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3.9 GHz superconducting accelerating 9-cell cavity vertical test results (open access)

3.9 GHz superconducting accelerating 9-cell cavity vertical test results

The 3rd harmonic 3.9GHz accelerating cavity was proposed to improve the beam performance of the FLASH (TTF/DESY) facility [1]. In the frame of a collaborative agreement, Fermilab will provide DESY with a cryomodule containing a string of four cavities. In addition, a second cryomodule with one cavity will be fabricated for installation in the Fermilab photo-injector, which will be upgraded for the ILC accelerator test facility. The first 9-cell Nb cavities were tested in a vertical setup and they didn't reach the designed accelerating gradient [2]. The main problem was a multipactor in the HOM couplers, which lead to overheating and quenching of the HOM couplers. New HOM couplers with improved design are integrated in the next 9-cell cavities. In this paper we present all results of the vertical tests.
Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: Khabiboulline, Timergali; Cooper, Charles; Dhanaraj, Nandhini; Edwards, Helen; Foley, Mike; Harms, Elvin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
3.9 GHz superconducting accelerating 9-cell cavity vertical test results (open access)

3.9 GHz superconducting accelerating 9-cell cavity vertical test results

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Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: Khabiboulline, Timergali; Cooper, Charles; Dhanaraj, Nandhini; Edwards, Helen; Foley, Mike; Harms, Elvin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 4.8 GHz LHC Schottky pick-up system (open access)

The 4.8 GHz LHC Schottky pick-up system

The LHC Schottky observation system is based on traveling wave type high sensitivity pickup structures operating at 4.8 GHz. The choice of the structure and operating frequency is driven by the demanding LHC impedance requirements, where very low impedance is required below 2 GHz, and good sensitivity at the selected band at 4.8 GHz. A sophisticated filtering and triple down -mixing signal processing chain has been designed and implemented in order to achieve the specified 100 dB instantaneous dynamic range without range switching. Detailed design aspects for the complete systems and test results without beam are presented and discussed.
Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: Caspers, Fritz; Jimenez, Jose Miguel; Jones, Rhodri Owain; Kroyer, Tom; Vuitton, Christophe; Hamerla, Timothy W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
8 GeV beam line optics optimization for the rapid antiproton transfers at Fermilab (open access)

8 GeV beam line optics optimization for the rapid antiproton transfers at Fermilab

Tevatron Run-II upgrade requires a significant increase of the efficiency and speed of the antiproton transfers from the Accumulator to the Recycler. The goal for the total transfer time is challenging a reduction from 1 hour down to a few minutes. Here we discuss the beam line optics aspects of this project. Results of lattice measurements and optimization are analyzed in terms of transport efficiency and stability.
Date: February 1, 2007
Creator: Nagaslaev, V.; Lebedev, V.; Morgan, J. & Vander Meulen, D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An 8 GeV H- multi-turn injection system for the Fermilab Main Injector (open access)

An 8 GeV H- multi-turn injection system for the Fermilab Main Injector

An 8 GeV superconducting linear accelerator (SCL) has been proposed [1] as a single stage H{sup -} injector into the Main Injector (MI) synchrotron . This would be the highest energy H{sup -} multi-turn injection system in the world. The conceptual design of an injection system has been further refined by addressing transverse phase space painting issues, chicane dipole fields and foil location, foil temperature issues, and initial longitudinal phase space painting simulations. We present the current state of design.
Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: Johnson, D. E.; Yoon, P.; Liaw, C. J.; Raparia, D. & Bebee-Wang, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An 8 GeV H- multi-turn injection system for the Fermilab Main Injector (open access)

An 8 GeV H- multi-turn injection system for the Fermilab Main Injector

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Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: Johnson, D. E.; Yoon, P.; Liaw, C. J.; Raparia, D. & Bebee-Wang, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
16,000-RPM Interior Permanent Magnet Reluctance Machine with Brushless Field Excitation (open access)

16,000-RPM Interior Permanent Magnet Reluctance Machine with Brushless Field Excitation

Introduction to Brushless field excitation(BFE) to overcome the drawbacks of Reluctance Interior Permanent Magnet (RIPM).
Date: October 1, 2007
Creator: Hsu, John S.; Burress, Timothy A.; Lee, Seong T.; Wiles, Randy H.; Coomer, Chester; McKeever, John W. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A 96 channel receiver for the ILCTA LLRF system at Fermilab (open access)

