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POROUS WALL, HOLLOW GLASS MICROSPHERES

Description: Hollow Glass Microspheres (HGM) is not a new technology. All one has to do is go to the internet and Google{trademark} HGM. Anyone can buy HGM and they have a wide variety of uses. HGM are usually between 1 to 100 microns in diameter, although their size can range from 100 nanometers to 5 millimeters in diameter. HGM are used as lightweight filler in composite materials such as syntactic foam and lightweight concrete. In 1968 a patent was issued to W. Beck of the 3M{trademark} Company for 'Glas… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Sexton, W.
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Ultrasonic Evaluation of Two Dissimilar Metal Weld Overlay Specimens

Description: Two dissimilar metal weld (DMW) pipe-to-nozzle specimens were implanted with thermal fatigue cracks in the 13% to 90% through-wall depth range. The specimens were ultrasonically evaluated with phased-array probes having center frequencies of 0.8, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 megahertz (MHz). An Alloy 82/182 weld overlay (WOL) was applied and the specimens were ultrasonically re-evaluated for flaw detection and characterization. The Post-WOL flaw depths were approximately 10% to 56% through-wall. This stud… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Crawford, Susan L.; Cinson, Anthony D.; Prowant, Matthew S.; Moran, Traci L. & Anderson, Michael T.
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Fluid and Rock Property Controls On Production And Seismic Monitoring Alaska Heavy Oils

Description: The goal of this project is to improve recovery of Alaskan North Slope (ANS) heavy oil resources in the Ugnu formation by improving our understanding of the formation’s vertical and lateral heterogeneities via core evaluation, evaluating possible recovery processes, and employing geophysical monitoring to assess production and modify production operations.
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Liberatore, Matthew; Herring, Andy; Prasad, Manika; Dorgan, John & Batzle, Mike
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Life Cycle Cost Assessment, Final Technical Report, 30 May 2012

Description: The Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Life Cycle Cost Assessment (OLCCA) is a study performed by members of the Lockheed Martin (LM) OTEC Team under funding from the Department of Energy (DOE), Award No. DE-EE0002663, dated 01/01/2010. OLCCA objectives are to estimate procurement, operations and maintenance, and overhaul costs for two types of OTEC plants: -Plants moored to the sea floor where the electricity produced by the OTEC plant is directly connected to the grid ashore via a marine … more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Martel, Laura; Smith, Paul; Rizea, Steven; Van Ryzin, Joe; Morgan, Charles; Noland, Gary et al.
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Near-Zero Emissions Oxy-Combustion Flue Gas Purification

Description: The objectives of this project were to carry out an experimental program to enable development and design of near zero emissions (NZE) CO{sub 2} processing unit (CPU) for oxy-combustion plants burning high and low sulfur coals and to perform commercial viability assessment. The NZE CPU was proposed to produce high purity CO{sub 2} from the oxycombustion flue gas, to achieve > 95% CO{sub 2} capture rate and to achieve near zero atmospheric emissions of criteria pollutants. Two SOx/NOx removal te… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Shah, Minish; Degenstein, Nich; Zanfir, Monica; Solunke, Rahul; Kumar, Ravi; Bugayong, Jennifer et al.
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Low Cost Lithography Tool for High Brightness LED Manufacturing

Description: The objective of this activity was to address the need for improved manufacturing tools for LEDs. Improvements include lower cost (both capital equipment cost reductions and cost-ofownership reductions), better automation and better yields. To meet the DOE objective of $1- 2/kilolumen, it will be necessary to develop these highly automated manufacturing tools. Lithography is used extensively in the fabrication of high-brightness LEDs, but the tools used to date are not scalable to high-volume m… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Hawryluk, Andrew & True, Emily
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Release of the ENDF/B-VII.1 Evaluated Nuclear Data File

Description: The Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG) released the ENDF/B-VII.1 library on December 22, 2011. The ENDF/B-VII.1 library is CSEWG's latest recommended evaluated nuclear data file for use in nuclear science and technology applications, and incorporates advances made in the five years since the release of ENDF/B-VII.0, including: many new evaluation in the neutron sublibrary (423 in all and over 190 of these contain covariances), new fission product yields and a greatly improved decay … more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: D., Brown; Brown&#44 & D.
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Innovative Self-Healing Seals for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC)

