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Fall 2021

Das, Snehlata

Energy transition from non-renewable to renewable energy is required to confront rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions responsible for increasing global temperatures and disrupting weather patterns. Switching to renewable energy sources for energy generation also resolves the issues related...

Fall 2023

Turuga, Annapurna Sri Sowmya

Bitumen froth produced in the hot water extraction process of mined oil sands consists of about 60 wt % bitumen, 30 wt% water and 10 wt% mineral solids. To convert the bitumen in bitumen froth into a marketable product, the water and solids need to be separated. Solvent-based froth treatment...

Spring 2013

Sharifi, Mohammad

Abundance of low rank coal and increasing demand for energy provide an incentive for upgrading the low rank coal due to their high moisture and oxygen content. Various analyses were done to study the effect of the hydrothermal treatment on the physical and chemical structure of coal. Treatment of...

Fall 2014

Li,Qiang

The objective of this research is to understand the effect of hydrothermal dewatering (HTD) on surface properties, stability and rheological behavior of lignite water slurry (LWS). The surface forces between coal particles are found to be attractive after HTD, which is proven by contact angle and...

Fall 2012

Jawanda,Manraj S

Gene therapy has the potential to treat a variety of hereditary diseases such as diabetes, peanut anaphylaxis, cystic fibrosis and different types of cancer. Gene therapy relies on the design of a delivery system which can carry a gene of interest into a cell. The delivery systems can be broken...

2005

Hearn, Elizabeth M

Spring 2012

Narang, Anuj

The main focus of this thesis is on developing parsimonious models using measured process data and subsequent use of these models in the design of controllers for chemical engineering processes, in particular, for processes with large dead times. The application case studies presented and...

Fall 2009

Yan, Xinan

In this thesis, molecular dynamics simulations were performed to characterize the atomic motions governing grain boundary migration in a series of [001] twist boundaries. Particularly, migrations of a θ=36.87° Σ5, a θ=22.63° Σ13 and a θ=40.23° general high angle [001] twist boundaries driven by...

Fall 2016

Páez Cárdenas, Nidia Y

Bitumen extracted from Canadian oil-sands has a high viscosity, which limits its transportation. Field upgrading has become an option to overcome that limitation, without having to dilute the bitumen. During the field upgrading of bitumen, solvent deasphalting in combination with thermal cracking...

Spring 2020

Chen, Sim Yee

Food pathogens are the main sources of food poisoning. Among the pathogens, Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7 is a Shiga toxin-producing bacterium that leads to thousand of illnesses. Most infection cases are related to consuming undercooked contaminated food products. People of any age can be...