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Ion Replacement Program Annual Report: 1993

Description: Annual report of the Ion Replacement Electrorefining Program at Aronne National Laboratory describing their research and activities. There are three key accomplishments highlighted for the year: (1) identification of a suitable sodium(beta){double_prime}-alumina/molten salt electrolyte system that functions reproducibly at 723 K, (2) actual separation of dysprosium and lanthanum in experiments, and (3) the identification of a metal alloy, Li{sub x}Sb, as an alternative ion replacement electro… more
Date: July 1993
Creator: Tomczuk, Z.; Willit, J. L. & Fischer, A. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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User`s Guide for the Casting Process Simulator Software CaPS-2D, Version 1.0

Description: Most casting defects occur during initial pouring and therefore the design of the running system, which guides the metal from the ladle into the mold, is crucial. Traditionally, the running system and mold filling are designed by trial and error, which is tedious, time consuming, and expensive. The uncertainties that remain can be overcome by a computer simulation that demonstrates the actual process of mold filling and subsequent solidification. Computer simulation of various processes has bec… more
Date: July 1993
Creator: Domanus, H. M.; Schmitt, R. C. & Ahuja, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Future of Remote Sensing From Space: Civilian Satellite Systems and Applications

Description: This report examines issues related to the development and operation of publicly funded U.S. and foreign civilian remote sensing systems. It also explores the military and intelligence use of data gathered by civilian satellites. In addition, the report examines the outlook for privately funded and operated remote sensing systems.
Date: July 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Adult Literacy and New Technologies: Tools for a Lifetime

Description: Adult education needs are difficult to define and difficult to meet; what constitutes adequate literacy changes continually as the demands facing individuals grow more complex. This report is an attempt to identify those capabilities, along with limitations, and outline how new information technologies can be marshaled to meet the goal of a fully literate citizenry.
Date: July 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alternative Coca Reduction Strategies in the Andean Region

Description: This report identifies opportunities for and constraints to reducing Andean coca production through: 1) improving U.S. alternative development efforts and 2) applying biological control technology (bio-control) to eradicate illegally produced coca.
Date: July 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alternative Feedstocks Program Technical and Economic Assessment: Thermal/Chemical and Bioprocessing Components

Description: This resource document on biomass to chemicals opportunities describes the development of a technical and market rationale for incorporating renewable feedstocks into the chemical industry in both a qualitative and quantitative sense. The term "renewable feedstock?s" can be defined to include a huge number of materials such as agricultural crops rich in starch, lignocellulosic materials (biomass), or biomass material recovered from a variety of processing wastes.
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Bozell, J. J. & Landucci, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Lower hybrid wave coupling in PBX-M

Description: The coupling of the waves launched from a 4.6 GHz lower hybrid system into PBX-M plasmas has been studied for both L-mode and H-mode plasmas. The characteristics of the plasma in front of the LH coupler have been measured with a fast Langmuir probe. The reflected power of the coupler has been measured across the transition to H-mode as a function of phase and the distance between the coupler and the separatrix. A transient rise in the LH reflection coefficient was observed near the L-H transiti… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Bell, R.E.; Bernabei, S.; Greenough, N.; Lagin, L.; Leblanc, B.; Okabayashi, M. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The radial scale length of turbulent fluctuations in the main core of TFTR plasmas

Description: A new theory of microwave reflectometry in tokamaks has been developed which accounts for all the major characteristics of waves reflected from strong fluctuations near the cutoff layer. The theory has been used for studying the turbulence in the main core of neutral beam heated plasmas of the TFTR tokamak in the supershot regime. The results indicate that the radial correlation length of density fluctuations is a weak decreasing function of beam power, from [approximately]4 cm in Ohmic to [app… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Mazzucato, E. & Nazikian, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ARIES tokamak reactor study

Description: This report examines the feasibility of a standard poloidal diverter design for ARIES- 2/4 with the determination of the peak thermal loading on, and the plasma temperature facing a poloidal double null diverter. The ARIES-2/4 reactors produce 2,141 MW of fusion power of which 1712 MW is contained in the neutron channel. Of the remaining 429 MW of charged particle power, 47 MW is radiated from the core by bremsstrahlung and synchrotron modes to the vessel walls. The remaining 382 MW of charged … more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Steiner, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Asymptotic analysis: Working Note No. 2, Approximation of integrals

