During the past three months we have carefully negotiated a joint venture to implement a pilot for testing the two enhanced oil recovery processes developed at CLD Technology, Inc. The technical staff at CLD Technology, Inc. has decided to model the heavy oil reserve on the Cantleberry Lease, the Jasmin oil field in Kern County, California. Staff members have designed a new sand pack to represent one-eighth (1/8) of a one, ten-acre, five-spot well pattern that will represent the sands of the Cantleberry lease. All calculated parameters are listed in Table 1. The 3-dimensional scaled physical model design represents a typical Cantleberry steamflood pattern. The design of the model will allow the creation of zones identical to those in the Cantleberry lease which will represent the shale break between the Cantleberry A'' and B'' sands. The last 3-dimensional scaled physical model experiment, needed to design the pilot, is ready to go awaiting continuous funding from the DOE.

During the past three months we have carefully negotiated a joint venture to implement a pilot for testing the two enhanced oil recovery processes developed at CLD Technology, Inc. The technical staff at CLD Technology, Inc. has decided to model the heavy oil reserve on the Cantleberry Lease, the Jasmin oil field in Kern County, California. Staff members have designed a new sand pack to represent one-eighth (1/8) of a one, ten-acre, five-spot well pattern that will represent the sands of the Cantleberry lease. All calculated parameters are listed in Table 1. The 3-dimensional scaled physical model design represents a typical Cantleberry steamflood pattern. The design of the model will allow the creation of zones identical to those in the Cantleberry lease which will represent the shale break between the Cantleberry ``A`` and ``B`` sands. The last 3-dimensional scaled physical model experiment, needed to design the pilot, is ready to go awaiting continuous funding from the DOE.

Using Lanczos exact diagonalization, we investigate the effects of the competition between the electro-electron and electron-phonon interactions in the context of the 1-D tight-binding Peierls-Hubbard Hamiltonian, studying various structural, optical, and vibrational properties of strongly correlated systems. We use polyacetylene as our experimental guide, and perform a parameter space search to determine the level at which a unique set of parameters can model this prototypical conducting polymer and, more generally, the applicability of the simple'' 1-D Peierls-Hubbard Hamiltonian to these highly interesting materials. 9 refs., 3 tabs.

This report describes an off-gas stack for a melter, furnace or reaction vessel comprising an air conduit leading to two sets of holes, one set injecting air into the off-gas stack near the melter plenum and the second set injecting air downstream of the first set. The first set injects air at a compound angle, having both downward and tangential components, to create a reverse vortex flow, counter to the direction of flow of gas through the stack and also along the periphery of the stack interior surface. Air from the first set of holes prevents recirculation zones from forming and the attendant accumulation of particulate deposits on the wall of the stack and will also return to the plenum any particulate swept up in the gas entering the stack. The second set of holes injects air in the same direction as the gas in the stack to compensate for the pressure drop and to prevent the concentration of condensate in the stack. A set of sprayers, receiving water from a second conduit, is located downstream of the second set of holes and sprays water into the gas to further cool it.

The objective of this project is to design a conceptual slurry reactor for two indirect liquefaction applications; production of methanol and production of hydrogen fuels via Fischer-Tropsch route. The work will be accomplished by the formulation of reactor models for both the processes and use computer simulation. Process data, kinetic and thermodynamic data, heat and mass transfer data and hydrodynamic data will be used in the mathematical models to describe the slurry reactor for each of the two processes. The cost of current vapor phase reactor systems will be compared with cost estimated for the slurry reactor systems. For the vapor phase systems, upstream and downstream processing equipments may have to be included during cost analysis for a meaningful cost comparison.

Collisionless and dissipative drift waves, driven by gradients in the plasma density and/or temperatures, are believed to dominate or at least influence the transport properties of a variety of plasma confinement devices. In a study begun in reference to transport in the Field Reversed Configuration (FRC), we have developed a theory of these waves in a high {beta} plasma, including the effect of perturbed flow in the direction of the plasma density. This study was a natural extension of previous calculations; the {beta} = 1 nature of the FRC makes a proper treatment of high {beta} effects vital to an understanding of that device. In the course of this study we have obtained a comprehensive dispersion relation which shows clearly how the numerical dissipative drift wave instabilities evolve in wavenumber as {beta} increases. A major finding from this is that the effect of finite {beta} begins to dominate long before {beta} {yields} 1; the expansion parameter is {beta}f(k, a{sub i}, K, {omega}, L{sub n}) where f can be substantially greater than 1, depending on the wavenumber of the wave parallel to the magnetic field (K), the wavenumber parallel to the particle drifts (k), the wave frequency ({omega}), the strength of …

This invention is comprised of a method for cutting with a laser beam where an oxygen-hydrocarbon reaction is used to provide auxiliary energy to a metal workpiece to supplement the energy supplied by the laser. Oxygen is supplied to the laser focus point on the workpiece by a nozzle through which the laser beam also passes. A liquid hydrocarbon is supplied by coating the workpiece along the cutting path with the hydrocarbon prior to laser irradiation or by spraying a stream of hydrocarbon through a nozzle aimed at a point on the cutting path which is just ahead of the focus point during irradiation.

This invention is comprised of a method is described for producing silicon carbide particles using solar energy. The method is efficient and avoids the need for use of electrical energy to heat the reactants. Finely divided silica and carbon are admixed and placed in a solar-heated reaction chamber for a time sufficient to cause a reaction between the ingredients to form silicon carbide of very small particle size. No grinding of silicon carbide is required to obtain small particles. The method may be carried out as a batch process or as a continuous process.

A method is provided for reversibly binding charged biological particles in a fluid medium to an electrode surface. The method comprises treating (e.g., derivatizing) the electrode surface with an electrochemically active material; connecting the electrode to an electrical potential; and exposing the fluid medium to the electrode surface in a manner such that the charged particles become adsorbed on the electrode surface.

The initial vacuum pumping of the fully loaded cryostats immediately upon completing the minimum head welding necessary for the cryostat vacuum loading is important to (1) water removal, (2) high vapor pressure (micron level) outgassing, (3) helium mass spectrometer leak checking sensitivity, and (4) a less well understood concern for LAr background contamination. The CC pumping preparation and procedure that has been utilized is recorded here. Recommendations are incorporated in italics and in context to improve the EC vacuum preparations and pumping performance. The estimated pumping loads of large assemblies of (G10) water laden modules are calculated in EN 270. The predicted and experienced water pumping period was ca. 45 days. The cryopump specifically designed to serve this purpose is described in EN 291. These notes are recommended background reading for this work.