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Sixth Annual Report: Freeport Test Facility, Freeport, Texas (open access)

Sixth Annual Report: Freeport Test Facility, Freeport, Texas

From Introduction: "The Sixth Annual Report presents a wide variety of information findings and recommendations concerning the Multiple-Effect VTE evaporation method of desalination. The included data are derived from the results obtained from operation, maintenance, and development studies conducted for the the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Saline Water, at Freeport, Texas. Not only are the technical, logistical, and economical evaluations for the Fiscal Year 1967 operations presented herein, but also the process and mechanical development program results as related to the process in particular, and desalination in general."
Date: October 1969
Creator: Stearns-Roger Corporation
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report (FY 1968): Freeport Test Facility and Vertical-Tube-Evaporator Test-Bed Plant, Freeport, Texas (open access)

Annual Report (FY 1968): Freeport Test Facility and Vertical-Tube-Evaporator Test-Bed Plant, Freeport, Texas

Report that presents "information, findings, and recommendations concerning the multiple-effect falling-film-evaporation method of desalination" (p. 1).
Date: September 1969
Creator: Stearns-Roger Corporation
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sea Water Corrosion Test Program (open access)

Sea Water Corrosion Test Program

From Introduction: "The first demonstration plant sponsored by the Office of Saline Water was located in Freeport, Texas, and came 'on stream" in 1961. The incoming sea water was deaerated since both Speller (6) and Uhlig (7) recognized that dissolved oxygen was usually the controlling factor in the corrosion of iron stream condensate at temperatures even as high 400 degrees F. The water was acidified prior to daeration with H2SO4 to decompose the carbonates which subsequently would cause scale when the water was heated. After the carbonates were removed, the pH was raised to the neutral point, again to provide a less corrosive environment."
Date: March 1969
Creator: Behrens, H. C.; Martin, F. D.; Osborn, O.; Rice, L.; Russell, W. B.; Schreiber, C. F. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Model Study of Galveston Harbor Entrance, Texas: Hydraulic Model Investigation (open access)

Model Study of Galveston Harbor Entrance, Texas: Hydraulic Model Investigation

Report discussing the results of a series of tests in Galveston Bay to: "(a) develop plans for relocation and stabilization of the jetty channel on an alignment and at a depth suitable fro the safe passage of supertankers; (b) determine means for protecting the north jetty from the undermining action of tidal currents; (c) determine the shoaling characteristics of the relocated and deepened jetty (inner bar) channel and develop plans for minimizing shoaling in the relocated channel; and (d) determine the best locations for additional anchorage areas adjacent to the jetty channel or in Bolivar Roads" (p. ix).
Date: February 1969
Creator: Simmons, Henry B. & Boland, Robert A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report (FY 1969): Freeport Test Facility and Vertical-Tube-Evaporator Test-Bed Plant, Freeport, Texas (open access)

Annual Report (FY 1969): Freeport Test Facility and Vertical-Tube-Evaporator Test-Bed Plant, Freeport, Texas

Report presenting progress in saline water conversion at the Freeport Test Facility and Vertical-Tube-Evaporator Test-Bed Plant in Freeport, Texas, and the economics of its operation. Includes information regarding the LTV multiple-effect evaporation method of desalination.
Date: 1969
Creator: Campbell, Keith S. & Williams, Donald L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geological Reconnaissance of the Sulphur River and Cypress Creek Basins, Texas (open access)

Geological Reconnaissance of the Sulphur River and Cypress Creek Basins, Texas

This report is concerned with that part of the Texas Water Project located in the Cypress Creek and Sulphur River Basins and within the New Orleans District (NOD) of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. The geological reconnaissance reported herein was performed for the NOD to provide a basis for estimating costs and determining the feasibility of construction of 5 dams and reservoirs, 1 tunnel, 15 pump stations, and about 110 miles of transmission channel and the enlargement of 2 existing reservoirs.
Date: November 1967
Creator: Saucier, Roger T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Economics of Desalting Brackish Waters for Regional, Municipal and Industrial Water Supply in West Texas (open access)

The Economics of Desalting Brackish Waters for Regional, Municipal and Industrial Water Supply in West Texas

"This report presents the results of a study of the preliminary feasibility and economics of desalting brackish waters for municipal and industrial watter supply in candidate regions of West Texas" (p. ii).
Date: September 1967
Creator: Ralph M. Parsons Company
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Entrainment Carbonization of Texas Lignite (open access)

Entrainment Carbonization of Texas Lignite

From Abstract: "This bulletin is a detailed study of low-temperature, entrained-bed carbonization of a Texas lignite. The lignite was from the Sandow strip mine and is representative of the Rockdale formation of the Wilcox formational group.
Date: 1967
Creator: Landers, W. S.; Gomez, Manuel & Wagner, E. O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Potential Contribution of Desalting to Future Water Supply in Texas (open access)

