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[TXSSAR Officer Reports: October 2008]

Description: Officer Reports for the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution October 2008 Board of Managers meeting.
Date: October 2008
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[TXSSAR Committee Reports: October 2008]

Description: Committee Reports for the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution October 2008 Board of Managers meeting.
Date: October 2008
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Statistics for the Relative Detectability of Chemicals in Weak Gaseous Plumes in LWIR Hyperspectral Imagery

Description: The detection and identification of weak gaseous plumes using thermal imaging data is complicated by many factors. These include variability due to atmosphere, ground and plume temperature, and background clutter. This paper presents an analysis of one formulation of the physics-based model that describes the at-sensor observed radiance. The motivating question for the analyses performed in this paper is as follows. Given a set of backgrounds, is there a way to predict the background over which… more
Date: October 30, 2008
Creator: Metoyer, Candace N.; Walsh, Stephen J.; Tardiff, Mark F. & Chilton, Lawrence
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Selected Isotopes for Optimized Fuel Assembly Tags

Description: In support of our ongoing signatures project we present information on 3 isotopes selected for possible application in optimized tags that could be applied to fuel assemblies to provide an objective measure of burnup. 1. Important factors for an optimized tag are compatibility with the reactor environment (corrosion resistance), low radioactive activation, at least 2 stable isotopes, moderate neutron absorption cross-section, which gives significant changes in isotope ratios over typical fuel a… more
Date: October 1, 2008
Creator: Gerlach, David C.; Mitchell, Mark R.; Reid, Bruce D.; Gesh, Christopher J. & Hurley, David E.
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Emissions, Monitoring, and Control of Mercury from Subbituminous Coal-Fired Power Plants - Phase II

Description: Western Research Institute (WRI), in conjunction with Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC), has teamed with Clean Air Engineering of Pittsburgh PA to conduct a mercury monitoring program at the WEFC Hugo plant in Oklahoma. Sponsored by US Department of Energy Cooperative Agreement DE-FC-26-98FT40323, the program included the following members of the Subbituminous Energy Coalition (SEC) as co-sponsors: Missouri Basin Power Project; DTE Energy; Entergy; Grand River Dam Authority; and Nebra… more
Date: October 31, 2008
Creator: Bland, Alan; Newcomer, Jesse; Kephart, Allen; Schmidt, Volker & Butcher, Gerald
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Milford Wind Corridor Project Millard and Beaver Counties, Utah

Description: A report which analyses the environmental consequences of the Milford Wind Corridor Project. The information inside the paper assists the Bureau of Land Management in evaluating whether to grant a right-of-way (ROW) on public lands.
Date: October 15, 2008
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program climate research facility operations quarterly report July 1 - September 30, 2008.

Description: Individual raw data streams from instrumentation at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Climate Research Facility (ACRF) fixed and mobile sites are collected and sent to the Data Management Facility (DMF) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for processing in near real-time. Raw and processed data are then sent daily to the ACRF Archive, where they are made available to users. For each instrument, we calculate the ratio of the actual number of data records received da… more
Date: October 8, 2008
Creator: Sisterson, D. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling for High Rate Pulverized Coal Injection (PCI) into the Blast Furnace

Description: Pulverized coal injection (PCI) into the blast furnace (BF) has been recognized as an effective way to decrease the coke and total energy consumption along with minimization of environmental impacts. However, increasing the amount of coal injected into the BF is currently limited by the lack of knowledge of some issues related to the process. It is therefore important to understand the complex physical and chemical phenomena in the PCI process. Due to the difficulty in attaining trus BF measure… more
Date: October 15, 2008
Creator: Zhou, Dr. Chenn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Building America Best Practices Series: Guide to Determining Climate Regions by County

Description: This document describes the eight climate region designations used by the US Department of Energy Building America Program. In addition to describing the climate zones, the document includes a complete list of every county in the United States and their climate region designations. The county lists are grouped by state. The doucment is intended to assist builders to easily identify what climate region they are building in and therefore which climate-specific Building America best practices guid… more
Date: October 1, 2008
Creator: Gilbride, Theresa L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Modelin the Transport and Chemical Evolution of Onshore and Offshore Emissions and Their Impact on Local and Regional Air Quality Using a Variable-Grid-Resolution Air Quality Model

Description: The overall objective of this research project was to develop an innovative modeling technique to adequately model the offshore/onshore transport of pollutants. The variable-grid modeling approach that was developed alleviates many of the shortcomings of the traditionally used nested regular-grid modeling approach, in particular related to biases near boundaries and the excessive computational requirements when using nested grids. The Gulf of Mexico region contiguous to the Houston-Galveston ar… more
Date: October 16, 2008
Creator: Hanna, Adel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Integrity of ACSR Full Tension Single-Stage Splice Connector at Higher Operation Temperature

Description: Due to increases in power demand and limited investment in new infrastructure, existing overhead power transmission lines often need to operate at temperatures higher than those used for the original design criteria. This has led to the accelerated aging and degradation of splice connectors. It is manifested by the formation of hot-spots that have been revealed by infrared imaging during inspection. The implications of connector aging is two-fold: (1) significant increases in resistivity of the… more
Date: October 1, 2008
Creator: Wang, Jy-An John; Lara-Curzio, Edgar & King, Thomas J., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Interim Letter Report - Verification Survey of 19 Grids in the Lester Flat Area, David Witherspoon Inc. 1630 Site Knoxville, Tennessee

Description: Perform verification surveys of 19 available grids located in the Lester Flat Area at the Davod Witherspoon Site. The survey grids included E11, E12, E13, F11, F12, F13, F14, F15, G15, G16, G17, H16, H17, H18, X16, X17, X18, K16, and J16.
Date: October 17, 2008
Creator: Weaver, P. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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COMPENDIUM: SURVEYS EVALUATING KNOWLEDGE AND OPINIONS CONCERNING HYDROGEN AND FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGIES

Description: This compendium updates a 2003 literature review of surveys of knowledge and opinions of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Its purpose is to ensure that results of comparable surveys are considered in surveys conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Over twice as many studies related to the DOE survey have been published since 2003 than prior to that date. The fact that there have been significantly more studies implies that there have been further demonstration projects and/or incr… more
Date: October 1, 2008
Creator: Truett, Lorena Faith; Cooper, Christy & Schmoyer, Richard L
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Human performance modeling for system of systems analytics.

