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Analytical Characterization of the Thorium Nitrate Stockpile

Description: For several years, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been supporting the Defense Logistics Agency-Defense National Stockpile Center with stewardship of a thorium nitrate (ThN) stockpile. The effort for fiscal year 2002 was to prepare a sampling and analysis plan and to use the activities developed in the plan to characterize the ThN stockpile. The sampling was performed in June and July 2002 by RWE NUKEM with oversight by ORNL personnel. The analysis was performed by Southwest Research I… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Mattus, CH
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Approximate Thermodynamics State Relations in Partially Ionized Gas Mixtures

Description: In practical applications, the thermodynamic state relations of partially ionized gas mixtures are usually approximated in terms of the state relations of the pure partially ionized constituent gases or materials in isolation. Such approximations are ordinarily based on an artificial partitioning or separation of the mixture into its constituent materials, with material k regarded as being confined by itself within a compartment or subvolume with volume fraction {alpha}k and possessing a fracti… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Ramshaw, J D
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Assessment of the Bioaccumulation of PCBs and Chloridane Near the U.S. Department of Energy's Kansas City Plant

Description: Studies conducted by the Missouri Department of Conservation in the late 1980s found high levels of PCBs and chlordane in fish from the Blue River near the Kansas City Plant (KCP). Follow-on biomonitoring studies by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) staff from 1991-1993 (Southworth et al. 1992, Ashwood et al. 1993, Ashwood and Peterson 1994), and again on a more limited basis in 1998 (Ashwood 1998), were conducted for the KCP. The studies in the early 1990s characterized concentrations of PC… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Peterson, M. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CAPACITIVE TOMOGRAPHY FOR THE LOCATION OF PLASTIC PIPE

Description: The objective of this program was to develop and test a system that would detect and image buried plastic and ceramic pipe. The system is designed to detect variations in the electric permeability of soil corresponding to the presence of a buried plastic pipe. The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) proposed to develop a compact and inexpensive capacitive tomography-imaging sensor that can be placed on the ground to image objects embedded in the soil. The system provides a coarse image, which allows… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Huber, Brian J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Demonstration of the Whole-Building Diagnostician for the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and for the University of Wisconsin at Madison

Description: In an effort to expand the energy savings programs within the State, the Wisconsin Division of Energy obtained funding through the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), with additional funding assistance through the Rebuild America Program (RBA) to install the Whole Building Diagnostician (WBD) software program as a test bed project in two of the State’s facilities in Wisconsin. This report discusses the results of this effort.
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Bauman, Nathan N. & Hail, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gasification Evaluation of Gas Turbine Combustion

Description: This report provides a preliminary assessment of the potential for use in gas turbines and reciprocating gas engines of gases derived from biomass by pyrolysis or partial oxidation with air. Consideration was given to the use of mixtures of these gases with natural gas as a means of improving heating value and ensuring a steady gas supply. Gas from biomass, and mixtures with natural gas, were compared with natural gas reformates from low temperature partial oxidation or steam reforming. The pro… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Battelle
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Grants Information for Constituents

Description: This report provides information key sources of information on government and private grants for state and community projects. Constituents who know their project best , may search for grant information on the internet and in printed reference sources.
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Gerli, Merete F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Holographic theories of electroweak symmetry breaking without aHiggs Boson

Description: Recently, realistic theories of electroweak symmetry breaking have been constructed in which the electroweak symmetry is broken by boundary conditions imposed at a boundary of higher dimensional spacetime. These theories have equivalent 4D dual descriptions, in which the electroweak symmetry is dynamically broken by non-trivial infrared dynamics of some gauge interaction, whose gauge coupling {tilde g} and size N satisfy {tilde g}{sup 2}N {approx}> 16{pi}{sup 2}. Such theories allow one to c… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Burdman, Gustavo & Nomura, Yasunori
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low Cost Reversible fuel cell systems

Description: This final report summarizes a 3-phase program performed from March 2000 through September 2003 with a particular focus on Phase III. The overall program studied TMI's reversible solid oxide stack, system concepts, and potential applications. The TMI reversible (fuel cell-electrolyzer) system employs a stack of high temperature solid-oxide electrochemical cells to produce either electricity (from a fuel and air or oxygen) or hydrogen (from water and supplied electricity). An atmospheric pressur… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Inc., Technology Management
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of the Branching Fraction for B- --->D0 K*-

Description: The authors present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B{sup -} {yields} D{sup 0} K{sup *-} using a sample of approximately 86 million B{bar B} pairs collected by the BABAR detector from e{sup +}e{sup -} collisions near the {Upsilon}(4S) resonance. The D{sup 0} is detected through its decays to K{sup -}{pi}{sup +}, K{sup -}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup 0} and K{sup -} {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}{pi}{sup +}, and the K{sup *-} through its decay to K{sub S}{sup 0} {pi}{sup -}. They measure the… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Lange, D J; Wright, D M; Simani, M C & Cheng, C H
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Monitoring of Refractory wall recession using radar technique

