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Nuclear Waste Programs Semiannual Progress Report: October 1991-March 1992

Description: This document reports on the work done by the Nuclear Waste Programs of the Chemical Technology Division (CMT), Argonne National Laboratory, in the period October 1991-March 1992. In these programs, studies are underway on the performance of waste glass and spent fuel in projected nuclear repository conditions to provide input to the licensing of the nation's high-level waste repositories.
Date: November 1993
Creator: Bates, John K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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On the Unsteady-Motion Theory of Magnetic Forces for Maglev

Description: Motion-dependent magnetic forces are the key elements in the study of magnetically levitated vehicle (maglev) system dynamics. In the past, most maglevsystem designs were based on a quasisteady-motion theory of magnetic forces. This report presents an experimental and analytical study that will enhance our understanding of the role of unsteady-motion-dependent magnetic forces and demonstrate an experimental technique that can be used to measure those unsteady magnetic forces directly. The exper… more
Date: November 1993
Creator: Chen, Shoei-Sheng; Zhu, S. & Cai, Y.
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Using a Transfer Function to Describe the Load-Balancing Problem

Description: The dynamic load-balancing problem for mesh-connected parallel computers can be clearly described by introducing a function that identifies how much work is to be transmitted between neighboring processors. This function is a solution to an elliptic problem for which a wealth of knowledge exists. The non-uniqueness of the solution to the load-balancing problem is made explicit.
Date: November 1993
Creator: Conley, Andrew J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Early Experiences with the IBM SP1 and the High-Performance Switch

Description: The IBM SP1 is IBM`s newest parallel distributed-memory computer. As part of a joint project with IBM, Argonne took delivery of an early system in order to evaluate the software environment and to begin porting programming packages and applications to this machine. This report discusses the results of those efforts once the high-performance switch was installed. An earlier report (ANL/MCS-TM-177) emphasized software usability and the initial ports to the SP1. This report contains performance re… more
Date: November 1993
Creator: Gropp, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Combined Physical/Microbial Process for Coal Beneficiation

Description: A combined physical/microbial process for the removal of pyritic sulfur from coal was demonstrated in a 200 L aerated trough slurry reactor. The reactor was divided into six sections, each of which acted as both a physical separator and a bioreactor. Settled solids from sections 2 through 6 were recycled to section 1 which acted as a rougher. The objective was physical removal of the larger pyritic inclusions, which would take many days to biodegrade, and biodegradation of the micropyrite, whic… more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Noah, K. S.; Glenn, A. W.; Stevens, C. J.; McAtee, N. B.; McIlwain, M. E. & Andrews, G. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Value impact analysis of Generic Issue 143, Availability of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (HVAC) and Chilled Water Systems

Description: This study evaluates the values (benefits) and impacts (costs) associated with potential resolutions to Generic Issue 143, ``Availability of HVAC and Chilled Water Systems.`` The study identifies vulnerabilities related to failures of HVAC, chilled water, and room cooling systems; develops estimates of room heatup rates and safety-related equipment vulnerabilities following losses of HVAC/room cooler systems; develops estimates of the core damage frequencies and public risks associated with fai… more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Daling, P. M.; Marler, J. E.; Vo, T. V.; Phan, H. & Friley, J. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Title List of documents made publicly available, September 1--30, 1993. Volume 15, No. 9

Description: This document is a monthly publication containing descriptions of information received and generated by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). This information includes (1) docketed material associated with civilian nuclear power plants and other uses of radioactive materials, and (2) nondocketed material received and generated by NRC pertinent to its role as a regulatory agency. The following indexes are included: Personal Author, Corporate Source, Report Number, and Cross Reference of En… more
Date: November 1, 1993
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Assessment of the potential for high-pressure melt ejection resulting from a Surry station blackout transient

