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Interim Report to The Institute of Museum and Library Services January 1 through June 30, 2003

Description: This report discusses the Z39.50 interoperability testbed and provides an interim report of the Z-Interop Project covering the period of January 1, 2003 through June 30, 2003. This document highlights activities and accomplishments to communicate to IMLS progress on this project since the interim report on January 1, 2004. Given the date of approval for the extension, this report primarily reflects activities during the latter half of June 2004.
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Moen, William E.
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Fiber Optical Micro-Detectors for Oxygen Sensing in Power Plants Progress Report

Description: A reflection mode fiber optic oxygen sensor that can operate at high temperatures for power plant applications is being developed. The sensor is based on the {sup 3}O{sub 2} quenching of the red emission from hexanuclear molybdenum chloride clusters. Alkali salts of Mo{sub 6}Cl{sub 12} were synthesized and heated to 280 C for one hour in air. Optical measurements of the thermally treated material confirm the potential of the salts as lumophores in high temperature fiber optic sensors. In additi… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Baker, Gregory L.; Ghosh, Ruby N. & III, D.J. Osborn
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Experimental Investigation and High Resolution Simulator of In-Situ Combustion Processes Quarterly Report

Description: Accurate simulation of in-situ combustion processes is computationally very challenging because the spatial and temporal scales over which the combustion process takes place are very small. In this third quarterly report of our DoE funded research, we continue the discussion of the design of a new simulation tool based on an efficient Cartesian Adaptive Mesh Refinement technique that allows much higher grid densities to be used near typical fronts than current simulators. Also, we show prelimin… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Gerritsen, Margot & Kovscek, Anthony R.
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Adaptive Management and Planning Models for Cultural Resources in Oil & Gas Fields in New Mexico and Wyoming, Semi-Annual Progress Report: January 1 - June 30, 2004

Description: This report contains a summary of activities of Gnomon, Inc. and five subcontractors that have taken place during the first six months of 2004 (January 1, 2004-June 30, 2004) under the DOE-NETL cooperative agreement: ''Adaptive Management and Planning Models for Cultural Resources in Oil & Gas Fields in New Mexico and Wyoming'', DE-FC26-02NT15445. Although Gnomon and all five subcontractors completed tasks during these six months, most of the technical experimental work was conducted by the sub… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Robinson, Peggy
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Testing IH Instrumentation: Analysis of 1996-1998 Tank Ventilation Data in Terms of Characterizing a Transient Release

Description: An analysis is conducted of the 1996-1998 Hanford tank ventilation studies of average ventilation rates to help define characteristics of shorter term releases. This effort is being conducted as part of the design of tests of Industrial Hygiene’s (IH) instrumentation ability to detect transient airborne plumes from tanks using current deployment strategies for tank operations. This analysis has improved our understanding of the variability of hourly average tank ventilation processes. However, … more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Droppo, James G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tailoring Inorganic Sorbents for SRS Strontium and Actinide Separations: Optimized Monosodium Titanate and Pharmacosiderite Phase I Final Report

Description: This report summarizes experiments and engineering evaluations conducted in a project funded by the Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Cleanup and Acceleration to develop improved sorbent materials for strontium/actinide separations at SRS. From the results of Phase 1 activities of the project, we offer the following conclusions and recommendations. Chemically modified monosodium titanate (MST) samples exhibited significantly increased actinide removal performance compared to the bas… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: HOBBS, DAVID
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The Influence of fold and fracture development on reservoir behavior of the Lisburne Group of northern Alaska: Final Report

Description: The Carboniferous Lisburne Group is a major carbonate reservoir unit in northern Alaska. The Lisburne is folded and thrust faulted where it is exposed throughout the Brooks Range, but is relatively undeformed in areas of current production in the subsurface of the North Slope. The objectives of this study were to develop a better understanding of four major aspects of the Lisburne: (1) The geometry and kinematics of folds and their truncation by thrust faults. (2) The influence of folding on fr… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Wallace, Wesley K.; Hanks, Catherine L.; Whalen, Jerry Jensen: Michael T.; Atkinson, Paul; Brinton, Joseph; Bui, Thang et al.
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Towards attosecond X-ray pulses from the FEL

