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An automated tool for evaluating compliance and providing assistance with building energy standards during design (open access)

An automated tool for evaluating compliance and providing assistance with building energy standards during design

In an effort to encourage the maximum cost-effective level of energy efficiency in new building design, energy-efficiency standards have become more location-specific and performance-based. As a result, standards often provide more than one path for ensuring and demonstrating that a design complies, but at the cost of increased complexity. In addition, the burden of remedying a noncompliant design rests on the designers' knowledge and experience, with only general guidance provided by the standards. As part of efforts in the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Advanced Energy Design and Operation Technologies (AEDOT) project, a team at DOE's Pacific Northwest Laboratory is developing a computer program known as the Energy Standards Intelligent Design Tool (ES-IDT). The ES-IDT is one component of a prototype computer-based building design environment. It performs automatic compliance checking for parts of ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-1989 and provides designers assistance in bringing noncomplying designs into compliance. This paper describes the ES-IDT, the functions it provides, and how it is integrated into the design process via the AEDOT prototype building design environment. 9 refs.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Quadrel, R.W.; Brambley, M.R. & Stratton, R.C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ARTI Refrigerant Database (open access)

ARTI Refrigerant Database

The Refrigerant Database consolidates and facilitates access to information to assist industry in developing equipment using alternative refrigerants. The underlying purpose is to accelerate phase out of chemical compounds of environmental concern. The database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts for publications that may be useful in research and design of air- conditioning and refrigeration equipment. The complete documents are not included, though some may be added at a later date. The database identifies sources of specific information on R-32, R-123, R-124, R- 125, R-134a, R-141b, R142b, R-143a, R-152a, R-290 (propane), R-717 (ammonia), ethers, and others as well as azeotropic and zeotropic blends of these fluids. It addresses polyalkylene glycol (PAG), ester, and other lubricants. It also references documents addressing compatibility of refrigerants and lubricants with metals, plastics, elastomers, motor insulation, and other materials used in refrigerant circuits.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Calm, J.M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Theoretical and experimental studies of elementary physics (open access)

Theoretical and experimental studies of elementary physics

The experimental high energy physics program is directed toward the execution of experiments that probe the basic constituents of matter and the forces between them. These experiments are carried out at national and international accelerator facilities. At the current time, we are primarily concentrating on the following projects: Direct photon production in hadronic reactions (Fermilab E706); Production of hybrid mesons in the nuclear Coulomb field; The D-Zero experiment at the Tevatron collider; Deep inelastic neutrino- and electron-nucleon scattering at FNAL and SLAC; Nonlinear QED at critical field strengths at SLAC; The Experiments at KEK (AMY, 17keV neutrino); The CDF experiment at the Tevatron collider; and SSC-related detector R D on scintillating tile- and diamond-based calorimetry and microstrip tracking detectors.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Bodek, A.; Ferbel, T.; Melissinos, A. C.; Olsen, S.; Slattery, P.; Tipton, P. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photoinitiated electron transfer in multichromophoric species: Synthetic tetrads and pentads featuring diquinone moieties (open access)

Photoinitiated electron transfer in multichromophoric species: Synthetic tetrads and pentads featuring diquinone moieties

This project involves the design, synthesis and photophysical study of complex molecular systems engineered to achieve long lived charge separated states by a biomimetic, photoinitiated multistep electron transfer process. The use of these artificial systems to investigate different electron and energy transfer strategies will allow the evolution of more efficient molecular devices for the gathering of light energy and its transformation into chemical potential energy. The three major aspects of the work emphasized in the initial proposal are: design and synthesis of molecular devices incorporating new quinone moieties, synthesis and spectroscopic studies of molecular tetrads and pentads featuring modified porphyrin-diquinone linkages, and new photochemical and photophysical investigations of tetrads and pentads, including the development of methods for harvesting the energy stored in long-lived charge separated states.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Press release: Plenary speakers slated for fifth annual Creating Change Conference] (open access)

[Press release: Plenary speakers slated for fifth annual Creating Change Conference]

Press release announcing speakers for the fifth Creating Change conference.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (U.S.)
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Press release: NGLTF members; backed Tsongas; are highly involved in electoral politics] (open access)

[Press release: NGLTF members; backed Tsongas; are highly involved in electoral politics]

Press release announcing the results of a Presidential Initiative Survey.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (U.S.)
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992 (open access)

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992

Weekly newspaper from Tulia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Reynolds, Jim
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrogen Separation by Ceramic Membranes in Coal Gasification (open access)

