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Advanced alternate planar geometry solid oxide fuel cells. Interim quarterly technical progress report, November 1, 1988--January 31, 1989

Description: During this quarter, progress was made at Ceramatec in seal development and conductivity measurements of YIG compositions. A creep test was completed on the porous/dense/porous triilayer. IGT provided a discussion on possible interconnect materials. The following tasks are reported on: cell design analysis, program liaison and test facility preparation, cell component fabrication/development, out-of-cell tests. 9 figs, 2 tabs.
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Prouse, D.; Elangovan, S.; Khandkar, A.; Donelson, R. & Marianowski, L.
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Advanced Hydride Laboratory

Description: The Replacement Tritium Facility (RTF) is a $140 million reservoir loading and unloading facility using state-of-the-art technology, scheduled for completion in 1990 and startup in 1991. In the RTF, metal hydride technology will be used to store, separate, purify, pump, and compress hydrogen isotopes. In support of the RTF, a $3.2 million ``cold`` process demonstration facility began operation in November, 1987. The purpose of the Advanced Hydride Laboratory (AHL) is to demonstrate the RFT`s me… more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Horen, A. S.
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Advanced Hydride Laboratory

Description: Metal hydrides have been used at the Savannah River Tritium Facilities since 1984. However, the most extensive application of metal hydride technology at the Savannah River Site is being planned for the Replacement Tritium Facility, a $140 million facility schedules for completion in 1990 and startup in 1991. In the new facility, metal hydride technology will be used to store, separate, isotopically purify, pump, and compress hydrogen isotopes. In support of the Replacement Tritium Facility, a … more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Motyka, T.
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Advanced turbine design for coal-fueled engines. Quarterly technical report, [July 1, 1989--September 30, 1989]

Description: Coal-fueled gas turbines require the development of a number of new technologies which are being identified by METC and its Heat Engines Contractors. Three significant problems, that were Identified early in the development of coal-fueled engines, are the rapid wear of the turbine airfoils due to particulate erosion, the accumulation of deposits on portions of the airfoil surfaces due to slag deposition and the rapid corrosion of airfoils after the breakdown of surface coatings. The technology … more
Date: December 31, 1989
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Advanced Water-Cooled Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell Development. Quarterly technical progress report No. 14, April--June 1989

Description: Electrode substrate handsheets were formed. A new electrode edge seal with in-plane bubble pressures 40--50 psid and through-plane pressures 8--9 psid was demonstrated. A new polymeric edge seal for ERP`s with bubble pressure greater than 30 psid was tested and shown to be stable after 5 thermal cycles. A thin (1.2 mil) natrix was applied to full-size electrodes using a curtain coater. Full-size coolers were fabricated using both molded and commercial graphite holders.
Date: December 31, 1989
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Advanced water-cooled phosphoric acid fuel cell development. Quarterly technical progress report No. 17, July, August, September, 1989

Description: 150 electrolyte reservoir plates (ERP`s) were carbonized for the small area short stack. A process was developed which allows thin (1--2 mil) matrix to be applied to full-size electrodes using a curtain coater. Full-size cooler samples were molded with and without cooler tube arrays. Two alternative cooler hoses were evaluated and found to be acceptable based on 1400 h testing at simulated conditions.
Date: December 31, 1989
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Advanced water-cooled phosphoric acid fuel cell development. Quarterly technical progress report No. 20, October, November, December, 1989

Description: Fabrication of repeat parts for small area short stack is underway: 100 electrode substrates and 150 ERP substrates were graphitized, and 30 electrode substrates were run through each manufacturing step. Teflon content and compaction pressure of shop-made electrodes for the small area short stack was optimized based on single cell tests. A single cell with GSB-18P catalyst and 1 mg/cm{sup 2} loading is performing very well; performance is 0.66 V per cell after 1200 h at 300 ASF. 3 integral sepa… more
Date: December 31, 1989
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Alkali/TX{sub 2} catalysts for CO/H{sub 2} conversion to C{sub 1}-C{sub 4} alcohols. Technical progress report, March 1989--August 1989

