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Energy savings by means of fuel cell electrodes in electro-chemical industries. Annual report for August 1, 1978-July 31, 1979

Description: The objectives of the subject program are: to evaluate experimentally, on a laboratory scale, energy and cost savings in electrowinning of zinc by substituting, for the conventional lead anode, a Prototech proprietary hydrogen anode operating on pure and impure feeds; to similarly evaluate experimentally, again on a laboratory scale, voltage, and thus energy savings in chlor-alkali membrane cells by substituting, for the conventional steel cathode, a Prototech proprietary air cathode; to consul… more
Date: October 31, 1979
Creator: Allen, R. J.; Juda, W.; Lindstrom, R. W. & Petrow, H. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oregon State University TRIGA Reactor annual report

Description: The use of the Oregon State University TRIGA Reactor during the year ending June 30, 1979, is summarized. Environmental and radiation protection data related to reactor operation and effluents are included.
Date: August 31, 1979
Creator: Anderson, T. V.; Johnson, A. G.; Bennett, S. L. & Ringle, J. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Catalytic conversion of oxygenated compounds to low molecular weight olefins. Progress report, January 1-July 31, 1979. [Methanol from synthesis gas from coal gasification]

Description: An attractive route for producing ethylene and propylene from coal is to gasify the coal to produce synthesis gas, convert the synthesis gas to methanol, and then convert methanol to the olefins. During this report period the reactions of methanol over chabazite ion exchanged with rare earth chlorides have been studied at reciprocal liquid hourly space velocities of 1.5 to 15, at temperatures of 259, 271, 304, 352, and 427/sup 0/C, and at pressure 2.7 atm. At 259 and 271/sup 0/C the principle p… more
Date: July 31, 1979
Creator: Anthony, R. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Feasibility study for anaerobic digestion of agricultural crop residues. Dynatech report No. 1935

Description: The objective of this study was to provide cost estimates for the pretreatment/digestion of crop residues to fuel gas. A review of agricultural statistics indicated that the crop residues wheat straw, corn stover, and rice straw are available in sufficient quantity to provide meaningful supplies of gas. Engineering economic analyses were performed for digestion of wheat straw, corn stover, and rice straw for small farm-, cooperative-, and industrial scales. The small farm scale processed the re… more
Date: July 31, 1979
Creator: Ashare, E.; Buivid, M. G. & Wilson, E. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Western Gas Sands Project. Quarterly Basin Activities Report

Description: This report is a summation of 3 months' drilling and testing activities in the four primary WGSP study areas: Greater Green River Basin, Northern Great Plains Province, Piceance Basin, and Uinta Basin. The monitoring of basin activities is part of resource assessment. (DLC)
Date: January 31, 1979
Creator: Atkinson, C H
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Linear-motor drives for machine tools

Description: Conventional techniques to position moving platforms on precision machines have relied heavily on mechanical drives such as the ball-nut/lead-screw system. Unfortunately, as positioning tolerances become more and more demanding, the cyclic errors-inherent even in precision gear drives-contribute an excessive amount of positioning uncertainty. The linear-motor drive system is one approach to provide a smooth, accurate, vibration-free method for locating a moving platform. Some existing uses of l… more
Date: December 31, 1979
Creator: Barkman, W.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Phase 2 of the Array Automated Assembly Task for the Low Cost Solar Array Project. Quarterly report 5, October 1-December 31, 1978

Description: Various top contact metal systems have been studied. Only Ti-Pd-Cu approaches baseline (Ti-Pd-Ag) quality, but this system shows a lack of long-term stability. Aluminum back surface field structures have been fabricated and thicknesses of p/sup +/ material of up to 7.0 microns have been achieved with open circuit voltages of 0.59V. A general purpose ultrasonic welder has been purchased and tests using various metal foils are under way. During fabrication of the demonstration module, several cel… more
Date: January 31, 1979
Creator: Campbell, R. B.; Page, D. J.; Rai-Choudhury, P.; Seman, E. J.; Hanes, M. H.; Rohatgi, A. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Silicon on ceramic process. Silicon sheet growth for Large-Area Silicon Sheet Task of the Low-Cost Solar Array Project. Annual report No. 4, September 29, 1978-September 30, 1979

