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Advanced Hot Gas Filter Development
DuPont Lanxide Composites, Inc. undertook a sixty-month program, under DOE Contract DEAC21-94MC31214, in order to develop hot gas candle filters from a patented material technology know as PRD-66. The goal of this program was to extend the development of this material as a filter element and fully assess the capability of this technology to meet the needs of Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustion (PFBC) and Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power generation systems at commercial scale. The principal objective of Task 3 was to build on the initial PRD-66 filter development, optimize its structure, and evaluate basic material properties relevant to the hot gas filter application. Initially, this consisted of an evaluation of an advanced filament-wound core structure that had been designed to produce an effective bulk filter underneath the barrier filter formed by the outer membrane. The basic material properties to be evaluated (as established by the DOE/METC materials working group) would include mechanical, thermal, and fracture toughness parameters for both new and used material, for the purpose of building a material database consistent with what is being done for the alternative candle filter systems. Task 3 was later expanded to include analysis of PRD-66 candle filters, which had been …
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Connolly, E. S. & Forsythe, G. D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Fuels and Chemicals From Synthesis Gas Technical Progress Report: Number 24
The overall objectives of this program are to investigate potential technologies for the conversion of synthesis gas to oxygenated and hydrocarbon fuels and industrial chemicals, and to demonstrate the most promising technologies at DOE's LaPorte, Texas, Slurry Phase Alternative Fuels Development Unit (AFDU). The program will involve a continuation of the work performed under the Alternative Fuels from Coal-Derived Synthesis Gas Program and will draw upon information and technologies generated in parallel current and future DOE-funded contracts.
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Tijrn, Peter J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 309, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 30, 2000
Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ceramic Membrane Enabling Technology for Improved IGCC Efficiency, Annual Technical Progress Report: October 1999 - October 2000
None
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Prasad, Ravi
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Coal/Polymer Coprocessing With Efficient Use of Hydrogen
The final project period was devoted to investigating the binary mixture pyrolysis of polypropylene and polystyrene. Their interactions were assessed in order to provide a baseline for experiments with multicomponent mixtures of polymers with coal. Pyrolysis of polypropylene, polystyrene and their binary mixture was investigated at temperatures of 350 C and 420 C with reaction times from 1 to 180 minutes. Two different loadings, 10 mg and 20 mg, were studied for neat polypropylene and polystyrene to assess the effect of total pressure on product yields and selectivities. For neat pyrolysis of polypropylene, total conversion was much higher at 420 C, and no significant effect of loading on the total conversion was observed. Four classes of products, alkanes, alkenes, dienes, and aromatic compounds, were observed, and their distribution was explained by a typical free radical mechanism. For neat polystyrene pyrolysis, conversion reached approximately 75% at 350 C, while at 420 C the conversion reached a maximum around 90% at 10 minutes and decreased at longer times because of condensation reactions. The selectivities to major products were slightly different for the two different loadings due to the effect of total reaction pressure on secondary reactions. For binary mixture pyrolysis, the overall …
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Broadbelt, Linda J.; DeWitt, Matthew J. & Wong, Hsi-Wu
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Data Qualification Report: Precipitation Chloride Data for Use on the Yucca Mountain Project
The data covered by this qualification report have been cited in analysis/model reports (AMRs) to support the Site Recommendation in determining the suitability of Yucca Mountain as a repository for high level nuclear waste. Those analyses cited both qualified and unqualified hydrochemical data. This report evaluates unqualified precipitation chloride data based on the pedigree of the data and within the context of supporting analyses on the Yucca Mountain Project (YMP). The following AMRs use the unqualified chloride data considered in this report: (1) AMR S0040, ''Geochemical and Isotopic Constraints on Groundwater Flow Directions, Mixing and Recharge at Yucca Mountain'' (ANL-NBS-HS-000021) (Kwicklis 2000)--an analysis of groundwater recharge rates, flow directions and velocities, and mixing proportions of water from different source areas based on groundwater geochemical and isotopic data. (2) AMR U0085, ''Analysis of Geochemical Data for the Unsaturated Zone'' (ANL-NBS-HS-000017) (Fabryka-Martin 2000)--identifies fluid geochemical parameters for the unsaturated zone, local precipitation, and surface water; discusses the occurrence and origins of fracture minerals; and presents a thermal history of the unsaturated zone. These data are being evaluated for inclusion in technical products to include AMRs and Process Modeling Reports (PMRs) that support the Site Recommendation and that may also be used to …
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Wilson, C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Development of object-oriented tools for the numerical solution of reactive flow
