The design and performance of a solar hot water system for can washing at the Campbell Soup Plant in Sacramento, California, are presented. The collector field is located on the roof of the finished products warehouse of the Campbell Soup Sacramento plant. Water is supplied from a 3.8 cm (1/sup 1///sub 2/ in.) supply line which is located directly below an existing roof access hatch. A supply pipe will be brought up through that hatch. The water flow will then be split into two manifold lines which supply the dual rows of flat plate collectors. The preheated water from the flat plates is then passed into six sets of parallel connected concentrators. Each set consist of eight 1.83 x 3.05 m (6 x 10 foot) modules connected in series. The water from these units is gathered in a 3.8 cm (1/sup 1///sub 2/ in.) insulated pipe which transports it to the storage tank. This pipe will be attached to an existing pipe run until it reaches the can washing building. From there the pipe will follow the can washing building around to the storage tank. The storage tank is a 75,200 1 (20,000 gal) steel tank which is coated internally …

A subject screening list was developed which would be used by acquisitions specialists as a guide to the orientation of pertinent literature. The subject screening list was derived primarily from the geothermal subset of the ERDA Energy Thesaurus and from the ERDA Energy Information Data Base Subject Categories (TID-4584). The subject screening list is included. Subsequent to preparation of the subject screening list, a core list of serial publications containing geothermal energy information was generated by SIS library scientists. This list was corelated with the ERDA-TIC serial publications list. Included in both lists is an estimate of the annual geothermal information yield of the serial sources. A listing of sources of geothermal energy information other than serial publications and the conclusions, including methods of acquisitioning to be utilized and the estimated annual volume of information from all sources are presented.

A system of regional operations research activities is described which will formulate potential future development scenarios for geothermal energy and identify the public initiatives necessary for that potential. The specifics of the work plan for the state of California are outlined along with the project management structure and reporting schedules. (MHR)

Program GRAY is written to perform the matrix manipulations necessary to convert black-body radiation heat-transfer view factors to gray-body view factors as required by thermal analyzer codes. The black-body view factors contain only geometric relationships. Program GRAY allows the effects of multiple gray-body reflections to be included. The resulting effective gray-body factors can then be used with the corresponding fourth-power temperature differences to obtain the net radiative heat flux. The program is written to accept a matrix input or the card image output generated by the black-body view factor program CNVUFAC. The resulting card image output generated by GRAY is in a form usable by the TRUMP thermal analyzer.

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.

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.

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.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether certain information maintained by the Air Control Board is Confidential.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a member of the Dental Laboratory Advisory Board is required to be a resident of the State of Texas.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Compensation of attorneys appointed to represent indigents for time spent on legal research and investigation.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a firemen's reflief fund and retirement fund is eligible under Article 6243e.2, V.T.C.S., to recieve an annual apportionment from the state appropriation.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether redfish of less than fourteen inches may be lawfully possessed on board a licensed commercial shrimp boat.

An investigation was conducted of malfunctions of snubbers (seismic-shock arrestors) in service in nuclear power plants. The construction and use of snubbers is summarized, and the history of snubber problems in nuclear service is reviewed. Reports of many hundreds of snubber malfunctions were found in the abnormal-occurrence reports of the docket literature. The great majority of these abnormal occurrences consisted of hydraulic snubbers whose hydraulic fluid had leaked out because of deteriorated seals; snubbers that were damaged in manufacture, shipping, installation, refitting, or use; and snubbers whose performance did not match service requirements. Additional information about the failures was obtained from the reactor operators, snubber manufacturers, reactor vendors, and independent laboratories. The abnormal occurrences were classified into 12 categories. Analyses of the causes of the individual abnormalities are presented, and preliminary comments on the current state of snubber manufacture and use are made.

The cryogenic forming process was evaluated using nickel 270 to see if it had significant advantages over room-temperature (RT) forming. Typically, the procedure involved fast-strain-rate forming a set of nickel samples at cryogenic temperatures and another set at RT. Both sets were measured at RT for failure strength and their strength-preparation elongation curves compared at equal strains. Two more sets were formed, this time at slow strain rates (one at cryogenic temperatures, the other at RT). Both sets were measured at RT for failure strength and their strength-preparation elongation curves of these sets compared with the previous two at equal temperatures and strains. Cryoforming produced a 30 percent higher-strength nickel than that produced at room temperature at equal strains and strain rates. Forming rate effects disappeared as working temperature decreased. Rate-insensitive cryoforming produced a considerably stronger room-temperature material than room-temperature forming at high strain rates. Transmission electron microscopy indicated apparent structural differences between cryoformed and room-temperature-formed nickel. 14 fig. (DLC)

Relative intensities for K x-rays and gamma rays emanating from /sup 99/Mo in equilibrium with its /sup 99/Tc* daughter have been measured using several Ge photon detectors. Combining these intensities with an evaluated set of electron-conversion coefficients has provided a set of absolute intensities for the observed gamma rays. The absolute intensity for the dominant 140.5-keV gamma ray in /sup 99/Tc was determined to be 90.7 +- 0.6/100 /sup 99/Mo disintegrations for /sup 99/Mo decay in equilibrium with decay of the /sup 99/Tc* daughter.

