China's Natural Gas: Uncertainty for Markets (open access)

China's Natural Gas: Uncertainty for Markets

This report discusses China's natural gas plans. Despite China's pollution problems and international environmental commitments, the role of natural gas in China's energy mix remains relatively low, particularly compared to the United States; however, China has announced big plans for its natural gas development and use. These changes will require significant investment in exploration, production, infrastructure, and consumption.
Date: May 2, 2016
Creator: Ratner, Michael; Nelson, Gabriel M. & Lawrence, Susan V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Cities Goes International (Clean cities alternative fuel information series fact sheet) (open access)

Clean Cities Goes International (Clean cities alternative fuel information series fact sheet)

This fact sheet summarizes the activities of the Clean Cities International Program.
Date: May 2, 2000
Creator: Howard, R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Cities National Partner Awards (Clean Cities alternative fuel information series fact sheet) (open access)

Clean Cities National Partner Awards (Clean Cities alternative fuel information series fact sheet)

This fact sheet summarizes the accomplishments of the programs of the Clean Cities that won National Partner awards for 1999.
Date: May 2, 2000
Creator: Thomas, J. & Coulter, J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Energy Standard: Potential Qualifying Energy Sources (open access)

Clean Energy Standard: Potential Qualifying Energy Sources

This report discusses potential qualifying Energy Sources for Clean Energy Standard.
Date: May 2, 2011
Creator: Bracmort, Kelsi; Brown, Phillip; Folger, Peter; Holt, Mark; Ratner, Michael & Sissine, Fred
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change: Science and Policy Implications (open access)

Climate Change: Science and Policy Implications

This report presents an overview of the science of climate change and its potential impacts.It provides highlights on the impacts of climate change.
Date: May 2, 2007
Creator: Leggett, Jane A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clipping and Pruning Shears. (open access)

Clipping and Pruning Shears.

Patent for clipping and pruning shears that can have the blades taken off for sharpening.
Date: May 2, 1911
Creator: South, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Close out of CRADA JSA 2006S008 (open access)

Close out of CRADA JSA 2006S008

Based on the JLab study and calculations, Linde made the following changes to the LR1610 heat exchanger. The LR 1610 redesign changed two different aspects of the original LR1610 design. The heat exchanger and the boiler are wrapped differently than the original LR1610 per the following: (A) Heat Exchanger - Section A - Current LR 1610 - 2 wraps - 1 path, Redesign - 2 wraps - 2 paths; Section B: Current LR 1610 - 2 wraps - 1 path, Redesign - 2 wraps - 2 paths; (B) Boiler: Current design - 1 wrap - 2 paths, Redesign - 1 wrap - 1 path. The contents of the attachments are: (1) Assembly - Pictures of the LR1610 Redesign Heat Exchanger after manufacturing; (2) Drawings - 3D and 2D drawings used to fabricate the Redesign LR1610 Heat Exchanger and the Precooler-Boiler; (3) Performance Curves - The expected performance curves and the TS diagram for a single proposed new compressor that is more capacity than the RSX; (4) Test Pictures - Set up bench test of the LR1610 Redesign Heat Exchanger; and (5) Warm Test Data - Warm N2 test data of the LR1610 Redesign Heat Exchanger. Warm test data of the …
Date: May 2, 2011
Creator: Linde
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clothes-Pounder. (open access)

Clothes-Pounder.

Patent for improvements in atmospheric clothes pounders: "Dividing the outer section into compartments so that air in escaping is distributed evenly from all sides of the pounder instead of escaping in a body from one side, whenever the pounder strikes a wad or knot of cloths and is tipped sidewise; it also makes the suction better" (lines 49-55).
Date: May 2, 1893
Creator: Allgaier, George E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coast Guard: Progress Being Made on Deepwater Project, but Risks Remain (open access)

