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Molecular Modeling Of Graphite/Vinyl Ester Nanocomposite Properties And Damage Evolution Within A Cured Thermoset Vinyl Ester Resin, Reda Nacif El Alaoui Nov 2020

Molecular Modeling Of Graphite/Vinyl Ester Nanocomposite Properties And Damage Evolution Within A Cured Thermoset Vinyl Ester Resin, Reda Nacif El Alaoui

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The non-reactive Dreiding and the reactive ReaxFF atomic potentials were applied within a family of atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate and understand interfacial adhesion in graphene/vinyl ester composites. First, a liquid vinyl ester (VE) resin was equilibrated in the presence of graphene surfaces and then cured, resulting in a gradient in the monomer distribution as a function of distance from the surfaces. Then the chemically realistic relative reactivity volume (RRV) curing algorithm was applied that mimics the known radical addition regiochemistry and monomer reactivity ratios of the VE monomers during three-dimensional chain-growth polymerization. Surface adhesion between the cured …


Range-Wide Growth And Diet Of Pallid Sturgeon And Sympatric Shovelnose Sturgeon, Robert Jason Devries Nov 2020

Range-Wide Growth And Diet Of Pallid Sturgeon And Sympatric Shovelnose Sturgeon, Robert Jason Devries

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Growth rates and diet patterns for sympatric pallid sturgeon Scaphirhynchus albus and shovelnose sturgeon S. platorynchus throughout the Missouri River and lower Mississippi River were examined. Pallid sturgeon growth in the Great Plains Management Unit (GPMU) was slower than in other river reaches until age 9 and pallid sturgeon from the Interior Highlands Management Unit (IHMU) and Coastal Plain Management Unit (CPMU) did not differ. No differences in growth between management units were detected for shovelnose sturgeon. Observed differences in growth between pallid sturgeon and shovelnose sturgeon were generally dependent upon which growth model was used, but pallid sturgeon were …


Investigations On Mechanisms Of Survival And Pathogenesis Of Mycobacterium Ulcerans In Polymicrobial Environments, Laxmi Dhungel Nov 2020

Investigations On Mechanisms Of Survival And Pathogenesis Of Mycobacterium Ulcerans In Polymicrobial Environments, Laxmi Dhungel

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Buruli ulcer disease (BUD) remains a ‘mysterious disease’ due to the unknown mode of M. ulcerans transmission and pathogenesis. To understand these, it is important to determine the reservoir of the organism in its natural environments, and stress response and interactions of M. ulcerans in its natural niche and during infection of a host. The major virulence factor of M. ulcerans is mycolactone, a lipid cytotoxin that is encoded on a giant plasmid pMUM001. Genetic analysis suggests that plasmid pMUM001 was acquired by M. ulcerans during evolution from its progenitor, M. marinum. Coincidental evolution of virulence hypothesis suggests that many …


Graduation And Retention Of Underrepresented Minorities And Male Transfer Students Who Enroll In An Academic Retention Program, Jermaine Jackson Nov 2020

Graduation And Retention Of Underrepresented Minorities And Male Transfer Students Who Enroll In An Academic Retention Program, Jermaine Jackson

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In this study, the research problem was underrepresented minority (URM) male and female transfer students and male transfer students of all ethnicities who were placed on academic suspension, thus removing their chances of being retained and graduating. The purpose of this study was to see to what extent there were relationships between the dependent variables retention and graduation and the independent variables ethnicity, gender, and enrollment in a retention program. A total of 295 participants were included in the study: 119 students who chose to enroll in the retention program and 176 students who chose not to enroll. Descriptive statistics …


Transfer Learning In Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing: Fusion, Calibration, And Compensation, Jack Francis Nov 2020

Transfer Learning In Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing: Fusion, Calibration, And Compensation, Jack Francis

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The objective of this dissertation is to provide key methodological advancements towards the use of transfer learning in Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing (LBAM), to assist practitioners in producing high-quality repeatable parts. Currently, in LBAM processes, there is an urgent need to improve the quality and repeatability of the manufacturing process. Fabricating parts using LBAM is often expensive, due to the high cost of materials, the skilled machine operators needed for operation, and the long build times needed to fabricate parts. Additionally, monitoring the LBAM process is expensive, due to the highly specialized infrared sensors needed to monitor the thermal evolution of …


