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every two years; the three major ideas were Thatcherism, the decline of the Left, and new times post-Fordism; I am very proud of what we achieved in that period, and it was for me one of the two most stimulating things I have ever done in my life... by limping on into oblivion, so I did so 12:04:19 I also co-started Demos, but I am not as proud of that as Marxism Today; we had thought we should try and set up a new magazine and also a think-tank because what Marxism Today was not good...
Jacques, Martin; Macfarlane, Alan
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Indexed Site
INTERVIEWER: INTERVIEWER: 1990 PLEASE CALL DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE TO GET THE TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR THE HOUSEHOLD LISTED ON THE ADDRESS LABEL R90E-06 120790 a Telephone f ) - D Telephone number is UNLISTED a NO telephone NUMBER listed for this name at this address D OTHER: Please describe result below: 1991 RTECS Operations Manual/Appendix A-1 Department of Energy Washington, DC 20585 January 1991 Dear Resident: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Is committed to developing a comprehensive National Energy Strategy. One of the ways DOE is attempting to do this is by learning about your vehicles' energy use. But, your help is needed. An interviewer will telephone you shortly to ask questions about your motor vehicles. The interviewer is employed by the Response Analysis Corporation of Princeton, New Jersey, who is under
Fab cycle time improvement through inventory control : a wafer starts approach
Intel's Colorado Springs wafer fabrication facility, known internally as F23, has undertaken several initiatives to reduce cycle time including High Precision Maintenance (HPM), content reduction through the application ...
Ward, Matthew John
Mastering the Interview Resources General Interview Skills
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Using Structured Interviewing Techniques
GAO assists congressional decisionmakers in their deliberative process by furnishing analytical information on issues and options under consideration. Many diverse methodologies are needed to develop sound and timely answers to the questions that are posed by the Congress. To provide GAO evaluators with basic information about the more commonly used methodologies, GAO�s policy guidance includes documents such as methodology transfer papers and technical guidelines, This methodology transfer paper on using structured interviewing techniques discusses how GAO evaluators should incorporate structured interview techniques when appropriate to performing our work. It explains when these techniques should be
Gao/pemd-. Preface; Werner Grosshans
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Hybrid: Starting
Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center (EERE)
button highlighted Cruising Button Passing Button Braking Button Stopped Button subbanner graphic: gray bar button highlighted Cruising Button Passing Button Braking Button Stopped Button subbanner graphic: gray bar STARTING When the vehicle is started, the gasoline engine "warms up." If necessary, the electric motor acts as a generator, converting energy from the engine into electricity and storing it in the battery. stage graphic: vertical blue rule Main stage: See through car with battery, engine, and electric motor visible. The car is moving. There are arrows flowing from the gasoline engine to the electric motor to the battery. Main stage: See through car with battery, engine, and electric motor visible. The car is moving. There are arrows flowing from the gasoline engine to the electric motor to the battery. Battery: The battery stores energy generated from the gasoline engine or, during regenerative braking, from the electric motor. Since the battery helps power the vehicle, it is larger and holds much more energy than batteries used to start conventional vehicles. Main stage: See through car with battery, engine, and electric motor visible. The car is moving. There are arrows flowing from the gasoline engine to the electric motor to the battery.
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Start Start End Δt Title Presenter 8:30 8:35 0:05 Welcome Earl Marmar 8:35 9:20 0:45 Discussion of 1st Launcher Design and Performance Ron Parker 9:20 9:50 0:30 Technical Objectives Randy Wilson 9:50 10:20 0:30 4-Way Splitter Design and Testing Peter Koert 10:20 10:35 0:15 Break 10:35 11:20 0:45 Mechanical Design Rui Vieira 11:20 12:05 0:45 Coupler Design and Simulation -- Plasma Effects Ron Parker Thermal Effects in Splitter Orso Meneghini 12:05 12:35 0:30 Summary and Schedule Jim Irby 12:35 13:35 1:00 Lunch 13:35 15:05 1:30 Executive Session 15:05 Debrief 1 st Launcher Design and Performance Ron Parker LH Launcher Design Review 9 September 2008 Lower Hybrid waves are injected into Alcator C-Mod plasmas at 4.6 GHz via an 88-waveguide grill Probes Stainless steel grill used to inject LH waves into Alcator C-Mod plasmas during 2006 -2008 campaigns. Maximum
Interview of John Barnes
. Gluckman�s theory was that Mitchell and I had spent the war learning only how to waste time and that we needed some kind of academic rehabilitation before we could start really serious research work. We spent 4-5 months in the University of Cape Town... but he turned it down because he�d studied people called Yao in China and that he�d get them mixed up. JG In most areas after the war there were these plans. I think Firth did one for West Africa. Schapera did one for East Africa and think Edmund Leach...
Barnes, John
Interview of Simon Schaffer
period for a child; but complete blindness to Aboriginal society; there was a Salvation Army school next to my primary school with some Aboriginal children who came to our school, but very tightly controlled; travel anywhere was restricted at that time... Brisbane starting with the fact that the beach had no sand; lived in a rather chilly house opposite the secondary school; came back when I was ten when there was still the 11+ regime; came back in Summer 1965 and wondered whether I should go to primary...
Schaffer, Simon
Getting Started | Mercury
Getting Started Getting Started Client example: open_in_t in_struct; open_out_t out_struct; /* Initialize the interface */ [...] NA_Addr_lookup(network_class, server_name, &server_addr); /* Register RPC call */ rpc_id = HG_REGISTER("open", open_in_t, open_out_t); /* Fill input parameters */ [...] in_struct.in_param0 = in_param0; /* Send RPC request */ HG_Forward(server_addr, rpc_id, &in_struct, &out_struct, &rpc_request); /* Wait for completion */ HG_Wait(rpc_request, HG_MAX_IDLE_TIME, HG_STATUS_IGNORE); /* Get output parameters */ [...] out_param0 = out_struct.out_param0; int main(int argc, void *argv[]) { /* Initialize the interface */ [...] /* Register RPC call */ HG_HANDLER_REGISTER("open", open_rpc, open_in_t, open_out_t); /* Process RPC calls */
Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity
Motivational interviewing is a client-centered, goaloriented approach to counseling, with the objective to increase a person�s intrinsic motivation for behavior change through the exploration and resolution of ambivalence (Miller & Rollnick, 2002). The aims of motivational interviewing are to increase a person�s motivation for behavior change and to strengthen that commitment to change. The spirit of this approach emphasizes collaboration over confrontation, evocation over education, and autonomy over authority (Miller & Rollnick, 2002). The technique has four guiding principles (Miller,
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Interview of Les Hiatt
Interview of Les Hiatt by Alan Macfarlane on 14th July 2005 0:05:07 Introduction; born 1931 in Gilgandra, New South Wales; father son of English migrants; his father became a miller; father became a book-keeper and later manager of flour mill...
Hiatt, Les
Interview with Philip Gulliver
. for a flour mill and similar for a tannery; both now closed by a new factories and a confectioner whose records have also been examined; also checked migration of workers; interviewed people and done participant observation 0:28:15 Participant...
Gulliver, Philip
Tracking Santa: An Interview with the Head Researcher | Department of
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Tracking Santa: An Interview with the Head Researcher Tracking Santa: An Interview with the Head Researcher Tracking Santa: An Interview with the Head Researcher December 23, 2010 - 11:12am Addthis Tracking Santa: An Interview with the Head Researcher Ginny Simmons Ginny Simmons Former Managing Editor for Energy.gov, Office of Public Affairs What does this mean for me? You'll be able to start monitoring St. Nick's journey starting at 6 AM ET on Christmas Eve. Every year since 1998, the Department of Energy's Los Alamos lab has been using state of the art technology to track Santa Claus as he circles the globe the night before Christmas. You'll be able to start monitoring St. Nick's journey here starting at 6 AM ET on Christmas Eve. This week, I got a chance to talk to Santa Tracker Head Researcher (and Cibola Flight Experiment Project Leader) Diane Roussel-Dupre to get a
Getting Started on Edison
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Getting Started on Euclid
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2003 American Solar Challenge Official Starting Lineup
American Solar Challenge Official Starting Lineup Starting Team Car Time 9:00 Kansas State University 28 9:01 University of Minnesota 35 9:02 University of Missouri - Rolla 42...
Interview of Vittorio Luzzati
talking about him; his mother and my father were first cousins, they were exactly of the same age, and both were members of big families; I knew Primo Levi when I was a child and used to go to Torino for a few weeks just before school started in September... by training, who during the war had worked on the atomic bomb project and wished to do something else; they were not trained in molecular biology? � 42:13:24? When I went to my lab in Paris Rosalind Franklin was already there, so we shared the facilities...
Luzzati, Vittorio
An Interview with Danilo Dolci
nuvole ed immaginano la bomba atomica. Queste cose devonoHiroshima fosse esplosa una bomba atomica. AN INTERVIEW WITH
Lazazzera, Teresa
Stop/Start: Overview
Stop/Start button highlighted banner graphic: blue bar Stop/Start button highlighted banner graphic: blue bar subbanner graphic: gray bar Overview button highlighted Driving button Braking button subbanner graphic: gray bar OVERVIEW Stop/Start hybrids are not true hybrids since electricity from the battery is not used to propel the vehicle. However, the Stop/Start feature is an important, energy-saving building block used in hybrid vehicles. Stop/Start technology conserves energy by shutting off the gasoline engine when the vehicle is at rest, such as at a traffic light, and automatically re-starting it when the driver pushes the gas pedal to go forward. stage graphic: vertical blue rule Main stage: See through car with battery, engine, and electric starter/generator visible. Car is stopped at an intersection.
Stop/Start: Driving
generator to the gasoline engine to start it. Battery: The battery is used to store energy generated from the gasoline engine or, during regenerative braking, from the...
Interview of Professor Osamu Saito
and quite often took me as a child; because he was busy he would just choose to see one act; there was no seat so I just used to lean on the railing to watch; I don't think that I really enjoyed the experience; modern education is very stressful but when I... I started doing some sort of research, mapping ancient and medieval estates; this was the beginning of my later interest; I didn't much enjoy other lessons so had a lot of spare time; my reading included non-Japanese literature as well 35:42:09 I...
Saito, Osamu
Interview of Dan Brown
at the lower level and I don't enjoy lecturing 45:46:09 When Todd gave me the job Lythgoe left to go to Leeds and I stepped in to become college lecturer in chemistry at King's; this was in 1953; most of my life at the time was spent in the Lab but I did...
Brown, Dan
Interview of Andy Hopper
not to lead from the front 25:01:05 My family: my wife, Alison Smith, her time is just coming with biofuels and how to do it and what does it mean, and GMO organisms and growing things that are appropriate for energy is one of her lines; two children aged...
Hopper, Andy
Interview with John Walker
-organisms, called Cephalosporins which became commercially extremely important and Abraham became immensely wealthy from that and gave a great proportion of his wealth back to Oxford University and Lincoln College, where he was a Fellow; at the time... and was very happy; Hal Dixon and Dan Brown; Aaron Klug and zinc fingers; the Walker motif 12:38:16 Peter Mitchell and his concepts of chemiosmosis dominated the biogenetics field; had been difficult to get established even after his 1978 Nobel Prize; Mitchell...
Walker, John E
Interview of David Parkin
, it was also an emerging study of the Luo 38:06:12 I had been struck by another of Gluckman's methodological pieces of advice that one should not presuppose that migrant communities were affected by their rural, traditional, ethnic backgrounds, that you could... coordinated and managed to play games; first school was the local primary and I stayed there until I went to grammar school in Watford; remember a teacher at the primary called Tommy Tucker who was kind and encouraging; at that time the class size was forty...
Parkin, David
Interview of Keith Thomas
in the road outside; I remember going to the village school when I was four, similar to the one my mother had taught at; it had a board saying how many pupils there were which usually said forty eight or forty six; there were three classes; I remember all... ; at that time people read their essays; nowadays they are handed a reading list with the page reference and even the shelf mark to save them the trouble, although the lists I gave were oral; now it is much more streamlined and it is quite clear what the syllabus...
Thomas, Keith
Interview of Michael Bate
frustrated by a red brick; I must have been four or five at the time; I do have memories going back further but may not be real; one of an air raid, where I would have been less than two, but I do remember being carried down a staircase and my mother telling... films and got free tickets to go to drive ins to see films like 'Last Tango in Paris' and comment on them; the film that made me realize this was something important was 'The Seventh Seal', shortly after which I saw 'Last Year at Marienbad' and I have...
Bate, Michael
Interview with Asen Balikci
deeply affected by the building of an air force base so studied the intense culture contact that had resulted; following summer went further north to study trapping; an artist had been there the previous summer and had taught Eskimos to carve figurines so... , but mainly hunted seals; after studies completed went back to Pelly Bay for a winter; Eskimo lived in igloos; the church was a small stone hut; the priest traded in ammunition, tea, sugar at Easter and Christmas, knives, etc., tobacco 0:27:40 By this time...
Balikci, Asen
Interview with John Coates
then do physics, partly because it had a higher profile; Oliphant had a big accelerator that he had been building at A.N.U.; in my first year found that physics was not so well taught as mathematics and concentrated on the latter from then onwards; very... taken on a college teaching post at Emmanuel and had a heavy lecturing load in the Department; found I did not have time to write down my ideas; in the end I left after three years; my best research student there was Andrew Wiles; Peter Swinnerton...
Coates, John
Interview of Antony Gormley
inside a pneumatic translucent building 36 metres square and 15 metres high; we exposed the cube for four days and then allowed sixty people at a time with the commitment that they would spend four hours in relation to this material; the atmosphere was 95... neighbourhoods of connectivity; what was beautiful was that there was no criteria but was a self-regulating process in which people might be worried where is the art, is that the question, does it matter; what it was was simply an open space in which those...
Gormley, Antony
Analysis and Experiments with a Slow-Start Procedure
Science Conference Proceedings (OSTI)
Slow-start procedures were developed decades ago in order to provide a smoother evolution in numerical simulations performed with three-time-level integration schemes. The advantages of a slow start versus a conventional forward start should ...
Harold Ritchie; Anne-Marie Leduc
ARM - Carlos Sousa Interview (English Version)
DeployementCarlos Sousa Interview (English Version) DeployementCarlos Sousa Interview (English Version) Azores Deployment AMF Home Graciosa Island Home Data Plots and Baseline Instruments Satellite Retrievals Experiment Planning CAP-MBL Proposal Abstract and Related Campaigns Science Questions Science Plan (PDF, 4.4M) Rob Wood Website Outreach Backgrounders English Version (PDF, 363K) Portuguese Version (PDF, 327K) AMF Posters, 2009 English Version Portuguese Version Education Flyers English Version Portuguese Version News Campaign Images Carlos Sousa Interview (English Version) From Graciosa to India. Thanks to the Atmospheric Station. (From Aςoriano Oriental, March 5, 2012) Carlos Sousa works on an instrument at the ARM India site. Carlos Sousa works on an instrument at the ARM India site. To be at the right place at the right time, can change a person's life.
Getting started Getting started Getting started Logging In Users can log into Euclid using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol 2 with the following command: % ssh -l username euclid.nersc.gov When you successfully log in you will land in your $HOME directory. Euclid is a one node system. All jobs that run on Euclid, e.g. compiles, edits, user jobs, etc,. run on the same node. Sample Program Code: Parallel Hello World Although Euclid was not intended for production runs of MPI codes, it is possible to run small MPI codes on it. Open a new file called helloWorld.f90 with a text editor such as emacs or vi. Paste the contents of the below code into the file. program helloWorld implicit none include "mpif.h" integer :: myPE, numProcs, ierr call MPI_INIT(ierr) call MPI_COMM_RANK(MPI_COMM_WORLD, myPE, ierr)
Full Hybrid: Starting
highlighted Low Speed button Cruising button Passing button Braking button Stopped button highlighted Low Speed button Cruising button Passing button Braking button Stopped button STARTING When a full hybrid vehicle is initially started, the battery typically powers all accessories. The gasoline engine only starts if the battery needs to be charged or the accessories require more power than available from the battery. stage graphic: vertical blue rule Main stage: See through car with battery, engine, generator, power split device, and electric motor visible. the car is stopped at an intersection. Main stage: See through car with battery, engine, generator, power split device, and electric motor visible. the car is stopped at an intersection. Battery (highlighted): The battery stores energy generated from the gasoline engine or, during regenerative braking, from the electric motor. Since the battery powers the vehicle at low speeds, it is larger and holds much more energy than batteries used to start conventional vehicles. Main stage: See through car with battery, engine, generator, power split device, and electric motor visible. the car is stopped at an intersection. Main stage: See through car with battery, engine, generator, power split device, and electric motor visible. the car is stopped at an intersection.
