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Identifying Hot-Spots Of Fecal Contamination In The Royal Spring Karstshed, Samuel C. Lee
Identifying Hot-Spots Of Fecal Contamination In The Royal Spring Karstshed, Samuel C. Lee
Theses and Dissertations--Civil Engineering
The City of Georgetown, Kentucky relies on a vast karst spring network as a drinking water source. This karst feature has several inputs from sinkholes and streams in the Cane Run Watershed: a watershed associated with a variety of land uses in the recharge area. The recharge area encompasses the area from North Lexington to Georgetown and is composed of urban, suburban, agricultural and industrial usage. A serious water quality issue exists with respect to the impact of fecal contamination within the spring recharge area. Identification of fecal contamination is quantified by microbial indicators adapted from surface water applications: fecal …
Effect Of Ionic Surfactants On Electrostatic Charging Of Spray Droplets, Mark T. Warren
Effect Of Ionic Surfactants On Electrostatic Charging Of Spray Droplets, Mark T. Warren
Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering
Dust capture for small coal particles (<2.5µm) can be improved if one takes advantage of electrostatic charges that resides on the surface of coal dust particles and on the surface of water spray droplets used to capture coal dust. Traditional dust capture methods that use water sprays are ineffective in capturing small dust particles since the motion of small dust particles is governed by electrostatic forces. If additives such as ionic surfactants could be added to water that would enhance the surface charge on water spray droplets, dust capture with water sprays could be improved.
The results presented show that n-sodium octyl sulfate causes the greatest charge enhancement versus the longer chained n-sodium dodecyl sulfate and n-sodium octadecyl sulfate. This can be explained by considering the factors that lead to droplet charge enhancement. Those factors are the mass of surfactant ions at the droplet surface, and the diffusion rate of the surfactant ions from the bulk droplet to the surface of the droplet. Sodium octyl sulfate will have a faster diffusion rate to the droplet surface because of its relatively short length, and will also maximize the mass …
2.5µm)>Nanoparticle Additives For Multiphase Systems: Synthesis, Formulation And Characterization, Vinod Kanniah
Nanoparticle Additives For Multiphase Systems: Synthesis, Formulation And Characterization, Vinod Kanniah
Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering
Study on nanoparticle additives in multiphase systems (liquid, polymer) are of immense interest in developing new product applications. Critical challenges for nanoparticle additives include their synthesis, formulation and characterization. These challenges are addressed in three application areas: nanofluids for engine lubrication, ultrathin nanocomposites for optical devices, and nanoparticle size distribution characterization.
Nanoparticle additives in oligomer mixtures can be used to develop extended temperature range motor oils. A model system includes poly(α-olefin) based oligomers with a modest fraction of poly(dimethylsiloxane) oligomers along with graphite as nanoparticle additive. Partition coefficients of each oligomer are determined since the oligomer mixture phase separated at …
Understanding Degradation And Lithium Diffusion In Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes, Juchuan Li
Understanding Degradation And Lithium Diffusion In Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes, Juchuan Li
Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering
Lithium-ion batteries with higher capacity and longer cycle life than that available today are required as secondary energy sources for a wide range of emerging applications. In particular, the cycling performance of several candidate materials for lithium-ion battery electrodes is insufficient because of the fast capacity fading and short cycle life, which is mainly a result of mechanical degradation.
This dissertation mainly focuses on the issue of mechanical degradation in advanced lithium-ion battery electrodes. Thin films of tin electrodes were studied where we observed whisker growth as a result of electrochemical cycling. These whiskers bring safety concerns because they may …
Functionalized Silica Materials And Mixed-Matrix Membranes For Environmental Applications, Noah Daniel Meeks
Functionalized Silica Materials And Mixed-Matrix Membranes For Environmental Applications, Noah Daniel Meeks
Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering
Functionalized silica materials are synthesized for various environmental applications. The overall objective is functionalization with sulfur-containing moieties for mercury sorption and as a platform for nanoparticle synthesis. The first objective is quantifying this functionalization for various silica platforms. The second objective is development of effective mercury sorbents, for both aqueous mercury and elemental mercury vapor. Third, those sorbents are incorporated into mixed matrix membranes (MMM) for aqueous mercury sorption. Fourth, functionalized silica materials are developed as platforms for the synthesis of reactive metal nanoparticles (NP) for the degradation of trichloroethylene.
Thiol-functionalized silica is used as a sorbent for aqueous mercury, …
Membrane Immobilized Reactive Fe/Pd Nanoparticles: Modeling And Tce Degradation Results, Ruo He
Membrane Immobilized Reactive Fe/Pd Nanoparticles: Modeling And Tce Degradation Results, Ruo He
Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering
Detoxification of chlorinated organic compound is an important and urgent issue in water remediation nowadays. Trichloroethylene (TCE), as a model compound in this study, has been proved to be degraded effectively by bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) in solution phase. In this study, Fe/Pd bimetallic NPs were synthesized in poly (acrylic acid) (PAA) functionalized polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) microfiltration membranes. TCE dechlorination with these bimetallic NPs was conducted under different pH values and different metal loadings to study the role of corrosion on reaction rates.
One-dimensional mathematical model with pseudo first-order reaction kinetic was introduced to discuss the TCE dechlorination profile in membrane …