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Integrated system design report

Description: The primary objective of the integrated system test phase is to demonstrate the commercial potential of a coal fueled diesel engine in its actual operating environment. The integrated system in this project is defined as a coal fueled diesel locomotive. This locomotive, shown on drawing 41D715542, is described in the separate Concept Design Report. The test locomotive will be converted from an existing oil fueled diesel locomotive in three stages, until it nearly emulates the concept locomotive… more
Date: July 1, 1989
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Gevaltig: An inertial fusion powered manned spacecraft design for outer solar system missions

Description: The Gevaltig is an inertial fusion powered rocket engine capable of manned missions to other planets with round trip mission times as low as 100 days. The Gevaltig design was previously described for a mission to Mars. This effort defines the spacecraft components in terms of mass and presents a mission analysis for a manned trip to Titan, a moon of Saturn. The Gevaltig component masses are provided as a function of fuel pellet ignition frequency. These variable mass components include the fuel… more
Date: October 1, 1989
Creator: Murray, K.A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nozzle development

Description: The objective of this program has been the development of experimental techniques and data processing procedures to allow for the characterization of multi-phase fuel nozzles using laboratory tests. Test results were to be used to produce a single value coefficient-of-performance that would predict the performance of the fuel nozzles independent of system application. Several different types of fuel nozzles capable of handling multi-phase fuels have been characterized for: (a) fuel flow rate ve… more
Date: June 1, 1989
Creator: Dodge, F. T.; Dodge, L. G. & Johnson, J. E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Homogeneous catalysts in hypersonic combustion

Description: Density and residence time both become unfavorably small for efficient combustion of hydrogen fuel in ramjet propulsion in air at high altitude and hypersonic speed. Raising the density and increasing the transit time of the air through the engine necessitates stronger contraction of the air flow area. This enhances the kinetic and thermodynamic tendency of H/sub 2/O to form completely, accompanied only by N/sub 2/ and any excess H/sub 2/(or O/sub 2/). The by-products to be avoided are the ener… more
Date: January 1, 1989
Creator: Harradine, D.M.; Lyman, J.L.; Oldenborg, R.C.; Pack, R.T. & Schott, G.L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recent advances in control and diagnostics development and application

Description: The power industry is undergoing rapid technological advances and cultural changes. Technologies are advancing and evolving so rapidly that the industry is hard pressed to keep up and take full advantage of the many developments now in progress. Recent advantages in state-of-the-art computer technology are making in-roads in the form of advanced computer control, expert systems, on-line performance monitoring and diagnostics. Validation and verification schemes are being developed which provide… more
Date: January 1, 1989
Creator: Monson, L. R.; King, R. W.; Lindsay, R. W. & Staffon, J. D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Conceptual design of coal-fueled diesel system for stationary power applications

Description: A preliminary conceptual design of a coal-fueled diesel system was prepared as part of a previous systems study. Since then, our team has accumulated extensive results from testing coal-water slurry on the 13-inch bore JS engine (400 rpm) in 1987 and 1988. These results provided new insights into preferred design concepts for engine components. One objective, therefore, was to revise the preliminary design to incorporate these preferred design concepts. In addition there were certain areas wher… more
Date: May 1, 1989
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wear mechanism and wear prevention in coal-fueled diesel engines

Description: The overall objective of this program is to develop the engine and lubricant system design approach that has the highest probability for commercial acceptance. Several specific objectives can also be identified. These objectives include: definition of the dominant wear mechanisms prevailing in coal-fueled diesel engines; definition of the specific effect of each coal-related lube oil contaminant; determination of the potential of traditional engine lubrication design approaches to either solve … more
Date: March 20, 1989
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characterization of booster-rocket propellants and their simulants

Description: A series of shock-loading experiments on a composite and an energietic propellant and there simulants was conducted on a light-gas gun. The initial objectives were to obtain Hugoniot data, to investigate the pressure threshold at which a reaction occurs, and to measure spall threshold at various impact velocities. The Hugoniot data measured for the propellants fit the Hugoniot curves provided by the manufacturer of the propellants extremely well and the Hugoniot curves developed for the simulan… more
Date: January 1, 1989
Creator: Weirick, L.J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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(Wear mechanism and wear prevention in coal-fueled diesel engines)

Description: The overall objectives of this program is to develop the engine and lubricant system design approach that has the highest probability for commercial acceptance. Several specific objectives can also be identified. These objectives include: definition of the dominant wear mechanisms prevailing in coal-fueled diesel engines; definition of the specific effect of each coal-related lube oil contaminant; determination of the potential of traditional engine lubrication design approaches to either solve… more
Date: September 15, 1989
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Integrated system design report