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that the story of transportation policy can tell us what transportation, is, does, and might do in the future on transportation field in the U.S., today we'd like to interview you on a few topics on transportation in the West and professional background? Especially how did you get into the transportation field? I have long been interested
Levinson, David M.
START Program | Department of Energy
START Program START Program START Program The Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program is part of the DOE Office of Indian Energy effort to assist in the development of tribal renewable energy projects. Through START, Tribes in the 48 contiguous states and Alaska can apply for and are selected to receive technical assistance from DOE and national laboratory experts to move projects closer to implementation. Learn more about: START 2013 Renewable Energy Project Development Assistance Projects START 2013 Alaska Native Community Energy Planning and Projects START Resources View a map of START Projects Download the START fact sheet Read our new brochure on the START Program and Capacity Building 2012-2013 Success Highlights Download brochures on the five-step tribal project development and
Interview with Andrew C. Kadak
This article is an interview with the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Yankee Atomic Electric Company about a wide variety of aspects of the decommissioning of the Yankee Nuclear Power plant. Included are discussions of political aspects, decommissioning schedules, local impacts, technical issues of decommissioning, personnel management during decommissioning, etc.
Schabes, D. [ed.
Labor Standards Interview Form | Department of Energy
Standards Interview Form Labor Standards Interview Form SF 1445.pdf More Documents & Publications Labor Standards for Construction Chapter 22 - Labor Standards for Construction CRB...
CRB Interview Process | Department of Energy
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Alaska START | Department of Energy
Resources » START Program » Alaska START Resources » START Program » Alaska START Alaska START Led by the DOE Office of Indian Energy, in partnership with the Denali Commission, the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Initiative for Rural Alaska Native Community Energy Planning and Projects will support activities of Alaska Native communities and entities that are focused on community-based energy planning, energy awareness and training programs, and identification and implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency opportunities. Through the START, each Alaska Native community will receive technical assistance focused on community-based energy planning, energy awareness and
Third Interview with Professor Peter Stein - 23 November 2007
Conversations with Professor Peter Gonville Stein Third Interview: Published Scholarly Works Date: 23 November 2007 Between July and November 2007 Professor Stein was interviewed three times at the Squire Law Library in the Faculty of Law... have been a competent politician There is still a lot of mystery about Vacarius#2;. I put forward the theory in this book that he gave lectures in Lincoln because Lincoln was quite near where he was a priest in charge at Southwell in Nottinghamshire#2...
Dingle, Lesley; Bates, Daniel
CRB Interview Guidance | Department of Energy
More Documents & Publications CRB Interview Process Microsoft Word - DRAFT CRB Interview Guidance.doc Audit of Department of Energy's Contractor Salary Increase Funds, CR-B-97-02...
Interview of Sir Brian Pippard
that that was what I wanted to do and have never changed my mind since; in the first year Alec Wood was an amusing teacher; after the war started my teachers and supervisors were terrible, all the good ones had gone to work on radar; I spent most of my third year... of power through something that is brittle which may break down at any moment; helium cooled superconductors have been seriously considered but the criticism of the engineers has always been, if they go wrong you have to heat up the whole system, take...
Pippard, Brian
An interview of Geoffrey Hawthorn
been announced and they were going to set their face against the traditional subjects; they were to start in 1964-5 and I thought that if I did graduate work I could then teach as I wanted to be an academic; in Spring 1962 I had read a profile of Alan... to get more money; meanwhile the load on the staff was terribly heavy; we disagreed about that; also thought that in contrast to Barnes and Goody, Tony wasn't a very liberal character; it still seems to me that Cambridge flourishes because it tolerates...
Hawthorn, Geoffrey
Interview with Dieter Richter | ORNL Neutron Sciences
discusses "common thread" linking unconventional superconducting materials Dec. 2011, Interview by Deborah Counce Douglas Scalapino Professor Emeritus Douglas Scalapino....
Access to recorded interviews: A research agenda
Recorded interviews form a rich basis for scholarly inquiry. Examples include oral histories, community memory projects, and interviews conducted for broadcast media. Emerging technologies offer the potential to radically transform the way in which recorded ... Keywords: Interviews, access technology, oral history, speech indexing, spoken word archives
Franciska De Jong; Douglas W. Oard; Willemijn Heeren; Roeland Ordelman
START Projects | Department of Energy
Projects Projects START Projects The Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program is part of the DOE Office of Indian Energy effort to assist in the development of tribal renewable energy projects. Through START, Tribes in the 48 contiguous states and Alaska apply for and are selected to receive technical assistance from DOE and national laboratory experts to move projects closer to implementation. The Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program is part of the DOE Office of Indian Energy effort to assist in the development of tribal renewable energy projects. Through START, Tribes in the 48 contiguous states and Alaska apply for and are selected to receive technical assistance from DOE and national laboratory experts to move projects closer to implementation
Operations start and shipments begin
problems encountered during the attempts to start up the calutrons. The first shipment of uranium 235 (200 grams of 12% enrichment) from Y-12 in March, 1944, proved that the...
Quantum Espresso Quick Start Introduction
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Bjørnstad, Ottar Nordal
American Solar Challenge Official Starting Lineup American Solar Challenge Official Starting Lineup Starting Team Car # Time 9:00 Kansas State University 28 9:01 University of Minnesota 35 9:02 University of Missouri - Rolla 42 9:03 University of Missouri - Columbia 43 9:04 University of Toronto 11 9:05 University of Waterloo 24 9:06 North Dakota State University 22 9:07 Auburn University 7 9:08 CalSol 254 9:09 Principia College 32 9:10 Queen's University 100 9:11 Western Michigan University 786 9:12 Purdue University 314 9:13 University of Pennsylvania 76 9:14 Iowa State University 9 9:15 Texas A&M University 12 9:16 McGill University 66 9:17 University of Arizona 8 9:18 Stanford University 16 9:19 California Polytechnic State University - SLO 5
DOE Order Self Study Modules - Getting Started
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Getting Started | Y-12 National Security Complex
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Design of the START experiment
SciTech Connect
The START experiment (Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak) is a low-budget device under construction that is specifically intended to investigate MHD behavior at extremely tight aspect ratios (as low as R/a-1.2) as well as the effectiveness of a major radius compression technique to produce high toroidal current in such plasmas. The main components of the START assembly are described along with the mode of operation.
Smith, R.T.C. [UKAEA Fusion, Culham UK; Peng, Yueng Kay Martin [ORNL
Getting Started Videoconferences | Argonne Leadership Computing...
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Better Buildings Neighborhood Program: Getting Started
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NREL: Director's Page - Interviews and Articles
of Let's Talk interviews NREL Director Dr. Dan Arvizu about NREL's role in American energy policy and the challenges facing renewable energy development. Dr. Arvizu also...
Interview of Sir Richard Friend
and leave it switched on all the time so that every coulomb of electricity that came out of that solar cell avoided some fossil fuel generated electricity it would take five years before it would pay back the carbon used to make it and put it on the roof...
Friend, Richard
Interview of Lord Richard Wilson
who was there, and a couple of years older, was John Cleese; he was extremely tall, a good boy, a good cricketer, who showed no signs of the man who emerged in comedy later on; he was a solemn, serious, able prefect; I remember we were all rioting... -super-Mare, so the seeds of 'Fawlty Towers' were no doubt being laid at that time � 22:10:05 I was then sent to Radley because my parents asked the Headmaster where I should go; he suggested Radley and there I went in October 1956; I arrived late because I had...
Wilson, Richard
Consumer bankruptcy: A fresh start
We quantitatively analyze the welfare implications of different consumer bankruptcies rules. We look at a dynamic life cycle model where households face idiosyncratic uncertainty. Bankruptcy rules vary in two dimensions: whether discharge of debt is granted to borrowers on demand (fresh start) and the fraction of income garnished from defaulters. We find that the welfare comparison depends critically upon the nature and magnitude of income and expenses uncertainty.
Igor Livshits; James Macgee; Michele Tertilt
An Interview with Vaughan Merlyn on Management
Vaughan Merlyn, who is a management consultant, researcher, and author, has had as his primary focus for more than three decades now has been the use of information and information technology for business value creation. He was interviewed about software ...
Ubiquity staff
Starting apparatus for internal combustion engines
DOE Patents (OSTI)
This report is a patent description for a system to start an internal combustion engine. Remote starting and starting by hearing impaired persons are addressed. The system monitors the amount of current being drawn by the starter motor to determine when the engine is started. When the engine is started the system automatically deactivates the starter motor. Five figures are included.
Dyches, G.M.; Dudar, A.M.
2005 Getting Started with Epics Videos
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Cold-Start KBP Something from Nothing
... Entity Links. Wikipedia Cold-Start. Cross Language Links. Why is Cold-Start Hard? ... Zoning. Information. Fusion. System Diagram. Corpus. Lorify. ...
Rapid starting methanol reactor system
The invention relates to a methanol-to-hydrogen cracking reactor for use with a fuel cell vehicular power plant. The system is particularly designed for rapid start-up of the catalytic methanol cracking reactor after an extended shut-down period, i.e., after the vehicular fuel cell power plant has been inoperative overnight. Rapid system start-up is accomplished by a combination of direct and indirect heating of the cracking catalyst. Initially, liquid methanol is burned with a stoichiometric or slightly lean air mixture in the combustion chamber of the reactor assembly. The hot combustion gas travels down a flue gas chamber in heat exchange relationship with the catalytic cracking chamber transferring heat across the catalyst chamber wall to heat the catalyst indirectly. The combustion gas is then diverted back through the catalyst bed to heat the catalyst pellets directly. When the cracking reactor temperature reaches operating temperature, methanol combustion is stopped and a hot gas valve is switched to route the flue gas overboard, with methanol being fed directly to the catalytic cracking reactor. Thereafter, the burner operates on excess hydrogen from the fuel cells.
Chludzinski, Paul J. (38 Berkshire St., Swampscott, MA 01907); Dantowitz, Philip (39 Nancy Ave., Peabody, MA 01960); McElroy, James F. (12 Old Cart Rd., Hamilton, MA 01936)
PSNH - Municipal Smart Start Program | Department of Energy
PSNH - Municipal Smart Start Program PSNH - Municipal Smart Start Program PSNH - Municipal Smart Start Program < Back Eligibility Local Government Savings Category Other Maximum Rebate Not specified Program Info State New Hampshire Program Type Utility Loan Program Rebate Amount No up front costs: Payments made over time with the savings obtained from lower energy costs. Provider Public Service of New Hampshire Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH), an electric utility, offers the Smart Start Program to Municipal customers. This program assists municipalities in reducing energy consumption and electric bills at facilities by installing energy-saving measures. Payment for services and products will be made over time with the savings obtained from lower energy costs. Under the Smart Start Program, PSNH pays all of the costs associated
Clean Cities: Starting a Clean Cities Coalition
Coalitions Coalitions Printable Version Share this resource Send a link to Clean Cities: Starting a Clean Cities Coalition to someone by E-mail Share Clean Cities: Starting a Clean Cities Coalition on Facebook Tweet about Clean Cities: Starting a Clean Cities Coalition on Twitter Bookmark Clean Cities: Starting a Clean Cities Coalition on Google Bookmark Clean Cities: Starting a Clean Cities Coalition on Delicious Rank Clean Cities: Starting a Clean Cities Coalition on Digg Find More places to share Clean Cities: Starting a Clean Cities Coalition on AddThis.com... Locations Starting Coalitions Contacts Starting a Clean Cities Coalition Starting a Clean Cities coalition can be a great first step toward reducing petroleum use in your area. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grants official Clean Cities designation to coalitions that exhibit
Interview of Dan McKenzie
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McKenzie, Dan
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Intelius_NYU Cold Start System
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Starting from Quantum Mechanics - Programmaster.org
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Next Generation Ethernet the time to start is now
o NERSC is connected to ESnet @ 10G o LBNL plans to be10G this calendar year o ESnet has several 10G MANs � Thethat�s 26.6 Gb/s in 2002. o ESnet provides several 10Gb/s
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START and Online Education Program Update Webinar | Department of Energy
START and Online Education Program Update Webinar START and Online Education Program Update Webinar START and Online Education Program Update Webinar January 30, 2013 11:00AM MST Webinar The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Tribal Energy Program, and Western Area Power Administration are pleased to continue their sponsorship of the Tribal Renewable Energy Webinar Series. Attend this webinar to get an overview of the START program, activities, and accomplishments, and learn about DOE's new renewable energy education curriculum for Tribes, delivered through a new online training platform. The webinar will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain time. Why You Should Attend Find ways to promote tribal energy sufficiency and foster economic
Stakeholder Engagement and Outreach: Perspectives: Personal Interviews With
Wind Powering America (EERE)
Perspectives: Perspectives: Personal Interviews With Wind Industry Stakeholders, Pioneers, Advocates, and Electric Cooperatives Wind Powering America interviewed various industry stakeholders to show different perspectives of wind energy's value. Wind Powering America also interviewed wind pioneers to examine how they have laid the groundwork for today's U.S. wind energy market. These interviews are one of a kind and provide an insider view of how the wind industry has evolved and is influenced today. Wind Powering America is also interviewing Native Americans to examine their experiences and future plans. Finally, included, are wind power advocate interviews, electric cooperative interviews, and public power pioneer interviews. Public Power Wind Pioneer Interviews Photo of Patricia Bigner and Phil Dougherty
Fast Start Financing | Open Energy Information
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Fast Start Financing Fast Start Financing Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary LAUNCH TOOL Name: Fast Start Financing Agency/Company /Organization: Government of the Netherlands Partner: United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, World Bank Topics: Finance, Market analysis Resource Type: Maps Website: www.faststartfinance.org/home Fast Start Financing Screenshot References: Fast Start Financing [1] Overview "www.faststartfinance.org aims to provide transparency about the amount, direction and use of fast start climate finance, in turn building trust in its delivery and impact. Development of the website was initiated by the government of the Netherlands, with support from the governments of Costa Rica, Colombia,
SWERA/Getting Started | Open Energy Information
Getting Started Getting Started < SWERA Jump to: navigation, search SWERA logo.png Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA) Getting StartedPowered by OpenEI Getting Started Data Sets Analysis Tools About SWERA How to use SWERA Users can start from the SWERA home page to assess renewable energy data available for their country. Begin by clicking on the SWERA icon next to "Getting Started" and then clicking on a geographic location of interest on the map displayed. Clicking a country on the map will present the user with the option to view that country's profile in OpenEI or open the OpenCarto GIS analysis tool, allowing the user to search, visualize and explore the data. The tool provides a legend display for data searching, meta data information, detailed resource information provision at click, temporal
START Alaska Historical Energy Usage Spreadsheet
Energy.gov (U.S. Department of Energy (DOE))
Communities applying for the DOE Office of Indian Energy Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Initiative for Community Energy Planning and Projects Round Two are asked to download...
IMAGINE Officially Starts Commissioning | ORNL Neutron Sciences
The IMAGINE team present for the official start of commissioning. Doug Selby, HFIR instrument coordinator, hands the shutter keys to IMAGINE instrument scientist Flora...
Microsoft Word - DRAFT CRB Interview Guidance.doc
Certification Review Board Interview Guidance Certification Review Board Interview Guidance 1 Background and Scope: The Certification Review Board (CRB) conducts interviews for Level 3 and 4 certification candidates, unless otherwise waived by the CRB (see Appendix C of the March, 2009 PMCDP Certification and Equivalency Guidelines ). These interviews allow aspiring Level 3 and 4 federal project directors to demonstrate verbally their mastery of the requisite leadership expertise, to include the expert management of project resources and accountability for project successes and failures, needed to manage high-dollar, mission-critical DOE projects effectively. Interview Structure and Process: Candidate interviews are conducted after the certification candidate's profile has been provisionally
Solar Industry At Work: Video Interview with Alta Devices' Laila...
