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Technology and Governance in the 1990s (open access)

Technology and Governance in the 1990s

This report presents the papers presented at the OTA 20th Anniversary Forum on Technology and Governance in the 1990s. The report discusses five papers presented that day.
Date: April 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetic Variation in DNA of Coho Salmon from the Lower Columbia River : Final Report 1993. (open access)

Genetic Variation in DNA of Coho Salmon from the Lower Columbia River : Final Report 1993.

The goal of this project was to develop techniques to provide the information needed to determine if Lower Columbia River coho salmon represent a 'species' under the Endangered Species Act. Our report features two new nuclear DNA approaches to the improved detection of genetic variation: (1) Studies of DNA-level genetic variation for two nuclear growth hormone genes; (2) Use of arbitrary DNA primers (randomly amplified polymorphic DNA, or 'RAPD' primers) to detect variation at large numbers of nuclear genes. We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify variable sections (introns) of two growth hormone genes (GH-I and G/f-Z) in several salmonid species. Coho salmon had three DNA length variants for G/-I intron C. Restriction analysis and sequencing provided valuable information about the mode of evolution of these DNA sequences. We tested segregation of the variants in captive broods of coho salmon, and demonstrated that they are alleles at a single Mendelian locus. Population studies using the GH-1 alleles showed highly significant frequency differences between Lower Columbia River and Oregon Coast coho salmon, and marginal differences among stocks within these regions. These new markers are adequately defined and tested to use in coho salmon population studies of any size. The …
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Fobes, Stephen; Knudsen, Kathy & Allendorf, Fred
System: The UNT Digital Library
Umatilla River Basin Anadromous Fish Habitat Enhancement Project : 1993 Annual Report. (open access)

Umatilla River Basin Anadromous Fish Habitat Enhancement Project : 1993 Annual Report.

The Umatilla Basin Anadromous Fish Habitat Enhancement Project is funded under the Northwest Power Planning Council's Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program Measure 704 (d) (1) 34.02 and targets the improvement of water quality and restoration of riparian areas, holding, spawning and rearing habitats of steelhead, spring and fall chinook and coho salmon. The project focused on implementing instream and riparian habitat improvements on private lands on the Umatilla Indian Reservation (hereafter referred to as Reservation) from April 1, 1988 to March 31, 1992. These efforts resulted in enhancement of the lower 1/4 mile of Boston Canyon Creek, the lower 4 river miles of Meacham Creek and 3.2 river miles of the Umatilla River (downstream of the Meacham Creek confluence upstream to the Reservation East Boundary). In 1993, the project shifted emphasis to a comprehensive watershed approach consistent with other basin efforts and began to identify upland and riparian watershed-wide causative factors impacting fisheries habitat and natural fisheries production capabilities throughout the Umatilla River Watershed. Maintenance of existing habitat improvement projects was included under this comprehensive approach. Maintenance of existing gravel traps, instream and bank stabilization structures was required within project areas during the reporting period due to spring …
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Shaw, R. Todd
System: The UNT Digital Library
Robotic weld overlay coatings for erosion control (open access)

Robotic weld overlay coatings for erosion control

Twelve weld overlay hardfacing alloys have been selected for preliminary erosion testing based on a literature review These alloys have been separated into three major groups: (1) Cobalt containing alloys, (2) Nickel-base alloys, (3) Iron base alloys. These alloys are being applied to carbon steel substrates and will undergo preliminary erosion testing to identify candidates weld overlay alloys for erosion control in CFB boilers. The candidate alloys selected from the preliminary erosion tests will then undergo more detailed evaluations in future research.
Date: April 18, 1993
Creator: Levin, B. F.; Dupont, J. N. & Marder, A. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
IGR NO[sub x]/SO[sub x] control technology (open access)

