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Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 59, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 2005 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 59, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 2005

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: March 11, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 65, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 11, 2009 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 65, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Millikelvin thermal and electrical performance of lossy transmission line filters (open access)

Millikelvin thermal and electrical performance of lossy transmission line filters

We report on the scattering parameters and Johnson noise emission of low-pass stripline filters employing a magnetically loaded silicone dielectric down to 25 mK. The transmission characteristic of a device with f-3dB=1.3 GHz remains essentially unchanged upon cooling. Another device with f-edB=0.4 GHz, measured in its stopband, exhibits a steady state noise power emission consistent with a temperature difference of a few mK relative to a well-anchored cryogenic microwave attenuator at temperatures down to 25 mK, thus presenting a matched thermal load.
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: Slichter, Daniel; Naaman, Ofer & Siddiqi, Irfan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fiscal Year 2009 Phased Construction Completion Report for EU Z2-36 in Zone 2, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (open access)

Fiscal Year 2009 Phased Construction Completion Report for EU Z2-36 in Zone 2, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: Bechtel Jacobs
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Four Critical Needs to Change the Hydrate Energy Paradigm from Assessment to Production: The 2007 Report to Congress by the U.S. Federal methane Hydrate Advisory Committee (open access)

Four Critical Needs to Change the Hydrate Energy Paradigm from Assessment to Production: The 2007 Report to Congress by the U.S. Federal methane Hydrate Advisory Committee

This work summarizes a two-year study by the U.S. Federal Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee recommending the future needs for federally-supported hydrate research. The Report was submitted to the US Congress on August 14, 2007 and includes four recommendations regarding (a) permafrost hydrate production testing, (b) marine hydrate viability assessment (c) climate effect of hydrates, and (d) international cooperation. A secure supply of natural gas is a vital goal of the U.S. national energy policy because natural gas is the cleanest and most widely used of all fossil fuels. The inherent cleanliness of natural gas, with the lowest CO2 emission per unit of heat energy of any fossil fuel, means substituting gas for coal and fuel oil will reduce emissions that can exacerbate the greenhouse effect. Both a fuel and a feedstock, a secure and reasonably priced supply of natural gas is important to industry, electric power generators, large and small commercial enterprises, and homeowners. Because each volume of solid gas hydrate contains as much as 164 standard volumes of methane, hydrates can be viewed as a concentrated form of natural gas equivalent to compressed gas but less concentrated than liquefied natural gas (LNG). Natural hydrate accumulations worldwide are estimated to …
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: Mahajan,D.; Sloan, D.; Brewer, P.; Dutta, N.; Johnson, A.; Jones, E. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
PTC, ITC, or Cash Grant? An Analysis of the Choice Facing Renewable Power Projects in the United States (open access)

PTC, ITC, or Cash Grant? An Analysis of the Choice Facing Renewable Power Projects in the United States

Renewable power technologies are inherently capital-intensive, often (but not always) with relatively high construction costs and low operating costs. For this reason, renewable power technologies are typically more sensitive to the availability and cost of financing than are natural gas power plants, for example. In the United States, the bulk of renewable project finance in recent years has been provided by 'tax equity investors' (typically large investment banks and insurance companies) who partner with project developers through highly specialized financing structures (Bolinger, 2009; Cory et al., 2008; Harper et al., 2007). These structures have been designed primarily to capitalize on federal support for renewable power technologies, which has historically come in the form of tax credits and accelerated depreciation deductions. The number of tax equity investors active in the renewable power market has declined precipitously, however, as a result of the financial crisis that began unfolding across the globe in the summer of 2008. The resulting shortage and increased cost of project financing has, in turn, slowed the development of new renewable power projects, leading to layoffs throughout the entire industry supply chain. In recognition of the fact that tax-based policy incentives are not particularly effective when tax burdens are …
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: Bolinger, Mark; Wiser, Ryan; Cory, Karlynn & James, Ted
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
IN SITU INVESTIGATION OF THE PASSIVATION OF ALLOY C22 AND OF THE PASSIVE FILMS FORMED ON ALLOY C22 IN ACIDIC ELECTROLYTES AT ROOM TEMPERATURE AND AT 90 DEGREES C (open access)

