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System design package for solar heating and cooling system installed at Akron, Ohio (open access)

System design package for solar heating and cooling system installed at Akron, Ohio

This package contains information used to evaluate the design of Solaron's solar heating, cooling, and domestic hot water system. A conventional heat pump provides summer cooling and back-up heating (when solar energy is not available). Included in the package are such items as the design data brochure, system performance specification, system hazard analysis, spare parts list, and detailed design drawings. A Solaron solar system is installed in a single-family dwelling at Akron, Ohio, and at Duffield, Virginia.
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International data collection and analysis. Task 1 (open access)

International data collection and analysis. Task 1

Commercial nuclear power has grown to the point where 13 nations now operate commercial nuclear power plants. Another four countries should join this list before the end of 1980. In the Nonproliferation Alternative Systems Assessment Program (NASAP), the US DOE is evaluating a series of alternate possible power systems. The objective is to determine practical nuclear systems which could reduce proliferation risk while still maintaining the benefits of nuclear power. Part of that effort is the development of a data base denoting the energy needs, resources, technical capabilities, commitment to nuclear power, and projected future trends for various non-US countries. The data are presented by country for each of 28 non-US counries. Data are compiled in this volume on Canada, Egypt, Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, and France.
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: Fox, Judith B.; Stobbs, John J.; Collier, Dan M. & Hobbs, James S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International data collection and analysis. Task 1 (open access)

International data collection and analysis. Task 1

Commercial nuclear power has grown to the point where 13 nations now operate commercial nuclear power plants. Another four countries should join this list before the end of 1980. In the Nonproliferation Alternative Systems Assessment Program (NASAP), the US DOE is evaluating a series of alternate possible power systems. The objective is to determine practical nuclear systems which could reduce proliferation risk while still maintaining the benefits of nuclear power. Part of that effort is the development of a data base denoting the energy needs, resources, technical capabilities, commitment to nuclear power, and projected future trends for various non-US countries. The data are presented by country for each of 28 non-US countries. This volume contains compiled data on Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, and Spain.
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Volume 2. Montrose Quadrangle (open access)

Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Volume 2. Montrose Quadrangle

The quadrangle includes portions of the Colorado Plateau and southern Rocky Mountains Physiographic Provinces. The entire area of the Gunnison Uplift and parts of the Uncompahgre and Sawatch Uplifts are included. A part of the Piceance Basin and a segment of the Rio Grande Rift Valley are also included. A basement complex of Precambrian metamorphic and igneous rocks is exposed in the core of the Gunnison and Sawatch Uplifts in the Southern Rocky Mountains. Jurassic and Cretaceous age sedimentary rocks lie directly on the Precambrian basement in most places. They lie on Paleozoic rocks at the west edge of the Sawatch Uplift in the north-central part of the quadrangle. Triassic beds are mapped only in the canyon of the Uncompahgre River near the southwest corner of the quadrangle. A suite of Tertiary volcanics and some sedimentary rocks occupy extensive areas. Plutonic rocks of Tertiary and laramide age occupy only a small part of the quadrangle. The literature consulted included information on about 100 separate occurrences of radioactive minerals and/or anomalous radioactivity within the quadrangle. Many fracture and stratigraphically controlled forms are reported. Most of these occurrences are clustered in three areas: Cochetopa Creek, Cebolla Creek, and Marshall Pass. Important uranium …
Date: April 1979
Creator: GeoMetrics, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors affecting the potential of direct load control for non-generating utilities. Final report. [Distribution and wholesale power supply interaction] (open access)

Factors affecting the potential of direct load control for non-generating utilities. Final report. [Distribution and wholesale power supply interaction]

Several alternatives are available for achieving load management, including direct or voluntary control of customer loads, customer or utility energy storage systems for diurnal load shifting, and expanded interconnection and operation of electric power systems. All of these alternatives are available to the fully integrated (generating, transmitting and distributing) electric utility and the analysis of their effects encompasses the power supply and delivery system. However, the costs and benefits of the alternatives to the fully integrated electric utility are perhaps not so obvious. Therefore, by considering a non-generating utility, this analysis focuses upon the distribution system and wholesale power supply interaction as a step toward an analysis including the power supply and delivery system. This report develops an analysis procedure and discusses some of the relevant factors to be consdered in the application of direct load control for a non-generating utility system. The analysis concentrates on the distribution system only to determine the effect of rates and payback as a result of direct load control. Thus, the study is responsive to the specific needs of the non-generating utility. This analysis of direct load control encompasses the determination of those loads amenable to control, the selection of a suitable one-way communications …
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrolysis-based hydrogen storage systems. Annual report, January 1, 1978-December 31, 1978 (open access)

