Browsing by Author "Mashuga, Chad"
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Mallams, Jacob Robert (2020-11-19)Deep earth drilling is a key technique to extract oil, gas, and geothermal heat from the earth. Energy focusing methods have been explored as an alternative approach to reach these resources. Many of these techniques require ...
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Ward, Kyle Blair (2021-04-07)Natural gas accounts for 32 percent of the United States’ total energy consumption [1], and as emissions regulations become more stringent, the need to reduce harmful emissions produced by natural gas engines has become ...
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Sun, Yue (2019-11-08)Ketones are industrially produced in large quantities. They find application as solvents and polymer and pharmaceuticals precursors. Substantial efforts have been put towards a green oxidation of alcohols to ketones with ...
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Pinzon Correa, Laura Tatiana (2018-07-05)The thermal decomposition of ethanol has been studied under pyrolytic conditions behind reflected shock waves in the 1250 to 1677 K temperature range, at an average pressure of 1.31 atm for a mixture highly diluted in Ar. ...
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Gopalakrishnan, Vishaal (2021-07-26)Fmoc groups are base labile functional groups attached to amino acids to reduce undesirable reactions in peptide synthesis. As with ordinary amino acids, Fmoc-protected amino acid dusts are combustible, and exhibit the ...
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Ritchie, Taylor Elizabeth (2022-07-18)Prechambers are systems that can easily be implemented onto currently existing engines. They provide an increase in fuel efficiency and decrease in emissions if designed properly. This study looks to determine how the ...
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Zhu, Wen (2019-07-18)Nitroaromatic compounds are among the largest group of industry chemicals. Due to the high bond-association energy (BDE) of the C-NO2 in nitroaromatic compounds (297 ± 17 kJ/mole), once the runaway reaction is triggered, ...
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Shen, Yueqi (2020-08-28)Organic Peroxide is one of the common reactive chemical classes. Their unstable O-O bonds make them very useful, but also hazardous due to highly exothermic decomposition, which can result in runaway reactions. Benzoyl ...