The system design specification for ground demonstration, development, and flight qualification of a Brayton Isotope Power System (BIPS) is presented. The requirements for both a BIPS conceptual Flight System (FS) and a Ground Demonstration System (GDS) are defined.

Technological, social, economic and political techniques for controlling emission are summarized for environmental pollutants introduced into air, water and land resources. Chemical, radiological and physical factors are discussed. (PCS)

The energy released in a nuclear detonation can vaporize the surrounding medium. If one knows the gaseous equation of state of the medium, it can be used along with estimates of the shock entropy to predict such things as cavity size and seismic effects. We have calculated the equation of state and shock entropy for calcite (CaCO/sub 3/). We formulated the gaseous equation of state for pressures between 1 and 10/sup 6/ bar and temperatures from ambient to 1000 eV using a combination of the TIGER and IEEOS codes. In this report, we also describe the calculational methods and the material parameters used to estimate shock entropy on the loading path. We show how these results can be used to estimate final states following unloading from a given point on the shock Hugoniot. A specific example, dense calcite at 900 kbar, is used to illustrate the method.

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The strength and toughness of a high energy rate formed (HERF'ed) stainless steel, as influenced by the heat input from a variety of welds, are being measured. Using holographic interferometry, a welded spherical pressure vessel constructed from HERF'ed stainless steel with a composition of 21 percent Cr, 6 percent Ni, 9 percent Mn, 0.23 percent N, balance Fe was examined. Holographic examination of the weld vicinity shows that plastic deformations in the heat affected zones reach a maximum at a distance of 5 mm on either side of the weld, and tails off for another 20 mm to zero strain. The yield and ultimate strengths of the heat affected zones, based on the thin wall relation and using the wall thickness just above the weld, is nearly that of the parent material. However, the mode of deformation indicates that if the heat affected zones were either of higher strength or narrower, the pressure vessel would be stronger. Several more vessels are being electron beam welded using different weld parameters, and these will be examined to determine how the strength of the vessel is affected.

A fluidized-bed incineration facility is being designed for installation at the Rocky Flats Plant to demonstrate a process for the combustion of transuranic waste. The unit capacity will be about 82 kg/hr of combustible waste. The combustion process will utilize in situ neutralization of acid gases generated in the process. The equipment design is based on data generated on a pilot unit and represents a scale-up of nine. Title I engineering is at least 70 percent complete. (auth)

The feasibility of stacking beam in a storage ring by the phase displacement technique, i.e. by the accumulation of momentum strips, is determined by a complicated interplay of many factors. Some of these factors are discussed, especially as they relate to stacking beam in the Fermilab doubler ring, but no attempt is made to present a consistent solution. An arbitrary division is made into five subject categories connected with the stacking process: (1) momentum dilution, that is, the dilution of the longitudinal phase space area; (2) rebunching the stack for acceleration; (3) the physical aperture used to create a stack of given current; (4) beam loss during stacking in a superconducting environment; and (5) field errors due to random errors in the placement and support of the superconducting coils, including the amplification of the field errors for orbits displaced from the magnet center. The basic theory is given and applied using doubler parameters.

Research and development are reported in the following areas: isotope separation and production for Ar, C, He, Kr, Ne, O, S, and Xe; testing of cubic B crystals for superconductivity; metal hydride research on band theory and electronic structure and spin-lattice relaxation times for VH/sub x/; separation chemistry of Pu, /sup 231/Pa, /sup 230/Th, /sup 229/Th, and /sup 234/U; adsorption of U and Pu by bone char; separation research for Ca and S isotopes; molecular beam scattering for Ar--Kr; and transport properties for the systems Ne--Ar, Ne--Kr, and Ar--Kr. (JSR)

A significant number of deep boreholes have been drilled within the Permian Basin to investigate subsurface geologic conditions for waste storage utility. As these investigations have yet to reveal a single ''acceptable site,'' it is quite clear that many deep test holes can be expected to be drilled and several study areas ''abandoned'' before specific sites for pilot plants and/or for permanent repositories are selected. Indeed, this has been the case in the Permian Basin, and there is little reason to believe that similar patterns would not prevail for other salt deposits and even for non-saline rock formations that are undergoing investigations as waste storage repositories. These time-consuming and, at times, seemingly unproductive iterations are due in part to the general lack of detailed knowledge of the important characteristics of rocks in the subsurface that can only be obtained by drilling closely-spaced boreholes within the area of interest. In addition, the long-term nature of the problem, which makes it imperative that the wastes be contained for periods of up to hundreds of thousands of years, requires an unprecendented amount of detail in the investigative work.