Description: A Laboratory-Directed Research and Development project was initiated in 2005 to investigate Human Performance Modeling in a System of Systems analytic environment. SAND2006-6569 and SAND2006-7911 document interim results from this effort; this report documents the final results. The problem is difficult because of the number of humans involved in a System of Systems environment and the generally poorly defined nature of the tasks that each human must perform. A two-pronged strategy was followed… more
Date: October 1, 2008
Creator: Dixon, Kevin R.; Lawton, Craig R.; Basilico, Justin Derrick; Longsine, Dennis E. (INTERA, Inc., Austin, TX); Forsythe, James Chris; Gauthier, John Henry et al.
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Grays River Watershed Restoration Status Report 2007, May 1, 2007 - October 30, 2008.

Description: The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) Project 2003-013-00, 'Grays River Watershed Restoration', began in FY04 and continues into FY09. This status report is intended to summarize accomplishments during the period 1 May 2007 through 30 October 2008. Accomplishments are summarized by Work Elements, as detailed in the Statement of Work (see BPA's project management database PISCES). The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is collaborating with the Columbia River Estuary Task Force (CR… more
Date: October 20, 2008
Creator: Hanrahan, Tim
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Physical Sciences Facility Air Emission Control Equivalency Evaluation

Description: This document presents the adequacy evaluation for the application of technology standards during design, fabrication, installation and testing of radioactive air exhaust systems at the Physical Sciences Facility (PSF), located on the Horn Rapids Triangle north of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) complex. The analysis specifically covers the exhaust portion of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems associated with emission units EP-3410-01-S, EP-3420-01-S a… more
Date: October 17, 2008
Creator: Brown, David M. & Belew, Shan T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Industrial Compositional Streamline Simulation for Efficient and Accurate Prediction of Gas Injection and WAG Processes

Description: Gas-injection processes are widely and increasingly used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). In the United States, for example, EOR production by gas injection accounts for approximately 45% of total EOR production and has tripled since 1986. The understanding of the multiphase, multicomponent flow taking place in any displacement process is essential for successful design of gas-injection projects. Due to complex reservoir geometry, reservoir fluid properties and phase behavior, the design of acc… more
Date: October 31, 2008
Creator: Gerritsen, Margot
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Influence of Manufacturing Processes on the Performance of Phantom Lungs

Description: Chest counting is an important tool for estimating the radiation dose to individuals who have inhaled radioactive materials. Chest counting systems are calibrated by counting the activity in the lungs of phantoms where the activity in the phantom lungs is known. In the United States a commonly used calibration phantom was developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and is referred to as the Livermore Torso Phantom. An important feature of this phantom is that the phantom lungs can b… more
Date: October 1, 2008
Creator: Traub, Richard J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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3-D Microprobe Metrology

Description: This report documents the results of a project undertaken to develop an ultra-high-accuracy measurement capability, which is necessary to address a rising trend toward miniaturized mechanical products exhibiting dramatically reduced product tolerances. A significant improvement in measurement capability is therefore required to insure that a 4:1 ratio can be maintained between product tolerances and measurement uncertainty.
Date: October 14, 2008
Creator: Swallow, Kevin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Lightning Arrestor Connectors Production Readiness

Description: The Lightning Arrestor Connector (LAC), part “M”, presented opportunities to improve the processes used to fabricate LACs. The A## LACs were the first production LACs produced at the KCP, after the product was transferred from Pinnellas. The new LAC relied on the lessons learned from the A## LACs; however, additional improvements were needed to meet the required budget, yield, and schedule requirements. Improvement projects completed since 2001 include Hermetic Connector Sealing Improvement, Co… more
Date: October 20, 2008
Creator: Marten, Steve; Linder, Kim; Emmons, Jim; Gomez, Antonio; Hasam, Dawud & Maurer, Michelle
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MI Gap Clearing Kicker Magnet Design Review

Description: The kicker system requirements were originally conceived for the NOvA project. NOvA is a neutrino experiment located in Minnesota. To achieve the desired neutrino flux several upgrades are required to the accelerator complex. The Recycler will be used as a proton pre-injector for the Main Injector (MI). As the Recycler is the same size as the MI, it is possible to do a single turn fill ({approx}11 {micro}sec), minimizing the proton injection time in the MI cycle and maximizing the protons on ta… more
Date: October 1, 2008
Creator: Jensen, Chris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Benefits and technological challenges in the implementation of TiO2-based ultraviolet photocatalytic oxidation (UVPCO) air cleaners

Description: Heating, ventilating, and cooling classrooms in California consume substantial electrical energy. Indoor air quality (IAQ) in classrooms affects student health and performance. In addition to airborne pollutants that are emitted directly by indoor sources and those generated outdoors, secondary pollutants can be formed indoors by chemical reaction of ozone with other chemicals and materials. Filters are used in nearly all classroom heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems to mai… more
Date: October 1, 2008
Creator: Hodgson, Al; Destaillats, Hugo; Hotchi, Toshifumi & Fisk, William J.
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