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Application Of Decline Curve Analysis To Unconventional Reservoirs, Majed Hisham Kabbani

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Supply and demand are the main key factors for oil and gas industry. Moreover, natural gas was not important until early 18^th century after the World War II. The first shale gas well was successfully drilled 27 ft deep in 1821. The well was drilled in the Devonian Dunkirk shale. Later in the 1980s producers began investigating into the more difficult tight gas sands in order to keep up with the growing market. A decade later in 1990s investors were looking at coalbed methane. Today, as demand is increasing globally, the oil and gas industry is moving toward shale. …

Deep Learning Based Face Detection And Recognition In Mwir And Visible Bands, Suha Reddy Mokalla

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In non-favorable conditions for visible imaging like extreme illumination or nighttime, there is a need to collect images in other spectra, specifically infrared. Mid-Wave infrared (3-5 microm) images can be collected without giving away the location of the sensor in varying illumination conditions. There are many algorithms for face detection, face alignment, face recognition etc. proposed in visible band till date, while the research using MWIR images is highly limited. Face detection is an important pre-processing step for face recognition, which in turn is an important biometric modality. This thesis works towards bridging the gap between MWIR and visible spectrum …

Reinventing High School: Understanding The Challenges And Successes Of Transforming Education To Meet Student, Society, And Industry Needs, Scott R. Bartholomew, Greg J. Strimel, Anne M. Lucietto, Mesut Akdere

Faculty Publications

Efforts to revamp existing educational systems and approaches result in various new models in STEM education. Accordingly, a new urban public charter school, located in a Midwest state in the United States, was established in partnership with the state’s land-grant university to create a transformed integrated STEM educational environment characterized by industry-focused and design-based learning to help prepare students for the future of work and learning. This article presents findings from an exploratory study that examined the experiences of teachers and administrative staff of this innovative high school (IHS) during the first year of school operation. A purposive sample of …

Top-Down Model Development Using Data Generated From A Complex Numerical Reservoir Simulation With Water Injection, Yvon Andrea Martinez

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Numerical simulation and data-driven modeling are two current approaches in engineering reservoir modeling. Numerical reservoir simulation attempts to match past production history by modifying reservoir properties of the model. After multiple computationally intensive trial and error efforts, accurate history matches are identified. These history matches are used by project management for production forecasting purposes. Data-driven reservoir modeling utilizes measured data and is, therefore, free of assumptions that are often included in numerical reservoir simulations. Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms are technologies implemented in the development of a data-driven reservoir model with efforts to learn fluid flow through porous media …

Household’S Willingness (Wtp) To Pay To The Utility, Rakhshinda Bano, Mehdi Khiadani, Steven Burian

Research Datasets

The dataset contains the water use at household level, payments to the utility and household income.

Utilization Of A Numerical Reservoir Simulation With Water And Gas Injection For Verification Of Top Down Modeling, Ashley Konya

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The primary purpose of this thesis was to confirm the capabilities of artificial intelligence and machine learning through Top Down Modeling in history matching and predicting the oil, gas, and water production rates, reservoir pressure, and water saturation, of one limb of an anticline with water and gas injection. Several other characteristics were also applied to make the model more realistic to industry standards. The second purpose of this thesis was to determine the minimum amount of training and calibration data required in order to obtain good results for this particular dataset by increasing the blind validation in one year …

Mechanical Connection For Concrete Structures, George Morcous, Raed Tawadrous

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications

A system and method for connecting precast concrete structures includes anchoring a sleeve within a pocket formed in one of the concrete structures , and placing the concrete structures in contact with one another such that the pocket is diposed around a protruding end of a shear connector embedded in the other concrete structure . A bridge is inserted around the protruding end of the shear connector and a fastener is installed onto the protruding end of the shear connector to engage the bridge and urge the bridge in abutting relation with a lip of the sleeve . The pocket …

Research On Color Matching Model For Color Qr Code, Fei You Dr., Qingli Zhang Dr., Bruce Welt Prof.