Description: The objective of this research program is to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of producing solar-cell-quality sheet silicon by coating one surface of carbonized ceramic substrates with a thin layer of large-grain polycrystalline silicon from the melt. The effort is divided into several areas of investigation in order to most efficiently meet the goals of the program. These areas include: (1) dip-coating; (2) continuous coating; (3) material characterization; (4) cell fabricati… more
Date: October 31, 1979
Creator: Chapman, P W; Zook, J D; Heaps, J D; Koepke, B; Grung, B L & Schuldt, S B
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Silicon-on ceramic process. Silicon sheet growth and device development for the large-area silicon sheet and cell development tasks of the low-cost solar array project. Quarterly report No. 12, April 2, 1979-June 29, 1979

Description: The objective of this research program is to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of producing solar-cell-quality sheet silicon. We plan to do this by coating one surface of carbonized ceramic substrates with a thin layer of large-grain polycrystalline silicon from the melt. During the quarter, significant progress was demonstrated in several areas: (1) a 10-cm/sup 2/ cell having 9.9 percent conversion efficiency (AM1, AR) was fabricated; (2) the Honeywall-sponsored SCIM coating d… more
Date: July 31, 1979
Creator: Chapman, P.W.; Zook, J.D.; Heaps, J.D.; Grung, B.L.; Koepke, B. & Schuldt, S.B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Program RECENT (version 79-1): reconstruction of energy-dependent neutron cross sections from resonance parameters in the ENDF/B format. [In FORTRAN IV for CDC-7600 and Cray-1]

Description: Program RECENT reconstructs energy-dependent neutron total, elastic, capture, and fission cross sections from a combination of resonance parameters and tabulated background cross sections in the ENDF/B format. Entire evaluations, not just cross sections, are written to the result file, which is in ENDF/B format. The output includes the original resonance parameters in a form that can be used in Doppler broadening and self-shielding calculations. A listing of the source deck is available on requ… more
Date: October 31, 1979
Creator: Cullen, D.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Program SIGMA1 (version 79-1): Doppler broaden evaluated cross sections in the evaluated nuclear data file/version B (ENDF/B) format

Description: Program SIGMA1 Doppler-broadens evaluated cross sections in the ENDF/B format. The program requires that input cross sections be tabulated as linearly interpolable functions of energy in ENDF/B File 3; broadened cross sections, in this same form, replace the original values in the output tape. This report describes the methods used in the code and serves as a user's guide. A listing of the source deck is available on request.
Date: October 31, 1979
Creator: Cullen, D.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tester status report: April-June 1979

Description: This report details tester status and activities in support of testing of timers, actuators, detonators, firing sets, transducers, isolators, and pyrospacers for the period of April through June 1979.
Date: August 31, 1979
Creator: Draut, C.F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance analyses of Elmo Bumpy Torus plasmas and plasma support systems

Description: The development and applcation of the OASIS Code (Operational Analysis of ELMO Bumpy Torus Support and Ignition Systems) for the study of EBT device and plasma performance are presented. The code performs a time-independent, zero-dimensional self-consistent calculation of plasma and plasmasupport systems parameters for the physics and engineering of EBT devices. The features of OASIS modeling for the EBT plasma include: (1) particle balance of the bulk toroidal and electron ring plasma componen… more
Date: December 31, 1979
Creator: Fenstermacher, M. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fast-Mixed Spectrum Reactor Interim Report Initial Feasibility Study.