IGR NO[sub x]/SO[sub x] control technology

The technical work during this reporting term has principally involved the continued development, optimization and improvement of freezing drying techniques for solid ceramic oxide electrolyte powder preparation, preliminary optimization of the calcining of the ceramic electrolyte freeze dried powders to allow for optimum processing to the IGR composite, and determining (initial) electrochemical properties of the stabilized ceramic solid electrolyte at a variety of temperatures in air.
Date: April 25, 1993
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Construction of the Courant-Snyder invariants for the non-linear equations of motion and criterion for the long-term stability of the beam in a storage ring (open access)

Construction of the Courant-Snyder invariants for the non-linear equations of motion and criterion for the long-term stability of the beam in a storage ring

The Courant-Snyder invariants become Lyapunov functions when the [beta]-functions admit non-zero lower, and finite upper bounds. The long-term stability of motion then follows. This alternative criterion for the long-term stability of motion can be generalized to the nonlinear case. A single particle subjected to an arbitrary static magnetic field is considered in some detail, as an example.
Date: April 26, 1993
Creator: Garczynski, V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Medicine Program progress report for quarter ending March 31, 1993 (open access)

Nuclear Medicine Program progress report for quarter ending March 31, 1993

We have exploring the possibility of measuring urinary radioactivity as an index of pancreatic lipase activity after oral administration of a new triglyceride containing a radioactive iodine-1 25-labeled fatty acid moiety. The new agent, 1,2-dipalmitoyl-3[15-(p-iodophenyl)pentandecan-l-oyl]-racglycerol (1,2-Pal-3-IPPA), was prepared by the thallation-iodide displacement method. Following oral gavage of the radioiodinated triglyceride to rats, about 30% of the administered activity was excreted in 24 hours in the urine. In normal human controls an higher urinary excretion (of about 75% was observed. In this report, we describe an evaluation of the metabolites excreted in the urine and the chemical species stored in adipose from rats. The urine activity co-chromatographed with hippuric acid by TLC indicating conjugation of the IPPA metabolites. Release of the acidic components from the conjugated excretory products by acid hydrolysis of the urine provided the radioactive acidic IPPA metabolites. Analysis of the Folch extracts of fat samples from rats demonstrated that the radioactive components co-chromatographed In the triglyceride region. Recent studies in patients with compromised pancreatic exocrine function have demonstrated significantly decreased 24 hr. urinary excretion of about 25%, following oral administration of [1 -1 31]-1,2-Pal-3-IPPA. Thus, urine analysis after oral administration of [I -1 31]-1,2-Pal-3-IPPA may be a simple, …
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Knapp, F. F. Jr.; Ambrose, K. R.; Beets, A. L.; Callahan, A. P.; McPherson, D. W.; Mirzadeh, S. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Savings from energy efficient windows: Current and future savings from new fenestration technologies in the residential market (open access)

Savings from energy efficient windows: Current and future savings from new fenestration technologies in the residential market

Heating and cooling energy lost through windows in the residential sector (estimated at two-thirds of the energy lost through windows in all sectors) currently accounts for 3 percent (or 2.8 quads) of total US energy use, costing over $26 billion annually in energy bills. Installation of energy-efficient windows is acting to reduce the amount of energy lost per unit window area. Installation of more energy efficient windows since 1970 has resulted in an annual savings of approximately 0.6 quads. If all windows utilized existing cost effective energy conserving technologies, then residential window energy losses would amount to less than 0.8 quads, directly saving $18 billion per year in avoided energy costs. The nationwide installation of windows that are now being developed could actually turn this energy loss into a net energy gain. Considering only natural replacement of windows and new construction, appropriate fenestration policies could help realize this potential by reducing annual residential window energy losses to 2.2 quids by the year 2012, despite a growing housing stock.
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Frost, K.; Arasteh, D. & Eto, J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Land application uses for dry FGD by-products (open access)