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

Objective To provide a faster and more effective way for consumers to obtain the additional information of product, the color quick response (QR) code is printed on product packaging. To improve decoding accuracy of color QR codes. This paper constructs a color matching model with good performance, which restrains aliasing between two color encoding modules of color QR code. Methods By comparing and analyzing the character of several typical color spaces, the HSV color space was chosen for its favorable attributes. Based on the enlarging capacity principle of color QR code and the maximum rule of relative Euclidean distance, 2 …

Autonomous Vehicle Interior Design, Luis Vargas

Honors Theses

As technology in the automotive industry advances and self-driving vehicles become more commercially available, design concepts for their interiors must also be developed. Research was conducted on automotive design and autonomous technology, drawing inspiration from production and concept vehicles of the past, present, and future. A survey was conducted to gauge possible consumer needs. Hand sketches, small-scale models, and a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model was produced. A full-size model was developed using various material-forming processes, including 3D printing, woodworking, clay sculpting, and metal machining. The interior was designed with consideration for safety, comfort, and technological advancements to satisfy the needs …

Mad Jack Alpine Touring Model Design, Austin Gasbarra, Gillian Stargensky, Madeleine Mccool, Brannon Smudz

Mechanical Engineering

Skiing is a sport enjoyed by millions of people every year, yet ski boots are very uncomfortable and cost- prohibitive, resulting in a low conversion rate of first-time skiers to lifetime skiers. Additionally, Alpine Touring (AT) is seeing a surge in popularity as ski resorts become more expensive, but few companies are developing affordable products in this realm. Mad Jack Snow Sports has developed a product that they believe addresses some of the main issues associated with skiing, but they want to develop their product line further. The problem statement and scope state that the purpose of this project is …

Breaking Coastal Hypoxia: Destratification Of Gulf Of Mexico Deadzone To Encourage Oxygen Transport Downwards To Maintain Marine Fauna, Veda Thipparthi

LSU Master's Theses

As a consequence of seasonal eutrophication and human input, a vast hypoxic area termed The Dead Zone develops every year in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) during summer along the Louisiana coastline characterized by vertical seawater density-stratification with oxygen concentrations less than 2 mg.l^-1 at the seafloor. It poses a threat to bottom-dwelling faunae and their environment which has negative ecological and economic consequences. This project aims to mitigate hypoxia by employing mechanical impellers placed at strategic water depths and locations in the Gulf. Enhanced transport of oxygen results by mixing oxygen-enriched seawater at the surface, downward into the …

Integrated Chirped-Grating Spectrometer-On-A-Chip, Shima Nezhadbadeh

Optical Science and Engineering ETDs

In this dissertation we demonstrate a new structure based on waveguide coupling atop a silicon wafer using a chirped grating to provide the dispersion that leads to a high-resolution, compact, fully integrable and CMOS-compatible spectrometer. Light is both analyzed and detected in a single, completely monolithic component which enables realizing a high-resolution portable spectrometer with an extremely compact footprint. The structure is comprised of a SiO₂/Si₃N₄/SiO₂ waveguide on top of a silicon wafer. Grating regions are fabricated on the top cladding of the waveguide. The input light is incident on a chirped grating …

Prospects Of Development Of Deposits Of Nonmetallic Minerals Kyzylkum Such As Quartz Sands, A.U. Mirzaev, S.V. Pochtoviy, F.F. Istablaev, Sh.R. Kurbonova

Gorniy vestnik Uzbekistana

Quartz sand plays essential role in the construction and glass industry, but construction organizations of Uzbekistan has not paid due attention to use quartz sand from domestic deposits. This article provides information about the prospects of the development of deposits of quartz sand in Kyzylkum, and also presents a project of a factory for the enrichment of Dzheroy sands with a capacity of 1 thousand tons per day of sand concentrate being developed by the Navoi branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan using a washing device as a washing machine pulsating columns.

Production Of Nitric Acid Ethers Of Cellulose In The Environment Of Low Concentrated Nitric Acid, H.Ch. Mirzakulov, T.T. Safarov, H.S. Beknazarov, G.O. Mamazhanov

Gorniy vestnik Uzbekistana

The article proposes a new method for producing cellulose nitrate esters by pretreatment of cellulose with low concentrated nitric acid. Optimal conditions for the esterifi- cation reaction have been developed. Some properties of mono- and di- and trisubstituted nitrates were studied: degree of substitution, solubility, degree of polymerization, IR spectra, X-ray diffraction patterns are given.

