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Correlation of Structure and Function for CO2 Permeation in Polyphosphazene Membranes (open access)

Correlation of Structure and Function for CO2 Permeation in Polyphosphazene Membranes

Thermochemical water splitting processes for generating hydrogen have been researched for at least thirty years in which over one-hundred chemical cycles have been proposed that use heat and/or electrochemistry to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Proposed heat sources include nuclear reactors and solar reflectors. One of the most promising cycles is the Sulfur-Iodine (S-I) process, where aqueous HI is thermochemically decomposed into H2 and I2 at approximately 350 degrees Celsius. Regeneration of HI is accomplished by the Bunsen reaction (reaction of SO2, water, and iodine to generate H2SO4 and HI). Furthermore, SO2 is regenerated from the decomposition of H2SO4 at 850 degrees Celsius yielding the SO2 as well as O2. Thus, the cycle actually consists of two concurrent oxidation-reduction loops. As HI is regenerated, co-produced H2SO4 must be separated so that each may be decomposed. Current flowsheets employ a large amount (~83 mol% of the entire mixture) of elemental I2 to cause the HI and the H2SO4 to separate into two phases. Removal of water from this system has the direct result of lowering the required quantity of I2, thus reducing the amount of material that must be physically moved within and S-I plant. Recent efforts at the INL …
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Stewart, Frederick F. & Orme, Christopher J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correlation of Structure and Function for CO2 Permeation in Polyphosphazene Membranes (open access)

Correlation of Structure and Function for CO2 Permeation in Polyphosphazene Membranes

Polyphosphazenes are an intriguing class of polymers because molecular substitutions can be made onto the phosphorus and nitrogen backbone after polymerization. Chemical functionality is supplied through selection of pendant group. In general, regardless of pendant group, polyphosphazenes embody a high degree of thermal and chemical stability, although some pendant groups yield more stable polymers as compared to others. For example, many aryloxyphosphazene formulations are stable at temperatures as high as 300 - 400 degrees Celsius, while many alkoxy-substituted polymers decompose at lower temperatures. It has been thought that permeation of the more condensable gases, such as CO2 and H2S, could be enhanced by selection of pendant groups that exhibit higher affinities for these gases. In this paper, over 20 polyphosphazenes with a wide array of pendant groups will be discussed in terms of their CO2 transport properties. From this work, we have concluded that the chemical characteristics of the pendant group largely do not play a role in CO2 or permanent gas transport. More important are the physical characteristics of the polymer. For example, permeabilities were found to correlate well to the glass transition temperature of the polymer, regardless of the polarity of the pendant group. Thus, segmental chain motion …
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Stewart, Frederick F. & Orme, Christopher J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cost Comparison for the Transfer of Select Calcined Waste Canisters to the Monitored Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, NV (open access)

Cost Comparison for the Transfer of Select Calcined Waste Canisters to the Monitored Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, NV

This report performs a life-cycle cost comparison of three proposed canister designs for the shipment and disposition of Idaho National Laboratory high-level calcined waste currently in storage at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center to the proposed national monitored geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Concept A (2 × 10-ft) and Concept B (2 × 15-ft) canisters are comparable in design, but they differ in size and waste loading options and vary proportionally in weight. The Concept C (5.5 × 17.5-ft) canister (also called the “super canister”), while similar in design to the other canisters, is considerably larger and heavier than Concept A and B canisters and has a greater wall thickness. This report includes estimating the unique life-cycle costs for the three canister designs. Unique life-cycle costs include elements such as canister purchase and filling at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center, cask preparation and roundtrip consignment costs, final disposition in the monitored geologic repository (including canister off-loading and placement in the final waste disposal package for disposition), and cask purchase. Packaging of the calcine "as-is" would save $2.9 to $3.9 billion over direct vitrification disposal in the proposed national monitored geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. …
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Heiser, Michael B. & Millet, Clark B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cost-Effective Reciprocating Engine Emissions Control and Monitoring for E&P Field and Gathering Engines: Report 11 (open access)