A 96 channel receiver for the ILCTA LLRF system at Fermilab

The present configuration of an ILC main LINAC RF station has 26 nine cell cavities driven from one klystron. With the addition of waveguide power coupler monitors, 96 RF signals will be down-converted and processed. A down-converter chassis is being developed that contains 12 eight channel analog modules and a single upconverter module. This chassis will first be deployed for testing a cryomodule composed of eight cavities located at New Muon Laboratory (NML) - Fermilab. Critical parts of the design for LLRF applications are identified and a detailed description of the circuit with various characteristic measurements is presented. The board is composed of an input band-pass filter centered at 1.3GHz, followed by a mixer, which down-converts the cavity probe signal to a proposed 13 MHz intermediate frequency. Cables with 8 channels per connector and good isolation between channels are being used to interconnect each down-converter module with a digital board. As mixers, amplifiers and power splitters are the most sensitive parts for noise, nonlinearities and crosstalk issues, special attention is given to these parts in the design of the LO port multiplication and distribution.
Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: Mavric, Uros; Chase, Brian; Branlard, Julien; Cullerton, Ed & Klepec, Dan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
1991-2005 National Solar Radiation Database (open access)

1991-2005 National Solar Radiation Database

This fact sheet provides an overview of the purpose, benefit, and features of the newly updated National Solar Radiation Database.
Date: May 1, 2007
Creator: Wilcox, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2006 Annual Summary Report for the Area 3 and Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Sites at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

2006 Annual Summary Report for the Area 3 and Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Sites at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

The Maintenance Plan for the Performance Assessments and Composite Analyses for the Area 3 and Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Sites at the Nevada Test Site (National Security Technologies, LLC, 2006) requires an annual review to assess the adequacy of the performance assessments (PAs) and composite analyses (CAs) for each of the facilities, with the results submitted as an annual summary report to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Headquarters. The Disposal Authorization Statements for the Area 3 and Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Sites (RWMSs) also require that such reviews be made and that secondary or minor unresolved issues be tracked and addressed as part of the maintenance plan (DOE, 2000; 2002). The DOE, National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office performed annual reviews in fiscal year (FY) 2006 by evaluating operational factors and research results that impact the continuing validity of the PAs and CAs results. This annual summary report presents data and conclusions from the FY 2006 review, and determines the adequacy of the PAs and CAs. Operational factors, such as the waste form and containers, facility design, waste receipts, and closure plans, as well as monitoring results and research and development (R&D) activities, were reviewed in …
Date: March 1, 2007
Creator: Gregory J, Shott, Vefa Yucel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2006 B100 Quality Survey Results: Milestone Report (open access)

2006 B100 Quality Survey Results: Milestone Report

In 2006, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory conducted a nationwide quality survey of pure biodiesel (B100) intended to be used as a blendstock. The study collected random samples throughout the United States and analyzed them for quality against the current and proposed ASTM D6751 fuel quality specifications.
Date: May 1, 2007
Creator: Alleman, T. L.; McCormick, R. L. & Deutch, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2006 Data Report: Groundwater Monitoring Program Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site (open access)

2006 Data Report: Groundwater Monitoring Program Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site

This report is a compilation of the groundwater sampling results from the Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site (RWMS) for calendar year 2006. Pilot wells UE5PW-1, UE5PW-2, and UE5PW-3 were sampled in April and October 2006 for the following indicators of contamination: pH, specific conductance, total organic carbon, total organic halides, and tritium. Indicators of general water chemistry (cations and anions) were also monitored. Results from all samples collected in 2006 were within the limits established by agreement with the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection for each analyte. These data indicate that there has been no measurable impact to the uppermost aquifer from the Area 5 RWMS. There were no significant changes in measured groundwater parameters compared to previous years. Other information in the report includes an updated Cumulative Chronology for the Area 5 RWMS Groundwater Monitoring Program and a brief description of the site hydrogeology.
Date: February 1, 2007
Creator: Hudson, David B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2006 SITE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT (open access)

2006 SITE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT

Each year, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) prepares an annual Site Environmental Report (SER) in accordance with DOE Order 231.1A, Environment, Safety and Health Reporting of the U.S. Department of Energy. The report is written to inform the public, regulators, employees, and other stakeholders of BNL's environmental performance during the calendar year in review. The SER summarizes environmental data; environmental management performance; compliance with applicable DOE, federal, state, and local regulations; and compliance, restoration, and surveillance monitoring program performance. BNL has prepared annual SERs since 1971 and has documented nearly all of its environmental history since the Laboratory's inception in 1947. The report is available in print and as a downloadable file on the BNL web page at http://www.bnl.gov/ewms/ser/. A summary of the SER is also prepared each year to provide a general overview of the report, and is distributed with a CD of the full report.
Date: October 1, 2007
Creator: LABORATORY, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL & RATEL,K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2006 Update for Implementing Best Available Technology per DOE Order 5400.5 (open access)

