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(129)Xe NMR of Mesoporous Silicas (open access)

(129)Xe NMR of Mesoporous Silicas

The porosities of three mesoporous silica materials were characterized with {sup 129}Xe NMR spectroscopy. The materials were synthesized by a sol-gel process with r = 0, 25, and 70% methanol by weight in an aqueous cetyltrimethylammonium bromide solution. Temperature dependent chemical shifts and spin lattice relaxation times reveal that xenon does not penetrate the pores of the largely disordered (r= 70%) silica. For both r = 0 and 25%, temperature dependent resonances corresponding to physisorbed xenon were observed. An additional resonance for the r = 25% sample was attributed to xenon between the disordered cylindrical pores. 2D NMR exchange experiments corroborate the spin lattice relaxation data which show that xenon is in rapid exchange between the adsorbed and the gas phase.
Date: April 23, 1999
Creator: Anderson, M.T.; Asink, R.A.; Kneller, J.M. & Pietrass, T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 23, 1999 (open access)

15th Street News (Midwest City, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 23, 1999

Newspaper from Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: April 23, 1999
Creator: Pace, Joshua
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
1999 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Population Biology. Final Progress Report (open access)

1999 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Population Biology. Final Progress Report

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Date: July 23, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
1999 Leak Detection and Monitoring and Mitigation Strategy Update (open access)

1999 Leak Detection and Monitoring and Mitigation Strategy Update

This document is a complete revision of WHC-SD-WM-ES-378, Rev 1. This update includes recent developments in Leak Detection, Leak Monitoring, and Leak Mitigation technologies, as well as, recent developments in single-shell tank retrieval technologies. In addition, a single-shell tank retrieval release protection strategy is presented.
Date: September 23, 1999
Creator: Ohl, Phil
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
29th Annual PolyMAC Meeting: Book of Abstracts (open access)

29th Annual PolyMAC Meeting: Book of Abstracts

A sixteen-run, Resolution IV, fractional factorial screening design has been used to evaluate the relative significance of seven independent material and process variables for an electrically deposited commercial acrylic paint. A Resolution IV design was chosen so that variable interactions could be detected without any interference from the effects of the variables themselves. Because resource limitations did not permit use of a Resolution V design, the two-way interactions were confounded with one another in groups of three, which unfortunately made interpretation of the results more complicated. Each design point was replicated once and a pair of centerpoints were run at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the design points. A total of 38 test panels were prepared. Independent variables used in this experiment were total charge, current density, mixer speed, silica content, crossover point, temperature and solids fraction. The magnitude of each independent variable's effect on the dependent response variables was estimated by fitting a first-order model with two-way interaction terms. Three-way interactions were assumed to be insignificant. Interaction confounding was eliminated by using the significance of the independent variables to determine which of the three possible interactions was significant. Data analysis was performed using the …
Date: July 23, 1999
Creator: Balazs, B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2nd Generation PFBC Systems R&D Phase 2 AND Phase 3 (open access)

2nd Generation PFBC Systems R&D Phase 2 AND Phase 3

No work was performed; the two remaining Multi Annular Swirl Burner test campaigns are on hold pending selection of a new test facility (replacement for the shut down UTSI burner test facility) and identification of associated testing costs. The Second-Generation PFB Combustion Plant conceptual design prepared in 1987 is being updated to reflect the benefit of pilot plant test data and the latest advances in gas turbine technology. The updated plant is being designed to operate with 95 percent sulfur capture and a single Siemens Westinghouse (SW) 501G gas turbine. Using carbonizer and gas turbine data generated by Foster Wheeler (FW) and SW respectively, Parsons Energy and Chemicals Group prepared preliminary plant heat and materials based on carbonizer operating temperatures of 1700 and 1800 F and found the former to yield the higher plant efficiency. As a result, 1700EF has been selected as the preferred operating condition for the carbonizer. The previous first cut plant heat and material balance was refined and it predicts a 47.7% plant efficiency (HHV) with a net power output of 421 MWe. The latter includes a plant auxiliary load estimated to be 23.48 MWe or 5.26% of the gross plant power and a transformer loss …
Date: December 23, 1999
Creator: Robertson, Archie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acceptable Knowledge Summary Report for Waste Stream: SR-T001-221F-HET/Drums (open access)

Acceptable Knowledge Summary Report for Waste Stream: SR-T001-221F-HET/Drums

Since beginning operations in 1954, the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site FB-Line conducted atomic energy defense activities consistent with the listing in Section 10101(3) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. The facility mission was to process and convert dilute plutonium solution into highly purified weapons grade plutonium metal. As a result of various activities conducted in support of the mission (e.g., operation, maintenance, repair, clean up, and facility modifications), the facility generated transuranic waste. This document, along with referenced supporting documents, provides a defensible and auditable record of acceptable knowledge for one of the waste streams from the FB-Line. The waste was packaged in 55-gallon drums, then shipped to the transuranic waste storage facility in ''E'' area of the Savannah River Site. This acceptable knowledge report includes information relating to the facility's history, configuration,equipment, process operations, and waste management practices.
Date: August 23, 1999
Creator: Lunsford, G.F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Achieving high sustained performance in an unstructured mesh CFD application. (open access)

Achieving high sustained performance in an unstructured mesh CFD application.