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Interview of Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey
steam valve and he came to London to sell it and published a pamphlet describing it; as far as I know the steam valve never did sell but he then decided to start a magazine, which was called 'The Engineer', the first in the world, weekly, and it is still... so to this day; that was the family business through the nineteenth century; his son, also Charles, was a barrister specializing in patent law, and is probably the most interesting and able of the Chadwyck-Healey family of any generation; he went...
Chadwyck-Healey, Charles
WestStart CALSTART | Open Energy Information
WestStart CALSTART WestStart CALSTART Jump to: navigation, search Name WestStart-CALSTART Place Pasadena, California Zip 91106 Product String representation "WestStart-CALST ... nd create jobs." is too long. Coordinates 29.690847°, -95.196308° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":29.690847,"lon":-95.196308,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
Janice�s start at Training & Technology
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The Physics of Tokamak Start-up
Tokamak start-up on present-day devices usually relies on inductively induced voltage from a central solenoid. In some cases inductive startup is assisted with auxiliary power from electron cyclotron radio frequency heating. ITER, the National Spherical Torus eXperiment Upgrade and JT60, now under construction, will make use of the understanding gained from present-day devices to ensure successful start-up. Design of a spherical tokamak (ST) with DT capability for nuclear component testing would require an alternative to a central solenoid because the small central column in an ST has insufficient space to provide shielding for the insulators in the solenoid. Alternative start-up techniques such as induction using outer poloidal field coils, electron Bernstein wave start-up, coaxial helicity injection and point source helicity injection have been used with success, but require demonstration of scaling to higher plasma current.
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Spring Forward and Start Saving Money | Department of Energy
Forward and Start Saving Money Forward and Start Saving Money Spring Forward and Start Saving Money March 8, 2013 - 10:15am Addthis Installing blinds or draperies can help you save on cooling costs during the summer months. | Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/powershot Installing blinds or draperies can help you save on cooling costs during the summer months. | Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/powershot Jason Lutterman Communications Specialist, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy How can I participate? Follow these spring tips to save money in your home. March has begun, and as millions around the world prepare to "spring forward" one hour for Daylight Saving Time on March 10th, you might consider this as an opportunity to also save some money to use in the
DART's (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) LNG Bus Fleet Start-Up Experience (Alternative Fuel Transit Buses Brochure)
This report, based on interviews and site visits conducted in October 1999, describes the start-up activities of the DART liquefied natural gas program, identifying problem areas, highlighting successes, and capturing the lessons learned in DART's ongoing efforts to remain at the forefront of the transit industry.
CleanStart | Open Energy Information
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Property:StartYear | Open Energy Information
StartYear StartYear Jump to: navigation, search This is a property of type Date. The allowed values for this property are: 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 Subproperties This property has the following 1 subproperty: M Morocco-NREL Energy Activities Pages using the property "StartYear" Showing 25 pages using this property. (previous 25) (next 25) A ASEAN-GIZ Regional Environmentally Sustainable Cities Programme - RESCP + 2007 + Afghanistan-NREL Mission + 2009 + Africa - CCS capacity building + 2010 + Algeria-DLR Resource Assessments + 2007 + Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate + 2006 + B Bangladesh-DLR Resource Assessments + 2001 + Bangladesh-GTZ Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Programme + 2007 +
It Starts with Science... | Department of Energy
It Starts with Science... It Starts with Science... It Starts with Science... Addthis Description Secretary Chu sits down with a journalism student at Carnegie Mellon's Education City campus in Qatar to discuss the value of science in education and what attracted him to the study of Physics. Speakers Secretary Steven Chu, Thouria Mahmoud Duration 3:09 Topic Science Education Energy Economy Credit Energy Department Video THOURIA MAHMOUD: And I'm a student in Northwestern in Qatar, a sophomore in journalism. And now we're in Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, and I'm talking to Mr. Secretary. If you had any advice for students who are, like, looking forward to pursue any science major, what would you tell them? SECRETARY OF ENERGY STEVEN CHU: In universities they call a liberal arts
NREL: Wind Research - New England Interview: Stephan Wollenburg...
Interview: Stephan Wollenburg, Green Energy Program Director of Energy Consumers Alliance of New England January 14, 2013 The Energy Consumers Alliance of New England (ECANE)...
Segment of Smithsonian Video history interview - December 1987
1 In 1987, Stanley Goldberg, consulting historian for the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History conducted interviews in the Kennedy Maxwell Productions Studio located...
Employee Exit Interviews--An Important But Frequently Overlooked ...
... and efficiently administered exit interview program can go a long way toward ... If the employer has agreed to waive its rights in any invention and no prior�...
Kansas refinery starts up coke gasification unit
Texaco Refining and Marketing Inc. has started up a gasification unit at its El Dorado, Kan., refinery. The unit gasifies delayed coke and other refinery waste products. This is the first refinery to install a coke-fueled gasification unit for power generation. Start-up of the $80-million gasification-based power plant was completed in mid-June. The gasifier produces syngas which, along with natural gas, fuels a combustion turbine. The turbine produces virtually 100% of the refinery`s electricity needs and enough heat to generate 40% of its steam requirements.
Rhodes, A.K.
Interview of Professor Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
research was using newspapers in the public library; I then became a waitress at a Chinese restaurant to be able to talk with local Chinese and also spent a lot of time in the Detroit Public Cemetery; the Chinese could not bear the thought of just being...
Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
Herbert R. Grosch interview: August 24, 1970
Discusses some general intellectual influences. Comments on his work for and with Dr. Alan Maxwell at the University of Michigan and his time spent at Harvard University. In 1941, Grosch joined the staff at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC ...
Richard R. Mertz
Starting From Total Shutdown Initial Position
) and exposed to atmospheric pressure will destroy pump oil. #12;#12;Starting From Total Shutdown Initial Position: · Roughing pump: OFF · Forepump: OFF · Diff. pump-Vent to CENTER position. 5. Open Accumulator Valve 6. Turn on diffusion pump. Repeller light should go on
McCombe, Bruce D.
Property:StartDate | Open Energy Information
StartDate" StartDate" Showing 25 pages using this property. (previous 25) (next 25) 4 4-County Electric Power Assn (Mississippi) EIA Revenue and Sales - April 2008 + 1 April 2008 + 4-County Electric Power Assn (Mississippi) EIA Revenue and Sales - August 2008 + 1 August 2008 + 4-County Electric Power Assn (Mississippi) EIA Revenue and Sales - December 2008 + 1 December 2008 + 4-County Electric Power Assn (Mississippi) EIA Revenue and Sales - February 2008 + 1 February 2008 + 4-County Electric Power Assn (Mississippi) EIA Revenue and Sales - February 2009 + 1 February 2009 + 4-County Electric Power Assn (Mississippi) EIA Revenue and Sales - January 2008 + 1 January 2008 + 4-County Electric Power Assn (Mississippi) EIA Revenue and Sales - January 2009 + 1 January 2009 +
Getting Started: What to Ask the Developer
GETTING STARTED: WHAT TO ASK THE DEVELOPER? GETTING STARTED: WHAT TO ASK THE DEVELOPER? Below is a list of preliminary questions to think about when approached by a developer or technology representative for developing clean energy resources on tribal lands. For more assistance, contact the DOE Office of Indian Energy at firstname.lastname@example.com. Resources: * Which resources have been identified as being available? * What data was used to identify the resources? * Has the development of all available resources been evaluated separately as well as optimally combined with others? * What is the effective resource capacity? Development: * What is the proposed scale (MW capacity) for the project? * How will construction be accomplished? * How long will development and construction to commercial operation date (COD) take?
ANS President interviewed at the Argonne Booth during the Nuclear
Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity - Stop-Start Vehicles
Stop-Start Vehicles Stop-start Vehicles allow the internal combustion engine to shut-down when the vehicle stops in traffic, and re-start quickly to launch the vehicle. Fuel is...
Partial oxidation for improved cold starts in alcohol-fueled engines: Phase 2 topical report
DOE Green Energy (OSTI)
Alcohol fuels exhibit poor cold-start performance because of their low volatility. Neat alcohol engines become difficult, if not impossible, to start at temperatures close to or below freezing. Improvements in the cold-start performance (both time to start and emissions) are essential to capture the full benefits of alcohols as an alternative transportation fuel. The objective of this project was to develop a neat alcohol partial oxidation (POX) reforming technology to improve an alcohol engine`s ability to start at low temperatures (as low as {minus}30 C) and to reduce its cold-start emissions. The project emphasis was on fuel-grade ethanol (E95) but the technology can be easily extended to other alcohol fuels. Ultimately a compact, on-vehicle, ethanol POX reactor was developed as a fuel system component to produce a hydrogen-rich, fuel-gas mixture for cold starts. The POX reactor is an easily controllable combustion device that allows flexibility during engine startup even in the most extreme conditions. It is a small device that is mounted directly onto the engine intake manifold. The gaseous fuel products (or reformate) from the POX reactor exit the chamber and enter the intake manifold, either replacing or supplementing the standard ethanol fuel consumed during an engine start. The combustion of the reformate during startup can reduce engine start time and tail-pipe emissions.
Nuclear Engineering Division: interviews on Situation at Japan's nuclear
Interviews on Situation at Japan's Interviews on Situation at Japan's nuclear reactors Welcome Organization Visit Argonne Work with Argonne Contact us For Employees Site Map Help Join us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter NE on Flickr Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Chicago Pile 1 (CP-1) Argonne OutLoud on Nuclear Energy Argonne Energy Showcase 2012 Nuclear Engineering Division: interviews on Situation at Japan's nuclear reactors Bookmark and Share Fukushima Update "Fukushima and Chernobyl: Myth versus Reality" Fukushima and Chernobyl: Myth versus Reality Want to bypass the popular press myths and gain a true understanding of the radiation releases at Fukushima? Watch this video » Several experts from the Nuclear Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory have been interviewed on the situation at Japan's nuclear
Status of the START neutral beam project
A major advantage of spherical tokamaks is their potential for achieving high beta and high plasma density in modest sized plasmas using low magntic field. Given this combination of low field and high density, neutral beam injection can provide effective auxiliary heating for the next generation of spherical tokamaks. A neutral beam injector, shipped recently from Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of an ongoing collaboration on spherical tokamak research, has now been installed onto the START (Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak) experiment at Culham Laboratory. This should provide the first experimental test of neutral injectino into spherical tokamak plasmas, and allow the effects of neutral beam heating on energy confinement and beta values to be assessed at low aspect ratios. This experiment also extends the data base of confinement scaling for tokamaks in general. Modifications to START have included in-situ machining of a new 31 cm diameter port for NBI, plus the installation of a new graphite neutral beam stop equipped with thermocouples to provide beam profile and shinethrough diagnosis. The major modification to the NBI beamline has been the installation of an optical fiber coupled control and instrumentation system. The injector will be operated without cryopumps in a 'volume pumped' configuration, and should provide 0.5 MW of injected hydrogen neutral power at a beam energy of 40 keV for 20 ms pulses. The status of the installation and commissioning program is reported.
Nightingale, M. P. S. [Association EURATOM-CCFE, Abingdon, UK; Peng, Yueng Kay Martin [ORNL
Method and apparatus for starting supersonic compressors
A supersonic gas compressor with bleed gas collectors, and a method of starting the compressor. The compressor includes aerodynamic duct(s) situated for rotary movement in a casing. The aerodynamic duct(s) generate a plurality of oblique shock waves for efficiently compressing a gas at supersonic conditions. A convergent inlet is provided adjacent to a bleed gas collector, and during startup of the compressor, bypass gas is removed from the convergent inlet via the bleed gas collector, to enable supersonic shock stabilization. Once the oblique shocks are stabilized at a selected inlet relative Mach number and pressure ratio, the bleed of bypass gas from the convergent inlet via the bypass gas collectors is effectively eliminated.
Lawlor, Shawn P
Independent to start gas flow in Moldova
A small independent operator hopes to start gas production this year in the eastern European republic of Moldova, which imports all oil and gas, mainly from Russia. Redeco Ltd. LLC, Oklahoma City, is seeking commercial customers in the town of Baimaclia for gas from a planned 5 km sales pipeline from nearby Victorovca field. The company is affiliated with Redexco ltd., Calgary, and Costilla Energy Inc., Midland, Tex. Redeco`s Victorovca 302 workover well in Cantemir County flowed 500 Mcfd of gas in December from 1,976--86 ft in the Miocene Sarmat formation. The well is in the eastern Carpathian basin. Most wells in Victorovca field are 30--45 years old, but Redeco believes it could economically redrill the field. Victorovca field extends about 12 km east-west and 4 km north-south.
Transitioning Kentucky Off Oil: An Interview with Clean Cities Coordinator
Transitioning Kentucky Off Oil: An Interview with Clean Cities Transitioning Kentucky Off Oil: An Interview with Clean Cities Coordinator Melissa Howell Transitioning Kentucky Off Oil: An Interview with Clean Cities Coordinator Melissa Howell June 18, 2013 - 4:12pm Addthis With the help of Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition, Mammoth Cave National Park was the first National Park fleet to use 100 percent alternative fuel. The Global Electric Motorcar (pictured above) is used by park rangers who need to travel between the Mammoth Cave Campground and the Visitor Center area. | Photo courtesy of Victor Peek Photography. With the help of Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition, Mammoth Cave National Park was the first National Park fleet to use 100 percent alternative fuel. The Global Electric Motorcar (pictured above) is used by park rangers who need
TO COMPLETING THE SELF-DIRECTED RBSM TO COMPLETING THE SELF-DIRECTED RBSM INTERVIEW FORM The RBSM Process This guidance package is meant to be a companion piece for the self-directed RBSM Interview Form and describes the basic mechanics of the RBSM process. Examples are provided to clarify the review process and provide the reviewer with some of the rationale behind the questions that are asked. This companion piece does not emulate the exact order of the review process interview form but rather, attempts to address the major pathways that may be followed along the way to selecting a given disposition category. The RBSM review process is outlined in a detailed flow chart which is subdivided into various sections. The first section of the flow chart initially identifies the activity to be evaluated. The remaining sections include a
Better Buildings Neighborhood Program: "Focus Series" Interviews
"Focus Series" "Focus Series" Interviews to someone by E-mail Share Better Buildings Neighborhood Program: "Focus Series" Interviews on Facebook Tweet about Better Buildings Neighborhood Program: "Focus Series" Interviews on Twitter Bookmark Better Buildings Neighborhood Program: "Focus Series" Interviews on Google Bookmark Better Buildings Neighborhood Program: "Focus Series" Interviews on Delicious Rank Better Buildings Neighborhood Program: "Focus Series" Interviews on Digg Find More places to share Better Buildings Neighborhood Program: "Focus Series" Interviews on AddThis.com... Better Buildings Residential Network Progress Stories Interviews Videos Events "Focus Series" Interviews In December 2012, the Better Buildings Neighborhood Program launched the
Where is START? START-supported projects and communities were selected through a competitive applica-
Assistance Response Team (START) Program is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy Policy will be paired with DOE, NREL, and other Alaska-based experts who have clean energy deployment experience a variety of clean energy projects, including energy storage infrastructure, renewable energy deployment
Fourth Interview with Sir Eli Lauterpacht - 20 March 2008
://www.mefacts.com/cached.asp?x_id=11028 #2; See item 29, interview 2. #2; See item 29, interview 2. #2; 1915-2002. Born Aubrey Solomon Meir, Cape Town. Israeli diplomat and politician. Queens� College Cambridge. #2; b. 1937, Leeds. UN Assistant Secretary General for Legal Affairs... , Leeds. UN Assistant Secretary General for Legal Affairs 1998-2005 See: http://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/lectures/2007-08_ralph_zacklin.php 13 See: http://www.20essexst.com/bar/%20j_wood_m/wood_m.htm 14 Taba Tribunal (Egypt/Israel, 1986-1989): G...
