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Review of Jamaica Public Service Company, Ltd. least-cost expansion plan.

Description: Argonne National Laboratory has been asked to review the least-cost expansion plan (LCEP) of the Jamaica Public Service Company, Ltd. (JPSCo). The material that has been initially provided to Argonne included: (1) An electronic copy of the data and results from JPSCo's running the WASP electric system expansion planning model, (2) Approximately 20 pages of a document 'JPSCo Generation Expansion Plan', marked 'DRAFT 002', date unknown, and (3) The report 'JPSCo Least Cost Generation Expansion Pl… more
Date: February 28, 2008
Creator: Koritarov, V.; Buehring, W.; Cirillo, R. & Sciences, Decision and Information
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Vehicle technologies heavy vehicle program : FY 2008 benefits analysis, methodology and results --- final report.

Description: This report describes the approach to estimating the benefits and analysis results for the Heavy Vehicle Technologies activities of the Vehicle Technologies (VT) Program of EERE. The scope of the effort includes: (1) Characterizing baseline and advanced technology vehicles for Class 3-6 and Class 7 and 8 trucks, (2) Identifying technology goals associated with the DOE EERE programs, (3) Estimating the market potential of technologies that improve fuel efficiency and/or use alternative fuels, an… more
Date: February 29, 2008
Creator: Singh, M.; Systems, Energy & Engineering, TA
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Solutions for Summer Electric Power Shortages: Demand Response andits Applications in Air Conditioning and Refrigerating Systems

Description: Demand response (DR) is an effective tool which resolves inconsistencies between electric power supply and demand. It further provides a reliable and credible resource that ensures stable and economical operation of the power grid. This paper introduces systematic definitions for DR and demand side management, along with operational differences between these two methods. A classification is provided for DR programs, and various DR strategies are provided for application in air conditioning and … more
Date: November 30, 2007
Creator: Han, Junqiao & Piette, Mary Ann
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Water issues associated with heavy oil production.

Description: Crude oil occurs in many different forms throughout the world. An important characteristic of crude oil that affects the ease with which it can be produced is its density and viscosity. Lighter crude oil typically can be produced more easily and at lower cost than heavier crude oil. Historically, much of the nation's oil supply came from domestic or international light or medium crude oil sources. California's extensive heavy oil production for more than a century is a notable exception. Oil an… more
Date: November 28, 2008
Creator: Veil, J. A.; Quinn, J. J. & Division, Environmental Science
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Freedom car and vehicle technologies heavy vehicle program : FY 2007 benefits analysis, methodology and results -- final report.

Description: This report describes the approach to estimating the benefits and analysis results for the Heavy Vehicle Technologies activities of the FreedomCar and Vehicle Technologies (FCVT) Program of EERE. The scope of the effort includes: (1) Characterizing baseline and advanced technology vehicles for Class 3-6 and Class 7 and 8 trucks, (2) Identifying technology goals associated with the DOE EERE programs, (3) Estimating the market potential of technologies that improve fuel efficiency and/or use alte… more
Date: February 29, 2008
Creator: SIngh, M.; Systems, Energy & Engineering, TA
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Used fuel disposition research and development roadmap - FY10 status.

Description: Since 1987 the U.S. has focused research and development activities relevant to the disposal of commercial used nuclear fuel and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) owned spent nuclear fuel and high level waste on the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. At the same time, the U.S. successfully deployed a deep geologic disposal facility for defense-related transuranic waste in bedded salt at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. In 2009 the DOE established the Used Fuel Disposition Campaign (UF… more
Date: October 1, 2010
Creator: Nutt, W. M. (Nuclear Engineering Division)
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Water management practices used by Fayetteville shale gas producers.

Description: Water issues continue to play an important role in producing natural gas from shale formations. This report examines water issues relating to shale gas production in the Fayetteville Shale. In particular, the report focuses on how gas producers obtain water supplies used for drilling and hydraulically fracturing wells, how that water is transported to the well sites and stored, and how the wastewater from the wells (flowback and produced water) is managed. Last year, Argonne National Laboratory… more
Date: June 3, 2011
Creator: Veil, J. A. (Environmental Science Division)
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Provenance management in Swift with implementation details.

Description: The Swift parallel scripting language allows for the specification, execution and analysis of large-scale computations in parallel and distributed environments. It incorporates a data model for recording and querying provenance information. In this article we describe these capabilities and evaluate interoperability with other systems through the use of the Open Provenance Model. We describe Swift's provenance data model and compare it to the Open Provenance Model. We also describe and evaluate… more
Date: April 1, 2011
Creator: Gadelha, L. M. R.; Clifford, B.; Mattoso, M.; Wilde, M.; Foster, I. & Janeiro), (Federal Univ. of Rio de
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Surveillance of Site A and Plot M, Report for 2008.