Hydrogen Separation by Ceramic Membranes in Coal Gasification

Project Objectives are to develop hydrogen-permselective ceramic membranes for water-gas shift membrane-reactor suitable for hydrogen production from coal gas and evaluate the technical and economic potential of the membrane-reactor. During the reporting period exploratory experiments begun on a membrane preparation technique aimed at providing higher membrane permeance. The new preparation technique involves two stages. The first stage is the formation of a layer of silica gel by a two-phase interfacial reaction within the pores of the substrate. The gel is then dried and calcined yielding a microporous (pore diameter below 10 [Angstrom]) silica layer within the pores of the substrate tube. The second stage involves one-sided chemical vapor deposition using the SiCl[sub 4]-H[sub 2]O reaction to close up the micropores of the gel layer and produce the final hydrogen permselective membrane. Chemical reactions involved are described.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Gavalas, G. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-Ray and [Gamma]-Ray Spectroscopy of Solids Under Pressure (open access)

X-Ray and [Gamma]-Ray Spectroscopy of Solids Under Pressure

The effort is divided into the following: high pressure transitions (Fe, RbCl), XAFS studies of perovskites under pressure (ReO[sub 3], high-[Tc] superconductors), studies of XANES of alkali halides, and Moessbauer studies (iron silicate spinel).
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Ingalls, R.L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cloud and aerosol characterization for the ARM central facility: Multiple remote sensor techniques development (open access)

Cloud and aerosol characterization for the ARM central facility: Multiple remote sensor techniques development

This research project designed to investigate how atmospheric remote sensing technology can best be applied to the characterization of the cloudy atmosphere. Our research program addresses basic atmospheric remote sensing questions, but at the same time is clearly directed toward providing information crucial to the ARM (Atmospheric Remote Sensing) program and for application to the Clouds and Radiation Testbed (CART). The instrumentation that is being brought into play includes a variety of art-of-the-art sensors. Available at NOAA WPL are polarization Doppler K{sub a}-band (0.86 mm) and X-band (3.2 cm) radars, a C0{sub 2}(10.6 {mu}m) Doppler lidar with sequential ' polarization measurement capabilities, a three-channel (20.6, 31.65 and 90 GHz) microwave radiometer, and variety of visible and infrared radiometers. Instrumentation at the University of Utah Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (FARS) includes a polarization ruby (0.643 {mu}m) lidar, a narrow-beam (0.14{degree}) mid-infrared (9.5--11.5 {mu}m) radiometer coaligned with the lidar, several other radiometers in the visible and infrared spectral regions, and an advanced two-color (1.06 and 0.532 {mu}m), four-channel Polarization Diversity Lidar (PDL) and all-sky video imaging system that have only recently been developed under the ARM IDP.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Sassen, K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 144, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992 (open access)

Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 144, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
X-ray and {gamma}-ray spectroscopy of solids under pressure. Annual technical progress report, October 1991--October 1992 (open access)

X-ray and {gamma}-ray spectroscopy of solids under pressure. Annual technical progress report, October 1991--October 1992

The effort is divided into the following: high pressure transitions (Fe, RbCl), XAFS studies of perovskites under pressure (ReO{sub 3}, high-{Tc} superconductors), studies of XANES of alkali halides, and Moessbauer studies (iron silicate spinel).
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Ingalls, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ARTI Refrigerant Database (open access)

ARTI Refrigerant Database

The Refrigerant Database consolidates and facilitates access to information to assist industry in developing equipment using alternative refrigerants. The underlying purpose is to accelerate phase out of chemical compounds of environmental concern. The database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts for publications that may be useful in research and design of air- conditioning and refrigeration equipment. The complete documents are not included, though some may be added at a later date. The database identifies sources of specific information on R-32, R-123, R-124, R- 125, R-134a, R-141b, R142b, R-143a, R-152a, R-290 (propane), R-717 (ammonia), ethers, and others as well as azeotropic and zeotropic blends of these fluids. It addresses polyalkylene glycol (PAG), ester, and other lubricants. It also references documents addressing compatibility of refrigerants and lubricants with metals, plastics, elastomers, motor insulation, and other materials used in refrigerant circuits.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Calm, J. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photoinitiated electron transfer in multichromophoric species: Synthetic tetrads and pentads featuring diquinone moieties. Technical progress report, September 1, 1991--30 April 1992 (open access)

Photoinitiated electron transfer in multichromophoric species: Synthetic tetrads and pentads featuring diquinone moieties. Technical progress report, September 1, 1991--30 April 1992

This project involves the design, synthesis and photophysical study of complex molecular systems engineered to achieve long lived charge separated states by a biomimetic, photoinitiated multistep electron transfer process. The use of these artificial systems to investigate different electron and energy transfer strategies will allow the evolution of more efficient molecular devices for the gathering of light energy and its transformation into chemical potential energy. The three major aspects of the work emphasized in the initial proposal are: design and synthesis of molecular devices incorporating new quinone moieties, synthesis and spectroscopic studies of molecular tetrads and pentads featuring modified porphyrin-diquinone linkages, and new photochemical and photophysical investigations of tetrads and pentads, including the development of methods for harvesting the energy stored in long-lived charge separated states.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Theoretical and experimental studies of elementary physics. Annual technical progress report (open access)

