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Cold flow model test plan. Task IX. Technical support. Industrial low-Btu gas demonstration-plant program. (Deliverable No. 43)

Description: A cold-flow model is being built to gather information for appropriately designing the venturi and the bottom section of the gasifier to attain the required ash discharge rate in the demonstration plant. Ancillary tasks will investigate the effect of different feed locations and different means of injecting fines. A model is necessary because the operating conditions of the pilot plant gasifier do not permit the type of testing required to meet the above objectives. The pilot plant gasifier has… more
Date: June 1, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Liquid metal plasma valve development

Description: A program for the development of liquid-metal plasma valves (LMPVs) is discussed in detail. The program consisted of two tasks. The first was the development and testing of valves in the laboratory and the fabrication, instrumentation, testing and in-service operation of two valves at the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) facilities of the Pacific Intertie HVDC Power Tansmission System at Celilo, Oregon. The second task was the design, development, fabrication, installation, and operation o… more
Date: June 1, 1978
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Microwave-vacuum drying system (MIVAC). Progress report No. 4

Description: Progress in developing a microwave-vacuum system (MIVAC) for drying grain at a commercial grain handling and storage facility is reported. During this period the dryer was redesigned from 48 kW size to 12 kW, components were fabricated and assembled, and performance testing with corn drying was begun. (LCL)
Date: June 30, 1978
Creator: Wear, F. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proceedings of the 1978 Symposium on Instrumentation and Control for Fossil Demonstration Plants : June 19-21, 1978, Newport Beach Marriott, Newport Beach, California

Description: This conference covers various aspects of fossil-fuel power plants based on coal or coal-conversion products, as well as the process control equipment involved in the conversion or combustion processes.
Date: June 1978
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High temperature range recuperator. Phase I: materials selection, design optimization, evaluation and thermal testing. Final report, April 1977-May 1978

Description: Initial efforts to develop, test, and evaluate counterflow recuperator designs are reported for the High Temperature Range Recuperator project. Potential materials to withstand glass furnace exhaust environments at temperatures up to 2800/sup 0/F were evaluated on the bases of material properties, fabrication capability, and relative performance in the flue environment of a day tank glass furnace. Polycrystalline alumina (Vistal), reaction sintered silicon carbide (KT and NC 430), chemically va… more
Date: June 1, 1978
Creator: Power, D V
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recalibration of P-2 standard ionization chamber

Description: Experimental and analytical techniques are described which permitted recalibration of the P-2 chamber's monoenergetic sensitivity based upon combined responses from a set of bremsstrahlung measurements, monoenergetic isotopic source measurements, and a monoenergetic gamma radiation produced by inelastic proton scattering. A novel technique is described for combining simultaneous knowledge of bremsstrahlung and monoenergetic response measurements with a statistically determined least structures … more
Date: June 1, 1978
Creator: Detch, J.L. Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Project to demonstrate potential energy savings from industrial customers. Final report

Description: The full potential for electric load management was determined with respect to the industrial sector by adopting direct load management techniques. Certain options available to regulatory authorities and individual utilities to conserve energy are highlighted. By conducting a demonstration project on a representative sample of primary industrial customers, information could be obtained on the potential impact of direct load management methods and other end-use conservation programs on a system-… more
Date: June 1, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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10-MWe pilot-plant-receiver-panel test-requirements document: Solar Thermal Test Facility

Description: Plans are presented for insolation testing of a full-scale test receiver panel and supporting hardware which essentially duplicate both physically and functionally the design planned for the 10 MWe pilot plant. Testing includes operation during normal start and shutdown, intermittent cloud conditions, and emergencies to determine the transient and steady state operating characteristics and performance under conditions equal to or exceeding those expected in the pilot plant. The effects of varia… more
Date: June 10, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of the Madaras Rotor Power Plant: an alternate method for extracting large amounts of power from the wind. Volume 2. Technical report