Cost-Effective Reciprocating Engine Emissions Control and Monitoring for E&P Field and Gathering Engines: Report 11

This quarterly report discusses the results from a testing phase of the project that evaluates emission control technologies applied to a two-stroke cycle natural gas-fueled engine. In this phase, a one cylinder Ajax DP-115 (a 13.25 in bore x 16 in stroke, 360 rpm engine) is used to assess a sequential analysis and evaluation of a series of engine upgrades. As with most of the engines used in the natural gas industry, the Ajax engine is a mature engine with widespread usage throughout gas gathering industry. The end point is an assessment of these technologies that assigns a cost per unit reduction in NO{sub x} emissions. This report describes potential emission reduction technologies followed by a battery of tests that demonstrate synergies between some of the more promising technologies. While the end-goal is a closed loop control, low cost NO{sub x} retrofit package, additional work remains. The battery of tests include pre-combustion chambers, in-cylinder sensors, the means to adjust the air-to-fuel ratio, and modification of the air filter housing. During several phases of the tests, the ignition timing also was varied to determine the optimal point for ignition timing. The results from these tests suggest that an optimum exists where …
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Chapman, Kirby S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coupling the Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer Technology and The Gelation Technology to Maximize Oil Production (open access)

Coupling the Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer Technology and The Gelation Technology to Maximize Oil Production

Gelation technologies have been developed to provide more efficient vertical sweep efficiencies for flooding naturally fractured oil reservoirs or more efficient areal sweep efficiency for those with high permeability contrast ''thief zones''. The field proven alkaline-surfactant-polymer technology economically recovers 15% to 25% OOIP more oil than waterflooding from swept pore space of an oil reservoir. However, alkaline-surfactant-polymer technology is not amenable to naturally fractured reservoirs or those with thief zones because much of injected solution bypasses target pore space containing oil. This work investigates whether combining these two technologies could broaden applicability of alkaline-surfactant-polymer flooding into these reservoirs. A prior fluid-fluid report discussed interaction of different gel chemical compositions and alkaline-surfactant-polymer solutions. Gel solutions under dynamic conditions of linear corefloods showed similar stability to alkaline-surfactant-polymer solutions as in the fluid-fluid analyses. Aluminum-polyacrylamide, flowing gels are not stable to alkaline-surfactant-polymer solutions of either pH 10.5 or 12.9. Chromium acetate-polyacrylamide flowing and rigid flowing gels are stable to subsequent alkaline-surfactant-polymer solution injection. Rigid flowing chromium acetate-polyacrylamide gels maintained permeability reduction better than flowing chromium acetate-polyacrylamide gels. Silicate-polyacrylamide gels are not stable with subsequent injection of either a pH 10.5 or a 12.9 alkaline-surfactant-polymer solution. Chromium acetate-xanthan gum rigid gels are not stable …
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Pitts, Malcolm; Qi, Jie; Wilson, Dan; Stewart, David & Jones, Bill
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating permeable fracture networks for EGS: Engineered systems versus nature (open access)

Creating permeable fracture networks for EGS: Engineered systems versus nature

The United States Department of Energy has set long-term national goals for the development of geothermal energy that are significantly accelerated compared to historical development of the resource. To achieve these goals, it is crucial to evaluate the performance of previous and existing efforts to create enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). Two recently developed EGS sites are evaluated from the standpoint of geomechanics. These sites have been established in significantly different tectonic regimes: 1. compressional Cooper Basin (Australia), and 2. extensional Soultz-sous-Fôrets (France). Mohr-Coulomb analyses of the stimulation procedures employed at these sites, coupled with borehole observations, indicate that pre-existing fractures play a significant role in the generation of permeability networks. While pre-existing fabric can be exploited to produce successful results for geothermal energy development, such fracture networks may not be omnipresent. For mostly undeformed reservoirs, it may be necessary to create new fractures using processes that merge existing technologies or use concepts borrowed from natural hydrofracture examples (e.g. dyke swarms).
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Karner, Stephen L
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cross Timbers Gazette (Flower Mound, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 10, Ed. 1, October 2005 (open access)