Electrolysis-based hydrogen storage systems. Annual report, January 1, 1978-December 31, 1978

Contract management, technical monitoring and in-house research conducted by Brookhaven National Laboratory for the US Department of Energy, Division of Energy Storage as described. The status of each project within four major areas of investigation is summarize. Activities deal with: (1) Electrolytic Production of Hydrogen; (2) Hydrogen Storage Systems; (3) Hydrogen Storage Materials; and (4) Systems Studies/End-Use Applications. The BNL programmatic responsibilities encompass the direction of 17 contractors and a $3,200,000 budget.
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 4, Number 29, Pages 1347-1408, April 17, 1979 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 4, Number 29, Pages 1347-1408, April 17, 1979

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 17, 1979
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Volume 1. Final Report: Salina (Utah), Moab (Utah and Colorado), Montrose (Colorado) and Leadville (Colorado) Quadrangles (open access)

Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Volume 1. Final Report: Salina (Utah), Moab (Utah and Colorado), Montrose (Colorado) and Leadville (Colorado) Quadrangles

Final report documenting a high-sensitivity airborne radiometric and magnetic survey of the Salina, Moab, Montrose, and Leadville quadrangles including the survey description, specifications, data processing methods, interpretation methods, and regional geologic review.
Date: April 1979
Creator: GeoMetrics, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings of workshop on scale control in geothermal energy extraction systems (open access)

Proceedings of workshop on scale control in geothermal energy extraction systems

Nine papers are included. Separate abstracts were prepared for eight and one was listed by title. Also included are the workshop recommendations for research needs. (MHR)
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: Feber, R.C. (ed.)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scanning reference electrode techniques in localized corrosion (open access)

Scanning reference electrode techniques in localized corrosion

The principles, advantages, and implementations of scanning reference electrode techniques are reviewed. Data related to pitting, intergranular corrosion, welds and stress corrosion cracking are presented. The technique locates the position of localized corrosion and can be used to monitor the development of corrosion and changes in the corrosion rate under a wide range of conditions.
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: Isaacs, H. S. & Vyas, B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of electron-beam heating of magnetic-mirror confined plasmas, with application to the Tandem Mirror Experiment (open access)

Review of electron-beam heating of magnetic-mirror confined plasmas, with application to the Tandem Mirror Experiment

This report reviews results from early electron-beam heating experiments and more recent basic beam-plasma physics experiments as well as present theoretical understanding. We find tha rather simple electron-beams could be employed on the Tandem Mirror Experiment (TMX) at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory to carry out electron heating experiments.
Date: April 10, 1979
Creator: Seidl, M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Waste Production and Management at EBR-II (open access)

Waste Production and Management at EBR-II

This report surveys waste production rates and disposal practices at EBR-II, a small-scale liquid-metal fast breeder reactor, for the past decade. Normal airborne wastes have been reduced by switching to low-sulfur fuel oil in auxiliary boilers and converting to use of reactor steam for part of the plant space heating. Atmospheric releases of gaseous radioactive wastes initially increased during the implementation of program for testing reactor fuels to and beyond cladding breach; but the effluent rates have now been reduced to far below permissible limits by use of a cryogenic distillation column. EBR-II's small production of liquid radioactive waste is handled by evaporation, followed by disposal of the evaporator sludge as solid waste. Liquid-waste releases meet all applicable state and federal standards. Solid wastes are sent to two storage/disposal areas- one of which is reserved primarily for storage of materials containing sodium, pending development of a facility for disposal of the sodium.
Date: April 1979
Creator: Witbeck, L. C. & Fryer, R. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1979 SIGNUM Meeting on Numerical Ordinary Differential Equations. [University Inn, Champaign, IL, April 3-5, 1979] (open access)

