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0-G experiments with advanced ceramic fabric wick structures (open access)

0-G experiments with advanced ceramic fabric wick structures

Both Air Force and NASA future spacecraft thermal management needs span the temperature range from cryogenic to liquid metals. Many of these needs are changing and not well defined and will remain so until goals, technology, and missions converge. Nevertheless, it is certain that high-temperature (> 800 K) and medium-temperature (about 450 K) radiator systems will have to be developed that offer significant improvements over current designs. This paper discusses experiments performed in the lower temperature regime as part of a comprehensive advanced ceramic fabric (ACF) heat pipe development program. These experiments encompassed wicking tests with various ceramic fabric samples, and heat transfer tests with a 1-m long prototype ACF water heat pipe. A prototype ceramic fabric/titanium water heat pipe has been constructed and tested; it transported up to 60 W of power at about 390 K. Startup and operation both with and against gravity examined. Wick testing was begun to aid in the design and construction of an improved prototype heat pipe, with a 38-{mu}m stainless steel linear covered by a biaxially-braided Nextel (trademark of the 3M Co., St. Paul, Minnesota) sleeve that is approximately 300-{mu}m thick. Wick testing took place in 1-g; limited testing in 0-g was initiated, …
Date: July 1991
Creator: Antoniak, Z. I.; Webb, B. J.; Bates, J. M.; Cooper, M. F. & Pauley, K. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A 2-D imaging heat-flux gauge (open access)

A 2-D imaging heat-flux gauge

This report describes a new leadless two-dimensional imaging optical heat-flux gauge. The gauge is made by depositing arrays of thermorgraphic-phosphor (TP) spots onto the faces of a polymethylpentene is insulator. In the first section of the report, we describe several gauge configurations and their prototype realizations. A satisfactory configuration is an array of right triangles on each face that overlay to form squares when the gauge is viewed normal to the surface. The next section of the report treats the thermal conductivity of TPs. We set up an experiment using a comparative longitudinal heat-flow apparatus to measure the previously unknown thermal conductivity of these materials. The thermal conductivity of one TP, Y{sub 2}O{sub 3}:Eu, is 0.0137 W/cm{center dot}K over the temperature range from about 300 to 360 K. The theories underlying the time response of TP gauges and the imaging characteristics are discussed in the next section. Then we discuss several laboratory experiments to (1) demonstrate that the TP heat-flux gauge can be used in imaging applications; (2) obtain a quantum yield that enumerates what typical optical output signal amplitudes can be obtained from TP heat-flux gauges; and (3) determine whether LANL-designed intensified video cameras have sufficient sensitivity to acquire …
Date: July 1, 1991
Creator: Noel, B.W.; Borella, H.M. (Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)); Beshears, D.L.; Sartory, W.K.; Tobin, K.W.; Williams, R.K. (Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)) et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-1-1 Caller, Volume 3, Number 3, July/August 1991 (open access)

9-1-1 Caller, Volume 3, Number 3, July/August 1991

Bimonthly newsletter of the Texas Advisory Commission on State Emergency Communications discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to 9-1-1 services and other emergency communication within Texas.
Date: July 1991
Creator: Texas. Advisory Commission on State Emergency Communications.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1991 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1991

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: July 11, 1991
Creator: Love, Janet
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1991 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1991

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: July 18, 1991
Creator: Love, Janet
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1991 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1991

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: July 25, 1991
Creator: Love, Janet
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Adoption, Implementation and Enforcement of Commercial Building Energy Codes in New Mexico and Arizona (open access)

Adoption, Implementation and Enforcement of Commercial Building Energy Codes in New Mexico and Arizona