The primary work carried out under the subcontract involved the development of object-oriented application software, within the Overture framework of codes, for the numerical simulation of high speed reactive flow. The mathematical model on which the software is based is the reactive Euler equations. The implementation of this model is fairly general and allows for multiple reacting species and reaction rates and a general equation of state with the aim of being able to simulate experimentally observed phenomena in gas or solid explosives. The software is part of the OverBlown package of fluids codes, developed and maintained by Bill Henshaw and the Overture team at CASC. It uses overlapping grids in order to handle general domains and the A++/P++ array class library (developed by Dan Quinlan and the Overture team) which allows parallel processing. An implementation of a patch grid-type adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) scheme for the code was initiated, but not completed under the current subcontract. The software has been carefully tested for accuracy using existing codes written previously by the author, and it has been used to compute the evolution to detonation of reactive samples subject to various initial conditions and within various confinement geometries. Work on a …
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Schwendeman, D W
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Direct Push Groundwater Circulation Wells for Remediation of BTEX and Volatile Organics
Direct push groundwater circulation wells (DP-GCW) are a promising technology for remediation of groundwater contaminated with dissolved hydrocarbons and chlorinated solvents. In these wells, groundwater is withdrawn from the formation at the bottom of the well, aerated and vapor stripped and injected back into the formation at or above the water table. Previous field studies have shown that: (a) GCWs can circulate significant volumes of groundwater; and (b) GCWs can effectively remove volatile compounds and add oxygen. In this work, we describe the development and field-testing of a system of DP-GCWs for remediation of volatile organics such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and toluene (BTEX). The GCWs were constructed with No. 20 slotted well screen (2.4 cm ID) and natural sand pack extending from 1.5 to 8.2 m below grade. Air is introduced {approximately}7.5 m below grade via 0.6 cm tubing. Approximately 15% of the vertical length of the air supply tubing is wrapped in tangled mesh polypropylene geonet drainage fabric to provide surface area for biological growth and precipitation of oxidized iron. These materials were selected to allow rapid installation of the GCWs using 3.8 cm direct push Geoprobe{reg_sign} rods, greatly reducing well installation costs. Laboratory testing of these sparged …
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Borden, R. C. & Cherry, R. S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electric Demand Reduction for the U.S. Navy Public Works Center San Diego, California
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory investigated the profitability of operating a Navy ship's generators (in San Diego) during high electricity price periods rather than the ships hooking up to the Base electrical system for power. Profitability is predicated on the trade-off between the operating and maintenance cost incurred by the Navy for operating the ship generators and the net profit associated with the sale of the electric power on the spot market. In addition, PNNL assessed the use of the ship's generators as a means to achieve predicted load curtailments, which can then be marketed to the California Independent System Operator.
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Kintner-Meyer, Michael CW
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Energy Efficiency Building Code for Commercial Buildings in Sri Lanka
1.1.1 To encourage energy efficient design or retrofit of commercial buildings so that they may be constructed, operated, and maintained in a manner that reduces the use of energy without constraining the building function, the comfort, health, or the productivity of the occupants and with appropriate regard for economic considerations. 1.1.2 To provide criterion and minimum standards for energy efficiency in the design or retrofit of commercial buildings and provide methods for determining compliance with them. 1.1.3 To encourage energy efficient designs that exceed these criterion and minimum standards.
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Busch, John; Greenberg, Steve; Rubinstein, Francis; Denver, Andrea; Rawner, Esther; Franconi, Ellen et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Development of Coal-Fired High-Performance Power Systems
None
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Tsuo, York
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Enhanced Oil Recovery with Downhole Vibration Stimulation in Osage County Oklahoma
This Technical Quarterly Report is for the reporting period July 1, 2000 to September 30, 2000. The report provides details of the work done on the project entitled ''Enhanced Oil Recovery with Downhole Vibration Stimulation in Osage County Oklahoma''. The project is divided into nine separate tasks. Since this is the first Quarterly report, much of the work done is of a preliminary nature. Several of the tasks are being worked on simultaneously, while other tasks are dependent on earlier tasks being completed. The selection of the pilot test area has been completed. The drilling of the test well is waiting on rig availability. Phillips has begun sonic core testing of offset cores, waiting on the core from the well to be drilled. Design work is progressing for the tool, which will be built to fit the test well. Installation of monitoring equipment and the downhole vibration tool will occur after the well is drilled. Technical transfer efforts have begun with the submission of an abstract for a technical paper for the Oklahoma City Society of Petroleum Engineers meeting in March 2001.