Land application uses for dry FGD by-products

The 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act have spurred the development of flue gas desulfurization (FGD) processes, several of which produce a dry, solid by-product material consisting of excess sorbent, reaction products containing sulfates and sulfites, and coal fly ash. Presently FGD by-product materials are treated as solid wastes and must be landfilled. However, landfill sites are becoming more scarce and tipping fees are constantly increasing. It is, therefore, highly desirable to find beneficial reuses for these materials provided the environmental impacts are minimal and socially acceptable. Phase 1 results of a 4 and 1/2 year study to demonstrate large volume beneficial uses of FGD by-products are reported. The purpose of the Phase 1 portion of the project was to characterize the chemical, physical, mineralogical and engineering properties of the FGD by-product materials obtained from various FGD technologies being developed in the state of Ohio. Phase 1 also involved the collection of baseline economic data related to the beneficial reuse of these FGD materials. A total of 58 samples were collected and analyzed. In summary Phase 1 results revealed that FGD by-product materials are essentially coal fly ash materials diluted with unreacted sorbent and reaction products. High volume beneficial …
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Bigham, J.; Dick, W.; Forster, L.; Hitzhusen, F.; McCoy, E.; Stehouwer, R. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Secondary oil recovery from selected Carter sandstone oilfields, Black Warrior Basin, Alabama (open access)

Secondary oil recovery from selected Carter sandstone oilfields, Black Warrior Basin, Alabama

The objectives of this secondary oil recovery project involving the Carter sandstone in northwest Alabama are: (1) To increase the ultimate economic recovery of oil from the Carter reservoirs, thereby increasing domestic reserves and lessening US dependence on foreign oil; (2) To extensively model, test, and monitor the reservoirs so their management is optimized; and (3) To assimilate and transfer the information and results gathered to other US oil companies to encourage them to attempt similar projects. Start-up water injection began on 0 1/12/93 at the Central Bluff Field, and daily operations began on 01/13/93. These operations include monitoring wellhead pressures at the injector and two producers, and injection water treatment. Water injection was running 200-300 bbl/day at the end of February. Once the unit is pressured-up well testing will be performed. Unitization was approved on 03/01/93.b. For the North Fairview Field correlations and log analyses were used to determine the fluid and rock properties. A summary of these properties is included in Table 1. The results of the log analysis were used to construct the hydrocarbon pore volume map shown on Figure 1. The map was planimetered to determine original oil-in-place (OOIP) values and the hydrocarbon pore volume by …
Date: April 15, 1993
Creator: Anderson, J.C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spectrum Analysis in Beam Diagnostics (open access)

Spectrum Analysis in Beam Diagnostics

In this article, we discuss fundamentals of the spectrum analysis in beam diagnostics, where several important particle motions in a circular accelerator are considered. The properties of the Fourier transform are presented. Then the coasting and the bunched beam motion in both longitudinal and transverse are studied. The discussions are separated for the signal particle, multiple particle, and the Schottky noise cases. To demonstrate the interesting properties of the beam motion spectrum, time domain functions are generated, and then the associated spectra are calculated and plotted. In order to show the whole picture in a single plot, some data have been scaled, therefore they may not be realistic in an accelerator.
Date: April 23, 1993
Creator: Zhang, S. Y. & Weng, W. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of air toxics from a laboratory coal-fired combustor and utility scale power plants (open access)

Characterization of air toxics from a laboratory coal-fired combustor and utility scale power plants

Laboratory combustor studies were conducted at Battelle in the fall of 1992 to evaluate sampling methods and analysis techniques for air toxics generated by buming pulverized coal. These experiments were described in the fifth quarterly progress report. In this report results from additional analyses of samples are reported. Results are shown in Tables 1--8 for analysis of nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (nitro-PAH), oxygenated PAH (oxy-PAH), hydroxy-nitro-aromatic compounds (OH-NO2-AR/PAH), and PAH derivatives containing sulfur (PASH) and nitrogen (PANH). In the tables the two fning rates refer to the rate at which coal was fired in the laboratory fumace. The high firing rate was 5.7 g/s (45 lbs/hr), and the low firing rate was 5.3 g/s. The first letter in the sample identification refers to high (H) or low (L) coal firing rate. The second letter refers to either the hot flue samples (H) or samples collected with a Plume Simulating Dilution Sampler (D). The third letter refers to the particle size range. Size range A was about 3.3-7.1 [mu]m. Size range B was about 0.87-3.3 Jim. Size range C was less than 0.87-3.3[mu]m. Size range C was less than 0.87[mu]m. The nitro-PAH data from the hot flue and PSDS vapor and particle …
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis of new high performance lubricants and solid lubricants (open access)