Description: The purpose of the program was to analyze and up-date the design of the Madaras Rotor Power Plant concept that had been developed in the 1930's to determine the technical and economic feasibility of this system to be competitive with conventional horizontal axis wind turbines. A four-task program consisting of a series of wind tunnel tests, an electro-mechanical analysis, a performance analysis, and a cost analysis was conducted.
Date: June 1, 1978
Creator: Whitford, D. H.; Minardi, J. E.; West, B. S. & Dominic, R. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Process heat reactor design and analaysis. Quarterly progress report, April 1-June 30, 1978

Description: This report summarizes the third quarter FY-1978 results of concept design studies at General Atomic Company (GA) for an 842-MW(t) VHTR utilizing an intermediate helium heat transfer loop to provide thermal energy for the production of reducing gas (H/sub 2/ + CO) by steam-reforming a light hydrocarbon. Basic carbon sources may be coal, residual, or oil shale. The report summarizes the various plant configurations selected for the study and presents the conceptual plant layout drawings. Results… more
Date: June 30, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Power plant performance analysis and guidelines study. Appendix III. Reliability and efficiency index data

Description: Historical data from the EEI, FPC, NRC, FEA, and participating utilities were evaluated for each of the four reliability and efficiency indices recommended to the California Energy Commission. Data were not available for all unit sizes for the full period 1971 to 1975. However, the available data were analyzed to arrive at historical averages and ranges of averages for each of the recommended indices. Feasible ranges and averages of each index for units of different sizes and fuel types are pre… more
Date: June 1, 1978
Creator: Keller, R. W.; Bhatla, A. & Smith, M. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Solar central receiver prototype heliostat. Volume III. Cost estimates

Description: The Boeing heliostat design can be produced and installed for a Capital Cost of $42 per square meter at high commercial plant quantities and rates. This is 14% less than the DOE cost target. Even at a low commercial plant production rate of 25,000 heliostats per year the Capital Cost of $48 per square meter is 2% less than the cost goal established by the DOE. Projected capital costs and 30 year maintenance costs for three scenarios of production and installation are presented: (1) commercial r… more
Date: June 1, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Industry survey of the need for a Federal grant-assisted geothermal demonstration power plant. Final report

Description: Findings are presented from two separate studies: a preliminary study of leaders of the geothermal industry and a second study of a ten percent representative sample of other firms. The studies are intended to determine if a need still exists for a federal grant-assisted geothermal demonstration power plant. The following are included: selection of the survey samples from the population comprising the geothermal industry; the development of the survey instrument; the collection and analysis of … more
Date: June 1, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data gathering in support of phase O program for waste heat utilization from nuclear enrichment facilities, Ohio

Description: The gathering of demographic, community development, and economic data for the region impacted by the Pikeville (Ohio) Nuclear Enrichment Facility is described. These data are to be used for establishing possible community uses, e.g., space heating, domestic water heating, and industrial uses, of waste heat from the facility. It was concluded that although the economic feasibility of such waste heat utilization remains to be proven, the community would cooperate in a feasibility demonstration p… more
Date: June 25, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Drilling history core hole DC-6 Hanford, Washington

Description: Core hole DC-6 was completed in May 1978 by Boyles Brothers Drilling Company, Spokane, Washington, under subcontract to Fenix and Scisson, Inc. The hole was cored for the US Department of Energy and the Rockwell Hanford Operations' Basalt Waste Isolation Program. Fenix and Scisson, Inc. furnished the engineering, daily supervision of the core drilling activities, and geologic core logging for hole DC-6. Core hole DC-6 is located within the boundary of the Hanford Site at the old Hanford town si… more
Date: June 1, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of MHD materials for use in high-temperature fuel cells

Description: The MHD and high-temperature fuel cell literature was surveyed for data pertaining to materials properties in order to identify materials used in MHD power generation which also might be suitable for component use in high-temperature fuel cells. Classes of MHD-electrode materials evaluated include carbides, nitrides, silicides, borides, composites, and oxides. Y/sub 2/O/sub 3/-stabilized ZrO/sub 2/ used as a reference point to evaluate materials for use in the solid-oxide fuel cell. Physical an… more
Date: June 15, 1978
Creator: Guidotti, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Decommissioning Alternatives for the West Valley, New York, Fuel Reprocessing Plant

