Fifteenmile Basin Habitat Enhancement Project: Annual Report FY 1990. (open access)

Fifteenmile Basin Habitat Enhancement Project: Annual Report FY 1990.

The goal of the Fifteenmile Creek Habitat Improvement project is to improve wild winter steelhead habitat in the Fifteenmile Creek Basin. This goal was addressed under the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program, Measure 703 (c) (1) - Action Item 4.2. Construction of fish habitat structures was completed on approximately 3.5 miles of Eightmile Creek and on approximately 8.5 miles of Fifteenmile Creek. A total of 15,435 yds of rock was placed to improve rearing and spawning habitat, and to improve water quality and reduce siltation. Riparian protection fencing was completed on 1.8 miles of Dry Creek, approximately 1.75 miles on Eightmile Creek, and 4.75 miles on Fifteenmile Creek. Approximately 10 miles of stream will receive protection from the 8 miles of new fencing installed and 6.5 miles of abandoned fence repaired. Irrigation withdrawal screens were installed at six irrigation pump withdrawals. These screens functioned satisfactorily during the irrigation season. Physical and biological monitoring of stream flows, water temperature, and macro-invertebrate communities was conducted.
Date: March 31, 1990
Creator: Smith, Roger C. & Brown, Lawrence F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A research agenda for academic petroleum engineering programs (open access)

A research agenda for academic petroleum engineering programs

The development of a research agenda should be a direct way of portraying the scope of petroleum engineering, of identifying the critical technological issues faced by the profession,of elucidating the gaps between the existing research resources and the needs. and of outlining a program of research through which the petroleum engineering departments can be collectively of maximum service. Such an agenda would be of value to the profession of petroleum engineering, to industry and to government agencies, as well as to the faculty and students of the petroleum engineering departments. The purposes of the activity that led to this report, therefore, were to develop a statement to serve as a beginning research agenda for the petroleum engineering academic community; to bring together representatives of the petroleum engineering academic community to recognize the importance of developing a consensus posture with respect to research; and to provide a document that will assist in portraying to industry, government agencies and others the problems and needs of the petroleum engineering departments for conducting research. Contents of this report include; introduction; the background; the scope of petroleum engineering research; priority research topics and technological issues; non-technological research issues; and conclusions and recommendations.
Date: March 31, 1990
Creator: Calhoun, J. C. Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A research agenda for academic petroleum engineering programs. [Final report] (open access)

A research agenda for academic petroleum engineering programs. [Final report]

The development of a research agenda should be a direct way of portraying the scope of petroleum engineering, of identifying the critical technological issues faced by the profession,of elucidating the gaps between the existing research resources and the needs. and of outlining a program of research through which the petroleum engineering departments can be collectively of maximum service. Such an agenda would be of value to the profession of petroleum engineering, to industry and to government agencies, as well as to the faculty and students of the petroleum engineering departments. The purposes of the activity that led to this report, therefore, were to develop a statement to serve as a beginning research agenda for the petroleum engineering academic community; to bring together representatives of the petroleum engineering academic community to recognize the importance of developing a consensus posture with respect to research; and to provide a document that will assist in portraying to industry, government agencies and others the problems and needs of the petroleum engineering departments for conducting research. Contents of this report include; introduction; the background; the scope of petroleum engineering research; priority research topics and technological issues; non-technological research issues; and conclusions and recommendations.
Date: March 31, 1990
Creator: Calhoun, J. C. Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of disruptions in the Microwave Tokamak Experiment, MTX (open access)

Characterization of disruptions in the Microwave Tokamak Experiment, MTX

The Microwave Tokamak Experiment (MTX) has a substantial number of fast diagnostics, especially for electrons, as part of its mission for pulsed, high-power electron cyclotron heating. As part of its contribution to ITER R D, these diagnostics are being used to characterize disruptions in MTX. This report is the first of two, with the second planned for submittal in September 1990, at the end of the ITER conceptual design activity. Here, we analyze the characteristics of disruptions during normal operation of MTX, discuss some new data pertaining to the Granetz limit,'' and describe preliminary data on ramped density shorts which will be used for fast measurements on density limit disruptions. The final report will discuss measurements using the fast diagnostics to characterize the disruption.
Date: March 30, 1990
Creator: Hooper, E. B. & Makowski, M. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
First observation of. Lambda. sup 0 ,. Lambda. sup 0 ,K sub s sup 0 production in relativistic heavy ion collisions at the AGS (Alternating Gradient Synchrotron) (open access)