Coast Guard: Progress Being Made on Deepwater Project, but Risks Remain

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Coast Guard is in the final stages of planning the largest procurement project in its history-the modernization or replacement of more than 90 cutters and 200 aircraft used for missions more than 50 miles from shore. This project, called the Deepwater Capability Replacement Project, is expected to cost more than $10 billion and take 20 years or longer to complete. Congress and the Coast Guard are at a major crossroads with the project. Planning is essentially complete, and Congress will soon be asked to commit to a multibillion-dollar project that will define the way the Coast Guard performs many of its missions for decades to come. The deepwater acquisition strategy is unique and untried for a project of this magnitude. It carries many risks that could potentially cause significant schedule delays and cost increases. The project faces risks in the following four areas: (1) planning the project around annual funding levels far above what the administration has told the Coast Guard it can expect to receive, (2) keeping costs under control in the contract's later years, (3) ensuring that procedures and personnel are in place …
Date: May 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cold vacuum drying facility 90% design review (open access)

Cold vacuum drying facility 90% design review

This document contains review comment records for the CVDF 90% design review. Spent fuels retrieved from the K Basins will be dried at the CVDF. It has also been recommended that the Multi-Conister Overpacks be welded, inspected, and repaired at the CVD Facility before transport to dry storage.
Date: May 2, 1997
Creator: O`Neill, C.T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Collection of Features for Semantic Graphs (open access)

A Collection of Features for Semantic Graphs

Semantic graphs are commonly used to represent data from one or more data sources. Such graphs extend traditional graphs by imposing types on both nodes and links. This type information defines permissible links among specified nodes and can be represented as a graph commonly referred to as an ontology or schema graph. Figure 1 depicts an ontology graph for data from National Association of Securities Dealers. Each node type and link type may also have a list of attributes. To capture the increased complexity of semantic graphs, concepts derived for standard graphs have to be extended. This document explains briefly features commonly used to characterize graphs, and their extensions to semantic graphs. This document is divided into two sections. Section 2 contains the feature descriptions for static graphs. Section 3 extends the features for semantic graphs that vary over time.
Date: May 2, 2007
Creator: Eliassi-Rad, T.; Fodor, I. K. & Gallagher, B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Columbia Scaling Circuits (open access)

Columbia Scaling Circuits

Abstract: "The advantages of high scaling ratios in counting random pulses are discussed. The mechanism of the basic circuit used in the Columbia University scaling circuits is described. The difficulties experienced in the performance of the earlier circuits are indicated and modified circuits to eliminate these difficulties are given. Precautions that must be observed in carrying out the constructional details are suggested. The complete circuit and specifications are given in detail for a Scale of 128 for use with linear-amplifier systems" (p. 1).
Date: May 2, 1944
Creator: Glassford, H. A. & Dunning, J. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combined Carriage Seat and Couch (open access)

Combined Carriage Seat and Couch

Patent for a carriage seat and couch. Illustrations included.
Date: May 2, 1905
Creator: Angel, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow, Harrow, and Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Plow, Harrow, and Cultivator.

Patent for improvement in the construction of combined plows, harrows, and cultivators.
Date: May 2, 1882
Creator: Moss, John Carlton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Commercial Fishery Disaster Assistance (open access)

Commercial Fishery Disaster Assistance

This report discusses disaster relief for commercial fishery, which be provided by the federal government to assist the fishing industry when it is affected by a commercial fishery failure.
Date: May 2, 2008
Creator: Upton, Harold F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Committee System in the U.S. Congress (open access)

The Committee System in the U.S. Congress

This report provides a brief overview of the organization and operations of House and Senate committees.
Date: May 2, 2003
Creator: Schneider, Judy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee Types and Roles (open access)

Committee Types and Roles

This report outlines the types of committees that are present in Congress as well as their structures and roles.
Date: May 2, 2017
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compact proton spectrometers for measurements of shock (open access)