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is considering ways to encourage states to adopt energy efficiency standards for residential and commercial buildings in the private sector. Such standards are now mandatory for federal buildings, and for private buildings in 34 states; in the remaining 16 states, the standards serve as guidelines for voluntary compliance. In this study for DOE, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) assessed the process by which energy codes for commercial buildings were adopted and implemented in Arizona and New Mexico. Information was gathered primarily through a series of interviews with state officials, city building officials, architects and engineers, builders, and staff from utilities in the two states. Until other state processes are studied, the extent of the similarities and dissimilarities to the situation in New Mexico and Arizona are unknown. A more extensive study may show that at least some elements of the two state's experience have been paralleled in other parts of the country. General strategies to encourage the adoption of energy codes, assist implementation, and support enforcement were developed based on the research from Arizona and New Mexico and are presented in this report. 6 refs., 4 figs.
Date: July 1, 1991
Creator: Callaway, J. W.; Thurman, A G & Shankle, D L
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adsorption of chromate/organic-acid mixtures in aquifer materials (open access)

Adsorption of chromate/organic-acid mixtures in aquifer materials

The overall objective of this project is to develop a fuller understanding of the interactions of mixtures of anionic co-contaminants with oxide-mineral surfaces. Our specific focus is on the competitive interactions of chromate and oxalic acid on ferric oxyhydroxide and on natural aquifer materials. Chromate and oxalate are of practical interest as widespread contaminants at many DOE facilities. However, these anions also are excellent model adsorbates for elucidating fundamental aspects of ionic adsorption processes, particularly with respect to organic acids.
Date: July 15, 1991
Creator: Fish, W. & Palmer, C.D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adsorption of chromate/organic-acid mixtures in aquifer materials. Technical progress report, 1 July 1990--30 June 1991 (open access)

Adsorption of chromate/organic-acid mixtures in aquifer materials. Technical progress report, 1 July 1990--30 June 1991

The overall objective of this project is to develop a fuller understanding of the interactions of mixtures of anionic co-contaminants with oxide-mineral surfaces. Our specific focus is on the competitive interactions of chromate and oxalic acid on ferric oxyhydroxide and on natural aquifer materials. Chromate and oxalate are of practical interest as widespread contaminants at many DOE facilities. However, these anions also are excellent model adsorbates for elucidating fundamental aspects of ionic adsorption processes, particularly with respect to organic acids.
Date: July 15, 1991
Creator: Fish, W. & Palmer, C. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Coal Conversion Process Demonstration (Project) (open access)

Advanced Coal Conversion Process Demonstration (Project)

This report contains a description of technical progress made on the Advanced Coal Conversion Process Demonstration Project (ACCP). The project is a US Department of Energy Innovative Clean Coal Technology Project. The cooperative agreement defining the project is between DOE and the Rosebud SynCoal Partnership RSCP. The RSCP is a partnership between Western Energy Company (WECo), a subsidiary of Entech, Montana Power's non-utility group, and NRG, a subsidiary of Northern States Power. The ACCP is a method of upgrading low ranked coals by reducing the moisture and sulfur content and increasing the heating value. The facility is being constructed at WECo's Rosebud No. 6 coal mine, west of Colstrip, Montana. This report contains both a history of the process development and a report of technical progress made since the beginning of the Clean Coal 1 cooperative agreement.
Date: July 1, 1991
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced coal-fueled industrial cogeneration gas turbine system (open access)

Advanced coal-fueled industrial cogeneration gas turbine system

Advances in coal-fueled gas turbine technology over the past few years, together with recent DOE-METC sponsored studies, have served to provide new optimism that the problems demonstrated in the past can be economically resolved and that the coal-fueled gas turbine can ultimately be the preferred system in appropriate market application sectors. The objective of the Solar/METC program is to prove the technical, economic, and environmental feasibility of a coal-fired gas turbine for cogeneration applications through tests of a Centaur Type H engine system operated on coal fuel throughout the engine design operating range. The five-year program consists of three phases, namely: (1) system description; (2) component development; (3) prototype system verification. A successful conclusion to the program will initiate a continuation of the commercialization plan through extended field demonstration runs.
Date: July 1, 1991
Creator: LeCren, R. T.; Cowell, L. H.; Galica, M. A.; Stephenson, M. D. & Wen, C. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced coal-fueled industrial cogeneration gas turbine system. Annual report, June 1990--June 1991 (open access)