Description: Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology is critical to several national initiatives. Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) addresses the technology needs through its comprehensive programs on SOFC. A reliable and cost-effective seal that works at high temperatures is essential to the long-term performance of the SOFC for 40,000 hours at 800°C. Consequently, seals remain an area of highest priority for the SECA program and its industry teams. An innovative concept based on self-healing … more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Singh, Raj
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Energy Saving Melting and Revert Reduction (E-SMARRT): Optimization of Heat Treatments on Stainless Steel Castings for Improved Corrosion Resistance and Mechanical Properties

Description: It is commonly believed that high alloy steel castings have inferior corrosion resistance to their wrought counterparts as a result of the increased amount of microsegregation remaining in the as-cast structure. Homogenization and dissolution heat treatments are often utilized to reduce or eliminate the residual microsegregation and dissolve the secondary phases. Detailed electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) and light optical microscopy (LOM) were utilized to correlate the amount of homogenizati… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: DuPont, John N.; Farren, Jeffrey D.; Stockdale, Andrew W. & Leister, Brett M.
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Boron-10 Lined Proportional Counter Model Validation

Description: The Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Safeguards (NA-241) is supporting the project “Coincidence Counting With Boron-Based Alternative Neutron Detection Technology” at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for the development of an alternative neutron coincidence counter. The goal of this project is to design, build and demonstrate a boron-lined proportional tube-based alternative system in the configuration of a coincidence counter. This report discusses the validation studies perf… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Lintereur, Azaree T.; Siciliano, Edward R. & Kouzes, Richard T.
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Center for Coal-Derived Low Energy Materials for Sustainable Construction

Description: The overarching goal of this project was to create a sustained center to support the continued development of new products and industries that manufacture construction materials from coal combustion by-products or CCB’s (e.g., cements, grouts, wallboard, masonry block, fillers, roofing materials, etc). Specific objectives includes the development of a research kiln and associated system and the formulation and production of high performance low-energy, low-CO2 emitting calcium sulfoaluminate (C… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Jewell, Robert; Robl, Tom & Rathbone, Robert
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cloud/Aerosol Parameterizations: Application and Improvement of General Circulation Models

Description: One of the biggest uncertainties associated with climate models and climate forcing is the treatment of aerosols and their effects on clouds. The effect of aerosols on clouds can be divided into two components: The first indirect effect is the forcing associated with increases in droplet concentrations; the second indirect effect is the forcing associated with changes in liquid water path, cloud morphology, and cloud lifetime. Both are highly uncertain. This project applied a cloud-resolving mo… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Penner, Joyce
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recovery Act: Waste Energy Project at AK Steel Corporation Middletown

Description: In 2008, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (“Air Products”) began development of a project to beneficially utilize waste blast furnace “topgas” generated in the course of the iron-making process at AK Steel Corporation’s Middletown, Ohio works. In early 2010, Air Products was awarded DOE Assistance Agreement DE-EE002736 to further develop and build the combined-cycle power generation facility. In June 2012, Air Products and AK Steel Corporation terminated work when it was determined that the pro… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Joyce, Jeffrey
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Developing Research Capabilities in Energy Biosciences: Design principles of photosynthetic biofuel production.

Description: The current fossil fuel-based energy infrastructure is not sustainable. Solar radiation is a plausible alternative, but realizing it as such will require significant technological advances in the ability to harvest light energy and convert it into suitable fuels. The biological system of photosynthesis can carry out these reactions, and in principle could be engineered using the tools of synthetic biology. One desirable implementation would be to rewire the reactions of a photosynthetic bacteri… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Brown, Donald D. & Savage, David
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alternative Fuel for Portland Cement Processing

Description: The production of cement involves a combination of numerous raw materials, strictly monitored system processes, and temperatures on the order of 1500 °C. Immense quantities of fuel are required for the production of cement. Traditionally, energy from fossil fuels was solely relied upon for the production of cement. The overarching project objective is to evaluate the use of alternative fuels to lessen the dependence on non-renewable resources to produce portland cement. The key objective of us… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Schindler, Anton K.; Duke, Steve R.; Burch, Thomas E.; Davis, Edward W.; Zee, Ralph H.; Bransby, David I. et al.
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Computational Age Dating of Special Nuclear Materials

