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20-TeV colliding-beam facilities (open access)

20-TeV colliding-beam facilities

In March, a workshop was held at Cornell University on the accelerator. The conclusion of this workshop was that a 20 TeV on 20 TeV proton-proton collider is technically feasable, that construction could begin after 2.5 to 4 years of research and development, and the cost would be 1.3 to 2 billion dollars. To put this machine into perspective one must consider the existing facilities listed in table I. There are about 23 high energy physics laboratories in the world that are being operated or constructed. Most of these labs have an effective energy of less than 100 GeV and study principally the known quarks and leptons. The only accelerator operating at an effective energy greater than 100 GeV is the CERN proton-antiproton system. As has been presented at this conference in other papers their success has been great in a very short time, the discovery of the vector bosons W and Z. The only machine approved that will have an effective energy greater than 1000 GeV is the Russian accelerator UNK. The effective energy of a 20 TeV on 20 TeV proton-proton collider would be about 15 TeV.
Date: September 15, 1983
Creator: Huson, F.R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysing Spinner Measurements from Well Tests Using Computerized Interpretation Techniques (open access)

Analysing Spinner Measurements from Well Tests Using Computerized Interpretation Techniques

The development of reliable spinner tools may help avoid much of the ambiquity which often accompanies well tests in geothermal wells, due to interlayer flows through the well bore. However, the use of both pressure and flow rate changes requires new methods of well test interpretation. The Stanford Geothermal Program has been developing microcomputer-based techniques for the simultaneous analysis of pressure and flow rate measurements. There are two key steps in the procedure. Firstly, the non-linear regression is achieved by calculating the gradients of the response (with respect to the unknown reservoir parameters) in Laplace space, and inverting numerically. Secondly, the variable flow rate is represented in terms of a superposition of many step changes - this was found to work better than a spline fit to the data. One problem was encountered when attempting to analyze data in which the spinner "stalled", causing a jump to zero flow rate. The method shows great promise in that the degrees of freedom on the interpretation are greatly reduced, the well bore storage effect disappears, and inter-feed flows do not affect the results.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Horne, Roland N.; Guillot, Alain & Rosa, Adalberta
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Production Data from the Krafla Geothermal Field, Iceland (open access)

Analysis of Production Data from the Krafla Geothermal Field, Iceland

The Krafla geothermal field in northeastern Iceland consists of several zones, which contain fluids of different composition and thermodynamic state (Stefansson, 1981). In this paper they examine production data from wells which are completed in two-phase zones. Transient changes in flow rate and flowing enthalpy are analyzed to obtain insight into relative (liquid and gas phase) permeabilities, and other reservoir parameters. Numerous studies have shown that predictions of geothermal reservoir behavior are strongly dependent upon the choice of relative permeability functions. There is an extensive literature on gas-oil and oil-water relative permeabilities, but steam-water relative permeabilities which are needed for geothermal reservoir analysis are poorly known. Laboratory experiments by Chen et al. (1978) and Counsil and Ramey (1979) have provided some data which, however, seem to be at variance with relative permeability characteristics deduced from field data by Grant (1977) and Horne and Ramey (1978). The differences may reflect uncertainties in the analysis methods used, or they may reflect ''real'' differences in relative permeability behavior of fractured reservoirs from that of porous medium-type laboratory cores. Recent theoretical work by Menzies (1982) and Gudmundsson et al. (1983) has substantiated the relative permeability characteristics obtained by Horne and Ramey (1978) for Wairakei …
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Pruess, K.; Bodvarsson, G. S. & Stefansson, V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attempt to compare two arc orbit correction schemes analytically (open access)

Attempt to compare two arc orbit correction schemes analytically

Consider a transport line that consists of periodic cells. Let the beam position monitors and the orbit correctors be located with the same period as the cells and let the BPM's and the corrector distributions interlace each other. The arrangement does not always provide a stable orbit correction. The criterion for stability has been derived by Joe Murray and is reproduced. We calculate the rms orbit, the effect of BPM errors and the rms corrector strength in such correction schemes, yielding analytic formulae for these quantities. We then apply these formulae to the SLC arcs.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Chao, A. & Weng, W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Behaviors of Crack-Like Reservoirs by Means of Fracturing at Nigorikawa and Kakkonda Geothermal Fields (open access)

Behaviors of Crack-Like Reservoirs by Means of Fracturing at Nigorikawa and Kakkonda Geothermal Fields

