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Advanced Cuttings Transport Study Quarterly Technical Report: October-December 2001 (open access)

Advanced Cuttings Transport Study Quarterly Technical Report: October-December 2001

This is the second quarterly progress report for Year 3 of the ACTS project. It includes a review of progress made in: (1) Flow Loop development and (2) research tasks during the period of time between Oct 1, 2001 and Dec. 31, 2001. This report presents a review of progress on the following specific tasks: (a) Design and development of an Advanced Cuttings Transport Facility (Task 3: Addition of a Cuttings Injection/Collection System), (b) Research project (Task 6): ''Study of Cuttings Transport with Foam Under LPAT Conditions (Joint Project with TUDRP)'', (c) Research project (Task 9): ''Study of Foam Flow Behavior Under EPET Conditions'', (d) Research project (Task 10): ''Study of Cuttings Transport with Aerated Mud Under Elevated Pressure and Temperature Conditions'', (e) Research on instrumentation tasks to measure: Cuttings concentration and distribution in a flowing slurry (Task 11), and Foam properties while transporting cuttings. (Task 12), (f) Development of a Safety program for the ACTS Flow Loop. Progress on a comprehensive safety review of all flow-loop components and operational procedures. (Task 1S). (g) Activities towards technology transfer and developing contacts with Petroleum and service company members, and increasing the number of JIP members.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Reed, Troy; Miska, Stefan; Takach, Nicholas; Ashenayi, Kaveh; Kane, Gerald; Pickell, Mark et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Sensor Technologies for Next-Generation Vehicles (open access)

Advanced Sensor Technologies for Next-Generation Vehicles

This report summarizes the development of automobile emissions sensors at Argonne National Laboratory. Three types of sensor technologies, i.e., ultrasound, microwave, and ion-mobility spectrometry (IMS), were evaluated for engine-out emissions monitoring. Two acoustic sensor technologies, i.e., surface acoustic wave and flexural plate wave, were evaluated for detection of hydrocarbons. The microwave technique involves a cavity design and measures the shifts in resonance frequency that are a result of the presence of trace organic compounds. The IMS technique was chosen for further development into a practical emissions sensor. An IMS sensor with a radioactive {sup 63}Ni ion source was initially developed and applied to measurement of hydrocarbons and NO{sub x} emissions. For practical applications, corona and spark discharge ion sources were later developed and applied to NO{sub x} emission measurement. The concentrations of NO{sub 2} in dry nitrogen and in a typical exhaust gas mixture are presented. The sensor response to moisture was evaluated, and a cooling method to control the moisture content in the gas stream was examined. Results show that the moisture effect can be reduced by using a thermoelectric cold plate. The design and performance of a laboratory prototype sensor are described.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Sheen, S. H.; Chien, H. T.; Gopalsami, N.; Jendrzejczyk, A. & Raptis, A. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 286, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 286, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002 (open access)

The Alvin Advertiser (Alvin, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Alvin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Schwind, Jim & Holton, Kathleen
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 65, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 65, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 152, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002 (open access)

Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 152, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002 (open access)

The Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Weekly student newspaper published in Hurst, Texas and serving the Tarrant County College District that includes school news and information along with advertising.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Creation of a Reference Image with Monte Carlo Simulations for Online EPID Verification of Daily Patient Setup (open access)

Creation of a Reference Image with Monte Carlo Simulations for Online EPID Verification of Daily Patient Setup

Patient positioning accuracy remains an issue for external beam radiotherapy. Currently, kilovoltage verification images are used as reference by clinicians to compare the actual patient treatment position with the planned position. These images are qualitatively different from treatment-time megavoltage portal images. This study will investigate the feasibility of using PEREGRINE, a 3D Monte Carlo calculation engine, to create reference images for portal image comparisons. Portal images were acquired using an amorphous-silicon flat-panel EPID for (1) the head and pelvic sections of an anthropomorphic phantom with 7-8 mm displacements applied, and (2) a prostate patient on five treatment days. Planning CT scans were used to generate simulated reference images with PEREGRINE. A correlation algorithm quantified the setup deviations between simulated and portal images. Monte Carlo simulated images exhibit similar qualities to portal images, the phantom slabs appear clearly. Initial positioning differences and applied displacements were detected and quantified. We find that images simulated with Monte Carlo methods can be used as reference images to detect and quantify set-up errors during treatment.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Descalle, M. A.; Chuang, C. & Pouliot, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 109, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002 (open access)

Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 109, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Development and Implementation of a Condition Based Maintenance Program for Geothermal Power Plants (open access)

Development and Implementation of a Condition Based Maintenance Program for Geothermal Power Plants

This report describes the development of the RCM team, identifying plant assets and developing an asset hierarchy, the development of sample Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEAs), identifying and prioritizing plant systems and components for RCM analysis, and identifying RCM/CBM software/hardware vendors. It also includes the Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) for all Class I Systems, Maintenance Task Assignments, use of Conditioned Based Maintenance (CBM) Tools and Displays of the RCM software System Development to date.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Miller, Steve; Eddy, Jim; Grande, Murray; Bratt, Shawn & Shirmohamadi, Manuchehr
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
EPICS : input / output controller (IOC) application developer's guide. EPICS release 3.12 specific documentation.[Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System] (open access)

EPICS : input / output controller (IOC) application developer's guide. EPICS release 3.12 specific documentation.[Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System]

This document describes the core software that resides in an Input/Output Controller (IOC), one of the major components of EPICS. EPICS consists of a set of software components and tools that Application Developers use to create a control system. The basic components are: OPI--Operator Interface. This is a UNIX based workstation which can run various EPICS tools; IOC--Input/Output Controller. This is a VME/VXI based chassis containing a processor, various I/O modules and VME modules that provide access to other I/O buses such as GPIB; and LAN--Local Area Network. This is the communication network which allows the IOCs and OPIs to communicate. EPICS provides a software component, Channel Access, which provides network transparent communication between a Channel Access client and an arbitrary number of Channel Access servers. This report is intended for anyone developing EPICS IOC databases and/or new record/device/driver support.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Kraimer, M. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Equilibrium shape and interface roughening of small liquid Pb inclusions in solid Al (open access)

Equilibrium shape and interface roughening of small liquid Pb inclusions in solid Al

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Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Gabrisch, H.; Kjeldgaard, L.; Johnson, E. & Dahmen, U.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Bush, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Federal Securities Law: Insider Trading (open access)

Federal Securities Law: Insider Trading

This article talks about insider trading in securities and The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Insider Trading Sanctions Act of 1984
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Seitzinger, Michael V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final report DOE project, ''Origins of asymmetric stress-strain response in phase transformations,'' DEFG02-93ER143993 (open access)

Final report DOE project, ''Origins of asymmetric stress-strain response in phase transformations,'' DEFG02-93ER143993

For the first time, experiments on NiTi under pressure loadings were conducted in Ref. (1). This work showed that the stress-strain response of NiTi is highly pressure sensitive and there was an asymmetry of tension and compression results. The results were obtained based on the special rig developed in (Ref. 2) by Sehitoglu and his students. Several experiments under pressure were also conducted on CuZnAl alloys with also pressure dependent response. accounted for variant-variant interaction and texture effects in the case of NiTi alloys (Ref. 3). It was found that the polycrystalline version of these materials has a strong texture due to the cold rolling process (Figure 4). Consequently, they almost behave as single crystals oriented in the [111] direction (Figure 3). We showed that if the texture effects are not accounted for the models give the incorrect trends when compared with experiments (Figure 5). Our work also showed that the evolution of the variants in tension is much more rapid compared to the compression case (Ref. 3). In the second year of the work, our attention focused exclusively on the deformation behavior of single crystals. Several key results were achieved with single crystals. Initially, we studied the role of …
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Sehitoglu, Huseyin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Funeral Program for Mrs. Faye Eunice Hines, January 30, 2002] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Mrs. Faye Eunice Hines, January 30, 2002]

Funeral program for Mrs. Faye Eunice Hines, born July 30, 1938 and died in January, 2002. The funeral was held January 30, 2002 at Maranatha Baptist Church of San Antonio, officiated by Rev. Rander Draper. Funeral arrangements were made through the Sutton-Sutton Mortuary, Inc. and she was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Global Climate Change (open access)

Global Climate Change

This report briefly reviews the status of climate science, international negotiations, and congressional activity focused specifically on climate change.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Justus, John R. & Fletcher, Susan R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heavy-quark photon distribution functions and their uncertainties. (open access)

Heavy-quark photon distribution functions and their uncertainties.

