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Manual of analytical methods for the Industrial Hygiene Chemistry Laboratory

Description: This Manual is compiled from techniques used in the Industrial Hygiene Chemistry Laboratory of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The procedures are similar to those used in other laboratories devoted to industrial hygiene practices. Some of the methods are standard; some, modified to suit our needs; and still others, developed at Sandia. The authors have attempted to present all methods in a simple and concise manner but in sufficient detail to make them readily usable. I… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Greulich, K. A. & Gray, C. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Westinghouse Hanford Company waste minimization and pollution prevention awareness program plan

Description: The purpose of this plan is to establish the Westinghouse Hanford Company's Waste Minimization Program. The plan specifies activities and methods that will be employed to reduce the quantity and toxicity of waste generated at Westinghouse Hanford Company (Westinghouse Hanford). It is designed to satisfy the US Department of Energy (DOE) and other legal requirements that are discussed in Subsection C of the section. The Pollution Prevention Awareness Program is included with the Waste Minimizati… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Craig, P.A.; Nichols, D.H. & Lindsey, D.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thin polymer icemaker development and test program

Description: We have constructed and tested a small device to produce ice in ice/water mixtures using a cold fluid as the heat sink. The device is a flexible heat exchanger constructed from a thin film of a suitable polymer. When filled with circulating liquid coolant the heat exchanger consists of an inflated series of parallel tubes; ice forms on the outside in complementary half cylinders. When the circulation is cut off, gravity drains the coolant and the static head of the water bath crushes the tubes,… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Leigh, R.W. (Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, NY (United States))
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Micro-scale mass-transfer variations during electrodeposition

Description: Results of two studies on micro-scale mass-transfer enhancement are reported: (1) Profiled cross-sections of striated zinc surfaces deposited in laminar channel flow were analyzed with fast-fourier transforms (FFT) to determine preferred striation wavelengths. Striation frequency increases with current density until a minimum separation between striae of 150 {mu}m is reached. Beyond this point, independent of substrate used, striae meld together and form a relatively smooth, nodular deposit. Su… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Sutija, D.P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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F/H Area ETF effluent (H-016 outfall), ceriodaphnia survival/reproduction test, test date: March 21, 1991

Description: This toxicity test was conducted to determine if the effluent from the F/H area at Savannah River Plant affects the survival or reproduction of the test organisms during a seven day period. The test involved exposing the test organisms to a series of dilutions of the effluent. At each dilution the survival and reproduction of ten test organisms was recorded. Each effluent dilution was compared to a control set of test organisms. Survival data were analyzed by Fisher's Exact Test and the Trimmed… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Specht, Winona L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Some general properties of stimulated Raman propagation with pump depletion, transiency and dispersion

Description: This note considers some of the properties of the Stokes pulse that grows from a specified seed pulse in the presence of a strong pump pulse as it propagates through a dispersive atomic vapor. We first present an generic dimensionless form for the coupled equations that govern the propagation of pump and Stokes fields or collinear plane-wave pulses. By treating the two fields we permit pump depletion. We include transient atomic response (as embodied in the Raman coherence), but neglect changes… more
Date: August 2, 1991
Creator: Shore, B. W.; Lowder, S. & Johnson, M. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quantum electrodynamics with complex fermion mass

Description: The quantum electrodynamics (QED) with a complex fermion mass -- that is, a fermion mass with a chiral phase -- is restudied, together with its chirally rotated version. We show how fake electric dipole moment can be obtained and how to avoid it. 10 refs.
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: McKellar, B. J. H. & Wu, D. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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X-Y spacial distribution experiments with Parmela or, what I did on my summer vacation

Description: Experiments using the Parmela simulation program predict that the potentially uneven spacial distributions in the electron beam generated by laser emission from the photo cathode gun has no appreciable effect on the beam outcome when compared to a the more uniform thermionic gun. 23 figs., 4 tabs.
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Houston, J.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Georgetown University atmospheric fluidized bed boiler cogeneration system

