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- 7Luo, Jingli (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 5Chen, Weixing (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 5Driver, Robert (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 5Henein, Hani (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2Imanpour, Ali (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 2Li, Dongyang (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Fall 2023
Tribocorrosion, a synergistic impact of wear and corrosion, impacts the lifespan of machine parts in most sectors. Consequently, duplex coating has emerged as the most promising solution to address tribocorrosion. In this work, advanced noble duplex coating systems of TiAlN/WC-NiBSi/steel and...
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Spring 2010
Novel anode catalysts have been developed for sour natural gas solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) applications. Sour natural gas comprises light hydrocarbons, and typically also contains H2S. An alternative fuel SOFC that operates directly on sour natural gas would reduce the overall cost of plant...
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Fall 2023
Steel fabricators and connection designers in the building construction industry often rely on traditional connection design methods, which involve using connection design software or spreadsheets to simulate and design connections with the goal of minimizing costs associated with fabrication and...
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Spring 2013
20Cr-32Ni-1Nb stainless steel alloys are commonly used in hydrogen reformer manifolds for transporting hot hydrogen by-products at 750-950 celcius. After long periods of exposure, embrittling secondary carbides and intermetallic phases can precipitate at the grain boundaries which can drastically...
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Fall 2019
Residual stresses can have a significant impact on the stability of structural members. In the case of I-section beam elements, such stresses can impact lateral--torsional buckling (LTB) capacity, particularly in the inelastic range. I-sections are typically fabricated by either rolling as a...
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Fall 2015
The present research has been done with the intent of evaluating the corrosion resistance and cracking susceptibility of some commercial candidate alloys that can be potentially used in Gen-IV supercritical water reactor (SCWR). The mechanism of the crack initiation in austenitic alloys exposed...
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Corrosion Assessment and Mechanisms of Materials in Pre-hydrolysis and Hydrothermal Liquefaction Biorefining Systems
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Advanced biomass conversion technologies, including hot dilute acidic pre-hydrolysis and hydrothermal liquefaction, have been developed for the generation of renewable bioenergy products and biochemicals from existing biomass resources and biowastes. However, the deployment of the technologies is...
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Spring 2013
As the Supercritical Water-cooled Reactor (SCWR) shows a promising future, the corrosion behavior of candidate materials has attracted great interest. In this study, experimental investigation was conducted to evaluate the corrosion behavior of the ferritic-martensitic steels designed for the use...
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Spring 2017
Severe localized corrosion was found throughout an aeration tank of a modular wastewater treatment plant. Specifically, pitting, crevice corrosion, galvanic corrosion, and intergranular corrosion (IGC) were observed on the 5000 and 6000 series aluminum alloys used in the tank’s construction. One...
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Spring 2015
This thesis presents a thorough examination of the corrosion and fouling behaviour of crude oil at refining conditions on industrially applicable heat transfer surfaces. The depletion of light sweet crude oil reserves means that the processing of ever heavier and more sour crude oils is...