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3-D Finite Element Analyses of the Egan Cavern Field (open access)

3-D Finite Element Analyses of the Egan Cavern Field

Three-dimensional finite element analyses were performed for the two gas-filled storage caverns at the Egan field, Jennings dome, Louisiana. The effects of cavern enlargement on surface subsidence, storage loss, and cavern stability were investigated. The finite element model simulated the leaching of caverns to 6 and 8 billion cubic feet (BCF) and examined their performance at various operating conditions. Operating pressures varied from 0.15 psi/ft to 0.9 psi/ft at the bottom of the lowest cemented casing. The analysis also examined the stability of the web or pillar of salt between the caverns under differential pressure loadings. The 50-year simulations were performed using JAC3D, a three dimensional finite element analysis code for nonlinear quasistatic solids. A damage criterion based on onset of dilatancy was used to evaluate cavern instability. Dilation results from the development of microfractures in salt and, hence, potential increases in permeability onset occurs well before large scale failure. The analyses predicted stable caverns throughout the 50-year period for the range of pressures investigated. Some localized salt damage was predicted near the bottom walls of the caverns if the caverns are operated at minimum pressure for long periods of time. Volumetric cavern closures over time due to creep were …
Date: February 1, 1999
Creator: Klamerus, E.W. & Ehgartner, B.L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
3-D Ray-tracing and 2-D Fokker-Planck Simulations of Radiofrequency Application to Tokamak Plasmas (open access)

3-D Ray-tracing and 2-D Fokker-Planck Simulations of Radiofrequency Application to Tokamak Plasmas

A state of the art numerical tool has been developed to simulate the propagation and the absorption of coexisting different types of waves in a tokamak geometry. The code includes a numerical solution of the three-dimensional (R, Z, {Phi}) toroidal wave equation for the electric field of the different waves in the WKBJ approximation. At each step of integration, the two-dimensional (v{sub {parallel}}, v{sub {perpendicular}}) Fokker-Planck equation is solved in the presence of quasilinear diffusion coefficients. The electron Landau damping of the waves is modeled taking into account the interaction of the wave electric fields with the quasilinearly modified distribution function. Consistently, the code calculates the radial profiles of non-inductively generated current densities, the transmitted power traces and the total power damping curves. Synergistic effects among the different type of waves (e.g., lower hybrid and ion Bernstein waves) are studied through the separation of the contributions of the single wave from the effects due to their coexistence.
Date: May 1, 1999
Creator: Cardinali, A.; Paoletti, F. & Bernabei, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
3-D Target Location from Stereoscopic SAR Images (open access)

3-D Target Location from Stereoscopic SAR Images

SAR range-Doppler images are inherently 2-dimensional. Targets with a height offset lay over onto offset range and azimuth locations. Just which image locations are laid upon depends on the imaging geometry, including depression angle, squint angle, and target bearing. This is the well known layover phenomenon. Images formed with different aperture geometries will exhibit different layover characteristics. These differences can be exploited to ascertain target height information, in a stereoscopic manner. Depending on the imaging geometries, height accuracy can be on the order of horizontal position accuracies, thereby rivaling the best IFSAR capabilities in fine resolution SAR images. All that is required for this to work are two distinct passes with suitably different geometries from any plain old SAR.
Date: October 1, 1999
Creator: Doerry, Armin W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 4-8 GHz Stochastic Cooling Upgrade for the Fermilab Debuncher (open access)

The 4-8 GHz Stochastic Cooling Upgrade for the Fermilab Debuncher

During the Fermilab Collider Run II, the Main Injector is expected to provided a three-fold increase in flux of the proton beam sent to the antiproton production target as compared to the previous Collider Run Ib. This increase in antiproton production rate to 20 x 10{sup 10} antiprotons/hour will be handled by upgrading the stochastic cooling systems in both the Debuncher and Accumulator rings of the Fermilab Antiproton Source. In the Debuncher ring, the upgrade calls for increasing the stochastic cooling system bandwidth from 2-4 to 4-8 GHz. The effective front-end noise temperature of the cooling systems will also be lowered from 125K to 35K. This paper will discuss some details of the system design of the new 4-8 GHz cooling systems in the Debuncher Ring.
Date: January 1, 1999
Creator: McGinnis, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 110 GHz Gyrotron System on DIII-D: Gyrotron Tests and Physics Results (open access)

