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The 0.22 Percent Across-the-Board Cut in FY2001 Appropriations (open access)

The 0.22 Percent Across-the-Board Cut in FY2001 Appropriations

Report describing changes that affected the government budget for the 2001 fiscal year under the Consolidated Appropriations Act.
Date: May 31, 2001
Creator: Keith, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2.6 Angstrom resolution structure of Rhodobacter capsulatus bacterioferritin with metal-free dinuclear site and heme iron in a crystallographic 'special position' (open access)

The 2.6 Angstrom resolution structure of Rhodobacter capsulatus bacterioferritin with metal-free dinuclear site and heme iron in a crystallographic 'special position'

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Date: October 31, 2001
Creator: Cobessi, D.; Huang, L.-S.; Ban, M.; Pon, N. G.; Daldal, F. & Berry, E. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
4-D High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Monitoring of Miscible CO2 Injected into a Carbonate Reservoir (open access)

4-D High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Monitoring of Miscible CO2 Injected into a Carbonate Reservoir

The objective of this research project is to acquire, process, and interpret multiple high-resolution 3-D compressional wave and 2-D, 2-C shear wave seismic data in an attempt to observe changes in fluid characteristics in an oil field before, during, and after the miscible carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2}) flood that began around December 1, 2003, as part of the DOE-sponsored Class Revisit Project (DOE DE-AC26-00BC15124). Unique and key to this imaging activity is the high-resolution nature of the seismic data, minimal deployment design, and the temporal sampling throughout the flood. The 900-m-deep test reservoir is located in central Kansas oomoldic limestones of the Lansing-Kansas City Group, deposited on a shallow marine shelf in Pennsylvanian time. After 30 months of seismic monitoring, one baseline and eight monitor surveys clearly detected changes that appear consistent with movement of CO{sub 2} as modeled with fluid simulators and observed in production data.
Date: August 31, 2006
Creator: Miller, Richard D.; Raef, Abdelmoneam E.; Byrnes, Alan P. & Harrison, William E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
4-D XRD for strain in many grains using triangulation (open access)

4-D XRD for strain in many grains using triangulation

Determination of the strains in a polycrystalline materialusing 4-D XRD reveals sub-grain and grain-to-grain behavior as a functionof stress. Here 4-D XRD involves an experimental procedure usingpolychromatic micro-beam X-radiation (micro-Laue) to characterizepolycrystalline materials in spatial location as well as with increasingstress. The in-situ tensile loading experiment measured strain in a modelaluminum-sapphire metal matrix composite using the Advanced Light Source,Beam-line 7.3.3. Micro-Laue resolves individual grains in thepolycrystalline matrix. Results obtained from a list of grains sorted bycrystallographic orientation depict the strain states within and amongindividual grains. Locating the grain positions in the planeperpendicular to the incident beam is trivial. However, determining theexact location of grains within a 3-D space is challenging. Determiningthe depth of the grains within the matrix (along the beam direction)involved a triangulation method tracing individual rays that producespots on the CCD back to the point of origin. Triangulation wasexperimentally implemented by simulating a 3-D detector capturingmultiple diffraction images while increasing the camera to sampledistance. Hence by observing the intersection of rays from multiple spotsbelonging to the corresponding grain, depth is calculated. Depthresolution is a function of the number of images collected, grain to beamsize ratio, and the pixel resolution of the CCD. The 4DXRD methodprovides grain morphologies, strain …
Date: December 31, 2006
Creator: Bale, Hrishikesh A.; Hanan, Jay C. & Tamura, Nobumichi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An 8-Element Fast-Neutron Double-Scatter Directional Detector. (open access)

An 8-Element Fast-Neutron Double-Scatter Directional Detector.

We have constructed a fast-neutron double-scatter spectrometer that efficiently measures the neutron spectrum and direction of a spontaneous fission source. The device consists of two planes of organic scintillators, each having an area of 125 cm{sup 2}, efficiently coupled to photomultipliers. The four scintillators in the front plane are 2 cm thick, giving almost 25% probability of detecting an incident fission-spectrum neutron at 2 MeV by proton recoil and subsequent ionization. The back plane contains four 5-cm-thick scintillators which give a 40% probability of detecting a scattered fast neutron. A recordable double-scatter event occurs when a neutron is detected in both a front plane detector and a back plane detector within an interval of 500 nanoseconds. Each double-scatter event is analyzed to determine the energy deposited in the front plane, the time of flight between detectors, and the energy deposited in the back plane. The scattering angle of each incident neutron is calculated from the ratio of the energy deposited in the first detector to the kinetic energy of the scattered neutron.
Date: July 31, 2005
Creator: Vanier, P. E. & Forman, L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
8. Innovative Technologies: Two-Phase Heat Transfer in Water-Based Nanofluids for Nuclear Applications Final Report (open access)