First observation of. Lambda. sup 0 ,. Lambda. sup 0 ,K sub s sup 0 production in relativistic heavy ion collisions at the AGS (Alternating Gradient Synchrotron)

We report here the first observation of inclusive {Lambda}{sup 0}, {bar {Lambda}}{sup 0}, K{sub s}{sup 0} production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at 14.5 GeV/n. 11 refs., 6 figs.
Date: March 30, 1990
Creator: Hallman, T.; Madansky, L.; Welsh, R. (Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (USA)); Bonner, B. E.; Krishna, N.; Kruk, J. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Glass sampling program during DWPF Integrated Cold Runs (open access)

Glass sampling program during DWPF Integrated Cold Runs

The described glass sampling program is designed to achieve two objectives: To demonstrate Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) ability to control and verify the radionuclide release properties of the glass product; To confirm DWPF's readiness to obtain glass samples during production, and SRL's readiness to analyze and test those samples remotely. The DWPF strategy for control of the radionuclide release properties of the glass product, and verification of its acceptability are described in this report. The basic approach of the test program is then defined.
Date: March 30, 1990
Creator: Plodinec, M.J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Glass sampling program during DWPF Integrated Cold Runs. Revision 1 (open access)

Glass sampling program during DWPF Integrated Cold Runs. Revision 1

The described glass sampling program is designed to achieve two objectives: To demonstrate Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) ability to control and verify the radionuclide release properties of the glass product; To confirm DWPF`s readiness to obtain glass samples during production, and SRL`s readiness to analyze and test those samples remotely. The DWPF strategy for control of the radionuclide release properties of the glass product, and verification of its acceptability are described in this report. The basic approach of the test program is then defined.
Date: March 30, 1990
Creator: Plodinec, M. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Process development status report for advanced manufacturing projects (open access)

Process development status report for advanced manufacturing projects

This is the final status report for the approved Advanced Manufacturing Projects for FY 1989. Five of the projects were begun in FY 1987, one in FY 1988, and one in FY 1989. The approved projects cover technology areas in welding, explosive material processing and evaluation, ion implantation, and automated manufacturing. It is expected that the successful completion of these projects well result in improved quality and/or reduced cost for components produced by Mound. Those projects not brought to completion will be continued under Process development in FY 1990.
Date: March 30, 1990
Creator: Brinkman, J.R. & Homan, D.A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Publications and geothermal sample library facilities of the Earth Science Laboratory, University of Utah Research Institute (open access)

Publications and geothermal sample library facilities of the Earth Science Laboratory, University of Utah Research Institute

The Earth Science Laboratory of the University of Utah Research Institute has been involved in research in geothermal exploration and development for the past eleven years. Our work has resulted in the publication of nearly 500 reports, which are listed in this document. Over the years, we have collected drill chip and core samples from more than 180 drill holes in geothermal areas, and most of these samples are available to others for research, exploration and similar purposes. We hope that scientists and engineers involved in industrial geothermal development will find our technology transfer and service efforts helpful.
Date: March 30, 1990
Creator: Wright, Phillip M.; Ruth, Kathryn A.; Langton, David R. & Bullett, Michael J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO90-13 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO90-13

Letter opinion 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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: What is the proper interpretation of section 21.041 of the Education Code, which governs school attendance and class credit.
Date: March 30, 1990
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 15, Number 25, Pages 1711-1863, March 30, 1990 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 15, Number 25, Pages 1711-1863, March 30, 1990

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.
Date: March 30, 1990
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1153 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1153

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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constitutionality of legislation creating Central Texas University (RQ-1861)
Date: March 29, 1990
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The kinetics of sulfation of calcium oxide (open access)

