Development of alternative oxygen production source using a zirconia solid electrolyte membrane (open access)

Development of alternative oxygen production source using a zirconia solid electrolyte membrane

The objective of this multiyear effort was the development, fabrication and testing of a zirconia oxygen production module capable of delivering approximately 100 liters/minute (LPM) of oxygen. The work discussed in this report consists of development and improvement of the zirconia cell along with manufacture of cell components, preliminary design of the final plant, additional economic analysis and industrial participation. (VC)
Date: August 1, 1990
Creator: Suitor, J. W.; Clark, D. J. & Losey, R. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Viability study of photo-voltaic systems added to terrestrial electric vehicles (open access)

Viability study of photo-voltaic systems added to terrestrial electric vehicles

The purpose of the following computer study is to determine the set of necessary conditions under which the addition of photo-voltaic (PV) cells to electric vehicles provides a net utility or economic benefit. Economic benefits are given the primary focus and are evaluated in terms of a payback period.
Date: September 1, 1990
Creator: Rippel, W. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of alternative oxygen production source using a zirconia solid electrolyte membrane. Final report (open access)

Development of alternative oxygen production source using a zirconia solid electrolyte membrane. Final report

The objective of this multiyear effort was the development, fabrication and testing of a zirconia oxygen production module capable of delivering approximately 100 liters/minute (LPM) of oxygen. The work discussed in this report consists of development and improvement of the zirconia cell along with manufacture of cell components, preliminary design of the final plant, additional economic analysis and industrial participation. (VC)
Date: August 1, 1990
Creator: Suitor, J. W.; Clark, D. J. & Losey, R. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A 2D electrostatic PIC code for the Mark III Hypercube (open access)

A 2D electrostatic PIC code for the Mark III Hypercube

We have implemented a 2D electrostastic plasma particle in cell (PIC) simulation code on the Caltech/JPL Mark IIIfp Hypercube. The code simulates plasma effects by evolving in time the trajectories of thousands to millions of charged particles subject to their self-consistent fields. Each particle`s position and velocity is advanced in time using a leap frog method for integrating Newton`s equations of motion in electric and magnetic fields. The electric field due to these moving charged particles is calculated on a spatial grid at each time by solving Poisson`s equation in Fourier space. These two tasks represent the largest part of the computation. To obtain efficient operation on a distributed memory parallel computer, we are using the General Concurrent PIC (GCPIC) algorithm previously developed for a 1D parallel PIC code.
Date: December 31, 1990
Creator: Ferraro, R. D.; Liewer, P. C. & Decyk, V. K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic load balancing in a concurrent plasma PIC code on the JPL/Caltech Mark III hypercube (open access)

Dynamic load balancing in a concurrent plasma PIC code on the JPL/Caltech Mark III hypercube

Dynamic load balancing has been implemented in a concurrent one-dimensional electromagnetic plasma particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation code using a method which adds very little overhead to the parallel code. In PIC codes, the orbits of many interacting plasma electrons and ions are followed as an initial value problem as the particles move in electromagnetic fields calculated self-consistently from the particle motions. The code was implemented using the GCPIC algorithm in which the particles are divided among processors by partitioning the spatial domain of the simulation. The problem is load-balanced by partitioning the spatial domain so that each partition has approximately the same number of particles. During the simulation, the partitions are dynamically recreated as the spatial distribution of the particles changes in order to maintain processor load balance.
Date: December 31, 1990
Creator: Liewer, P. C.; Leaver, E. W.; Decyk, V. K. & Dawson, J. M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
SP-100 operational life model. Fiscal Year 1990 annual report (open access)

SP-100 operational life model. Fiscal Year 1990 annual report

This report covers the initial year`s effort in the development of an Operational Life Model (OLM) for the SP-100 Space Reactor Power System. The initial step undertaken in developing the OLM was to review all available documentation from GE on their plans for the OLM and on the degradation and failure mechanisms envisioned for the SP-100. In addition, the DEGRA code developed at JPL, which modelled the degradation of the General Purpose Heat Source based Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (GPHS-RTG), was reviewed. Based on the review of the degradation and failure mechanisms, a list of the most pertinent degradation effects along with their key degradation mechanisms was compiled. This was done as a way of separating the mechanisms from the effects and allowing all of the effects to be incorporated into the OLM. The emphasis was on parameters which will tend to change performance as a function of time and not on those that are simply failures without any prior degradation.
Date: December 14, 1990
Creator: Ewell, R. & Awaya, H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library