Description: Furnaces are the most crucial components in the glass and metallurgical industry. Like any other components in an industry, furnaces require periodic maintenance and repair. Today, furnaces are being operated at higher temperatures and for longer periods of time thus increasing the rate of wear and tear on the furnace refractory lining. As a result of the competitive market facing these industries, longer furnace lifetime with shorter maintenance downtime are increasingly required. Higher fuel … more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: University of Missouri
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Novel Simulated moving bed technologies

Description: Cellulose and hemicellulose from plants and other biomass can be hydrolyzed to produce sugars (i.e. glucose and xylose). Once these sugars are separated from other impurities, they can serve as feedstock in fermentation to produce ethanol (as fuels), lactic acid, or other valuable chemicals. The need for producing fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass has become abundantly clear over the last decade. However, the cost of producing fermentable sugars from biomass hydrolyzate using existing … more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: University, Purdue
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Evaluation of In-Situ Iron Reactive Barriers at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Site

Description: In November 1997, a permeable iron reactive barrier trench was installed at the S-3 Ponds Pathway 2 Site located at the Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The overall goal of the project is to evaluate the ability of permeable reactive barrier technology to remove uranium, nitrate, and other inorganic contaminants in groundwater and to assess impacts of biogeochemical interactions on long-term performance of the treatment system. Zero-valent iron (Fe0) was used as the reactive medium, which crea… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Watson, D. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Personal Fuel Appliance

Description: This report summarizes the progress made in Phase I of Stuart's Personal Fueling Appliance Program. Phase I concluded in March 2002 with the demonstration and deployment of several working models. As proposed in the original project plan, working models of the PFA were built to prove feasibility and technically market the concept. Future follow up phases of the project, Phase II and III, will take the concept through prototyping development to pre-production of commercially viable product. The … more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Energy, Stuart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quantum interferometry in rho{sup 0} production in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions

Description: In {rho}{sup 0} photoproduction in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions, either ion can be the photon emitter or the target. The two possibilities are indistinguishable, and they should be able to interfere, reducing {rho}{sup 0} production at low transverse momentum, p{sub T} < {h_bar}/<b>, where <b> is the median impact parameter. The two {rho}{sup 0} production points are separated by <b> {approx} 18-46 fm, while the {rho}{sup 0} decay before travelling 1 fm. The two de… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Klein, Spencer R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Questions and Answers Regarding Actions to Take When Ending Shelter-in-Place

Description: Shelter-in-place has found increasing acceptance as an effective protective action option for communities participating in the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program. Studies have confirmed that it can provide optimum protection under certain accident conditions. However, emergency managers and planners, as well as the public, continue to be troubled by the need to end sheltering when the plume has passed in order to avoid sustained exposure to the small amount of agent that has pene… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: Shumpert, B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reliability of Federal Procurement Data

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Reliable information is critical to informed decision making and to oversight of the procurement system. The Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) has been the federal government's central database of information on federal procurement actions since 1978. Congress and executive branch agencies rely on FPDS to assess the impact that governmentwide acquisition policies and processes are having on the system gene… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Search for major genes with progeny test data to accelerate the development of genetically superior loblolly pine

Description: This research project is to develop a novel approach that fully utilized the current breeding materials and genetic test information available from the NCSU-Industry Cooperative Tree Improvement Program to identify major genes that are segregating for growth and disease resistance in loblolly pine. If major genes can be identified in the existing breeding population, they can be utilized directly in the conventional loblolly pine breeding program. With the putative genotypes of parents identifi… more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: NCSU
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TMCC WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT

Description: North Dakota has an outstanding resource--providing more available wind for development than any other state. According to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) studies, North Dakota alone has enough energy from good wind areas, those of wind power Class 4 and higher, to supply 36% of the 1990 electricity consumption of the entire lower 48 states. At present, no more than a handful of wind turbines in the 60- to 100-kilowatt (kW) range are operating in the state. The first two utility-scale turbines … more
Date: December 30, 2003
Creator: College, Turtle Mountain Community
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of Improved Catalysts for the Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides with Hydrocarbons

Description: Significant work has been done by the investigators on the cerium oxide-copper oxide based sorbent/catalysts for the combined removal of sulfur and nitrogen oxides from the flue gases of stationary sources. Evaluation of these sorbents as catalysts for the selective reduction of NO{sub x} gave promising results with methane. Since the replacement of ammonia by methane is commercially very attractive, in this project, the effect of promoters on the activity and selectivity of copper oxide/cerium… more
Date: November 30, 2003
Creator: Akyurtlu, Ates & Akyurtlu, Jale F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Exploring HPSS bandwidth - NERSC production experience

Description: We have developed tools to help us analyze transfer logs from a production High Performance Storage System (HPSS) system at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). These tools provide graphical displays of data transfer performance over relatively short (24 hour or less) time spans.
Date: November 30, 2003
Creator: Holmes, Harvard H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Field verification program for small wind turbines

Description: In 1999 Windward Engineering (Windward) was awarded a Cooperative Agreement under the Field Verification Program with the Department of Energy (DOE) to install two Whisper H40 wind turbines, one at the NREL National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) and one at a test site near Spanish Fork, Utah. After installation, the turbine at the NWTC was to be operated, maintained, and monitored by NREL while the turbine in Spanish Fork was to be administered by Windward. Under this award DOE and Windward def… more
Date: November 30, 2003
Creator: Windward Engineering, LLC
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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