2004 status report: Savings estimates for the Energy Star(R)voluntarylabeling program (open access)

2004 status report: Savings estimates for the Energy Star(R)voluntarylabeling program

ENERGY STAR(R) is a voluntary labeling program designed toidentify and promote energy-efficient products, buildings and practices.Operated jointly by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and theU.S. Department of Energy (DOE), ENERGY STAR labels exist for more thanthirty products, spanning office equipment, residential heating andcooling equipment, commercial and residential lighting, home electronics,and major appliances. This report presents savings estimates for a subsetof ENERGY STAR labeled products. We present estimates of the energy,dollar and carbon savings achieved by the program in the year 2003, whatwe expect in 2004, and provide savings forecasts for two marketpenetration scenarios for the periods 2004 to 2010 and 2004 to 2020. Thetarget market penetration forecast represents our best estimate of futureENERGY STAR savings. It is based on realistic market penetration goalsfor each of the products. We also provide a forecast under the assumptionof 100 percent market penetration; that is, we assume that all purchasersbuy ENERGY STAR-compliant products instead of standard efficiencyproducts throughout the analysis period.
Date: March 9, 2004
Creator: Webber, Carrie A.; Brown, Richard E. & McWhinney, Marla
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Updated Regional Water Table of the Savannah River Site and Related Coverages (open access)

An Updated Regional Water Table of the Savannah River Site and Related Coverages

A new regional-scale map of the water table configuration beneath the Savannah River Site and its surrounding area has been developed. This map is an update to the regional watertable map presented in1998. While similar methods were used to develop the updated coverages, increased accuracy was achieved due to several factors, including: (a) more data (new wells and additional measurements), (b) use of median versus mean water levels for water table contour development, (c) culling erroneous values from the data records, and (d) eliminating wells discovered to not reflect natural conditions.
Date: March 9, 2004
Creator: Hiergesell, R.A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of emittance and rms phase error on angular flux density and pinhole flux-a simulation study of two undulators at 10.5 mm gap including very high harmonics. (open access)

Effect of emittance and rms phase error on angular flux density and pinhole flux-a simulation study of two undulators at 10.5 mm gap including very high harmonics.

There is a trade-off between how much effort should go into the tuning of insertion devices to reduce their rms phase errors and the actual benefits achieved in spectral quality when the real APS beam emittance and beam energy spread are taken into account. In the magnetic measurement laboratory, the measured magnetic fields are analyzed in terms of the rms phase error and the angular flux density, which is calculated from the measured fields for an ideal electron beam, i.e., a zero-emittance beam. In this study, we go beyond the case of an ideal beam to study the effect of the APS beam emittance and beam energy spread on the angular flux density and the pinhole flux (for a typical pinhole size that covers most of the central cone of the radiation) for real-field insertion devices to get an estimate of how low an rms phase error is reasonable to attain. The results presented here are directly applicable to the APS ''canted'' undulators of type A (planar permanent-magnet hybrid insertion devices 2.1 m long and 3.3 cm period length) but also to the standard undulators A (which have a similar design with the same period length but are 0.3 m …
Date: March 9, 2004
Creator: Dejus, R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gas Analysis of Geothermal Fluid Inclusions: A New Technology For Geothermal Exploration (open access)

Gas Analysis of Geothermal Fluid Inclusions: A New Technology For Geothermal Exploration

To increase our knowledge of gaseous species in geothermal systems by fluid inclusion analysis in order to facilitate the use of gas analysis in geothermal exploration. The knowledge of gained by this program can be applied to geothermal exploration, which may expand geothermal production. Knowledge of the gas contents in reservoir fluids can be applied to fluid inclusion gas analysis of drill chip cuttings in a similar fashion as used in the petroleum industry. Thus the results of this project may lower exploration costs both in the initial phase and lower drill hole completion costs. Commercial costs for fluid inclusion analysis done on at 20 feet intervals on chip samples for 10,000 ft oil wells is about $6,000, and the turn around time is a few weeks.
Date: March 9, 2004
Creator: Norman, David I. & Moore, Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library