Kyrgyzstan starts up its first refinery
The Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan started up its first oil refinery in October 1996. The 10,000 b/d plant is designed to produce gasoline, diesel, and mazut (heavy fuel oil) from local Kyrgyz crude. Before construction of the Jalalabad refinery, all finished petroleum products were imported from neighboring countries. Kyrgyzstan`s demand for finished products is about 40,000 b/d. The new refinery was designed and constructed by Petrofac of Tyler, Texas, on behalf of Kyrgoil Corp., Calgary. Kyrgoil is a partner with the Kyrgyz state oil company, Kyrgyzsneft, in a venture called Kyrzgyz Petroleum Co. (KPC). KPC has undertaken restoration and continued development of the oil fields in Kyrgyzstan`s Fergana basin, in addition to the refinery project. The company also has marketing rights for finished products within Kyrgyzstan. The refinery comprises: a hydroskimming (atmospheric distillation) section, diesel steam stripping, gasoline blending, and utilities and off-sites, including steam generation, power generation, tank farm, truck and rail tank-car loading and unloading facilities, crude inlet pipeline, high-voltage power line, substation, air compression, laboratory, and maintenance facilities.
McLeod, G. [Petrofac LLC, Tyler, TX (United States)
Spring Forward and Start Saving Money Spring Forward and Start Saving Money March 8, 2013 - 10:15am Addthis Installing blinds or draperies can help you save on cooling costs during...
Edison Down for About One Month Starting June 24
Edison Down for About One Month Starting June 24 Edison Down for About One Month Starting June 24 June 4, 2013 by Francesca Verdier (0 Comments) The Edison Phase II system arrives...
Saving Energy and Money Starts at Home | Department of Energy
Saving Energy and Money Starts at Home Saving Energy and Money Starts at Home July 28, 2010 - 2:28pm Addthis Kevin Brosnahan What does this mean for me? The first step to getting...
Making Fast Start Finance Work | Open Energy Information
Making Fast Start Finance Work Making Fast Start Finance Work Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary Name: Making Fast Start Finance Work Agency/Company /Organization: European Climate Foundation Sector: Energy Topics: Finance Resource Type: Guide/manual, Training materials Website: www.project-catalyst.info/images/publications/2010-06-07_project_catal Making Fast Start Finance Work Screenshot References: Making Fast Start Finance Work[1] Logo: Making Fast Start Finance Work This paper aims to provide a fact base on the current sources of Fast Start Finance,including size, composition, and intended use, as well as analysis on the Fast Start Finance priorities and the institutional mechanisms needed to ensure that it delivers real impact. "...This paper aims to provide a fact base on the current sources of Fast
Circuit arrangement for starting and operating a gas discharge laser
A circuit arrangement is described for starting and operating a gas discharge laser having a starting phase and an operating phase. It consists of two supply lines for supplying a direct current to the gas discharge laser, a ballast resistor connected in at least one of the supply lines, and circuit means in shunt with the ballast resistor through which a starting current flows during the starting phase of the gas discharge laser.
Bolhuis, P.J.
Dual-Fuel Truck Fleet: Start-Up Experience
Although dual-fuel engine technology has been in development and limited use for several years, it has only recently moved toward full-scale operational capability for heavy-duty truck applications. Unlike a bifuel engine, which has two separate fuel systems that are used one at a time, a dual-fuel engine uses two fuel systems simultaneously. One of California's South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) current programs is a demonstration of dual-fuel engine technology in heavy-duty trucks. These trucks are being studied as part of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) Alternative Fuel Truck Program. This report describes the start-up experience from the program.
New England Wind Forum: Interviews with Wind Industry Stakeholders and
Small Wind Small Wind Large Wind Newsletter Perspectives Events Quick Links to States CT MA ME NH RI VT Bookmark and Share Interviews With Wind Industry Stakeholders and Pioneers in New England The New England Wind Forum will interview different stakeholders actively shaping the wind power landscape in New England and wind pioneers to examine how they have laid the groundwork for today's New England wind energy market. Stephan Wollenburg, Green Energy Program Director of Energy Consumers Alliance of New England January 2013 A Panel of Seven Offer Insight into the Evolving Drivers and Challenges Facing Wind Development in New England June 2011 John Norden, Manager of Renewable Resource Integration, Independent System Operator-New England September 2010 Angus King, Former Governor of Maine and Co-Founder of Independence Wind
An Interview with LANL's International, Space, and Response (ISR) New
An Interview with LANL's International, Space, and Response (ISR) New An Interview with LANL's International, Space, and Response (ISR) New Division Leader Kevin Saeger was appointed Los Alamos National Laboratory International, Space, and Response Division Leader in 2010. Formerly a Decision Applications Division group leader, Saeger has worked at the Laboratory for ten years. Saeger has a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, and master's and doctoral degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. NSS: Your experience has been diverse-aerospace engineering, software design, working at the Pentagon, and leading a LANL risk analysis group to halt terrorism. What attracted you to ISR? ISR is unparalleled in its ability to successfully integrate science, engineering, and technology to deliver custom sensors to the field. ISR has
REQUIREMENTS BASED SURVEILLANCE AND REQUIREMENTS BASED SURVEILLANCE AND MAINTENANCE REVIEW PROCESS INTERVIEW FORM General Information: A. Evaluator:_______________________ Organization:___________________ Ph:_________________ B. Interviewee:_____________________ Organization:____________________ Ph:_________________ C. Activity Name :_____________________________________________________ General/Administrative Support Mission/Facility Support (Circle One) D. Safety Related: _____Yes _____No E. Procedure #: _______________________________________________________ F. Charge Number: _____________________________________________________ G. Frequency for Conducting the Activity: (Circle One) Hourly Shiftly Daily Weekly Bi-weekly Monthly Quarterly Semi-Annually Annually
Sixth Interview with Sir Eli Lauterpacht - 2 April 2008
. It no longer has the allure that it had in those days. Today, international lawyers are much more concerned with, let us say, the environment and climate change and so on. 164. Well now, passing on from the continental international lawyers whom I recall, I... character, namely, Clive Parry20. 14 He was Senior Military War Crimes Prosecutor in the British Occupied Zone of Germany, 1947-49. In 1945 he interviewed Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz. 15 See...
EIA-Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program - Getting Started
Getting Started Getting Started Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program Getting Started Form EIA-1605 may seem daunting at first, even for entities that have reported under the original program. That's why EIA has developed the Getting Started page to help entities take a systematic approach to reporting their emissions and reductions. The Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program suggests that prospective reporters familiarize themselves with the specific requirements for reporting their entity's inventory and reductions by answering the questions embodied in the 10 steps below. In addition, EIA has prepared the interactive Getting Started tool to help reporters determine what parts of Form EIA-1605 they need to complete. Getting Started Tool Getting Started PDF Tables
Berkeley Lab Technology Spawns Successful Start-up Companies | Department
Berkeley Lab Technology Spawns Successful Start-up Companies Berkeley Lab Technology Spawns Successful Start-up Companies Berkeley Lab Technology Spawns Successful Start-up Companies October 25, 2010 - 10:58am Addthis Andy Oare Andy Oare Former New Media Strategist, Office of Public Affairs What are the key facts? Three start-up companies using Berkeley-developed technology have either had highly successful launches or closed major deals in the last several months. Ed. Note cross posted from Berkeley Lab News Center, written by Julie Chao. What do a smart window company, a microbial analysis start-up and waste-heat recovery start-up have in common? They're all located in the San Francisco Bay Area and they're all based on technology developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. What's more, these three start-up companies have either had highly
Start-up control system and vessel for LMFBR
A reflux condensing start-up system comprises a steam generator, a start-up vessel connected parallel to the steam generator, a main steam line connecting steam outlets of the steam generator and start-up vessel to a steam turbine, a condenser connected to an outlet of the turbine and a feedwater return line connected between the condenser and inlets of the steam generator and start-up vessel. The start-up vessel has one or more heaters at the bottom thereof for heating feedwater which is supplied over a start-up line to the start-up vessel. Steam is thus generated to pressurize the steam generator before the steam generator is supplied with a heat transfer medium, for example liquid sodium, in the case of a liquid metal fast breeder reactor. The start-up vessel includes upper and lower bulbs with a smaller diameter mid-section to act as water and steam reservoirs. The start-up vessel can thus be used not only in a start-up operation but as a mixing tank, a water storage tank and a level control at low loads for controlling feedwater flow.
Durrant, Oliver W. (Akron, OH); Kakarala, Chandrasekhara R. (Clinton, OH); Mandel, Sheldon W. (Galesburg, IL)
A reflux condensing start-up system includes a steam generator, a start-up vessel connected parallel to the steam generator, a main steam line connecting steam outlets of the steam generator and start-up vessel to a steam turbine, a condenser connected to an outlet of the turbine and a feedwater return line connected between the condenser and inlets of the steam generator and start-up vessel. The start-up vessel has one or more heaters at the bottom thereof for heating feedwater which is supplied over a start-up line to the start-up vessel. Steam is thus generated to pressurize the steam generator before the steam generator is supplied with a heat transfer medium, for example liquid sodium, in the case of a liquid metal fast breeder reactor. The start-up vessel includes upper and lower bulbs with a smaller diameter mid-section to act as water and steam reservoirs. The start-up vessel can thus be used not only in a start-up operation but as a mixing tank, a water storage tank and a level control at low loads for controlling feedwater flow.
DOE Hydrogen Analysis Repository: Quick Starting Fuel Processors - A
Quick Starting Fuel Processors - A Feasibility Study Quick Starting Fuel Processors - A Feasibility Study Project Summary Full Title: Quick Starting Fuel Processors - A Feasibility Study Project ID: 164 Principal Investigator: Shabbir Ahmed Brief Description: This project studied the feasibility of fast-starting fuel processors to meet DOE goals for on-board fuel processing. Keywords: On-board fuel processor Purpose Study the feasibility of developing fast-starting fuel processors that can meet DOE's targets, investigate designs and strategies capable of meeting the start-up targets, and validate models using experimental and hardware data. Performer Principal Investigator: Shabbir Ahmed Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Address: 9700 South Cass Ave Argonne, IL 60439 Telephone: 630-252-4553
Property:Incentive/StartDateString | Open Energy Information
StartDateString StartDateString Jump to: navigation, search Property Name Incentive/StartDateString Property Type String Description Start Date string property. Use this property in queries until the Property:Incentive/StartDate property is populated with valid dates only. Currently, some are populated with additional notes included. Pages using the property "Incentive/StartDateString" Showing 25 pages using this property. (previous 25) (next 25) 3 30% Business Tax Credit for Solar (Vermont) + 01/01/2009 + A AEP Appalachian Power - Commercial and Industrial Rebate Programs (West Virginia) + 3/11/2011 + AEP Appalachian Power - Residential Home Retrofit Program (West Virginia) + 3/11/2011 + AEP Ohio - Commercial Self Direct Rebate Program (Ohio) + 1/1/2008 +
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[Interview]: Alexandre Shvartsburg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Q1. What are your main research activities in ion mobility mass spectrometry (past or present)? My early efforts focused on the structural characterization of atomic (carbon and semiconductor) clusters. After the production of bulk fullerenes, many hoped that other nanoclusters discovered in the gas phase could also coalesce into new materials. As these studies required accurate and robust mobility calculations for any ion geometry, I strived to build the needed theory and implement it in the Mobcal software widely employed today. Since 2004, I have been developing methods and novel applications of differential IMS (FAIMS) at PNNL. The principal achievement has been raising the resolving power by over tenfold (up to ~400 for multiply-charged peptides) using elevated fields, helium and hydrogen-rich buffers, and extended filtering times. This performance broadly allows previously unthinkable separations of very similar species, for example sequence inversions and post-translational modification localization isomers of peptides (including �middle-down� peptides such as histone tails), lipid regioisomers, and even isotopomers. Another major direction is investigating the dipole alignment of larger proteins, which creates an exceptionally strong FAIMS effect that is a potential tool for structural biology. Q2: What have been the most significant instrumentation or applications developments in the history of ion mobility - mass spectrometry? In 1995 when I started graduate research at Northwestern, only two groups worldwide worked with IMS/MS and �the literature� meant papers by Bowers (UCSB). Well-wishers counseled me to �learn something useful like HPLC, as IMS would never have real utility�. This booklet showcases the scale of change since. First, the practical IMS/ToF platforms for complex biological analyses demonstrated by Clemmer have turned IMS/MS from an esoteric physical chemistry technique into a powerful analytical tool. By commercializing the IMS/ToF technology in Synapt instruments, Waters has greatly increased its impact via expanded number and diversity of applications. Concurrently, Guevremont at Canadian NRC has perfected FAIMS coupled to MS, deployed it for real-world bio and environmental analyses, and widely distributed it in the Ionalytics Selectra system (subsequently installed on Thermo MS platforms). The latest breakthrough is ultra-FAIMS by Owlstone, where extreme fields allow numerous qualitatively new separations and operational modes that we just begin to explore. Q3: Where do you see ion mobility - mass spectrometry making the most impact in the next 5 years? Any predictions for where the field will go? Sciences dealing with perturbations in media (such as optics or acoustics) at some point shift from the linear to nonlinear paradigm, where propagation depends on the magnitude of perturbation or its driving force. While the linear part remains industrially important (e.g., eyewear and architectural glass for optics), frontline research moves to nonlinear phenomena. IMS is undergoing that transition now with the rise of FAIMS, which should continue as the fundamental understanding improves, new modalities and applications emerge, and more instrumentation is introduced by vendors. Modifying and augmenting FAIMS separations through vapor dopants that render ion mobilities less linear is becoming routine. I expect this area to advance, extending to more specific interactions and to complexation with solution additives. Another route to higher separation power is integrating FAIMS with conventional IMS; proliferation of both technologies would make such 2-D platforms common. Along with mass spectrometry and conventional IMS, FAIMS will address increasingly large macromolecules, including proteins and their complexes.
Shvartsburg, Alexandre A.
Property:Incentive/StartDate | Open Energy Information
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Mode of interview and reporting of sensitive issues: Design and implementation of audio computer-assisted self-interviewing. NIDA Research Monograph 167:366�82
Substantial underreporting is typical in interviewing respondents on their drug use and other sensitive behaviors. This chapter reviews established strategies, self-administered questionnaires and indirect questioning techniques, for increasing the willingness of respondents to report stigmatizing behaviors. While these methods improve reporting, each has shortcomings and burdens which limit their effectiveness. A new computer-based self-interviewing approach which incorporates recorded audio playback of questions offers improved self-administered interviewing. The chapter discusses this technology, audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI), describing its features and positive results from the early research tests of the method.
Judith T. Lessler; James M. O�reilly
An interview on the life and work of John Gurdon
and I warmed to him; he offered me a place in his group; that was probably one of the most important steps in my career; he put me onto a rather dull project which I didn't thrive on; then he suggested I try a new thing called nuclear transfer... could have taken an enormously prestigious job anywhere else in the world; Max somehow kept the whole lot going and I've never really understood how he did it; when we in due course came to start our own institute we set ourselves up with a chairman...
Gurdon, John
Lessons learned from an installation perspective for chemical demilitarization plant start-up at four operating incineration sites.
This study presents the lessons learned by chemical storage installations as they prepared for the start of chemical demilitarization plant operations at the four current chemical incinerator sites in Alabama, Arkansas, Oregon, and Utah. The study included interviews with persons associated with the process and collection of available documents prepared at each site. The goal was to provide useful information for the chemical weapons storage sites in Colorado and Kentucky that will be going through plant start-up in the next few years. The study is not a compendium of what to do and what not to do. The information has been categorized into ten lessons learned; each is discussed individually. Documents that may be useful to the Colorado and Kentucky sites are included in the appendices. This study should be used as a basis for planning and training.
