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Spring 2024

Palimi, Mohammadjavad

In drilling systems used in the oil and gas industry, drilling equipment often encounters critical problems which could result in irreparable damage to metallic equipment. Chemical and physical interactions at the contact between different parts, such as drill bits, drill strings with well walls...

Spring 2024

Salehi, Yousef

In the process industry, certain quality variables cannot be measured regularly due to technical limitations or economic constraints. Consequently, the industry relies on laboratory analysis to measure such quality variables. However, laboratory analysis introduces long time-delays in obtaining...

Fall 2023

ZHU, MENGNAN

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxides (CO2RR) is a promising solution for mitigating CO2 emissions while simultaneously generating value-added chemicals. From the perspective of materials engineering, understanding the structure-function relationships is crucial in guiding the rational...

Spring 2023

Gomaa, Ahmed

Tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA) is a widely used solvent. It is a preferred solvent since it is derived from biomass. Multiple patents have reported that adding THFA during heavy oil processing improves the efficiency of the process and increases the yield. One patent for instance reported that...

Fall 2023

Yang, Shu-Bo

With the advances made in machine learning and data science, data-driven modeling and optimization techniques have garnered significant attention in recent years. However, despite the availability of various data-driven methods for addressing optimization problems under uncertainty, their...

Fall 2023

Naef, Michelle E M

After being assigned a process fire investigation in my second year of professional practice, and later working in maintenance leadership following multiple fatality incidents, I wondered why process safety outcomes did not seem to be improving despite constant discussion and an incredible pace...

Fall 2023

Wu, Shuwen

Electrochemical energy conversion and storage, such as electrocatalytic hydrogen generation, metal-air batteries, and fuel cells, are one of the most efficient and reliable systems for renewable energy storage, which address the intermittency of renewable energy systems. However, the energy...

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 2023

Rostami Najafabadi, Zahra

Bitumen is most commonly extracted from oil sands using the Clark hot water extraction process that produce slurry residues, called tailings. Sand particles in tailings quickly settle and produce mature fine tailings (MFT), which are stored in large tailing ponds. Currently, tailing ponds cover...

Spring 2023

Peng, Xuwen

Hydrogels bear a close resemblance to human tissues and thus have been extensively employed for a broad range of applications in recent years. Intelligent hydrogels that can respond to diverse stimuli, such as pH, temperature, ionic strength, strain and stress, hold great promise for a variety of...