Synthesis of new high performance lubricants and solid lubricants

Synthesis and testing was begun on a number of new classes of lubricants: perfluoropolyethers (branching effects), perfluoromethylene oxide ethers, chlorine-substituted fluorocarbon polyethers, fluorine-containing branched ether lubricants, glycerine- based perfluoropolyesters, perfluoro epoxy ether chains, etc.
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Lagow, R.J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coal plasticity at high heating rates and temperatures (open access)

Coal plasticity at high heating rates and temperatures

The results of the multiple independent parallel reaction (MIPR) kinetics model are reported and discussed. The MIPR model's results agree well with the data. The effects of holding temperature, heating rate, and coal type on plasticity are displayed by the model. However, the model does not address the secondary reactions forming higher molecular weight liquid hypothesized to be responsible for the initial rise in viscosity during solidification. The average standard error of estimates for the plastic period and maximum plasticity are 0.13 s and 317 Pa-s, respectively. These values are comparable to the measurement resolution of the plastometer (0.1 s and [plus minus] 200 Pa[center dot]s).
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Gerjarusak, S.; Peters, W.A. & Howard, J.B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
GEM muon tracking R and D (open access)

GEM muon tracking R and D

The suitability of open-profile CSCs for the GEM muon system was evaluated by constructing a small (0.5 m [times] 1.0 m) prototype and testing it with cosmic ray muons. The measured spatial resolution surpassed the GEM requirement of 75 [mu]m. The test results were compared with Monte Carlo simulations; good agreement was found. Studies of the timing properties of the prototype have been started.
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Lau, K.; Mayes, B.; Pyrlik, J. & Weinstein, R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fundamental studies of fusion plasmas (open access)

Fundamental studies of fusion plasmas

Work on ICRF interaction with the edge plasma is reported. ICRF generated convective cells have been established as an important mechanism for influencing edge transport and interaction with the H-mode, and for controlling profiles in the tokamak scrape-off-layer. Power dissipation by rf sheaths has been shown to be significant for some misaligned ICRF and IIBW antenna systems. Near-field antenna sheath work has been extended to the far-field case, important for experiments with low single pass absorption. Impurity modeling and Faraday screen design support has been provided for the ICRF community. In the area of core-ICRF physics, the kinetic theory of heating by applied ICRF waves has been extended to retain important geometrical effects relevant to modeling minority heated tokamak plasmas, thereby improving on the physics base that is standard in presently employed codes. Both the quasilinear theory of ion heating, and the plasma response function important in wave codes have been addressed. In separate studies, it has been shown that highly anisotropic minority heated plasmas can give rise to unstable field fluctuations in some situations. A completely separate series of studies have contributed to the understanding of tokamak confinement physics. Additionally, a diffraction formalism has been produced which will be …
Date: April 27, 1993
Creator: Aamodt, R. E.; Catto, P. J.; D'Ippolito, D. A.; Myra, J. R. & Russell, D. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental particle physics at the University of Pittsburgh. [Dept. of Physics and Astronomy] (open access)

Experimental particle physics at the University of Pittsburgh. [Dept. of Physics and Astronomy]

