Oak Ridge K-25 Site Technology Logic Diagram (open access)

Oak Ridge K-25 Site Technology Logic Diagram

The Oak Ridge K-25 Technology Logic Diagram (TLD), a decision support tool for the K-25 Site, was developed to provide a planning document that relates envirorunental restoration and waste management problems at the Oak Ridge K-25 Site to potential technologies that can remediate these problems. The TLD technique identifies the research necessary to develop these technologies to a state that allows for technology transfer and application to waste management, remedial action, and decontamination and decommissioning activities. The TLD consists of four separate volumes-Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3A, and Vol. 3B. Volume 1 provides introductory and overview information about the TLD. This volume, Volume 2, contains logic diagrams with an index. Volume 3 has been divided into two separate volumes to facilitate handling and use.
Date: February 26, 1993
Creator: Fellows, R. L. (ed.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automated binding of attributes to telemetry data (open access)

Automated binding of attributes to telemetry data

An automated method is described for binding attributes to extracted data from a telemetry steam. These attributes can be used by post processing utilities to facilitate efficient analysis. A practical implementation of such a scheme is described.
Date: April 26, 1993
Creator: Kalibjian, J. R.; Voss, T. J.; Yio, J. J. & Hedeline, B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military and diplomatic roles and options for managing and responding to the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Final report: Program on Stability and the Offense/Defense Relationship (open access)

Military and diplomatic roles and options for managing and responding to the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Final report: Program on Stability and the Offense/Defense Relationship

The March seminar, ``Military and Diplomatic Roles and Options`` for managing and responding to proliferation, featured three presentations: the military and diplomatic implications of preemptive force as a counterproliferation option; an in-depth assessment of the threat posed by biological weapons; and, a new proposed US counterproliferation policy.
Date: May 26, 1993
Creator: Hallenbeck, R. A.; Gill, J. M. & Murray, B. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indiana University High Energy Physics Group, Task C. Technical progress report, November 1, 1992--October 31, 1993 (open access)

Indiana University High Energy Physics Group, Task C. Technical progress report, November 1, 1992--October 31, 1993

The Indiana University Task C group is participating in the experiments GEM at the SSC and MACRO at the Gran Sasso. After an introduction to GEM in {paragraph}II, a detailed report is presented on the work done during the current contract period on the design of the outer region of the GEM Central Tracker. The Central Tracker Monte Carlo, which was the other significant GEM activity by the group, is included. In {paragraph}III is introduced MACRO and a brief status report is given. Muon Astronomy analysis done using MACRO data is also presented.
Date: April 26, 1993
Creator: Bower, C.; Heinz, R.; Mufson, S. & Musser, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heteronuclear probes of coal structure and reactivity. Quarterly report, [April--June 1993] (open access)

Heteronuclear probes of coal structure and reactivity. Quarterly report, [April--June 1993]

During this past quarter we further addressed the question of which species catalyzes removal of sulfur from coal by Bu{sub 3}P.
Date: July 26, 1993
Creator: Verkade, J. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automated analysis tools for reducing spacecraft telemetry data (open access)

Automated analysis tools for reducing spacecraft telemetry data

A practical description is presented of the methods used to reduce spacecraft telemetry data using a hierarchial toolkit of software programs developed for a UNIX environment. A project requiring the design, implementation and test flight of small, lightweight spacecraft was recently conducted. This spacecraft development required hundreds of tests and integrations of subsystems on several special purpose testbeds, with each test creating large amounts of telemetered data. This paper focuses on the automated analysis and reduction of data which is telemetered from one of the key subsystems, the Probe. A typical telemetry stream from a testbed run averaged 50 Megabytes of raw data, containing over 1600 system variables. The large telemetry file (raw data) sent from the Probe was decoded and decomposed into a large number of smaller Break Out Files (BOFs) containing variables with timestamps, and image files.
Date: April 26, 1993
Creator: Voss, T. J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synergistic capture mechanisms for alkali and sulphur species from combustion. Quarterly report No. 10, December 1992--February 1993 (open access)