2006 Update for Implementing Best Available Technology per DOE Order 5400.5

In accordance with Contract Data Requirements List F.19, this report addresses the Best Available Technology requirements per Department of Energy (DOE) Order 5400.5, “Radiation Protection of the Public and the Environment,” as they apply to radiological discharges to the soil for Calendar Year 2006. The report includes review of discharges for both, Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC and CH2M WG Idaho, LLC. The Best Available Technology selection process is applicable to wastewater discharges containing process derived radionuclides to surface waters, sanitary sewerages greater than five times the Derived Concentration Guideline (found in DOE Order 5400.5), and to the soil. Wastewater at the Idaho National Laboratory Site is not discharged to surface water (Big Lost River and Birch Creek) nor is it discharged to sanitary sewerages at activity levels greater than five times a Derived Concentration Guideline. Therefore, this report focuses on radiological discharges to the soil.
Date: September 1, 2007
Creator: Lewis, Michael G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2006 Update of Business Downtime Costs (open access)

2006 Update of Business Downtime Costs

The objective of this paper is to assess the downtime cost of power outages to businesses in the commercial and industrial sectors, updating and improving upon studies that have already been published on this subject. The goal is to produce a study that, relative to existing studies, (1) applies to a wider set of business types (2) reflects more current downtime costs, (3) accounts for the time duration factor of power outages, and (4) includes data on the costs imposed by real outages in a well-defined market. This study examines power outage costs in 11 commercial subsectors and 5 industrial subsectors, using data on downtime costs that was collected in the 1990's. This study also assesses power outage costs for power outages of 20 minutes, 1 hour, and 4 hours duration. Finally, this study incorporates data on the costs of real power outages for two business subsectors. However, the current limited state of data availability on the topic of downtime costs means there is room to improve upon this study. Useful next steps would be to generate more recent data on downtime costs, data that covers outages shorter than 20 minutes duration and longer than 4 hours duration, and more …
Date: January 1, 2007
Creator: Hinrichs, Doug & Goggin, Michael
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2007 Solar America Cities Awards (open access)

2007 Solar America Cities Awards

This factsheet gives an overview of the Solar America Cities Awards and the Solar America Initiative (SAI). A map of all SAI projects is also made available.
Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2007 Solar Decathlon: Powered by the Sun (Competition Program) (open access)

2007 Solar Decathlon: Powered by the Sun (Competition Program)

The 2007 Solar Decathlon Competition Program is distributed to Solar Decathlon visitors, media, sponsors, and the student competitors. It contains basic facts about the Solar Decathlon: what, where, when, who, and how. It is a guide for visitors to the events and workshops. It describes the 10 contests and the technologies used in the houses. It celebrates the accomplishments of the competitors and provides an opportunity for the major sponsors to describe their roles and relay their commitment to the ideals of the Solar Decathlon.
Date: September 1, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2400mwt Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor Dhr Studies Status Update. (open access)

2400mwt Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor Dhr Studies Status Update.

A topical report on demonstrating the efficacy of a proposed hybrid active/passive combination approach to the decay heat removal for an advanced 2400MWt GEN-IV gas-cooled fast reactor was published in March 2006. The analysis was performed with the system code RELAP5-3D (version 2.4.1.1a) and the model included the full complement of the power conversion unit (PCU): heat exchange components (recuperator, precooler, intercooler) and rotating machines (turbine, compressor). A re-analysis of the success case in Ref is presented in this report. The case was redone to correct unexpected changes in core heat structure temperatures when the PCU model was first integrated with the reactor model as documented in Ref [1]. Additional information on the modeling of the power conversion unit and the layout of the heat exchange components is provided in Appendix A.
Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: Cheng, L. Y. & Ludewig, H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
3D CFD Model of a Multi-Cell High Temperature Electrolysis Stack (open access)

3D CFD Model of a Multi-Cell High Temperature Electrolysis Stack

A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) electrochemical model has been created to model high-temperature electrolysis stack performance and steam electrolysis in the Idaho National Laboratory Integrated Lab Scale (ILS) experiment. The model is made of 60 planar cells stacked on top of each other operated as Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (SOEC). Details of the model geometry are specific to a stack that was fabricated by Ceramatec, Inc1. and tested at the Idaho National Laboratory. Inlet and outlet plenum flow and distribution are considered. Mass, momentum, energy, and species conservation and transport are provided via the core features of the commercial CFD code FLUENT2. A solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) model adds the electrochemical reactions and loss mechanisms and computation of the electric field throughout the cell. The FLUENT SOFC userdefined subroutine was modified for this work to allow for operation in the SOEC mode. Model results provide detailed profiles of temperature, Nernst potential, operating potential, activation overpotential, anode-side gas composition, cathode-side gas composition, current density and hydrogen production over a range of stack operating conditions. Variations in flow distribution, and species concentration are discussed. End effects of flow and per-cell voltage are also considered.
Date: November 1, 2007
Creator: Hawkes, G. L.; O'Brien, J. E. & Stoots, C. M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
3D CFD Model of a Tubular Porous-Metal Supported Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (open access)