Volcanism Role In Formation Of Burned Breeds On Brown-Coal Fields Southern Fergana Coal Basin, A.E. Vorobev, O.Sh. Shamshiev, N.T Tolobaeva

Gorniy vestnik Uzbekistana

Are shown a volcanism role in formation of burned breeds on brown-coal fields of the Southern Fergana coal basin (Kyrgyzstan). So far burned breeds traditionally were considered as products of thermal transformation clay, clay алевритовых breeds, formed as a result of the underground fires of layers of coal. However, the complex of geological factors revealed recently when studying burned breeds, allows to assume their origin not only due to the underground fires of layers of coal, but also and a vol- canogenic and sedimentary way. Field works included supervision, drawing up litologo-petrographic, mineral and geochemical, structural and lithologic cuts with …

Big-Data Talent Analytics In The Public Sector: A Promotion And Firing Model Of Employees At Federal Agencies, Rabih Neouchi

Operations Research and Engineering Management Theses and Dissertations

Talent analytics is a relatively new area of focus to researchers working in analytics and data science. Talent Analytics has the potential to help companies make many informed critical decisions around talent acquisition, promotion and retention. This work investigates data science to predict “shiny star” employees in the U.S. public sector, defined as top-notch performers over the years of a given time span. Its scope falls within talent analytics, also called people analytics, a relatively new research area.

We clean a data set made available by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and present two models to predict the …

Development Of Technology For Processing Of Sulfide Ore Deposits Of Kokpatas And Daugyztau., K.S. Sanakulov, H. Ahmedov, I.S. Nurmukhamedov

Gorniy vestnik Uzbekistana

In clause are given the short review on material structure persistent sulfide gold containing ores of deposits Kokpatas and Daugiztau. Also in clause the results of laboratory researches executed in SE "IMR" on study of mineral structure and enrichment of tests of ores of deposits Kokpatas and Daugiztau, and also pyro- and hydrometallurgical processing of the received concentrates are resulted. At flotation enrichment of ores an opportunity of application local reagents is considered. At cyaniding, the rest of alkaline processing the burned material of a mixed concentrates of the deposits, received from ores, Kokpatas and Daugiztau the extraction of gold …

Determination Of The Suitability Of Balance Ores "Almalyk Mmc" Jsc To Processing By Method Biodinstellation, M.G. Sagdieva, Sh. T. Khidirov, A.M. Mavzhudova, R.Ch. Omonov

Gorniy vestnik Uzbekistana

Over the 70 years of operation, Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine (AGMK) has accumulated 155 million tons of waste ore and 1,350 million tons of flotation tailings of a copper-processing plant in the territory of the Almalyk region, which occupy huge areas and pose an environmental hazard. The objects of research at the Almalyk ore field were: A-4 blade (oxidized ore), A-7 (sulfide ore), 9a (oxidized ore), and open-pit ore of Kalmakyr deposit. The paper presents the microflora of all the studied dumps, from which the most active acidophilic associations of iron-sulfur-oxidizing bacteria were selected. Laboratory studies have been carried …

Mechanism Of Fluid Migration In Reservoirs-Collectors, A.E. Vorobev, Z.T. Martin, K.A. Vorobev

Gorniy vestnik Uzbekistana

The mechanism of fluid migration in stratium - reservoirs is revealed. The relevance of the study of the mechanism of migration of fluids is determined by the high (up to 90%) water cut of recoverable oil. It has been established that the migration of water and oil is mainly influenced by the type, nature and parameters of their interaction with host rocks, which have different values of wettability and sorption capacity. The amount of wettability is influenced by the pH values of water and oil. It is shown that pores and capillaries often have a mixed type of wettability, depending …

Determination Of The Suitability Of Balance Ores "Almalyk Mmc" Jsc To Processing By Method Biodinstellation, M.G. Sagdieva, Sh. T. Khidirov, A.M. Mavzhudova, R.Ch. Omonov

Gorniy vestnik Uzbekistana

Over the 70 years of operation, Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine (AGMK) has accumulated 155 million tons of waste ore and 1,350 million tons of flotation tailings of a copper-processing plant in the territory of the Almalyk region, which occupy huge areas and pose an environmental hazard. The objects of research at the Almalyk ore field were: A-4 blade (oxidized ore), A-7 (sulfide ore), 9a (oxidized ore), and open-pit ore of Kalmakyr deposit. The paper presents the microflora of all the studied dumps, from which the most active acidophilic associations of iron-sulfur-oxidizing bacteria were selected. Laboratory studies have been carried …