The kinetics of sulfation of calcium oxide

The objectives of this study are to determine the intrinsic kinetics and the product layer diffusion rate by minimizing the resistances to gas-phase pore diffusion, and eliminating complications due to pore filling. In the report, a grain model was used to introduce the various potentially rate-limiting processes. It was compared with results obtained with a distributed pore model by Bhatia Perlmutter (1981). Comparing the predicted behavior of the surface areas with conversion, it was even possible to compare experimental results with other models. The conclusion of this study was that, even thought the kinetic parameters obtained with different samples differed much more if product layer diffusion assumed rate-limiting rather than the surface reaction, the shape of the predicted curve approached the experimental findings so much better, that product layer diffusion is indeed most likely to be rate-limiting. (VC)
Date: March 28, 1990
Creator: Sarofim, A. F. & Longwell, J. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The kinetics of sulfation of calcium oxide. [Quarterly] report No. 4, December 1, 1989--February 28, 1990 (open access)

The kinetics of sulfation of calcium oxide. [Quarterly] report No. 4, December 1, 1989--February 28, 1990

The objectives of this study are to determine the intrinsic kinetics and the product layer diffusion rate by minimizing the resistances to gas-phase pore diffusion, and eliminating complications due to pore filling. In the report, a grain model was used to introduce the various potentially rate-limiting processes. It was compared with results obtained with a distributed pore model by Bhatia & Perlmutter (1981). Comparing the predicted behavior of the surface areas with conversion, it was even possible to compare experimental results with other models. The conclusion of this study was that, even thought the kinetic parameters obtained with different samples differed much more if product layer diffusion assumed rate-limiting rather than the surface reaction, the shape of the predicted curve approached the experimental findings so much better, that product layer diffusion is indeed most likely to be rate-limiting. (VC)
Date: March 28, 1990
Creator: Sarofim, A. F. & Longwell, J. P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1152 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1152

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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Status of contract jailers for certain purposes (RQ-1871)
Date: March 28, 1990
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
810 Future plans (open access)

810 Future plans

It is believed that a good bet for finding the Quark-Gluon Plasma at AGS energies is with the heaviest projectiles on the heaviest target, i.e. Au on Au. One of the likely signatures of the plasma is strangeness enhancement. Al Saulys has shown what it's like to find {Delta} and K{degree} with Si projectiles. Our Monte Carlo simulations show track densities 4 times higher for Au projectiles. In addition, the Au beam itself produces 30 times more ionization. Thus the present TPC's will be limited to only a few hundred ions per sec. This paper discusses plans for these experiments and modification to TPC. 9 figs.
Date: March 27, 1990
Creator: Etkin, A.; Foley, K. J.; Hackenburg, R. W.; Longacre, R. S.; Love, W. A.; Morris, T. W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bench-scale co-processing (open access)

Bench-scale co-processing

The objective of this contract is to extend and optimize UOP's single-stage slurry-catalyzed co-processing scheme. Particular emphasis is given to defining and improving catalyst utilization and costs, evaluating alternative and disposable slurry-catalyst systems, and improving catalyst recycle and recovery techniques. The work during this quarter involved a series of temperature studies with different concentrations of Mo slurry catalyst. The results of bench-scale Runs 26 and 27 are discussed in the following report. 25 figs.
Date: March 27, 1990
Creator: Nafis, D.A.; Gatsis, J.G.; Lea, C. & Miller, M.A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fermion loops in the effective potential of N = 1 supergravity, with application to no-scale models (open access)

Fermion loops in the effective potential of N = 1 supergravity, with application to no-scale models

Powerful and quite general arguments suggest that N = 1 supergravity, and in particular the superstring-inspired no-scale models, may describe the physics of the four-dimensional vacuum at energy densities below the Planck scale. These models are not renormalizable, since they arise as effective theories after the large masses have been integrated out of the fundamental theory; thus, they have divergences in their loop amplitudes that must be regulated by imposing a cutoff. Before physics at experimental energies can be extracted from these models, the true vacuum state or states must be identified: at tree level, the ground states of the effective theories are highly degenerate. Radiative corrections at the one-loop level have been shown to break the degeneracy sufficiently to identify the states of vanishing vacuum energy. As the concluding step in a program to calculate these corrections within a self-consistent cutoff prescription, all fermionic one-loop divergent corrections to the scalar effective potential are evaluated. (The corresponding bosonic contributions have been found elsewhere.) The total effective scalar Lagrange density for N = 1 supergravity is written down, and comments are made about cancellations between the fermionic and bosonic loops. Finally, the result is specialized to a toy no-scale model with …
Date: March 27, 1990
Creator: Burton, J.W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1151 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1151