8. Innovative Technologies: Two-Phase Heat Transfer in Water-Based Nanofluids for Nuclear Applications Final Report

Abstract Nanofluids are colloidal dispersions of nanoparticles in water. Many studies have reported very significant enhancement (up to 200%) of the Critical Heat Flux (CHF) in pool boiling of nanofluids (You et al. 2003, Vassallo et al. 2004, Bang and Chang 2005, Kim et al. 2006, Kim et al. 2007). These observations have generated considerable interest in nanofluids as potential coolants for more compact and efficient thermal management systems. Potential Light Water Reactor applications include the primary coolant, safety systems and severe accident management strategies, as reported in other papers (Buongiorno et al. 2008 and 2009). However, the situation of interest in reactor applications is often flow boiling, for which no nanofluid data have been reported so far. In this project we investigated the potential of nanofluids to enhance CHF in flow boiling. Subcooled flow boiling heat transfer and CHF experiments were performed with low concentrations of alumina, zinc oxide, and diamond nanoparticles in water (≤ 0.1 % by volume) at atmospheric pressure. It was found that for comparable test conditions the values of the nanofluid and water heat transfer coefficient (HTC) are similar (within 20%). The HTC increased with mass flux and heat flux for water and nanofluids alike, …
Date: July 31, 2009
Creator: Buongiorno, Jacopo & Hu, Lin-wen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 1 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 1

Recording of the first public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on March 31, 2003 at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City. This purpose of this hearing was to engage those whose lives were changed by the events of September 11 in a public dialogue about the Commission's goals. This section includes the Commissioner's opening statements and remarks by George Pataki, Governor of New York and Micheal Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York City.
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 2 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 2

Recording of the first public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on March 31, 2003 at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City. The purpose of this hearing was to engage those whose lives were changed by the events of September 11 in a public dialogue about the Commission's goals. This section includes remarks from Micheal Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, Raymond Kelley, New York Police Commissioner, and Harry Waizer, a survivor from the financial services firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, which as headquartered in the World Trade Center.
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 3 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 3

Recording of the first public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on March 31, 2003 at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City. The purpose of this hearing was to engage those whose lives were changed by the events of September 11 in a public dialogue about the Commission's goals. This section concludes the opening remarks and begins the testimony from survivors of the September 11th attacks on their experiences.
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 4 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 4

Recording of the first public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on March 31, 2003 at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City. The purpose of this hearing was to engage those whose lives were changed by the events of September 11 in a public dialogue about the Commission's goals. This section concludes the testimony from survivors of the September 11th attacks and begins the testimony from representatives of the victims.
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 5 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 5

Recording of the first public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on March 31, 2003 at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City. The purpose of this hearing was to engage those whose lives were changed by the events of September 11 in a public dialogue about the Commission's goals. This section concludes the testimony from representatives of the victims and begins the testimony from professionals in various fields on the September 11th attackers, intelligence, and counter-terrorism policy.
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 6 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 6

Recording of the first public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on March 31, 2003 at the U.S. Alexander Hamilton Custom House. The purpose of this hearing was to engage those whose lives were changed by the events of September 11 in a public dialogue about the Commission's goals. This section continues the section on testimony from the professionals on the attackers, intelligence, and counter-terrorism policy.
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 7 captions transcript

9-11 Commission Hearing #1, March 31, 2003, Part 7

Recording of the first public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States on March 31, 2003 at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City.The purpose of this hearing was to engage those whose lives were changed by the events of September 11 in a public dialogue about the Commission's goals. This section concludes the testimony on the 9/11 attackers, intelligence, and counter-terrorism policy.
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
10 MMBt/Hr AFBC Commercial Demonstration Cedar Lane Farms (open access)

10 MMBt/Hr AFBC Commercial Demonstration Cedar Lane Farms

The objective of this project was to demonstrate and promote the commercialization of coal-fired atmospheric fluidized bed combustion (AFBC) systems, with limestone addition for SO2 emissions control and a baghouse for particulate emissions control. This AFBC system was targeted for small scale industrial-commercial-institutional space and process heat applications in the 4-40 MMBtu/hr size range. A cost effective and environmentally acceptable AFBC technology in this size range could displace a considerable amount of heating gas and oil with coal, while resulting in significant total cost savings to the owner/operators.
Date: October 31, 2005
Creator: Keener, Harold M.; Wicks, Mary H.; Machamer, Tom; Hoecke, Dave; Bonk, Don & Brown, Bob
Object Type: Report
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

