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| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | Influences of self-assembly, surface chemistry, and confinement on catalysis and fluid properties | Agrawal, Siddharth | self-assembly; surface chemistry; confinement | The composition of catalysts surfaces such as crystal orientation, surface chemistry, and adsorbed material effect the catalytic rate. It is therefore important to understand the different length scales to develop a better catalyst. Here we look at understanding the role of junctions between nanopar... | 2020 |
| 2 |  | Sample collection and resuspension methods for microscopy characterization of combustion generated particulate matter | Satya, Sriram | toxicology; biological | Particulate emission from fuel combustion is a serious concern. This EPA sponsored project aims at using microscopy to collect single particle data on ash generated from different coal combustion conditions. The special interest on coal combustion is because it produces particulate matter in all siz... | 2003 |
| 3 |  | A quantitative experimental study of the osciliatory combustion of solid rocket propellants | Coates, Ralph Lee | Solid propellants | An essential feature of the acoustical theory of oscillatory burning of solid rocket propellants is the important role it ascribes to the solid phase. Experimental, largely qualitative confirmation of solid participation was provided by Horton (45) who used a side-vented end-burner with end-burning ... | 1962 |
| 4 |  | Oscillatory burning of solid rocket propellants | Horton, Marvin Duane | The study of oscillatory burning here reported employed end-burning grains in a side-vented cylindrical chamber. Supplementary data concerning the visco-elastic properties of the propellant were gathered by means of shock tube tests. The shock tube tests showed that the velocity of sound in the prop... | 1961 | |
| 5 |  | Gallium core-shell microstructure for thermal responsive implantable neural electrode | Lim, Taehwan | A critical challenge for ensuring a long-term brain-electrode interface is the staggering mismatch between the mechanical properties of the silicon/metal microelectrode arrays and brain tissue. There has been significant research on the development of more flexible implantable microelectrodes than s... | 2021 | |
| 6 |  | Calendar life of lithium ion batteries containing silicon and the role of solid electrolyte interphase mechanics | McBrayer, Josefine D. | Silicon anodes can theoretically enable lithium-ion batteries with 10x the capacity of current graphite anodes for electric vehicle applications. Silicon anodes traditionally have suffered from over 300% expansion during lithiation, leading to mechanical damage. However, volume expansion problems ha... | 2022 | |
| 7 |  | Development of a biomolecule sensor based on ultraviolet plasmanics-enhanced fluorsecence and insulator-based dielectrophretic exosome trapping | Lee, Ji-Young | In recent years, plasmonic in the ultraviolet (UV) region has been promising due to numerous applications in bioscience and material science. Almost all biological molecules present some level of intrinsic fluorescence in the ultraviolet range of the spectrum. Enhancement of intrinsic emission of pr... | 2022 | |
| 8 |  | A history and evaluation of the Wisconsin players of Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Warfield, Jack Wayne | Solid propellants; Combustion; Thermal analysis | The history of the Little Theatre movement in America shows the pioneer spirit that made this country a leader among the great nations of the world. From the dramatic efforts of the Mormons in the middle of the nineteenth century to today, small groups of hardy Thespians have banded together to expr... | 1971 |
| 9 |  | Some experiments on the effect of thermal radiation on composite rocket propellants | Mihlfeith, Carl Max | A direct measurement was made of the dynamic response of burning solid-propellant strands to an externally imposed radiant heat flux. Burning rate changes were determined for both steady and periodic energy fluxes at atmospheric pressure. The strands were mounted at the secondary focus of an ellipti... | 1971 | |
| 10 |  | A high-heating=rate thermal analysis of solid-propellant reactions | Bouck, Larry Sidney | Solid propellants; Combustion; Thermal analysis | A new, high heating rate, thermoanalytical technique for the study of condensed phase reactions was developed and applied in an investigation of a number of state-of-the-art binder-fuels and ammonium perchlorate based, propellant-like materials. The polymers used in the binders were polybutadiene-ac... | 1971 |
| 11 |  | Effect of combustion particle physical properties on biological responses in human airway epithelial and macrophage-like cell lines | Kaur, Kamaljeet | The EPA's current vehicle emission regulations for particulate matter only consider mass emissions and do not consider other particle properties or their relationship to potential adverse health effects. This limits the development of strategies to address the health effects of combustion particles.... | 2021 | |
| 12 |  | Mechanisms governing ash aerosol formation and deposition during solid fuel combustion | Li, Xiaolong | Concern about global warming has called for new combustion systems to be used in order to reduce CO2 emissions from coal-fired power generation. Pressurized oxy-coal combustion coupled with carbon capture and storage as well as cofiring biomass with coal are gaining more interest in building new pow... | 2022 | |