Description: Ruthenium disulfide catalysts have been synthesized, tested, and characterized during this period of research. It was observed that both the undoped and Cs-doped RuS{sub 2} catalysts produced alcohols and lower amounts of hydrocarbons from H{sub 2}/CO = 1.0 synthesis gas at temperatures above 300{degree}C. Calcination and catalytic testing resulted in partial reduction of the RuS{sub 2} to Ru{sup o}. Calcination under H{sub 2}S prevented the partial reduction of the RuS{sub 2} catalyst, but sub… more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Klier, Kamil; Herman, Richard G.; Bastian, Roy D. & Flanagan, Kelly L.
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ALT-II progress report and proposal, December 1989--December 1990

Description: The Advanced Limiter Test (ALT-11) is a joint international program among the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Japan to investigate the performance of a toroidal belt pump limiter in a tokamak, to investigate the behavior of the plasma edge, and to relate edge behavior to overall core energy and particle confinement. The experiments are carried out in the TEXTOR tokamak at KFA Juelich, Federal Republic of Germany. The ALT-II experiment was installed in TEXTOR in 1987 with the… more
Date: December 31, 1989
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Analysis of general circulation model results and comparison with regional climatic data, Task 3. [Progress report]

Description: On time scales of greater than one year the variability of weather and climate on a large path of the Earth is dominated by the Southern Oscillation. While current theories of this phenomenon have clarified the role of the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere in maintaining this oscillation it has so far been unclear whether the Southern Oscillation originates in the ocean, in the atmosphere or during the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere. In this study we compared si… more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Cess, R. D. & Hameed, S.
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Analysis of natural convection in a waste glass melter

Description: Laminar natural convection is a two-dimensional cavity with a line heat sink at the top boundary is investigated numerically. The fluid in the cavity is a high Prandtl number fluid with volumetric heat source. Parametric study is conducted to find the effect of variations in Rayleigh number, aspect ratio, sink location, and volumetric heat source on the flow and temperature field. 5 refs.
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Choi, Inn Gui
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Applications of computer modeling to fusion research. Progress report, 1988--1989

Description: Progress achieved during this report period is presented on the following topics: Development and application of gyrokinetic particle codes to tokamak transport, development of techniques to take advantage of parallel computers; model dynamo and bootstrap current drive; and in general maintain our broad-based program in basic plasma physics and computer modeling.
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Dawson, J. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Arctic hydrology and meteorology. Annual report

Description: To date, five years of hydrologic and meteorologic data have been collected at Imnavait Creek near Toolik Lake, Alaska. This is the most complete set of field data of this type collected in the Arctic of North America. These data have been used in process-oriented research to increase our understanding of atmosphere/hydrosphere/biosphere/lithosphere interactions. Basically, we are monitoring heat and mass transfer between various spheres to quantify rates. These could be rates of mass movement … more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Kane, D. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aromatics oxidation and soot formation in flames. Progress report for year beginning 15 August 1988

Description: Work during this contract period has been concerned with the mechanisms through which aromatics are formed and destroyed in flames, and the processes responsible for soot formation. Recent progress has been primarily in two areas: experiments and modeling of the soot nucleation process in low pressure benzene flames and preparation for experiments on the destruction mechanisms of benzene. In addition, we have incorporated ``weak collision`` formalisms into a fall-off computer code.
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Howard, J. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric deposition, resuspension and root uptake of plutonium in corn and other grain-producing agroecosystems near a nuclear fuel facility

Description: Plutonium released to the environment may contribute to dose to humans through inhalation or ingestion of contaminated foodstuffs. Plutonium contamination of agricultural plants may result from interception and retention of atmospheric deposition, resuspension of Pu-bearing soil particles to plant surfaces, and root uptake and translocation to grain. Plutonium on vegetation surfaces may be transferred to grain surfaces during mechanical harvesting. Data obtained from corn grown near the US Depa… more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Pinder, J. E., III; McLeod, K. W.; Adriano, D. C.; Corey, J. C. & Boni, A. L.
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Background modelling in Rietveld analysis