Description: In this note we discuss the approximation of integrals that depend on a parameter. The basic tool is simple, namely, integration by parts. Of course, the power of the tool is evidenced in applications. The applications are many; they include Laplace integrals, generalized Laplace integrals, Fourier integrals, and Stokes' method of stationary phase for generalized Fourier integrals. These results illustrate beautifully Hardy's concept of applications of mathematics, that is, certain regions of m… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Garbey, M. (Lyon-1 Univ., 69 - Villeurbanne (France). Lab. d'Analyse Numerique) & Kaper, H.G. (Argonne National Lab., IL (United States))
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thermally excited proton spin-flip laser emission in tokamaks

Description: Based on statistical thermodynamic fluctuation arguments, it is shown here for the first time that thermally excited spin-flip laser emission from the fusion product protons can occur in large tokamak devices that are entering the reactor regime of operation. Existing experimental data from TFTR supports this conjecture, in the sense that these measurements are in complete agreement with the predictions of the quasilinear theory of the spin-flip laser.
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Arunasalam, V. & Greene, G. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advanced heat pump cycle

Description: The desorption and absorption process of a vapor compression heat pump with a solution circuit (VCHSC) proceeds at gliding temperature intervals, which can be adjusted over a wide range. In case that the gliding temperature intervals in the desorber and the absorber overlap, a modification of the VCHSC employing a desorber/absorber heat exchange (DAHX) can be introduced, which results in an extreme reduction of the pressure ratio. Although the DAHX-cycle has features of a two-stage cycle, it st… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Groll, E.A. & Radermacher, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Kinetic theory of geomagnetic pulsations 2. Ion flux modulations by transverse waves

Description: Ion flux modulations by ultra-low-frequency radially polarized geomagnetic pulsations are examined theoretically based on the gyrokinetic analysis of Chen and Hasegawa. The theoretical results thus contain important effects such as plasma anisotropy and inhomogeneities, finite Larmor radii, realistic magnetic field, magnetic trapping, and wave mode structures. The predicted properties are consistent with the satellite observations [Takahashi et al.] and further support the drift-Alfven ballooni… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Liu Chen (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., NJ (United States)) & Hasegawa, Akira (Osaka Univ. (Japan))
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The theory of relativistic heavy ion collisions. [Dept. of Physics, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook]

Description: This program began in January 1993. Its primary goals are studies of highly excited matter and its production in nuclear collisions at very high energies. After a general orientation on the project, abstracts describing the contents of completed papers and providing some details of current projects are given. Principal topics of interest are the following: the dynamics of nuclear collisions at very high energies (RHIC and LHC), the dynamics of nuclear collisions at AGS energies, high-temperatur… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advanced thermally stable jet fuels. Technical progress report, February 1993--March 1993

Description: This project was initiated on August 1, 1992. The starting date resulted in this project being one month out of synchronization with the normal quarterly calendar (i.e., January, April, July, and October). On advice of Mr. John Augustine, DOE/PETC, the present report is prepared to cover only two months work, so that future quarterly reports will be aligned with the conventional reporting schedule. A significant pressure dependence was observed for the pyrolysis of n-tetradecane at 450{degree}C… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Schobert, H. H.; Eser, S.; Song, C.; Hatcher, P. G.; Walsh, P. M. & Coleman, M. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Study of the Nevada Test Site using Landsat satellite imagery

Description: In the period covered by the purchase order CSIS has obtained one Landsat image and determined that two images previously supplied to the principal investigator under a subcontract with George Washington University were inherently defective. We have negotiated with EOSAT over the reprocessing of those scenes and anticipate final delivery within the next few weeks. A critical early purchase during the subcontract period was of an EXABYTE tape drive, Adaptec SCSI interface, and the appropriate so… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Zimmerman, P. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Theoretical Studies in Hadronic and Nuclear Physics. Progress Report, December 1, 1992--June 30 , 1993

