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1975 energy conditions in the South

Description: This report depicts energy supply and demand conditions in the South in 1975 and highlights differences in production and utilization patterns relative to the United States (some of the consumption data is for 1974). Significant changes during the previous three years are noted to provide continuity with the predecessor report, Energy Conditions in the South: 1972. The most important changes are the substantial increase in nuclear generation of electricity, the absolute and relative decline in … more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Rice, Patricia L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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1976 annual summary report

Description: Abstracts of papers published during the previous calendar year, arranged in accordance with the project titles used in the USDOE Schedule 189 Budget Proposals, are presented. The collection of abstracts supplements the listing of papers published in the Schedule 189. The following subject areas are represented: high-energy physics; nuclear physics; basic energy sciences (nuclear science, materials sciences, solid state physics, materials chemistry); molecular, mathematical, and earth sciences … more
Date: March 1, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advanced development of fine coal desulfurization and recovery technology. Annual technical progress report, October 1 1976--September 1977. [54 references]

Description: Work has been carried out to develop and improve several promising methods for desulfurizing and recovering fine-size coal. These methods included froth flotation, selective oil agglomeration, pelletization, and a chemical desulfurization process which involves leaching fine coal with a hot dilute solution of sodium carbonate containing dissolved oxygen or air under pressure. This process is an oxydesulfurization process which utilizes an alkaline solution instead of an acidic solution for leac… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Wheelock, T. D.; Greer, R. T.; Markuszewski, R. & Fisher, R. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advanced fuel cell development. Progress report, October--December 1977. [LiAlO/sub 2/ matrix for molten carbonate electrolytes]

Description: Advanced fuel cell research and development activities in Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) during the period October to December 1977 are described. This work has been aimed at understanding and improving the performance of fuel cells having molten alkali-carbonate mixtures as electrolytes; the fuel cells operate at temperatures near 925/sup 0/K. The largest part of this effort has been directed toward development of methods for fabricating and evaluating electrolyte structures for these cells… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Ackerman, J.P.; Kinoshita, K.; Finn, P.A.; Sim, J.W. & Nelson, P.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Agribusiness geothermal energy utilization potential of Klamath and Western Snake River Basins, Oregon. Final report

Description: Resource assessment and methods of direct utilization for existing and prospective food processing plants have been determined in two geothermal resource areas in Oregon. Ore-Ida Foods, Inc. and Amalgamated Sugar Company in the Snake River Basin; Western Polymer Corporation (potato starch extraction) and three prospective industries--vegetable dehydration, alfalfa drying and greenhouses--in the Klamath Basin have been analyzed for direct utilization of geothermal fluids. Existing geologic knowl… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Lienau, P. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Algorithm for locating the extremum of a multi-dimensional constrained function and its application to the PPPL Hybrid Study

Description: A description is presented of a general algorithm for locating the extremum of a multi-dimensional constrained function. The algorithm employs a series of techniques dominated by random shrinkage, steepest descent, and adaptive creeping. A discussion follows of the algorithm's application to a ''real world'' problem, namely the optimization of the price of electricity, P/sub eh/, from a hybrid fusion-fission reactor. Upon the basis of comparisons with other optimization schemes of a survey natu… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Bathke, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alternate materials of construction for geothermal applications. Progress report No. 15, October 1977--March 1978

Description: A program to determine if non-metallic materials such as polymers, concrete polymer composites, and refractory cements can be utilized as materials of construction in geothermal processes is in progress. To date, several high temperature polymer concrete systems have been formulated, laboratory and field tests performed in brine, flashing brine, and steam at temperatures up to 260/sup 0/C (500/sup 0/F), and economic studies started. Laboratory data for exposure times > 2 years are available. Te… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Steinberg, M. & Kukacka, L. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ames collaborative study of cosmic-ray neutrons. II. Low- and mid-latitude flights. [Preliminary results]

Description: The continuing progress of the Ames Collaborative Study of Cosmic Ray Neutrons is described. Data obtained aboard flights from Hawaii at altitudes of 41,000 and 45,000 feet, and in the range of geomagnetic latitude 17/sup 0/N less than or equal to lambda less than or equal to 21/sup 0/N are reported. Preliminary estimates of neutron spectra were made.
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Stephens, L. D.; McCaslin, J. B.; Smith, A. R.; Thomas, R. H.; Hewitt, J. E. & Hughes, L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of capital and operating costs associated with high level waste solidification processes

Description: An analysis was performed to evaluate the sensitivity of annual operating costs and capital costs of waste solidification processes to various parameters defined by the requirements of a proposed Federal waste repository. Five process methods and waste forms examined were: salt cake, spray calcine, fluidized bed calcine, borosilicate glass, and supercalcine multibarrier. Differential cost estimates of the annual operating and maintenance costs and the capital costs for the five HLW solidificati… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Heckman, R. A. & Kniazewycz, B. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of heat transfer in horizontal tube falling film evaporators

Description: A model of combined boiling and evaporation of liquid films on horizontal tubes was developed. Specifically, this work was directed toward developing a heat transfer model applicable to the design of horizontal tube falling film evaportors for OTEC. The heat transfer process is modelled as combined boiling and evaporation of the liquid film. In modelling the behavior of single tubes special account is taken of heat transfer in the initial thermal developing region of the film. Predictions were … more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Lorenz, J.J. & Yung, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of the impact of retrievable spent fuel storage

