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HOMOGENIZATION OF MOLTEN-SALT REACTOR PROJECT FUEL SAMPLES
A copper pulverizer-mixer was designed for homogenizing Molten-Salt Reactor Project (MSRP) fuel. The copper sampling ladle that contains the solidified fuel is placed in the pulverizer-mixer, which is agitated on a mixer mill. The fuel is fractured out of the ladle, pulverized into a homogeneous powder, and transferred to a storage bottle. The homogenized fuel sample is then available for analysis. (auth)
Date:
July 1, 1962
Creator:
Gaitanis, M.J.; Lamb, C.E. & Corbin, L.T.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Drilling fluid/formation interaction at simulated in situ geothermal conditions. Final report
Interaction of drilling fluids with a geothermal reservoir formation can result in significant permeability impairment and therefore reduced well productivity. This interaction is studied under simulated in situ geothermal conditions of overburden stress, pore fluid pressure, temperature, and pore fluid chemistry. Permeability impairment of an East Mesa KGRA reservoir material is evaluated as a function of stagnation time, drilling fluid, and temperature. Results indicate that all of these parameters contribute significantly to the magnitude and the reversibility of the impairment.
Date:
July 1, 1980
Creator:
Enniss, D. O.; Bergosh, J. L.; Butters, S. W. & Jones, A. H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Stock Assessment of Columbia River Anadromous Salmonids: Final Report, Volume 1. Chinook, Coho, Chum and Sockeye Salmon Summaries.
The purpose was to identify and characterize the wild and hatchery stocks of salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin on the basis of currently available information. This report provides a comprehensive compilation of data on the status and life histories of Columbia Basin salmonid stocks.
Date:
July 1, 1986
Creator:
Howell, Philip J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Savannah River Site computing architecture migration guide
The SRS Computing Architecture is a vision statement for site computing which enumerates the strategies which will guide SRS computing efforts for the 1990s. Each strategy is supported by a number of feature statements which clarify the strategy by providing additional detail. Since it is a strategic planning document, the Architecture has sitewide applicability and endorsement but does not attempt to specify implementation details. It does, however, specify that a document will be developed to guide the migration from the current site environment to that envisioned by the new architecture. The goal of this document, the SRS Computing Architecture Migration Guide, is to identify specific strategic and tactical tasks which would have to be completed to fully implement the architectural vision for site computing as well as a recommended sequence and timeframe for addressing these tasks. It takes into account the expected availability of technology, the existing installed base, and interdependencies among architectural components and objectives.
Date:
July 30, 1991
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
National hydroelectric power resources study. Preliminary inventory of hydropower resources. Volume 6. Northeast region
In the Northeast region, the physical potential for all sites exceeds 33,000 MW of capacity with an estimated average annual energy of some 153,000 GWH. By comparison, the available data represent about 6% of the total capacity and 11% of the hydroelectric energy potential estimated for the entire US. Of the total capacity estimated for the region, 6100 MW has been installed. The remainder (27,200 MW, excluding the undeveloped capacity in the New England States) is the maximum which could be developed by upgrading and expanding existing projects (18,700 MW), and by installing new hydroelectric power capacity at all potentially feasible, undeveloped sites (8500 MW). Small-scale facilities account for about 15% of the region's total installed capacity, but another 1800 MW could be added to these and other small water-resource projects. In addition, 500 MW could be installed at potentially feasible, undeveloped small-scale sites. The small-scale resource varies considerably, with the states of New York, Maine, and New Hampshire having the largest potential for incremental development at existing projects in the Northeast region. West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine comprise the Northeast region.
Date:
July 1, 1979
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Automation of the National Water Quality Laboratories, U. S. Geological Survey. I. Description of laboratory functions and definition of the automation project
In January 1976, the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey asked Lawrence Livermore Laboratory to conduct a feasibility study for automation of the National Water Quality (NWQ) Laboratory in Denver, Colorado (formerly Denver Central Laboratory). Results of the study were published in the Feasibility Study for Automation of the Central Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Rept. UCRL-52001 (1976). Because the present system for processing water samples was found inadequate to meet the demands of a steadily increasing workload, new automation was recommended. In this document we present details necessary for future implementation of the new system, as well as descriptions of current laboratory automatic data processing and analytical facilities to better define the scope of the project and illustrate what the new system will accomplish. All pertinent inputs, outputs, and other operations that define the project are shown in functional designs.