Description: The ability to study ultrafast phenomena has been recently advanced by the demonstrated production and measurement of a single, 650-attosecond (10{sup 18} sec), VUV x-ray pulse[1] and, latter, a 250-attosecond pulse[2]. The next frontier is a production of the x-ray pulses with shorter wavelengths and in a broader spectral range. Several techniques for a generation of an isolated, attosecond duration, short-wavelength x-ray pulse based upon the ponderomotive laser acceleration [3], SASE and har… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Zholents, Alexander A. & Fawley, William M.
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SURFACTANT BASED ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY AND FOAM MOBILITY CONTROL

Description: Surfactant flooding has the potential to significantly increase recovery over that of conventional waterflooding. The availability of a large number of surfactants makes it possible to conduct a systematic study of the relation between surfactant structure and its efficacy for oil recovery. Also, the addition of an alkali such as sodium carbonate makes possible in situ generation of surfactant and significant reduction of surfactant adsorption. In addition to reduction of interfacial tension to… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Hirasaki, George J.; Miller, Clarence A.; Pope, Gary A. & Jackson, Richard E.
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High-Pressure Thermodynamic Properties of f-electron Metals, Transition Metal Oxides, and Half-Metallic Magnets

Description: This project involves research into the thermodynamic properties of f-electron metals, transition metal oxides, and half-metallic magnets at high pressure. These materials are ones in which the changing importance of electron-electron interactions as the distance between atoms is varied can tune the system through phase transitions from localized to delocalized electrons, from screened to unscreened magnetic moments, and from normal metal to one in which only a single spin specie can conduct. T… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Scalettar, Richard T. & Pickett, Warren E.
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NOVEL COMPOSITE HYDROGEN-PERMEABLE MEMBRANES FOR NON-THERMAL PLASMA REACTORS FOR THE DECOMPOSITION OF HYDROGEN SULFIDE

Description: The goal of this experimental project is to design and fabricate a reactor and membrane test cell to dissociate hydrogen sulfide (H{sub 2}S) in a non-thermal plasma and recover hydrogen (H{sub 2}) through a superpermeable multi-layer membrane. Superpermeability of hydrogen atoms (H) has been reported by some researchers using membranes made of Group V transition metals (niobium, tantalum, vanadium, and their alloys), although it has yet to be confirmed in this study. Experiments involving metha… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Argyle, Morris D.; Ackerman, John F.; Muknahallipatna, Suresh; Hamann, Jerry C.; Legowski, Stanislaw; Zhang, Ji-Jun et al.
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THE EFFECT OF MERCURY CONTROLS ON WALLBOARD MANUFACTURE

Description: Pending EPA regulations may mandate 70 to 90% mercury removal efficiency from utility flue gas. A mercury control option is the trapping of oxidized mercury in wet flue gas desulfurization systems (FGD). The potential doubling of mercury in the FGD material and its effect on mercury volatility at temperatures common to wallboard manufacture is a concern that could limit the growing byproduct use of FGD material. Prediction of mercury fate is limited by lack of information on the mercury form in… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Meischen, Sandra
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Impact of the Proposed delta Gp Limits on Glass Formulation Efforts: Part II. Experimental Results

Description: The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) has initiated studies to assess alternative durability options that may provide access to compositional regions of interest in support of the accelerated cleanup mission at the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF). One of the options being pursued is the redefinition of the durability model acceptability limits. Some of the conservative steps used in establishing the current limits without compromising the high confidence required for meeting th… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: PEELER, DAVID
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Impact of Agricultural Practice on Regional Climate in a CoupledLand Surface Mesoscale Model