The Cross Timbers Gazette (Flower Mound, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 10, Ed. 1, October 2005

Monthly newspaper from Flower Mound, Texas that includes news and information for communities in southern Denton County along with advertising.
Date: October 2005
Creator: Johnson, LaRue
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Crypto's face]

Photograph of the face of a Bigfoot statue on display at the Southern Crypto Conference that discussed Bigfoot sightings and the formation of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center (TBRC). The photo is a close up.
Date: October 2005
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Image
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cyber Incidents Involving Control Systems (open access)

Cyber Incidents Involving Control Systems

The Analysis Function of the US-CERT Control Systems Security Center (CSSC) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has prepared this report to document cyber security incidents for use by the CSSC. The description and analysis of incidents reported herein support three CSSC tasks: establishing a business case; increasing security awareness and private and corporate participation related to enhanced cyber security of control systems; and providing informational material to support model development and prioritize activities for CSSC. The stated mission of CSSC is to reduce vulnerability of critical infrastructure to cyber attack on control systems. As stated in the Incident Management Tool Requirements (August 2005) ''Vulnerability reduction is promoted by risk analysis that tracks actual risk, emphasizes high risk, determines risk reduction as a function of countermeasures, tracks increase of risk due to external influence, and measures success of the vulnerability reduction program''. Process control and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, with their reliance on proprietary networks and hardware, have long been considered immune to the network attacks that have wreaked so much havoc on corporate information systems. New research indicates this confidence is misplaced--the move to open standards such as Ethernet, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, and Web technologies …
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Turk, Robert J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Daily movements of female white-tailed deer relative to parturition and breeding. (open access)

Daily movements of female white-tailed deer relative to parturition and breeding.

Abstract: To assess how white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) herd demographics influence reproductive behaviors, we examined 24-h diel movements of female whitetailed deer relative to parturition and breeding in a low-density population with a near even sex ratio at the Savannah River Site (SRS), South Carolina. We conducted a series of intensive, 24-h radio-tracking periods of 13 females during spring and fall 2002. We compared daily range (ha), rate of travel (m/h), and distance between extreme daily locations (m), among the periods of pre-parturition and post-parturition and pre-, peak-, and post-rut. From pre-parturition to post-parturition, we observed decreases in diel range size (–38.2%), distance between extreme diel locations (–17.0%), and diel rate of travel (–18.2%). Diel range size, distance between extreme diel locations, and diel rate of travel during the pre-rut and rut exceeded those observed during post-rut. We further identified substantial increases in mobility during 12 24-h diel periods for eight females during our fall monitoring. Our data suggest that female white-tailed deer reduce mobility post-fawning following exaggerated movements during pre-parturition. Furthermore, despite a near equal sex ratio, estrous does may be required to actively seek potential mates due to low population density.
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: D'Angelo, Gino J.; Comer, Christopher E.; Kilgo, John C.; Drennan, Cory D.; Osborn, David A. & Miller, Karl V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dallas Journal, Volume 51, 2005 (open access)

The Dallas Journal, Volume 51, 2005

Annual publication containing genealogical information about families in Dallas, Texas and the surrounding area, including family histories, lists of records (births, deaths, registration, etc.), correspondence, and other documentation. Name index begins on page 146.
Date: October 2005
Creator: Dallas Genealogical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
DCal: A custom integrated circuit for calorimetry at the International Linear Collider (open access)

DCal: A custom integrated circuit for calorimetry at the International Linear Collider