During the past year on Task A, the HELIOS work drew to a close with first results from the electron-muon pair studies (no anomalous sources are seen, and the final results and uncertainties are being set). First data from CMD2 will allow improvement of some phi branching ratios, including some improved limits on forbidden decays. The engineering run for E865 is scheduled for June and July of 1993. The principal efforts of Task B, the Fermilab program, have been the completion of the analysis of the 1987--88 data with resulting publications, completion of the 1990--91 data run, and the beginning of the analysis of the 1990--91 data. In addition, the Task B group is taking a leadership role in developing a proposal to Fermilab for the upgrade of the CDF silicon vertex detector in preparation for the 1995 data run. Task C has recently submitted results of its fractionally charged particle searches, placing new upper limits on the abundance of naturally-occurring fractionally-charged particles in various materials. This group has recently been approved by the Brookhaven management for an exposure of their p-i-n diodes in a high intensity proton beam. This measurement, along with its subsequent analysis, will complete the program. …
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Cleland, W. E.; Engels Jr., E.; Humanic, T. J.; Perera, U.; Shepard, P. F. & Thompson, J. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Suppression of fine ash formation in pulverized coal flames (open access)

Suppression of fine ash formation in pulverized coal flames

The second major ash producing mechanism is the generation of a submicron aerosol through a vaporization/condensation mechanism. When the ash size distribution is plotted in terms of number density, the submicron mode generally peaks at about 0. 1 [mu]m. When plotted in terms of mass, this mode is sometimes distinct from the residual ash mode, and sometimes merged into it. During diffusion-limited char combustion, the interior of the particle becomes hot and fuel-rich. The non-volatile oxides (e.g., Al[sub 2]O[sub 3], SiO[sub 2], MgO, CaO, Fe[sub 2]O[sub 3]) can be reduced to more volatile suboxides and elements, and partially vaporized. These reoxidize while passing through the boundary layer surrounding the char particle, thus becoming so highly supersaturated that rapid homogeneous nucleation occurs. This high nuclei concentration in the boundary layer promotes more extensive coagulation than would occur if the nuclei were uniformly distributed across the flow field. The vaporization can be accelerated by the overshoot of the char temperature beyond the local gas temperature. Although these particles represent a relatively small fraction of the mass, they can present a large fraction of the surface area. Thus, they are a preferred site for the condensation of the more volatile oxides later in …
Date: April 29, 1993
Creator: Kramlich, J.C.; Hoffman, D.A. & Butcher, E.K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Security classification of information (open access)

Security classification of information

This document is the second of a planned four-volume work that comprehensively discusses the security classification of information. The main focus of Volume 2 is on the principles for classification of information. Included herein are descriptions of the two major types of information that governments classify for national security reasons (subjective and objective information), guidance to use when determining whether information under consideration for classification is controlled by the government (a necessary requirement for classification to be effective), information disclosure risks and benefits (the benefits and costs of classification), standards to use when balancing information disclosure risks and benefits, guidance for assigning classification levels (Top Secret, Secret, or Confidential) to classified information, guidance for determining how long information should be classified (classification duration), classification of associations of information, classification of compilations of information, and principles for declassifying and downgrading information. Rules or principles of certain areas of our legal system (e.g., trade secret law) are sometimes mentioned to .provide added support to some of those classification principles.
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Quist, A.S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low Z impurity ion extraction from TFTR ion sources (open access)

Low Z impurity ion extraction from TFTR ion sources

TFTR deuterium neutral beams have been operated unintentionally with significant quantities of extracted water ions. Water has been observed with an Optical Multichannel Analyzer (OMA) during beam extraction when small water leaks were present within the arc chamber. These leaks were thermally induced with the contamination level increasing linearly with pulse length. 6% of the beam current was attributed to water ions for the worst leak, corresponding to an instantaneous value of 12% at the end of a 1.5 s pulse. A pre-calorimeter collimator was damaged as a result of this operation. A similar contamination is observed during initial operation of ion sources exposed to air. This latter contamination is attributed to the synthesis, from adsorbed air, of either D[sub 2]O or the indistinguishable ND[sub 3]. Initial operation of new ion sources typically produces a contamination level of [approximately]2%. These impurities are reduced to undetectable levels after 50 to 100 beam pulses. Once a water molecule is present in the plasma generator, it is predominantly ionized rather than dissociated, resulting in the extraction of only trace amounts of hydrogenated ions. The addition of water to the extracted beam also reduces the optimum perveance, moving the typical underdense operating point closer …
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Kamperschroer, J. H.; Grisham, L. R.; Newman, R. A.; O'Connor, T. E.; Stevenson, T. N.; von Halle, A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bunched Beam Longitudinal Instability: Coherent Dipole Motion (open access)