Description: Containment integrity could be challenged by direct heating associated with a high pressure melt ejection (HPME) of core materials following reactor vessel breach during certain severe accidents. Intentional reactor coolant system (RCS) depressurization, where operators latch pressurizer relief valves open, has been proposed as an accident management strategy to reduce risks by mitigating the severity of HPME. However, decay heat levels, valve capacities, and other plant-specific characteristic… more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Knudson, D. L. & Dobbe, C. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Examination of utility Phase 1 compliance choices and state reactions to Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990

Description: Title IV (acid rain) of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is imposing new limitations on the emission of sulfur dioxide (SO{sub 2}) and nitrogen oxides (N{sub x}) from electric power plants. The act requires utilities to develop compliance plans to reduce these emissions, and indications are that these plans will dramatically alter traditional operating procedures. A key provision of the SO{sub 2} control program deaned in Title IV is the creation of a system of emission allowances, with uti… more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Bailey, K. A.; Elliott, T. J.; Carlson, L. J. & South, D. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data collection for groundwater study

Description: Supporting data for a recent groundwater study at Fermilab are collected together in one document, and are described in the context of how they were obtained and how they were used in the study.
Date: November 30, 1993
Creator: Wehmann, A. A.; Malensek, A. J.; Elwyn, A. J.; Moss, K. J. & Kesich, P. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advanced Turbine Systems program

Description: Allison draws the following preliminary conclusions from this preliminary design effort: (1) All cycles investigated require a high temperature turbine capability to be developed under ATS. (2) The HAT and intercooled chemical recuperation cycles compete in only a narrow sector of the industrial engine market. This is the result of the complexity and water usage of the HAT cycle and the limitation of the chemical recuperation cycle to applications where natural gas is readily available. (3) Fro… more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Wilkes, C.; Mukavetz, D. W.; Knickerbocker, T. K. & Ali, S. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Combustion tests of a turbine simulator burning low Btu fuel from a fixed bed gasifier

Description: One of the most efficient and environmentally compatible coal fueled power generation technologies is the integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) concept. Commercialization of the IGCC/HGCU concept requires successful development of combustion systems for high temperature low Btu fuel in gas turbines. Toward this goal, a turbine combustion system simulator has been designed, constructed, and fired with high temperature low Btu fuel. Fuel is supplied by a pilot scale fixed bed gasifier and… more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Cook, C. S.; Abuaf, N.; Feitelberg, A. S.; Hung, S. L.; Najewicz, D. J. & Samuels, M. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scientific Computations Section Monthly Report September 1993

Description: This progress report is computational work that is being performed in the areas of thermal analysis, applied statistics, applied physics, and thermal hydraulics.
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Buckner, M. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wholesale Power and Transmission Rate Projections 1993--2014 and Historical Wholesale Power Rates 1939--1992.

Description: This document provides a range of high, medium, and low case long-term projections of Bonneville Power Administration`s (BPA) wholesale power rates and a medium case long-term projection of BPA`s wheeling rates. These projections are produced annually by BPA. BPA uses these projections in long-term marketing, resource, transmission, and financial planning assessments. BPA`s projections also are used by public utility commissions, utilities, and others for a variety of planning purposes. The ana… more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Administration, US Bonneville Power
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric Sciences Program summaries of research in FY 1993

Description: This document describes the activities and products of the Atmospheric Science Program of the Environmental Sciences Division, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Office of Energy Research, in FY 1993. Each description contains the project`s title; three-year funding history; the contract period over which the funding applies; the name(s) of the principal investigator(s); the institution(s) conducting the projects; and the project`s objectives, products, approach, and results to date. … more
Date: November 1, 1993
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fundamental study of ash formation and deposition: Effect of reducing stoichiometry. Quarterly report No. 1, 18 May 1993--30 June 1993

Description: This project is designed to examine the effects of combustion stoichiometry on the fundamental aspects of ash formation and ash deposit initiation. Technical objectives are: to identify the partitioning of inorganic coal constituents among vapor, submicron fume, and fly ash products generated during the combustion of pulverized coal; to identify and quantify the fundamental processes by which the transformations of minerals and organically-associated inorganic species occur, and; to incorporate… more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Helble, J. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The meaning of EROS/MACHO

