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10kW SOFC POWER SYSTEM COMMERCIALIZATION (open access)

10kW SOFC POWER SYSTEM COMMERCIALIZATION

Participants in the SECA 10 kW SOFC Power System Commercialization project include Cummins Power Generation (CPG), the power generation arm of Cummins, Inc., SOFCo-EFS Holdings, LLC (formerly McDermott Technology, Inc.), the fuel cell and fuel processing research and development arm of McDermott International Inc., M/A-COM, the Multi-Layer Ceramics (MLC) processing and manufacturing arm of Tyco Electronics, and Ceramatec, a materials technology development company. CPG functions in the role of prime contractor and system integrator. SOFCo-EFS is responsible for the design and development of the hot box assembly, including the SOFC stack(s), heat exchanger(s), manifolding, and fuel reformer. M/A-COM and SOFCo-EFS are jointly responsible for development of the MLC manufacturing processes, and Ceramatec provides technical support in materials development. In October 2002, McDermott announced its intention to cease operations at McDermott Technology, Inc. (MTI) as of December 31, 2002. This decision was precipitated by several factors, including the announced tentative settlement of the B&W Bankruptcy which would result in all of the equity of B&W being conveyed to a trust, thereby eliminating McDermott's interest in the company, and the desire to create a separate fuel cell entity to facilitate its commercial development. The new fuel cell entity is named SOFCo-EFS Holdings, …
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Norrick, Dan; Vesely, Charles; Romine, Todd; Palmer, Brad; Rush, Greg; Barringer, Eric et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
12th Workshop on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Materials and Processes: Summary Discussion Sessions (open access)

12th Workshop on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Materials and Processes: Summary Discussion Sessions

This report is a summary of the discussion sessions of the 12th Workshop on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells and Processes. The theme of the workshop was"Fundamental R&D in c-Si: Enabling Progress in Solar-Electric Technology." This theme was chosen to reflect a concern that the current expansion in the PV energy production may redirect basic research efforts to production-oriented issues. The PV industry is installing added production capacity and new production lines that include the latest technologies. Once the technologies are selected, it is difficult to make changes. Consequently, a large expansion can stagnate the technologies and diminish interest in fundamental research. To prevent the fundamental R&D program from being overwhelmed by the desire to address immediate engineering issues, there is a need to establish topics of fundamental nature that can be pursued by the universities and the research institutions. Hence, one of the objectives of the workshop was to identify such areas for fundamental research.
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Sopori, B.; Swanson, D.; Sinton, R. & Tan, T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2002 Wastewater Land Application Site Performance Reports for the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and Associated Documentation (open access)

2002 Wastewater Land Application Site Performance Reports for the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and Associated Documentation

The 2002 Wastewater Land Application site Performance Reports for the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory describe site conditions for the facilities with State of Idaho Wastewater Land Application Permits. Permit-required monitoring data are summarized, and permit exceedences or environmental impacts relating to the operation of the facilities during the 2002 permit year are discussed.
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Meachum, Teresa Ray & Lewis, Michael G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 2 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 2

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives congratulating John Younger of Midland, on being named Top Hand by the Permian Basin Petroleum Association.
Date: February 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Addressing Operating Risk and Improving the Efficiency of Texas State Government: Proposals for Consideration from the State Auditor's Office to the 78th Texas Legislature (open access)

Addressing Operating Risk and Improving the Efficiency of Texas State Government: Proposals for Consideration from the State Auditor's Office to the 78th Texas Legislature

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to various proposals made to the 78th Texas Legislature that could reduce operating risk with regards to financial management and accountability, strategic human resources and people management, contract and grant administration, information resources and technology management, and performance measurement and management, and result in potential savings between $1 billion and $1.8 billion for the 2004-2005 biennium.
Date: February 2003
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
ADVANCED FLUE GAS CONDITIONING AS A RETROFIT UPGRADE TO ENHANCE PM COLLECTION FROM COAL-FIRED ELECTRIC UTILITY BOILERS (open access)