Theoretical and experimental studies of elementary physics. Annual technical progress report

The experimental high energy physics program is directed toward the execution of experiments that probe the basic constituents of matter and the forces between them. These experiments are carried out at national and international accelerator facilities. At the current time, we are primarily concentrating on the following projects: Direct photon production in hadronic reactions (Fermilab E706); Production of hybrid mesons in the nuclear Coulomb field; The D-Zero experiment at the Tevatron collider; Deep inelastic neutrino- and electron-nucleon scattering at FNAL and SLAC; Nonlinear QED at critical field strengths at SLAC; The Experiments at KEK (AMY, 17keV neutrino); The CDF experiment at the Tevatron collider; and SSC-related detector R&D on scintillating tile- and diamond-based calorimetry and microstrip tracking detectors.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Bodek, A.; Ferbel, T.; Melissinos, A. C.; Olsen, S.; Slattery, P.; Tipton, P. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermal spallation drilling. Final report (open access)

Thermal spallation drilling. Final report

Work that was performed on a previous contract with the Los Alamos National Laboratory and subsequent work at NM Tech indicated that an intermittent heating and cooling cycle, produced by heating with the conventional blast from a small jet engine and then cooled with a stream of water, would prove to be successful in spalling additional rocks. New Mexico Tech has attempted to further the use of spallation drilling to suit applications for mining and oil and gas drilling by showing that the use of a heating and cooling system would successfully penetrate otherwise unspallable rocks. This process, while showing some success in previous experimentation, has proved to work only spasmodically. The rocks tested had zones that were not spallable or were so slowly spallable that non-uniform holes were produced. Because of these irregularities, further field experimentation is not now profitable.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Miska, S.; Williams, R. E. & Potter, R. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a reburning boiler process model. Second quarterly progress report, January 1, 1992--March 31, 1992 (open access)

Development of a reburning boiler process model. Second quarterly progress report, January 1, 1992--March 31, 1992

The overall objective of this program is to integrate Energy and Environmental Research expertise in boiler reburning performance evaluation into a package of analytical computer tools. Specific objectives of the program are to develop a computational capability with the following features: (a) can be used to predict the impact of gas reburning application on thermal conditions in the boiler radiant furnace, and on overall boiler performance. (b) can estimate gas reburning NO{sub x} reduction effectiveness based on specific reburning configurations and furnace/boiler configurations. (c) can be used as an analytical tool to evaluate the impact of boiler process parameters (e.g., fuel switching and changes in boiler operating conditions) on boiler thermal performance. (d) is adaptable to most boiler designs (tangential and wall fire boilers) and a variety of fuels (solid, liquid, gaseous and slurried fuels). (e) is sufficiently user friendly to be exercisable by engineers with a reasonable knowledge of boilers, and with reasonable computer skills. Here, ``user friendly`` means that the user will be guided by computer codes during the course of setting up individual input files for the boiler performance model.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Wu, K. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An automated tool for evaluating compliance and providing assistance with building energy standards during design (open access)

An automated tool for evaluating compliance and providing assistance with building energy standards during design

In an effort to encourage the maximum cost-effective level of energy efficiency in new building design, energy-efficiency standards have become more location-specific and performance-based. As a result, standards often provide more than one path for ensuring and demonstrating that a design complies, but at the cost of increased complexity. In addition, the burden of remedying a noncompliant design rests on the designers` knowledge and experience, with only general guidance provided by the standards. As part of efforts in the US Department of Energy`s (DOE`s) Advanced Energy Design and Operation Technologies (AEDOT) project, a team at DOE`s Pacific Northwest Laboratory is developing a computer program known as the Energy Standards Intelligent Design Tool (ES-IDT). The ES-IDT is one component of a prototype computer-based building design environment. It performs automatic compliance checking for parts of ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-1989 and provides designers assistance in bringing noncomplying designs into compliance. This paper describes the ES-IDT, the functions it provides, and how it is integrated into the design process via the AEDOT prototype building design environment. 9 refs.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Quadrel, R. W.; Brambley, M. R. & Stratton, R. C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992 (open access)

San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992

Weekly newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Glosson, Edwin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Lucas, Donnie A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Press release: June is national lobby days month] (open access)

[Press release: June is national lobby days month]

Press release announcing the NGLTF's intention to make June its National Lobby Days month to pressure Congress into supporting gay and lesbian rights.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (U.S.)
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Agenda: Oak Lawn Ordinance review task force meeting] (open access)

[Agenda: Oak Lawn Ordinance review task force meeting]

Agenda for meeting discussing regulation amendments for a local Dallas community.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992

Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: White, Barbara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992 (open access)

The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1992

Weekly newspaper from Olney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 30, 1992
Creator: Penn, David H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History