Significance Of Heat Abatement Programs And Bulk Tank Milk Quality Parameters On Southeastern United States Dairy Farms, Zachary Mason Nov 2020

Significance Of Heat Abatement Programs And Bulk Tank Milk Quality Parameters On Southeastern United States Dairy Farms, Zachary Mason

Theses and Dissertations

As part of the Southeast Quality Milk Initiative, this investigation analyzes relationships between several heat abatement management, housing and feeding practices that may influence cow thermal comfort with milk quality. Farms producing high quality milk have low bulk tank somatic cell (BTSCC) and bacteria or standard plate counts (BTSPC). Dairy farms in Kentucky (n = 96), Mississippi (n = 7), Tennessee (n = 84) and Virginia (n = 96) were surveyed. Management of heat abatement programs were associated with smaller BTSCC and BTSPC. Farms that used pasture as their primary housing system had greater BTSCS and BTSPC than farms that …


Evaluating The Effects Of Perceived Student Race On Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions Of Situation Severity And Requests For Student Assistance, Nashedra Barry Nov 2020

Evaluating The Effects Of Perceived Student Race On Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions Of Situation Severity And Requests For Student Assistance, Nashedra Barry

Theses and Dissertations

There is currently a gap in research related to the potential effects of student race on school consultation and teacher help seeking behavior. It is well documented in the existing research that racial/ethnic bias exists in education at many levels. These biases lead to negative systemic effects such as achievement gaps, disproportionality in discipline, and disproportionality in special education referrals. Biases can also have negative effects on classroom interactions between teachers and students. It seems plausible that if biases exist in other domains of education, that they may also exist in the school consultation process. The purpose of the current …


Development Of A New Instrument To Assess The Performance Of Systems Engineers, Niamat Ullah Ibne Hossain Nov 2020

Development Of A New Instrument To Assess The Performance Of Systems Engineers, Niamat Ullah Ibne Hossain

Theses and Dissertations

System engineering (SE) is a structured systematized methodology that deals with designing, managing, and optimizing systems performance. System engineers use the perspective of system thinking to make the successful use and retirement of engineering systems. Since the role of system engineers ranges widely from technical support to customer interaction, system design to management, there is a demand to develop a cadre of effective systems engineers. However, two critical questions are not well-defined in the extant body of SE literature: (1) What are the fundamental attributes of systems engineering that would influence the performance/effectiveness of individual systems engineer? (2) What are …


Prevalence And Characterization Of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia Coli And Campylobacter In Mississippi Broilers, Tianmin Li Nov 2020

Prevalence And Characterization Of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia Coli And Campylobacter In Mississippi Broilers, Tianmin Li

Theses and Dissertations

Avian pathogenic Escherichia. coli (APEC) and Campylobacter are pathogenic threats to poultry and human health, respectively. In this study, the prevalence of these pathogens in Mississippi broilers and their antimicrobial resistance (AMR) properties were investigated, and a multidrug-resistant APEC strain (APEC-O2-MS1170) was further explored by whole-genome sequencing (WGS). The efficacy of in ovo injection of Lactobacillus in reducing the APEC in broilers was evaluated. Results revealed a high prevalence of APEC and Campylobacter in broilers and broiler products. A lot of isolates were resistant to antibiotics of different sorts. Moreover, the in ovo administration of Lactobacillus did not reduce the …


Non-Conventional Sensors For Measuring Partial Discharge Under Dc Electrical Stress, Mojtaba Rostaghihalaki Nov 2020

Non-Conventional Sensors For Measuring Partial Discharge Under Dc Electrical Stress, Mojtaba Rostaghihalaki

Theses and Dissertations

Partial discharge (PD) is a micro discharge that occurs in defected regions within the insulating media. As these discharges are the main culprits that cause dielectric material aging, PD measurements have been used for assessing insulating materials, including solids, liquids, and gases for power applications. There are various methods and sensors available for measuring PD sensitive to specific characteristics and operable over a wide range of frequencies. Most PD measurement techniques provide patterns that enable PD interpretation more comfortable for users. For example, in AC applications, the phase-resolved partial discharge (PRPD) technique provides identifiable patterns for distinguishing various types of …


