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Powerplant Productivity Improvement Study: historic performance of Illinois investor-owned electrical-generating units. Final report, Project 2, Task 1

Description: In this task the historical performance of powerplants in Illinois was examined and the opportunities for improved powerplant productivity in Illinois was determined. The four utilities considered were the major investor-owned electric generating utilities in Illinois, i.e., Central Illinois Light Co., (CILCO), Central Illinois Public Service (CIPS), Commonwealth Edison (CECO), and Illinois Power (IP). The major findings are: (1) for evaluation purposes, the equivalent availability was judged t… more
Date: May 4, 1979
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PG and E Geysers Retrofit Project: Milestone Report No. 1

Description: Rogers Engineering was contracted to determine the technical feasibility and cost/benefit ratios for Pacific Gas and Electric Company to replace the iron-catalyst/peroxide/ caustic systems with surface condensers and Stretford H{sub 2}S abatement systems for Units 1 through 12 at the Geysers. This Milestone No.1 Report is a 6 week progress report and will not have the cost benefit analyses which is planned for in the Final Report. This report will focus only on Units 1 and-3, which are thought … more
Date: June 4, 1979
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Limitations to the use of two-dimensional thermal modeling of a nuclear waste repository

Description: Thermal modeling of a nuclear waste repository is basic to most waste management predictive models. It is important that the modeling techniques accurately determine the time-dependent temperature distribution of the waste emplacement media. Recent modeling studies show that the time-dependent temperature distribution can be accurately modeled in the far-field using a 2-dimensional (2-D) planar numerical model; however, the near-field cannot be modeled accurately enough by either 2-D axisymmetr… more
Date: January 4, 1979
Creator: Davis, B.W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Solar total energy systems (STES) simulation program user's guide

Description: A computer program which simulates the operations of a STES facility and evaluates its annualized costs and energy displacement is described. The program contains a dynamic model which simulates the interaction of the insolation and electrical and thermal demands on an hourly basis. The program is flexible enough to allow thousands of different configurations to be simulated under a wide variety of conditions. Moreover, with this program, the sizes of the STES components can be adjusted to maxi… more
Date: January 4, 1979
Creator: Timmer, B.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental impact assessment for the Nova projects (Building 391 complex)

Description: The environmental impact assessment of the Nova projects (Building 391 Complex) describes (1) the proposed actions, (2) the existing environment in and around the Livermore Valley, and (3) the potential environmental impacts from the construction and operation of these facilities. It shows that the proposed action does not conflict with any Federal, State, Regional, or Local Plans and Programs. Possible alternatives to the proposed action are discussed. However, it is concluded that the propose… more
Date: June 4, 1979
Creator: Odell, B.N.
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STES applications model (SAM) user's guide

Description: This document is a user's guide for the STES Applications Model (SAM) which can be used to identify industrial applications which are good candidates for Solar Total Energy Systems (STES). SAM computes and ranks equivalent cost ratio and calculates fuel displacement potential by geographic location (50 states) and by industrial application (140 three digit SIC categories) for seven time periods (from 1985 to 2015 in five year increments). SAM is written in FORTRAN for the FTN compiler on the CD… more
Date: January 4, 1979
Creator: Timmer, A.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Enhanced coupling and decoupling of underground nuclear explosions

Description: The seismic coupling efficiency of nuclear explosions was studied in granite by means of computer calculations as a function of scaled explosion source radius. The scaled source radii were varied from 0.1 m/kt/sup 1/3/ (point source) to 20 m/kt/sup 1/3/ (representing a nearly full decoupling cavity). It was found that seismic coupling efficiency is at a maximum when the scaled source radius is approximately 2 m/kt/sup 1/3/. The primary cause of this maximum in seismic wave source strength is th… more
Date: September 4, 1979
Creator: Terhune, R. W.; Snell, C. M. & Rodean, H. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Market Penetration Model (MPM) user's guide

Description: This document describes a computer program which calculates the most probable Solar Total Energy System (STES) market penetration and forecasts of energy displacement by geographic location (50 states) and by industrial application (140 industries) for seven time periods (from 1985 to 2015 in five year increments). The program is written in Fortran for the FTN compiler on The Aerospace Corporation's CDC 7600 computer. It consists of approximately 750 cards, including comments. This document con… more
Date: January 4, 1979
Creator: Timmer, B.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of reservoir properties in a portion of the Salton Sea Geothermal Field

Description: A series of pressure-transient tests was performed using several geothermal wells in the southwestern portion of the Salton Sea Geothermal Field in the Imperial Valley, California. The objective of the tests was to evaluate the permeability and storage capacity of the geothermal reservoir. Measurement of pressure transients in the corrosive, high-temperature environment of geothermal wells was made possible by modifying commercially available instrumentation and fabrication of pressure-sensing … more
Date: April 4, 1979
Creator: Morse, John G. & Stone, Randolph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Optimization of distribution transformer efficiency characteristics. Final report

Description: A method for distribution transformer loss evaluation was derived. The total levelized annual cost method was used and was extended to account properly for conditions of energy cost inflation, peak load growth, and transformer changeout during the evaluation period. The loss costs included were the no-load and load power losses, no-load and load reactive losses, and the energy cost of regulation. The demand and energy components of loss costs were treated separately to account correctly for the… more
Date: December 4, 1979
Creator: Braunstein, H.
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Microwave heating of hot, overdense plasmas

Description: Calculations were made of the heating of hot (approx. 5 keV), overdense (10/sup 8/ critical density) deuterium plasmas by 1 cm microwaves with an incident power of 5 x 10/sup 16/ watts/cm/sup 2/. Dependence of the heating rate on the plasma temperature and the drift velocity of the surface was also studied. The power absorption is found to vary approximately as T/sup 1/2/.
Date: December 4, 1979
Creator: Eppley, K. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Imperial Valley environmental project: air quality assessment

Description: The potential impact on air quality of geothermal development in California's Imperial Valley is assessed. The assessment is based on the predictions of numerical atmospheric transport models. Emission rates derived from analyses of the composition of geothermal fluids in the region and meteorological data taken at six locations in the valley over a 1-yr period were used as input to the models. Scenarios based on 3000 MW, 2000 MW, 500 MW, and 100 MW of power production are considered. Hydrogen … more
Date: April 4, 1979
Creator: Ermak, D. L.; Nyholm, R. A. & Gudiksen, P. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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