ADVANCED FLUE GAS CONDITIONING AS A RETROFIT UPGRADE TO ENHANCE PM COLLECTION FROM COAL-FIRED ELECTRIC UTILITY BOILERS

The U.S. Department of Energy and ADA Environmental Solutions are engaged in a project to develop commercial flue gas conditioning additives. The objective is to develop conditioning agents that can help improve particulate control performance of smaller or under-sized electrostatic precipitators on utility coal-fired boilers. The new chemicals will be used to control both the electrical resistivity and the adhesion or cohesivity of the fly ash. There is a need to provide cost-effective and safer alternatives to traditional flue gas conditioning with SO{sub 3} and ammonia. During this reporting quarter, two cohesivity-specific additive formulations, ADA-44C and ADA-51, were evaluated in a full-scale trial at the American Electric Power Conesville plant. Ammonia conditioning was also evaluated for comparison. ADA-51 and ammonia conditioning significantly reduced rapping and non-rapped particulate re-entrainment based on stack opacity monitor data. Based on the successful tests to date, ADA-51 will be evaluated in a long-term test.
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Baldrey, Kenneth E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeronautics Star, Special Edition National Engineers Week 2003 (open access)

Aeronautics Star, Special Edition National Engineers Week 2003

Special issue of a bimonthly newsletter published for employees of the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Division containing news and advertising events for National Engineers Week.
Date: February 2003
Creator: Lockheed Martin Astronautics Corporation
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Age, Volume 26, Number 2, February 2003 (open access)

The Age, Volume 26, Number 2, February 2003

Monthly publication containing information related to Chambers County, Texas, including current events of the Chambers County Historical Commission, the Wallisville Heritage Park, and the Chambers County historical and genealogical societies; reprinted newspaper articles about county events and citizens; and historical news and records.
Date: February 2003
Creator: Wallisville Heritage Park (Organization)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
THE ALLISON UNIT CO{sub 2}-ECBM PILOT: A RESERVOIR MODELING STUDY (open access)

THE ALLISON UNIT CO{sub 2}-ECBM PILOT: A RESERVOIR MODELING STUDY

In October, 2000, the United States Department of Energy, through contractor Advanced Resources International (ARI), launched a multi-year government-industry research & development collaboration called the Coal-Seq project. The Coal-Seq project is investigating the feasibility of carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2}) sequestration in deep, unmineable coalseams by performing detailed reservoir studies of two enhanced coalbed methane (ECBM) recovery field projects in the San Juan basin. The two sites are the Allison Unit, operated by Burlington Resources, and into which CO{sub 2} is being injected, and the Tiffany Unit, operating by BP America, into which nitrogen (N{sub 2}) is being injected (the interest in understanding the N{sub 2}-ECBM process has important implications for CO{sub 2} sequestration via flue-gas injection). The purposes of the field studies are to understand the reservoir mechanisms of CO{sub 2} and N{sub 2} injection into coalseams, demonstrate the practical effectiveness of the ECBM and sequestration processes, demonstrate an engineering capability to model them, and to evaluate sequestration economics. In support of these efforts, laboratory and theoretical studies are also being performed to understand and model multicomponent isotherm behavior, and coal permeability changes due to swelling with CO{sub 2} injection. This report describes the results of an important component of …
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Reeves, Scott; Taillefert, Anne; Pekot, Larry & Clarkson, Chris
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alterations in Cell Signaling Pathways in Breast Cancer Cells after Environmental Exposure (open access)

Alterations in Cell Signaling Pathways in Breast Cancer Cells after Environmental Exposure

Recent human epidemiological studies suggest that up to 75% of human cancers can be attributed to environmental exposures. Understanding the biologic impact of being exposed to a lifetime of complex environmental mixtures that may not be fully characterized is currently a major challenge. Functional endpoints may be used to assess the gross health consequences of complex mixture exposures from groundwater contamination, superfund sites, biologic releases, or nutritional sources. Such endpoints include the stimulation of cell growth or the induction of a response in an animal model. An environmental exposure that upsets normal cell growth regulation may have important ramifications for cancer development. Stimulating cell growth may alter an individual's cancer risk by changing the expression of genes and proteins that have a role in growth regulatory pathways within cells. Modulating the regulation of these genes and their products may contribute to the initiation, promotion or progression of disease in response to environmental exposure. We are investigating diet-related compounds that induce cell proliferation in breast cancer cell lines. These compounds, PhIP, Flor-Essence{reg_sign} and Essiac{reg_sign}, may be part of an everyday diet. PhIP is a naturally occurring mutagen that is formed in well-cooked muscle meats. PhIP consistently causes dose-dependent breast tumor formation …
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Kulp, K; McCutcheon-Maloney, S M & Bennett, L M
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Flowsheets for the Sulfur-Iodine Thermochemical Hydrogen Cycle (open access)