Date:
July 1, 1977
Creator:
Morris, W.F. & Ames, H.S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Direct time-domain techniques for transient radiation and scattering. [Introduction to transient electromagnetics]
A tutorial introduction to transient electromagnetics, focusing on direct time-domain techniques, is presented. Physical, mathematical, numerical, and experimental aspects of time-domain methods, with emphasis on wire objects excited as antennas or scatters are examined. Numerous computed examples illustrate the characteristics of direct time-domain procedures, especially where they may offer advantages over procedures in the more familiar frequency domain. These advantages include greater solution efficiency for many types of problems, the ability to handle nonlinearities, improved physical insight and interpretability, availability of wide-band information from a single calculation, and the possibility of isolating interactions among various parts of an object using time-range gating.
Date:
July 1, 1976
Creator:
Miller, E. K. & Landt, J. A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Radiation effects and metalloproteins studied by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is used to study the bonding structure at the iron site of cytochrome c and the bonding of rare earth ions to the phosphate oxygens of ATP. Radiation effects are studied on several amino acid and simple peptide model systems. The emission spectrum of the x-ray source is calculated from literature references. The distributions of photon energy as a function of photon frequency and as a function of take-off angle are obtained. From these distributions, the radiation dose absorbed by an organic sample is found to be 10/sup 6/ rads/sec. The C 1s and N 1s spectra of amino acids and peptides are studied to characterize an internal reference standard for protein XPS spectra. Samples of native cytochrome c prepared from solutions of pH 1.5, 3, 7, and 11 are studied. Control samples include porphyrin cytochrome c (PCC), the metal free analogue of the native protein, and microperoxidase (MP), a mixture of heme peptides derived from the peptic digestion of cytochrome c. These samples show two S 2p peaks. The first peak has a binding energy (BE) of 163 eV, which corresponds to the S containing amino acids; the second peak is shifted to 167 eV. …
Date:
July 1, 1975
Creator:
Wurzbach, J.A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Boundary element analysis of time-dependent inelastic deformation of cracked plates loaded in anti-plane shear
A boundary element analysis, for determining stresses in planar cracked bodies undergoing Mode I or Mode II inelastic deformation, has been recently published by the present authors. One primary advantage of this formulation is that the effect of the crack is incorporated in the kernels of the integral equations. Thus, traction free conditions on the crack boundary are satisfied without discretization of this boundary in a numerical calculation procedure. The inelastic deformation of cracked plates loaded in anti-plane shear (Mode III) is studied in this paper. Modified kernels are used so that the only unknowns in the integral equations are source strengths on the outer boundary of the plate. It is proved that this formulation guarantees traction free cracks as well as single valued displacements on the crack boundary. Numerical results for stresses are presented for various loading histories with the plate material described by an elastic-nonlinear power law creep constitutive model and a stationary crack modelled as a very thin ellipse.
Date:
July 1, 1980
Creator:
Mukherjee, S. & Morjaria, M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
THE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FOR BeO IRAADIATION EXPERIMENTS ORNL 41-8 AND ORNL 41-9
The experimental plan for irradiating BeO pellets in Experiments ORNL 41- 8 and ORNL 41-9 was chosen in accordance with the principles of experimental design. The design is known by statisticians as a 2/sup 5/ factorial experiment confound'' in six replications. Five variables---size, density, grain size, temperature and time--are controlled at two levels to form the basic 2i factorial experiment. The sixth variable, neutron flux, is introduced by confounding on higher-order interactions. An explanation is presented in nontechnical language the means by which the aims of the experimenters and the physical conditions affecting the experiment were utilized in constructing the experimental design. (auth)
Date:
July 18, 1962
Creator:
Gardiner, D.A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance studies of molecular structure in liquids and liquid crystals
Magnetic couplings between protons, such as through-space dipole couplings, and scalar J-couplings depend sensitively on the structure of the molecule. Two dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance experiments provide a powerful tool for measuring these couplings, correlating them to specific pairs of protons within the molecule, and calculating the structure. This work discusses the development of NMR methods for examining two such classes of problems -- determination of the secondary structure of flexible molecules in anisotropic solutions, and primary structure of large biomolecules in aqueous solutions. 201 refs., 84 figs., 19 tabs.
