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Smart Dispersant Formulations for Reduced Environmental Impact of Crude Oil Spills
(2015-04-30)
The traditional chemical dispersant formulations used in combating oil spills are comprised of mainly hydrocarbon solvents, petroleum-derived surfactants, and additives. The toxicity of these chemical dispersants to aquatic ...
Fundamental Study on Kinetics of Hemicellulose Hydrolysis and Bioconversion of Hemicellulose Hydrolysate Mixture into Lactic Acid
(2015-08-18)
In the first part of this dissertation, the kinetics of hemicellulose hydrolysis in dilute-acid hydrolysis of Kramer Corn Stover (KCS) under high-solid conditions was investigated. Dilute-acid pretreatment is one of the ...
Investigation of Mass Transfer Phenomena in Supercritical Antisolvent Precipitation Processes
(2015-08-04)
This dissertation involves a detailed discussion of the production of organic and polymeric microparticles of controllable size and size distribution for several applications including certain pharmaceutical formulations. ...
Control Engineering Perspective on Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling
(2015-12-10)
Fossil fuels impart major problems on the global economy and have detrimental effects to the environment, which has caused a world-wide initiative of producing renewable fuels. Lignocellulosic bioethanol for renewable ...
Ozone Removal at Microsecond Contact Time using Microfibrous Entrapped Catalysts
(2015-04-30)
Microfibrous Entrapped Catalysts (MFEC) manufactured from 8μm diameter nickel fibers were engineered into pleated heterogeneous catalytic reactors to improve catalytic performance from conventional packed bed and monolith ...