1979 SIGNUM Meeting on Numerical Ordinary Differential Equations. [University Inn, Champaign, IL, April 3-5, 1979]

This report gives a summary of the papers presented at the meeting. It consists of all working papers distributed at the conference and all working papers received too late for distribution. In addition, abstracts and/or summaries are included where practical for those talks and workshop sessions that did not generate papers. This document should be a useful reference to very current research in ODEs. These papers are preliminary versions of papers that will be submitted for publication. One paper in this volume has been cited in ERA, and can be located by reference to the entry CONF-790403-- in the Report Number Index.
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: Skeel, R. D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Project monitor. Final report. [Allegheny County, PA] (open access)

Project monitor. Final report. [Allegheny County, PA]

Results are reported of a study of consumers' energy attitudes and behavior. Household consumers and small business consumers (both retail and manufacturing) responded to the survey, but only the household results are reported. The study sought to understand energy-related behavior at the level where the various components of energy policy intersect. Attempts are made to attain this goal by determining the extent to which various properties of the individuals and firms are associated with various amounts of conservation. A representative sample of the adult population in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania was interviewed. Part I introduces the measures of household conservation to be used in the survey. Part II analyzes each of the types of energy conservation - general, winterization, heating, cooling, appliance, transportation, and electricity reductions - and relates them to demographic, situation, attitudinal, and perceptual variables in the household sample. Part III deals with the impacts of Project Pacesetter and the United Mine Workers' strike against the coal operators - particularly, the impact of the coal strike on household residents of Allegheny County. Part IV summarizes the findings and uses them for recommendations regarding energy conservation policy. Additional data are presented in 4 appendices. (MCW)
Date: April 27, 1979
Creator: Hammond, Paul Y.; Beck, Paul & Doctors, Samuel I.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ocean thermal energy conversion cold water pipe preliminary design project. Task 2. Analysis for concept selection (open access)

Ocean thermal energy conversion cold water pipe preliminary design project. Task 2. Analysis for concept selection

The successful performance of the CWP is of crucial importance to the overall OTEC system; the pipe itself is considered the most critical part of the entire operation. Because of the importance the CWP, a project for the analysis and design of CWP's was begun in the fall of 1978. The goals of this project were to study a variety of concepts for delivering cold water to an OTEC plant, to analyze and rank these concepts based on their relative cost and risk, and to develop preliminary design for those concepts which seemed most promising. Two representative platforms and sites were chosen: a spar buoy of a Gibbs and Cox design to be moored at a site off Punta Tuna, Puerto Rico, and a barge designed by APL/Johns Hopkins University, grazing about a site approximately 200 miles east of the coast of Brazil. The approach was to concentrate on the most promising concepts and on those which were either of general interest or espoused by others (e.g., steel and concrete concepts). Much of the overall attention, therefore, focused on analyzing rigid and compliant wall design, while stockade (except for the special case of the FRP stockade) and bottom-mounted concepts received …
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of air quality assessment studies and definitions of some research needs for the emerging oil shale technology (open access)

Review of air quality assessment studies and definitions of some research needs for the emerging oil shale technology

This paper reviews the air quality assessment programs that have been conducted by the various private and government sponsored developers who propose to extract energy from the oil shale. These studies have ranged from regional comprehensive baseline and environmental impact studies over several years' period to intermittant localized small scale air quality monitoring programs. A review of the environmental programs, their location, retorting type, and extent of environmental program undertaken is given.
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: Parker, G. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medium-temperature air-heater development program. Final report, October 1, 1977-December 31, 1978 (open access)

Medium-temperature air-heater development program. Final report, October 1, 1977-December 31, 1978

A program to design, fabricate, and verify by test a low-cost (in volume production), modularized, practical solar air heater adaptable for new or retrofit space-heating and hot-water applications is described. The unique hardware elements of the SOLAIR II medium-temperature air heater described are the TCA solar collectors, energy transfer module, interconnecting ductwork, and mounting hardware. SOLAIR II is a two-tank domestic hot-water-augmented system. The system is described in detail; market and design analyses are described; fabrication procedures are noted; and design verification tests and results are discussed. The design used for the pre-production lot was essentially the SOLAIR II design and will serve as the basis for future design evaluations as the product is introduced into the commercial market.
Date: April 15, 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 45, Ed. 2 Friday, April 13, 1979 (open access)

Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 45, Ed. 2 Friday, April 13, 1979

