Browsing by Subject "Erosion"
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(2011-02-22)The United States contains an estimated 100,000 miles (160000 km) of levees in which erosion related issues are the top priorities. Proper documentation of overtopping induced erosion is a complicated issue involving the ...
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(2015-09-27)Sand dunes protect coastal areas by absorbing wave energy generated by storms. However, during wave impact the dunes can be eroded heavily. Restoring native vegetation and placing plant biomass on dunes may decrease erosion ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)Surface strip mining is currently the fastest way to recover lignite and bituminous coal. The strip mining results in the disturbance of large acreages of land. However, specific management of the spoils is required to ...
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(2015-08-19)The ever increasing global oil demand has forced the energy industry to provide artificial stimulation to many oil wells to increase their productivity. A common way to do this is to install an electric submersible pump ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)Two independent research analyses were conducted. Part I investigates the aerodynamic protection of soil by various arrangements of plants from wind erosion. Theory of free turbulent flows, airflow momentum, and vegetative ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)In situ gasification of lignite can provide an alternate source of energy. The Petroleum Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments at Texas A&M University, and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, the ...
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(2014-08-06)The goal of this research is to better understand upstream Oil & Gas Electric Submersible Pump (ESP) reliability issues. The objective of this research is to determine how Liquid-Gas-Particulate (LGP) turbine pump wear ...
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(2013-04-01)The Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP) manufactured by Baker Hughes, model no. WJE-1000 is designed for wells that are expected to have a high content of abrasive solids. It is a mixed flow, tandem compression type pump. ...
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(2015-05-04)This paper deals with three grading entropy-based rules that describe different soil structure stability phenomena: an internal stability rule, a filtering rule and a segregation rule. These rules are elaborated on the ...
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(2017-04-28)Rigorous hydromechanical frameworks needed for modeling wellbore bridging and broaching during uncontrolled production of oil and gas are developed in this work. First, two sources of sand production are identified: borehole ...
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(2019-07-19)Biodegradable polymers have been used for a variety of biomedical devices since the middle of the 20th century. The researched applications have ranged from dissolvable sutures to, in more recent years, implantable scaffolds. ...
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(2011-02-22)Among many useful properties of elastomers, one is their ability to absorb energy by deforming to large strains without fracturing. This property combined with their good adhesion to substrates makes them suited as adhesive ...
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(2014-04-28)Urban growth contributes to increasing storm water runoff which in turn causes an increase in the frequency and severity of flooding. Moreover, increased storm water runoff contributes to changing the character and volume ...
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(2012-08-15)The National Park Service (NPS) monitors off-road vehicle (ORV) use in National Seashores across the United States. The sediment disturbance that is caused by ORVs is believed to have a large impact on erosion (by wind ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)Greater than 20,000 small and medium sized dams use excavated emergency spillway channels to handle flood flows. More than 95% of these dams have never experienced a spillway flow. However, because a great number are less ...
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(2019-04-15)Coastlines often have to be maintained through engineering practices to preserve coastal communities and environments and to limit damage from flooding during storm impact. As the expenses of coastal upkeep increase due ...
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(2018-11-09)The objective of this study was to develop equations correlating the erosion resistance of a soil to its geotechnical properties. Existing erosion tests and erosion correlations are documented. Around 200 erosion tests, ...
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(2012-02-14)Theory and experiment show that the rate and geographic distribution of erosion control the rate and pattern of deformation in collisional mountain belts. Enhanced erosion reduces the mass of material that must be moved ...
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(2017-04-25)Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESPs) are widely used for oil production. Reliability studies of ESPs are important to increase their life span, thus improving profits. Experimental data of a 185-hour erosion on a WJE-1000 ...
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(2021-10-18)The objective of this research was to improve existing knowledge on soil erosion testing, modelling, classification, mitigation, and prediction of natural and improved soils for dam and levee engineering. An improved testing ...