3D CFD Model of a Tubular Porous-Metal Supported Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell

Currently there is strong interest in the large-scale production of hydrogen as an energy carrier for the non-electrical market [1, 2, and 3]. High-temperature nuclear reactors have the potential for substantially increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production from water splitting, with no consumption of fossil fuels, no production of greenhouse gases, and no other forms of air pollution. A high-temperature advanced nuclear reactor coupled with a high-efficiency high-temperature electrolyzer could achieve a competitive thermal-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of 45 to 55%. A research program is under way at the INL to simultaneously address the research and scale-up issues associated with the implementation of solid-oxide electrolysis cell technology for hydrogen production from steam. The future SOEC market includes the 1200MW GEN4 reactor which has projected 40-50% efficiency, 400 tones H2 production per day (at 5kg H2/car/300 mile day this corresponds to 80,000 cars/day). DOE is planning for 26GW of nuclear hydrogen production by 2025.
Date: October 1, 2007
Creator: Hawkes, G. L.; Hawkes, B. D.; Sohal, M. S.; Torgerson, P. T.; Armstrong, T. & Williams, M. C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
3D CFD Model of High Temperature H2O/CO2 Co-electrolysis (open access)

3D CFD Model of High Temperature H2O/CO2 Co-electrolysis

3D CFD Model of High Temperature H2O/CO2 Co-Electrolysis Grant Hawkes1, James O’Brien1, Carl Stoots1, Stephen Herring1 Joe Hartvigsen2 1 Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho, grant.hawkes@inl.gov 2 Ceramatec Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah INTRODUCTION A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model has been created to model high temperature co-electrolysis of steam and carbon dioxide in a planar solid oxide electrolyzer (SOE) using solid oxide fuel cell technology. A research program is under way at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to simultaneously address the research and scale-up issues associated with the implementation of planar solid-oxide electrolysis cell technology for syn-gas production from CO2 and steam. Various runs have been performed under different run conditions to help assess the performance of the SOE. This paper presents CFD results of this model compared with experimental results. The Idaho National Laboratory (INL), in conjunction with Ceramatec Inc. (Salt Lake City, USA) has been researching for several years the use of solid-oxide fuel cell technology to electrolyze steam for large-scale nuclear-powered hydrogen production. Now, an experimental research project is underway at the INL to produce syngas by simultaneously electrolyzing at high-temperature steam and carbon dioxide (CO2) using solid oxide fuel cell technology. A strong interest …
Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: Hawkes, Grant; O'Brien, James; Stoots, Carl; Herring, Stephen & Hartvigsen, Joe
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
3D circuit integration for Vertex and other detectors (open access)

3D circuit integration for Vertex and other detectors

High Energy Physics continues to push the technical boundaries for electronics. There is no area where this is truer than for vertex detectors. Lower mass and power along with higher resolution and radiation tolerance are driving forces. New technologies such as SOI CMOS detectors and three dimensional (3D) integrated circuits offer new opportunities to meet these challenges. The fundamentals for SOI CMOS detectors and 3D integrated circuits are discussed. Examples of each approach for physics applications are presented. Cost issues and ways to reduce development costs are discussed.
Date: September 1, 2007
Creator: Yarema, Ray
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
3D optical sectioning with a new hyperspectral confocal fluorescence imaging system. (open access)

3D optical sectioning with a new hyperspectral confocal fluorescence imaging system.

A novel hyperspectral fluorescence microscope for high-resolution 3D optical sectioning of cells and other structures has been designed, constructed, and used to investigate a number of different problems. We have significantly extended new multivariate curve resolution (MCR) data analysis methods to deconvolve the hyperspectral image data and to rapidly extract quantitative 3D concentration distribution maps of all emitting species. The imaging system has many advantages over current confocal imaging systems including simultaneous monitoring of numerous highly overlapped fluorophores, immunity to autofluorescence or impurity fluorescence, enhanced sensitivity, and dramatically improved accuracy, reliability, and dynamic range. Efficient data compression in the spectral dimension has allowed personal computers to perform quantitative analysis of hyperspectral images of large size without loss of image quality. We have also developed and tested software to perform analysis of time resolved hyperspectral images using trilinear multivariate analysis methods. The new imaging system is an enabling technology for numerous applications including (1) 3D composition mapping analysis of multicomponent processes occurring during host-pathogen interactions, (2) monitoring microfluidic processes, (3) imaging of molecular motors and (4) understanding photosynthetic processes in wild type and mutant Synechocystis cyanobacteria.
Date: February 1, 2007
Creator: Nieman, Linda T.; Sinclair, Michael B.; Davidson, George S.; Van Benthem, Mark Hilary; Haaland, David Michael; Timlin, Jerilyn Ann et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library