The 110 GHz Gyrotron System on DIII-D: Gyrotron Tests and Physics Results

The DIII-D tokamak has installed a system with three gyrotrons at the 1 MW level operating at 110 GHz. Physics experiments on electron cyclotron current drive, heating, and transport have been performed. Good efficiency has been achieved both for on-axis and off-axis current drive with relevance for control of the current density profile leading to advanced regimes of tokamak operation, although there is a difference between off-axis ECCD efficiency inside and outside the magnetic axis. Heating efficiency is excellent and electron temperatures up to 10 keV have been achieved. The gyrotron system is versatile, with poloidal scan and control of the polarization of the injected rf beam. Phase correcting mirrors form a Gaussian beam and focus it into the waveguide. Both perpendicular and oblique launch into the tokamak have been used. Three different gyrotron designs are installed and therefore unique problems specific to each have been encountered, including parasitic oscillations, mode hops during modulation and polarization control problems. Two of the gyrotrons suffered damage during operations, one due to filament failure and one due to a vacuum leak. The repairs and subsequent testing will be described. The transmission system uses evacuated, windowless waveguide and the three gyrotrons have output windows …
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: Lohr, J.; Calahan, P.; Callis, R. W.; Chu, T. S.; deGrassie, J. S.; Gorelov, I. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
340 waste handling facility interim safety basis (open access)

340 waste handling facility interim safety basis

This document presents an interim safety basis for the 340 Waste Handling Facility classifying the 340 Facility as a Hazard Category 3 facility. The hazard analysis quantifies the operating safety envelop for this facility and demonstrates that the facility can be operated without a significant threat to onsite or offsite people.
Date: April 1, 1999
Creator: VAIL, T.S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1999 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1999

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: July 1, 1999
Creator: Pace, Joshua
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1999 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1999

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 1, 1999
Creator: Ming, Holly
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
1998 Annual Site Environmental Report Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico (open access)

1998 Annual Site Environmental Report Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (SNL/NM) is operated in support of the US Department of Energy (DOE) mission to provide weapon component technology and hardware for national security needs. SNL/NM also conducts fundamental research and development to advance technology in energy research, computer science, waste management, microelectronics, materials science, and transportation safety for hazardous and nuclear components. In support of SNL's mission, the Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) Center and the Environmental Restoration (ER) Project at SNL/NM have established extensive environmental programs to assist SNL's line organizations in meeting all applicable local, State, and Federal environmental regulations and DOE requirements. This annual report for calendar year 1998 (CY98) summarizes the compliance status of environmental regulations applicable to SNL site operations. Environmental program activities include terrestrial surveillance; ambient air and meteorological monitoring hazardous, radioactive, and solid waste management; pollution prevention and waste minimization; environmental remediation; oil and chemical spill prevention; and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) activities. This report has been prepared in compliance with DOE Order 5400.1, General Environmental Protection Program (DOE 1990).
Date: September 1, 1999
Creator: Duncan, D. K.; Fink, C. H. & Sanchez, R. V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1998 Annual Site Environmental Report Tonopah Test Range, Nevada (open access)

1998 Annual Site Environmental Report Tonopah Test Range, Nevada

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) operates the Tonopah Test Range (TTR) for the Department of Energy (DOE) Weapons Ordnance Program. This annual report (calendar year 1998) summarizes the compliance status to environmental regulations applicable at the site including those statutes that govern air and water quality, waste management cleanup of contaminated areas, control of toxic substances, and adherence to requirements as related to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In compliance with DOE orders, SNL also conducts environmental surveillance for radiological and nonradiological contaminants. SNL's responsibility for environmental surveillance at TTR extends only to those areas where SNL activities are carried out. Annual radiological and nonradiological routine releases and unplanned releases (occurrences) are also summarized. This report has been prepared in accordance with DOE Order 5400.1, General Environmental Protection Program (DOE 1990a).
Date: September 1, 1999
Creator: Duncan, D. K.; Fink, C. H. & Sanchez, R. V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1998 Environmental Monitoring Program Report for the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (open access)