A research and development collaboration has been started with the goal of producing a prototype hadron calorimeter section for the purpose of proving the Particle Flow Algorithm concept for the International Linear Collider. Given the unique requirements of a Particle Flow Algorithm calorimeter, custom readout electronics must be developed to service these detectors. This paper introduces the DCal or Digital Calorimetry Chip, a custom integrated circuit developed in a 0.25um CMOS process specifically for this International Linear Collider project. The DCal is capable of handling 64 channels, producing a 1-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of the input (i.e. hit/no hit). It maintains a 24-bit timestamp and is capable of operating either in an externally triggered mode or in a self-triggered mode. Moreover, it is capable of operating either with or without a pipeline delay. Finally, in order to permit the testing of different calorimeter technologies, its analog front end is capable of servicing Particle Flow Algorithm calorimeters made from either Resistive Plate Chambers or Gaseous Electron Multipliers.
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Hoff, James R.; Mekkaoui, Abderrazek; Yarema, Ray; /Fermilab; Drake, Gary; Repond, Jose et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deepwater Spawning of Fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) near Ives and Pierce Island of the Columbia River, 2004-2005 Annual Report. (open access)

Deepwater Spawning of Fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) near Ives and Pierce Island of the Columbia River, 2004-2005 Annual Report.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory conducted video-based boat surveys to identify fall Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) spawning areas located in deep water (greater than 1 m) downstream of Bonneville Dam in fall 2004. This report documents the number and extent of Chinook salmon spawning near Ives and Pierce Islands of the Columbia River and is the sixth in a series of reports prepared since 1999. The main objectives of this study were to find deepwater spawning locations of fall Chinook salmon in the main Columbia River channel, collect additional data on physical habitat parameters at spawning sites, and provide estimates of adult spawners in the surveyed area. The primary search area was adjacent to the upper portion of Pierce Island, and the secondary search zone was downstream of this area near the lower portion of Pierce Island. A secondary objective was to document the occurrence of any chum salmon (O. keta) redds in the deeper sections downstream of Hamilton Creek (slough zone search area). Fall Chinook salmon redd numbers were down slightly from the record number found during 2003. The number of fall Chinook redds found in the Ives-Pierce Island complex (river km 228.5) during 2004 was 293, which does not …
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Mueller, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Delivery Reliability for Natural Gas--Inspection Technologies (open access)

Delivery Reliability for Natural Gas--Inspection Technologies

The Remote Field Eddy Current (RFEC) technique is ideal for inspecting unpiggable pipelines because all of its components can be made smaller than the diameter of the pipe to be inspected. For these reasons, RFEC was selected as a technology to be integrated with the Explorer II robotic platform for unpiggable pipeline inspections. The research work is a continuation of a prior DOE-NETL project but is now directed towards a seamless integration with the robot. The laboratory set-up has been improved and data collection is nearly autonomous. With the improved collections speeds, GTI has been able to test more variables. Tests have been run on 6-inch and 12-inch seamless and seam-welded pipes. Testing on the 6-inch pipes have included using five exciter coils, each of a different geometry. Two types of sensor coils have been tested. With a focus on preparing the technology for use on the Explorer II, improvements in power consumption have proved successful. Tests with metal components have been performed to check for interference with the electromagnetic field. The results of these tests indicate RFEC will produce quality inspections while on the robot. GTI has also been testing manufactured detection boards currently used for boiler tube inspections. …
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Teitsma, Albert & Maupin, Julie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of the Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Experiments for Irradiation in the Advanced Test Reactor (open access)

Design of the Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Experiments for Irradiation in the Advanced Test Reactor

The United States Department of Energy’s Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Fuel Development and Qualification Program will be irradiating eight particle fuel tests in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) located at the newly formed Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to support development of the next generation Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) in the United States. The ATR has a long history of irradiation testing in support of reactor development and the INL has been designated as the new United States Department of Energy’s lead laboratory for nuclear energy development. These AGR fuel experiments will be irradiated over the next ten years to demonstrate and qualify new particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors. The experiments will be irradiated in an inert sweep gas atmosphere with on-line temperature monitoring and control combined with on-line fission product monitoring of the sweep gas. The final design phase has just been completed on the first experiment (AGR-1) in this series and the support systems and fission product monitoring system that will monitor and control the experiment during irradiation. This paper discusses the development of the experimental hardware and support system designs and the status of the experiment.
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Grover, S. Blaine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining the neutrino mass hierarchy and CP violation in NoVA with a second off-axis detector (open access)