Design Of An Anechoic Chamber For Aeroacoustic Testing And Analysis Of Large Uas Propellers, Jonathan Hunter Vesa Nov 2020

Design Of An Anechoic Chamber For Aeroacoustic Testing And Analysis Of Large Uas Propellers, Jonathan Hunter Vesa

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This thesis details the design and construction of an anechoic chamber for acoustic testing and measurements of large UAS propellers. Three propellers are considered, as they are common propeller designs used for large UAS today. The knowledge and practices involved with acoustic testing and measurements in anechoic chambers, as well as the results of noise studies related to large UAS, are not widely available due in large part to the limited availability and use of large UAS in the public domain. Using established principles related to fundamental acoustic theory and propeller noise, the aeroacoustic noise from large UAS propellers was …


Super-Resolution Microscopy Development For The Detection Of Nano-Structures And Confocal Study Of The Structural Damage In Gut Cell Nuclei Due To Total Body Irradiation, Mehedi Hasan Nov 2020

Super-Resolution Microscopy Development For The Detection Of Nano-Structures And Confocal Study Of The Structural Damage In Gut Cell Nuclei Due To Total Body Irradiation, Mehedi Hasan

Theses and Dissertations

Optical microscopy is the oldest form of microscopy that has been visually aiding scientific research. In our research, I have reported here two such optical microscopy techniques for two different projects. In the first project, we re-developed an instrumentation of a cost-effective, high-performing, single-molecular localization super-resolution microscopy setup that breaks the diffraction limitation barrier. Then we use a stochastic image capturing technique to capture the best precision image positions of gold nanoparticles. In our second project, we apply confocal microscopy technique to image DNA molecular nanoscale structural alterations of chromatin in cell nuclei of gut tissues caused by total body …


Temperature Effects On Unsaturated Soils: Constitutive Relationships And Emerging Geotechnical Applications, Sannith Kumar Thota Nov 2020

Temperature Effects On Unsaturated Soils: Constitutive Relationships And Emerging Geotechnical Applications, Sannith Kumar Thota

Theses and Dissertations

There has been an increasing interest in fundamental and applied research on emerging geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering applications that pose multi-physics problems involving non-isothermal processes in unsaturated soils. Properly studying these problems requires the development of analytical models to describe the constitutive behavior of unsaturated soils under non-isothermal conditions. However, major gaps remain in the development of unified models that can properly represent the temperature dependency of unsaturated soil behavior. The effects of temperature on the stability of slopes, lateral earth pressure, and pile resistance in unsaturated soils are also not well understood. The main objective of this study is …


Preservice Teachers' Preparation To Teach English Learners In Poor Rural Areas, Daina Zhu Nov 2020

Preservice Teachers' Preparation To Teach English Learners In Poor Rural Areas, Daina Zhu

Theses and Dissertations

Extant research focusing on rural teacher education programs emphasizes the urgency of teacher preparation investigation and professional development which is needed to successfully work with ELs (e.g. Fry & Anderson, 2011; Hansen Thomas et al., 2014; Manner & Rodriguez, 2012; O’Neal et al., 2008). However, little research has included preservice teachers’ perspectives related to their own preparatory programs. This study fills the gap in previous research by investigating preservice teachers’ perceptions of how their teacher education programs are preparing them to teach ELs in poor rural areas. This study was conducted in Mississippi, a state in which over 50% of …


Why Do Alumni Continue To Give Back: The Influencers Of Civic Engagement Of Fraternity And Sorority Members, Jacqueline Carson Mullen Nov 2020

Why Do Alumni Continue To Give Back: The Influencers Of Civic Engagement Of Fraternity And Sorority Members, Jacqueline Carson Mullen

Theses and Dissertations

A commitment to advancing civic engagement has been evident throughout the history of the U.S. higher education system. Civic engagement is a part of the mission of fraternity and sorority organizations. Because of this commitment to civic engagement, the purpose of this study is to understand what is happening in the development of civic engagement of fraternity and sorority alumni, specifically the role fraternity and sorority life plays in this development. The research questions that guide this study include: 1) How do fraternity and sorority alumni exercise civic engagement upon graduating from their undergraduate college experiences?; 2) How do fraternity …