| 13 |  | Use of rheology to predict the flow restart behavior of multiphase waxy crude oils in transportation pipelines | Wang, Yichen | Waxy crude oils, which are crude oils containing high paraffin waxes, are becoming increasingly important in worldwide oil production. Wax-related pipeline flow assurance issues are commonly encountered in the petroleum industry. In this work, two major issues regarding waxy suspensions and water-in... | 2019 | |
| 14 |  | Developments with two novel coal utilization methods | Wang, Ding | The advancement of green coal conversion technologies is of great importance to global sustainable development. Two novel coal utilization methods are introduced in the current dissertation, underground coal thermal treatment (UCTT) and photoelectrochemical (PEC) coal gasification. UCTT is a propose... | 2019 | |
| 15 |  | Topics in reactive separation | Corredor, Edgar Camilo | The reactions for conversion of methane to benzene suffer from low yield and are equilibrium-limited by excess hydrogen, which can be resolved by using a hydrogen-selective membrane. Data from lab-scale experiments were used to obtain reaction rate constants used in a rigorous thermodynamic reactor ... | 2018 | |
| 16 |  | Pressure diagnostics to infer fracture characteristics | Tiwari, Shashank | Recorded pressure is often the most reliable and inexpensive data available to evaluate fracture characteristics, and to optimize the hydraulic fracturing program. Pressure diagnostics are evaluated to provide additional value to the operator. Three scales are addressed in this work to investigate f... | 2019 | |
| 17 |  | Feasibility and scalability of chemical looping with oxygen uncoupling: utilizing copper oxide as the oxygen carrier | Hamilton, Matthew Anthony | Chemical looping with oxygen uncoupling (CLOU) is a low energy penalty carbon capture technology that has the potential to replace current high carbon emission power plants. In CLOU, an oxygen carrier is utilized to provide the oxygen for the combustion of fuel, often utilizing a dual fluidized syst... | 2019 | |
| 18 |  | Investigating the effects of transiently elevated upstream shear forces on priming of platelets for downstream adhesion and activation | Rahman, Shekh Mojibur | The elevated shear force caused by anastomotic stenosis is a common complication at the blood vessel-vascular implant interface. The majority of previous studies investigated the platelet function at the sites of stenosis while the priming effects of transient platelet exposure to elevated shear for... | 2019 | |
| 19 |  | Investigation of coal conversion pathways during chemical looping combustion with Oxygen uncoupling | Merrett, Kirsten Michelle | Chemical looping combustion (CLC) is a carbon capture technology capable of combusting solid fuels while intrinsically separating the greenhouse gas CO2. Compared to gasification or oxy-fuel combustion, CLC eliminates the energy-intensive step of air separation along with the associated cost, making... | 2019 | |
| 20 |  | Gait adaptations on transitional floor surfaces among older adults with parkinson's disease | Gubler_Kelton Karl | Each year, millions of elderly people, age 65 and older, fall. Research estimates as many as one in three elderly falls each year. One out of five falls causes serious injury. Annual cost for falls is $31 billion. Falls are the leading cause of injury-related deaths for older adults. About 15% of el... | 2019 | |
| 21 |  | Digital (Shale) rock multi-physics: micro-/nano-scale characterization of petrophysical and geomechanical properties of Oil-/Gas-Bearing Rocks | Goral, Jan | Shale oil and gas has revolutionized the energy sector in the United States. Although most of the U.S.-produced oil and gas comes from unconventional (shale) reservoirs, a large fraction of the estimated oil-/gas-in-place cannot be recovered and remains in the subsurface during production. This is l... | 2019 | |
| 22 |  | Dynamic and aggressive image-based flying in GPS-Denied environments: estimation, motion planning, and control | Guo, Dejun | The goal of this dissertation is to enable an aerial robotic system (including an aircraft with a cable-suspended payload) to fly autonomously in GPS-denied environments through vision from a single monocular camera. To achieve this goal, new estimation, motion planning, and control algorithms that ... | 2019 | |
| 23 |  | Environmental sequestration of boron | Easton, Jeffery H. | In nature, boron is generally found as soluble salts. The high level of solubility of these salts leads to the wide distribution and dispersed concentration of boron in the Earth's crust. This dissertation addresses the capture and environmental sequestration of low levels (less than 20 ppm) of boro... | 2019 | |
| 24 |  | Large-eddy simulation of near-wall multiphase flow in combustion systems | Zhou, Minmin | Large-eddy simulation (LES) is becoming a more accurate tool than Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) for predicting the characteristics of coal combustion. LES coupled with Direct Quadrature Method of Moments (DQMOM) was carried out to simulate pulverized-coal combustion in the large laboratory-... | 2019 | |
| 25 |  | Ash aerosol and ash deposit formation during high temperature oxy-combustion of various solid fuels | Wang, Yueming | Aerosol; ash deposition; biomass; coal; oxy-combustion | Oxy-fuel combustion is a promising technology for CO2 capture and sequestration in power plants. First generation oxy-fuel combustion with air-like flame temperature and heat transfer rate has been widely studied, but it is not economically efficient. This dissertation is concerned with second gener... | 2019 |