Motz, L.; Decision and Information Sciences
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GRR/GRR Getting Started | Open Energy Information
GRR Getting Started GRR Getting Started < GRR Jump to: navigation, search GRR-logo.png GEOTHERMAL REGULATORY ROADMAP Roadmap Home Roadmap Help List of Sections Print PDF Getting Started with the Roadmap The Geothermal Regulatory Roadmap has 3 main parts: Flowcharts, Narratives, and Reference Materials, described in more detail below. GRR Product Overview For more information, watch the GRR Product Overview (Video) (approximate length: 10 minutes), or download the Original PowerPoint Presentation. Contents 1 Getting Started with the Roadmap 1.1 1. Flowcharts 1.1.1 Flowchart Shapes 1.1.2 Flowchart Colors 1.1.3 Flowchart Features 1.1.4 Element Features 1.1.5 Example 1.2 2. Narratives 1.3 3. Reference Material 1.4 Did we miss a permit? 1.5 Does content need updating? 1.6 Are you an agency with regulatory authority over a required permit?
Help:Starting a new page | Open Energy Information
Starting a new page Starting a new page Jump to: navigation, search An example of how to add a company to the Solar Gateway There are several ways to start a new page. These can vary based on the type of page started, as well as the wiki and namespace. The first thing you should do is know which topic area your page falls under. OpenEI has several gateways around specific topics, such as Solar, Wind, and Geothermal. In these Gateways, you'll immediately see forms for adding content. Forms were created to standardize the information you put in, and make it fast and easy to get your content published on OpenEI. For example, in the Solar Gateway, you'll see a map of Solar Energy companies, under which you can add a new company that will add a new page and populate the map. Companies, like many other categories of information
DOE Provides $30 Million to Jump Start Bioenergy Research Centers |
30 Million to Jump Start Bioenergy Research Centers 30 Million to Jump Start Bioenergy Research Centers DOE Provides $30 Million to Jump Start Bioenergy Research Centers October 1, 2007 - 2:49pm Addthis DOE Bioenergy Research Center Investment Tops $400 Million WASHINGTON, DC-The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced it has invested nearly $30 million in end-of-fiscal-year (2007) funds to accelerate the start-up of its three new Bioenergy Research Centers, bringing total DOE Bioenergy Research Center investment to over $400 million. The three DOE Bioenergy Research Centers-located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Madison, Wisconsin; and near Berkeley, California-selected by DOE this June, bring together multidisciplinary teams of leading scientists to advance research needed to make cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels
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Clean Start/McClellan Technology Incubator | Open Energy Information
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Science on Saturday starts Jan. 11 | Princeton Plasma Physics...
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Getting Started at ALCF | Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
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START Program for Renewable Energy Project Development Assistance |
Program for Renewable Energy Program for Renewable Energy Project Development Assistance START Program for Renewable Energy Project Development Assistance The Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program is part of the DOE Office of Indian Energy effort to assist in the development of tribal renewable energy projects. Through the START Program for Renewable Energy Project Development Assistance, a team of DOE and national laboratory experts will work directly with tribal communities to evaluate project financial and technical feasibility, provide on-going training to community members, and help implement a variety of clean energy projects, including energy storage infrastructure, renewable energy deployment, and energy efficiency. The following projects were selected for the 2013 START Renewable Energy
Contact and Stress Anisotropies in Start-Up Flow of Colloidal Suspensions |
Contact and Stress Anisotropies in Start-Up Flow of Colloidal Suspensions Contact and Stress Anisotropies in Start-Up Flow of Colloidal Suspensions Submitted by Anonymous on November 3, 2011 - 12:52 Authors: Martys, N.S., Lootens, D., George, W., and H Spatiotemporal correlations in start-up flows of attractive colloids are explored by numerical simulations as a function of their volume fraction and shear rate. The suspension is first allowed to flocculate during a time tw, then the stress necessary to induce its flow is computed. We find that, at low volume fractions, the stress is a universal function of the strain. On the contrary, at high volume fractions, this scaling behavior is no longer observed and a supplementary stress becomes necessary to induce flow. To better understand the physical origin of the supplementary stress,
Demonstration of Black Start Ancillary Service Certification Testing
This is a discussion of Black Start Tests conducted in April 1999 which then served as a demonstration project for certification of black start capability. This work is a companion effort of the EPRI Measurement of Ancillary Services from Power Plants project. Several of the summary, introductory and background paragraphs of the final report (Ref.1) for that project are reproduced here as a convenience to the reader.
Rapid self-start of polymer electrolyte fuel cells from sub-freezing temperatures.
Polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) systems for light-duty vehicles must be able to start unassisted and rapidly from temperatures below -20 degrees C. Managing buildup of ice within the porous cathode catalyst and electrode structure is the key to self-starting a PEFC stack from subfreezing temperatures. The stack temperature must be raised above the melting point of ice before the ice completely covers the cathode catalyst and shuts down the electrochemical reaction. For rapid and robust self-start it is desirable to operate the stack near the short-circuit conditions. This mode of operation maximizes hydrogen utilization, favors production of waste heat that is absorbed by the stack, and delays complete loss of effective electrochemical surface area by causing a large fraction of the ice to form in the gas diffusion layer rather than in the cathode catalyst layer. Preheating the feed gases, using the power generated to electrically heat the stack, and operating pressures have only small effect on the ability to self-start or the startup time. In subfreezing weather, the stack shut-down protocol should include flowing ambient air through the hot cathode passages to vaporize liquid water remaining in the cathode catalyst. Self-start is faster and more robust if the bipolar plates are made from metal rather than graphite.
Ahluwalia, R. K.; Wang, X.; Nuclear Engineering Division
Noncommutative Two Time Physics
We present a classical formalism describing two-time physics with Abelian canonical gauge field backgrounds. The formalism can be used as a starting point for the construction of an interacting quantized two-time physics theory in a noncommutative soace-time.
W. Chagas-Filho
Widget:ExpandableTextStart | Open Energy Information
ExpandableTextStart ExpandableTextStart Jump to: navigation, search This widget allows text to start hidden then expand and re-hide when clicked. Users will see "....[read more]" when hidden and "[show less]" when expanded. (configurable in Widget:ExpandableTextEnd) This widget does not allow any parameters. Users of this widget must use the Start and End variants of the widget, as shown below. While slightly less convenient for the wiki content developer to use two widgets, this allows full wikitext in the expandable text area, which would otherwise just be limited to plaintext. Usage: Be what you would seem to be - or if you'd like it put more simply {{#Widget:ExpandableTextStart}}- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) from '''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.'''
EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! An Interview with Future Schlock
each other (it was a very esoteric interest at the time);to be an archive of the esoteric and ephemeral and I think
Scheible, Jeff
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ExpandableBoxStart ExpandableBoxStart Jump to: navigation, search The widget creates an expandable text box which can contain any standard wiki content. The box will be collapsed upon page load and can be expanded by clicking anywhere on the box. Once expanded, the box can be collapsed by clicking anywhere on the box header (the original box). Users of this widget must use the Start and End variants of the widget, as shown below. While slightly less convenient for the wiki content developer to use two widgets, this allows full wikitext in the expandable text area, which would otherwise just be limited to plaintext. Note: You must also use the accompanying variant of this widget: Widget:ExpandableBoxEnd Parameters label - text label of the box header (optional, default "More
Apps for Energy Public Voting Starts Today! | Department of Energy
Apps for Energy Public Voting Starts Today! Apps for Energy Public Voting Starts Today! Apps for Energy Public Voting Starts Today! May 17, 2012 - 3:53pm Addthis The Energy Department's digital team tested out Apps for Energy submissions in preparation for public voting. | Photo by Hantz Leger. The Energy Department's digital team tested out Apps for Energy submissions in preparation for public voting. | Photo by Hantz Leger. Erin R. Pierce Erin R. Pierce Digital Communications Specialist, Office of Public Affairs How can I participate? View the Apps for Energy submissions and vote for your favorite! Back in April, we launched Apps for Energy -- challenging developers to build mobile and web applications that bring Green Button electricity data to life. You answered our call -- sending in innovative, creative and fun
Entergy Arkansas - CitySmart Quick Start Energy Efficiency Program |
Entergy Arkansas - CitySmart Quick Start Energy Efficiency Program Entergy Arkansas - CitySmart Quick Start Energy Efficiency Program Entergy Arkansas - CitySmart Quick Start Energy Efficiency Program < Back Eligibility Institutional Local Government Schools Tribal Government Savings Category Heating & Cooling Commercial Heating & Cooling Cooling Other Heat Pumps Appliances & Electronics Commercial Lighting Lighting Manufacturing Program Info State Arkansas Program Type Utility Rebate Program Rebate Amount One Measure: $0.10/kWh saved in first year Two Measures: $0.11/kWh saved in first year Three Measures: $0.12/kWh saved in first year Comprehensive Measures (4 +): $0.14/kWh saved in first year Benchmarking/Master Planning: Free to eligible customers Provider Entergy Arkansas, Inc. The CitySmart Program is an energy efficiency program designed to provide
Department of Energy Announces Start of Western Area Power Administration
Start of Western Area Power Start of Western Area Power Administration Recovery Act Project Department of Energy Announces Start of Western Area Power Administration Recovery Act Project September 16, 2009 - 12:00am Addthis WASHINGTON, DC - With the goal of bringing new jobs and green power to the West, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today a large-scale transmission project to be financed using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Western Area Power Administration will use borrowing authority under the Recovery Act to help build the $213 million Montana-Alberta Tie Limited (MATL) transmission project between Great Falls, Montana, and Lethbridge, Alberta. Almost two-thirds of the 214-mile transmission line will be located on U.S. soil, creating American
Environmental Justice Starts with Education | Department of Energy
Environmental Justice Starts with Education Environmental Justice Starts with Education Environmental Justice Starts with Education December 15, 2010 - 4:50pm Addthis Bill Valdez Bill Valdez Principal Deputy Director Today, Obama Administration officials and hundreds of advocates of environmental justice gathered at the White House Summit on Environmental Justice to discuss green jobs and clean energy, and open up a dialogue on these and other issues. We owe these advocates a big thank you for their work to make sure every American has clean water to drink, clean air to breathe, and clean communities to live in. The office of Economic Impact and Diversity is helping coordinate the Department's efforts to promote environmental justice both internally and with communities. Community education is one of the most important parts of what we do at the
Money Starts at Home Money Starts at Home Saving Energy and Money Starts at Home July 28, 2010 - 2:28pm Addthis Kevin Brosnahan What does this mean for me? The first step to getting your home drastically more energy efficient is by getting a professionally conducted home energy audit. Energysavers.gov has tons of facts on keeping your home energy efficient. Every year, the typical U.S. family spends about $1,900 on home utility bills. Unfortunately, a large portion of that energy is wasted - and subsequently, families are spending their hard-earned dollars on that wasted energy. For many low-income Americans, these energy bills absorb quite a significant amount of family income. The good news is that there are easy, no-cost or low-cost projects that you can do in one day to save energy and money at home. One of the best
scriptEnv - loading modules before starting a script
scriptEnv - loading modules before starting a script scriptEnv - loading modules before starting a script scriptEnv - loading modules before starting a script In some cases a script needs to load modules before the script can be executed, but it can often be inconvenient or impossible to provide wrapper scripts which load the needed modules. CGI scripts on the gpweb resources or in the NERSC portal environment which require the genepool-specific python/perl/R or databases configuration modules are a strong example of this. NERSC provides the scriptEnv as a custom drop-in replacement for /usr/bin/env. scriptEnv loads your selected modules to allow your scripts to run easily and reproducibly. After constructing your scriptEnv, you only need replace the shebang line of your script to use your custom scriptEnv
Testimony Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, New START Treaty
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, New START Treaty Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, New START Treaty Hearing | National Nuclear Security Administration Our Mission Managing the Stockpile Preventing Proliferation Powering the Nuclear Navy Emergency Response Recapitalizing Our Infrastructure Continuing Management Reform Countering Nuclear Terrorism About Us Our Programs Our History Who We Are Our Leadership Our Locations Budget Our Operations Media Room Congressional Testimony Fact Sheets Newsletters Press Releases Speeches Events Social Media Video Gallery Photo Gallery NNSA Archive Federal Employment Apply for Our Jobs Our Jobs Working at NNSA Blog Home > Media Room > Congressional Testimony > Testimony Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, ... Congressional Testimony Testimony Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, New START Treaty
Modeling and cold start in alcohol-fueled engines
Neat alcohol fuels offer several benefits over conventional gasoline in automotive applications. However, their low vapor pressure and high heat of vaporization make it difficult to produce a flammable vapor composition from a neat alcohol fuel during a start under cold ambient conditions. Various methods have been introduced to compensate for this deficiency. In this study, the authors applied computer modeling and simulation to evaluate the potential of four cold-start technologies for engines fueled by near-neat alcohol. The four technologies were a rich combustor device, a partial oxidation reactor, a catalytic reformer, and an enhanced ignition system. The authors ranked the competing technologies by their ability to meet two primary criteria for cold starting an engine at {minus}25 deg C and also by several secondary parameters related to commercialization. Their analysis results suggest that of the four technologies evaluated, the enhanced ignition system is the best option for further development.
Markel, A.J.; Bailey, B.K.
STARTING TODAY: Bloomberg, Daniels, Musk, Pickens, Chu and Energy Leaders
STARTING TODAY: Bloomberg, Daniels, Musk, Pickens, Chu and Energy STARTING TODAY: Bloomberg, Daniels, Musk, Pickens, Chu and Energy Leaders Headline 3-Day ARPA-E Summit STARTING TODAY: Bloomberg, Daniels, Musk, Pickens, Chu and Energy Leaders Headline 3-Day ARPA-E Summit February 25, 2013 - 1:59pm Addthis NEWS MEDIA CONTACT (202) 586-4940 Follow @energy on Twitter for live coverage of the ARPA-E Summit. Check the energy.gov blog for daily wrapups and photo galleries. WASHINGTON - Building on the President's call in his State of the Union address to further American energy independence through innovation, key thought leaders from academia, business, and government will come together next week to discuss cutting-edge energy issues at the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy's (ARPA-E) fourth annual Energy Innovation
Motor Starting Module (MSM V2.0)
MSM 2.0 allows evaluation of the potential Power Quality impacts (voltage drop and resultant flicker) of motor starting operations on the surrounding system. The developed module is an improvement on the Motor starting module of Power Quality Diagnostic System (PQDS) software that was developed earlier by EPRI. The user-friendly module has been developed on an EMTP-RV platform and serves to overcome the rigidity of the single line structure of the PQDS version. Customer will need to install a licensed co...
Impingement starting and power boosting of small gas turbines
The technology of high-pressure air or hot-gas impingement from stationary shroud supplementary nozzles onto radial outflow compressors and radial inflow turbines to permit rapid gas turbine starting or power boosting is discussed. Data are presented on the equivalent turbine component performance for convergent/divergent shroud impingement nozzles, which reveal the sensitivity of nozzle velocity coefficient with Mach number and turbine efficiency with impingement nozzle admission arc. Compressor and turbine matching is addressed in the transient turbine start mode with the possibility of operating these components in braking or reverse flow regimes when impingement flow rates exceed design.
Rodgers, C.
Guidance to Completing the Self-Directed RBSM Interview Form | Department
Guidance to Completing the Self-Directed RBSM Interview Form Guidance to Completing the Self-Directed RBSM Interview Form Guidance to Completing the Self-Directed RBSM Interview Form This guidance package is meant to be a companion piece for the self-directed RBSM Interview Form and describes the basic mechanics of the RBSM process. Examples are provided to clarify the review process and provide the reviewer with some of the rationale behind the questions that are asked. This companion piece does not emulate the exact order of the review process interview form but rather, attempts to address the major pathways that may be followed along the way to selecting a given disposition category. Guidance to Completing the Self-Directed RBSM Interview Form More Documents & Publications Surveillance & Maintenance: The Requirements Based Surveillance and
CHRISTOPHNIEMANN A new wave of start-ups
CHRISTOPHNIEMANN 20 INNOVATION A new wave of start-ups wants to install rooftop solar panels. Installing a rooftop ar- ray of solar panels large enough to produce all of the energy required by a building a pool of cash to pay for the solar panels. Directly or indirectly, homeowners buy the electricity
Kammen, Daniel M.
What does it take to start a biodiesel industry?