Forestland Ownership Changes And The Duration In Mississippi, Mahesha Kuluppuarachchi Nov 2020

Forestland Ownership Changes And The Duration In Mississippi, Mahesha Kuluppuarachchi

Theses and Dissertations

Forest resources are significant in Mississippi's ecology and economy, with 12.5 million acres of Non-Industrial Private Forest (NIPF). Frequent ownership changes with lower durations decrease the average parcel size. The study examined the trends of NIPF parcelization accommodating duration analysis and tax roll data to identify the length of ownerships in an eight-county study. Based on the results, lower duration of ownerships was associated with increased number of smaller parcels less than 11 acres and a substantial loss of large forests. The median duration of ownership was between 10 to 15 years and 59% were absentee NIPF owners. Duration analysis …


In Ovo Vaccination Of Layer Chickens With 6/85 And Ts-11 Vaccine Strains Of Mycoplasma Gallisepticum, Abdulmohsen Alqhtani Nov 2020

In Ovo Vaccination Of Layer Chickens With 6/85 And Ts-11 Vaccine Strains Of Mycoplasma Gallisepticum, Abdulmohsen Alqhtani

Theses and Dissertations

Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) is the organism that causes avian respiratory mycoplasmosis, leading to chronic respiratory disease in chickens and infectious sinusitis in turkeys (Stipkovits and Kempf, 1996; Levisohn and Kleven, 2000). It is also responsible for reductions in egg production and other economic losses in the poultry industry (Stipkovits and Kempf, 1996; Levisohn and Kleven, 2000). Commercially, layer chickens are vaccinated against MG in the pullet phase before lay. In this dissertation, the potential application of in ovo vaccination in layer embryos for the subsequent early protection of pullets against field-strain MG infections was investigated. The use of different sites …


Meso-Mammal Predators And Northern Bobwhite (Colinus Virginianus) Occupancy Of Early Successional Patches In A Managed Ecosystem, Kelsey Fleming Nov 2020

Meso-Mammal Predators And Northern Bobwhite (Colinus Virginianus) Occupancy Of Early Successional Patches In A Managed Ecosystem, Kelsey Fleming

Theses and Dissertations

Heterogeneous landscapes made up of variegated patches are common among managed ecosystems, and often provide diverse structural and compositional habitat characteristics. Landscape heterogeneity can affect distribution of resources, competition, and dispersal of organisms over space and time. Therefore, understanding how species respond to dynamic landscapes is necessary when implementing management decisions that foster biodiversity within managed ecosystems. My study uses hierarchical models in a Bayesian framework to quantify effects of landscape context on meso-mammal predators and northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) occupancy in an intensively managed loblolly pine forest. Results indicate that edge density can positively influence occupancy of meso-mammal predators, …


Selected Discipline Infractions And Consequences Associated With Academic Performance In The Mississippi Delta, Sheila B. King Nov 2020

Selected Discipline Infractions And Consequences Associated With Academic Performance In The Mississippi Delta, Sheila B. King

Theses and Dissertations

The primary purpose of the research study was to identify the most common discipline infractions and consequences for Grade 7 and Grade 8 students enrolled in a middle school located in the Mississippi Delta. In addition, the study sought to determine relationships among the common discipline infractions and student performance and the common discipline consequences and student performance on the statewide assessments for English/language arts (ELA) and mathematics by grade level. The study utilized existing data for the Grade 7 and Grade 8 students who had committed one or more disciplinary infractions during the 2017-2018 school year and had ELA …


Towards A Theory Of Legacy: The Proposal, Development, And Validation Of A Family Legacy Orientation Scale, Nathaniel L. Hammond Nov 2020

Towards A Theory Of Legacy: The Proposal, Development, And Validation Of A Family Legacy Orientation Scale, Nathaniel L. Hammond

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation follows extant scale development practices to propose, develop, and validate a measurement instrument for the family legacy orientation construct. Family legacy orientation (FLO) is understood to be the shared intentions and preferences a family has regarding the biological, social, and material components of the family legacy. The context of the family firm is of specific interest to the dissertation. The dissertation builds and extends our theoretical understanding of family legacy within the field of family business research. In doing so, the dissertation explores many ideas presented by Hammond et al. (2016; p. 1209) who emphasized the importance of …


