Browsing by Author "Lobban, Lance"
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FUNCTIONALIZATION OF MESOSTRUCTURED SILICA CATALYSTS TO IMPROVE STABILITY AND DECREASE LEACHING DURING C-C BOND FORMING REACTIONS IN THE LIQUID PHASE
Umbarila, Santiago (2017-08-01)The ordered mesoporous silica materials such as MCM-41 and SBA-15 have raised special attention because of its chemical and thermal stability. Several studies have been reported the ubiquitous modification method of the ... -
A global optimization framework for stochastic integrated refinery planning with nonlinear unit models under demand and price uncertainties
Siamizade, Mahmud Reza (2020-09-11)The refining industry is facing increased volatility in the global market such as lower economic margins. In this situation, refinery production planning becomes a substantial tool to utilize all potentials to extend the ... -
HEXANE CRACKING ON Y ZEOLITES: ACTIVITY ENHANCEMENT AND ITS POSSIBLE REASONS
Vartak, Anvit (2016)HY zeolites are an essential component as catalysts in fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) process. The Steamed HY or Ultra Stable Y (USY) zeolites have proved to be active hydrocarbon cracking catalysts. Therefore, in this ... -
Investigation of Flow through Complicated Microfluidic Devices and over Micropatterned Surfaces using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Heck, Margaret (2015-12)Computational fluid dynamics is used to study two distinct areas of engineering interest: microfluidic systems involving superhydrophobic surfaces and blood pumps. Superhydrophobic surfaces, which can induce slip at ... -
Investigation of Flow through Complicated Microfluidic Devices and over Micropatterned Surfaces using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Heck, Margaret (2015-12)Computational fluid dynamics is used to study two distinct areas of engineering interest: microfluidic systems involving superhydrophobic surfaces and blood pumps. Superhydrophobic surfaces, which can induce slip at ... -
Kinetics and Solvent Effects on Supported Metal Catalysts for Biomass Conversion
Zhao, Zheng (2018)Energy conversion using renewable biomass has significant environmental impact. To acquire high value products using preliminary processed biomass, considerable amount of upgrading reactions has been conducted in liquid-phase ... -
Measurement of the Top Quark Pole Mass and QCD Radiation in Top Quark Pair Production using Electron-Muon Events with b-Tagged Jets in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7-8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
Bertsche, Carolyn (2015)As heavy as an atom of gold but much smaller than a proton, the top quark is the most massive fundamental particle known in the universe and an integral part of current particle physics research. The characteristics of the ... -
Mechanistic Understanding of Catalytic Upgrading Reaction of Biomass-Derived C2 Oxygenates
Pham, Tu (2014-05-09)Lignocellulosic biomass, being the promising renewable source of carbon, has a great potential to serve as a sustainable platform for the production of fuels and chemicals. The conversion of lignocellulose to fuels and ... -
MIXED METAL CARBIDES: UNDERSTANDING THE SYNTHESIS, SURFACE PROPERTIES AND CATALYTIC ACTIVITIES
Mehdad, Ali (2015-08)Metal carbides are formed when carbon is inserted into the lattice of the metal, and metal-carbon bonds are formed. In fact, formation of the carbon-metal bonds causes a change in the electronic structure of the metal in ... -
New applications of molybdenum (VI) catalyzed oxygen atom transfer reactions
Rusmore, Theo Adrian Hooper (2022-12-16)The chemistry of dioxomolybdenum coordination complexes has been deeply investigated as a model for molybdoenzyme structure and activity, as well as for non-biological chemical applications. In this work, we present ... -
QUANTIFICATION OF NON-IDEAL MIXING IN SODIUM DI (2-ETHYLHEXYL) SULFOSUCCINATE – ANIONIC SURFACTANT MIXTURES
Surisetti, Sweta (2017-05)HLD equation was first introduced by Salager [1], however for predicting the HLD parameters from known parameters of a surfactant in a binary anionic-anionic mixture, Acosta [8] suggested linear mixing rules which can be ... -
STAGED THERMAL FRACTIONATION OF BIOMASS FOR SEGREGATION OF HEMICELLULOSE, CELLULOSE AND LIGNIN DERIVED PRODUCTS
Janupala, Rajiv Reddy (2016-05-14)The increasing industrialization and motorization of the world has led to a steep rise in the demand of petroleum-based fuels. However, negative environmental consequences of fossil fuels, natural limitation in their ... -
Strategies for Catalytic Upgrading of Vapor Streams from Thermal Fractionation of Biomass
Vann, Tyler (2016-05)Herein several strategies for the catalytic upgrading of biomass to green chemicals and fuels are discussed. Both vapor and liquid phase reaction pathways have been investigated. Many different fuel precursors and chemical ... -
SURFACE MODIFICATION OF TIO2 FOR PHOTOCATALYTIC SELECTIVE OXIDATION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN BIPHASIC AND SINGLE PHASE SYSTEMS
Vitery Erazo, Tania Gizeth (2016-12-16)Living style of human kind in this era has a large dependence on energy and petroleum based products. As the population grows; the world’s fossil fuels, minerals, and natural resources are being depleted. Currently, as ... -
Synthesis and Characterization of Stimuli-Responsive Polymers with Aqueous Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Britten, Collin (2021-09-23)In this study the synthesis of hydrophilic, stimuli-responsive polymers is approached with the goal to optimize their synthesis in terms of quality of product as well as overall user-friendliness of the polymerization ... -
The oxidative coupling of methane using an AC electric gas discharge
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Understanding Thermochemical Process And Feedstock Compositional Impacts On Strategies To Control Pyrolysis And Torrefaction Product Distributions
Waters, Christopher (2016-05-13)Growing concern about the effects of post-Industrial revolution fossil carbon dioxide release has led to large-scale research efforts to understand how to address and mitigate future fossil CO2 emissions. Within the scope ... -
Vapor-Phase Adsorptive Separation of Bio-Oil Components Using Activated Carbon
Crum, Charles Jakob (2018-12)Biofuels processes involve the upgrading of components produced by fractionation of cell wall biopolymers. However, the fractionation is not selective to high-value components, and separation is necessary. The use of ...