Description: The results of the environmental surveillance program conducted at Site A/Plot M in the Palos Forest Preserve area for Calendar Year 2008 are presented. Based on the results of the 1976-1978 radiological characterization of the site, a determination was made that a surveillance program be established. The characterization study determined that very low levels of hydrogen-3 (as tritiated water) had migrated from the burial ground and were present in two nearby hand pumped picnic wells. The curre… more
Date: May 7, 2009
Creator: Golchert, N. W.
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Weather forecast-based optimization of integrated energy systems.

Description: In this work, we establish an on-line optimization framework to exploit detailed weather forecast information in the operation of integrated energy systems, such as buildings and photovoltaic/wind hybrid systems. We first discuss how the use of traditional reactive operation strategies that neglect the future evolution of the ambient conditions can translate in high operating costs. To overcome this problem, we propose the use of a supervisory dynamic optimization strategy that can lead to more… more
Date: March 1, 2009
Creator: Zavala, V. M.; Constantinescu, E. M.; Krause, T. & Anitescu, M.
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YALINA Analytical Benchmark Analyses Using the Deterministic ERANOS Code System.

Description: The growing stockpile of nuclear waste constitutes a severe challenge for the mankind for more than hundred thousand years. To reduce the radiotoxicity of the nuclear waste, the Accelerator Driven System (ADS) has been proposed. One of the most important issues of ADSs technology is the choice of the appropriate neutron spectrum for the transmutation of Minor Actinides (MA) and Long Lived Fission Products (LLFP). This report presents the analytical analyses obtained with the deterministic ERANO… more
Date: August 31, 2009
Creator: Gohar, Y. & Aliberti, G.
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NEAMS update quarterly report for January - March 2012.

Description: Quarterly highlights are: (1) The integration of Denovo and AMP was demonstrated in an AMP simulation of the thermo-mechanics of a complete fuel assembly; (2) Bison was enhanced with a mechanistic fuel cracking model; (3) Mechanistic algorithms were incorporated into various lower-length-scale models to represent fission gases and dislocations in UO2 fuels; (4) Marmot was improved to allow faster testing of mesoscale models using larger problem domains; (5) Component models of reactor piping we… more
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Bradley, K. S.; Hayes, S.; Pointer, D.; Summers, R.; Sadasivan, P.; Sun, X. et al.
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Testing to evaluate the suitability of waste forms developed for electrometallurgically treated spent sodium-bonded nuclear fuel for disposal in the Yucca Mountain reporsitory.

Description: The results of laboratory testing and modeling activities conducted to support the development of waste forms to immobilize wastes generated during the electrometallurgical treatment of spent sodium-bonded nuclear fuel and their qualification for disposal in the federal high-level radioactive waste repository are summarized in this report. Tests and analyses were conducted to address issues related to the chemical, physical, and radiological properties of the waste forms relevant to qualificati… more
Date: January 31, 2006
Creator: Ebert, W. E.
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Framework for managing wastes from oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) sites.

Description: Oil and gas companies operate in many countries around the world. Their exploration and production (E&P) operations generate many kinds of waste that must be carefully and appropriately managed. Some of these wastes are inherently part of the E&P process; examples are drilling wastes and produced water. Other wastes are generic industrial wastes that are not unique to E&P activities, such as painting wastes and scrap metal. Still other wastes are associated with the presence of work… more
Date: September 15, 2007
Creator: Veil, J. A.; Puder, M. G. & Division, Environmental Science
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Fuel-cladding interaction layers in irradiated U-ZR and U-PU-ZR fuel elements.

Description: Argonne National Laboratory is developing an electrometallurgical treatment for spent nuclear fuels. The initial demonstration of this process is being conducted on U-Zr and U-Pu-Zr alloy fuel elements irradiated in the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II). The electrometallurgical treatment process extracts usable uranium from irradiated fuel elements and places residual fission products, actinides, process Zr, and cladding hulls (small segments of tubing) into two waste forms--a ceramic a… more
Date: January 23, 2006
Creator: Keiser, D. D.
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Impact of drought on U.S. steam electric power plant cooling water intakes and related water resource management issues.

Description: This report was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Existing Plants Research Program, which has an energy-water research effort that focuses on water use at power plants. This study complements their overall research effort by evaluating water availability at power plants under drought conditions. While there are a number of competing demands on water uses, particularly during drought conditions, this report focuses solely on impacts to… more
Date: April 3, 2009
Creator: Kimmell, T. A.; Veil, J. A. & Division, Environmental Science
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Fuel cycle analysis of once-through nuclear systems.