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Brett, J. Ford & Westermark, Robert V.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Frequency Modulation Spectroscopy Modeling for Remote Chemical Detection
Frequency modulation (FM) spectroscopy techniques show promise for active infrared remote chemical sensing. FM spectroscopy techniques have reduced sensitivity to optical and electronic noise, and are relatively immune to the effects of various electronic and mechanical drifts. FM systems are responsive to sharp spectral features and can therefore reduce the effects of spectral clutter due to interfering chemicals in the plume or in the atmosphere. The relatively high modulation frequencies used for FM also reduces the effects of albedo (reflectance) and plume variations. Conventional differential absorption lidar (DIAL) systems are performance limited by the noise induced by speckle. Analysis presented in this report shows that FM based sensors may reduce the effects of speckle by one to two orders of magnitude. This can result in reduced dwell times and faster area searches, as well as reducing various forms of spatial clutter. FM systems will require a laser system that is continuously tunable at relatively high frequencies (0.1 to 20 MHz). One promising candidate is the quantum-cascade (QC) laser [1, 2]. The QC laser is potentially capable of power levels on the order of 1 Watt and frequency tuning on the order of 3 - 6 GHz, which is the performance …
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Sheen, David M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fuel Cell and Reversible Fuel Cell Modules for Grid-Independent Electric Power Systems
None
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Ruhl, R. C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hydrologic Behavior of Two Engineered Barriers Following Extreme Wetting
Many engineered barriers are expected to function for hundreds of years or longer. Over the course of time, it is likely that some barriers will experience infiltration to the point of breakthrough. This study compares the recovery from breakthrough of two storage- evapotranspiration type engineered barriers. Replicates of test plots comprising thick soil and capillary/biobarrier covers were wetted to breakthrough in 1997. Test plots were kept cleared of vegetation to maximize hydrologic stress during recovery. Following cessation of drainage resulting from the wetting irrigations, water storage levels in all plots were at elevated levels compared to pre-irrigation levels. As a result, infiltration of melting snow during the subsequent spring overloaded the storage capacity and produced drainage in all plots. Relatively rapid melting of accumulated snowfall produced the most significant infiltration events each year during the study. Capillary barriers yielded less total drainage than thick soil barriers. By limiting drainage, capillary barriers increased water storage in the upper portions of the test plots, which led to increased evaporation from the capillary barrier plots compared to thick soil plots. Increased evaporation in the capillary barrier plots allowed more water to infiltrate in the second season following the wetting tests without triggering drainage. …
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Porro, I.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Identification and temporal behavior of radical intermediates formed during the combustion and pyrolysis of gaseous fuels: Kinetic pathways to soot formation. Final performance report, July 1, 1997 - September 30, 2000
A shock tube coupled to a time-of-flight mass spectrometer has been employed to analyze the dynamic behavior of reactants, products, and intermediates in those reaction systems which are most pertinent to understanding the chemistry attendant to the soot formation process. The measurement of the decay rates of the reactants, the rate of formation of intermediates and products have been used to determine rate constants over a wide temperature range. Recent examples include the pyrolyses of allene, propyne, pyrazine, pyrimidine, pyridine, acetylene, furan, cyclopentadiene, and methylcyclopentadiene.
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Kern, Ralph D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Low NOx Burner Development Program - Final Report - 09/15/1996 - 09/30/2000
This report describes the work performed to develop and demonstrate the VISTA combustor. The development effort was planned for three phases. Laboratory testing at a 1.5 and 6 MMBtu/hr scale was performed at thermo Power Corporation during the first phase. Also during the first phase, analytic modeling was performed to guide the design modifications evaluated in the experimental testing. Toward the end of the first phase, John Zink Company entered the program to participate in the design, evaluation, testing, and demonstration of a 30 MMBtu/hr combustor. The results of the second phase testing were to be used in the demonstration of the 30 MMBtu/hr combustor in a Koch Industries boiler. The program proceeded into the second phase. Two models of the VISTA combustor were tested. Measurements of the first stage NOx production were in the range anticipated to achieve the program goals, based on analytical modeling results. While testing the VISTA combustor at the John Zink facility, John Zink elected to discontinue the development of the VISTA combustor in favor of an alternative in-house concept. As a result, this program was terminated.