Advanced coal-fueled industrial cogeneration gas turbine system. Annual report, June 1990--June 1991

Advances in coal-fueled gas turbine technology over the past few years, together with recent DOE-METC sponsored studies, have served to provide new optimism that the problems demonstrated in the past can be economically resolved and that the coal-fueled gas turbine can ultimately be the preferred system in appropriate market application sectors. The objective of the Solar/METC program is to prove the technical, economic, and environmental feasibility of a coal-fired gas turbine for cogeneration applications through tests of a Centaur Type H engine system operated on coal fuel throughout the engine design operating range. The five-year program consists of three phases, namely: (1) system description; (2) component development; (3) prototype system verification. A successful conclusion to the program will initiate a continuation of the commercialization plan through extended field demonstration runs.
Date: July 1, 1991
Creator: LeCren, R. T.; Cowell, L. H.; Galica, M. A.; Stephenson, M. D. & Wen, C. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced nuclear reactor public opinion project (open access)

Advanced nuclear reactor public opinion project

This Interim Report summarizes the findings of our first twenty in-depth interviews in the Advanced Nuclear Reactor Public Opinion Project. We interviewed 6 industry trade association officials, 3 industry attorneys, 6 environmentalists/nuclear critics, 3 state officials, and 3 independent analysts. In addition, we have had numerous shorter discussions with various individuals concerned about nuclear power. The report is organized into the four categories proposed at our April, 1991, Advisory Group meeting: safety, cost-benefit analysis, science education, and communications. Within each category, some change of focus from that of the Advisory Group has been required, to reflect the findings of our interviews. This report limits itself to describing our findings. An accompanying memo draws some tentative conclusions.
Date: July 25, 1991
Creator: Benson, B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced nuclear reactor public opinion project. Interim report (open access)

Advanced nuclear reactor public opinion project. Interim report

This Interim Report summarizes the findings of our first twenty in-depth interviews in the Advanced Nuclear Reactor Public Opinion Project. We interviewed 6 industry trade association officials, 3 industry attorneys, 6 environmentalists/nuclear critics, 3 state officials, and 3 independent analysts. In addition, we have had numerous shorter discussions with various individuals concerned about nuclear power. The report is organized into the four categories proposed at our April, 1991, Advisory Group meeting: safety, cost-benefit analysis, science education, and communications. Within each category, some change of focus from that of the Advisory Group has been required, to reflect the findings of our interviews. This report limits itself to describing our findings. An accompanying memo draws some tentative conclusions.
Date: July 25, 1991
Creator: Benson, B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced photon source proposal for upgrading the radiation safety of x-ray labs (open access)

Advanced photon source proposal for upgrading the radiation safety of x-ray labs

There are two adjacent x-ray labs in building 360, each having two entrance doors. Lab A240 has two x-ray machines and lab A248 has one. All machines are equipped with sliding safety windows and microswitches to monitor the state of the windows - open or closed. Two modes of operation are possible. (1) Secure Mode in which all safety windows are closed as indicated by the microswitches. This satisfies the interlock system, allowing the high voltage power supply to be turned on. (2) Bypass Mode in which the interlock system is overridden by a key-controlled selector switch and high voltage can be turned on with machine hutch window(s) open. The bypass mode is potentially unsafe because it is possible for an operator to leave a running instrument unattended while the windows are open. Thus, it is possible for someone entering the lab to expose themselves to x-rays.
Date: July 1, 1991
Creator: Friedman, N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Age, Volume [12], Number 7, July 1991 (open access)

