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Ocean energy systems. Quarterly report, January-March 1983

Description: Progress is reported on the development of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) systems that will provide synthetic fuels (e.g., methanol), energy-intensive products such as ammonia (for fertilizers and chemicals), and aluminum. The work also includes assessment and design concepts for hybrid plants, such as geothermal-OTEC (GEOTEC) plants. Another effort that began in the spring of 1982 is a technical advisory role to DOE with respect to their management of the conceptual and preliminary des… more
Date: March 30, 1983
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Designer's Guidebook for First Wall/Blanket/Shield Assembly, Maintenance, and Repair

Description: This is the initial issue of the guidebook. Since a guidebook of this type must incorporate information concerning a wide range of subjects, much additional data will eventually be included. The guidebook will document, in summary and easily referenceable form, data, designs, design concepts, design guidelines and background information useful to the FWBS and to the Maintenance System designer. In providing guidelines for the AMR of the FWBS, the guidebook must, of necessity, include guidelines… more
Date: December 30, 1983
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Unconventional petroleum: a current awareness bulletin

Description: The summaries in this bulletin cover both secondary and tertiary recovery of petroleum and the following topics under Oil Shales and Tar Sands: reserves and exploration; site geology and hydrology; drilling, fracturing, and mining; oil production, recovery, and refining; properties and composition; direct uses and by-products; health and safety; marketing and economics; waste research and management; environmental aspects; and regulations. These summaries and older citations to information on p… more
Date: October 30, 1983
Creator: Grissom, M.C. (ed.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SP-100 Program: space reactor system and subsystem investigations

Description: For a space reactor power system, a comprehensive safety program will be required to assure that no undue risk is present. This report summarizes the nuclear safety review/approval process that will be required for a space reactor system. The documentation requirements are presented along with a summary of the required contents of key documents. Finally, the aerospace safety program conducted for the SNAP-10A reactor system is summarized. The results of this program are presented to show the ty… more
Date: September 30, 1983
Creator: Harty, R.B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Space reactor system and subsystem investigations: assessment of technology issues for the reactor and shield subsystem. SP-100 Program

Description: As part of Rockwell's effort on the SP-100 Program, preliminary assessment has been completed of current nuclear technology as it relates to candidate reactor/shield subsystems for the SP-100 Program. The scope of the assessment was confined to the nuclear package (to the reactor and shield subsystems). The nine generic reactor subsystems presented in Rockwell's Subsystem Technology Assessment Report, ESG-DOE-13398, were addressed for the assessment.
Date: June 30, 1983
Creator: Atkins, D. F. & Lillie, A. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TMRBAR: a code to calculate plasma parameters for tandem-mirror reactors operating in the MARS mode

Description: The purpose of this report is to document the plasma power balance model currently used by LLNL to calculate steady state operating points for tandem mirror reactors. The code developed from this model, TMRBAR, has been used to predict the performance and define supplementary heating requirements for drivers used in the Mirror Advanced Reactor Study (MARS) and for the Fusion Power Demonstration (FPD) study. The equations solved included particle and energy balance for central cell and end cell … more
Date: August 30, 1983
Creator: Campbell, R.B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gamma-burst emission from neutron-star accretion

Description: A model for emission of the hard photons of gamma bursts is presented. The model assumes accretion at nearly the Eddington limited rate onto a neutron star without magnetic a field. Initially soft photons are heated as they are compressed between the accreting matter and the star. A large electric field due to relatively small charge separation is required to drag electrons into the star with the nuclei against the flux of photons leaking out through the accreting matter. The photon number is n… more
Date: August 30, 1983
Creator: Colgate, S. A.; Petschek, A. G. & Sarracino, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geoscience-related research needs for geothermal energy technology. Final report

Description: A project to identify and prioritize geoscience-related research needs that would be of significant benefit in the assessment, exploration, and development of US geothermal energy resources is described. The federal research needs as identified by the Panel are summarized. The research needs are organized into specific research needs for four technology areas and a group of generic research needs which relate to all of the technology areas. Arranged in order of overall need for research, these … more
Date: September 30, 1983
Creator: Crane, C. H. & Markiewicz, J. J. Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Space-reactor system and subsystem investigations: cost and schedule estimates for reactor and shield subsystems technology development. SP-100 Program

Description: This report presents cost and schedule estimates of the technology development for reactor and shielding subsystems of a 100-kWe class space reactor electric system. The subsystems technology development (which includes reactor and shield subsystems ground testing) is supported by materials and processes development and component development. For the purpose of the cost estimate, seven generic types of reactor subsystems were used: uranium-zirconium hydride, NaK-cooled thermal reactor; lithium-… more
Date: June 30, 1983
Creator: Determan, W.R.; Harty, R.B. & Hylin, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Direct utilization of geothermal heat in cascade application to aquaculture and greenhouse systems at Navarro College. Annual report, January-December 1983