Synergistic capture mechanisms for alkali and sulphur species from combustion. Quarterly report No. 10, December 1992--February 1993

A number of sorbents with alumina-silicate base and sulfur capturing active sites have been developed for simultaneous removal of alkali metal compounds and sulfur dioxide. Current report will focus on bauxite sorbents, which includes experiments on sulfur dioxide absorption, alkali capturing and alkali/sulfur absorption simultaneously by bauxite-based sorbents. The alkali compound used here is sodium chloride. Experiments show an effective adsorption of sulfur or alkali separately, and the combined adsorption of alkali/sulfur. Atomic absorption analysis of reaction products shows that there is a much higher sodium content in the combined reaction products than that of the single reaction of alkali absorption by bauxite. Further X-ray diffraction analysis shows that there is sodium sulfate in the final products of simultaneous reaction, which indicates the formation and then condensation of sodium sulfate in the reaction system.
Date: July 26, 1993
Creator: Peterson, T. W.; Shadman, F.; Wendt, J. O. L. & Wu, Baochun
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnetization and magnetostriction in highly magnetostrictive materials (open access)

Magnetization and magnetostriction in highly magnetostrictive materials

The majority of this research has been in developing a model to describe the magnetostrictive properties of Terfenol-D, Tb{sub 1{minus}x}Dy{sub x}Fe{sub y} (x = 0.7-0.75 and y = 1.8--2.0), a rare earth-iron alloy which displays much promise for use in device applications. In the first chapter an introduction is given to the phenomena of magnetization and magnetostriction. The magnetic processes responsible for the observed magnetic properties of materials are explained. An overview is presented of the magnetic properties of rare earths, and more specifically the magnetic properties of Terfenol-D. In the second chapter, experimental results are presented on three composition of Tb{sub 1{minus}x}Dy{sub x}Fe{sub y} with x = 0.7, y= 1.9, 1.95, and x= 0.73, y= 1.95. The data were taken for various levels of prestress to show the effects of composition and microstructure on the magnetic and magnetostrictive properties of Terfenol-D. In the third chapter, a theoretical model is developed based on the rotation of magnetic domains. The model is used to explain the magnetic and magnetostrictive properties of Terfenol-D, including the observed negative strictions and large change in strain. The fourth chapter goes on to examine the magnetic properties of Terfenol-D along different crystallographic orientations. In the fifth …
Date: May 26, 1993
Creator: Thoelke, J. B.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automated application of calibration factors on telemetered data (open access)

Automated application of calibration factors on telemetered data

A long standing problem in telemetry post processing is the application of correct calibration factors to telemetered data generated on a system which has had a history of hardware changes. These calibration problems become most exacerbated when old test data is being examined and there is uncertainty as to hardware configuration at the time of the test. In this paper a mechanism for introducing a high degree of reliability in the application of calibration factors is described in an implementation done for Brilliant Pebbles Flight Experiment Three (FE-3).
Date: April 26, 1993
Creator: Kalibjian, J. R.; Voss, T. J. & Yio, J. J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monthly energy review, August 1993 (open access)

Monthly energy review, August 1993

This publication presents information for the month of August, 1993 on the following: Energy overview; energy consumption; petroleum; natural gas; oil and gas resource development; coal; electricity; nuclear energy; energy prices, and international energy.
Date: August 26, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A packet based, data driven telemetry system for autonomous experimental sub-orbital spacecraft (open access)

A packet based, data driven telemetry system for autonomous experimental sub-orbital spacecraft