Description: The impact of retrievably storing spent fuel is measurable in terms of the contribution the stored spent fuel makes to implementing the fuel management option selected. For the case of a decision to recycle LWR fuel in LWRs, a useful indicator of impact is the ratio of energy production with varying degrees of spent fuel retrievability to that achievable with total spent fuel retrievability. For a decision made in the year 2000, this ratio varies from 0.81 (10 yr storage in reactor basins) to 0… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Merrill, E.T.; White, M.K. & Fleischman, R.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of the methods utilized in OXIDE-3. [HTGR]

Description: OXIDE-3 is an evolving code developed to analyze the transient response of certain state variables of a High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor (HTGR) during an accident involving the inleakage of steam and/or air into the helium primary coolant system. Primary tasks of the code are to calculate the primary coolant constituents as a function of time, their resultant chemical interaction with the graphite fuel elements, and their possible egress into the containment building. The report takes a crit… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Skalyo, J. Jr.; Epel, L.G. & Sastre, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of the relative competitive position of marketers of motor gasoline

Description: In an effort to analyze the causes of changes in motor gasoline marketing, various economic data were collected and are presented. These data include; (1) gasoline sales by refiners; (2) sales through salaried retail outlets; (3) the number of gasoline retail outlets; and (4) the number of branded independent retail outlets. (PMA)
Date: March 1, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of valve springs from hydrogen compressor at Solvent Refined Coal Plant, Wilsonville, Alabama

Description: Failure of hydrogen compressor valve springs at the Wilsonville, Alabama, Solvent Refined Coal Plant caused a total plant shutdown. Type 304 stainless steel springs had been substituted for two of three alloy X750 springs. Mainly because of their geometry, the type 304 stainless steel springs operated at a higher stress than the proper springs, and it is not surprising that they failed. The only as-fractured surface was on the alloy X750 spring. Edge damage caused by rubbing of the springs agai… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: King, R. T.; Crouse, R. S.; Leslie, B. C.; Rose, E. T. & Houck, C. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analytic Model for the Nonlinear Interaction of Tearing Modes of Different Pitch in Cylindrical Geometry

Description: An analytic model has been developed for describing the nonlinear interaction of tearing modes of different pitch in cylindrical geometry for equilibria characterized by flat safety factor profiles. The analysis shows that the m = 2/n = 1 tearing mode can destabilize odd m modes, particularly the 3/2 mode. The model compares well with our three-dimensional (3-D) code with respect to the time evolution of the 0/0, 1/1, 2/1, 3/2, and 5/3 modes. Scaling rules are obtained for the position and loca… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Carreras, B.; Waddell, B. V. & Hicks, H. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analytical Chemistry Division annual progress report for period ending November 30, 1977

Description: Activities for the year are summarized in sections on analytical methodology, mass and mass emission spectrometry, analytical services, bio-organic analysis, nuclear and radiochemical analysis, and quality assurance and safety. Presentations of research results in publications and reports are tabulated. (JRD)
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Lyon, W.S. (ed.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Annual environmental monitoring report of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1977

Description: The data obtained from the Environmental Monitoring Program of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory for the Calendar year 1977 are described and general trends are discussed. The general trend of decreasing radiation levels at our site boundary due to accelerator operation during past years has leveled off during 1977 and in some areas shows a slight but not statistically significant increase as predicted in last year's summary. There were changes in both ion beams as well as current which have res… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Stephens, L. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Annual procurement operations report, FY 1977

Description: Several agencies were merged into the new Department of Energy on October 1, 1977. These agencies included the Energy Research and Development Administration, Federal Energy Administration, part of the Bureau of Mines, and parts of the Naval Petroleum Reserve establishment. This is a report of the activities of the procurement groups of these agencies during Fiscal Year 1977. The efforts detailed in this report were seminal to the energy program. New technologies; new industries; new products; … more
Date: March 1, 1978
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of high-power lasers to equation-of-state research at ultrahigh pressures

Description: The application of high-power pulsed lasers to ultrahigh pressure equation-of-state (EOS) experiments is discussed. It is shown that pressures along the principal Hugoniot between 1 and 10 TPa can be produced with existing lasers used for inertial-confinement fusion research. The relevance of measurements in this pressure regime to improving our understanding of condensed matter physics is also discussed. New experimental techniques as well as potential experimental problems are described, and … more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Trainor, R. J.; Graboske, H. C.; Long, K. S. & Shaner, J. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of thermal conduction models to deepsea disposal of radioacitve wastes

Description: Thermal problems associated with the emplacement of radio-active wastes in the deepsea sedimentary layer have been studied. In particular, the nature of the temperature field surrounding and the interstitial water velocity arising from a buried cask have been examined. Worst case estimates indicate that the velocity will be extremely weak and thus not likely to provide a primary transport mechanism for the radioactive material. This statement will, of course, only apply for moderately low level… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Schimmel, W.P. Jr. & Hickox, C.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Appraisal of possible combustion hazards associated with a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor

Description: The report presents a study of combustion hazards that may be associated with the High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor (HTGR) in the event of a primary coolant circuit depressurization followed by water or air ingress into the prestressed concrete reactor vessel (PCRV). Reactions between graphite and steam or air produce the combustible gases H/sub 2/ and/or CO. When these gases are mixed with air in the containment vessel (CV), flammable mixtures may be formed. Various modes of combustion inclu… more
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Palmer, H. B.; Sibulkin, M.; Strehlow, R. A. & Yang, C. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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