Learn how Jatropha is being used to make biodiesel in Haiti, and how this effort is helping people in that country build an economy literally from the ground up. What does it take to start a biodiesel industry? Publications aocs articles book book
Eleven Tribes Jump START Clean Energy Projects, Summer 2012 (Newsletter)
This newsletter describes key activities of the DOE Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs for Summer 2012. The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (DOE-IE) has selected 11 Tribes - five in Alaska and six in the contiguous United States - to receive on-the-ground technical support for community-based energy efficiency and renewable energy projects as part of DOE-IE's Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program. START finalists were selected based on the clarity of their requests for technical assistance and the ability of START to successfully work with their projects or community. Technical experts from DOE and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will work directly with community-based project teams to analyze local energy issues and assist the Tribes in moving their projects forward. In Alaska, the effort will be bolstered by DOE-IE's partnership with the Denali Commission, which will provide additional assistance and expertise, as well as funding to fuel the Alaska START initiative.
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Starting laminar plumes: Comparison of laboratory and numerical modeling
, F-91405 Orsay, France Peter E. van Keken Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1005, USA (email@example.com) Angela Limare Institut de Physique du Globe, UMR. In the laboratory experiments the plumes are started in a nearly isoviscous silicone oil with heat supplied through
van Keken, Peter
Automated start-up of EBR-II: A preview
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) are undertaking a joint project to develop control philosophies, strategies, and algorithms for computer control of the start-up mode of the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II). The major objective of this project is to show that advanced liquid-metal reactor (LMR) plants can be operated from low power to full power using computer control. Development of an automated control system with this objective in view will help resolve specific issues and provide proof through demonstration that automatic control for plant start-up is feasible. This paper describes the approach that will be used to develop such a system and some of the features it is expected to have. Structured, rule-based methods, which will provide start-up capability from a variety of initial plant conditions and degrees of equipment operability, will be used for accomplishing mode changes during plant start-up. Several innovative features will be incorporated such as signal, command, and strategy validation to maximize reliability, flexibility to accommodate a wide range of plant conditions, and overall utility. Continuous control design will utilize figures of merit to evaluate how well the controller meets the mission requirements. The operator interface will have unique ''look ahead'' features to let the operator see what will happen next. 15 refs., 7 figs., 1 tab.
Kisner, R.A.
FYI on where to start: A bibliography of internetworking information
The intent of this bibliography is to offer a representative collection of resources of information that will help the reader become familiar with the concepts of internetworking. It is meant to be a starting place for further research. There are references ...
K. L. Bowers; T. L. LaQuey; J. K. Reynolds; K. Roubicek; M. K. Stahl; A. Yuan
Health Profile of California's Adolescents: Findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey
HEALTH PROFILE OF CALIFORNIA�S ADOLESCENTS: FINDINGSFROM THE 2001 CALIFORNIA HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY UCLA CenterPopulation: U.S. and California, 2000 Exhibit 2. Adolescent
The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey
SUITE 300 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024 PHONE: (310) 794-Health Insurance California in Findingsfrom the 2003 California Health Interview Survey The State
Brown, E. Richard; Lavarreda, Shana Alex; Rice, Thomas; Kincheloe, Jennifer R.; al., et
Diabetes in California: Findings from the 2001 California Health Interview Study
Diamant, Allison L.; Babey, Susan H.; Brown, E. Richard R; Chawla, Neetu
The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey
Suite 1550 Los Angeles, California 90024 Phone: 310.794.0909State of Health Insurance in California August 2009 Findingsfrom the 2007 California Health Interview Survey E. Richard
Brown, Richard E.; Kronick, Richard; Kincheloe, Jennifer R.; Lavarreda, Shana Alex; Peckham, Erin
The State of Health Insurance in California: Findings from the 2005 California Health Interview Study
THE STATE OF HEALTH INSURANCE IN CALIFORNIA FINDINGS FROMTHE 2005 CALIFORNIA HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY JULY 2007 E.by grants from The California Endowment and The California
Brown, E. Richard; Lavarreda, Shana Alex; Ponce, Ninez; Yoon, Jean; al., et
First Interview with Professor Peter Stein - 5 July 2007
. 16. It�s very interesting. So where were you posted? I finished the course just about the time that the war ended and the dropping of the atom bombs at Hiroshima. 17. Did you see active service? No. 18. And you finished your service in 1947... put in to Romaji, which is Roman letters. 16. It?s very interesting. So where were you posted? I finished the course just about the time that the war ended and the dropping of the atom bombs at Hiroshima. 17. Did you see active service...
New Jersey SmartStart Buildings - New Construction and Retrofits |
You are here You are here Home » New Jersey SmartStart Buildings - New Construction and Retrofits New Jersey SmartStart Buildings - New Construction and Retrofits < Back Eligibility Commercial Fed. Government Industrial Institutional Local Government Nonprofit Schools State Government Savings Category Heating & Cooling Commercial Heating & Cooling Heating Cooling Manufacturing Other Construction Heat Pumps Appliances & Electronics Commercial Lighting Lighting Water Heating Maximum Rebate General: incentives may be limited to $500,000 per utility account per year. Custom Measures: limited to lesser of $0.16/kWh or $1.60/therm saved annually; 50% of total costs; or buydown to a 1-year payback period Program Info Funding Source New Jersey Societal Benefits Charge (public benefits fund)
Green Start-Ups: Opportunities, Technology, and Financing
Green Start-Ups: Opportunities, Technology, and Financing Green Start-Ups: Opportunities, Technology, and Financing Speaker(s): Stephen Lin Date: December 19, 2008 - 12:00pm Location: 90-3122 Seminar Host/Point of Contact: Dale Sartor Please join us for a brown bag lunch to hear about a new green technology and new ways of doing business in Asia, the US and in between. A foreign-invented power efficiency technology will be described and demonstrated. Entrepreneurial plans for its deployment in the US will be described including a pilot with the San Francisco Giants. Besides giving the Giants 5% savings with no upfront cost, the entrepreneurial team hopes to develop a proof-of-concept test case where Securitized Energy Savings (SESs) are created for green and social investors. A brief introduction on carbon credits and Voluntary Emission Reduction credits (VERs) will be
START Site Visit Examines Viability of Tribal Community Solar Project |
START Site Visit Examines Viability of Tribal Community Solar START Site Visit Examines Viability of Tribal Community Solar Project START Site Visit Examines Viability of Tribal Community Solar Project August 21, 2013 - 12:50pm Addthis From left to right: James Jensen, Tom Johnson, Jody Rosier, and Rebecca Kauffman of Southern Ute Alternative Energy, and Otto VanGeet and Alex Dane of NREL, tour a potential solar array site on Southern Ute tribal land in Ignacio, CO. Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL From left to right: James Jensen, Tom Johnson, Jody Rosier, and Rebecca Kauffman of Southern Ute Alternative Energy, and Otto VanGeet and Alex Dane of NREL, tour a potential solar array site on Southern Ute tribal land in Ignacio, CO. Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL NREL's Otto VanGeet (right) shows James Jensen of Southern Ute Alternative Energy how to use a SunEye tool to check solar availability of the site. Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL
Property:Project Start Date | Open Energy Information
Property Name Project Start Date Property Name Project Start Date Property Type String Pages using the property "Project Start Date" Showing 25 pages using this property. (previous 25) (next 25) M MHK Projects/40MW Lewis project + 1/1/2012 + MHK Projects/ADM 3 + 1/1/2010 + MHK Projects/ADM 4 + 1/1/2010 + MHK Projects/ADM 5 + 1/11/2009 + MHK Projects/AW Energy EMEC + 1/1/2004 + MHK Projects/Admirality Inlet Tidal Energy Project + 1/1/2006 + MHK Projects/Agucadoura + 1/1/2008 + MHK Projects/Alaska 1 + 1/1/2007 + MHK Projects/Alaska 13 + 1/1/2008 + MHK Projects/Alaska 17 + 1/1/2007 + MHK Projects/Alaska 18 + 1/1/2008 + MHK Projects/Alaska 24 + 1/1/2007 + MHK Projects/Alaska 25 + 1/1/2007 + MHK Projects/Alaska 28 + 1/1/2007 + MHK Projects/Alaska 31 + 1/1/2007 + MHK Projects/Alaska 33 + 1/1/2007 +
Methanogenic Population Dynamics during Start-Up of Anaerobic Digesters Treating Municipal Solid Waste
Abstract: An aggressive start-up strategy was used to initiate codigestion in two anaerobic, continuously mixed bench-top reactors at mesophilic (37�C) and thermophilic (55�C) conditions. The digesters were inoculated with mesophilic anaerobic sewage sludge and cattle manure and were fed a mixture of simulated municipal solid waste and biosolids in proportions that reflect U.S. production rates. The design organic loading rate was 3.1 kg volatile solids/m 3 /day and the retention time was 20 days. Ribosomal RNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes were used to determine the methanogenic community structure in the inocula and the digesters. Chemical analyses were performed to evaluate digester performance. The aggressive start-up strategy was successful for the thermophilic reactor, despite the use of a
Biosolids; Matt E. Griffin; Katherine D. Mcmahon; Roderick I. Mackie; Lutgarde Raskin
Technical Assistance Program: Off to a Running Start (Newsletter)
This newsletter describes key activities of the DOE Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs for Winter 2012. Between December 2, 2011, and January 15, 2012, 46 American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes submitted applications to receive technical assistance through the program, which provides Tribes with on-the-ground technical support from DOE and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) staff to help move tribal energy efficiency and renewable energy projects forward. The applications are being considered through the Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) selection process, which incorporates expert reviews and outreach to Tribes who present a need for assistance with their community-based energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. The final successful applicants will be selected based on the clarity of their requests for technical assistance and the ability of START to successfully work with each unique project or community. At least three selected Tribes in Alaska will receive technical assistance between March and May 2012, and up to five selected Tribes in the contiguous United States will receive technical assistance between March and August 2012. During the months of START Program activity, DOE and NREL experts will work in the two locations. In Alaska, START experts will work directly with community-based project teams to analyze local energy issues and provide assistance with energy projects and cost savings initiatives. This effort will be bolstered by DOE-IE's partnership with the Denali Commission, which will provide further assistance and expertise. In the lower 48 states, NREL experts will work with the selected renewable energy START projects to evaluate financial and technical feasibility and provide early development technical assistance to better position the projects for financing and construction. This on-the-ground technical assistance is part of a broader DOE-IE effort to make reliable, accurate technical information and skills-based training available to tribal communities throughout the United States. The primary goal of the START initiative, according to DOE-IE Director Tracey A. LeBeau, is to bring about the next generation of energy development in Indian Country. Through energy project planning, quality training, and technical assistance, The START program will leverage the early-stage resource characterization and pre-feasibility investments that DOE has made in Indian Country over the years, and unlock the energy resources that exist on tribal lands to help build a 21st century tribal energy economy. Working collaboratively with a select group of Tribes and Alaska Native entities, the DOE Office of Indian Energy, NREL, and the Denali Commission will empower tribal leaders to make informed energy decisions and help build capacity to bring tribal energy visions to fruition and get renewable energy projects off the ground, said LeBeau. Ultimately, these efforts will serve to further the Obama Administration and DOE's shared commitment to provide Native American and Alaska Native communities with the tools and resources they need to foster tribal energy self-sufficiency and sustainability, advancing job creation and enhancing economic competitiveness.
Cold start characteristics of ethanol as an automobile fuel
An alcohol fuel burner and decomposer in which one stream of fuel is preheated by passing it through an electrically heated conduit to vaporize the fuel, the fuel vapor is mixed with air, the air-fuel mixture is ignited and combusted, and the combustion gases are passed in heat exchange relationship with a conduit carrying a stream of fuel to decompose the fuel forming a fuel stream containing hydrogen gas for starting internal combustion engines, the mass flow of the combustion gas being increased as it flows in heat exchange relationship with the fuel carrying conduit, is disclosed.
Greiner, Leonard (2750-C Segerstrom, Santa Ana, CA 92704)
Environmentally advanced refinery nears start-up in Germany
Mitteldeutsche Erdoel-Raffinerie GmbH (Mider), is building a 170,000 b/d, grassroots refinery in Leuna, Germany. The refinery is scheduled to start up in third quarter of this year. At the heart of the new refinery is a new technology called progressive distillation. Other major units include: vacuum distillation, catalytic reforming, alkylation, visbreaking, fluid catalytic cracking (FCC), and hydrodesulfurization (HDS). In addition, an existing partial oxidation (POX)/methanol production unit will be integrated with the new refinery. The paper describes the plant and its major processes.
Acceleration of Monte Carlo Criticality Calculations Using Deterministic-Based Starting Sources
A new automatic approach that uses approximate deterministic solutions for providing the starting fission source for Monte Carlo eigenvalue calculations was evaluated in this analysis. By accelerating the Monte Carlo source convergence and decreasing the number of cycles that has to be skipped before the tallies estimation, this approach was found to increase the efficiency of the overall simulation, even with the inclusion of the extra computational time required by the deterministic calculation. This approach was also found to increase the reliability of the Monte Carlo criticality calculations of loosely coupled systems because the use of the better starting source reduces the likelihood of producing an undersampled k{sub eff} due to the inadequate source convergence. The efficiency improvement was demonstrated using two of the standard test problems devised by the OECD/NEA Expert Group on Source Convergence in Criticality-Safety Analysis to measure the source convergence in Monte Carlo criticality calculations. For a fixed uncertainty objective, this approach increased the efficiency of the overall simulation by factors between 1.2 and 3 depending on the difficulty of the source convergence in these problems. The reliability improvement was demonstrated in a modified version of the 'k{sub eff} of the world' problem that was specifically designed to demonstrate the limitations of the current Monte Carlo power iteration techniques. For this problem, the probability of obtaining a clearly undersampled k{sub eff} decreased from 5% with a uniform starting source to zero with a deterministic starting source when batch sizes with more than 15,000 neutron/cycle were used.
Ibrahim, A. [University of Wisconsin; Peplow, Douglas E. [ORNL; Wagner, John C [ORNL; Mosher, Scott W [ORNL; Evans, Thomas M [ORNL
Video Rental Store: An Interview with Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot and Su-Ying Lee
Video Rental Store An Interview with Suzanne Carte-of Under New Management�s Video Rental Store in Toronto,by the project�s name, Video Rental Store takes on the video
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annual report University of Pittsburgh Early Head Start (Family
in a home-based environment so that parents spend time with their young child while working with the home
Sibille, Etienne
Microsoft Word - START Application_eaform_FINAL.docx
Technical Technical A ssistance O pportunity f or T ribes: Strategic T echnical A ssistance R esponse T eam ( START) P rogram f or t he Development o f R enewable E nergy P rojects About t he O ffice The Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (IE) is charged by Congress to direct, foster, coordinate, and implement energy planning, education, management, and programs that assist Tribes with energy development, capacity building, energy infrastructure, energy costs, and electrification of Indian lands and homes. IE works within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), across government agencies, and with Indian Tribes and organizations to promote Indian energy policies and initiatives. IE performs these functions within the scope of DOE's mission and consistently with the federal government's trust responsibility, tribal self- determination policy, and government-to-government relationship with Indian Tribes.