A basic concept of the geothermal reservoir as a set of cracks is first presented. Extensions of subsurface cracks during well stimulation treatments at Nigorikawa(Mori) and closure operations of production well-head valves at Kakkonda are analysed and their behaviors are demonstrated based on results of long-distance AE Measurements.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Abe, Hiroyuki; Takahashi, Hideaki; Nakatsuka, Katsuto; Niitsuma, Hiroaki & Takanohashi, Morihiko
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broad-band soft x-ray diagnostic instruments at the LLNL Novette laser facility (open access)

Broad-band soft x-ray diagnostic instruments at the LLNL Novette laser facility

Complementary broad-band instruments have been developed to measure time dependent, absolute soft x-ray spectra at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Nd glass laser irradiation facilities. Absolute flux measurements of x rays emitted from laser-produced plasmas are important for understanding laser absorption and energy transport. We will describe two new 10-channel XRD systems that have been installed at the LLNL Novette facility for use in the 0.15- to 1.5-keV range. Since XRD channel time response is limited by available oscilloscope performance to 120 ps, a soft x-ray streak camera has been developed for better time resolution (20 ps) and greater dynamic range (approx.10/sup 3/) in the same x-ray energy region. Using suitable filters, grazing incidence mirrors, and a gold or cesium-iodide transmission cathode, this streak camera instrument has been installed at Novette to provide one broad and four relatively narrow channels. It can also be used in a single channel, spatially discriminating mode by means of pinhole imaging. The complementary nature of these instruments has been enhanced by locating them in close proximity and matching their channel energy responses. As an example of the use of these instruments, we present results from Novette 2..omega..(0.53 ..mu..m) gold disk irradiations at 1 …
Date: September 15, 1983
Creator: Tirsell, K.G.; Lee, P.H.Y.; Nilson, D.G. & Medecki, H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charged-particle beam: a safety mandate (open access)

Charged-particle beam: a safety mandate

The Advanced Test Accelerator (ATA) is a recent development in the field of charged particle beam research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. With this experimental apparatus, researchers will characterize intense pulses of electron beams propagated through air. Inherent with the ATA concept was the potential for exposure to hazards, such as high radiation levels and hostile breathing atmospheres. The need for a comprehensive safety program was mandated; a formal system safety program was implemented during the project's conceptual phase. A project staff position was created for a safety analyst who would act as a liaison between the project staff and the safety department. Additionally, the safety analyst would be responsible for compiling various hazards analyses reports, which formed the basis of th project's Safety Analysis Report. Recommendations for safety features from the hazards analysis reports were incorporated as necessary at appropriate phases in project development rather than adding features afterwards. The safety program established for the ATA project faciliated in controlling losses and in achieving a low-level of acceptable risk.
Date: July 15, 1983
Creator: Young, K.C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cost Effectiveness of Fracture Stimulation in Increasing the Flow from Geothermal Wells (open access)

The Cost Effectiveness of Fracture Stimulation in Increasing the Flow from Geothermal Wells

The cost effectiveness of fracture stimulation at The Geysers, the Imperial Valley, and other geothermal resource areas in the United States vas studied using GEOCOM, a computer code for analyzing the impact of completion activities on the life-cycle costs of geothermal wells. Technologies for fracturing the reservoir near the wellbore involve the creation of a pressure pulse in the wellbore by means of either hydraulic or explosive force. The cost of a single fracture stimulation job can vary from $50,000 to over $500,000, with a typical cost of around $300,000. The code shows that additional flow achieved by fracture stimulation must exceed 10,000 pounds per hour for each $100,000 invested in stimulation in order for a fracture treatment to be cost effective. In some reservoirs, this additional flow must be as great as 30,000 pounds per hour. The cost effectiveness of fracturing has not yet been demonstrated in the field. The Geothermal Well Stimulation Program achieved an overall average of about 10,000 pounds per hour for each $100,000 invested.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Brown, Gerald L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cost Overruns in Major Weapon Systems: Current Dimensions of a Longstanding Problem (open access)

Cost Overruns in Major Weapon Systems: Current Dimensions of a Longstanding Problem