A data driven telemetry system is described that responds to the rapid nature in which experimental satellite telemetry content is changed during the development process. It also meets the needs of a diverse experiment which the many phases of a mission may contain radically different types of telemetry data. The system emphasizes mechanisms for achieving high redundancy of critical data. A practical example of such an implementation, Brilliant Pebbles Flight Experiment Three (FE-3), is cited.
Date: April 26, 1993
Creator: Kalibjian, J. R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrated seismic study of naturally fractured tight gas reservoirs. Technical progress report, January 1, 1993--March 31, 1993 (open access)

Integrated seismic study of naturally fractured tight gas reservoirs. Technical progress report, January 1, 1993--March 31, 1993

During this quarter we (1) received the last of the field tapes and survey information for the seismic field data acquisition which was finished at the very end of the previous quarter, (2) began the large task of processing the seismic data, (3) collected well logs and other informination to aid in the interpretation, and (4) initiated some seismic modeling studies. As already reported, the field data acquisition was at Amoco`s Powder River Basin site in southeast Wyoming. This is a low permeability fractured site, with both gas and oil present. The reservoir is highly compartmentalized, due to the low permeability, with the fractures providing the only practical drainage paths for production. The two formations of interest are: The Niobrara: a fractured shale and limey shale to chalk, which is a reservoir rock, but also its own source rock. The Frontier: a tight sandstone lying directly below the Niobrara, brought into contact with it by an unconformity. The fractures are thought to lie in a roughly northwest-southeast trend, along the strike of a flexure, which forms one of the boundaries of the basin.
Date: April 26, 1993
Creator: Mavko, G. & Nur, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
High energy asymptotics of perturbative multi-color QCD (open access)

High energy asymptotics of perturbative multi-color QCD

The structure functions of deep-inelastic scattering at small-x satisfy two different equations in the leading logarithmic approximation (LLA). The first one -- the GLAP equation, describes the Q{sup 2}-evolution of partonic distributions h{sub i}(x). The second one -- the BFKL, equation determines the x-dependence of parton densities H{sub i}(x, k{sub {perpendicular}}). Analogous equations for matrix elements of higher twist operators were constructed in Refs. 3 and 4. Here the author discusses the possibility of finding an exact solution for multi-gluon compound states in LLA for the color group SU(N), in the limit N {yields} {infinity}. The contributions of diagrams with many reggeized gluons are important for the unitarization of the perturbative Pomeron in QCD. It is shown that the Bethe-Salpeter equations for compound states of many reggeized gluons are conformally invariant in the two-dimensional impact parameter space. Their solutions can be written in holomorphically factorized form and there is a differential operator commuting with the holomorphic part of the corresponding Hamiltonian.
Date: August 26, 1993
Creator: Lipatov, L. N.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fernald Waste Recycling Program (open access)

The Fernald Waste Recycling Program

Recycling is considered a critical component of the waste disposition strategy at the Fernald Plant. It is estimated that 33 million cubic feet of waste will be generated during the Fernald cleanup. Recycling some portion of this waste will not only conserve natural resources and disposal volume but will, even more significantly, support the preservation of existing disposition options such as off-site disposal or on-site storage. Recognizing the strategic implications of recycling, this paper outlines the criteria used at Fernald to make recycle decisions and highlights several of Fernald`s current recycling initiatives.
Date: October 26, 1993
Creator: Motl, G. P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
User`s guide to ESME v. 8.1 (open access)

User`s guide to ESME v. 8.1

ESME is a computer program to calculate the evolution of a distribution of particles in energy and azimuth as it is acted upon by the radio frequency system of a proton synchrotron. It provides for the modeling of multiple rf systems, feedback control, space charge, and many of the effects of longitudinal coupling impedance. The capabilities of the program are described, and the requirements for input data are specified in sufficient detail to permit significant calculations by an uninitiated user. The program is currently at version 8.1 and extensively modified since the previous user documentation. Changes since the 7.xx versions include a new command and associated parameters for mapping phase space flow lines, new names for a few parameters, and a few new parameters for old commands. Special attention has been given to features relating to calculation of the collective potential and the generation of phase space trajectories including its effects. The VAX-based code management convention has been modified slightly to permit pre-compile options to be used in the include files as well as the program source files. The biggest change from v. 8.0 to v. 8.1 is the addition of code for HIGZ-based graphics; the new code and that …
Date: August 26, 1993
Creator: MacLachlan, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Pomeron and QCD with many light quarks (open access)