Description: This report presents the results of one year of operation of the cogeneration system capability of the Georgetown University coal- fired, atmospheric fluidized-bed (AFB) boiler. The AFB was designed and installed under a separate contract with the US Department of Energy. The AFB project funded by DOE to demonstrate that high sulfur coal could be burned in an environmentally acceptable manner in a urban environment such as Georgetown. In addition, operational data from the unit would assist the… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Podbielski, V. & Shaff, D.P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Painter Street Overcrossing: Linear-elastic finite element dynamic analysis

Description: Painter Street Overcrossing is a two span continuous box girder bridge Highway 101 near Rio Del, California. It has been heavily instrumented with strong motion accelerometers by the California Department of Mines and Geology Strong Motion Instrumentation Program. On 11/21/86, the response of the bridge to a magnitude 5.1 earthquake (epicentral distance 32 km) was measured. This report considers the data generated at stations six, seven, and eight, during this earthquake. Station six recorded t… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Salveson, M.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Telephone costs at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Description: The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a fusion energy research laboratory located on the Forrestal Campus of Princeton University in Plainsboro, New Jersey. Princeton University operates the laboratory under contact with the US Department of Energy (DOE). PPPL researches nuclear fusion and plasma physics and investigates the potential of a commercial fusion reactor. The objective of the audit was to determine whether PPPL was monitoring telephone use and costs in order to prevent pe… more
Date: August 21, 1991
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Heat-Flux Gage thermophosphor system

Description: This document describes the installation, hardware requirements, and application of the Heat-Flux Gage (Version 1.0) software package developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Applied Technology Division. The developed software is a single component of a thermographic phosphor-based temperature and heat-flux measurement system. The heat-flux transducer was developed by EG G Energy Measurements Systems and consists of a 1- by 1-in. polymethylpentene sheet coated on the front and back with … more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Tobin, K.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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1991 Yearly calibration of Pacific Northwest Laboratory's gross gamma-ray borehole geophysical logging system

Description: This report describes the 1991 yearly calibration of a gross gamma-ray geophysical pulse logging system owned by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and operated by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory. The calibration was conducted to permit the continued use of this system for geologic and hydrologic studies associated with remedial investigations at the Hanford Site. Primary calibrations to equivalent uranium units were conducted in DOE borehole model standards that reside on the Hanford Site. The… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Arthur, R.J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Field calculation algorithm for general beam distributions

Description: This note is a summary of the algorithm used in our recent paper on the coherent beam-beam interaction. The goal of the work was to study coherent beam-beam interactions, and the development needed was to avoid using the expression for the beam-beam generated fields that assumes a Gaussian beam distribution. Because of our interest in round beams the algorithm was developed for use with beams that are approximately round. We believe there is a similar approach for flat beams, but the Fourier se… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Krishnagopal, S. (Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)) & Siemann, R. (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (United States))
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Composition of phytoplankton communities and their contribution to secondary productivity in Carolina Bays on the Savannah River Plant

Description: The overall goal of the this three year project is to determine the importance of phytoplankton (microscopic algae) as a component of the food chain base in SRS cardine bays. To summarize specific year three results: Total phytoplankton abundance in Flamingo bay was greatest during early spring 1989, declined during spring and summer, but increased again during early fall. Most of this phytoplankton density was composed of genus Chlamydomonas sp. Ellenton bay demonstrated a similar decline in p… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Williams, J.B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low enrichment fuel conversion for Iowa State University

Description: Work during the reported period was centered primarily in preparation for receiving the LEU fuel and the shipping of the HEU fuel. This included development of procedures and tools for the disassembly process. During the period we held many practice sessions applying these tools and practices to a dummy fuel assembly. The LEU fuel was received on April 10, 1991 and the reactor was shut down on May 3, 1991 for refueling. The twelve HEU fuel assemblies in the UTR-10 reactor core were removed and … more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Rohach, A.F. & Hendrickson, R.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Public opinion and nuclear power decision-making

Description: This document discusses public opinion regarding nuclear power which is particularly difficult to tie down because of five important paradoxes that characterize it: it can be based on sound reason, but also on intense emotion; it is both national and local in perspective; at varying times it has seen nuclear power as both clean'' and dirty''; it believes nuclear power is both economic, and uneconomic; and nuclear power is perceived as having a fairly safe record, but being potentially unsafe. E… more
Date: August 6, 1991
Creator: Benson, B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experimental results of direct containment heating by high-pressure melt ejection into the Surtsey vessel: The DCH-3 and DCH-4 tests