Blade Element Approach For Computational Modeling Of Lift Driven Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Performance, Abraham Ittycheri Nov 2020

Blade Element Approach For Computational Modeling Of Lift Driven Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Performance, Abraham Ittycheri

Theses and Dissertations

The United Nations have declared the effects of climate change as the “defining issue of our time” (United Nations, 2019). As a result of increased industrialization in the last century to keep up with the demands of a growing global population, the global output of greenhouse emissions has rocketed, which is linked to the shifting and abnormal weather patterns of the planet. Electricity and heat production alone are attributed to generating 25% of greenhouse gas emissions (Edenhofer, et al.). To alleviate the increasing levels of carbon emission there is an effort to transition in green energy power generation sources like …


American Media Depiction Of Terrorism In The U.S After September 11 Attacks, Maria Thuy Trinh Nov 2020

American Media Depiction Of Terrorism In The U.S After September 11 Attacks, Maria Thuy Trinh

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation was to analyze perceptions of terrorism through the analysis of two newspapers’ news coverage of terrorism after the September 11 attacks, a popular Kentucky newspaper, the Courier-Journal and the New York Times (NYT). The social construction of terrorism was reflected as a problem through moral panics or something that a society believed as wrong that needed to be eradicated. Previous research had found that newspapers have contributed to moral panics by exaggerating the scope of social problems such as school shootings. I used the theoretical framework of moral panics; Goode and Ben-Yehuda’s (2009) two criteria …


Understanding In-Field Soil Moisture Variability And Associated Impact On Irrigation, Blade Hodges Nov 2020

Understanding In-Field Soil Moisture Variability And Associated Impact On Irrigation, Blade Hodges

Theses and Dissertations

Site-specific irrigation decisions require information about variations in soil moisture within the rooting depth actively being used by the crop. Producers have been using soil moisture sensors to make irrigation decisions, and it has been shown that soil moisture sensors can reduce water usage without reducing yields. There are still unanswered questions on improving efficiency with soil moisture sensors based on density and location of sensors within a field. This three-year study uses sensors to evaluate the spatio-temporal variability of soil moisture across an 18-ha production field in a corn/soybean rotation. The IDW results show that when uniform irrigation applications …


Thou Shall Not Steal: Assessing Demographic And Neighborhood Predictors Of Shoplifting Through The Lens Of Social Disorganization Theory, Christina Loftin Nov 2020

Thou Shall Not Steal: Assessing Demographic And Neighborhood Predictors Of Shoplifting Through The Lens Of Social Disorganization Theory, Christina Loftin

Theses and Dissertations

The crime of shoplifting has received limited scholarly attention despite millions of shoplifting arrests that occur every year. Our understanding of shoplifting is limited because of this. This study assesses whether offenders arrested for shoplifting that reside in socially disorganized neighborhoods differ from their counterparts from less socially disorganized neighborhoods. Using arrest data from the Meridian Police Department and secondary data from the 2018 American Community Survey, analyses revealed that arrestees from neighborhoods with high levels of poverty were more likely to shoplift from dollar stores, liquor stores, and convenience stores. Demographic findings revealed few gender differences in shoplifting among …


Evaluating Various Socio-Economic Factors And Their Effect On Tornado Knowledge In Mississippi And Alabama, Jacob E. Dickey Nov 2020

Evaluating Various Socio-Economic Factors And Their Effect On Tornado Knowledge In Mississippi And Alabama, Jacob E. Dickey

Theses and Dissertations

Repeated exposure to tornado events in “Dixie Alley” over the years with often fatal outcomes has led to vibrant discussion in the weather enterprise. Two areas of focus for research are socio-economic factors which increase vulnerability for individuals, and the communication channels used by individuals during tornado events. Understanding what individuals know and how their background and experiences play a role in weather knowledge can help communicators reach at-risk groups more effectively and efficiently not only in the moments that matter, but also when education can play a role in the weeks and months before a potential tornado event. Through …


Examining The Effectiveness Of The Junior Master Wellness Volunteer Program On Positive Youth Development Outcomes, Rocheryl Latrese Ware Nov 2020