Microsoft Word - START-Alaska Application_FINAL.docx
Technical Technical A ssistance O pportunity f or A laska N ative E ntities: Strategic T echnical A ssistance R esponse T eam ( START) I nitiative f or A laska N ative Tribal G overnment C ommunity E nergy P lanning About t he O ffice The Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (IE) is charged by Congress to direct, foster, coordinate, and implement energy planning and deployment, education, management, and programs that assist Tribes with energy development, capacity building, energy infrastructure, energy costs, and electrification of Indian lands and homes. IE works within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), across government agencies, and with Indian Tribes and organizations to promote Indian energy policies and initiatives. IE performs these functions within the scope of DOE's mission and consistently with the federal government's trust responsibility, tribal self-
Nuclear Safety Information Dashboard QuickStart Guide
Nuclear Safety Information Dashboard Nuclear Safety Information Dashboard QuickStart Guide September 2012 Office of Analysis (HS-24) Office of Environmental Protection, Sustainability Support and Corporate Safety Analysis Office of Health, Safety and Security (HSS) Purpose of Nuclear Safety Information (NSI) Dashboard * The NSI Dashboard provides a new user interface to the Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (ORPS) to easily identify, organize, and analyze nuclear safety-related events reported into ORPS. * ORPS reporting criteria associated with events at nuclear facilities have pre-assigned weighting factors according to their relative importance and are placed into groups. * This information can be evaluated to identify trends and, using insights from current events and nature of operations, enable
NREL: News - Helping Cleantech Start-ups Understand Social Media
713 713 Helping Cleantech Start-ups Understand Social Media May 13, 2013 The Colorado Center for Renewable Energy Economic Development (CREED) at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in collaboration with the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association (CCIA) invites cleantech entrepreneurs to attend the next event in its Entrepreneur Series. The May 15 class, "Social Media and Strategic Messaging," will help cleantech entrepreneurs learn how to craft language about their companies that can be used in pitches and news releases, and on websites. CREED's Entrepreneur Series provides support for companies trying to get off the ground. The Entrepreneur Series builds a community among cleantech participants so they can draw on one another for expertise, support and
Property:ASHRAE 169 Start Date | Open Energy Information
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Oil field rejuvenation work starts at 14 project sites
This paper reports that the U.S. Department of Energy and oil and gas companies have released more information about a joint effort to rejuvenate aging U.S. oil fields in danger of abandonment. Work is starting on 14 demonstration projects that could recover 21 million bbl of oil from the fluvial dominated deltaic (FDD) reservoirs in which they are conducted. Wider application of the same techniques, if they are successful, could results in addition of 6.3 billion bbl of reserves, nearly 25% of U.S. crude oil reserves. A multidisciplinary team approach is to be used, with as many as 11 operators, service companies, universities, or state agencies participating in each project. All of the projects will culminate in extensive technology transfer activities. Here are descriptions of the projects gleaned from public abstracts provided by the DOE contractors.
Petzet, G.A. (Oil and Gas Journal (US))
Method for starting operation of a resistance melter
A method for starting the operation of a resistance furnace, where heating occurs by passing a current through the charge between two furnace electrodes and the charge is a material which is essentially electrically nonconductive when in a solid physical state but which becomes more electrically conductive when in a molten physical state, by connecting electrical resistance heating wire between the furnace electrodes, placing the wire in contact with the charge material between the electrodes and passing a current through the wire to heat the wire to a temperature sufficient to melt the material between the furnace electrodes so that as the material melts, current begins to pass between the electrodes through the melted material, further heating and melting more material until all current between the electrodes passes through the charge material without the aid or presence of the resistance element.
Chapman, Christopher Charles (Richland, WA)
Method of forming and starting a sodium sulfur battery
A method of forming a sodium sulfur battery and of starting the reactive capability of that battery when heated to a temperature suitable for battery operation is disclosed. An anodic reaction zone is constructed in a manner that sodium is hermetically sealed therein, part of the hermetic seal including fusible material which closes up openings through the container of the anodic reaction zone. The hermetically sealed anodic reaction zone is assembled under normal atmospheric conditions with a suitable cathodic reaction zone and a cation-permeable barrier. When the entire battery is heated to an operational temperature, the fusible material of the hermetically sealed anodic reaction zone is fused, thereby allowing molten sodium to flow from the anodic reaction zone into reactive engagement with the cation-permeable barrier.
Paquette, David G. (Costa Mesa, CA)
A New Method of Black Start Based on VSC-HVDC
For a good Black-Start scheme, it is important to avoid inrush current and transient over voltage while starting-up other major power system equipments. In this paper, the advantages of VSC-HVDC as black start power are analyzed. Control Strategies of ... Keywords: black start, soft energizing, VSC-HVDC
Li Li; Mingxia Zhou; Sheng Li; Yinhui Li
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Culture and international usability testing: The effects of culture in structured interviews
Designing global interfaces for users has always been a challenge. This challenge is even greater today with the current trend of globalization, which leads to highly diverse users of the same product. The global audiences for the software and information technology products belong to different countries, different religions, speak different languages, have different life styles, belong to different cultures and have different perceptions and expectations of the same product. A truly global product must inherently accommodate this diversity in order to be effective and successful. A major impediment is that there is very inadequate understanding of the role of culture in user interfaces and how they are built. This lack of understanding is further compounded by the fact that very little empirical work exists regarding the role of culture in usability testing. The objectives of this research are to study and empirically establish the effects of culture on the usability assessment technique of structured interviews. A study was conducted to determine the effects of culture on Indian participants when structured interviews are used in usability testing. The experiment consisted of usability testing of two independent groups of Indian participants by two interviewers; one belonging to the Indian culture and the other to the Anglo-American culture. The findings from the study clearly demonstrate the effects of culture on structured interviews during international user testing. Participants found more usability problems and made more suggestions to the interviewer from their own culture than to the interviewer from a foreign culture. The results of the study prove that culture affects the efficacy of structured interviews during international user testing.
Ravikiran Vatrapu; Ravikiran Vatrapu
Iowa Start-up Taps Ames Laboratory Technology in Challenge | Department of
Taps Ames Laboratory Technology in Challenge Taps Ames Laboratory Technology in Challenge Iowa Start-up Taps Ames Laboratory Technology in Challenge August 10, 2011 - 2:21pm Addthis Using gas atomization technology developed at the Ames Lab (click through the photo to see a video), IPAT will be able to make titanium powder 10 times more efficiently than traditional powder-making methods. Above right, 1.8 grams of gas atomized titanium powder makes a finished 1.8 gram titanium bolt. | Image Courtesy of IPAT Using gas atomization technology developed at the Ames Lab (click through the photo to see a video), IPAT will be able to make titanium powder 10 times more efficiently than traditional powder-making methods. Above right, 1.8 grams of gas atomized titanium powder makes a finished 1.8 gram titanium bolt. | Image Courtesy of IPAT
Question-unanswered: Research and Development of InterVIU System to Support Chat-based Interviews
In the research presented in this paper, the use of computational systems for the interviews is investigated. Exploratory Case Studies had been carried through to identify the problems that occur when the technique interview is carried through by chat. ... Keywords: interview systems, InterVIU system, Chat based systems, CSCW
Ricardo Rodrigues Nunes; Mariano Pimentel
DOE Solar Decathlon: Team Germany: Starting a Solar Revolution
surPLUShome at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2009 with Silo House and the Washington Monument in the background. surPLUShome at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2009 with Silo House and the Washington Monument in the background. Enlarge image Team Germany's surPLUShome took first place in Solar Decathlon 2009. It is now permanently placed on the Technische Universität Darmstadt campus. (Credit: Jim Tetro/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon) Who: Team Germany What: surPLUShome Where: Technische Universität Darmstadt El-Lissitzky-Str. 3 64287 Darmstadt, Deutschland Map This House Public tours: Not available Solar Decathlon 2009 Team Germany: Starting a Solar Revolution In June 2010, Team Germany's surPLUShome returned to the Technische Universität Darmstadt campus for permanent placement next to Solarhouse, from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2007. As part of the
Low-level liquid waste treatment system start-up
Following removal of Cs-137 by ion exchange in the Supernatant Treatment System immediately upstream, the radioactive liquid waste is volume-reduced by evaporation. Trace amounts of Cs-137 in the resulting distillate are removed by ion exchange, then the distillate is discharged to the existing plant water treatment system. The concentrated product, 37 to 41 percent solids (by weight), is encapsulated in cement, producing a stable low-level waste form. This report provides a summary of work performed to test the Liquid Waste Treatment System following construction turnover and prior to radioactive operation. All mechanical and electrical components, piping, valves, pumps, tanks, controls, and instrumentation required to operate the system were tested; first with water, then with simulated waste. Subsystems (individual tanks, pumps, and control loops) were tested individually, then as a complete system. Finally, the system began a controlled start-up phase, which included the first four months of radioactive operation. Components were tested for operability then for performance data to verify the system`s ability to produce an acceptable waste form at design feed rates.
Baker, M.N.; Gessner, R.F.
The Facts On Electric Vehicles: Interview with Pat Davis | Department of
The Facts On Electric Vehicles: Interview with Pat Davis The Facts On Electric Vehicles: Interview with Pat Davis The Facts On Electric Vehicles: Interview with Pat Davis December 22, 2010 - 2:25pm Addthis Andy Oare Andy Oare Former New Media Strategist, Office of Public Affairs Electric vehicles have been an extremely hot topic lately and no stranger to the Energy Blog. When the first public curbside electric vehicle charging station rolled out in Washington DC, we covered it. And when Secretary Chu got a first-hand look at the Nissan Leaf during a recent visit to Japan, he covered it here on the Energy Blog. We're not the only ones talking about Electric Vehicles. From awards, to reviews, to high praise, and tough criticism - it seems everyone has an opinion. That's why we decided to sit down with our resident expert Pat
Solar Industry At Work: Video Interview with Alta Devices' Laila Mattos |
Solar Industry At Work: Video Interview with Alta Devices' Laila Solar Industry At Work: Video Interview with Alta Devices' Laila Mattos Solar Industry At Work: Video Interview with Alta Devices' Laila Mattos June 6, 2012 - 12:07pm Addthis Laila Mattos talks about her work life at Alta Devices -- a solar company based in Silicon Valley. | Video by Hantz Leger. Erin R. Pierce Erin R. Pierce Digital Communications Specialist, Office of Public Affairs What is this video about? Laila Mattos, a technology manager at Alta Devices, talks about her experiences working at a "disruptive" solar company. Our Solar Industry At Work Series shares the personal success of America's solar workforce - from finance experts, to scientists, to engineers. You can learn more about the series here. "Great solar won't go anywhere unless its low cost."
Manufacturing in Milwaukee: An Interview with the CEO of Helios Solar Works
Manufacturing in Milwaukee: An Interview with the CEO of Helios Manufacturing in Milwaukee: An Interview with the CEO of Helios Solar Works Manufacturing in Milwaukee: An Interview with the CEO of Helios Solar Works February 8, 2013 - 12:02pm Addthis Inside the Helios Solar Works manufacturing facility. | Photo courtesy of Helios Solar Works. Inside the Helios Solar Works manufacturing facility. | Photo courtesy of Helios Solar Works. Inside the Helios Solar Works manufacturing facility. | Photo courtesy of Helios Solar Works. Inside the Helios Solar Works manufacturing facility. | Photo courtesy of Helios Solar Works. Inside the Helios Solar Works manufacturing facility. | Photo courtesy of Helios Solar Works. Inside the Helios Solar Works manufacturing facility. | Photo courtesy of Helios Solar Works. Inside the Helios Solar Works manufacturing facility. | Photo courtesy of Helios Solar Works.
Colorado Start-Up Awarded First 'America's Next Top Energy Innovator...
Start-Up Awarded First 'America's Next Top Energy Innovator' Agreement Colorado Start-Up Awarded First 'America's Next Top Energy Innovator' Agreement May 20, 2011 - 5:42pm Addthis...
Does Head Start Improve Long-Term Outcomes? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Aughinbaugh, Alison (200? ) "Does Head Start Yield Long-TermDuncan Thomas (1995) "Does Head Start Make a Difference?"J. Smith (1998) "How much does childhood poverty affect the
LUDWIG, JENS O; Miller, Doug
Start-to-end global imaging as a sunward propagating, SAPS-associated giant undulation event
We present high-time resolution global imaging of a sunward propagating giant undulation event from start to finish. The event occurred on November 24, 2001 during a very disturbed storm interval. The giant undulations began to develop at around 13UT and persisted for approximately 2 hours. The sunward propagation speed was on the order of 0.6 km/s (relative to SM coordinate system). The undulations had a wavelength of {approx} 750 km, amplitudes of {approx} 890 km and produced ULF pulsations on the ground with a period of {approx} 1108s. We show that the undulations were associated with SAPs flows that were caused by the proton plasma sheet penetrating substantially farther Earthward than the electron plasma sheet on the duskside. The observations appear to be consistent with the development of a shear flow and/or ballooning type of instability at the plasmapause driven by intense SAPS-associated shear flows.
Henderson, Michael G [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Donovan, Eric F [U OF CALGARY; Foster, John C [MIT; Mann, Ian R [UNIV OF ALBERTA; Immel, Thomas J [UC/BERKELEY; Mende, Stephen B [UN/BERKELEY; Sigwarth, John B [NASA/GSFC
More than suggestion: The effect of interviewing techniques from the McMartin Preschool case
Child interviewing techniques derived from transcripts of the McMartin Preschool case were found to be substantially more effective than simple suggestive questions at inducing preschool children to make false allegations against a classroom visitor. Thirty-six children interviewed with McMartin techniques made 58 % accusations, compared with 17% for 30 children interviewed with suggestive questions. Social influence and reinforcement appeared to be more powerful determinants of children's answers than simple suggestive questions. The SIRR model is proposed to explain how false statements may be elicited from children or adults. Categories identified in the SIRR model are suggestive questions, social influence, reinforcement, and removal from direct experience. During the 1980s a series of highly publicized "daycare ritual abuse cases " erupted in communities across the United States and Europe (Kelley, 1996; Nathan & Snedeker, 1995). The cases typically involved allegations by preschool children that they had been terrorized and sexually abused by day-care workers in bizarre scenarios with Satanic or ritualistic overtones. Some scholars continue to take the view that these cases were genuine and involved actual ritual abuse (Faller, 1996; Summit, 1994). However, skepticism has become widespread among research psychologists (Bottoms & Davis, 1997; Bottoms, Shaver, & Goodman, 1996; Ceci & Bruck, 1995). An extensive body of research, arising in the wake of the day-care cases of the 1980s, has identified a variety of interviewing techniques that can induce children to make
Sena Garven; James M. Wood; Roy S. Malpass; John S. Shaw
Chapter 5 Lord Howe Island interview results 5.1 Introduction
established and alternative energy options. I present their views on the system of diesel fired electricity production, solar hot water systems, gas and vehicle usage. I then present their views on alternative energy, nuclear energy, improving energy efficiency and electric vehicles. During interviews, I questioned
A Study of Transient Behavior During Start-Up of Residential Heat Pumps
An experimental and analytical study concerned with the transient performance of heat pumps is presented. A series of tests were performed to study and characterize the transient sensible and dehumidification performance of a heat pump in the cooling node. All the tests were conducted according to the ASHRAE Standard (1983). The effects of indoor dry-bulb temperature (72 to 80 F), indoor relative humidity (20 to 67%), outdoor dry-bulb temperature (82 to 100 F), cycling rate (0.8 to 10 cph) and percent ON-time (20 to 95%) on the transient performance (sensible and latent capacity, efficiency and sensible heat ratio) are addressed in this study. The results indicated that part load factor (PLF) can be as low as 0.65 at low percent ON-times and high cycling rates. The combination of low percent ON-times and high cycling rates produced maximum cyclic losses. The dehumidification process usually started between 60 to 150 seconds after start-up depending on the indoor ambient conditions, percent ON-time and cycling rate. The sensible and latent capacity response and part load efficiency of the heat pump increased with an increase in indoor relative humidity. There was a slight increase in PLF with indoor dry-bulb temperature. The outdoor dry-bulb temperature did not have any effect on the transient performance. Based on the functional relationship of PLF and coefficient of degradation (C_D) with the five independent variables a multiple linear regression analysis was performed on the experimental data. The analysis yielded two general equations to predict PLF and C_D. A lumped parameter heat pump transient analysis computer model was developed, which drew upon methodologies from the earlier models by Chi and Didion [1982] and Oak Ridge National Laboratory [1981]. The model was capable of simulating the transient response of a vapor compression air-to-air heat pump commonly used in residential applications. The simulated results were in good agreement with the laboratory results at high percent ON-times (> 20) and high relative humidities (> 45).