Compact proton spectrometers for measurements of shock

The compact Wedge Range Filter (WRF) proton spectrometer was developed for OMEGA and transferred to the National Ignition Facility (NIF) as a National Ignition Campaign (NIC) diagnostic. The WRF measures the spectrum of protons from D-{sup 3}He reactions in tuning-campaign implosions containing D and {sup 3}He gas; in this work we report on the first proton spectroscopy measurement on the NIF using WRFs. The energy downshift of the 14.7-MeV proton is directly related to the total {rho}R through the plasma stopping power. Additionally, the shock proton yield is measured, which is a metric of the final merged shock strength.
Date: May 2, 2012
Creator: Mackinnon, A.; Zylstra, A.; Frenje, J. A.; Seguin, F. H.; Rosenberg, M. J.; Rinderknecht, H. G. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Direct and Indirect Gas Reactor Brayton Systems for Nuclear Electric Space Propulsion (open access)

Comparison of Direct and Indirect Gas Reactor Brayton Systems for Nuclear Electric Space Propulsion

Gas reactor systems are being considered as candidates for use in generating power for the Prometheus-1 spacecraft, along with other NASA missions as part of the Prometheus program. Gas reactors offer a benign coolant, which increases core and structural materials options. However, the gas coolant has inferior thermal transport properties, relative to other coolant candidates such as liquid metals. This leads to concerns for providing effective heat transfer and for minimizing pressure drop within the reactor core. In direct gas Brayton systems, i.e. those with one or more Brayton turbines in the reactor cooling loop, the ability to provide effective core cooling and low pressure drop is further constrained by the need for a low pressure, high molecular weight gas, typically a mixture of helium and xenon. Use of separate primary and secondary gas loops, one for the reactor and one or more for the Brayton system(s) separated by heat exchanger(s), allows for independent optimization of the pressure and gas composition of each loop. The reactor loop can use higher pressure pure helium, which provides improved heat transfer and heat transport properties, while the Brayton loop can utilize lower pressure He-Xe. However, this approach requires a separate primary gas circulator …
Date: May 2, 2005
Creator: Postlehwait, M; DiLorenzo, P; Belanger, S & Ashcroft, J
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compressing-Machine. (open access)

Compressing-Machine.

Patent for a compressing machine for pressing plastic, cotton, and cotton seeds.
Date: May 2, 1911
Creator: Baade, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Computer simulations of a 1/5-scale experiment of a Mark I boiler water reactor pressure-suppression system under hypothetical LOCA conditions (open access)

Computer simulations of a 1/5-scale experiment of a Mark I boiler water reactor pressure-suppression system under hypothetical LOCA conditions

The CHAMP computer code was employed to simulate a plane-geometry cross section of a Mark I boiling water reactor toroidal pressure suppression system air discharge experiment under hypothetical loss-of-coolant accident conditions. The experiments were performed at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory on a /sup 1///sub 5/-scale model of the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant.
Date: May 2, 1978
Creator: Edwards, L.L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conceptual design report for tank farm restoration and safe operations, project W-314 (open access)

Conceptual design report for tank farm restoration and safe operations, project W-314

This Conceptual Design Report (CDR) presents the conceptual level design approach that satisfies the established technical requirements for Project W-314, `Tank Farm Restoration and Safe Operations.` The CDR also addresses the initial cost and schedule baselines for performing the proposed Tank Farm infrastructure upgrades. The scope of this project includes capital improvements to Hanford`s existing tank farm facilities(primarily focused on Double- Shell Tank Farms) in the areas of instrumentation/control, tank ventilation, waste transfer, and electrical systems.
Date: May 2, 1996
Creator: Briggs, S.R., Westinghouse Hanford
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Gold Medals, 1776-2007 (open access)

Congressional Gold Medals, 1776-2007

This report responds to congressional inquiries concerning this process, and includes a historical examination and chronological list of these awards. It is intended to assist Members of Congress and staff in their consideration of future Gold Medal proposals, and will be updated as Gold Medals are approved.
Date: May 2, 2007
Creator: Stathis, Stephen W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Congressional Staff: A Selected Bibliography (open access)

Congressional Staff: A Selected Bibliography

This report is a selected bibliography of works about congressional staff.
Date: May 2, 1972
Creator: Kravitz, Walter
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library