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Engineering the Flow Behavior of Colloidal Materials through Surface Modification and Shape Anisotropy.
(2014)
In this dissertation, we explore the idea that colloidal materials can be designed with enhanced rheological properties by incorporating shape and surface anisotropy. This hypothesis is motivated by our finding that ...
Phenol Gasification in Supercritical Water: Chemistry, Byproducts, and Toxic Impacts.
(2014)
In order to better understand the chemistry underlying supercritical water gasification (SCWG) of biomass, phenol was processed with supercritical water in quartz reactors while systematically varying the temperature, water ...
Destabilization and Aggregation Kinetics of Asphaltenes.
(2014)
Asphaltenes are the heaviest fraction of crude oil and can precipitate due to changes in temperature, pressure or composition. It was previously shown that the precipitation and aggregation of asphaltenes is a kinetic ...
Reaction Kinetics, Catalyst Development, and Reaction Networks for Hydrothermal Hydrodeoxygenation.
(2014)
This dissertation examines issues related to producing a hydrocarbon biocrude from wet algal biomass. It first reports on the hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL), a high-temperature (>250 °C) and high-pressure (>40 bar) aqueous ...