Description: Progress is reported on a project for the use of the 130/sup 0/F central Texas geothermal resource. The milestones in the construction of the system for cascading the geothermal enenrgy through two enclosed aquaculture ponds, a greenhouse heating system, and a collection catfish reservoir are reported. (MHR)
Date: December 30, 1983
Creator: Smith, K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Shape algorithm for a RFQ vane

Description: The Radio Frequency Quadrupole Linear Accelerator (RFQ) proposed by Kapchinskii and Teplyakov, has become an accepted structure in the accelerator community. The first working model was developed at Los Alamos for the 440 MHz cavity, and since then 200 MHz models have appeared at BNL, CERN, LBL, and KEK. The RFQ is very useful bunching low-energy ion beams and accelerating them to sufficient energies for injection into a linear accelerator. A Fermilab model of the RFQ would be a 200 MHz structu… more
Date: November 30, 1983
Creator: Juarez, B. & Treadwell, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Seventh Annual Interagency Geothermal Coordiinating Council Report, Fiscal Year 1982

Description: The U.S. Interagency Geothermal Coordinating Council was a multi-agency group charged with identifying and reducing barriers to geothermal energy development in the U.S. Many of the issues covered related to regulations for and progress in the leasing of Federal lands in the West for power development. The IGCC reports are important sources of historical information.
Date: March 30, 1983
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An inventory of Geothermal Resources in Nebraska: State-Coupled Program between US Department of Energy and The University of Nebraska. Final report, June 30, 1983

Description: The goal of the State Coupled Resource Assessment Program is to identify and evaluate geothermal resources in the state, particularly low-temperature potential. Eight tasks were identified and documented in this report as follows: (1) Bottom-hole Temperature Survey; (2) Heat Flow and Temperature Gradient Survey; (3) Data Translation studies; (4) Gravity Data; (5) Substate Regions; (6) Information Dissemination; (7) State Geothermal Map; (8) Reports. The project had three major products: (1) a m… more
Date: June 30, 1983
Creator: Gosnold, William D.; Eversoll, Duane, A.; Messenger, Karen A. & Carlson, Marvin P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health and Environmental Effects Document on Geothermal Energy -- 1982 update

Description: We assess several of the important health and environmental risks associated with a reference geothermal industry that produces 21,000 MWe for 30 y (equivalent to 20 x 10{sup 18} J). The analyses of health effects focus on the risks associated with exposure to hydrogen sulfide, particulate sulfate, benzene, mercury, and radon in air and arsenic in food. Results indicate that emissions of hydrogen sulfide are likely to cause odor-related problems in 29 of 51 geothermal resources areas, assuming … more
Date: November 30, 1983
Creator: Layton, David W.; Daniels, Jeffrey I.; Anspaugh, Lynn R. & O'Banion, Kerry D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Money, Credit, and Interest Rates in Recent Experience

Description: This report examines the changes that have occurred in the past twelve months in the conduct of monetary and credit policies by the federal reserve and in the performance of the interest rates.
Date: June 30, 1983
Creator: Wells, F. Jean
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geothermal power plant R and D: an analysis of cost-performance tradeoffs and the Heber Binary-Cycle Demonstration Project

Description: A study of advancements in power plant designs for use at geothermal resources in the low to moderate (300 to 400F) temperature range is reported. In 3 case studies, the benefits of R and D to achieve these advancements are evaluated in terms of expected increases in installed geothermal generating capacity over the next 2 decades. A parametric sensitivity study is discussed which analyzes differential power development for combinations of power plant efficiency and capitol cost. Affordable tra… more
Date: June 30, 1983
Creator: Cassel, T. A. V.; Amundsen, C. B. & Blair, P. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pulsed-flow air classification for waste to energy production. Final report

Description: The development and testing of pulsed-flow air classification for waste-to-energy production are discussed. Standard designs generally permit large amounts of combustible material to escape as reject while producing a fuel that is high in metal and glass contaminants. Pulsed-flow classification is presented as a concept which can avoid both pitfalls. Each aspect of theory and laboratory testing is summarized: particle characteristics, theory of pulsed-flow classification, laboratory testing, an… more
Date: September 30, 1983
Creator: Peirce, J. Jeffrey & Vesilind, P. Aarne
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Inventory of geothermal resources in Nebraska. Final report

Description: The goal of the State Coupled Resource Assessment Program is to identify and evaluate geothermal resources in the state, particularly low-temperature potential. Eight tasks were identified and documented in this report as follows: bottom-hole temperature survey, heat flow and temperature gradient survey, data translation studies, gravity data, substate regions, information dissemination, state geothermal map, and reports. The project had three major products: (1) a map, Geothermal Resources of … more
Date: June 30, 1983
Creator: Gosnold, William D. & Eversoll, Duane A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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