The reluctance interior permanent magnet (RIPM) motor is currently used by many leading auto manufacturers for hybrid vehicles. The power density for this type of motor is high compared with that of induction motors and switched reluctance motors. The primary drawback of the RIPM motor is the permanent magnet (PM) because during high-speed operation, the fixed PM produces a huge back electromotive force (emf) that must be reduced before the current will pass through the stator windings. This reduction in back-emf is accomplished with a significant direct-axis (d-axis) demagnetization current, which opposes the PM's flux to reduce the flux seen by the stator wires. This may lower the power factor and efficiency of the motor and raise the requirement on the alternate current (ac) power supply; consequently, bigger inverter switching components, thicker motor winding conductors, and heavier cables are required. The direct current (dc) link capacitor is also affected when it must accommodate heavier harmonic currents. It is commonly agreed that, for synchronous machines, the power factor can be optimized by varying the field excitation to minimize the current. The field produced by the PM is fixed and cannot be adjusted. What can be adjusted is reactive current to the …
Date: October 31, 2007
Creator: Hsu, J. S.; Burress, T. A.; Lee, S. T.; Wiles, R. H.; Coomer, C. L.; McKeever, J.W. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A 16 Mev/Nucleon Cocktail for Heavy Ion Testing (open access)

A 16 Mev/Nucleon Cocktail for Heavy Ion Testing

This report gives the description of a new cocktail of heavy ions ranging from Z=7-36 at 16 MeV/Nucleon.
Date: July 31, 2004
Creator: McMahan, M. A.; Leitner, D.; Gimpel, T.; Morel, J.; Ninemire, B.; Siero, R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
84-Kilometer Radiological Monitoring Grid (open access)

84-Kilometer Radiological Monitoring Grid

The purpose of this report is to document the development of a radial grid that is suitable for evaluating the pathways and potential impacts of a release of radioactive materials to the environment within a distance of 84 kilometers.
Date: July 31, 2000
Creator: Roe, L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
AN-107 entrained solids - Solubility versus temperature (open access)

AN-107 entrained solids - Solubility versus temperature

This report describes the results of a test conducted by Battelle to assess the solubility of the solids entrained in the diluted AN-107 low-activity waste (LAW) sample. BNFL requested Battelle to dilute the AN-107 sample using sodium hydroxide and de-ionized water to mimic expected plant operating conditions. BNFL further requested Battelle to assess the solubility of the solids present in the diluted AN-107 sample versus temperature conditions of 30, 40, and 50 C. BNFL requested these tests to assess the composition of the LAW supernatant and solids versus expected plant-operating conditions.
Date: March 31, 2000
Creator: Lumetta, Gregg J. & Lettau, Ralph C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
275 C Downhole Microcomputer System (open access)

275 C Downhole Microcomputer System

An HC11 controller IC and along with serial SRAM and ROM support ICs chip set were developed to support a data acquisition and control for extreme temperature/harsh environment conditions greater than 275 C. The 68HC11 microprocessor is widely used in well logging tools for control, data acquisition, and signal processing applications and was the logical choice for a downhole controller. This extreme temperature version of the 68HC11 enables new high temperature designs and additionally allows 68HC11-based well logging tools and MWD tools to be upgraded for high temperature operation in deep gas reservoirs, The microcomputer chip consists of the microprocessor ALU, a small boot ROM, 4 kbyte data RAM, counter/timer unit, serial peripheral interface (SPI), asynchronous serial interface (SCI), and the A, B, C, and D parallel ports. The chip is code compatible with the single chip mode commercial 68HC11 except for the absence of the analog to digital converter system. To avoid mask programmed internal ROM, a boot program is used to load the microcomputer program from an external mask SPI ROM. A SPI RAM IC completes the chip set and allows data RAM to be added in 4 kbyte increments. The HC11 controller IC chip set is implemented …
Date: August 31, 2008
Creator: Hutchens, Chris & Soo, Hooi Miin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
275 C Downhole Switched-Mode Power Supply (open access)