The Age, Volume [12], Number 7, July 1991

Monthly publication containing information related to Chambers County, Texas, including current events of the Chambers County Historical Commission, the Wallisville Heritage Park, and the Chambers County historical and genealogical societies; reprinted newspaper articles about county events and citizens; and historical news and records.
Date: July 1991
Creator: Wallisville Heritage Park (Organization)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Agitation within Mk-42 insert caused by air sparge (open access)

Agitation within Mk-42 insert caused by air sparge

Dissolution of Rocky Flats Pu alloys and Pu metal using a nested insert'' configuration (One Well Insert (S-3352) inside the Mk-42 Insert) will require a Nuclear Safety Study, a major assumption of which will be that the annular dissolver is well-mixed. The well-mixed'' assumption was theoretically and experimentally supported for alloy dissolution using the Three Well Insert, but the present situation differs significantly. In the former case, the insert was directly exposed to the agitation induced by air sparging; in the case under consideration, the One Well Insert would be shielded by the Mk-42 Insert. In an effort to determine if the nested insert'' approach should be pursued, the past studies and technical literature have been surveyed and an attempt made to predict the extent of mixing and bulk circulation for a nested insert'' configuration in the presence of air sparging.
Date: July 12, 1991
Creator: Ramsey, C.J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agitation within Mk-42 insert caused by air sparge (open access)

Agitation within Mk-42 insert caused by air sparge

Dissolution of Rocky Flats Pu alloys and Pu metal using a ``nested insert`` configuration (One Well Insert (S-3352) inside the Mk-42 Insert) will require a Nuclear Safety Study, a major assumption of which will be that the annular dissolver is well-mixed. The ``well-mixed`` assumption was theoretically and experimentally supported for alloy dissolution using the Three Well Insert, but the present situation differs significantly. In the former case, the insert was directly exposed to the agitation induced by air sparging; in the case under consideration, the One Well Insert would be shielded by the Mk-42 Insert. In an effort to determine if the ``nested insert`` approach should be pursued, the past studies and technical literature have been surveyed and an attempt made to predict the extent of mixing and bulk circulation for a ``nested insert`` configuration in the presence of air sparging.
Date: July 12, 1991
Creator: Ramsey, C. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AIDS Update, Volume 6, Number 7, July 1991 (open access)

AIDS Update, Volume 6, Number 7, July 1991

Monthly newsletter describing news and events related to the AIDS Resource Center in Dallas, Texas as well as articles, letters, advice columns, and advertisements of interest to subscribers.
Date: July 1991
Creator: AIDS Resource Center (Dallas, Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Pathway Report: Phase I of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project (open access)

Air Pathway Report: Phase I of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project

Phase 1 of the air-pathway portion of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project sought to determine whether dose estimates could be calculated for populations in the 10 counties nearest the Hanford Site from atmospheric releases of iodine-131 from the site from 1944--1947. Phase 1 demonstrated the following: HEDR-calculated source-term estimates of iodine-131 releases to the atmosphere were within 20% of previously published estimates; calculated vegetation concentrations of iodine-131 agree well with previously published measurements; the highest of the Phase 1 preliminary dose estimates to the thyroid are consistent with independent, previously published estimates of doses to maximally exposed individuals; and, relatively crude, previously published measurements of thyroid burdens for Hanford workers are in the range of average burdens that the HEDR model estimated for similar reference individuals for the period 1944--1947. Preliminary median dose estimates summed over the year 1945--1947 for the primary pathway, air-pasture-cow-milk-thyroid, ranged from low median values of 0.006 rad for upwind adults who obtained milk from backyard cows not on pasture to high median values of 68.0 rad for downwind infants who drank milk from pasture-fed cows. Extremes of the estimated range are a low of essentially zero to upwind adults and a high of …
Date: July 1, 1991
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1991 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1991

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 4, 1991
Creator: Lucas, Donnie A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1991 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1991

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 11, 1991
Creator: Lucas, Donnie A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1991 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1991

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 18, 1991
Creator: Lucas, Donnie A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1991 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1991

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 25, 1991
Creator: Lucas, Donnie A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History