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"Able to carry on": How Sam Cooke's celebrity and death affected and influenced the Civil Rights Movement
(2017-11-29)Sam Cooke, singer and writer of such songs as "Cupid," "Twistin' the Night Away," and "A Change Is Gonna Come," is widely regarded as one of the instrumental founders of the soul music genre. Figures such as Otis Redding ... -
Abraham Lincoln: The strategic path to emancipation and preservation
(4/25/2023)Despite being one of the most well-known American presidents, of whom countless works of scholarship have been constructed, Abraham Lincoln has often been misrepresented as hesitant and tentative in his approach to abolishing ... -
Absolute Galois group as a profinite group
(2016-04-25)In this paper we will discuss the absolute Galois group, the Galois group of Q where Q is an algebraic closure of Q. We will begin with a discussion of Galois groups and Galois theory and why they are important. Then we ... -
Access to tricyclic heteroarenes by an iodine-promoted cyclization reaction
(4/18/2023)For many years, investigations on nitrogenous heterocycles have been an essential part of organic chemistry due to their widespread use in medications. Our research examines alternative ways to prepare nitrogen-containing ... -
Adjusting the mission: Women missionaries, motivations, and Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, 1823-1867
(2020-05-05)This thesis examines the motivations of British female missionaries and missionaries' wives in Aotearoa/New Zealand, closely examining the time period of 1823-1867. While contemporary British Imperial history fails to ... -
Adventures of Lewis and Clark, their day in court, and the implications for Oklahoma tribal employers
(2017-04-25)In 1804, American explorers, Lewis and Clark, led an expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest. Now, more than two centuries later, another Lewis and Clark are taking the nation into ... -
AIChE 2016 Student Design Competition: Cell therapy for spinal cord injuries: Commercial manufacturing facility
(2016-03-09)The following contains preliminary design considerations for the large-scale production of neural stem cells for spinal cord injury regeneration therapy. The facility is designed to meet market demand for years 2017-2021 ... -
AIChE 2017 Student Design Competition: Manufacturing facility for Nylon 6 6
(2017-03-09)A preliminary design and economic analysis was performed for the development of a grass roots manufacturing facility of Nylon 6 6 in Calvert City, Kentucky. Nylon 6 6 is a polymer that is synthesized from Adipic Acid (ADA) ... -
AIChE 2017 Student Design Competition: Manufacturing facility for nylon 6,6
(2017-03-09)A preliminary grass roots design was performed for a continuous nylon 6,6 polymerization process. The objective of this project was to create a safe and sustainable process for the polymerization of nylon 6,6 that produced ... -
AIChE 2018 Student Design Competition: Manufacture of dimethyl ether for transport
(2018-04-10)A propylene splitter with a heat pump system was designed to produce both polymer-grade propylene and propane HD-5. The process was modeled, simulated, and optimized using Aspen HYSYS. Economic analyses were conducted based ... -
AIChE 2019 Student Design Competition: Manufacturing facility for a biopharmaceutical: Monoclonal antibody
(2019-05-10)The objective of this design project was to determine the necessary process requirements in order to operate an industrial-scale Monoclonal Antibody (MAb) production facility. In addition, the economic value of this process ... -
AIChE Design Competition 2017: Nylon-6,6 production facility
(2017-03-10)Nylon-6,6 is a synthetic polymer that is manufactured from Adipic Acid and Hexamethylenediamine (HMDA). This report outlines the process design and economic analysis for the construction of a grassroots plant for the ... -
AIChE design presentation
(2020-05-04)From the original project statement given by AIChE, our group believed it would be best to take a look into the potential for a renewable ammonia plant. From the outset, we knew that there would likely be a greater potential ... -
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AIChE Design Project Spring 2023: Closing critical gaps to enable a circular economy of plastics
(4/28/2023)The purpose of this project is to have an efficient and cost-effective method of eliminating plastic waste. One of these methods is turning the plastic waste into ethylene. By pyrolyzing the plastic and purifying the ... -
AIChE design project: Abbasi Fuel Refinery retrofit
(2021-04-28)In this thesis, my group and I are describing a refinery concept we have designed for a Mr. Abbasi in the Middle East. Amidst changing purity standards in fuel being produced in the Middle East, Mr. Abbasi is concerned ... -
AIChE design project: Grassroots Nylon 6 6 plant
(2017-03-09)A preliminary design of a Nylon 6 6 plant to produce granules by extrusion was conducted for Calvert City, Kentucky. This process involves a reaction between adipic acid and hexamethylene diamine (HMDA) through a continuous ... -
AIChE National Design Competition: Closing critical gaps to enable a circular plastics economy
(4/18/2023)Global Petrochemicals and AIChE requested the design, optimization, and economic evaluation of a PyOil purification plant and recommendations for improvement of a sorting facility in Bali as well as recommendations to ...