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Engineering Lewis Acidic Materials For Biomass Conversion And Battery Applications., Md Anwar Hossain
Engineering Lewis Acidic Materials For Biomass Conversion And Battery Applications., Md Anwar Hossain
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
My long-term goal is to develop catalytic systems to produce renewable energy for a sustainable society. The overall research objective of my dissertation is to advance understanding of Lewis acidic materials for (1) conversion of renewable lignin into phenolics and (2) enhanced cycling stability of lithium metal batteries to safely store renewable electricity from wind and solar, thereby laying the groundwork for our transition to a sustainable society. Petroleum is a conventional feedstock for current transportation fuels (gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels). However, petroleum is a finite resource and produces greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) upon processing, …
Materials And Interfaces For Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production And Utilization., Alexander Jiya Gupta
Materials And Interfaces For Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production And Utilization., Alexander Jiya Gupta
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Mass industrialization over the last few centuries has created a global economy which is dependent upon fossil fuels to satisfy an exponentially increasing demand for energy. Aside from the possible depletion of this finite resource, the combustion of fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere which cause the global temperature to rise – a phenomenon which has already begun to create geologic and geopolitical instability and shows no signs of abatement. One proposed method to rid humanity of its dependence on fossil fuels is to use green hydrogen as an energy carrier. In this scheme, excess electricity from a …
Mixed Metal Oxide Nanowires Via Solid State Alloying., Veerendra Atla
Mixed Metal Oxide Nanowires Via Solid State Alloying., Veerendra Atla
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Mixed metal oxide materials with composition control find applications in energy conversion and storage processes such as heterogenous catalysis, photoelectrochemical catalysis, electrocatalysis, thermal catalysis, and lithium-ion batteries. Mixed metal oxides and/or complex oxides with composition control and in one-dimensional form as nanowires could be interesting to various catalysis applications due to control on single crystal surfaces, active sites, acidity versus basicity site density, and oxygen vacancies. The major challenge is to synthesize mixed metal oxide nanowires beyond binary oxides with composition control. In this dissertation, solid state alloying of binary oxide nanowires with solid and liquid precursors is studied to …
Microwave-Assisted Natural Gas Conversion To Value-Added Chemicals, Xinwei Bai
Microwave-Assisted Natural Gas Conversion To Value-Added Chemicals, Xinwei Bai
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Stranded gas is a raw gas mixture of volatile hydrocarbons where the main composition is methane. The producers flare the stranded gas at the site because the cost of collecting and transporting the gas is higher than the value of the gas itself. To reduce the waste of this natural resource, it is worthwhile to utilize the on-site stranded natural gas as feedstock to produce value-added chemicals without emitting greenhouse gas. Direct natural gas conversion process is more desirable because of lower capital investment. Methane and ethane, the two major components of natural gas, are very stable molecules that usually …