This paper reviews the initiatives of the Reagan Administration to control cost overruns during the last 2 and a half years and the actions taken by the Congress to strengthen its oversight role. Particular attention is directed at the critical need to enhance management incentive and accountability at all level of the acquisition process. If recently instituted reform in the Department of Defense fail to control cost overruns, pressure may grow for a more sweeping and radical approach. Serious consideration in such an event might even be given to removing responsibility for weapons acquisition management for the military service and assigning it to a civilian-operated supply agency.
Date: October 15, 1983
Creator: Lockwood, David E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical review of the chemistry and thermodynamics of technetium and some of its inorganic compounds and aqueous species (open access)

Critical review of the chemistry and thermodynamics of technetium and some of its inorganic compounds and aqueous species

Chemical and thermodynamic data for Technetium (Tc) and some of its inorganic compounds and aqueous species are reviewed here. Major emphasis is given to systems with potential geochemical applications, especially the geochemistry of radioactive waste disposal. Compounds considered include oxides, hydroxides, hydrates oxides, halides, oxyhalides, double halides, and sulfides. The aqueous species considered include those in both noncomplexing media (pertechnetates, technetates, aquo-ions, and hydrolyzed cations) and complexing media (halides, sulfates, and phosphates). Thermodynamic values are recommended for specific compounds and aqueous ions when reliable experimental data are available. Where thermodynamic data are inadequate or unavailable, the chemistry is still discussed to provide information about what needs to be measured, and which chemistry needs to be clarified. A major application of these thermodynamic data will be for chemical equilibrium modeling and for construction of potential-pH diagrams for aqueous solutions. Unfortunately, the present lack of data precludes such calculations for complexing aqueous media. The situation is much better for noncomplexing aqueous media, but the chemistry and thermodynamics of cationic Tc(V) species and hydrolyzed Tc(III) species are poorly understood. 240 references, 6 tables.
Date: September 15, 1983
Creator: Rard, J.A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crustal Rock Fracture Mechanics for Design and Control of Artificial Subsurface Cracks in Geothermal Energy Extraction Engineering ({Gamma}-Project) (open access)

Crustal Rock Fracture Mechanics for Design and Control of Artificial Subsurface Cracks in Geothermal Energy Extraction Engineering ({Gamma}-Project)

Recently a significant role of artificial and/or natural cracks in the geothermal reservoir has been demonstrated in the literatures (Abe, H., et al., 1983, Nielson, D.L. and Hullen, J.B., 1983), where the cracks behave as fluid paths and/or heat exchanging surfaces. Until now, however, there are several problems such as a design procedure of hydraulic fracturing, and a quantitative estimate of fluid and heat transfer for reservoir design. In order to develop a design methodology of geothermal reservoir cracks, a special distinguished research project, named as ''{Lambda}-Project'', started at Tohoku University (5 years project, 1983-1988). In this project a basic fracture mechanics model of geothermal reservoir cracks is being demonstrated and its validation is being discussed both theoretically and experimentally. This paper descibes an outline of ''{Lambda}-Project''.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Abe, Hiroyuki & Takahashi, Hideaki
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deploymerization of coal by direct solvent attack. Semi-annual report, April 1, 1983-August 31, 1983 (open access)

Deploymerization of coal by direct solvent attack. Semi-annual report, April 1, 1983-August 31, 1983

The depolymerization of Illinois No. 6 coal by a series of solvents having different basecities (pK/sub a/) and nucleophilicities (Swain-Scott nu values) showed no dependence on either the basicity of nucleophilicity of the solvents. As expected, the conversion decreases as the temperature of the reaction is reduced, but the lower the reaction temperature, the higher the percentage of amine incorporation becomes in the products. 5 tables.
Date: September 15, 1983
Creator: Larsen, J. W. & Mohammadi, M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Desert Peak: A Geothermal Field in Churchill County, Nevada (open access)

Desert Peak: A Geothermal Field in Churchill County, Nevada

The 400{degree}F liquid dominated Desert Peak geothermal reservoir produces from fractures associated with intersecting north-northeast and east-northeast trending normal faults. Fractures occur in intrusive basement rocks, pre-Tertiary metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks, and Tertiary volcanic rocks. Static temperature surveys from six deep wells indicate that the reservoir has both recharge and discharge in the vicinity of wells B21-1 and 86-21. Interference data, from a 30-day flow test of 86-21 show high reservoir connectivity. the calculated transmissivity is an order of magnitude higher in a north-south direction than in an east-west direction. A reservoir thickness on the order of thousands of feet and disturbed reserves in excess of 7 billion barrels are estimated. A conceptual model of the Desert Peak system contains meteric water derived from the Carson and Fernley Sinks. Heated at depth, water rises up along normal faults into highly fractured rocks between the depths of 3000 and 9000 feet, forming a geothermal reservoir. the thermal water naturally rises or leaks out of the reservoir up normal faults to within a few hundred feet of the surface until it has reached hydrostatic equilibrium or is blocked by discontinuous impermeable lacustrine sedimentary rocks. In the latter case it spreads out laterally …
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Goyal, K.P.; Benoit, W.R.; Maas, J.P. & Rosser, J.R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and Development of a Test Facility to Study Two-Phase Steam/Water Flow in Porous Media (open access)