1998 Environmental Monitoring Program Report for the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

This report describes the calendar year 1998 compliance monitoring and environmental surveillance activities of the Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company Environmental Monitoring Program performed at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. This report includes results of sampling performed by the Drinking Water, Effluent, Storm Water, Groundwater Monitoring, and Environmental Surveillance Programs. This report compares the 1998 results to program-specific regulatory guidelines and past data to evaluate trends. The primary purposes of the monitoring and surveillance activities are to evaluate environmental conditions, to provide and interpret data, to verify compliance with applicable regulations or standards, and to ensure protection of public health and the environment. Surveillance of environmental media did not identify any previously unknown environmental problems or trends, which would indicate a loss of control or unplanned releases from facility operations. The INEEL complied with permits and applicable regulations, with the exception of nitrogen samples in a disposal pond effluent stream and iron and total coliform bacteria in groundwater downgradient from one disposal pond. Data collected by the Environmental Monitoring Program demonstrate that the public health and environment were protected.
Date: September 1, 1999
Creator: Street, L. V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1998 INEEL National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants - Radionuclides (open access)

1998 INEEL National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants - Radionuclides

Under Section 61.94 of Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 61, Subpart H, ''National Emission Standards for Emission of Radionuclides Other Than Radon From Department of Energy Facilities,'' each Department of Energy (DOE) facility must submit an annual report documenting compliance. This report addresses the Section 61.94 reporting requirements for operations at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) for calendar year (CY) 1998. The Idaho Operations Office of the DOE is the primary contract concerning compliance with the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs) at the INEEL. For CY 1998, airborne radionuclide emissions from the INEEL operations were calculated to result in a maximum individual dose to a member of the public of 7.92E-03 mrem (7.92E-08 Sievert). This effective dose equivalent (EDE) is well below the 40 CFR 61, Subpart H, regulatory standard of 10 mrem per year (1.0E-04 Sievert per year).
Date: June 1, 1999
Creator: Tkachyk, J. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1998 Laboratory Directed Research and Development Annual Report (open access)

1998 Laboratory Directed Research and Development Annual Report

This reports summarizes progress from the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program during fiscal year 1998.
Date: April 1, 1999
Creator: Chavez, D. & Meyers, C.E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1998 SITE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT FOR BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY. (open access)

1998 SITE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT FOR BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY.

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Date: September 1, 1999
Creator: SER PRODUCTION TEAM (MANY AUTHORS), KATHY CARNEY, PRODUCTION MANAGER
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1998 Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Report for the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, Title III (open access)

1998 Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Report for the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, Title III

The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) of 1986 [also known as the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (SARA), Title III], as modified by Executive Order 12856, requires that all federal facilities evaluate the need to submit an annual Toxic Chemical Release Inventory report as prescribed in Title III, Section 313 of this Act. This annual report is due every July for the preceding calendar year. Owners and operators who manufacture, process, or otherwise use certain toxic chemicals above listed threshold quantities are required to report their toxic chemical releases to all environmental mediums (air, water, soil, etc.). At Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), no EPCRA Section 313 chemicals were used in 1998 above the reportable threshold limits of 10,000 lb or 25,000 lb. Therefore LANL was not required to submit any Toxic Chemical Release Inventory reports (Form Rs) for 1998. This document was prepared to provide a detailed description of the evaluation on chemical usage and EPCRA Section 313 threshold determinations for LANL for 1998.
Date: November 1, 1999
Creator: Stockton, Marjorie B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1999 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study. (open access)

1999 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study.

The Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study (White Book) is published annually by BPA and establishes the planning basis for supplying electricity to customers. It serves a dual purpose. First, the White Book presents projections of regional and Federal system load and resource capabilities, along with relevant definitions and explanations. Second, the White Book serves as a benchmark for annual BPA determinations made pursuant to its regional power sales contracts. Specifically, BPA uses the information in the White Book for determining the notice required when customers request to increase or decrease the amount of power purchased from BPA. The White Book will not be used in calculations for the 2002 regional power sales contract subscription process. The White Book compiles information obtained from several formalized resource planning reports and data submittals, including those from the Northwest Power Planning Council (Council) and the Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee (PNUCC). The White Book is not an operational planning guide, nor is it used for determining BPA revenues. Operation of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) is based on a set of criteria different from that used for resource planning decisions. Operational planning is dependent upon real-time or near-term knowledge of system …
Date: December 1, 1999
Creator: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The $2000 Electric Powertrain Option-1 Program. Final technical report (open access)

The $2000 Electric Powertrain Option-1 Program. Final technical report

This report describes the tasks accomplished as part of Northrop Grumman's TRP $2000 Electric Powertrain Option-1 program. Northrop Grumman has strived to achieve technology advances and development considered as high priority to the success of future electric vehicles. Northrop Grumman has achieved the intent of the program by taking several steps toward reducing the cost of the electric vehicle powertrain, demonstrating technologies in the form of hardware and introducing enhancements into production that are consistent with the needs of the market.
Date: June 1, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2002 Initial Power Rate Proposal. Wholesale Power Rate Schedules. (open access)

