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Spring 2023

Cui, Jiayao

Global warming and climate change are driving the use of cleaner energy sources to replace fossil fuels. Wind and solar energy are renewable and sustainable clean energies and can generate electricity. However, both wind and solar energy depend on the weather conditions. Storing the electricity...

Spring 2013

Nie, Jinjun

The process of catalytic conversion of propylene over ZSM-5 zeolite catalyst in a plug-flow micro-reactor with continuous feed flow is studied under near atmospheric pressure and in the temperature range of 330°C to 450°C with gas hourly velocity from 110/hour to 300/hour. The reaction product is...

Spring 2024

Atsegbua, Joshua

In the construction industry, safety standards are not only a priority but a necessity due to the dynamic nature of the field. Workplace safety is a complex issue influenced by a variety of factors that are constantly evolving. Each incident has the potential to impact the industry's intricate...

Spring 2024

Mao, Yiren

Despite recent advancements in molecular dynamics (MD) methods, the computational costs of \emph{ab initio} molecular dynamics simulations for explicit solvation systems are still too significant. If accuracy is to be left uncompromised, new methods must be employed to reduce computational...

Spring 2020

Nian, Rui

Machine learning (ML) has shown great potential to create tremendous value and growth to all sectors around the world, enhancing productivity, health, and longevity of humanity. ML differentiates itself from all previous methods through its adaptive and self-learning capabilities. In recent...

Spring 2021

Amjad, Faraz

A Primary Separation Vessel (PSV), used in the oil sands industry, is an important process equipment, where Bitumen is separated from the oil sand using a density based separation process. The interface level between a bitumen rich layer (froth) and a layer that has moderate amounts of bitumen in...

Fall 2021

Subraveti, Sai Gokul

Cyclic adsorption processes are widely considered for various industrial gas separations, including CO2 capture. The flexibility to configure a variety of process cycles is an attractive process design feature of these processes. Despite such flexibility for process design, computationally...

Spring 2022

Puliyanda, Anjana Thimmaiah

Processing of complex feedstocks for the production of value-added chemicals and fuels is industrially important. The lack of a priori knowledge of the innumerable species and the reaction pathways governing their conversion, has posed challenges to monitoring these processes. Although,...

Fall 2016

He, Yuan

Due to the fast development of human society and high growth of world population, fresh water shortage has become one of the most critical and urgent problems of our society. Since the discovery of aquaporins (water channel proteins), researchers have been trying to incorporate them as functional...

Spring 2022

Hegde,Venugopal

Polyolefins are a commercially important class of polymers made only of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Polyethylene accounts for a sizable fraction of commercial polyolefins, covering applications from packaging films, water tanks, biomedical equipment, bulletproof vests, and adhesives. The use of a...