Description: Two experiments, DCH-3 and DCH-4, were performed at the Surtsey test facility to investigate phenomena associated with a high-pressure melt ejection (HPME) reactor accident sequence resulting in direct containment heating (DCH). These experiments were performed using the same experimental apparatus with identical initial conditions, except that the Surtsey test vessel contained air in DCH-3 and argon in DCH-4. Inerting the vessel with argon eliminated chemical reactions between metallic debris … more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Allen, M.D.; Pilch, M.; Brockmann, J.E.; Tarbell, W.W. (Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)); Nichols, R.T. (Ktech Corp., Albuquerque, NM (United States)) & Sweet, D.W. (AEA Technology, Winfrith (United Kingdom))
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The ultimate ethanol: Technoeconomic evaluation of ethanol manufacture, comparing yeast vs Zymomonas bacterium fermentations. [Zymomonas mobilis:a5; Saccharomyces cerevisiae:a6]

Description: If ethanol could be produced at a low enough price to serve as the precursor to ethylene and butadiene, it and its derivatives could account for 159 billion lb, or 50% of the US production of 316 billion lb of synthetic organic chemicals, presently valued at $113 billion. This use would consume 3.4 billion bu of corn, or {approximately}40% of the corn crop. This study evaluates advance process engineering and genetic engineering techniques that could generate savings and reduce production costs… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Busche, R. M. (Bio En-Gene-Er Associates, Inc., Wilmington, DE (United States)); Scott, C. D.; Davison, B. H. (Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)) & Lynd, L. R. (Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, NH (United States))
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Solid electrolytes and impact-resistant ceramics

Description: In this proposal, we describe a program to exploit recent achievements in two distinct areas of materials science, both of them dependent on the independent motion of singly charged ions through an immobile matrix. The first is the area of non-crystalline solid electrolytes in which this laboratory has gained prominence over the past decade. The second is an area proposed for study in our previous proposal and now verified as a principle worthy of considerable further investigation: it involves… more
Date: August 1991
Creator: Angell, C. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Calmac Ice Storage Test Report

Description: The Ice Storage Test Facility (ISTF) is designed to test commercial ice storage systems. Calmac provided a storage tank equipped with coils designed for use with a secondary fluid system. The Calmac ice storage system was tested over a wide range of operating conditions. Measured system performance during charging was similar to that reported by the manufacturer. Both the measured average and minimum brine temperatures were in close agreement with Calmac's literature values, and the ability to … more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Stovall, T. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design, microstructure, and high-temperature behavior of silicon nitride sintered with rate-earth oxides

Description: The processing-microstructure-property relations of silicon nitride ceramics sintered with rare-earth oxide additives have been investigated with the aim of improving their high-temperature behavior. The additions of the oxides of Y, Sm, Gd, Dy, Er, or Yb were compositionally controlled to tailor the intergranular phase. The resulting microstructure consisted of {beta}-Si{sub 3}N{sub 4} grains and a crystalline secondary phase of RE{sub 2}Si{sub 2}O{sub 7}, with a thin residual amorphous phase … more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Ciniculk, M.K. (California Univ., Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Audit of the Grand Junction Projects Office

Description: The Grand Junction Projects Office (GJPO) is located in Mesa County, Colorado, immediately south and west of the Grand Junction city limits. The US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) established the Colorado Raw Materials Office at the present-day Grand Junction Projects Office in 1947, to aid in the development of a viable domestic uranium industry. Activities at the site included sampling uranium concentrate; pilot-plant milling research, including testing and processing of uranium ores; and oper… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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F/H Area ETF effluent (H-016 outfall) ceriodaphnia survival/reproduction test, test date: December 28, 1989

Description: This toxicity test was conducted to determine if the effluent from the H/F area of Savannah River Plant affect the survival or reproduction of the test organisms during a seven day period. The test involved exposing the test organisms to a series of dilutions of the effluent. At each dilution the survival and reproduction of ten test organisms was recorded. Each effluent dilution was compared to a control set of test organisms. Survival data were analyzed by Fisher's Exact Test and Probit Analy… more
Date: August 1, 1991
Creator: Specht, Winona L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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