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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Eligibility for the Optional Retirement System, and related questions (RQ-1858)
Date: March 27, 1990
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO90-12 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO90-12

Letter opinion 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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a volunteer fire department personnel under contract with the City of Houston to provide fire protection services in an area within the city limits may be certified by the Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education (the commission) under chapter 416 of the Government Code; Whether the commission may certify fulltime paid by employees of The Woodlands Fire Department.
Date: March 27, 1990
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 15, Number 24, Pages 1657-1710, March 27, 1990 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 15, Number 24, Pages 1657-1710, March 27, 1990

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.
Date: March 27, 1990
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
AGS Silicon Gold Collisions Measured in the E-810 TPC (Time Projection Chamber) (open access)

AGS Silicon Gold Collisions Measured in the E-810 TPC (Time Projection Chamber)

The tracking detector of AGS Experiment 810 is a three-piece Time Projection Chamber (TPC) intended to measure all charged tracks in the forward hemisphere of the nucleon-nucleon center of mass system, i.e. forward of an angle of about 20 degrees in the lab. Each module of the TPC contains twelve rows of short anode wires which give 3-D space points on each track, but no dE/dx information useable for particle identification. The TPC was operated in a beam of silicon ions at the end of June 1989 and this talk reports the results of analysis of the data taken with a thin gold target in that run. We have gathered a similar amount of data from thin copper and silicon targets, the analysis of which is in a less advanced state. The results of our investigation of the neutral strange particle decays appear in a separate contribution by Al Saulys. This paper presents the current state of the analysis of the charged tracks from the silicon gold collisions. 1 ref., 15 figs.
Date: March 26, 1990
Creator: Bonner, B. E.; Buchanan, J. A.; Chiou, C. N.; Clement, J. M.; Corcoran, M. D.; Kruk, J. W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hurricane Hugo and its meteorological effects on the Savannah River Site (open access)

Hurricane Hugo and its meteorological effects on the Savannah River Site

During its nine day existence, Hurricane Hugo tracked thousands of miles, caused millions of dollars in property damage, and took many lives. Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, the Virgin Islands, and South Carolina took the brunt of the storm. The staff of meteorologists of the Environmental Technology Section (ETS) provided briefings and forecasts to assist Savannah River Site management in developing appropriate site-wide protective action plans. Loops'' created from infrared satellite imagery provided the most useful forecasting tool. Single-site, composite radar imagery and wind measurements from the nine 200 m towers provided real-time monitoring of the effects of Hugo at SRS. A peak wind gust of 64.9 mph and up to 5.05 inches of precipitation were recorded at SRS. An assessment of the potential for wind damage to selected SRS facilities, had Hugo passed over SRS, showed that little structural damage would have occurred with proper pre-storm preparation.
Date: March 26, 1990
Creator: Parker, M. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hurricane Hugo and its meteorological effects on the Savannah River Site (open access)

Hurricane Hugo and its meteorological effects on the Savannah River Site

During its nine day existence, Hurricane Hugo tracked thousands of miles, caused millions of dollars in property damage, and took many lives. Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, the Virgin Islands, and South Carolina took the brunt of the storm. The staff of meteorologists of the Environmental Technology Section (ETS) provided briefings and forecasts to assist Savannah River Site management in developing appropriate site-wide protective action plans. ``Loops`` created from infrared satellite imagery provided the most useful forecasting tool. Single-site, composite radar imagery and wind measurements from the nine 200 m towers provided real-time monitoring of the effects of Hugo at SRS. A peak wind gust of 64.9 mph and up to 5.05 inches of precipitation were recorded at SRS. An assessment of the potential for wind damage to selected SRS facilities, had Hugo passed over SRS, showed that little structural damage would have occurred with proper pre-storm preparation.
Date: March 26, 1990
Creator: Parker, M. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library