Description: The Rietveld method is a complete profile fitting technique, which requires modelling the total scattering from crystalline samples. Many diffraction experiments involve the analysis of scattering patterns containing additional noncrystalline scattering components; these components are broad oscillations superimposed on the sharp Bragg pattern. Conventional background functions cannot be used for the noncrystalline scattering; but treating the additional scattering as though it were from an amo… more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Richardson, J. W. Jr.
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Biological Production of Ethanol From Coal. [Fourth Quarterly Report], October 22, 1989--December 1989

Description: Two batch and one continuous reactor study involving Clostridium ljungdahlii were carried out. First, the effects of H{sub 2} partial pressure on growth, CO and H{sub 2} uptake and product formation by C. ljungdahlii were investigated in batch culture. Over the concentration range studied, it was observed that CO was preferentially utilized in favor of H{sub 2}. It was also seen that increasing H{sub 2} partial pressures increased the ratio of ethanol to acetate. Finally, a two-stage CSTR syste… more
Date: December 31, 1989
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Burning of a spherical fuel droplet in a uniform subsonic flowfield

Description: An analytical/numerical model is described for the evaporation and burning of a spherical fuel droplet in a subsonic crossflow. The external gaseous flowfield is represented using an approximate compressible potential solution, while the internal flowfield of the droplet is represented by the classical Hill`s spherical vortex. This allows numerical solution for the external boundary layer and diffusion flame characteristics to be made, from which the droplet`s effective drag coefficient, rate o… more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Madooglu, K. & Karagozian, A. R.
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Calorimetry Sample Exchange analysis of data report for October--December, 1988

Description: The goals of the Calorimetry Sample Exchange Program are to: discuss measurement differences; review and improve analytical measurements and methods; discuss new measurement capabilities; provide data to DOE on measurement capabilities to evaluate shipper-receiver differences; provide characterized or standard materials as necessary for exchange participants; and provide a measurement control program for plutonium analysis. A sample of PuO{sub 2} powder is available at each participating site f… more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Lyons, J.E.
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Carbon and nitrogen isotope studies in an arctic aquatic ecosystem

Description: The Phase II studies of the R4D Program on stream and watershed ecology reflect the accomplishments and accumulation of baseline information obtained during the past studies. Although our rough estimates indicate that nitrogen inputs to the watershed ba lance losses, the carbon fluxes suggest that they are not in equilibrium and that there is a net loss of carbon from the tundra ecosystem through respiration and transport out of the watershed via the stream system. Radiocarbon profiles of soil … more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Schell, D. M.
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Carbon and nitrogen isotope studies in an arctic ecosystem

Description: This proposal requests funding for the completion of our current ecological studies at the MS-117 research site at Toolik Lake, Alaska. We have been using a mix of stable and radioisotope techniques to assess the fluxes of carbon and nitrogen within the ecosystem and the implications for long-term carbon storage or loss from the tundra. Several tentative conclusions have emerged from our study including: Tundra in the foothills is no longer accumulating carbon. Surficial radiocarbon abundances … more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Schell, D. M.
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Characterization of liquid-water percolation in tuffs in the unsaturated zone, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

Description: A surface-based borehole investigation currently (1989) is being done to characterize liquid-water percolation in tuffs of Miocene age in the unsaturated zone beneath Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada Active in-situ testing and passive in-situ monitoring will be used in this investigation to estimate the present-day liquid-water percolation (flux). The unsaturated zone consists of a gently dipping sequence of fine-grained, densely fractured, and mostly welded ash-flow tuffs that are interbedde… more
Date: December 31, 1989
Creator: Kume, J. & Rousseau, J.P.
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