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Fall 2024

Han, Sumin

Infections in the respiratory system not only cause individual illness but can also spread to others and potentially develop into pandemics or epidemics. Various types of vaccines have been used to control the spread of pathogens. However, vaccine development has limitations due to time-consuming...

Fall 2024

Matinfar, Marzieh

Bioactive glass bone scaffolds are promising for bone regeneration due to their ability to bond with bone, but current processing techniques face challenges, particularly regarding heat treatment and formability. To address these issues, our lab explored a new approach by creating formable...

Fall 2024

Kavyani Baghbaderani, Sajjad

In this molecular dynamics (MD) simulation study, we investigated the impact of an environmental stress cracking (ESC) agent, nonyl ethoxylate (NE), on the packing and free volume coalescence in between polyethylene chains and the ESC agent, focusing on linear polyethylene (LPE) and branched...

Fall 2024

Pereira Bassane, Joao Felipe

The production of oilsands bitumen from mining operations requires its recovery from the mineral matter through a hot water extraction process, which generates a bitumen froth comprising about 60 wt% bitumen, 30 wt% water, and 10 wt% mineral solids. The challenging separation of water and solids...

Fall 2024

Wang, Haoxiang

Bio-oil (BO) is a promising and renewable energy source that could alleviate dependence on fossil fuels, but its direct use faces challenges due to low thermal stability and high corrosiveness. Co-processing BO with vacuum gas oil (VGO) in existing refineries offers a solution without requiring...

Fall 2024

Bathla, Sagar

Transition metal carbide catalysts (TMCs), particularly Molybdenum carbide (Mo2C), have emerged as a cost-effective and promising alternative to precious-metal-based catalysts (Pt, Ru) for the hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of biomass-derived species, including bio-oil. However, low selectivity towards...

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...