Description: The primary objective of the integrated system test phase is to demonstrate the commercial potential of a coal fueled diesel engine in its actual operating environment. The integrated system in this project is defined as a coal fueled diesel locomotive. This locomotive, shown on drawing 41D715542, is described in the separate Concept Design Report. The test locomotive will be converted from an existing oil fueled diesel locomotive in three stages, until it nearly emulates the concept locomotive… more
Date: July 1, 1989
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Conceptual Design of Coal-Fueled Diesel System for Stationary Power Applications

Description: A preliminary conceptual design of a coal-fueled diesel system was prepared as part of a previous systems study. Since then, our team has accumulated extensive results from testing coal-water slurry on the 13-inch bore JS engine (400 rpm) in 1987 and 1988. These results provided new insights into preferred design concepts for engine components. One objective, therefore, was to revise the preliminary design to incorporate these preferred design concepts. In addition there were certain areas wher… more
Date: May 1989
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fundamental studies of fuel chemistry as related to internal combustion engine phenomena. Technical progress report, July 1, 1988--June 30, 1989

Description: The present research effort was initiated with the intent of providing substantially improved insights (through homogeneous gas phase kinetic studies at different constant pressures) to the fuel chemistry issues important to autoignition in engines. The conditions of the proposed experiments were chosen to represent those similar to the engine parameters under knocking conditions: temperatures in the range of 700--1,100K, pressures from one to approximately 20 atmospheres and stoichiometries ar… more
Date: July 1, 1989
Creator: Dryer, F. L. & Brezinsky, K.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Properties of yttria-tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (Y-TZP) materials after long-term exposure to elevated temperatures. Final report

Description: Seven commercially available yttria-tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (Y-TZP) materials were evaluated. Room temperature properties were measured before and after heat treatments at 1000C. Microstructure and phase stability were also examined. In all but one case, the Y-TZPs showed very little change in room temperature properties after long times at this temperature. Results show that pressure-assisted processing greatly improves the strength by reducing porosity and keeping the grain size extre… more
Date: March 1, 1989
Creator: Swab, J. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Mazda MVP Test]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: March 8, 1989, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Evaluating thermographic phosphors in an operating turbine engine

Description: The results of a field test in a commercial turbine engine showed that we can remotely measure the temperature of engine components in operating engines using thermographic phosphors. The remote- measurement method exploits the temperature dependence of the characteristic decay time of the laser-induced fluorescence of thermographic phosphors. This paper summarizes recent work leading up to and including a successful test of the thermographic-phosphor method in an operating turbine engine. 6 re… more
Date: January 1, 1989
Creator: Noel, B. W.; Borella, H. M. (Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)); Lewis, W.; Turley, W. D. (EG and G Energy Measurements, Inc., Goleta, CA (USA)); Beshears, D. L.; Capps, G. J. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Eddy-current inspection of shuttle heat exchanger tube welds

Description: This goal of this project was to develop the system necessary to demonstrate in the laboratory that an eddy-current system can inspect the tubes and welds described above, screening for the existence of flaws equal in size to, or larger than, the target flaw. The laboratory system was to include the probe necessary to traverse the tubing, the electronics to drive (i.e., electrically excite) the probe and receive and process signals from it, a data display, data recording and playback devices, a… more
Date: January 1, 1989
Creator: Dodd, C. V.; Scott, G. W. & Chitwood, L. D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low-rank coal research. Final technical report, April 1, 1988--June 30, 1989, including quarterly report, April--June 1989

Description: This work is a compilation of reports on ongoing research at the University of North Dakota. Topics include: Control Technology and Coal Preparation Research (SO{sub x}/NO{sub x} control, waste management), Advanced Research and Technology Development (turbine combustion phenomena, combustion inorganic transformation, coal/char reactivity, liquefaction reactivity of low-rank coals, gasification ash and slag characterization, fine particulate emissions), Combustion Research (fluidized bed combus… more
Date: December 31, 1989
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low-rank coal research

Description: This work is a compilation of reports on ongoing research at the University of North Dakota. Topics include: Control Technology and Coal Preparation Research (SO{sub x}/NO{sub x} control, waste management), Advanced Research and Technology Development (turbine combustion phenomena, combustion inorganic transformation, coal/char reactivity, liquefaction reactivity of low-rank coals, gasification ash and slag characterization, fine particulate emissions), Combustion Research (fluidized bed combus… more
Date: January 1, 1989
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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