Alternative Flowsheets for the Sulfur-Iodine Thermochemical Hydrogen Cycle

OAK-B135 A hydrogen economy will need significant new sources of hydrogen. Unless large-scale carbon sequestration can be economically implemented, use of hydrogen reduces greenhouse gases only if the hydrogen is produced with non-fossil energy sources. Nuclear energy is one of the limited options available. One of the promising approaches to produce large quantities of hydrogen from nuclear energy efficiently is the Sulfur-Iodine (S-I) thermochemical water-splitting cycle, driven by high temperature heat from a helium Gas-Cooled Reactor. They have completed a study of nuclear-driven thermochemical water-splitting processes. The final task of this study was the development of a flowsheet for a prototype S-I production plant. An important element of this effort was the evaluation of alternative flowsheets and selection of the reference design.
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Brown, L. C.; Lentsch, R. D.; Besenbruch, G. E.; Schultz, K. R. & Funk, J. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of AGS Polarimeter Data at GGamma = 7.5 (open access)

Analysis of AGS Polarimeter Data at GGamma = 7.5

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Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Huang, H.; Cadman, R. V.; Spinka, H. M. & Underwood, D. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Meeting of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 2003 (open access)

Annual Meeting of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 2003

Program for the 108th annual meeting of the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, held from February 28 through March 2, 2003 at the JW Marriott Hotel, Texas, including a list of sessions for the meeting and related information about the organization and conference. The meeting was called to order by President James G. Robertson in the JW Marriott Hotel Bexar / Travis / Nueces Rooms.
Date: February 2003
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program Report for the Fort St. Vrain Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (open access)

Annual Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program Report for the Fort St. Vrain Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation

This report presents the results of the 2002 Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program conducted in accordance with 10 CFR 72.44 for the Fort St. Vrain Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation. A description of the facility and the monitoring program is provided. The results of monitoring the predominant radiation exposure pathway, direct and scattered radiation exposure, indicate the facility operation has not contributed to any increase in the estimated maximum potential dose commitment to the general public.
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Newkirk, Jay R.; Borst, Frederick J. & Hall, Gregory G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program Report for the Three Mile Island - Unit 2 Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (open access)

Annual Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program Report for the Three Mile Island - Unit 2 Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation

This report presents the results of the 2002 Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program conducted in accordance with 10 CFR 72.44 for the Three Mile Island, Unit 2, Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation. A description of the facility and the monitoring program is provided. The results of monitoring the two predominant radiation exposure pathways, potential airborne radioactivity releases and direct radiation exposure, indicate the facility operation has not contributed to any increase in the estimated maximum potential dose commitment to the general public.
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Hall, Gregory G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report RCRA Post-Closure Monitoring and Inspections for Corrective Action Unit 91: Area 3 U-3fi Injection Well, Nevada Test Site, Nevada, for the Period October 2001 - October 2002 (open access)

Annual Report RCRA Post-Closure Monitoring and Inspections for Corrective Action Unit 91: Area 3 U-3fi Injection Well, Nevada Test Site, Nevada, for the Period October 2001 - October 2002

This annual monitoring and inspection report provides an analysis and summary for site inspections, meteorological information, and neutron soil moisture monitoring data obtained at the U-3fi Injection Well during the October 2001 to October 2002 period. The U-3fi Injection Well is located in Area 3 of the Nevada Test Site (NTS), Nye County, Nevada. Inspections of the Area 3 U-3fi Injection Well are conducted to determine and document the physical condition of the concrete pad, facilities, and any unusual conditions that could impact the proper operation of the waste disposal unit closure. The objective of the neutron logging is to monitor the soil moisture conditions along the 128-meter (m) (420-feet [ft]) ER3-3 monitoring well and detect changes that may be indicative of moisture movement in the regulated interval extending between 73 to 82 m (240 to 270 ft).
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Richardson, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anomalies in the Applied Magnetic Fields on Diii-D and Their Implications for the Understanding of Stability Experiments (open access)

Anomalies in the Applied Magnetic Fields on Diii-D and Their Implications for the Understanding of Stability Experiments