Bunched Beam Longitudinal Instability: Coherent Dipole Motion

In this paper, the authors present a new formulation for the longitudinal coherent dipole motion, where a quadrature response of the environmental impedance is shown to be the effective longitudinal impedance for the beam instability. The Robinson-Pedersen formulation for the longitudinal dipole motion is also presented, the difference of the two approaches is discussed in the comparison. The results by using the Sacherer integral equation for the coherent dipole motion can generate the same results as by using the other two approaches, except for a scaling difference. The formulation is further generalized to the rigid bunch motion using signal analysis method, where a form factor shows up naturally. Finally, the formulation is applied to solve the coupled bunch instabilities. Examples of the AGS Booster and the AGS coupled bunch instabilities are used to illustrate the applications of the formulation.
Date: April 23, 1993
Creator: Zhang, S. Y. & Weng, W. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oxidation of Coal and Coal Pyrite Mechanisms and Influence on Surface Characteristics (open access)

Oxidation of Coal and Coal Pyrite Mechanisms and Influence on Surface Characteristics

During the tenth quarter, electrochemical experiments were done on electrodes prepared from Upper Freeport coal pyrite, and Pittsburgh coal pyrite samples provided by the US Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh Research Center, Pennsylvania. Electrokinetic tests were done on Upper Freeport and Pittsburgh coal pyrite. In addition, surface area measurements were done on Upper Freeport and Upper Clarion coals.
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Doyle, F. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Micro-agglomerate flotation for deep cleaning of coal (open access)

Micro-agglomerate flotation for deep cleaning of coal

We are investigating the use of a hybrid process, Micro-agglomerate flotation, which is a combination of oil-agglomeration and froth flotation. The basic concept is to use small quantities of oil to promote the formation of dense micro-agglomerates with minimal entrapment of water and mineral particles, and to use froth flotation to extract these micro-agglomerates from the water/dispersed-mineral phase. Since the floating units are agglomerates (about 30--50 [mu]m in size) rather than individual coal particles (1--10 [mu]m) the problems of froth overload and water/mineral carryover should be significantly alleviated.Micro-agglomerate flotation has considerable potential for the practical deep cleaning of coal on a commercial scale. In principle, it should be possible to achieve both high selectivity and high yield at reasonable cost. The process requires only conventional, off-the-shelf equipment and reagent usage (oil, surfactants, etc.) should be small. There are, however, complications. The process involves at least five phases: two or more solids (coal and mineral), two liquids (oil and water) and one gas (air). It is necessary to maintain precise control over the chemistry of the liquid phases in order to promote the interfacial reactions and interactions between phases necessary to ensure selectivity. Kinetics as well as thermodynamic factors may be …
Date: April 1, 1993
Creator: Chander, S. & Hogg, R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flue gas conditioning for improved particle collection in electrostatic precipitators (open access)

Flue gas conditioning for improved particle collection in electrostatic precipitators

Several tasks have been completed in a program to evaluate additives to improve fine particle collection in electrostatic precipitators. Screening tests and laboratory evaluations of additives are summarized in this report. Over 20 additives were evaluated; four were found to improve flyash precipitation rates. The Insitec particle analyzer was also evaluated; test results show that the analyzer will provide accurate sizing and counting information for particles in the size range of [le] 10 [mu]m dia.
Date: April 16, 1993
Creator: Durham, M. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library