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Altitude Performance of a Turbojet Engine Using Pentaborane Fuel

Description: Memorandum presenting a turbojet engine with a two-stage turbine operated with pentaborane fuel continuously for 11.5 minutes at a simulated altitude of 55,000 feet at a flight Mach number of 0.8. The engine incorporated an NACA combustor designed specifically for use with pentaborane fuel. Results regarding oxide formation and deposition, engine operating point, effect of oxide deposits on component performance, effect of oxide deposition on overall performance, and some operational comments a… more
Date: May 20, 1957
Creator: Sivo, Joseph N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Altitude performance of a turbojet engine using pentaborane fuel

Description: From Summary: "The primary objectives of the investigation reported herein were to determine the effect of this new combuster design on boric oxide deposition on engine parts and to determine the effect of boric oxide on the performance of multistage turbine. Pentaborance fuel (approx. 130 lb) was used in the engine performance evaluation reported herein. The data presented herein show the engine component and over-all performance deterioration with operation on pentaborane fuel".
Date: May 20, 1957
Creator: Sivo, Joseph N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capillary Flowmeter

Description: The HRT leak detector system consists of four headers each of which are connected on one side to a common supply of pressurized water and on the other side by individual tubing to the ring grooves of approximately twenty flanges. There are two methods of detecting the loss of water that are particularly applicable to the HRT: (1) By the loss of pressure in a constant volume system; (2) By the measurement of flow from a constant pressure system. It was determined to investigate the second method… more
Date: February 20, 1957
Creator: Hise, E. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Critical-Assembly Experiments on a Reflector Control System for a Boiling Reactor

Description: Research directed toward an evaluation of a reflector control scheme for a small boiling heterogeneous reactor is reported. The control method uses the ambient reactor steam pressure to adjust the height of a radial water reflector. Critical-assembly experiments were conducted to measure the reflector worth and the effect of nonhomogeneous voids. The critical-assembly core approximated a right circular cylinder 24 in. high and 21 in. in diameter. The core was made up of polyethylene strips to s… more
Date: December 20, 1957
Creator: Dingee, David A.; Hogan, William S.; Wilson, Robert G.; Ballowe, William C.; Jankowski, Francis J. & Chastain, Joel W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A critical review of alternate methods of Purex solvent treatment

Description: This document is a HAPO report dated September 20, 1957. At the time of this report, there had been many different methods suggested for improving the Purex organic recovery system. Some of these suggestions been tried in the plant and others had not. Information concerning this system and, particularly, methods for improving it were wide spread. At the time of this report was no immediate source of information available on the proposed and investigated methods for improving the Purex solvent r… more
Date: September 20, 1957
Creator: Gordon, N. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design and economic study of hot off-gas storage system

Description: From introduction: "One of the most important factors which must be considered in the chemical processing of spent fuel elements is the safe and economic disposal of gaseous radioactive fission product wastes given off in the fuel element dissolution operation. For this reason work is underway at ORNL to study the various gas disposal methods that might be used to handle the radioactive fission product gases, krypton, xenon, and iodine."
Date: December 20, 1957
Creator: Johnson, C. S. & Carter, T. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Drying of Charcoal Used for Adsorption of Gaseous Fission Products from Homogeneous Reactors

Description: In homogeneous nuclear reactors significant quantities of radioactive inert gaseous fission products must be separated from the fuel solution for disposal. The present disposal scheme, which is employed on the HRT, is to pass the mixture of fission product gases and oxygen through a charcoal adsorption bed. the oxygen passes through the bed relatively un-adsorbed, but the radioactive inert gases are adsorbed and are displaced from the bed bed very slowly giving the gases a much greater residenc… more
Date: December 20, 1957
Creator: Funderburg, J. M. & Moss, L. I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of vertical location of wing and horizontal tail on the aerodynamic characteristics in pitch at Mach numbers from 0.60 to 1.40 of an airplane configuration with an unswept wing

Description: Report presenting an experimental investigation to determine the effects of vertical location of an unswept wing and horizontal tail on the aerodynamic characteristics in pitch of a wing-body-tail combination. The wings had an aspect ratio of 3.09, a taper ratio of 0.39, the quarter-chord line swept back 11.5 degrees, and biconvex sections.
Date: November 20, 1957
Creator: Stivers, Louis S., Jr. & Lippmann, Garth W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Equation of State and Heat Content of Uranium

Description: Report issued by the APDA regarting studies conducted on the state of uranium at different temperature and pressure. Calculations are presented for the differing pressures of uranium; it includes tables.
Date: February 20, 1957
Creator: Brout, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experimental lift of low-aspect-ratio triangular wings at large angles of attack and supersonic speeds

Description: Report presenting testing of three wings of different aspect ratios at a range of angles of attack to provide information on the effects of large angles of attack on the lift and normal force on triangular wings in a specific Mach number range. Results regarding the comparisons with data from semispan tests, prediction of lift and normal force and comparison with the experiment, and maximum lift coefficient are provided.
Date: November 20, 1957
Creator: Hill, William A., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flight data pertinent to buffeting and maximum normal-force coefficient of the Douglas X-3 research airplane

Description: Report presenting the X-3 airplane, which has a straight 4.5-percent-thick wing of modified hexagonal section, which has been flown to maximum wing normal-force coefficients in the Mach number range from 0.7 to 1.1 at an average altitude of 30,000 feet. Measurements were made of airplane and wing-panel maximum normal-force coefficients and of some buffeting characteristics.
Date: November 20, 1957
Creator: Baker, Thomas F.; Martin, James A. & Scott, Betty J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flowsheet No. 1: Cesium isolation and packaging

Description: An engineering flowsheet has been prepared for the conversion of an aqueous slurry of cesium-zinc-ferrocyanide into a dry cesium chloride product by the calcination process. Flowsheet No. 1 defines a six-step batch-type calcination operation for processing the slurry into a dry powder for offsite shipment in bulk containers. Some of the advantages to this process are as follows: Product losses are expected to be small, estimated to be less than 0.03 percent; the equipment required to process a … more
Date: May 20, 1957
Creator: Wirta, R. W. & Koski, O. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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