Description: The methodology and numerical values of NUREG-0278 were applied to four decommissioning alternatives for the West Valley Fuel Reprocessing Plant. The cost and impacts of the following four alternatives for the process building, fuel receiving and storage, waste tank farm, and auxiliary facilities were assessed: (1) layaway, (2) protective storage, (3) preparation for alternate nuclear use, and (4) dismantlement. The estimated costs are 5.7, 11, 19, and 31 million dollars, respectively.
Date: June 1978
Creator: Munson, L. F.; Nemec, J. F. & Koochi, A. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Nodal Method for Solving Transient Fewgroup Neutron Diffusion Equations

Description: A nodal method for multidimensional light water reactor (LWR) static and transient analysis is presented in this report. This method efficiently solves one- or two-group diffusion equations using an analytic solution procedure. This report details significant improvements made to those aspects of the method previously reported in the literature. Eigenvalues and power distributions are presented for several static benchmark problems. Time-dependent results for a difficult two-dimensional BWR kin… more
Date: June 1978
Creator: Shober, R. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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PROSA-1 : a Probabilistic Response-Surface Analysis Code

Description: Techniques for probabilistic response-surface analysis have been developed to obtain the probability distributions of the consequences of postulated nuclear-reactor accidents. The uncertainties of the consequences are caused by the variability of the system and model input parameters used in the accident analysis. Probability distributions are assigned to the input parameters, and parameter values are systematically chosen from these distributions. These input parameters are then used in determ… more
Date: June 1978
Creator: Vaurio, J. K.; Mueller, C.; Kyser, J. M. & Sciaudone, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Simple Procedure for Predicting Long-Term Average Performance of Nonconcentrating and of Concentrating Solar Collectors

Description: The Liu and Jordan method of calculating long term average energy collection of flat plate collectors is simplified (by about a factor of 4), and generalized to all collectors, concentration and non-concentrating. The only meteorological input needed are the long term average daily total hemispherical insolation H/sub h/ on a horizontal surface and, for thermal collectors the average ambient temperature. The collector is characterized by optical efficiency, heat loss (or U-value), heat extracti… more
Date: June 1978
Creator: Collares-Pereira, Manuel & Rabl, Ari
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigation and Evaluation of Geopressured-Geothermal Wells; Detailed Reentry Prognosis for Geopressure-Geothermal Testing of State Lease 4183 No. 1 Well

Description: This Gruy Federal Type III-A geopressured-geothermal (Geo) prospect was drilled as the Pan American Petroleum Corporation (now Amoco) No. 1 State Lease No. 4183, serial No. 1702399670. The well was abandoned in February 1970. it is located 1,200 feet north and 2,300 feet east from the southwest corner of Section 27, Township 15S, Range 4W. The location is shown on the USGS topographic sheet ''Hog Bayou'', a portion of which is included as figure I. The well is accessible by lease roads off Stat… more
Date: June 16, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Synthesis, pathways, effects, and fate of chlorination by-products in freshwater, estuarine and marine environments. Annual report, September 10, 1976--September 30, 1977

Description: The study is composed of analytical chemistry and biological divisions with freshwater and marine biological subdivisions. The objective of the analytical phase is to identify those chemical compounds, other than the free and combined available halogen, which result from the addition of chlorine to fresh or saltwater. The objectives of the biological studies are to investigate the immediate and relatively long-term toxicity of several chlorination by-products to selected aquatic biota; to follo… more
Date: June 1, 1978
Creator: Anderson, D. R.; Bean, R. M.; Gibson, C. I. & Thatcher, T. O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Introduction to electric energy conversion systems for geothermal energy resources

Description: The types of geothermal energy conversion systems in use are classified as follows: direct, dry steam; separated steam; single-flash steam; double-flash steam; multi-flash steam; brine/Freon binary cycle; and brine/isobutane binary cycle. The thermodynamics of each of these is discussed with reference to simplified flow diagrams. Typical existing power plants are identified for each type of system. (MHR)
Date: June 1, 1978
Creator: DiPippo, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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