275 C Downhole Switched-Mode Power Supply

A vee-square (V2) control based controller IC is developed for a switch mode power supply capable of operating at extreme temperature/harsh environment conditions. A buck type regulator with silicon carbide power junction field effect transistors (JFET) as power devices is used to analyze the performance of controller. Special emphases are made on the analog sub-blocks--voltage reference, operational transconductance amplifier and comparator as individual building blocks. Transformer coupled gate drives and high temperature operable magnetic cores and capacitors are identified and tested for use in the design. Conventional ceramic chip packaging of ICs combined with lead carrier type mounting of passive filter components is introduced for hybrid packaging of the complete product. The developed SMPS is anticipated to support the operation of down-hole microcontrollers and other electronics devices that require low/medium power filtered dc inputs over an operating temperature of 275 C.
Date: August 31, 2008
Creator: Hutchens, Chris & Madhuravasal, Vijay
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
300 Area Integrated Field-Scale Subsurface Research Challenge (IFRC) Field Site Management Plan (open access)

300 Area Integrated Field-Scale Subsurface Research Challenge (IFRC) Field Site Management Plan

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has established the 300 Area Integrated Field-Scale Subsurface Research Challenge (300 Area IFRC) on the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) within the Office of Science. The project is funded by the Environmental Remediation Sciences Division (ERSD). The purpose of the project is to conduct research at the 300 IFRC to investigate multi-scale mass transfer processes associated with a subsurface uranium plume impacting both the vadose zone and groundwater. The management approach for the 300 Area IFRC requires that a Field Site Management Plan be developed. This is an update of the plan to reflect the installation of the well network and other changes.
Date: December 31, 2008
Creator: Freshley, Mark D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
317/319 phytoremediation site monitoring report - 2005 growing season. (open access)

317/319 phytoremediation site monitoring report - 2005 growing season.

In 1999, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) designed and installed a series of engineered plantings consisting of a vegetative cover system and approximately 800 hybrid poplars and willows rooting at various predetermined depths. The plants were installed using various methods including Applied Natural Science's TreeWell{reg_sign} system. The goal of the installation was to protect downgradient surface and groundwater by hydraulic control of the contaminated plume by intercepting the contaminated groundwater with the tree roots, removing moisture from the upgradient soil area, reducing water infiltration, preventing soil erosion, degrading and/or transpiring the residual volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and removing tritium from the subsoil and groundwater. This report presents the results of the monitoring activities conducted by Argonne's Energy Systems Division (ES) in the growing season of 2005. Monitoring of the planted trees began soon after the trees were installed in 1999 and has been conducted every summer since then. As the trees grew and consolidated their growth into the contaminated soil and groundwater, their exposure to the contaminants was progressively shown through tissue sampling. However, as trees grow larger, some of the findings obtained in the early years when trees were much smaller may not hold true now and need to be …
Date: March 31, 2006
Creator: Negri, M. C.; Gopalakrishnan, G. & Systems, Energy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
360 Degree Photography to Decrease Exposure, Increase Safety & Minimize Waste (open access)

360 Degree Photography to Decrease Exposure, Increase Safety & Minimize Waste

High-resolution digital cameras, in conjunction with software techniques. make possible 360{sup o} photos that allow a person to look all around, up and dawn, and zoom in or out. The software provides the opportunity to attach other information to a 360{sup o} photo such as sound tiles, flat photos (providing additional detail about what is behind a panel or around a corner) and text (Information which can be used to show radiological conditions or identify other hazards not readily visible). The software also allows other 360{sup o} photos to be attached creating a virtual tour where the user can move from area to area, and stop, study and zoom in on areas of interest. A virtual tour of a building or room can be used for facility documentation, informing management and others, work planning and orientation, and training, thus minimizing the need to re-enter hazardous radioactive areas. Reducing entries decreases exposure, increases safety and minimizes waste.
Date: January 31, 2002
Creator: LeBaron, G. J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
527 Political Organizations: Legislation in the 109th Congress (open access)

527 Political Organizations: Legislation in the 109th Congress

The 109th Congress is examining the role of groups organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) that are involved in federal elections but are not operating under the requirements and restrictions of federal election law. Although such groups only recently emerged into public awareness, in 2004, they were widely seen as major players in the presidential election, with more than $400 million spent seeking to influence the outcome. Strictly speaking, the term “527” refers to a section of the Internal Revenue Code, which was added in 1975 to provide tax-exempt status to federal, state, and local political organizations, as defined in that statute. The controversy over these 527 groups arises from two factors: the different definitions used in federal election law and tax law as to what constitutes election-related activity and, further, the lack of certainty as to what election law itself regulates or may permissibly regulate. This report discusses these groups in detail, as well as related legislation.
Date: March 31, 2006
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E. & Lunder, Erika
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library