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An Assessment of the Performance of Heat Exchanger Materials in Fluidized-Bed Combustors

Description: The work described in this report represents research conducted in the first year of a three-year program to assess, characterize, and design thermoplastic piping for use in elevated-temperature district heating (DH) systems. The present report describes the results of a program to assess the potential usefulness of advanced thermoplastics as piping materials for use in DH systems. This includes the review of design rules for thermoplastic materials used as pipes, a survey of candidate materi… more
Date: April 1988
Creator: Natesan, K.; Miller, S. A. & Podolski, W. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ATLAS: a Proposal for a Precision Heavy Ion Accelerator at Argonne National Laboratory

Description: The objective of the proposed Argonne Tandem-Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) is to provide precision beams of heavy ions for nuclear physics research in the region of projectile energies comparable to nuclear binding energies (5-25 MeV/A). By using the demonstrated potential of superconducting radiofrequency technology, beams of exceptional quality and flexibility can be obtained. The system is designed to provide beams with tandem-like energy resolution and ease of energy variation, the energ… more
Date: February 1978
Creator: Bollinger, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric Corrosion of batten and Enclosure Materials for Flat-Plate Solar Collectors

Description: As part of the Solar Reliability and Materials Program at Argonne National Laboratory, the atmospheric corrosion of candidate batten and enclosure materials were tested on outdoor racks parallel to the tilted solar-collected panels at nine National Solar Data Network (NSDN) sites, located in mild marine, mild industrial, and rural environments. The candidate materials evaluated include galvanized steel (G-90), aluminized steel (Type 2), aluminum (6061), and white polyester painted steel. Data a… more
Date: April 1983
Creator: Cheng, Craig F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric Fluidized-Bed Cogeneration Air Heater Experiment : 1000-h Laboratory Test A

Description: A laboratory test program is described to evaluate the corrosion behavior of several metallic alloys, coatings, claddings, and weldments in support of the atmospheric fluidized-bed air heater experiment. Results are presented from the first 1000-h test (Test A) conducted at metal and gas temperatures of 871 C and 899 C, respectively. Detailed information is also presented on the corrosion scale morphologies, scale compositions and thicknesses, intergranular penetration of the substrate material… more
Date: March 1987
Creator: Natesan, K. & Podolski, W. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atomic Energy Commission Division of Reactor Development Reactor Information Meeting. Part VI, Processing; October 7, 8, 9, 1953

Description: On October 7, 8, and 9, 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission Division of Reactor Development held a reactor information meeting at the Argonne National Laboratory. The objective of the meeting was exchange of information among people actively concerned with the design of reactors for power to the end that the power reactor program would move more speedily and more economically to another milestone of success. In this volume all the papers presented at the meeting are listed. Copies are given of t… more
Date: October 1953
Creator: Lawroski, Stephen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Atomic Spectrum of Neptunium

Description: A description and interpretation of the atomic spectrum of neptunium are given. Wavelengths were measured for 6096 spectrum lines in the range 3793 to 38,812 cm⁻¹ (26,353 to 2575 A), of which 2526 were classified as transitions between 329 odd levels and 130 even levels of neutral neptunium (Np I). The data are presented in five tables.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Fred, Mark; Tompkins, Frank S.; Blaise, Jean E.; Camus, Pierre & Vergès, Jean
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Atomic Spectrum of Plutonium

Description: This report contains plutonium wavelengths, energy level classifications, and other spectroscopic data accumulated over the past twenty years at Laboratoire Aime Cotton (LAC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The primary purpose was term analysis: deriving the energy levels in terms of quantum numbers and electron configurations, and evaluating the Slater-Condon and other parameters from the levels.
Date: August 1984
Creator: Blaise, Jean; Fred, Mark & Gutmacher, Ralph G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Attack on Uranium by Lithium at 600 C

Description: The tests described in this report were static tests devised to afford a basis for a quick evaluation of the resistance of uranium to attack by lithium. The work was done at the same time as the tests of beryllium, thorium, and various engineering metals in lithium (described in ANL-4990); but the results with uranium are given in the present classified report so that the results of the other tests can be published as an unclassified document. The procedure for carrying out the tests is describ… more
Date: October 13, 1950
Creator: Wilkinson, Walter D. & Yaggee, Frank L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Autoclave Testing of Mechanically Jacketed Thorium Slugs In Water

Description: Water corrosion tests on mechanically jacketed and pinholed thorium slugs show that these slugs fail in a manner similar to that observed for mechanically jacketed and tested uranium slugs. The proposed mechanism for the water corrosion of these jacketed slugs is analogous to the water corrosion mechanism of jacketed uranium slugs presented in the project lecture. A bare thorium slug appeared to be more resistant to corrosion by water than a mechanically jacketed slug during the first half of t… more
Date: January 29, 1953
Creator: Yaggee, Frank L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Automated Approach to Quantitative Error Analysis in Neutron Transport Calculations

Description: A method is described how a quantitative measure for the robustness of a given transport theory code for coarse network calculations can be obtained. A code, that performs this task automatically and at only nominal cost, is described and has been implemented for slab geometry. This code generates also user oriented benchmark problems which exhibit the analytic behavior at interfaces.
Date: September 1976
Creator: Bareiss, Erwin H. & Derstine, Keith L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Automated Insertion of Sequences into a Ribosomal RNA Alignment: an Application of Computational Linguistics in Molecular Biology

Description: This thesis involved the construction of (1) a grammar that incorporates knowledge on base invariancy and secondary structure in a molecule and (2) a parser engine that uses the grammar to position bases into the structural subunits of the molecule. These concepts were combined with a novel pinning technique to form a tool that semi-automates insertion of a new species into the alignment for the 16S rRNA molecule (a component of the ribosome) maintained by Dr. Carl Woese`s group at the Universi… more
Date: November 1991
Creator: Taylor, Ronald C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Automated Procedure for Covariation-Based Detection of RNA Structure