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Date: August 23, 1999
Creator: Anderson, W. K.; Gropp, W. D.; Kaushik, D. K.; Keyes, D. E. & Smith, B. F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Activation and Micropore Structure Determination of Activated Carbon-Fiber Composites (open access)

Activation and Micropore Structure Determination of Activated Carbon-Fiber Composites

Previous work focused on the production of carbon fiber composites and subsequently activating them to induce adsorbent properties. One problem related to this approach is the difficulty of uniformly activating large composites. In order to overcome this problem, composites have been made from pre-activated fibers. The loss of surface area upon forming the composites after activation of the fibers was investigated. The electrical resistivity and strength of these composites were compared to those made by activation after forming. It was found that the surface area is reduced by about 35% by forming the composite from pre-activated fibers. However, the properties of the activated sample are very uniform: the variation in surface area is less than {+-}0.5%. So, although the surface area is somewhat reduced, it is believed that making composites from pre-activated fibers could be useful in applications where the BET surface area is not required to be very high. The strength of the composites produced from pre-activated fibers is lower than for composites activated after forming when the carbon burnoff is below 45%. For higher burnoffs, the strength of composites made with pre-activated fibers is as good or better. In both cases, there is a dramatic decrease in strength …
Date: April 23, 1999
Creator: Jagtoyen, M. & Derbyshire, F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advisor 2.0: A Second-Generation Advanced Vehicle Simulator for Systems Analysis (open access)

Advisor 2.0: A Second-Generation Advanced Vehicle Simulator for Systems Analysis

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has recently publicly released its second-generation advanced vehicle simulator called ADVISOR 2.0. This software program was initially developed four years ago, and after several years of in-house usage and evolution, the tool is now available to the public through a new vehicle systems analysis World Wide Web page. ADVISOR has been applied to many different systems analysis problems, such as helping to develop the SAE J1711 test procedure for hybrid vehicles and helping to evaluate new technologies as part of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) technology selection process. The model has been and will continue to be benchmarked and validated with other models and with real vehicle test data. After two months of being available on the Web, more than 100 users have downloaded ADVISOR. ADVISOR 2.0 has many new features, including an easy-to-use graphical user interface, a detailed exhaust aftertreatment thermal model, and complete browser-based documentation. Future work will include adding to the library of components available in ADVISOR, including optimization functionality, and linking with a more detailed fuel cell model.
Date: March 23, 1999
Creator: Wipke, K.; Cuddy, M.; Bharathan, D.; Burch, S.; Johnson, V.; Markel, A. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerosol-Assisted Self-Assembly of Mesostructured Spherical Nanoparticles (open access)

Aerosol-Assisted Self-Assembly of Mesostructured Spherical Nanoparticles

Nanostructured particles exhibiting well-defined pore sizes and pore connectivities (1-, 2-, or 3-dimensional) are of interest for catalysis, chromatography, controlled release, low dielectric constant fillers, and custom-designed pigments and optical hosts. During the last several years considerable progress has been made on controlling the macroscopic forms of mesoporous silicas prepared by surfactant and block copolymer liquid crystalline templating procedures. Typically interfacial phenomena are used to control the macroscopic form (particles, fibers, or films), while self-assembly of amphiphilic surfactants or polymers is used to control the mesostructure. To date, although a variety of spherical or nearly-spherical particles have been prepared, their extent of order is limited as is the range of attainable mesostructures. They report a rapid, aerosol process that results in solid, completely ordered spherical particles with stable hexagonal, cubic, or vesicular mesostructures. The process relies on evaporation-induced interfacial self-assembly (EISA) confined to a spherical aerosol droplet. The process is simple and generalizable to a variety of materials combinations. Additionally, it can be modified to provide the first aerosol route to the formation of ordered mesostructured films.
Date: March 23, 1999
Creator: Lu, Yunfeng; Fan, Hongyou; Stump, Aaron; Ward, Timothy, L.; Rieker, Thomas & Brinker, C. Jeffrey
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1999 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 23, 1999
Creator: Lucas, Donnie A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1999 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 124, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 23, 1999
Creator: Lucas, Donnie A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alcohol Fuels Tax Incentive (open access)

Alcohol Fuels Tax Incentive

This report discusses federal tax subsidies for alcohol transportation fuels, as well as legislative actions underway to repeal, extend, or reduce them.
Date: June 23, 1999
Creator: Lazzari, Salvatore
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Fuel News, Vol. 3 No. 2 (open access)

Alternative Fuel News, Vol. 3 No. 2

This special issue of Alternative Fuel News highlights the Fifth National Clean Cities Conference held in Louisville, Kentucky. The momentum for the program is stronger than ever and the coalitions are working to propel the alternative fuel industry forward.
Date: September 23, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 295, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 23, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 295, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 23, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 23, 1999
Creator: Cole, Carol
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 23, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 23, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 23, 1999
Creator: Cole, Carol
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, April 23, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, April 23, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 23, 1999
Creator: Cole, Carol
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 56, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 23, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 56, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 23, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 23, 1999
Creator: Cole, Carol
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 23, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 23, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 23, 1999
Creator: Cole, Carol
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 107, Ed. 1 Friday, July 23, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 107, Ed. 1 Friday, July 23, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 23, 1999
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 132, Ed. 1 Monday, August 23, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 132, Ed. 1 Monday, August 23, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 23, 1999
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 159, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 159, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 23, 1999
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 212, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 23, 1999 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 100, No. 212, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 23, 1999

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 23, 1999
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History