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Books and Book Chapters

  1. Milora, S.L. and J.W. Tester, Geothermal Energy as a Source of Electric Power: Thermodynamic and Economic Design Criteria, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 186 pages (1976).

  2. Tester, J.W. and C.O. Grigsby, "Geothermal Energy," chapter in the Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, Vol. II, 3rd ed., pp. 746–790 (1980).

  3. Tester, J.W., "Energy Conversion and Economic Issues for Geothermal Energy," chapter in the Handbook of Geothermal Energy, Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, Texas, pp. 471–586 (1982).

  4. Hong, G.T., M. Modell and J.W. Tester, "Binary Phase Diagrams from a Cubic Equation of State," Chapter 13 in Chemical Engineering at Supercritical Fluid Conditions, Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1983).

  5. Tester, J.W., "Development of Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Resources: Technical and Economic Issues," Chapter 9 in Energy: For Ourselves and Our Posterity, Prentice Hall, New York, pp. 209–228 (1985).

  6. Armstead, H.C.H. and J.W. Tester, Heat Mining, E. & F.N. Spon Ltd., London and New York, 478 pages (1987).

  7. Tester, J.W., D.O. Wood and N.A. Ferrari, (eds.), Energy and the Environment in the 21st Century, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1006 pages (1991).

  8. Tester, J. W. and M. Modell, Thermodynamics and Its Applications, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 960 pages (1997).

  9. Tester, J.W., E.M. Drake, M.W. Golay, M.J. Driscoll, and W.A. Peters, Sustainable Energy – Choosing Among Options, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 850 pages (2005).

Recent Scientific Papers

  1. Height, M.J., J.B. Howard, J.W. Tester, and J.B. Vander Sande, “Carbon nanotube formation and growth via particle-particle interaction,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 109, 12337-12346 (2005).

  2. Dunetz J.R., R.P. Ciccolini, M. Froling, S.M. Paap, A.J. Allen, A.B. Holmes, J.W. Tester and R.L. Danheiser, “Pictet-Spengler reactions in multiphasic supercritical carbon dioxide/ CO2 expanded liquid media. In Situ generation of carbamates as a strategy for reactions of amines in supercritical carbon dioxide,” Chem. Comm., 4465-4467 (2005).

  3. Anderson, B.J., M.Z. Bazant, J.W. Tester, and B.L. Trout, “Application of the cell potential method to predict phase equilibria of multi-component gas hydrate systems,” J. Phys. Chem. B., 109, 8153-8163 (2005).

  4. Froling, M. and J.W. Tester, “Hydrothermal processing in biorefineries – a case study of the environmental performance,” 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland, (July 10-14, 2005).

  5. Timko, M.T., K.A. Smith, R.L. Danheiser, J.I. Steinfeld, and J.W. Tester, “Reaction rates in ultrasonic emulsions of dense carbon dioxide and water,” AIChE J., 52 (3), 1127-1141 (2005).

  6. Anderson, B.J., R. Radhakrishnan, J.W. Tester, and B.L. Trout, “Molecular computations for predictions of clathrate-hydrate nucleation and phase-behavior of multi-component hydrates,” ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, (March 13-17, 2005).

  7. Anderson, B.J., J.W. Tester, G.P. Borghi, and B.L. Trout, “Properties of Inhibitors of Methane Hydrate Formation via Molecular Dynamics,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 17852-17862 (2005).

  8. Ploeger, J.M., P.A. Bielenberg,, J.L. Dinaro-Blanchard, R.P. Lachance, J.D. Taylor, W.H. Green, and J.W. Tester, “Modeling Oxidation and Hydrolysis in Supercritical Water – Free Radical Elementary Reaction Networksand Their Applications,” Combust. Sci. Technol., 178 (1), 363-398 (2006).

  9. Timko, M.T., A.J. Allen, R.L. Danheiser, J.I. Steinfeld, K.A. Smith and J.W. Tester, “Improved Conversion and Selectivity of a Diels-Alder Cycloaddition by Use of Emulsions of Carbon Dioxide and Water,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 45, 1594-1603 (2006).

  10. Ploeger, J.M., W.H. Green and J.W. Tester, “Co-oxidation of methylphosphonic acid and ethanol in supercritical water I: Experimental Results,” J. Supercrit. Fluid., 39 (2), 233-238 (2006).

  11. Ploeger, J.M., W.H. Green and J.W. Tester, “Co-oxidation of methylphosphonic acid and ethanol in supercritical water II: Elementary reaction rate model,” J. Supercrit. Fluid., 39 (2), 239-245 (2006).

  12. Ploeger, J.M., A.C. Madlinger and J.W. Tester, “Revised Global Kinetic Measurements of Ammonia Oxidation in Supercritical Water,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 45, 6842-6845 (2006).

  13. Ploeger, J.M., M.A. Mock and J.W. Tester, “Co-oxidation of Ammonia and Ethanol in Supercritical Water, Part 1:Experimental Results,” AIChE J., 53 (4), 941-947 (2007).

  14. Tester, J.W., B.J. Anderson, A.S. Batchelor, D.D. Blackwell, R. DiPippo, E.M. Drake, J. Garnish, B. Livesay, M.C. Moore, K. Nichols, S. Petty, M.N. Toksoz, R.W. Veatch, R. Baria, C. Augustine, E. Murphy, P. Negraru, and M. Richards, “Impact of enhanced geothermal systems on US energy supply in the twenty first century ” Phil. Trans R. Soc., 365, 1057-1094 (2007).

  15. Svanstrom, M., T.N. Patrick, M. Froling, A.A. Peterson, and J.W. Tester, "Choosing between Green Innovative Technologies - Hydrothermal Processing of Biowastes" J. Adv. Oxid. Tech. 10 (1) 177-185 (2007).

  16. Frey, K., C. Augustine, R.P. Ciccolini, S. Paap, M. Modell, and J. Tester, “Volume translation in equations of state as a means of accurate property estimation” Fluid Phase Equilibr., 260 (2), 316-325 (2007).

  17. Thorsteinsson, H., C. Augustine, B.J. Anderson, M.C. Moore, and J.W. Tester, "The Impacts of Drilling and Reservoir Technology Advances on EGS Exploration," Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California (January 28-30, 2008).

  18. Frey, K., M. Modell, and J. Tester, “Density-and-temperature-dependent volume translation for the SRK EOS: 1. Pure fluids” Fluid Phase Equilibr., 279, 56-63 (2009).


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