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Air tightness of new houses in the U.S.: A preliminary report (open access)

Air tightness of new houses in the U.S.: A preliminary report

Most dwellings in the United States are ventilated primarily through leaks in the building shell (i.e., infiltration) rather than by whole-house mechanical ventilation systems. Consequently, quantification of envelope air-tightness is critical to determining how much energy is being lost through infiltration and how much infiltration is contributing toward ventilation requirements. Envelope air tightness and air leakage can be determined from fan pressurization measurements with a blower door. Tens of thousands of unique fan pressurization measurements have been made of U.S. dwellings over the past decades. LBNL has collected the available data on residential infiltration into its Residential Diagnostics Database, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy. This report documents the envelope air leakage section of the LBNL database, with particular emphasis on new construction. The work reported here is an update of similar efforts carried out a decade ago, which used available data largely focused on the housing stock, rather than on new construction. The current effort emphasizes shell tightness measurements made on houses soon after they are built. These newer data come from over two dozen datasets, including over 73,000 measurements spread throughout a majority of the U.S. Roughly one-third of the measurements are for houses identified as …
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: Sherman, Max H. & Matson, Nance E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2002 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 7, 2002
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 2002 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 14, 2002
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 2002 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 21, 2002
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 2002 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 28, 2002
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
ALE3D Model Predictions and Materials Characterization for the Cookoff Response of PBXN-109 (open access)

ALE3D Model Predictions and Materials Characterization for the Cookoff Response of PBXN-109

ALE3D simulations are presented for the thermal explosion of PBXN-109 (RDX, AI, HTPB, DOA) in support of an effort by the U. S. Navy and Department of Energy (DOE) to validate computational models. The U.S. Navy is performing benchmark tests for the slow cookoff of PBXN-109 in a sealed tube. Candidate models are being tested using the ALE3D code, which can simulate the coupled thermal, mechanical, and chemical behavior during heating, ignition, and explosion. The strength behavior of the solid constituents is represented by a Steinberg-Guinan model while polynomial and gamma-law expressions are used for the Equation Of State (EOS) for the solid and gas species, respectively. A void model is employed to represent the air in gaps. ALE3D model 'parameters are specified using measurements of thermal and mechanical properties including thermal expansion, heat capacity, shear modulus, and bulk modulus. A standard three-step chemical kinetics model is used during the thermal ramp, and a pressure-dependent burn front model is employed during the rapid expansion. Parameters for the three-step kinetics model are specified using measurements of the One-Dimensional-Time-to-Explosion (ODTX), while measurements for burn rate of pristine and thermally damaged material are employed to determine parameters in the burn front model. Results …
Date: March 19, 2002
Creator: McClelland, M. A.; Maienschein, J. L.; Nichols, A. L.; Wardell, J. F.; Atwood, A. I. & Curran, P. O.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Fuel News: Official Publication of the Clean Cities Network and the Alternative Fuels Data Center, Vol. 5, No. 4 (open access)

Alternative Fuel News: Official Publication of the Clean Cities Network and the Alternative Fuels Data Center, Vol. 5, No. 4

Quarterly magazine with articles on creative alliances to build alternative fueling infrastructure, AFV technician training, the ProCon propane-powered van, and EPAct-related progress in New York
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Fuels and Chemicals From Synthesis Gas Technical Progress Report: Number 30 (open access)

Alternative Fuels and Chemicals From Synthesis Gas Technical Progress Report: Number 30

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: March 31, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Fuels in Public Transit: A Match Made on the Road (open access)

Alternative Fuels in Public Transit: A Match Made on the Road

Brochure addressing alternative fuel modes of transportation for public transit, challenges, fuels, infrastructure, cast studies, guidance, and resources.
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative implementations of the Monte Carlo power method. (open access)

Alternative implementations of the Monte Carlo power method.

We compare nominal efficiencies, i.e. variances in power shapes for equal running time, of different versions of the Monte Carlo eigenvalue computation, as applied to criticality safety analysis calculations. The two main methods considered here are ''conventional'' Monte Carlo and the superhistory method, and both are used in criticality safety codes. Within each of these major methods, different variants are available for the main steps of the basic Monte Carlo algorithm. Thus, for example, different treatments of the fission process may vary in the extent to which they follow, in analog fashion, the details of real-world fission, or may vary in details of the methods by which they choose next-generation source sites. In general the same options are available in both the superhistory method and conventional Monte Carlo, but there seems not to have been much examination of the special properties of the two major methods and their minor variants. We find, first, that the superhistory method is just as efficient as conventional Monte Carlo and, secondly, that use of different variants of the basic algorithms may, in special cases, have a surprisingly large effect on Monte Carlo computational efficiency.
Date: March 18, 2002
Creator: Blomquist, R.N. & Gelbard, E.M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Liquid Fuel Effects on Cooled Silicon Nitride Marine Gas Turbine Airfoils (open access)

Alternative Liquid Fuel Effects on Cooled Silicon Nitride Marine Gas Turbine Airfoils

With prior support from the Office of Naval Research, DARPA, and U.S. Department of Energy, United Technologies is developing and engine environment testing what we believe to be the first internally cooled silicon nitride ceramic turbine vane in the United States. The vanes are being developed for the FT8, an aeroderivative stationary/marine gas turbine. The current effort resulted in further manufacturing and development and prototyping by two U.S. based gas turbine grade silicon nitride component manufacturers, preliminary development of both alumina, and YTRIA based environmental barrier coatings (EBC's) and testing or ceramic vanes with an EBC coating.
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: Holowczak, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: Energy, Environment, and Development Issues (open access)

Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicles: Energy, Environment, and Development Issues

This report reviews several issues relating to alternative fuels and vehicles, mainly to combat dependence on petroleum imports and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report discusses the advantages and drawbacks of various alternative fuels and vehicles, as well as related legislation.
Date: March 7, 2002
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 312, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 312, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 1, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 313, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 3, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 313, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 3, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 3, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 314, Ed. 1 Monday, March 4, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 314, Ed. 1 Monday, March 4, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 315, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 5, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 315, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 5, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 5, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 316, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 6, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 316, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 6, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 6, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 317, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 317, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 7, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 318, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 318, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 8, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 319, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 10, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 319, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 10, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 10, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 320, Ed. 1 Monday, March 11, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 320, Ed. 1 Monday, March 11, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 11, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 321, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 12, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 321, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 12, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 322, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 13, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 322, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 13, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 323, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 2002 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 323, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 2002

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 14, 2002
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History