Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2010 Supercritical Pyrolysis of n-Decane Sean Bagley Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
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[email protected]. SUPERCRITICAL PYROLYSIS OF N-DECANE A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Chemical Engineering by Sean Bagley B.S., Louisiana State University, 2003 December 2010 Acknowledgements I gratefully acknowledge the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, for providing the necessary funding for this research. I would like to thank Dr. Arthur Lafleur and Ms. Elaine Plummer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dr. John Fetzer of Chevron Research for providing reference standards and/or UV spectra of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to my professor. I would like to thank my professor, Dr. Judy Wornat, for her wisdom and patience. The members of my group, Elmer Ledesma, Jorge Oña, Shiju Thomas, Michelle Walker, Jerome Robles, Franz Ehrenhauser, and Nimesh Poddar, each of whom contributed to my project in innumerable ways.