Description: The report summarizes the results of an initial four-month feasibility study of the Fast-Mixed Spectrum Reactor (FMSR). Reactor physics, fuel cycle, and thermal-hydraulic analyses were performed on a reference design. These results when coupled to a fuel and materials evaluation performed in cooperation with the Argonne National laboratory indicate that the FMSR is feasible provided the fuels, cladding, and subassembly ducts can survive a peak fuel burnup of 15 to 20 atom percent heavy metal an… more
Date: January 31, 1979
Creator: Fischer, G. J. & Cerbone, R. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reaction studies of hot silicon and germanium radicals. Progress report, September 1, 1978-August 31, 1979

Description: The experimental approach to attaining the goals of this research program is briefly outlined and the progress made in the last year is reviewed in sections entitled: (a) Primary steps in the reaction of recoiling silicon and germanium atoms and the identification of reactive intermediates; (b) Thermally induced silylene and germylene reactions; (c) Silicon free radical chemistry; (d) The role of ionic reactions in the chemistry of recoiling silicon atoms.
Date: August 31, 1979
Creator: Gaspar, P. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Example of Monte Carlo analysis applied to repository siting

Description: This report contains a detailed description of a Monte Carlo analysis of a hypothetical nuclear waste repository performed for the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory as part of their mock siting exercise. Field measurements had been used to construct a hydrology model of the geologic medium surrounding a nuclear waste repository, complete with specified uncertainties. The Monte Carlo analysis has been used to ascertaln the uncertainty in the radioactive release from the repository given the uncertai… more
Date: August 31, 1979
Creator: Giuffre, M.S. & Kaplan, M.F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Experimental and theoretical plasma physics program]. Technical progress in FY 1979

Description: This report summarizes recent technical progress in the major areas of study. Because a considerable variety of work has been performed this year they authors first give brief synopses of individual research projects categorizing them as to their relevance to the general areas of plasma stability analyses, plasma heating or basic plasma physics. Next, they discuss these projects as they relate to and support the various DOE experimental programs. The DOE experimental programs are: (1) toroidal … more
Date: December 31, 1979
Creator: Griem, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of solar energy to industrial drying of soybeans: Phase III, performance evaluation. Final report

Description: A 15-month performance evaluation was conducted on a solar system designed and constructed to augment the industrial drying of soybeans at the Gold Kist, Inc., extraction plant in Decatur, Alabama. The plant employs three oil-fired, continuous-flow dryers of 3,000 bu/hr each. The solar system consists of 672 Solaron air collectors that temper the airflow into the existing dryers. Since the requirement for energy exceeds the peak solar system capacity, no storage is provided. The interface with … more
Date: October 31, 1979
Creator: Hall, B. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Petrology of tuff units from the J-13 drill site, Jackass Flats, Nevada

Description: The J-13 drill hole, located in Jackass Flats, Nevada Test Site, has penetrated 125 m of alluvium and 932 m of tuff. Most of the tuff deposits consist of welded tuffs; glass phases in the tuffs have been replaced by authigenic minerals, mainly K-feldspar, silica, and zeolites. The zonation of authigenic minerals, with depth, indictes that alteration of glass phases and filling of vugs occurred during welding and compaction of tuff units soon after deposition and by interaction with groundwater.… more
Date: December 31, 1979
Creator: Heiken, G. H. & Bevier, M. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of superior liquid coolants CCF-1. Final technical report, 1 September 1978-31 December 1979

Description: A comprehensive study of four representative commercially available heat transfer fluids being used in solar systems was undertaken to establish the most cost effective fluid over the life of the system. Criteria for making the assessment were the relative results of fluid toxicity tests, fire hazards tests, collector stagnation tests, and physical property comparison data of various fluids. The specific fluids evaluated were Dow Corning SylthermTM 444 silicone, Uniroyal PAO-LV polyalphaolefin … more
Date: December 31, 1979
Creator: Hodges, R M
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flux pinning and flux flow studies in superconductors using flux flow noise techniques. Progress report, April 1-December 30, 1979

Description: Flux flow noise power spectra were investigated, and information obtained through such spectra is applied to describe flux flow and pinning in situations where volume pinning force data is also available. In one case, the application of noise data to PB/sub 80/In/sub 20/ samples after recovery and after high temperature annealing is discussed. This work is consistent with a recent model for flux flow noise generation. In the second case we discuss experiments designed to change the fluxoid tran… more
Date: December 31, 1979
Creator: Joiner, W.C.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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