IN SITU INVESTIGATION OF THE PASSIVATION OF ALLOY C22 AND OF THE PASSIVE FILMS FORMED ON ALLOY C22 IN ACIDIC ELECTROLYTES AT ROOM TEMPERATURE AND AT 90 DEGREES C

The passive films formed on Alloy C22 in several acidic solutions were investigated by a combination of five in situ techniques: cyclic polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, Mott-Schottky analyses, electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance measurements, and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Similar tests were conducted on unalloyed samples of nickel, chromium and molybdenum, which are the main alloying elements of Alloy C22. The results of the tests conducted on nickel, chromium, and molybdenum helped to determine the roles of these elements in the passivation of Alloy C22. In general, the corrosion resistance of C22 was superior to that of unalloyed chromium. Although chromium is an important component of the passive film on Alloy C22, the other elements figure prominently in the corrosion resistance of C22 in acidic solutions. The passivity of Alloy C22 was detrimentally affected by increasing concentrations of hydrogen ions, chloride ions, and increasing temperature. The results of this study provide understanding of the resistance/susceptibility of Alloy C22 to corrosion by the aggressive solutions that can develop inside pits and crevices.
Date: March 11, 2006
Creator: M. Miyagusuku, S. Harrington, and T. M. Devine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of the Acceptability of Various Oil Shale Processes (open access)

Comparison of the Acceptability of Various Oil Shale Processes

While oil shale has the potential to provide a substantial fraction of our nation's liquid fuels for many decades, cost and environmental acceptability are significant issues to be addressed. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) examined a variety of oil shale processes between the mid 1960s and the mid 1990s, starting with retorting of rubble chimneys created from nuclear explosions [1] and ending with in-situ retorting of deep, large volumes of oil shale [2]. In between, it examined modified-in-situ combustion retorting of rubble blocks created by conventional mining and blasting [3,4], in-situ retorting by radio-frequency energy [5], aboveground combustion retorting [6], and aboveground processing by hot-solids recycle (HRS) [7,8]. This paper reviews various types of processes in both generic and specific forms and outlines some of the tradeoffs for large-scale development activities. Particular attention is given to hot-recycled-solids processes that maximize yield and minimize oil shale residence time during processing and true in-situ processes that generate oil over several years that is more similar to natural petroleum.
Date: March 11, 2006
Creator: Burnham, A K & McConaghy, J R
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transition Metal Donor-Peptide-Acceptor Complexes: From Intramolecular Electron Transfer Reactions to the Study of Reactive Intermediates (open access)

Transition Metal Donor-Peptide-Acceptor Complexes: From Intramolecular Electron Transfer Reactions to the Study of Reactive Intermediates

The trans-polyproline (PII) oligomers (Figure 1) are unusually rigid peptide structures which have been extensively studied by our group for peptide mediated intramolecular electron transfer (ET) at long distances. We have previously studied ET across a series of metal ion donor (D) acceptor (A) oligoproline peptides with different distances, driving forces and reorganizational energies. The majority of these experiments involve generating the ET intermediate using pulse radiolysis methods, although more recently photochemical methods are also used. Results of these studies showed that ET across peptides can vary by more than twelve orders of magnitude. Using ruthenium bipyridine donors, ET reaction rate constants across several proline residues (n = 4 - 9) occurred in the millisecond (ms) to {micro}s timescale, thus limiting the proline peptide conformational motions to only minor changes (far smaller than the large changes that occur on the ms to sec timescale, such as trans to cis proline isomerization). The present report describes our large data base of experimental results for D-peptide-A complexes in terms of a model where the involvement of both superexchange and hopping (hole and electron) mechanisms account for the long range ET rate constants observed. Our data shows that the change from superexchange to …
Date: March 11, 2003
Creator: Isied, Stephan S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Treatment of Produced Waters Using a Surfactant Modified Zeolite/Vapor Phase Bioreactor System (open access)