The Pomeron and QCD with many light quarks

An outline is given of the physics relating the Pomeron phase transition to the anomaly in QCD with many massless quarks. Implications for the existence of a further quark sector and its relation to dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking are described.
Date: August 26, 1993
Creator: White, A. R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monthly energy review, October 1993 (open access)

Monthly energy review, October 1993

The Monthly Energy Review gives information on production, distribution, and consumption for various energy sources, e.g. petroleum, natural gas, oil, coal, electricity, and nuclear energy. Some data is also included on international energy sources and supplies, the import of petroleum products into the US and pricing and reserves data (as applicable) for the various sources of energy listed above.
Date: October 26, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Petroleum supply monthly, October 1993 (open access)

Petroleum supply monthly, October 1993

The Petroleum Supply Monthly (PSM) is one of a family of four publications produced by the Petroleum Supply Division within the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reflecting different levels of data timeliness and completeness. The other publications are the Weekly Petroleum Status Report (WPSR), the Winter Fuels Report, and the Petroleum Supply Annual (PSA). Data presented in the PSM describe the supply and disposition of petroleum products in the United States and major US geographic regions. The data series describe production, imports and exports, inter-Petroleum Administration for Defense (PAD) District movements, and inventories by the primary suppliers of petroleum products in the United States (50 States and the District of Columbia). The reporting universe includes those petroleum sectors in primary supply. Included are: petroleum refiners, motor gasoline blenders, operators of natural gas processing plants and fractionators, inter-PAD transporters, importers, and major inventory holders of petroleum products and crude oil. When aggregated, the data reported by these sectors approximately represent the consumption of petroleum products in the United States. Data presented in the PSM are divided into two sections: Summary Statistics and Detailed Statistics.
Date: October 26, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air toxics evaluation of ABB Combustion Engineering Low-Emission Boiler Systems (open access)

Air toxics evaluation of ABB Combustion Engineering Low-Emission Boiler Systems

The specific goals of the program are to identify air toxic compounds that might be emmitted from the new boiler with its various Air Pollution Control device for APCD alternatives in levels of regulatory concern. For the compounds thought to be of concern, potential air toxic control methodologies will be suggested and a Test Protocol will be written to be used in the Proof of Concept and full scale tests. The following task was defined: Define Replations and Standards; Identify Air Toxic Pollutants of Interest to Interest to Utility Boilers; Assesment of Air Toxic By-Products; State of the Art Assessment of Toxic By-Product Control Technologies; and Test Protocol Definition.
Date: October 26, 1993
Creator: Wesnor, J. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Winter Fuels Report: Week Ending November 19, 1993 (open access)

Winter Fuels Report: Week Ending November 19, 1993

The Winter Fuels Report is intended to provide concise, timely information to the industry, the press, policymakers, consumers, analysts, and State and local governments on the following topics: Distillate fuel oil net production, imports and stocks on a US level and for all Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADD) and product supplied on a US level; propane net production, imports and stocks on a US level and for PADD`s I, II, and III; natural gas supply and disposition and underground storage for the US and consumption for all PADD`S; as well as selected National average prices; residential and wholesale pricing data for heating oil and propane for those States participating in the joint Energy Information Administration (EIA)/State Heating Oil and Propane Program; crude oil and petroleum price comparisons for the US and selected cities; and a 6--10 Day, 30-Day, and 90-Day outlook for temperature and precipitation and US total heating degree-days by city.
Date: November 26, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Disposal Systems, Inc., proposed method for the determination of health based limits for waste substances not covered in UIC Guidance No. 71 (open access)

