This is the 19th monthly report on the Jolly Tiger (Albany, NY) Restaurant Project and presents tabulated data on: sales, energy consumption, water usage, heating and cooling requirements, and weather conditions. The data were acquired throughout June 1978. (LCL)

A description is given of an apparatus that makes use of an electronic technique for measuring losses in rapidly pulsed superconducting coils. Data taken with this apparatus on a coil having an energy storage capability of approximately 7 kJ is presented. The apparatus described is essentially an electronic wattmeter. It makes use of magnetically coupled coil to cancel out as nearly as possible the inductive portion of the coil voltage during charge and discharge, thus leaving a voltage which is due almost entirely to the coil energy losses. This voltage is then integrated and displayed along the vertical axis of an X-Y oscilloscope, the horizontal axis being the coil current. The area of the figure so formed is proportional to the energy dissipated during the cycle.

The Federal Energy Administration (now the US Department of Energy), in cooperation with state public utility commissions and participating utilities, has initiated 16 electric utility rate demonstration projects. The primary purpose of these projects was to evaluate experimentally the effects of time-of-use pricing of electricity for residential customers. The time-of-use rate most frequently employed was a time-of-day (TOD) rate. The method employed by the states to evaluate TOD rates was to select a subset of the residential population, place these people on TOD rates, and with special meters, monitor their temporal use of electricity. As might be expected, with the varying objectives of the states, available resources, and background in load management studies, a variety of approaches were employed, and a variety of data generated by the projects. Also, the received and expected analyses of the data vary considerably among the projects due to the differing interests of the states, available resources, and the composition of the project teams. The three purposes of this Analytical Master Plan (AMP) are: to ensure the data derived from the FEA projects and from related sources are subjected to econometric and statistical analysis that is both rigorous and as highly sophisticated as the state …

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A continuous, cascade dissolver systems, using an air-lift pump for circulation and suspension of solid particles has been developed. This dissolver system has been used to dissolve plutonium oxide, incinerator ash and other residues generated during the chemical processing of plutonium. An integral part of the dissolver system development involved the design and fabrication of a reliable continuous feed system for the dissolver.

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Phase I presents a conceptual design of a high temperature solar powered water chiller.

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The ''S'' sand Reservoir B CO/sub 2/ pilot was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of a downward CO/sub 2/ displacement in a steeply dipping, high temperature and high pressure Gulf Coast reservoir. Research results show that CO/sub 2/ injection is not a miscible process at the S Sand Reservoir B (SRB) conditions but a CO/sub 2/-crude oil vaporization process. Vaporization means that the CO/sub 2/ strips and replaces hydrocarbon components from the crude. The stripping is enhanced with repeated contacts with fresh CO/sub 2/. Results of experiments indicate that CO/sub 2/ diluted with five to ten percent of plant gas (primarily methane) would result in a miscible-like displacement process. It also appears that based on slim tube experiments alone, undiluted CO/sub 2/ might be the most efficient material for the SRB field test. Under SRB reservoir conditions, CO/sub 2/ not diluted with light hydrocarbons is more dense than the reservoir oil. Fortunately, process mechanisms can work to the benefit of displacement stability. Upon mixing SRB oil and CO/sub 2/, two phases are formed. The CO/sub 2/ rich vapor phase is less dense than the liquid phase. Based on a zero dimensional analysis and the phase behavior study results, the vertical …

This volume characterizes the major baseline environmental features of the Chattanooga Shale study and projects the effects which may accrue from implementation of a large scale development to recover uranium from the shale. Environmental, socioeconomic, and regulatory impacts are covered. The prototype project is located in Dekalb County in Tennessee. (DLC)

The studies of the stratospheric-tropospheric exchange were continued. The methods described in previous reports were retained. Continuous data of the cosmogenic nuclides /sup 7/Be, /sup 32/P, /sup 33/P and /sup 35/S and of fallout are given for the reporting period. A lidar system permitting remote sensing of stratospheric aerosol layers is described. Some examples of application demonstrate the effectiveness of an earlier described method for the forecasting of stratospheric intrusions. Fresh fallout from a Chinese nuclear weapon test could be identified by means of a GeLi-Gamma-Spectrometer. A harmonic analysis of the /sup 7/Be data resulted in frequencies which suggest a direct influence of solar rotation on the influx of /sup 7/Be and thus on the stratospheric-tropospheric exchange.

