Quantitative Study of Stoichiometric Proton Imbalance in Phototrophic Algal Growth
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering
Keywords:: algae
biofuel
pH
process control
nitrogen
File:: Download Jun_Wang_MS_thesis__final_20130805.pdf
Committee Members:: Wayne Roger Curtis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Zydney, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonios Armaou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janna Kay Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Jackson, Lauren Marie
Title:: New Analytical Approaches to Understand Biological Systems with Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: SIMS
secondary ion mass spectrometry
analytical chemistry
mass spectrometry
trehalose
Botryococcus braunii
algae
biofuel
File:: Download lmj_complete_thesis_REVISED_new.pdf
Committee Members:: Nicholas Winograd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wayne Roger Curtis, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member

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Author:: Wang, Jun
Title:: Improving Process Efficiency of Algae Based Biofuel and Bioproduct Production using Metabolism based pH Control
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering
Keywords:: algae
biofuel
pH
process control
nitrogen
File:: Download 1-Jun_Wang_dissertation_-_eTD_correction_20151204.pdf
Committee Members:: Wayne Roger Curtis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Committee Member
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member

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Author:: Rajakovich, Lauren Julia
Title:: Exploring the functional and mechanistic diversity of diiron oxidases and oxygenases
Graduate Program:: Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology
Keywords:: enzyme
iron oxygenase
gene annotation
organophosphonate
HD-domain
biofuel
alkane
ferritin-like
diiron
peroxyl radical
PetF
alkene
File:: Download Dissertation_RajakovichLJ.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph M Bollinger Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carsten Krebs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Outside Member

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Author:: Haviland, Zachary
Title:: Lignin impairs Cel7A degradation of cellulose by impeding enzyme movement and not by acting as a sink
Graduate Program:: Biomedical Engineering (MS)
Keywords:: cellulose
lignin
Cel7A
single-molecule microscopy
biofuel
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Committee Members:: William O Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin R Pritchard, Committee Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Howard M Salis, Committee Member

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