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Shelf list of reports on air pollution and health filed in the Girshick Library, Stanford University. Working paper No. 4 (open access)

Shelf list of reports on air pollution and health filed in the Girshick Library, Stanford University. Working paper No. 4

A list of reports on air pollution and health on file at the Girshich Library at Stanford University is presented. (ERB)
Date: October 25, 1976
Creator: Hole, B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Floating substrate process. Second quarterly progress report, March 29, 1976--June 20, 1976 (open access)

Floating substrate process. Second quarterly progress report, March 29, 1976--June 20, 1976

This research program began January 6, 1976. Its objective is to demonstrate the feasibility of the floating substrate sheet growth process for the growth of silicon sheet. This process is an approach to the formation of single-crystal silicon by direct epitaxial conversion from a gaseous silane. Incoming feedstock gas impinges upon a silicon substrate which is floating upon a thin pool of liquid tin. Single-crystal silicon grows to the desired thickness by means of vapor phase epitaxy. Nucleation of fresh substrate silicon takes place by rapid growth from the edge of the growing sheet into a region at the surface of the liquid tin which is supersaturated in the silicon. The process lends itself to continuous operation with the growing sheet being continuously withdrawn from the growth zone. (WDM)
Date: June 25, 1976
Creator: Garfinkel, M. & Hall, R. N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mirror reactor blankets. [Heat transfer and nuclear performance] (open access)

Mirror reactor blankets. [Heat transfer and nuclear performance]

The general requirements of a breeding blanket for a mirror reactor are described. The following areas are discussed: (1) facility layout and blanket maintenance, (2) heat transfer and thermal conversion system, (3) materials, (4) tritium containment and removal, and (5) nuclear performance.
Date: March 25, 1976
Creator: Lee, J. D.; Barmore, W. L.; Bender, D. J.; Doggett, J. N. & Galloway, T. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercial applications of solar total energy systems. Second quarterly progress report, August 1, 1976--October 31, 1976 (open access)

Commercial applications of solar total energy systems. Second quarterly progress report, August 1, 1976--October 31, 1976

This report investigates the application of the Solar Total Energy System (STES) to the commercial sector (e.g., office buildings, shopping centers, retail stores, etc.) in the United States. Candidate solar thermal and solar photovoltaic concepts are considered for providing on-site electrical power generation as well as thermal energy for both heating and cooling applications. The solar thermal concepts include the use of solar concentrators (distributed or central receiver) for collection of the thermal energy for conversion to electricity by means of a Rankine cycle or Brayton cycle power conversion system. Recoverable waste heat from the power generation process is utilized to help meet the building thermal energy demand. Evaluation methodology is identified to allow ranking and/or selection of the most cost-effective concept for commercial building applications.
Date: April 25, 1977
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual environmental monitoring report: calendar year 1976. [/sup 3/H, /sup 238/Pu, Mound laboratory] (open access)

Annual environmental monitoring report: calendar year 1976. [/sup 3/H, /sup 238/Pu, Mound laboratory]

The local environment surrounding Mound Laboratory was monitored for tritium and plutonium-238 released by Mound Laboratory. The results are reported for calendar year 1976. The environmental parameters analyzed included air, water, foodstuffs, and silt. The average concentrations of plutonium-238 and tritium were within the stringent standards for radioactive species adopted by the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration. Data concerning nonradioactive species in air and water are also presented and compared to federal, state, and local standards, where applicable. Although there are no specific standards (RCG) for plutonium-238 and tritium in foodstuffs, the concentrations found, if compared to the water standard, are also a small fraction of the RCG. In addition, there is no evidence of other than minimal reentrainment of radioactive species from silt. Mound Laboratory has undertaken a comprehensive program to bring water supplies into compliance with new U.S. EPA drinking water standards which will be effective June 24, 1977. Mound Laboratory has been granted a National Pollutant Discharge Ellimination System permit. Analyses during 1976 indicate compliance with permit conditions. All results indicated that Mound effluent streams have no significant effect on the Great Miami River and certainly do not cause Ohio Stream Standards to be exceeded. These …
Date: April 25, 1977
Creator: Farmer, B. M.; Robinson, B. & Carfagno, D. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of random errors in coil locations in a high-field superconducting accelerator (open access)

Effects of random errors in coil locations in a high-field superconducting accelerator

None
Date: February 25, 1972
Creator: Parzen, G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differencing of the diffusion equation in LASNEX (open access)

Differencing of the diffusion equation in LASNEX

None
Date: March 25, 1977
Creator: Kershaw, D. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calorimeters for diagnosis of laser-fusion experiments (open access)