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 13, 1979
Creator: Standard, Jim
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1979 (open access)

The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1979

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 5, 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Las Sabinas, Volume 5, Number 2, April 1979 (open access)

Las Sabinas, Volume 5, Number 2, April 1979

Quarterly publication of the Orange County Historical Society discussing the history of the area and genealogy of residents through essays; oral histories; newspaper articles; letters; records of births, marriages, and deaths; photographs; cemetery records; court proceedings and public records; family Bible entries; and other historical documents.
Date: April 1979
Creator: Orange County Historical Society (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Environmental report of Purex Plant and Uranium Oxide Plant - Hanford reservation (open access)

Environmental report of Purex Plant and Uranium Oxide Plant - Hanford reservation

A description of the site, program, and facilities is given. The data and calculations indicate that there will be no significant adverse environmental impact from the resumption of full-scale operations of the Purex and Uranium Oxide Plants. All significant pathways of radionuclides in Purex Plant effluents are evaluated. This includes submersion in the airborne effluent plumes, consumption of drinking water and foodstuffs irrigated with Columbia River water, ingestion of radioactive iodine through the cow-to-milk pathway, consumption of fish, and other less significant pathways. A summary of research and surveillance programs designed to assess the possible changes in the terresstrial and aquatic environments on or near the Hanford Reservation is presented. The nonradiological discharges to the environment of prinicpal interest are chemicals, sewage, and solid waste. These discharges will not lead to any significant adverse effects on the environment.
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of pulsed processes for the manufacture of solar cells. Final report (open access)

Development of pulsed processes for the manufacture of solar cells. Final report

The results of a one and half year program to develop the processes required for low-energy ion implantation for the automated production of silicon solar cells are described. The program included (1) demonstrating state-of-the-art ion implantation equipment and designing an automated ion implanter, (2) making efforts to improve the performance of ion-implanted solar cells to 16.5 percent AM1, (3) developing a model of the pulse annealing process used in solar cell production, and (4) preparing an economic analysis of the process costs of ion implantation and furnace annealing. During the program, phosphorus ions at an energy of 10 keV and dose of 2 x 10/sup 15/ cm/sup -2/ were implanted in silicon solar cells to produce junctions, while boron ions at 25 keV and 5 x 10/sup 15/ cm/sup -2/ were implanted in the cells to produce effective back surface fields. An ion implantation facility with a beam current up to 4 mA and a production throughput of 300 wafers per hour was designed and installed. A design was prepared for a 100-mA, automated implanter with a production capacity of 100 MW/sub e/ per year. Two process sequences were developed which employ ion implantation and furnace or pulse annealing. The …
Date: April 1, 1979
Creator: Minnucci, J. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 4, Number 26, Pages 1201-1254, April 6, 1979 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 4, Number 26, Pages 1201-1254, April 6, 1979

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 6, 1979
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thin film fuel cell/battery power generating system. Annual report, April 1, 1978-March 31, 1979 (open access)

Thin film fuel cell/battery power generating system. Annual report, April 1, 1978-March 31, 1979

Work on the modified lanthanum chromite interconnection (IC) proceeded in a number of areas. Toward determining the stability of the IC, oxygen ion transport mechanisms were evaluated, as well as IC stability under low oxygen partial pressures (10/sup -6/t 10/sup -18/ atm). To produce long, continuous, 40 ..mu..m thick IC films on 0.3 m long porous support tubes, improvements were made in both the EVD apparatus and process. Porous support tubes of calcia-stabilized zirconia were produced, up to 0.3 m long, for fuel cell stack fabrication. Work on the air electrode current collector covered several areas. The high-temperature resistivity of doped indium oxide was studied at various doping levels, as a function of oxygen partial pressure. Also, other possible current collector formulations were investigated. By incorporating materials and process improvements, as well as improved porous support tubes, in the fabrication of 20 cell stacks, stack quality and performance at 400 mA/cm/sup 2/ and 1000/sup 0/C have steadily improved. Measurement techniques have been refined on the fuel cell and its components. Realistic combination specimens, as fuel electrode-interconnection layers on a porous support tube, have been used to determine interconnection apparent resistivity at 1000/sup 0/C. From polarization tests on fabricated fuel cell …
Date: April 30, 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library