Determining the neutrino mass hierarchy and CP violation in NoVA with a second off-axis detector

We consider a Super-NOVA-like experimental configuration based on the use of two detectors in a long-baseline experiment as NOVA. We take the far detector as in the present NOVA proposal and add a second detector at a shorter baseline. The location of the second off-axis detector is chosen such that the ratio L/E is the same for both detectors, being L the baseline and E the neutrino energy. We consider liquid argon and water- Cerenkov techniques for the second off-axis detector and study, for different experimental setups, the detector mass required for the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy, for different values of {theta}{sub 13}. We also study the capabilities of such an experimental setup for determining CP-violation in the neutrino sector. Our results show that by adding a second off-axis detector a remarkable enhancement on the capabilities of the current NOVA experiment could be achieved.
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Mena, Olga; Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio & Pascoli, Silvia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and Evaluation of Nanoscale Sorbents for Mercury Capture from Warm Fuel Gas (open access)

Development and Evaluation of Nanoscale Sorbents for Mercury Capture from Warm Fuel Gas

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Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Jadhav, Raja A. & Meyer, Howard
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and test of Nb3sn cos-theta coils made of high-jc rrp strands (open access)

Development and test of Nb3sn cos-theta coils made of high-jc rrp strands

A series of 1-m long Nb3Sn dipole magnets have been built at Fermilab in an attempt to refine the wind-and-react technology for Nb{sub 3}Sn conductor. Models have been made with MJR and PIT strand with varying degrees of success. Subsequently two new dipole ''mirror'' magnets based on RRP Nb{sub 3}Sn coils were constructed and tested. This paper describes the design, fabrication and test results of those magnets.
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Bossert, R.; Ambrosio, G.; Andreev, N.; Barzi, E.; Carcagno, R.; Feher, S. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of nonproliferation and assessment scenarios. (open access)

Development of nonproliferation and assessment scenarios.

The overall objective of the Nonproliferation and Assessments Scenario Development project is to create and analyze potential and plausible scenarios that would lead to an adversary's ability to acquire and use a biological weapon. The initial three months of funding was intended to be used to develop a scenario to demonstrate the efficacy of this analysis methodology; however, it was determined that a substantial amount of preliminary data collection would be needed before a proof of concept scenario could be developed. We have dedicated substantial effort to determine the acquisition pathways for Foot and Mouth Disease Virus, and similar processes will be applied to all pathogens of interest. We have developed a biosecurity assessments database to capture information on adversary skill locales, available skill sets in specific regions, pathogen sources and regulations involved in pathogen acquisition from legitimate facilities. FY06 funding, once released, will be dedicated to data collection on acquisition, production and dissemination requirements on a pathogen basis. Once pathogen data has been collected, scenarios will be developed and scored.
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Finley, Melissa & Barnett, Natalie Beth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of TQC01, a 90mm Nb3Sn model quadrupole for LHC upgrade based on ss collar (open access)

Development of TQC01, a 90mm Nb3Sn model quadrupole for LHC upgrade based on ss collar

As a first step toward the development of a large-aperture Nb{sub 3}Sn superconducting quadrupole for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) luminosity upgrade, two-layer technological quadrupole models (TQS01 at LBNL and TQC01 at Fermilab) are being constructed within the framework of the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP). Both models use the same coil design, but have different coil support structures. This paper describes the TQC01 design, fabrication technology and summarizes its main parameters.
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Bossert, R. C.; Ambrosio, G.; Andreev, N.; Barzi, E.; Caspi, S.; Dietderich, D. R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
DGS Newsletter, Volume 29, Number 9, October 2005 (open access)

DGS Newsletter, Volume 29, Number 9, October 2005

Newsletter of the Dallas Genealogical Society discussing membership, Society meetings, genealogical workshops and events, and other news of interest to members.
Date: October 2005
Creator: Dallas Genealogical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Diffractive Optics in the Infrared (DiOptIR) LDRD 67109 final report. (open access)

Diffractive Optics in the Infrared (DiOptIR) LDRD 67109 final report.