Review of Disposal Systems, Inc., proposed method for the determination of health based limits for waste substances not covered in UIC Guidance No. 71

The Underground Injection Control Branch of the Office of Drinking Water, US Environmental Protection Agency requested evaluation of a document submitted by Disposal Systems, Incorporated (DSI), in which health based limits (HBLS) were established for 442 hazardous compounds listed in 40 CFR 261, Appendix VII[I and 40 CFR 264, Appendix IX. The contractor was asked to review the document, evaluate the proposed methods for assigning HBLS, and determine whether - the relationship established between HBLs and concentration reduction factors is valid. He was also asked to determine the suitability of the use of ``reference molecules`` as a substitute for those compounds for which no data allows specification of HBLs and evaluate whether DSI`s approach could be used to modify and upgrade UIC Guidance No. 7 1. Finally, the feasibility of computer model simulations was to be considered if complex and varied mixes of compounds were to be injected.
Date: January 26, 1993
Creator: Apps, J. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solubility of pllutonium in alkaline salt solutions (open access)

Solubility of pllutonium in alkaline salt solutions

Plutonium solubility data from several studies have been evaluated. For each data set, a predictive model has been developed where appropriate. In addition, a statistical model and corresponding prediction intervals for plutonium solubility as a quadratic function of the hydroxide concentration have been developed. Because of the wide range of solution compositions, the solubility of plutonium can vary by as much as three orders of magnitude for any given hydroxide concentration and still remain within the prediction interval. Any nuclear safety assessments that depend on the maximum amount of plutonium dissolved in alkaline salt solutions should use concentrations at least as great as the upper prediction limits developed in this study. To increase the confidence in the prediction model, it is recommended that additional solubility tests be conducted at low hydroxide concentrations and with all of the other solution components involved. To validate the model for application to actual waste solutions, it is recommended that the plutonium solubilities in actual waste solutions be determined and compared to the values predicted by the quadratic model.
Date: February 26, 1993
Creator: Hobbs, D. T. & Edwards, T. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Construction of the Courant-Snyder invariants for the non-linear equations of motion and criterion for the long-term stability of the beam in a storage ring (open access)

Construction of the Courant-Snyder invariants for the non-linear equations of motion and criterion for the long-term stability of the beam in a storage ring

The Courant-Snyder invariants become Lyapunov functions when the {beta}-functions admit non-zero lower, and finite upper bounds. The long-term stability of motion then follows. This alternative criterion for the long-term stability of motion can be generalized to the nonlinear case. A single particle subjected to an arbitrary static magnetic field is considered in some detail, as an example.
Date: April 26, 1993
Creator: Garczynski, V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification, definition and evaluation of potential impacts facing the US electric utility industry over the next decade. Final report (open access)

Identification, definition and evaluation of potential impacts facing the US electric utility industry over the next decade. Final report

There are numerous conditions of the generation system that may ultimately develop into system states affecting system reliability and security. Such generation system conditions should also be considered when evaluating the potential impacts on system operations. The following five issues have been identified to impact system reliability and security to the greatest extent: transmission access/retail wheeling; non-utility generators and independent power producers; integration of dispersed storage and generation into utility distribution systems; EMF and right-of-way limitations; Clean Air Act Amendments. Strictly speaking, some issues are interrelated and one issue cannot be completely dissociated from the others. However, this report addresses individual issues separately in order to determine all major aspects of bulk power system operations affected by each issue. The impacts of the five issues on power system reliability and security are summarized. This report examines the five critical issues that the US electric utility industry will be facing over the next decade. The investigation of their impacts on utility industry will be facing over the next decade. The investigation of their impacts on utility system reliability and security is limited to the system operation viewpoint. Those five issues will undoubtedly influence various planning aspects of the bulk transmission system. …
Date: November 26, 1993
Creator: Grainger, J. J. & Lee, S. S. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library