Design and Development of a Test Facility to Study Two-Phase Steam/Water Flow in Porous Media

The concept of relative permeability is the key concept in extending Darcy's law for single phase flow through porous media to the two-phase flow regime. Relative permeability functions are needed for simulation studies of two-phase geothermal reservoirs. These are poorly known inspite of considerable theoretical and experimental investigations during the last decade. Since no conclusive results exist, many investigators use ad hoc parametrization, or adopt results obtined from flow of oil and gas (Corey, 1954). It has been shown by Reda and Eaton (1980) that this can lead to serious deficiencies. Sensitivity of the relative permeability curves for prediction of mass flow rate and flowing enthalpy into geothermal wells has been studied by many investigators (e.g. Eaton and Reda (1980), Bodvarsson et al (1980), Sun and Ershagi (1979) etc.). It can be concluded from these studies that the beehavior of a two-phase steam/water reservoir depends greatly on the relative permeability curves used. Hence, there exists a need for obtaining reliable relative permeability functions.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Verma, Ashok K.; Pruess, Karsten; Bodvarsson, G. S.; Tsang, C. F. & Witherspoon, Paul A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development and Use of a High Temperature Downhole Flowmeter for Geothermal Well Logging (open access)

The Development and Use of a High Temperature Downhole Flowmeter for Geothermal Well Logging

This paper discusses the development and use of a high temperature (300{degrees}C) downhole flowmeter for geothermal well logging. The availability of the instrument gives the reservoir engineer a powerful tool for formation evaluation and studying wellbore dynamics. The instrument components, their function, and temperature limitations are discussed in detail. Several field examples of spinner log interpretation are also presented.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Solbau, R.D.; Goranson, C.B. & Benson, S.M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disposal of Flashed Brine Dosed with CaCO{sub3} Scale Inhibitor: What Happens When the Inhibitor is Exhausted? (open access)

Disposal of Flashed Brine Dosed with CaCO{sub3} Scale Inhibitor: What Happens When the Inhibitor is Exhausted?

A freshly flashed geothermal liquid, previously dosed with inhibitor and super-saturated with calcite was injected into another well where it displaced an unflashed counterpart of itself around the wellbore. Back-production of the injectate, and subsequently the native fluid, has yielded data for the rate that a scale inhibitor is degraded after injection. The circumstance also displays a novel mechanism whereby two fluids that do not physically mix never the less reactive with one another through the reservoir rock's serving a role of intermediary. The results have been further interpretated to conclude that in some circumstances a short lifetime for the scale inhibitor is not necessarily a problem for long-term injection.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Michels, D. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
DOE's Current Geothermal Reservoir Programs and Comments on International Cooperation in Hydrothermal Research (open access)

DOE's Current Geothermal Reservoir Programs and Comments on International Cooperation in Hydrothermal Research

DOE's geothermal program continues to emphasize a range of reservoir-related programs in reservoir definition, brine injection, stimulation, hot dry rock, geopressured resources and, now, magma resources. These programs are described briefly. Programs in international cooperation between the U.S. and 23 other countries on hydrothermal research have produced important gains in knowledge over the past ten years. Although the activity has diminished, a resurgence is anticipated.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Toms, Ronald S. H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Doublet Tracer Testing in Klamath Falls, Oregon (open access)

Doublet Tracer Testing in Klamath Falls, Oregon

A tracer test was carried out in a geothermal doublet system to study the injection behavior of a developed reservoir known to be fractured. The doublet produces about 320 gpm of 160 F water that is used for space heating and then injected; the wells are spaced 250 ft apart. Tracer breakthrough was observed in 2 hours and 45 minutes in the production well, indicating fracture flow. However, the tracer concentrations were low and indicated porous media flow; the tracers mixed with a reservoir volume much larger than a fracture.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Gudmundsson, J.S.; Johnson, S.E.; Horne, R.N.; Jackson, P.B. & Culver, G.G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Scaling on Downhole Pressure Transient Data (open access)