Description: Research in the Maryland Nuclear Theory Group focusses on problems in four basic areas of current relevance. The section on Hadrons in Nuclei reports research into the ways in which the properties of nucleons and the mesons which play a role in the nuclear force are modified in the nuclear medium. QCD sum rules supply a new insight into the decrease of the nucleon`s mass in the nuclear medium. The quark condensate decreases in nuclear matter, and this is responsible for the decrease of the nucl… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Griffin, J. J. & Cohen, T. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Influence of surface defects and local structure on oxygenate reaction pathways over metal oxide surfaces. Progress report, August 1992--July 1993

Description: Complete thermal desorption and photoemission studies of seven molecules (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid, isopropanol, acetone, waste and carbon monoxide) have been completed on four different SnO{sub 2}(110) surfaces (stoichiometric, reduced, slightly-defective and highly-defective). Initial thermal desorption studies of acetic acid and propene have also been done. Results indicate that different initial surface conditions can dramatically affect: (1) probability for heterolytic dissociat… more
Date: July 1993
Creator: Cox, David F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental and economic assessment of discharges from Gulf of Mexico region oil and gas operations. Quarterly technical progress report, April--June 1993

Description: Continental Shelf Associates, Inc. (CSA) was contracted to conduct a three-year study of the environmental and health related impacts of produced water and sand discharges from oil and gas operations. Data on naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), heavy metals, and hydrocarbons in water, sediment, and biota will be collected and evaluated. Health related impacts will be studied through field collections and analyses of commercially- and recreationally-important fish and shellfish tis… more
Date: July 26, 1993
Creator: Gettleson, D. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of the Integrated Environmental Control Model: Performance Models of Selective Catalytic Reduction NO{sub X} Control Systems. Quarterly Progress Report, [April 1, 1993--June 30, 1993]

Description: This report concerns the Integrated Environmental Control Model (IECM) created and enhanced by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for the US Department of Energy`s Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (DOE/PETC). The IECM provides a capability to model various conventional and advanced processes for controlling air pollutant emissions from coal-fired power plants before, during, or after combustion. The principal purpose of the model is to calculate the performance, emissions, and cost of power pl… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Frey, H. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fire testing of 55 gallon metal waste drums for dry waste storage

Description: The primary goal of this test program was to conduct a series of fire test to provide information on the fire performance of 55 gallon metal waste drums used for solid waste disposal at Department Of Energy (DOE) facilities. This program was limited in focus to three different types of 55 gallon drums, one radiant heat source, and one specific fire size. The initial test was a single empty 55 gallon drum exposed to a standard ASTME-119 time temperature curve for over 10 minutes. The full scale … more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Hasegawa, H. K.; Staggs, K. J. & Doughty, S. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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IGR NO{sub x}/SO{sub x} control technology. [Quarterly] report, April 1, 1993--June 30, 1993

Description: This reporting term covers the first full quarter subsequent to the program kick-off meeting and the DOE authorization to proceed with the contract work. As such the work of this term principally involves ordering, assembling, and de-bugging equipment as well as the development of the solid electrolyte materials and some initial electrochemical studies. These initial studies make use of the above instrumentation and act as a source of calibration for subsequent studies. Specifically the work du… more
Date: July 25, 1993
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Upgrade energy building standards and develop rating system for existing low-income housing

Description: The city of Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development (HCD) receives grant funding each year from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide local housing assistance to low-income residents. Through the years, HCD has found that many of the program recipients have had difficulty in managing their households, particularly in meeting monthly financial obligations. One of the major operating costs to low-income households is the utility bill. Furthermore, HCD… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Muller, D. & Norville, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fuel fire test results for RX-08-FK in a toroidal composite vessel

Description: A fuel first test was conducted on October 15, 1992, during which a toroidal composite vessel containing 6.5 kg of RX-08-FK Paste Extrudable Explosive was subjected to a dynamic (transient) thermal environment. The vessel was mounted inside a closed, but vented, thin-walled steel cylinder, and the entire assembly was then engulfed in a fuel fire. Approximately 5 minutes into the test, the PEX began to burn. At the time reaction of PEX occurred, temperatures of the inside wall of the steel cylin… more
Date: July 1, 1993
Creator: Black, W.; Bretl, D.; von Holtz, E.; Didlake, J.; Ferrario, M.; Spingarn, J. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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