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Fall 2015

Shen, Jing

Bimetallicity is known to provide synergistic effects and improve catalytic performance of monometallic counterparts in a variety of applications. Conventional impregnation methods for supported catalyst preparation do not allow for the control of bimetallic nanoparticle structure or size, which...

Fall 2023

Li, Shuhui

The removal of uremic toxins is of great importance in preventing the progression of chronic kidney disease. The investigation of the interaction of uremic toxins with serum and dialysis materials will contribute to the advancement of techniques in uremic toxins removal. This study investigates...

2008

Dong, Jie

Fall 2023

Sui, Pengfei

Electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is regarded as an attractive technology to lower the CO2 emission level and achieve sustainable carbon neutrality by converting CO2 to valuable chemicals. CO and HCOOH/formate are the promising products in terms of their commercial viability based on...

Spring 2024

Ezeonyi, Nzubechukwu C

Challenges in the processing of minerals have been on the rise due to increasing low-grade ores which require to be finely ground to liberate valuable minerals. Low-grade ores like the ultramafic ores contain large amounts of gangue minerals which impacts recovery of the valuable pentlandite...

Fall 2023

Puli, Vamsi Krishna

In modern industrial processes, the measurement and storage of thousands of correlated process variables have become commonplace. Dimensionality reduction techniques are often employed to extract underlying informative patterns called features by discarding redundant information. Slow feature...

Spring 2018

Nassiri, Hanieh

The beneficial feature of the application of natural gas in the automotive industry is the lowest carbon content of any fossil fuel, which results in the lowest CO2 emissions. On the other hand, the concern of atmospheric pollution due to methane emissions from natural-gas vehicles (NGV) engines...

Fall 2016

Reule, Allen A.C.

Recently, considerable research has been conducted into solid-acid catalyzed carbonylation of dimethyl ether (DME) to methyl acetate (MeOAc), which can be further used for the iodine-free production of ethanol or acetic acid. The zeolite mordenite (H-MOR) is known as a potential catalyst but is...

Fall 2018

Huang, Jian

In this study, the influence of dual bubble generator on mineral flotation was investigated. A Venturi-based dual bubble generator was designed and characterized in both liquid-gas two-phase system and solid-liquid-gas three-phase flotation system. The dual bubble generator featured immediately...

Spring 2019

Tan, Yang

This research aims to improve oil sands tailings treatment by applying a combination of quick lime (calcium oxide) and anionic or cationic polymers in the flocculation process. A procedure including mixing lime, dilution of mature fine tailings (MFT) in the lime supernatant and addition of...