Treatment of Produced Waters Using a Surfactant Modified Zeolite/Vapor Phase Bioreactor System

This report summarizes work performed on this project from October 2004 through March 2005. In previous work, a surfactant modified zeolite (SMZ) was shown to be an effective system for removing BTEX contaminants from produced water. Additional work on this project demonstrated that a compost-based biofilter could biodegrade the BTEX contaminants found in the SMZ regeneration waste gas stream. However, it was also determined that the BTEX concentrations in the waste gas stream varied significantly during the regeneration period and the initial BTEX concentrations were too high for the biofilter to handle effectively. A series of experiments were conducted to determine the feasibility of using a passive adsorption column placed upstream of the biofilter to attenuate the peak gas-phase VOC concentrations delivered to the biofilter during the SMZ regeneration process. In preparation for the field test of the SMZ/VPB treatment system in New Mexico, a pilot-scale SMZ system was also designed and constructed during this reporting period. Finally, a cost and feasibility analysis was also completed. To investigate the merits of the passive buffering system during SMZ regeneration, two adsorbents, SMZ and granular activated carbon (GAC) were investigated in flow-through laboratory-scale columns to determine their capacity to handle steady and …
Date: March 11, 2005
Creator: Kwon, Soondong; Darby, Elaine B.; Chen, Li-Jung; Katz, Lynn E.; Kinney, Kerry A.; Bowman, R. S. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HEU Measurements of Holdup and Recovered Residue in the Deactivation and Decommissioning Activities of the 321-M Reactor Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site (open access)

HEU Measurements of Holdup and Recovered Residue in the Deactivation and Decommissioning Activities of the 321-M Reactor Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site

This paper contains a summary of the holdup and material control and accountability (MC&A) assays conducted for the determination of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in the deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) of Building 321-M at the Savannah River Site (SRS). The 321-M facility was the Reactor Fuel Fabrication Facility at SRS and was used to fabricate HEU fuel assemblies, lithium-aluminum target tubes, neptunium assemblies, and miscellaneous components for the SRS production reactors. The facility operated for more than 35 years. During this time thousands of uranium-aluminum-alloy (U-Al) production reactor fuel tubes were produced. After the facility ceased operations in 1995, all of the easily accessible U-Al was removed from the building, and only residual amounts remained. The bulk of this residue was located in the equipment that generated and handled small U-Al particles and in the exhaust systems for this equipment (e.g., Chip compactor, casting furnaces, log saw, lathes A & B, cyclone separator, Freon{trademark} cart, riser crusher, ...etc). The D&D project is likely to represent an important example for D&D activities across SRS and across the Department of Energy weapons complex. The Savannah River National Laboratory was tasked to conduct holdup assays to quantify the amount of HEU on all …
Date: March 11, 2005
Creator: DEWBERRY, RAYMOND; SALAYMEH, SALEEM R.; CASELLA, VITO R. & MOORE, FRANK S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ON THE TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE OF QUARKONIA CORRELATORS. (open access)

ON THE TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE OF QUARKONIA CORRELATORS.

Here I review the temperature-dependence of heavy quarkonia correlators in potential models with three different screened potentials, and compare these to the results from lattice QCD. None of the potentials investigated yield results consistent with the lattice data, indicating that screening is likely not the mechanism for heavy quarkonia suppression. I also discuss a simple toy model, not based on temperature-dependent screening, that can reproduce the lattice results.
Date: March 11, 2006
Creator: MOCSY, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis of GaNxAs1-x thin films by pulsed laser melting andrapid thermal annealing (PLM-RTA) of N+-implanted GaAs (open access)

Synthesis of GaNxAs1-x thin films by pulsed laser melting andrapid thermal annealing (PLM-RTA) of N+-implanted GaAs