Description: This slide-show presented an overview of the Constrained Progressive Reversal (CPR) method for computing decays, age dating, and spoof detecting. The CPR method is: Capable of temporal profiling a SNM sample; Precise (compared with known decay code, such a ORIGEN); Easy (for computer implementation and analysis).  We have illustrated with real SNM data using CPR for age dating and spoof detection. If SNM is pure, may use CPR to derive its age. If SNM is mixed, CPR will indicate that it is mixe… more
Date: June 30, 2012
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Use of Treated Municipal Wastewater as Power Plant Cooling System Makeup Water: Tertiary Treatment versus Expanded Chemical Regimen for Recirculating Water Quality Management

Description: Treated municipal wastewater is a common, widely available alternative source of cooling water for thermoelectric power plants across the U.S. However, the biodegradable organic matter, ammonia-nitrogen, carbonate and phosphates in the treated wastewater pose challenges with respect to enhanced biofouling, corrosion, and scaling, respectively. The overall objective of this study was to evaluate the benefits and life cycle costs of implementing tertiary treatment of secondary treated municipal w… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Dzombak, David; Vidic, Radisav & Landis, Amy
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Fracture Characterization in Enhanced Geothermal Systems by Wellbore and Reservoir Analysis

Description: This report highlights the work that was done to characterize fractured geothermal reservoirs using production data. That includes methods that were developed to infer characteristic functions from production data and models that were designed to optimize reinjection scheduling into geothermal reservoirs, based on these characteristic functions. The characterization method provides a robust way of interpreting tracer and flow rate data from fractured reservoirs. The flow-rate data are used to i… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Roland N. Horne, Kewen Li, Mohammed Alaskar, Morgan Ames, Carla Co, Egill Juliusson, Lilja Magnusdottir
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Application of Pulse Spark Discharges for Scale Prevention and Continuous Filtration Methods in Coal-Fired Power Plant

Description: The overall objective of the present work was to develop a new scale-prevention technology by continuously precipitating and removing dissolved mineral ions (such as calcium and magnesium) in cooling water while the COC could be doubled from the present standard value of 3.5. The hypothesis of the present study was that if we could successfully precipitate and remove the excess calcium ions in cooling water, we could prevent condenser-tube fouling and at the same time double the COC. The approa… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Cho, Young & Fridman, Alexander
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Center for Renewable Energy and Alternative Transportation Technologies (CREATT)

Description: The Center for Renewable Energy and Alternative Transportation Technologies (CREATT) was established to advance the state of the art in knowledge and education on critical technologies that support a renewable energy future. Our research and education efforts have focused on alternative energy systems, energy storage systems, and research on battery and hybrid energy storage systems.This report details the Center's progress in the following specific areas: Development of a battery laboratory; D… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Mackin, Thomas
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transporation Energy

Description: This Transportation Energy Project is comprised of four unique tasks which work within the railroad industry to provide solutions in various areas of energy conservation. These tasks addressed: energy reducing yard related decision issues; alternate fuels; energy education, and energy storage for railroad applications. The NIU Engineering and Technology research team examined these areas and provided current solutions which can be used to both provide important reduction in energy usage and sys… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Mirman, Clifford & Vohra, Promod
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Analysis of Hanford-based Options for Sustainable DOE Facilities on the West Coast

Description: Large-scale conventional energy projects result in lower costs of energy (COE). This is true for most renewable energy projects as well. The Office of Science is interested in its facilities meeting the renewable energy mandates set by Congress and the Administration. Those facilities on the west coast include a cluster in the Bay Area of California and at Hanford in central Washington State. Land constraints at the California facilities do not permit large scale projects. The Hanford Reservati… more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Warwick, William M.
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[28th annual Summer Youth Arts DISD cultural enrichment program live performance]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 28th Annual Summer Youth Arts Institute, Whitney: The Musical held on the Naomi Burton Main Stage on June 30th, 2012. The footage shows children to young adults performing in a musical involving dancing, singing and acting.
Date: June 30, 2012
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Boyd, Kenneth & King, Curtis
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Recovery Act: Electrochromic Glazing Technology: Improved Performance, Lower Price

Description: The growing dependency of the US on energy imports and anticipated further increases in energy prices reinforce the concerns about meeting the energy demand in the future and one element of a secure energy future is conservation. It is estimated that the buildings sector represents 40% of the US's total energy consumption. And buildings produce as much as one third of the greenhouse gas emissions primarily through fossil fuel usage during their operational phase. A significant fraction of this … more
Date: June 30, 2012
Creator: Burdis, Mark & Sbar, Neil
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