Date:
July 1, 1991
Creator:
Rucker, S.P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fundamental Studies of Erosion for Coal Gasification Systems. Annual Progress Report, 1 November 1979-30 June 1980
The effort in this program is divided between modelling the particle impact event using numerical methods and computer calculations and actual measurement of erosion rates. While the results obtained from each of these activities must be combined to provide an improved understanding of particulate erosion of ductile materials, it is convenient to describe separately the progress in each activity area. The first step in the application of the finite element method to any problem is the dissolution of the continuum into small elements. The intent of this procedure is to use as few total elements as possible and to make the elements small where gradients are large and vice versa. The exact solution for the contact of a rigid cylinder with an elastic surface is available from Hertz. This solution has been compared with the computer results obtained from finite element maps containing 148, 273, and 474 elements. The correlation between the computer results and elastic solution is not good for the map with the fewest elements, but improves as the number of elements increases. Convergence to this exact solution has been examined as a function of the number of map elements as a means of improving the efficiency of …
Date:
July 27, 1980
Creator:
Follansbee, P. S.; Sinclair, G. B. & Williams, J. C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nonlinear spectroscopic studies of interfacial molecular ordering
The second order nonlinear optical processes of second harmonic generation and sum frequency generation are powerful new probes of surfaces. They possess unusual surface sensitivity due to the symmetry properties of the nonlinear susceptibility. In particular, infrared-visible sum frequency generation (SFG) can obtain the vibrational spectrum of sub-monolayer coverages of molecules. In this thesis, we explore the unique information that can be obtained from SFG. We take advantage of the sensitivity of SFG to the conformation of alkane chains to study the interaction between adsorbed liquid crystal molecules and surfactant treated surfaces. The sign of the SFG susceptibility depends on the sign of the molecular polarizability and the orientation, up or down, of the molecule. We experimentally determine the sign of the susceptibility and use it to determine the absolute orientation to obtain the sign of the molecular polarizability and show that this quantity contains important information about the dynamics of molecular charge distributions. Finally, we study the vibrational spectra and the molecular orientation at the pure liquid/vapor interface of methanol and water and present the most detailed evidence yet obtained for the structure of the pure water surface. 32 refs., 4 figs., 2 tabs.
Date:
July 1, 1991
Creator:
Superfine, R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary design data package. Appendix C
The design requirements, design philosophy, method and assumptions, and preliminary computer-aided design of the Near-Term Hybrid Vehicle including its electric and heat power units, control equipment, transmission system, body, and overall vehicle characteristics are presented. (LCL)
Date:
July 25, 1979
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tests of Bearing Materials for the Experimental Through-Tubes in the Egcr
The four experimental through-tubes provided in the Experimental Gas Cooled Reactor will extend directly through the core of the reactor and penetrate both the upper and lower pressure vessel heads. Each tube is anchored in an upper head nozzle and the bottom end is allowed to slide in a lower head nozzle. This lower nozzle is basically a T'' section that provides bottom access to the through-tube and a side access for the piping which connects the throughtube to the experimenter's cell. Due to differential thermal expansion of the through- tubes relative to the reactor pressure vessel, vertical movement of the through- tube within the T'' section will be experienced. At the same time a horizontal thrust applied to each tube by thermal expansion of the piping to the experimental cell will result in metalto-metal contact between each tube and the lower T'' section. Tests were conducted on three types of bearing material proposed for use on the through-tubes and T'' sections to minimize galling which can be expected to occur. Stellite No. 12 has been demonstrated to be an adequate bearing material for the intended application. (auth)
Date:
July 16, 1962
Creator:
MacPherson, R. E. & Smith, A. M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Kilowatt Isotope Power System: component test procedure for the ground demonstration system jet condenser focusing. 77-KIPS-59
This test procedure (No. 404) provides a detailed description of the verification methods which shall be used in the development program to be conducted on the Kilowatt Isotope Power System (KIPS) Jet Condenser to fulfill the requirements of the Ground Demonstration Test Plan, Section 6.4.
Date:
July 15, 1977
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Solar photovoltaic applications seminar: design, installation and operation of small, stand-alone photovoltaic power systems
This seminar material was developed primarily to provide solar photovoltaic (PV) applied engineering technology to the Federal community. An introduction to photoconductivity, semiconductors, and solar photovoltaic cells is included along with a demonstration of specific applications and application identification. The seminar details general systems design and incorporates most known information from industry, academia, and Government concerning small solar cell power system design engineering, presented in a practical and applied manner. Solar PV power system applications involve classical direct electrical energy conversion and electric power system analysis and synthesis. Presentations and examples involve a variety of disciplines including structural analysis, electric power and load analysis, reliability, sizing and optimization; and, installation, operation and maintenance. Four specific system designs are demonstrated: water pumping, domestic uses, navigational and aircraft aids, and telecommunications. All of the applications discussed are for small power requirement (under 2 kilowatts), stand-alone systems to be used in remote locations. Also presented are practical lessons gained from currently installed and operating systems, problems at sites and their resolution, a logical progression through each major phase of system acquisition, as well as thorough design reviews for each application.