A modest network of four radiometers is described which will be used to make spectral infrared atmospheric emission measurements on a continuous basis starting in the summer of 1978. A commercial infrared radiometer (Barnes model 12-880) forms the basis of the field instrument package. This radiometer is equipped with an eight position filter wheel, an external chopper, and a pyroelectric detector. The detector and filter wheel are located in a cavity behind a germanium lens, which has a 2/sup 0/ field of view, and the cavity is maintained at a reference temperature of 45/sup 0/C.

The purpose of the present note is to show how the various effects of the wiggler may be modeled in a simple way suitable for use in machine control. It will be seen that in general a total of about 17 functions are involved. However, in typical designs many of these functions vanish identically because of symmetries, and others are neglibly small. Furthermore, each of the functions may be modeled quite accurately by a single power law in (B/sub o//E)/sup n/ where B is a measure of the field excitation. E is the beam energy, and n is an integer which takes on values of either 0, 2, 3, 4, for 5 for the different functions. Magnet saturation may cause the field distribution to vary with excitation so that the series coefficients would vary slowly with B/sub o/. A computer program has been used to obtain numerical results for typical wiggler designs. In practice, the required functions could be determined either by computer analysis of the measured field data, or by experimental calibration using the stored beam in the ring. 9 refs., 3 figs., 11 tabs.

The West Valley Plant could readily be used for work on reprocessing of alternative fuels, spiking, coprocessing (including CIVEX), waste solidification, and the recovery of radioactive gases. The plant could be easily modified for any scale between small-scale experimental work to production-scale demonstration, involving virtually any combination of fissile/fertile fuel materials that might be used in the future. The use of this plant for the contemplated experimental work would involve lower capital costs than the use of other facilities at DOE sites, except possibly for spiking of recovered products; the operating costs would be no greater than at other sites. The work on reprocessing of alternative fuels and coprocessing could commence within about one year; on recovery of radioactive gases, in 3 to 5 years; on spiking, in 4 years; and on waste solidification demonstration, in about 5 years. The contemplated work could be begun at this plant at least as early as at Barnwell, although work on spiking of recovered products could probably be started in existing hot cells earlier than at West Valley. (DLC)

A new algorithm for solving a linear least-squares problem with linear constraints is presented. The constraints can be equality constraint equations and nonnegativity constraints on selected variables. This problem, while appearing to be quite special, is the core problem arising in the solution of the general linearly constrained linear least-squares problem. The reduction process of the general problem to the core problem can be done in many ways. Three such techniques are discussed. The method employed for solving the core problem is based on combining the equality constraints with differentially weighted least-squares equations to form an augmented least-squares system. This weighted least-squares system is solved with nonnegativity constraints on selected variables. Seven small examples, including a constrained least-squares curve fitting example, are presented. A reference to user instructions for subprograms to compute solutions of constrained least-squares problems is included. 3 figures, 9 tables.

The performance of the high temperature solar powered water chiller was evaluated in a solar system. Three climatic regions were selected for the evaluation which represent significant variations in heating to cooling ratio. Typical multi-family and commercial building constructions were selected for each location, and building load files created using the TRNSYS program. Solar system components were selected on a preliminary basis and simulation models were prepared for each, including the chiller. Component cost and total system cost data were developed for economic trade-off studies. It is intended, under this contract, to evaluate various system configurations to determine which best interfaces with the solar driven Rankine unit, both from a performance and economic standpoint. Preliminary parametric studies were begun to identify the best type of system and best component sizing for a commercial building in two cities. Some prelimanry annual performance data have been obtained and related to conventional equipment performance.

This paper describes the method used to drive Pockels cells on the 20-arm Shiva laser for inertial confinement fusion research at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Shiva became operational last fall, and has just completed a series of 20-arm target shots. It uses two pockels cell gates in each laser arm for suppression of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) that can damage or destroy the target before the main pulse arrives. Two additional Pockels cells are used in the preamplification stages, so that a total of 42 cells must be driven by the pulser system.

Lectures on the isobar-hole model for pion reactions include the isobar as an explicit degree of freedom and the connection with a purely pion and nucleon system, the formalism and its relation to the pion optical potential, the extended schematic model for pion scattering, a simple spinless s-wave model, application to pion-oxygen 16 scattering and comparison with elastic scattering data. In this way the extent is shown to which microscopic treatment of the many-body dynamics explains the data and the extent to which additional physical input is required. Another test is the various inelastic processes. Inclusive reactions are briefly discussed. 37 references (JFP)