Small non-axisymmetric magnetic fields are known to cause serious loss of stability in tokamaks leading to loss of confinement and abrupt termination of plasma current (disruptions). The best known examples are the locked mode and the resistive wall mode. Understanding of the underlying field anomalies (departures in the hardware-related fields from ideal toroidal and poloidal fields on a single axis) and the interaction of the plasma with them is crucial to tokamak development. Results of both locked mode experiments and resistive wall mode experiments done in DIII-D tokamak plasmas have been interpreted to indicate the presence of a significant anomalous field. New measurements of the magnetic field anomalies of the hardware systems have been made on DIII-D. The measured field anomalies due to the plasma shaping coils in DIII-D are smaller than previously reported. Additional evaluations of systematic errors have been made. New measurements of the anomalous fields of the ohmic heating and toroidal coils have been added. Such detailed in situ measurements of the fields of a tokamak are unique. The anomalous fields from all of the coils are one third of the values indicated from the stability experiments. These results indicate limitations in the understanding of the interaction …
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Luxon, J.L.; Schaffer, M.J.; Jackson, G.L.; Leuer, J.A.; Nagy, A.; Scoville, J.T. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing the Potential for Renewable Energy on Public Lands (open access)

Assessing the Potential for Renewable Energy on Public Lands

This report represents an initial activity of the Bureau of Land Managements (BLM) proposed National Energy Policy Implementation Plan: identify and evaluate renewable energy resources on federal lands and any limitations on accessing them. Ultimately, BLM will prioritize land-use planning activities to increase industrys development of renewable energy resources. These resources include solar, biomass, geothermal, water, and wind energy. To accomplish this, BLM and the Department of Energys National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) established a partnership to conduct an assessment of renewable energy resources on BLM lands in the western United States. The objective of this collaboration was to identify BLM planning units in the western states with the highest potential for private-sector development of renewable resources. The assessment resulted in the following findings: (1) 63 BLM planning units in nine western states have high potential for one or more renewable energy technologies; and (2) 20 BLM planning units in seven western states have high potential for power production from three or more renewable energy sources. This assessment report provides BLM with information needed to prioritize land-use planning activities on the basis of potential for the development of energy from renewable resources.
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attributes in the Research Environment that Foster Excellent Research: An Annotated Bibliography (open access)

Attributes in the Research Environment that Foster Excellent Research: An Annotated Bibliography

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Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: JORDAN, GRETCHEN B.; STREIT, L. DEVON & MATIASEK, JENNIFER
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Audit Report on Security of Confidential Electronic Information at Selected Health and Human Services Agencies (open access)

An Audit Report on Security of Confidential Electronic Information at Selected Health and Human Services Agencies

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to a general summary of the network security, system access, and Texas Administrative Code compliance issues we identified at selected health and human services agencies.
Date: February 2003
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Selected Entities' Compliance with Historically Underutilized Business Requirements (open access)

An Audit Report on Selected Entities' Compliance with Historically Underutilized Business Requirements

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether selected entities complied with statutory Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) requirements, to assessing the entities' efforts to comply with those requirements, and to reviewing the accuracy of the entities' self-reported HUB information to the Texas Building and Procurement Commission.
Date: February 2003
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automating the selection of fenestration systems to best meet daylighting performance goals (open access)

Automating the selection of fenestration systems to best meet daylighting performance goals

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Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Fernandes, Luis & Papamichael, Konstantinos
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Basic research needs to assure a secure energy future. A report from the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (open access)

Basic research needs to assure a secure energy future. A report from the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee

This report has highlighted many of the possible fundamental research areas that will help our country avoid a future energy crisis. The report may not have adequately captured the atmosphere of concern that permeated the discussions at the workshop. The difficulties facing our nation and the world in meeting our energy needs over the next several decades are very challenging. It was generally felt that traditional solutions and approaches will not solve the total energy problem. Knowledge that does not exist must be obtained to address both the quantity of energy needed to increase the standard of living world-wide and the quality of energy generation needed to preserve the environment. In terms of investments, it was clear that there is no single research area that will secure the future energy supply. A diverse range of economic energy sources will be required--and a broad range of fundamental research is needed to enable these. Many of the issues fall into the traditional materials and chemical sciences research areas, but with specific emphasis on understanding mechanisms, energy related phenomena, and pursuing novel directions in, for example, nanoscience and integrated modeling. An important result from the discussions, which is hopefully apparent from the brief …
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 68, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 1, 2003 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 68, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 1, 2003

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 1, 2003
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History