Date:
July 1, 1980
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Steady-state and transient radionuclide transport through penetrations in nuclear waste containers
The transport of radionuclides through penetrations in wastes containers is analyzed. Penetrations may result from corrosion or cracks and may occur in the original container material, in degraded or corroded material, or in deposits of corrosion products. In this report we do not consider how these penetrations occur or the characteristics of expected penetrations in waste containers. We are concerned here only with the analytical formulation and solutions of equations to predict rates of mass transfer through penetrations of specified size and geometry. Expressions for the diffusive mass transfer rates through apertures are presented in Chapter 2, and numerical illustrations are presented in Chapter 3. The calculations show that mass transfer through small penetrations in thin-wall containers can be great enough that the penetrated container is no longer an effective barrier for radionuclide release. Use of this theory to calculate mass transfer through thick-wall containers is the subject of a later report. 3 refs., 9 figs.
Date:
July 1, 1986
Creator:
Chambre, P. L.; Lee, W. W. L.; Kim, C. L. & Pigford, T. H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
H4LM Graphite
A commercial graphite useful in nuclear reactor construction is described. A survey of all currently available sources on chemical and physical properties was made and the information listed. Some data on cost and available sizes are also included. (auth)
Date:
July 5, 1962
Creator:
Merryman, R. G.; Wagner, P. & MacMillan, D. P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bounce-averaged Fokker-Planck code for stellarator transport
A computer code for solving the bounce-averaged Fokker-Planck equation appropriate to stellarator transport has been developed, and its first applications made. The code is much faster than the bounce-averaged Monte-Carlo codes, which up to now have provided the most efficient numerical means for studying stellarator transport. Moreover, because the connection to analytic kinetic theory of the Fokker-Planck approach is more direct than for the Monte-Carlo approach, a comparison of theory and numerical experiment is now possible at a considerably more detailed level than previously.
Date:
July 1, 1985
Creator:
Mynick, H.E. & Hitchon, W.N.G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
THE PHYSICS DESIGN OF THE EBR-II
The physics design problems of the EBR-II are summarized. These include analysis of the EBR-II engineering design as well as applicable zero-power critical experiments. Pertinent reactor safety problems are reviewed. Safety considerations bearing on normal plant operation and manipulations within the reactor are emphasized. The implication of controlled in-pile meltdown experiments is considered. Irradiation damage and metallurgical phase phenomena are summarized and related to reactivity. The nuclear performance of the system is considered in terms of actual plant operation. The predicted shift of both power and reactivity from core to radial reflector is described. (auth)
Date:
July 1, 1961
Creator:
Loewenstein, W.B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
CGVIEW: A program to generate isometric and perspective views of combinatorial geometries
The prototype of a graphical debugger for combinatorial geometry (CG) is described. The prototype debugger consists of two parts: a FORTRAN-based view'' generator and a Microsoft Windows application for displaying the geometry. This document describes the code CGVIEW, which comprises the first part of the system. User-specified options permit the selection of an arbitrary viewpoint in space and the generation of either an isometric or perspective view. Additionally, any combination of zones, materials, or regions can be flagged as invisible to facilitate the inspection of internal details of the geometry. In the same manner, an arbitrary body can be cut away from the geometry to facilitate inspection and debugging. Examples illustrating the various options are described.
Date:
July 1, 1992
Creator:
Burns, T.J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of sawtooth relaxation oscillations in tokamaks
Sawtooth relaxation oscillations are analyzed using the Kadomtsev's disruption model and a thermal relaxation model. The sawtooth period is found to be very sensitive to the thermal conduction loss. Qualitative agreement between these calculations and the sawtooth period observed in several tokamaks is demonstrated.
Date:
July 1, 1982
Creator:
Yamazaki, K.; McGuire, K. & Okabayashi, M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Form-stable crystalline polymer pellets for thermal energy storage. Phase 1
The objective of this project was to develop a form-stable, crystalline polymer pellet TES bed material, useful in the 120 to 140/sup 0/C temperature range suitable for solar absorption air conditioning applications. This objective was achieved with a Si-O-Si crosslinked HDPE pellet material, demonstrated to have a high heat of fusion value (46 cal/g, approximately 98% of the HDPE's heat of fusion value prior to crosslinking). Further, on melt/freeze cycling of these TES pellets through 400 cycles in ethylene glycol, they retained nearly 100% of their initial heat of fusion value, and had excellent form-stability characteristics, with little or no inter-particle adhesion. Appropriate testing of this TES pellet material, from analytical (DSC) to a one gallon lab-scale TES unit, and finally to a 60 gallon prototype TES demonstration unit, consistently verified these results. C-C crosslinked PE products, which were slightly inferior to the Si-O-Si crosslinked PE in terms of good heat of fusion and form-stability properties, were also developed and are potential alternatives to the prime PE TES product.
Date:
July 1, 1977
Creator:
Botham, R.A.; Jenkins, G.H.; Ball, G.L. III & Salyer, I.O.
System:
The UNT Digital Library