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Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Sullivan, Z. & Nadolsky, P.M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Illustrated Paperboy (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002 (open access)

Illustrated Paperboy (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR DETECTION OF FRACTURE-CONTROLLED SWEET SPOTS IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIAN BASIN (open access)

INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR DETECTION OF FRACTURE-CONTROLLED SWEET SPOTS IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIAN BASIN

In the structure task, we completed reducing the data we had collected from a N-S transect on the east of Seneca Lake. We have calculated the fracture frequency for all the fracture sets at each site, and constructed modified rose diagrams that summarize the fracture attributes at each site. These data indicate a N-striking fault near the southeastern shore of Seneca Lake, and also indicate NE and ENE-trending FIDs and faults north of Valois. The orientation and existence of the ENE-striking FIDs and faults are thought to be guided by faults in the Precambrian basement; these basement faults apparently were sufficiently reactivated to cause faulting in the Paleozoic section. Other faults are thrust ramps above the Silurian salt section that were controlled by a far-field Alleghanian stress field. Structure contour maps and isopach maps have been revised based on additional well log analyses. Except for the Glodes Corners Field, the well spacing generally is insufficient to definitively identify faults. However, relatively sharp elevational changes east of Keuka Lake support the contention that faults occur along the east side of Keuka Lake. Outcrop stratigraphy along the east side of Seneca Lake indicates that faults and gentle folds can be inferred from …
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Jacobi, Robert & Fountain, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
LDRD 99-ERI-010 Final Report: Sapphire: Scalable Pattern Recognition for Large-Scale Scientific Data Mining (open access)

LDRD 99-ERI-010 Final Report: Sapphire: Scalable Pattern Recognition for Large-Scale Scientific Data Mining

There is a rapidly widening gap between our ability to collect data and our ability to explore, analyze, and understand the data. As a result, useful information is overlooked, and the potential benefits of increased computational and data gathering capabilities only partially realized. This problem of data overload is becoming a serious impediment to scientific advancement in areas as diverse as counter-proliferation, the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), astrophysics, computer security, and climate modeling, where vast amounts of data are collected through observations or simulations. To improve the way in which scientists extract useful information from their data, we are developing a new generation of tools and techniques based on data mining. Data mining is the semi-automated discovery of patterns, associations, anomalies, and statistically significant structures in data. It consists of two steps--in data pre-processing, we extract high-level features from the data, and in pattern recognition, we use the features to identify and characterize patterns in the data. In this project, our focus is on developing scalable algorithms for the pattern recognition task of classification. Our goal is to improve the performance of these algorithms, without sacrificing accuracy. We are demonstrating these techniques using an astronomy application, namely the detection …
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Kamath, C
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
LDRD Final Report for''Tactical Laser Weapons for Defense'' SI (Tracking Code 01-SI-011) (open access)

LDRD Final Report for''Tactical Laser Weapons for Defense'' SI (Tracking Code 01-SI-011)

The focus of this project was a convincing demonstration of two new technological approaches to high beam quality; high average power solid-state laser systems that would be of interest for tactical laser weapon applications. Two pathways had been identified to such systems that built on existing thin disk and fiber laser technologies. This SI was used as seed funding to further develop and vet these ideas. Significantly, the LLNL specific enhancements to these proposed technology paths were specifically addressed for devising systems scaleable to the 100 kW average power level. In the course of performing this work we have established an intellectual property base that protects and distinguishes us from other competitive approaches to the same end.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Beach, R & Zapata, L
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Levelland and Hockley County News-Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 88, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002 (open access)

Levelland and Hockley County News-Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 88, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Semiweekly newspaper from Levelland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 30, 2002
Creator: Rigg, John
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History