Aligning Utility Incentives with Investing in Energy Efficiency (open access)

Aligning Utility Incentives with Investing in Energy Efficiency

A report that describes the financial effects of low and high energy consumption. It describes how some energy efficiency programs can be or have been implemented. It also slightly investigates how using energy effects the environment.
Date: December 2007
Creator: Nation Action Plan for Energy Efficiency Leadership Group
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies

This is a report on the environmental impacts and potential advantages of using biomass instead of fossil fuels in energy production.
Date: September 2007
Creator: Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies

An introduction and overview from a larger report about the partnership between the Environmental Protection Agency and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) stakeholders, including CHP Industry, state and local governments, energy users, etc., in an effort to promote biomass as an alternative energy resource.
Date: September 2007
Creator: Wickwire, Susan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. 4. Biomass Preparation (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. 4. Biomass Preparation

Part 4 of a larger report on a partnership between the EPA and biomass stakeholders; this section outlines the steps required to prepare, store and transport biomass feedstocks.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies.  7. Representative biomass CHP System Cost and Performance Profiles (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. 7. Representative biomass CHP System Cost and Performance Profiles

Part 7 of a larger report on a partnership between the EPA and biomass stakeholders; this section provides information on the cost and performance of various biomass industries.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies: Appendix B--EPA CHP Partnership Biomass Tools and Resources (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies: Appendix B--EPA CHP Partnership Biomass Tools and Resources

Appendix B is part of a larger report on biomass energy partnerships between the EPA and biomass stakeholders; it describes available tools and resources in the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) industry.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of technologies. Appendix C--Landfill Gas (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of technologies. Appendix C--Landfill Gas

Appendix C from a biomass energy report that describes landfill gases, their impact on the environment, and benefits of utilizing biomass emissions in energy production.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. Appendix D--Anaerobic Digesters (open access)

Biomass Combined heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. Appendix D--Anaerobic Digesters

Appendix D of a biomass energy report from the EPA Combined Heat and Power Partnership. This report briefly describes three design guidelines for three types of anaerobic digesters: covered anaerobic lagoon, complete-mix digester, and plug-flow digester.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. Appendix E: Modular Biomass Systems Available in Pre-Commercial Development (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. Appendix E: Modular Biomass Systems Available in Pre-Commercial Development

Appendix E of a biomass energy report from the EPA Combined Heat and Power Partnership. This report offers a comparison of pre-commercial companies, the biomass systems utilized by each, and the effectiveness/efficiency of each. Contact information for each company is provided.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. Appendix F: References (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. Appendix F: References

Appendix F reference list of a biomass energy report from the EPA Combined Heat and Power Partnership.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies, [Part] 2. Basic First Steps and Considerations (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies, [Part] 2. Basic First Steps and Considerations

Part 2 of a larger report on biomass energy partnerships between the EPA and biomass stakeholders; this section outlines the necessary steps, considerations, and resources to establish a biomass industry.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. [Part] 3. Biomass Resources (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies. [Part] 3. Biomass Resources

Part 3 of a larger report on a partnership between the EPA and biomass stakeholders; this section offers an overview of the natural resources available for biomass power and also identifies the necessary characteristics of a biomass fuel.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies, [Part] 5. Biomass Conversion Technologies (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies, [Part] 5. Biomass Conversion Technologies

Part 5 of a report regarding the partnership between the EPA and biomass stakeholders; this section addresses the principles of biomass conversion and energy production.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies, [Part] 6. Power Generation Technologies (open access)

Biomass Combined Heat and Power Catalog of Technologies, [Part] 6. Power Generation Technologies

Part 6 of a report regarding the partnership between the EPA and biomass stakeholders; this section highlights and compares various technologies and their capacity to run on biomass energy.
Date: September 2007
Creator: [Wickwire, Susan]
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Safety Alert: Emergency Isolation for Hazardous Material Fluid Transfer Systems - Applications and Limitations of Excess Flow Valves (open access)

Chemical Safety Alert: Emergency Isolation for Hazardous Material Fluid Transfer Systems - Applications and Limitations of Excess Flow Valves

This edition of Alert by the EPA looks at excessive flow valves.
Date: June 2007
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2006 (open access)

Clean Air Status and Trends Network Annual Report: 2006

This report summarizes Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET) data collected during 2006 and examines trends in air quality and deposition on regional and nation scales.
Date: November 2007
Creator: MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change (open access)

Climate Change

This fact-sheet describes climate change, why the climate is changing, and what is being done to study climate change effects.
Date: October 2007
Creator: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Weather Service.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Competition and Performance in Oil and Gas Lease Sales and Development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1983-1999 (open access)

Competition and Performance in Oil and Gas Lease Sales and Development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1983-1999

This report details the petroleum lease sales and development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) through estimated physical and economic measures. Physical performance is measured in ways such as the prospectivity index, expeditious index, and development productivity. Economic performance is measured in ways such as a profitability index and internal rate of return.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Iledare, Omowumi O. & Kaiser, Mark
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Converting Limbo Lands to Energy-Generating Stations: Renewable Energy Technologies on Underused, Formerly Contaminated Sites (open access)

Converting Limbo Lands to Energy-Generating Stations: Renewable Energy Technologies on Underused, Formerly Contaminated Sites

This report addresses the potential for using "Limbo Lands" as sites for renewable energy generating stations. Limbo Lands are considered as underused, formerly contaminated sites, and include former Superfund sites, landfills, brownfield, abandoned min lands, former industrial sites, and certain government installations.
Date: October 2007
Creator: Mosey, Gail; Heimiller, Donna; Dahle, Douglas; Vimmerstedt, Laura & Brady-Sabeff, Liz
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative Research to Study Dive Patterns of Sperm Whales in the Atlantic Ocean (open access)

Cooperative Research to Study Dive Patterns of Sperm Whales in the Atlantic Ocean

This report is based on the needs of the National Marine Fisheries Service and Minerals Management Service to gain data about the Sperm Whale population, comparing the population in the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Twelve whales were tagged and observed to gather various types of data about their population and environment.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Palka, Debra & Johnson, Mark
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Justice Small Grants Program 2007 Awards: Project Descriptions (open access)

Environmental Justice Small Grants Program 2007 Awards: Project Descriptions

This is the environmental Justice small grants program listing of organizations who received in 2007.
Date: 2007
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Form CJ-7, Annual Parole Survey: 2007 (open access)

Form CJ-7, Annual Parole Survey: 2007

Blank parole data survey containing a series of questions related to the parole population in a particular location, with instructions for filling out the survey.
Date: December 6, 2007
Creator: United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Form CJ-8, Annual Probation Survey: 2007 (open access)

Form CJ-8, Annual Probation Survey: 2007

Blank probation data survey containing a series of questions related to the probationary population in a particular location, with instructions for filling out the survey.
Date: December 6, 2007
Creator: United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Full-Water Column Current Observations in the Central Gulf of Mexico: Final Report (open access)

Full-Water Column Current Observations in the Central Gulf of Mexico: Final Report

Report of the results from surface to bottom monitoring of water current and temperature of the central Gulf of Mexico for a 16 month period, May, 2003 - August, 2004.
Date: August 2007
Creator: Sheinbaum, J.; Badan, A.; Ochoa, J.; Candela, J.; Rivas, D. & Gonzalez, J. I.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library