Calorimeters for diagnosis of laser-fusion experiments

A variety of calorimeters have been developed for measuring ions, x-rays, and scattered radiation emanating from laser-pulse-imploded fusion targets. The ion and x-ray calorimeters use metal or glass absorbers to reflect or transmit most of the scattered laser radiation; the versions using metal absorbers also incorporate a differential construction to compensate for the fraction of the scattered laser radiation that is absorbed. The scattered-radiation calorimeters use colored glass to absorb the radiation and a transparent glass shield to remove ions and x rays. Most of the calorimeters use commercial semiconductor thermoelectric modules as the temperature sensors.
Date: October 25, 1976
Creator: Gunn, S. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Treatment of waste lubricating oil using BERC/ERDA solvent (open access)

Treatment of waste lubricating oil using BERC/ERDA solvent

From data generated in the laboratory and pilot plant studies a quality rerefined oil can be produced via BERC/ERDA solvent extraction and clay treatment. Some of the important processing variables that determine the quality of the finished product are temperature of solvent extraction, type of clay used, temperature and time of clay treatment, and the atmosphere under which the oil is treated with clay. Yields of 75 percent based on water-distillate-free oil can be expected at the conditions used in pilot plant operations. The oils obtained could be compounded to produce a large number of high quality lubricating products. Unlike an acid-clay process where the acid sludges pose an environmental problem, the BERC/ERDA system produces a marketable sludge.
Date: June 25, 1976
Creator: Corlew, J. S. & Sluski, R. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methane formation in tritium gas exposed to stainless steel (open access)

Methane formation in tritium gas exposed to stainless steel

Tests were performed to determine the effect cleanliness of a surface exposed to tritium gas had on methane formation. These tests performed on 304 stainless steel vessels, cleaned in various ways, showed that the methane formation was reduced by the use of various cleaning procedures.
Date: March 25, 1977
Creator: Morris, G. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solar one data acquisition. Interim progress report (open access)

Solar one data acquisition. Interim progress report

Solar One has been instrumented with sensors for weather data system temperatures and pressures, house electrical loads, and photovoltaic system data. An automatic data acquisition and handling system has been designed and installed to gather and then transmit data to a central computer. Programs to summarize these data and tabulate them in convenient forms have been prepared. Initial data have been obtained and analyzed to check the sensor system and to give preliminary performance characteristics of the solar system. (WDM)
Date: March 25, 1976
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mass spectrometric analytical services and research. Annual progress report and quarterly report for the period December 9, 1975--March 8, 1976 activities to support coal-liquid characterization research (open access)

Mass spectrometric analytical services and research. Annual progress report and quarterly report for the period December 9, 1975--March 8, 1976 activities to support coal-liquid characterization research

Interfacing of a Perkin Elmer model 3920 gas chromatograph to the CEC 21-110B mass spectrometer has been completed and the GC/MS system is operational. Detailed descriptions of the heated probe assembly and the rapid mass-scanning module are given. Initial emphasis has been placed on the utilization of GC/MS in conjunction with field ionization (FI). Satisfactory results have been obtained. The FI source for the CEC 21-110B mass spectrometer is routinely operational. Familiarity with its operation has improved ion-abundance reproducibility. For a mixture containing aromatic hydrocarbons, thiophenes, and furans, the average percent standard deviation in the average percent ionizations is 3.55 percent from three spectra. Application of the technique of FI mass spectrometry to quantitative analysis of coal type mixtures has been explored. The consequences of sensitivity data on the analytical results have been considered. Relative weight and mole sensitivities have been determined for 30 aromatic hydrocarbons, 20 thiophenes, and 7 heteroatom (oxygen and nitrogen) containing compounds with respect to ethylbenzene. Excellent analytical data has been obtained from three known mixtures using these sensitivities. Fifty three coal-liquid samples have been processed. Empirical formulas for 5000 ions have been determined from the high-resolution (70 eV) spectra recorded on photographic plates. FI spectra …
Date: March 25, 1976
Creator: Scheppele, S E
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental investigation of the trapping and energy loss mechanisms of intense relativistic electron rings in hydrogen gas and plasma (open access)

Experimental investigation of the trapping and energy loss mechanisms of intense relativistic electron rings in hydrogen gas and plasma

The results of an experimental study on the trapping and energy loss mechanisms of intense, relativistic electron rings confined in Astron-like magnetic field geometries are presented. The work is subdivided into four sections: gas trapping; average ring electron energetics; plasma trapping, and hollow-beam cusp-injection into gas and plasma. The mechanisms by which the injected beam coalesces into a current ring in the existing Cornell RECE-Berta facility are considered. To investigate the nature of ring electron energy loss mechanisms following completion of the trapping process, a diagnostic was developed utilizing multi-foil X-ray absorption spectroscopy to analyze the Bremsstrahlung generated by the electrons as they impinge upon a thin tungsten wire target suspended in the circulating current. Finally, a set of preliminary experimental results is presented in which an annular electron beam was passed through a coaxial, non-adiabatic magnetic cusp located at one end of a magnetic mirror well.
Date: April 25, 1977
Creator: Smith, A. C., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library