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Spring 2016
Diamanti, Jeffrey Mathew Gerald
Aesthetic Economies of Growth; Energy, Value, and the Work of Culture After Oil offers a cultural history of energy after the industrialization of fossil fuels. My argument is that the political economy of fossil fuels, and the climate change it generates, is anchored to energy’s aesthetic...
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An Integrated Approach for Sustainability Assessment: The Wa-Pa-Su Project Sustainability Rating System
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As global demand for energy continues to rise, unconventional petroleum extraction and production of petroleum substitutes are both becoming more necessary. Development and operation of unconventional oil projects can have considerable social, economic, and environmental impacts. For example, one...
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Fall 2021
The warm vaporized solvent injection process has been proposed as a more environmentally friendly alternative to steam-based technologies for bitumen recovery. The process typically involves injecting heated solvent vapor into a horizontal injector; the solvent condenses and dissolves into...
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Fall 2016
In this thesis, we present approximation algorithms for various NP-hard vehicle routing problems, as well as for a related maximum group coverage problem. Our main contribution is a framework to build good constant-factor approximation algorithms for variants of the multi-depot $k$-travelling...
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Fall 2015
In this thesis, we consider two closely related clustering problems, Min Sum k-Clustering (MSkC) and Balanced k-Median (BkM). In Min Sum k-clustering, one is given a graph and a parameter k, and has to partition the vertices in the graph into k clusters to minimize the sum of pairwise distances...
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Approximation Algorithms for Multi-processor Task Scheduling Problems on Identical Parallel Processors
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In this thesis we present approximation algorithms for some multi-processor task scheduling problems. In a scheduling problem, there is a set of processors P that can be used to process a set of tasks T and the goal is to find a feasible scheduling of the tasks on the processors, while optimizing...
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Spring 2023
In this thesis, we present Approximation Schemes for the Min Sum k Clustering problem on a number of classes of graph metrics. In Min Sum k Clustering problem introduced by Sahni and Gonzalez [22] in 1976, given a graph G(V, E) with metric edge costs and parameter k, we are asked to partition V...
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Development of an experimental setup for measuring vacuum decay in dual-wall fiber-reinforced composite pipes
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Thermal management and energy input are required to maintain working fluids, i.e., liquefied natural gas, liquid nitrogen, and multi-phase fluids within their optimal working conditions. Increasing a pipes’ thermal resistance, e.g., utilizing vacuum insulation, is one method of minimizing energy...
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Fall 2009
This study develops the water requirement factors for different thermo-chemical and biochemical biomass conversion pathways for production of biofuels and biopower. Twelve biomass conversion pathways based on six biomass feedstocks are assessed. For all these pathways integrated water and...