This diffractive optical element (DOE) LDRD is divided into two tasks. In Task 1, we develop two new DOE technologies: (1) a broad wavelength band effective anti-reflection (AR) structure and (2) a design tool to encode dispersion and polarization information into a unique diffraction pattern. In Task 2, we model, design, and fabricate a subwavelength polarization splitter. The first technology is an anti-reflective (AR) layer that may be etched into the DOE surface. For many wavelengths of interest, transmissive silicon DOEs are ideal. However, a significant portion of light (30% from each surface) is lost due to Fresnel reflection. To address this issue, we investigate a subwavelength, surface relief structure that acts as an effective AR coating. The second DOE component technology in Task 1 is a design tool to determine the optimal DOE surface relief structure that can encode the light's degree of dispersion and polarization into a unique spatial pattern. Many signals of interest have unique spatial, temporal, spectral, and polarization signatures. The ability to disperse the signal into a unique diffraction pattern would result in improved signal detection sensitivity with a simultaneous reduction in false alarm. Task 2 of this LDRD project is to investigate the modeling, …
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Alford, Charles Fred; Vawter, Gregory Allen; Wendt, Joel Robert; Kemme, Shanalyn A.; Samora, Sally; Carter, Tony Ray et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dilute Surfactant Methods for Carbonate Formations (open access)

Dilute Surfactant Methods for Carbonate Formations

There are many carbonate reservoirs in US (and the world) with light oil and fracture pressure below its minimum miscibility pressure (or reservoir may be naturally fractured). Many carbonate reservoirs are naturally fractured. Waterflooding is effective in fractured reservoirs, if the formation is water-wet. Many fractured carbonate reservoirs, however, are mixed-wet and recoveries with conventional methods are low (less than 10%). Thermal and miscible tertiary recovery techniques are not effective in these reservoirs. Surfactant flooding (or huff-n-puff) is the best hope, yet it was developed for sandstone reservoirs in the past. The goal of this research is to evaluate dilute (hence relatively inexpensive) surfactant methods for carbonate formations and identify conditions under which they can be effective. Laboratory-scale surfactant brine imbibition experiments give high oil recovery (35-62% OOIP) for initially oil-wet cores through wettability alteration and IFT reduction. Core-scale simulation results match those of the experiments. Initial capillarity-driven imbibition gives way to a final gravity-driven process. As the matrix block height increases, surfactant alters wettability to a lesser degree, or permeability decreases, oil production rate decreases. The scale-up to field scale will be further studied in the next quarter.
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Mohanty, Kishore K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Biohydrometallurgical Extraction of Iron from Ore: Final Technical Report (open access)

Direct Biohydrometallurgical Extraction of Iron from Ore: Final Technical Report

A completely novel approach to iron extraction was investigated, based on reductive leaching of iron by anaerobic bacteria. Microorganisms were collected from an anaerobic bog where natural seepage of dissolved iron was observed. This mixed culture was used to reduce insoluble iron in a magnetite ore to the soluble ferrous (Fe{sup +2}) state. While dissolution rates were slow, concentrations of dissolved iron as high as 3487 mg/l could be reached if sufficient time was allowed. A factorial study of the effects of trace nutrients and different forms of organic matter indicated that the best dissolution rates and highest dissolved iron concentrations were achieved using soluble carbohydrate (sucrose) as the bacterial food source, and that nutrients other than nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and acetate were not necessary. A key factor in reaching high levels of dissolved iron was maintaining a high level of carbon dioxide in solution, since the solubility of iron carbonates increases markedly as the quantity of dissolved carbon dioxide increases. Once the iron is dissolved, it has been demonstrated that the ferrous iron can then be electroplated from solution, provided that the concentration of iron is sufficiently high and the hydrogen ion concentration is sufficiently low. However, if …
Date: October 1, 2005
Creator: Eisele, T. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library