Effect of Scaling on Downhole Pressure Transient Data

Test data from several wells where scale either formed in the wellbore or in the reservoir have been observed. Some generalizations can be made about the behavior of downhole and wellhead pressure during drawdown and build-up. In addition, estimates of the size of the obstruction can be made in the field. Reservoir parameters can be calculated from pressure build-ups, after the problem of downhole scaling has been identified.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Petty, Susan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Natural Recharge on Gas Composition in the Larderello - Castelnuovo Area (open access)

Effects of Natural Recharge on Gas Composition in the Larderello - Castelnuovo Area

A study of the temporal behaviour of gas compsition in the Larderello-Castelnuovo area shows that this behaviour varies, depending on whether the wells are affected or not by natural recharge. Where no natural recharge exists, gas composition seems to be governed by chemical equilibria. The recharge water, and the steam it produces, mix with the fluid already existing in the reservoir. At Larderello (far from absorption areas) the gas composition resulting from this mixing does not undergo further changes by chemical reaction. This is due either to a lack of reactivity where there is no liquid phase or to an ineffective fluid-rock interaction. At Castelnuovo (close to absorption areas) the H{sub 2}S and CH{sub 4} contents in the gas have gradually decreased with the increase in recharge effects. The decrease in H{sub 2}S can be attributed to dissolution in liquid water and oxidation. Various hypotheses have been forwarded for the methane. The correlation existing between CH{sub 4} and N{sub 2} concentrations, even when methane decreases in the areas affected by recharge, suggests that CH{sub 4} may be governed by more than just the Fisher-Tropsch reaction.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: D'Amore, Franco; Celati, Romano; Calore, Claudio & Bertrami, Rino
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of voltage control in utility interactive dispersed storage and generation systems (open access)

Effects of voltage control in utility interactive dispersed storage and generation systems

When a small generator is connected to the distribution system, the voltage at the point of interconnection is determined largely by the system and not the generator. This report examines the effect on the generator, on the load voltage and on the distribution system of a number of different voltage control strategies in the generator. Synchronous generators with three kinds of exciter control are considered, as well as induction generators and dc/ac inverters, with and without capacitor compensation. The effect of varying input power during operation (which may be experienced by generators based on renewable resources) is explored, as well as the effect of connecting and disconnecting the generator at ten percent of its rated power.
Date: March 15, 1983
Creator: Kirkham, H. & Das, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy and The 98th Congress: Overview (open access)

Energy and The 98th Congress: Overview

This report is about perceptions of national energy problem
Date: June 15, 1983
Creator: Bamberger, Robert & Behrens, Carl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental, health, and safety assessment of photovoltaics (open access)

Environmental, health, and safety assessment of photovoltaics

Potential enviornmental, health, and safety (E,H and S) concerns associated with all phases of the photovoltaic (PV) energy system life cycle are identified and assessed. E,H and S concerns affecting the achievement of National PV Program goals or the viability of specific PV technologies are emphasized. The report is limited to near-term manufacturing process alternatives for crystalline silicon PV materials, addresses flat-plate and concentrator collector designs, and reviews system deployment in grid-connected, roof-mounted, residential and ground-mounted central-station applications. The PV life-cycle phases examined include silicon refinement and manufacture of PV collectors, system deployment, and decommissioning. The primary E,H and S concerns that arise during collector fabrication are associated with occupational exposure to materials of undetermined toxicity or to materials that are known to be hazardous, but for which process control technology may be inadequate. Stricter exposure standards are anticipated for some materials and may indicate a need for further control technology development. Minimizing electric shock hazards is a significant concern during system construction, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning.
Date: October 15, 1983
Creator: Rose, Elizabeth C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluating Geothermal Reserves with Application of Well Interference and Pressure Buildup Tests (open access)

Evaluating Geothermal Reserves with Application of Well Interference and Pressure Buildup Tests

In order to evaluate geothermal reserves, it is necessary to estimate the porosity-thickness product of the reservoir. This paper deals with the method for estimating the porosity-thickness product of geothermal reservoirs by means of combining well interference and pressure buildup tests. A field study from the Chingshui geothermal area in Taiwan is given to illustrate the application of the method.
Date: December 15, 1983
Creator: Chiu, T. L.; Chiang, C. Y. & Wu, T. S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library