Description: Most of the mass density in the Universe and in the halo of our own galaxy -- exists in the form of dark matter. Overall, the contribution of luminous matter (in stars) to the mass density of the Universe is less than 1%; primordial nucleosynthesis indicates that baryons contribute between 1% and 10% of the critical density (0.01h{sup {minus}2} {approx_lt} {Omega}{sub B} {approx_lt} 0.02h{sup {minus}2}; h = the Hubble constant in units of 100 kms{sup {minus}1}Mpc{sup {minus}1}); and other evide… more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Turner, M. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reduced Braginskii equations

Description: A set of reduced Braginskii equations is derived without assuming flute ordering and the Boussinesq approximation. These model equations conserve the physical energy. It is crucial at finite {beta} that we solve the perpendicular component of Ohm`s law to conserve the physical energy while ensuring the relation {del} {center_dot} j = 0.
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Yagi, M. & Horton, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Screening of mixed surfactant systems: Phase behavior studies and CT imaging of surfactant-enhanced oil recovery experiments

Description: A systematic chemical screening study was conducted on selected anionic-nonionic and nonionic-nonionic systems. The objective of the study was to evaluate and determine combinations of these surfactants that would exhibit favorable phase behavior and solubilization capacity. The effects of different parameters including (a) salinity, (b) temperature, (c) alkane carbon number, (c) hydrophilic/lipophilic balance (HLB) of nonionic component, and (d) type of surfactant on the behavior of the overal… more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Llave, F. M.; Gall, B. L.; Lorenz, P. B.; Cook, I. M. & Scott, L. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary report of the drilling technologies tested at the Integrated Demonstration Project for cleanup of organic contaminants in soils and groundwater at non-arid sites

Description: The Department of Energy`s Office of Technology Development initiated an integrated demonstration of innovative technologies and systems for cleanup of volatile organic compounds in soil and groundwater at SRS. The overall goal of the program is the demonstration of multiple technologies and systems in the fields of drilling, characterization, monitoring, and remediation at a single test bed. Horizontal environmental well installation technology was one of the remediation technologies that was … more
Date: November 1, 1993
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TIPC user manual

Description: The TransIonospheric Propagation Code (TIPC) computer program executes tasks related to the detection of vhf and uhf signals following propagation through the ionosphere. These tasks include: transionospheric propagation, signal detection, signal processing, delta time of arrival study, delta time of arrival uncertainty study, and signal reconstruction. The parameters needed to accomplish each task are defined and the process of using TIPC in each of these tasks is explained step-by-step. TIPC … more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Kelley, T. A.; Roussel-Dupre, R. A.; Symbalisty, E. M. D. & Clodius, W. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Review of ASME code criteria for control of primary loads on nuclear piping system branch connections and recommendations for additional development work

Description: This report collects and uses available data to reexamine the criteria for controlling primary loads in nuclear piping branch connections as expressed in Section III of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. In particular, the primary load stress indices given in NB-3650 and NB-3683 are reexamined. The report concludes that the present usage of the stress indices in the criteria equations should be continued. However, the complex treatment of combined branch and run moments is not supported … more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Rodabaugh, E. C.; Gwaltney, R. C. & Moore, S. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Acid digestion demonstration (WeDID)

Description: Acid digestion process development began at the Hanford Site in 1972 with a beaker of laboratory acid and progressed through laboratory and pilot-scale development culminating in the Radioactive Acid Digestion Test Unit (RADTU). The RADTU was operational from 1977 through 1982 and processed over 5,000 kg of synthetic and combustible waste forms from Hanford Site operations. It routinely reacted plastics, wood, paper, cloth, ion-exchange resins, metals, and solvents. Operation of RADTU routinely… more
Date: November 1, 1993
Creator: Crippen, M. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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