Description: This paper summarizes our investigations into the computational detection of secondary and tertiary structure of ribosomal RNA. We have developed a new automated procedure that not only identifies potential bondings of secondary and tertiary structure, but also provides the covariation evidence that supports the proposed bondings, and any counter-evidence that can be detected in the known sequences. A small number of previously unknown bondings have been detected in individual RNA molecules (16… more
Date: December 1989
Creator: Winker, S.; Overbeek, R.; Woese, Carl R.; Olsen, G. J. & Pfluger, N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Automated Reasoning System ITP

Description: This report describes a system designed to provide a portable environment for the study of automated reasoning. The system is built on the LMA automated reasoning subroutine package. This program is not part of LMA itself but illustrates the level of inference-based system that can be constructed from the LMA package of tools. It is a clause-based reasoning system supporting a wide variety of techniques which have proven valuable over the years in a long-running automated deduction research pro… more
Date: April 1984
Creator: Lusk, Ewing L. & Overbeek, Ross A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Automatic Foil Activity Counting Facility and Data-Reduction Program

Description: Report describing a transistorized automatic counting and recording system built for the determination of foil-activation data. Some of the convenience requirements of the system were that the output be more suitable for computer processing, automatic sensing of the type of count recorded, and ready availability of the data at all stages of processing.
Date: October 1962
Creator: Plumlee, K. E. & Wiggins, M. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Automatic Transformations in the Inference Process

Description: A technique for incorporating automatic transformations into processes such as the application of inference rules, subsumption, and demodulation provides a mechanism for improving search strategies for theorem proving problems arising from the field of program verification. The incorporation of automatic transformations into the inference process can alter the search space for a given problem, and is particularly useful for problems having broad rather than deep proofs. The technique can also b… more
Date: July 1980
Creator: Veroff, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Automotive Vehicle Sensors

Description: This report is an introduction to the field of automotive vehicle sensors. It contains a prototype data base for companies working in automotive vehicle sensors, as well as a prototype data base for automotive vehicle sensors. A market analysis is also included.
Date: September 1995
Creator: Sheen, S. H.; Raptis, A. C. & Moscynski, M. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Autoradiographic Technique for Rapid Inventory of Plutonium-Containing Fast Critical Assembly Fuel

Description: A nondestructive autoradiographic technique is described which can provide a verification of the piece count and the plutonium content of plutonium-containing fuel elements. This technique uses the spontaneously emitted gamma rays from plutonium to form images of fuel elements on photographic film. Autoradiography has the advantage of providing an inventory verification without the opening of containers or the handling of fuel elements. Missing fuel elements, substitution of nonradioactive mate… more
Date: October 1977
Creator: Brumbach, S. B. & Perry, R. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Autoradiography as a Safeguards Inspection Technique for Unirradiated LWR Fuel Assemblies

Description: A nondestructive autoradiographic method is described which can provide a verification that rods in the interior of unirradiated LWR fuel assemblies contain low-enriched uranium. Sufficient absorber must be used to reduce contributions to image density by beta radiation from uranium-238 daughters. When appropriate absorbers are used, the density of the image of a uranium-containing fuel rod is proportional to the uranium-235 enrichment in that rod. Exposure times as short as 1.5 hours can be ac… more
Date: May 1978
Creator: Brumbach, S. B. & Perry, R. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Avoiding Leakage Flow-Induced Vibration by a Tube-in-Tube Slip Joint

Description: Parameters and operating conditions (a stability map) were determined for which a specific slip-joint design did not cause self-excited lateral vibration of the two cantilevered, telescoping tubes forming the joint. The joint design featured a localized annular constriction. Flowrate, modal damping, tube engagement length, and eccentric positioning were among the parameters tested. Interestingly, all self-excited vibrations could be avoided by following a simple design rule: place constrictions… more
Date: October 1984
Creator: Mulcahy, T. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Baseline Energy Consumption Forecasts for Transportation: A Review and Evaluation

Description: A baseline projection of energy consumption is needed to estimate the potential energy savings from proposed transport technology and operational improvements. The Reference Energy System projection by Brookhaven National Laboratories and that which Stanford Research Institute produced for Gulf Oil are reviewed here. Attention is focused on the growth rate assumptions of the forecasts and the allowances made for the sensitivity of transport demand and technological efficiency to fuel price chan… more
Date: May 1976
Creator: Koppelman, Frank; O'Sullivan, Pat & Collum, Tom
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Basic TRUEX Process for Rocky Flats Plant

Description: The Generic TRUEX Model was used to develop a TRUEX process flowsheet for recovering the transuranics (plutonium, americium) from a nitrate waste stream at Rocky Flats Plant. T\
Date: August 1994
Creator: Leonard, R. A.; Chamberlain, D. B.; Dow, J. A.; Farley, S. E.; Nuñez, Luis; Regalbuto, M. C. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Benchmark Testing of the Finite-Strain Version of the LIFE-III Fast-Reactor-Element Code

Description: A collection of benchmark problems is used to test the finite-strain formulation of the LIFE-III fast-reactor fuel-element code. Analytical solutions for thick-wall cylinders loaded by internal and external pressure, valid for arbitrarily large strains, are presented for a linear viscous material. Similar problems are formulated for a nonlinear material, and numerical solutions are obtained using the Runge-Kutta method for the integration of an ordinary differential equation. These solutions ar… more
Date: November 1976
Creator: Shack, W. J.; Jankus, V. Z. & Billone, Michael C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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