The Potential Contribution of Desalting to Future Water Supply in Texas

From Forward: "This report presents the results of a study of the potential contribution of desalting to future water supply in the State of Texas."
Date: November 1966
Creator: Southwest Research Institute
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
USAEC Airborne Radiometric Reconnaissance in Arkansas, Colorado, Montana, Texas and Utah, 1952 to 1955 (open access)

USAEC Airborne Radiometric Reconnaissance in Arkansas, Colorado, Montana, Texas and Utah, 1952 to 1955

From introduction: This is one of a series of three reports on airborne radioactivity surveys in the United States. The reports contain the 185 airborne anomaly maps issued by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission as a result of the AEC's aerial surveying program conducted from March 1952 to June 1956; two ground reconnaissance maps of Utah also are included. Most of the reconnaissance was done in the western United States.
Date: August 1966
Creator: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Grand Junction Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Engineering Evaluation of the Long-Tube Vertical Falling-Film Distillation Process (open access)

An Engineering Evaluation of the Long-Tube Vertical Falling-Film Distillation Process

Report issued by the Office of Saline Water over engineering studies on the long-tube vertical falling-film distillation process. As stated in the introduction, "it is the objective of this report to study the falling-film distillation and to prepare an engineering evaluation of the process and the design of major items of equipment, with particular emphasis upon improving production and operational reliability and upon reducing product cost" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: February 1965
Creator: Dow Chemical Company
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Anadarko Basin (of parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado) (open access)

The Anadarko Basin (of parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado)

Abstract: This report is a synthesis of published and unpublished data on the rocks of the Anadarko basin.
Date: March 1964
Creator: MacLachlan, M. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant Number 1, Freeport, Texas, Volume 2 (open access)

Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant Number 1, Freeport, Texas, Volume 2

Report documenting the ongoing progress and economic concerns of Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant No. 1 in Freeport, Texas.
Date: March 1964
Creator: Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Company
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Plate 1. Natural Gamma Aeroradioactivity of the GNOME (Carisbad) Area, New Mexico and Texas

Map with graded color shading to show levels of naturally-occurring gamma aeroradioactivity within the "Gnome" test area in New Mexico and Texas. Details about the survey and map creation are printed at right. Scale 1:250,000.
Date: 1964
Creator: MacKallor, Jules A.
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
Galveston Area (ARMS-II) (open access)

Galveston Area (ARMS-II)

Report describing an Aerial Radiological Measuring Survey (ARMS) of the Galveston Area between Jan. 27 and Feb. 17, 1962. The survey was part of a nationwide program to measure present environmental levels of gamma radiation. Aerial measurements of ground radioactivity were consistent everywhere with what was expected considering the geology of the area.
Date: January 15, 1963
Creator: Guillou, R. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Plates 1-3: Aeroradioactivity Map (ARMS-II), Galveston Area, Texas

Maps of four quadrants in the Galveston area surveyed as part of a radiological survey, outlining "Radioactivity levels in hundreds of counts per second normalized to 500 ft above ground." Scale 1:250,000.
Date: 1963
Creator: Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant Number 1, Freeport, Texas, Volume 1 (open access)

Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant Number 1, Freeport, Texas, Volume 1

Report documenting the ongoing progress and economic concerns of Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant No. 1 in Freeport, Texas.
Date: January 1963
Creator: Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Company
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Natural Gamma Aeroradioactivity of Parts of the Los Angeles Region, California

Map with graded color shading to show levels of naturally-occurring gamma aeroradioactivity within the Los Angeles region in California. Details about the survey and map creation are printed at right. Scale 1:250,000.
Date: 1962
Creator: Books, Kenneth G.
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeroradioactivity Survey and Related Surface Geology of Parts of the Los Angeles Region, California (ARMS-I) (open access)

Aeroradioactivity Survey and Related Surface Geology of Parts of the Los Angeles Region, California (ARMS-I)

Report regarding an airborne gamma-radioactivity survey that took place in the 2,800 square mile area around the Los Angeles region in California. Topics include the types of bedrock noted in the area as well as their levels of radioactivity.
Date: May 1961
Creator: Books, Kenneth G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Subsurface Saline Water Sources for Waterflooding in North Texas (open access)

Subsurface Saline Water Sources for Waterflooding in North Texas

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over water-supply wells in North Texas. As stated in the summary, "averages of well characteristics, including static fluid levels, working fluid levels, net thicknesses, producing rates, and depths, are presented and discussed" (p. 1). This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: 1961
Creator: Parrish, Frank, Jr. & Garland, Thomas M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library