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
McClaine, Andrew W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
LOW TEMPERATURE CATHODE SUPPORTED ELECTROLYTES
This project has three main goals: Thin Films Studies, Preparation of Graded Porous Substrates and Basic Electrical Characterization and testing of Planar Single Cells. During this time period substantial progress has been made in developing low temperature deposition techniques to produce dense, nanocrystalline yttrium-stabilized zirconia films on both dense oxide and polymer substrates. Microstructural changes in unsupported nanocrystalline yttrium stabilized zirconia (ZrO{sub 2}:16%Y, or YSZ) thin films were examined as a function of temperature and annealing time in order to determine the grain growth exponent and the mechanisms of pinhole formation. Grain growth and pinhole formation were measured using high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), normal imaging mode transmission electron microscopy (TEM), electron diffraction, and energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDS). Grain growth was found to vary with a time exponent of about one half before pinhole formation and about one third after. Pinhole formation in 70 nm thick films occurred at temperatures near 600 C, corresponding to a grain size of about 15 nm, or a grain size to film thickness ration of approximately 0.25. The deposition of films on porous substrates is hampered by the penetration of the polymer precursor solution into the substrate whose pores as > 0.2 …
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Anderson, Harlan U.; Huebner, Wayne & Kosacki, Igor
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Materials development and field demonstration of high-recycled-content concrete for energy-efficient building construction
The project developed high-recycled-content concrete material with balanced structural and thermal attributes for use in energy-efficient building construction. Recycled plastics, tire, wool, steel and concrete were used as replacement for coarse aggregates in concrete and masonry production. With recycled materials the specific heat and thermal conductivity of concrete could be tailored to enhance the energy-efficiency of concrete buildings. A comprehensive field project was implemented which confirmed the benefits of high-recycled-content concrete for energy-efficient building construction.
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Ostowari, Ken & Nosson, Ali
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
METHANE de-NOX for Utility PC Boilers
None
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Rabovitser, Joseph
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
MICROBIAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF PLUTONIUM AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ITS MOBILITY.
The current state of knowledge of the effect of plutonium on microorganisms and microbial activity is reviewed, and also the microbial processes affecting its mobilization and immobilization. The dissolution of plutonium is predominantly due to their production of extracellular metabolic products, organic acids, such as citric acid, and sequestering agents, such as siderophores. Plutonium may be immobilized by the indirect actions of microorganisms resulting in changes in Eh and its reduction from a higher to lower oxidation state, with the precipitation of Pu, its bioaccumulation by biomass, and bioprecipitation reactions. In addition, the abundance of microorganisms in Pu-contaminated soils, wastes, natural analog sites, and backfill materials that will be used for isolating the waste and role of microbes as biocolloids in the transport of Pu is discussed.
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Francis, A. J.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
NAAG/DOE Workgroup Report of Activity and Accomplishments
Through this grant, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) and the Department of Energy (DOE) have established a working group of Assistant Attorneys General and key DOE staff to seek agreement on current regulatory and statutory enforcement and compliance issues at DOE facilities. This workgroup provides an ongoing forum for direct communication that utilizes alternative dispute resolution techniques rather than expensive litigation in hopes of resolving differing views between the Department and the States. This Workgroup facilitates cooperation as the parties work towards their common goals of ensuring the protection of human health and the environment through the clean-up and the proper management of DOE facilities and the wastes they have generated.
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Gagnon, Michele
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[National Steering Committee and Rig Director Yearly Meeting Agenda]
A document outlining the meeting topics and agenda for the National Steering Committee and Rig Director Yearly Meeting. The comprehensive draft covers a range of subjects scheduled for discussion on different days, offering a strategic and organized plan for the annual gathering
Date:
2000-09-30/2000-10-01
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Noble Metals and Spinel Settling in High Level Waste Glass Melters
In the continuing effort to support the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF), the noble metals issue is addressed. There is an additional concern about the amount of noble metals expected to be present in the future batches that will be considered for vitrification in the DWPF. Several laboratory, as well as melter-scale, studies have been completed by various organizations (mainly PNNL, SRTC, and WVDP in the USA). This letter report statuses the noble metals issue and focuses at the settling of noble metals in melters.
Date:
September 30, 2000
Creator:
Sundaram, S. K. & Perez, Joseph M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library