2002 Initial Power Rate Proposal. Wholesale Power Rate Schedules.

None
Date: August 1, 1999
Creator: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2706-T Complex Distributed Control System Tag and Setpoint List (open access)

2706-T Complex Distributed Control System Tag and Setpoint List

The 2706-T Distributed Control System (DCS) interfaces with field equipment through analog and digital input and output signals that are terminated at a programmable logic controller (PLC). The Tag names and addresses of the input and output signals are listed in this document as well as setpoint values assigned to fixed inputs.
Date: September 1, 1999
Creator: Pratt, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2D Numerical Simulation of the Resistive Reconnection Layer (open access)

2D Numerical Simulation of the Resistive Reconnection Layer

In this paper we present a two-dimensional numerical simulation of a reconnection current layer in incompressible resistive magnetohydrodynamics with uniform resistivity in the limit of very large Lundquist numbers. We use realistic boundary conditions derived consistently from the outside magnetic field, and we also take into account the effect of the back pressure from flow into the separatrix region. We find that within a few Alfvén times the system reaches a steady state consistent with the Sweet-Parker model, even if the initial state is Petschek-like.
Date: March 1, 1999
Creator: Kulsrud, R. M. & Uzdensky, D. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A 3D Lattice Boltzmann Code for Modeling Flow and Multi-Component Dispersion (open access)

A 3D Lattice Boltzmann Code for Modeling Flow and Multi-Component Dispersion

None
Date: February 1, 1999
Creator: Stockman, Harian W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
3D modeling of metallic grain growth (open access)

3D modeling of metallic grain growth

This paper will describe simulating metallic grain growth using the Gradient Weighted Moving Finite Elements code, GRAIN3D. The authors also describe the set of mesh topology change operations developed to respond to changes in the physical topology such as the collapse of grains and to maintain uniform calculational mesh quality. Validation of the method is demonstrated by comparison to analytic calculations. The authors present results of multigrain simulations where grain boundaries evolve by mean curvature motion and include results which incorporate grain boundary orientation dependence.
Date: June 1, 1999
Creator: George, D.; Carlson, N.; Gammel, J.T. & Kuprat, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A0 Photo-Injector: Experiments with Gun A June 97 to December 97 (open access)

A0 Photo-Injector: Experiments with Gun A June 97 to December 97

An RF photo-injector was installed at Fermilab between January and June 97. The photo-injector produced its first beam on 4 June 97. This report provides a brief description of the accelerator and a summary of the experiments carried out through December '97.
Date: January 1, 1999
Creator: Carneiro, J. P.; Carrigan, R. A.; Champion, M. S.; Cianchi, A.; Colby, E. R.; Colestock, P. L. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ab-initio based calculations of vacancy formation and clustering energies including lattice relaxation in Fe{sub 3}Al (open access)

Ab-initio based calculations of vacancy formation and clustering energies including lattice relaxation in Fe{sub 3}Al

Vacancy formation and clustering significantly affect structural properties of transition-metal aluminides. Ab-initio quantum mechanical total-energy calculations using a full-potential linear combination of muffin-tin orbitals (LMTO) technique provide a convenient method of studying relevant characteristics such as changes in density of states, and charge redistribution around defects. Augmented with Hellmann-Feymann forces, LMTO allows calculations of relaxation geometries and relaxation energies. The authors have performed such calculations for vacancies and antisite substitutional point defects in Fe{sub 3}Al with DO{sub 3} crystallographic structure. There are two limiting factors complicating calculations of defect formation energies directly from ab-initio calculations. The first is that a single defect, due to the lattice periodicity necessitated by the use of ab-initio total energy techniques, cannot be considered as an isolated defect, even in the maximum computable simulation cell. Unlike previous calculations, which did not find a dependency on the size of the simulation cell, the calculations have shown a significant difference in results for 32- and 16- atom cells. This difference provides information about vacancy clustering since it can be explained by a relatively small attractive interaction energy {approximately} 0.2 eV between two vacancies located in adjacent simulation cells and separated by the lattice constant distance (5.52 {angstrom}). …
Date: March 1, 1999
Creator: Muratov, L. S.; Cooper, B. R. & Wills, J. M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library