Examining The Effectiveness Of The Junior Master Wellness Volunteer Program On Positive Youth Development Outcomes, Rocheryl Latrese Ware

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the Junior Master Wellness Volunteer (JMWV) program on select positive youth development (PYD) outcomes among program participants. These outcomes included Competence in health literacy, Connection, Contribution, Character, and Confidence. Research questions were (1) Does participation in the JMWV program improve participants’ Competency in health literacy? (2) Does participation in the JMWV program improve participants’ perceived ability to Connect with and Contribute to their community? (3) Does participation in the JMWV program improve participants' perceived Character or ability to engage in and understand their community? (4) Does participation in the …


Flaw Detection On Tainter Gate Post-Tensioned Anchorages Utilizing Gradient Boosting Through Wavelet Decomposition Feature Extraction, Jason D. Ray Nov 2020

Flaw Detection On Tainter Gate Post-Tensioned Anchorages Utilizing Gradient Boosting Through Wavelet Decomposition Feature Extraction, Jason D. Ray

Theses and Dissertations

As the nation’s infrastructure continues to age, there is a growing need for methods to safely inspect critical structures, often during operation. The failure of post-tensioned anchor rods in Tainter style flood gates presented an immediate need for new inspection capabilities for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) managed flood control gates. In response to this need, the Sensor Integration Branch (SIB) of The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Develop Center (ERDC) developed the capability to non-destructively test (NDT) both greased and grouted cylindrical steel anchor rods using higher order guided wave ultrasonic testing. Understanding the results requires a knowledge …


Generalized User Experience Questionnaire (Ueq-G): A Holistic Tool For Measuring Multimodal User Experiences, Chase Shelton Boothe Nov 2020

Generalized User Experience Questionnaire (Ueq-G): A Holistic Tool For Measuring Multimodal User Experiences, Chase Shelton Boothe

Theses and Dissertations

The holistic user experience (UX) is comprised of both pragmatic and hedonic qualities and encompasses both product-centric and service-type experiences. Currently there is no questionnaire that measures the holistic UX for both types of experiences, and, without one, it is not possible to measure multimodal experiences that cross between experience types within the same extended experience. To address this need, the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ), originally designed to measure product-centric experiences, was generalized to work for both product-centric and service-type experiences in a variant called the Generalized User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ-G). In a first study, the UEQ-G was tested alongside …


Genetic Structure Of The Host Plant, Chamaecrista Fasciculata, And Its Microbial Partners, Mahboubeh Hosseinalizadeh Nobarinezhad Nov 2020

Genetic Structure Of The Host Plant, Chamaecrista Fasciculata, And Its Microbial Partners, Mahboubeh Hosseinalizadeh Nobarinezhad

Theses and Dissertations

Local factors have the potential to generate genetic structure within species if populations respond differently to varying environmental conditions across their geographic range. In this project, spatial genetic structure was examined in the legume, Chamaecrista fasciculata, its symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria, and rhizosphere microbiomes. In the first chapter, the aim was to test for genetic structure among populations of C. fasciculata in the Southeast and to evaluate whether phenotypic variation in leaf pubescence is associated with genetic divergence among populations, which would be consistent with local adaptation. My results did not detect a significant association between genetic structure and phenotypic …


Development Of Low-Cost Adsorbents From Biomass Residues For The Removal Of Organic Contaminants And Heavy Metals From Aqueous Solutions., Sunith Babu Madduri Nov 2020

Development Of Low-Cost Adsorbents From Biomass Residues For The Removal Of Organic Contaminants And Heavy Metals From Aqueous Solutions., Sunith Babu Madduri

Theses and Dissertations

Increasing population across the globe paved the way for rapid growth in industrialization. Pharmaceuticals, automotive, textiles, agriculture, electronics, electrical and many other industries discharge different types of heavy metals, dyes and organic contaminants into ground water. These discharges are released into lakes and rivers without prior treatment causing huge environmental impact to the environment. Among different remediation techniques, adsorption was considered the most promising method because of its low-cost and high efficiency. Biomass is considered as the most practical and renewable source for production of bio products and biofuels. Biomass is also used for carbon sequestration and as an essential …