Description: Once-through fuel cycle systems are commercially used for the generation of nuclear power, with little exception. The bulk of these once-through systems have been water-cooled reactors (light-water and heavy water reactors, LWRs and HWRs). Some gas-cooled reactors are used in the United Kingdom. The commercial power systems that are exceptions use limited recycle (currently one recycle) of transuranic elements, primarily plutonium, as done in Europe and nearing deployment in Japan. For most of … more
Date: August 10, 2010
Creator: Kim, T. K.; Taiwo, T. A. & Division, Nuclear Engineering
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Water management technologies used by Marcellus Shale Gas Producers.

Description: Natural gas represents an important energy source for the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Energy Information Administration (EIA), about 22% of the country's energy needs are provided by natural gas. Historically, natural gas was produced from conventional vertical wells drilled into porous hydrocarbon-containing formations. During the past decade, operators have increasingly looked to other unconventional sources of natural gas, such as coal bed methane, tig… more
Date: July 30, 2010
Creator: Veil, J. A. & Division, Environmental Science
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Summary of Generation-IV transmutation impacts.

Description: An assessment of the potential role of Generation IV nuclear systems in an advanced fuel cycle has been performed. The Generation IV systems considered are the thermal-spectrum VHTR and SCWR, and the fast-spectrum GFR, LFR, and SFR. This report addresses the impact of each system on advanced fuel cycle goals, particularly related to waste management and resource utilization. The transmutation impact of each system was also assessed, along with variant designs for transuranics (TRU) burning. The… more
Date: August 3, 2005
Creator: Taiwo, T. A. & Hill, R. N.
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Transmission electron microscopy analysis of corroded metal waste forms.

Description: This report documents the results of analyses with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) combined with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and selected area electron diffraction (ED) of samples of metallic waste form (MWF) materials that had been subjected to various corrosion tests. The objective of the TEM analyses was to characterize the composition and microstructure of surface alteration products which, when combined with other test results, can be used to determine the matrix corr… more
Date: April 15, 2005
Creator: Dietz, N. L.
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Waste-to-wheel analysis of anaerobic-digestion-based renewable natural gas pathways with the GREET model.

Description: In 2009, manure management accounted for 2,356 Gg or 107 billion standard cubic ft of methane (CH{sub 4}) emissions in the United States, equivalent to 0.5% of U.S. natural gas (NG) consumption. Owing to the high global warming potential of methane, capturing and utilizing this methane source could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The extent of that reduction depends on several factors - most notably, how much of this manure-based methane can be captured, how much GHG is produced in the c… more
Date: December 14, 2011
Creator: Han, J.; Mintz, M. & Wang, M. (Energy Systems)
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OECD MCCI project final report, February 28, 2006.

Description: Although extensive research has been conducted over the last several years in the areas of Core-Concrete Interaction (CCI) and debris coolability, two important issues warrant further investigation. The first issue concerns the effectiveness of water in terminating a CCI by flooding the interacting masses from above, thereby quenching the molten core debris and rendering it permanently coolable. This safety issue was investigated in the Melt Attack and Coolability Experiments (MACE) program. Th… more
Date: May 23, 2011
Creator: Farmer, M. T.; Lomperski, S.; Kilsdonk, D. J.; Aeschlimann, R. W. & Basu, S.
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Used fuel disposition campaign international activities implementation plan.

Description: The management of used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste is required for any country using nuclear energy. This includes the storage, transportation, and disposal of low and intermediate level waste (LILW), used nuclear fuel (UNF), and high level waste (HLW). The Used Fuel Disposition Campaign (UFDC), within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Office of Fuel Cycle Technology (FCT), is responsible for conducting research and development pertaining to the management o… more
Date: June 29, 2011
Creator: Nutt, W. M. (Nuclear Engineering Division)
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OECD MCCI project long-term 2-D molten core concrete interaction test design report, Rev. 0. September 30, 2002.

Description: The Melt Attack and Coolability Experiments (MACE) program at Argonne National Laboratory addressed the issue of the ability of water to cool and thermally stabilize a molten core-concrete interaction when the reactants are flooded from above. These tests provided data regarding the nature of corium interactions with concrete, the heat transfer rates from the melt to the overlying water pool, and the role of noncondensable gases in the mixing processes that contribute to melt quenching. As a fo… more
Date: May 23, 2011
Creator: Farmer, M. T.; Kilsdonk, D. J.; Lomperski, S.; Aeschliman, R. W. & Basu, S.
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