We present a systematic investigation on the formation of the highly mismatched alloy GaN{sub x}As{sub 1-x} using N{sup +}-implantation followed by a combination of pulsed laser melting and rapid thermal annealing. Thin films of GaN{sub x}As{sub 1-x} with x as high as 0.016 and an activation efficiency of the implanted N up to 50% have been synthesized with structural and optical properties comparable to films grown by epitaxial deposition techniques with similar substitutional N content. The effects of N{sup +} implantation dose, laser energy fluence and rapid thermal annealing temperature on the N incorporation as well as optical and structural properties of the GaN{sub x}As{sub 1-x} films are discussed.
Date: March 11, 2003
Creator: Yu, K. M.; Walukiewicz, W.; Scarpulla, M. A.; Dubon, O. D.; Wu, J.; Jasinski, J. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Ernie Boyette to Helen Wyatt Snapp, March 11, 2009] (open access)

[Letter from Ernie Boyette to Helen Wyatt Snapp, March 11, 2009]

Letter from Ernie Boyette to Helen Wyatt Snapp discussing the publication of Boyette's book, which Snapp contributed to with her own story as a Women Airforce Service Pilot.
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: Boyette, Ernie
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 11, 2009 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mercury Calibration System (open access)

Mercury Calibration System

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Performance Specification 12 in the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) states that a mercury CEM must be calibrated with National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)-traceable standards. In early 2009, a NIST traceable standard for elemental mercury CEM calibration still does not exist. Despite the vacature of CAMR by a Federal appeals court in early 2008, a NIST traceable standard is still needed for whatever regulation is implemented in the future. Thermo Fisher is a major vendor providing complete integrated mercury continuous emissions monitoring (CEM) systems to the industry. WRI is participating with EPA, EPRI, NIST, and Thermo Fisher towards the development of the criteria that will be used in the traceability protocols to be issued by EPA. An initial draft of an elemental mercury calibration traceability protocol was distributed for comment to the participating research groups and vendors on a limited basis in early May 2007. In August 2007, EPA issued an interim traceability protocol for elemental mercury calibrators. Various working drafts of the new interim traceability protocols were distributed in late 2008 and early 2009 to participants in the Mercury Standards Working Committee project. The protocols include sections on qualification and certification. The …
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: Schabron, John; Kalberer, Eric; Rovani, Joseph; Sanderson, Mark; Boysen, Ryan & Schuster, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mercury Calibration System (open access)

Mercury Calibration System

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Performance Specification 12 in the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) states that a mercury CEM must be calibrated with National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)-traceable standards. In early 2009, a NIST traceable standard for elemental mercury CEM calibration still does not exist. Despite the vacature of CAMR by a Federal appeals court in early 2008, a NIST traceable standard is still needed for whatever regulation is implemented in the future. Thermo Fisher is a major vendor providing complete integrated mercury continuous emissions monitoring (CEM) systems to the industry. WRI is participating with EPA, EPRI, NIST, and Thermo Fisher towards the development of the criteria that will be used in the traceability protocols to be issued by EPA. An initial draft of an elemental mercury calibration traceability protocol was distributed for comment to the participating research groups and vendors on a limited basis in early May 2007. In August 2007, EPA issued an interim traceability protocol for elemental mercury calibrators. Various working drafts of the new interim traceability protocols were distributed in late 2008 and early 2009 to participants in the Mercury Standards Working Committee project. The protocols include sections on qualification and certification. The …
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: Schabron, John; Kalberer, Eric; Rovani, Joseph; Sanderson, Mark; Boysen, Ryan & Schuster, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 2004 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 2004

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 11, 2004
Creator: Wisch, Rene & Wisch-Ray, Sharon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 2004 (open access)

The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Odem, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 11, 2004
Creator: Perez, Jerry
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 2005 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 2005

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 11, 2005
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 11, 2007 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 11, 2007

Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 11, 2007
Creator: White, Barbara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 2004 (open access)

Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Hondo, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 11, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 2004 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 2004

Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 11, 2004
Creator: White, Barbara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 11, 2001 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 11, 2001

Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 11, 2001
Creator: White, Barbara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History