Description: The land surface has been shown to form strong feedbacks with climate due to linkages between atmospheric conditions and terrestrial ecosystem exchanges of energy, momentum, water, and trace gases. Although often ignored in modeling studies, land management itself may form significant feedbacks. Because crops are harvested earlier under drier conditions, regional air temperature, precipitation, and soil moisture, for example, affect harvest timing, particularly of rain-fed crops. This removal o… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Cooley, H. S.; Riley, W. J.; Torn, M. S. & He, Y.
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UNIVERSITY TURBINE SYSTEMS RESEARCH PROGRAM SUMMARY AND DIRECTORY

Description: The South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies (SCIES), administratively housed at Clemson University, has participated in the advancement of combustion turbine technology for over a decade. The University Turbine Systems Research Program, previously referred to as the Advanced Gas Turbine Systems Research (AGTSR) program, has been administered by SCIES for the U.S. DOE during the 1992-2003 timeframe. The structure of the program is based on a concept presented to the DOE by Clemson University… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Golan, Lawrence P. & Wenglarz, Richard A.
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Carbon Dioxide Capture From Flue Gas Using Dry Regenerable Sorbents Quarterly Technical Progress Report: April-June 2004

Description: This report describes research conducted between April 1, 2004 and June 30, 2004 on the preparation and use of dry regenerable sorbents for removal of carbon dioxide from flue gas. Support materials and supported sorbents were prepared by spray drying. Sorbents consisting of 20 to 50% sodium carbonate on a ceramic support were prepared by spray drying in batches of approximately 300 grams. The supported sorbents exhibited greater carbon dioxide capture rates than unsupported calcined sodium bic… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Green, David A.; Turk, Brian S.; Portzer, Jeffrey W.; Gupta, Raghubir P.; McMichael, William J. & Nelson, Thomas
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The Impact of Feed Preparation Acid Stoichiometry and Redox on Melt Rate for the SB3-Frit 418 Feed System

Description: Batch 2 (SB2) and Sludge Batch 3 (SB3), and implemented a frit change from Frit 320 to Frit 418This blended sludge batch has been designated SB3 although previously SRNL has called this new sludge batch SB2/3. A series of dry-fed tests (using the Melt Rate Furnace or MRF) and slurry fed tests (using the Slurry-Fed Melt Rate Furnace or SMRF) have been performed to investigate the effect of feed preparation acid stoichiometry and REDOX (Reduction/Oxidation) on the melt rate of the SB3 - Frit 418 … more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: SMITH, MICHAEL
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Sub-Angstrom metrology of resolution in aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopes using the A-OK standard test specimens

Description: Using specimens with diamond cubic and zincblende structures, oriented to provide pairs of atoms in ''dumbbell'' configurations, we have identified specimens with well-characterized atom separations over a 3:1 range of spacings straddling the canonical 1 Angstrom value. Spacings ranging from 1.6 Angstrom to 0.5 Angstrom are available from an ''A-OK'' set of test specimens carefully selected for their stability and well-characterized lattice parameters.
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Allard, Lawrence F. & O'Keefe, Michael A.
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The potential impacts of a competitive wholesale market in the midwest: A preliminary examination of centralized dispatch

Description: In March 2005, the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) will begin operating the first-ever wholesale market for electricity in the central and upper Midwestern portion of the United States. Region-wide, centralized, security-constrained, bid-based dispatch will replace the current system of decentralized dispatch by individual utilities and control areas. This report focuses on how the operation of generators may change under centralized dispatch. We analyze a stylized example of these c… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Lesieutre, Bernard C.; Bartholomew, Emily; Eto, Joseph H.; Hale, Douglas & Luong, Thanh
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Development of an abort gap monitor for the large hadroncollider

Description: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), presently under construction at CERN, requires monitoring the parasitic charge in the 3.3ms long gap in the machine fill structure. This gap, referred to as the abort gap, corresponds to the raise time of the abort kickers magnets. Any circulating particle present in the abort gap at the time of the kickers firing is lost inside the ring, rather than in the beam dump, and can potentially damage a number of the LHC components. CERN specifications indicate a linea… more
Date: July 1, 2004
Creator: Beche, J.-F.; Byrd, J.; De Santis, S.; Placidi, M.; Turner, W. & Zolotorev, M.
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