Katipamula, Srinivas
Alternative Fuels Data Center: Ten Ways You Can Start to Cut Petroleum Use
About About Printable Version Share this resource Send a link to Alternative Fuels Data Center: Ten Ways You Can Start to Cut Petroleum Use Right Now to someone by E-mail Share Alternative Fuels Data Center: Ten Ways You Can Start to Cut Petroleum Use Right Now on Facebook Tweet about Alternative Fuels Data Center: Ten Ways You Can Start to Cut Petroleum Use Right Now on Twitter Bookmark Alternative Fuels Data Center: Ten Ways You Can Start to Cut Petroleum Use Right Now on Google Bookmark Alternative Fuels Data Center: Ten Ways You Can Start to Cut Petroleum Use Right Now on Delicious Rank Alternative Fuels Data Center: Ten Ways You Can Start to Cut Petroleum Use Right Now on Digg Find More places to share Alternative Fuels Data Center: Ten Ways You Can Start to Cut Petroleum Use Right Now on AddThis.com...
SunShot Initiative: Four Solar-Saving Strategies Starting with WWW
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T.: Web application development and quality - observations from interviews with companies in norway
Web Application Development, software quality, development practises, trade-off. In this paper we present our findings from a series of interviews with companies developing web applications, investigating how quality issues are managed when developing web applications in a rush-to-market and competitive environment. Our findings suggest that requirement practises are communication intensive, that companies perceive quality attributes related to a good user experience important, and that companies don�t have a clear trade-off situation. 1
Sven Ziemer
Colorado Start-Up Awarded First 'America's Next Top Energy Innovator'
Start-Up Awarded First 'America's Next Top Energy Start-Up Awarded First 'America's Next Top Energy Innovator' Agreement Colorado Start-Up Awarded First 'America's Next Top Energy Innovator' Agreement May 20, 2011 - 5:42pm Addthis Ginny Simmons Ginny Simmons Former Managing Editor for Energy.gov, Office of Public Affairs While visiting the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, today, Vice President Biden announced that the Colorado-based start-up company U.S. e-Chromic LLC has signed the first agreement in the "America's Next Top Energy Innovator" challenge. The challenge, which started on May 2, allows start-up companies to apply for the Department of Energy's many thousand unlicensed patents for reduced cost and paperwork. Part of the Obama Administration's Startup America
Subfreezing Start/Stop Protocol for an Advanced Metallic Open-Flowfield Fuel Cell Stack
Subfreezing Start/Stop Protocol for an Advanced Subfreezing Start/Stop Protocol for an Advanced Subfreezing Start/Stop Protocol for an Advanced Subfreezing Start/Stop Protocol for an Advanced Subfreezing Start/Stop Protocol for an Advanced Metallic Open Metallic Open Metallic Open Metallic Open- - - -Flowfield Flowfield Flowfield Flowfield Fuel Cell Stack Fuel Cell Stack Fuel Cell Stack Fuel Cell Stack Presented at: US DOE New Projects Kickoff Meeting Washington, DC 13-14 February 2007 Alternative Energy Efficient Simple Clean Today Alternative Energy Efficient Simple Clean Today Objective Objective Objective Objective This project will demonstrate a PEM fuel cell stack that is able to perform and start up in subfreezing conditions, respecting allowed energy budget, and showing limited impact at extreme temperatures over multiple
Wisconsin Start-up Taps into Wind Supply Chain | Department of Energy
Start-up Taps into Wind Supply Chain Start-up Taps into Wind Supply Chain Wisconsin Start-up Taps into Wind Supply Chain August 10, 2010 - 2:00pm Addthis Renewegy, LLC received a $525,000 Recovery Act loan to help start its smaller-scale wind turbine business. This fall, the company will begin production on its first batch of turbine systems. | Photo courtesy of Renewegy Renewegy, LLC received a $525,000 Recovery Act loan to help start its smaller-scale wind turbine business. This fall, the company will begin production on its first batch of turbine systems. | Photo courtesy of Renewegy Stephen Graff Former Writer & editor for Energy Empowers, EERE What are the key facts? Renewegy received $525,000 Recovery Act loan to start wind turbine business Business hired 16 people and projects at least three more by end of
Integrated starting and running amalgam assembly for an electrodeless fluorescent lamp
An integrated starting and running amalgam assembly for an electrodeless SEF fluorescent lamp includes a wire mesh amalgam support constructed to jointly optimize positions of a starting amalgam and a running amalgam in the lamp, thereby optimizing mercury vapor pressure in the lamp during both starting and steady-state operation in order to rapidly achieve and maintain high light output. The wire mesh amalgam support is constructed to support the starting amalgam toward one end thereof and the running amalgam toward the other end thereof, and the wire mesh is rolled for friction-fitting within the exhaust tube of the lamp. The positions of the starting and running amalgams on the wire mesh are jointly optimized such that high light output is achieved quickly and maintained, while avoiding any significant reduction in light output between starting and running operation.
Borowiec, Joseph Christopher (Schenectady, NY); Cocoma, John Paul (Clifton Park, NY); Roberts, Victor David (Burnt Hills, NY)
Direct Numerical Simulation of Surfactant-Stabilized Emulsions Morphology and Shear Viscosity in Starting Shear Flow
A 3D lattice Boltzmann model for two-phase flow with amphiphilic surfactant was used to investigate the evolution of emulsion morphology and shear stress in starting shear flow. The interfacial contributions were analyzed for low and high volume fractions and varying surfactant activity. A transient viscoelastic contribution to the emulsion rheology under constant strain rate conditions was attributed to the interfacial stress. For droplet volume fractions below 0.3 and an average capillary number of about 0.25, highly elliptical droplets formed. Consistent with affine deformation models, gradual elongation of the droplets increased the shear stress at early times and reduced it at later times. Lower interfacial tension with increased surfactant activity counterbalanced the effect of increased interfacial area, and the net shear stress did not change significantly. For higher volume fractions, co-continuous phases with a complex topology were formed. The surfactant decreased the interfacial shear stress due mainly to advection of surfactant to higher curvature areas. Our results are in qualitative agreement with experimental data for polymer blends in terms of transient interfacial stresses and limited enhancement of the emulsion viscosity at larger volume fractions where the phases are co-continuous.
Roar Skartlien; Espen Sollum; Andreas Akselsen; Paul Meakin
A start-up scheme for Tory II-C during simplified boost trajectories
This memorandum discusses TORY II-C reactor control and reactor kinetics during simplified boost trajectories. Reactor start-up, power excursions, and automated control systems are investigated.
Stubbs, T.
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A warm-start approach for large-scale stochastic linear programs?
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Editor, Times Union Tom Friedman in his October 21 article, speaks of getting green starting at the top, with
, using more fuel efficient, less polluting cars. However Friedman doesn't realize that NY City and our NY of electricity, while Baltimore pays about $22 for the same quantity. New York City exports about 4 million tons in CA where General Electric and other firms spoke about clean coal conversion, converting coal
Columbia University
Performance evaluation of quick-start TCP with a Linux kernel implementation
Quick-Start is an experimental extension of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that uses explicit router feedback to speed up best effort data transfers. With Quick-Start, TCP endpoints can request permission from the routers along the path to send ...
Michael Scharf; Haiko Strotbek
Constructing a market domain model for start-up software technology companies: A case study
The market for a complex technology product is sometimes called reference business because references are emphasized by corporate customers. A first customer reference is especially important for a start-up technology company attempting to enter the ... Keywords: First reference customer, High technology markets, M13 - New Firms, M31 - Marketing, Start-up software company, Startups
Jari Ruokolainen; Markus M. M�kel�
Qualification of CASMO5 / SIMULATE-3K against the SPERT-III E-core cold start-up experiments
SIMULATE-3K is a three-dimensional kinetic code applicable to LWR Reactivity Initiated Accidents. S3K has been used to calculate several international recognized benchmarks. However, the feedback models in the benchmark exercises are different from the feedback models that SIMULATE-3K uses for LWR reactors. For this reason, it is worth comparing the SIMULATE-3K capabilities for Reactivity Initiated Accidents against kinetic experiments. The Special Power Excursion Reactor Test III was a pressurized-water, nuclear-research facility constructed to analyze the reactor kinetic behavior under initial conditions similar to those of commercial LWRs. The SPERT III E-core resembles a PWR in terms of fuel type, moderator, coolant flow rate, and system pressure. The initial test conditions (power, core flow, system pressure, core inlet temperature) are representative of cold start-up, hot start-up, hot standby, and hot full power. The qualification of S3K against the SPERT III E-core measurements is an ongoing work at Studsvik. In this paper, the results for the 30 cold start-up tests are presented. The results show good agreement with the experiments for the reactivity initiated accident main parameters: peak power, energy release and compensated reactivity. Predicted and measured peak powers differ at most by 13%. Measured and predicted reactivity compensations at the time of the peak power differ less than 0.01 $. Predicted and measured energy release differ at most by 13%. All differences are within the experimental uncertainty. (authors)
Grandi, G.; Moberg, L. [Studsvik Scandpower, Inc., 504 Shoup Ave, Idaho Falls, ID 83402 (United States)
An electronic circuit is described for precisely controlling the power delivered to a load from an a-c source, and is particularly useful as a welder timer. The power is delivered in uniform pulses, produced by a thyratron, the number of pulses being controlled by a one-shot multivibrator. The starting pulse is synchronized with the a-c line frequency so that each multivlbrator cycle begins at about the same point in the a-c cycle.
Heyd, J.W.
DOE Announces Webinars on Kick-Starting an Energy Management Program,
Kick-Starting an Energy Management Kick-Starting an Energy Management Program, SunShot Incubator Projects, and More DOE Announces Webinars on Kick-Starting an Energy Management Program, SunShot Incubator Projects, and More December 20, 2013 - 8:58am Addthis EERE offers webinars to the public on a range of subjects, from adopting the latest energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to training for the clean energy workforce. Webinars are free; however, advanced registration is typically required. You can also watch archived webinars and browse previously aired videos, slides, and transcripts. Upcoming Webinars January 7: Live Webinar on Kick-starting Your Energy Management Program Webinar Sponsor: EERE's Better Buildings Initiative The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled "Kick-Starting
Radiation risk and nuclear medicine: An interview with a Nobel Prize winner
In a speech given years ago at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Bronx, NY, Rosalyn S. Yalow, 1977 Nobel Prize recipient for her invention of radioimmunoassay, made several salient points on the perception of fear or hazards from exposure to low-level radiation and low-level radioactive wastes. For the past three years, Yalow has been concerned with the general fear of radiation. In this interview, Newsline solicited Yalow`s views on public perceptions on radiation risk and what the nuclear medicine community can do to emphasize the fact that, if properly managed, the use of isotopes in medicine and other cases is not dangerous.
Yalow, R.S.
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CO{sub 2} EOR starts in late stage of waterflood
The Postle field carbon dioxide flood marks the first time anyone in the industry has attempted a major CO{sub 2} enhanced oil recovery EOR project at such a late stage in a waterflooded field. Prior to CO{sub 2} injection Postle produced oil with a 98% water cut. Mobil began injecting CO{sub 2} into the Postle on Nov. 15, 1995. The Postle field, discovered in 1958 in the Oklahoma Panhandle near Guymon, had produced about 92 million bbl of oil under primary and waterflood production. Waterflooding started in 1967. Oil production peaked at about 22,000 bo/d in 1970 and averaged about 2,000 bo/d when CO{sub 2} injection began at a rate of 35 MMscfd. The paper describes Mobil`s plans for the CO{sub 2} injection, the CO{sub 2} process, project installations, and Mobil`s experience with CO{sub 2} injection in other fields.
Start | View At a Glance | Author Index 151-2 Soil Organic Matter-Mineral Interactions Along Hillslope Transects: Importance of
Share | Start | View At a Glance | Author Index 151-2 Soil Organic Matter-Mineral Interactions Soil Mineralogy See more from this Session: Symposium--Mineral-Organic Interactions Across Time Level Chunmei Chen, Plant and Soil Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, Peter Leinweber
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Measuring water collection times in Kenyan informal settlements
This paper uses GPS loggers and interviews to measure the time taken to collect water in two Kenyan informal settlements. The time devoted to water collection is widely believed to prevent women and girls, who do most of this work, from undertaking more ... Keywords: GPS, Kenya, time, water collection, women's work
James Davis; Ben Crow; Julio Miles
An Interview with Chris Gunderson: Are Militaries Lagging Their Non-State Enemies in Use of Internet?
The increasing number of cyber attacks on military networks and servers has raised the question of what the global defense community is doing to safeguard military systems and protect the larger global Internet. Ubiquity's editor interviewed Chris Gunderson, ...
Peter Denning
Managing time
Professionals overwhelmed with information glut can find hope from new insights about time management.
Peter J. Denning
Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines Stories of Discovery & Innovation Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines Enlarge Photo Photo courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 900-MHz NMR spectrometer allows scientists to transcend previous limits in catalyst characterization. In addition [to new understanding of sulfur poisoning and thermal damage], I would like to acknowledge that the CRADA provided us with access to the other discoveries made at PNNL in the area of NOX storage component morphological mobility, which proved key to interpreting many features of these uniquely complex catalytic systems. Dr. John C. Wall Cummins Vice President and Chief Technical Officer 03.28.11 Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines Fundamental studies in catalysis enabled the use of efficient "lean-burn" engines
Microsoft Word - START NDA Template 2-14-2013 - final version.docx
START Template approved 2/2013 START Template approved 2/2013 1 Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) Proposal to U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program. To protect certain Protected Data and Proprietary Information, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, the Management and Operating Contractor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) under Prime Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308 for the U.S. Department of Energy (the DOE), located at 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO 80401 and the following: ______________________________________ ; [Insert Applying Member (Tribe) name] ______________________________________ ; [Insert additional Member 1 name. In this and the following spaces, insert the name(s) of any developers
Low-Carbon Growth Country Studies: Getting Started Experience from Six
Low-Carbon Growth Country Studies: Getting Started Experience from Six Low-Carbon Growth Country Studies: Getting Started Experience from Six Countries Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary LAUNCH TOOL Name: Low-Carbon Growth Country Studies: Getting Started Experience from Six Countries Agency/Company /Organization: Energy Sector Management Assistance Program of the World Bank Sector: Energy, Land Topics: Low emission development planning Resource Type: Lessons learned/best practices Website: prod-http-80-800498448.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com//w/images/d/d1/LCCG Country: China, Indonesia, Poland, Mexico, South Africa, India Eastern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Central America, Southern Africa, Southern Asia References: Low-Carbon Growth Country Studies: Getting Started Experience from Six Countries[1]
Watch Live: National Science Bowl - Starting At 9:30 AM ET | Department of
Watch Live: National Science Bowl - Starting At 9:30 AM ET Watch Live: National Science Bowl - Starting At 9:30 AM ET Watch Live: National Science Bowl - Starting At 9:30 AM ET May 2, 2011 - 8:55am Addthis Ginny Simmons Ginny Simmons Former Managing Editor for Energy.gov, Office of Public Affairs Throughout the weekend, 110 regional championship science bowl teams have competed round robin and double elimination matches to determine the top 2 middle school and top 3 high school teams in the country. Start watching the livestream below at 9:30 AM today to see the final championship matches of America's best science students in the 2011 National Science Bowl. A little after 12:30 PM, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu will speak at the award ceremony. (The stream works best in IE, Safari and Firefox browsers.)
Effects of charge motion control during cold start of SI engines
An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effects of various intake charge motion control approaches on the cold start-up process of a port fuel injected SI engine. Engine experiments were performed to assess ...
Lee, Dongkun
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Cool-down and frozen start-up behavior of a grooved water heat pipe
A grooved water heat pipe was tested to study its characteristics during the cool-down and start-up periods. The water heat pipe was cooled down from the ambient temperature to below the freezing temperature of water. During the cool-down, isothermal conditions were maintained at the evaporator and adiabatic sections until the working fluid was frozen. When water was frozen along the entire heat pipe, the heat pipe was rendered inactive. The start-up of the heat pipe from this state was investigated under several different operating conditions. The results show the existence of large temperature gradients between the evaporator and the condenser, and the moving of the melting front of the working fluid along the heat pipe. Successful start-up was achieved for some test cases using partial gravity assist. The start-up behavior depended largely on the operating conditions.
Jang, J.H.
Mathematical modeling and analysis of heat pipe start-up from the frozen state
The start-up process of a frozen heat pipe is described and a complete mathematical model for the start-up of the frozen heat pipe is developed based on the existing experimental data, which is simplified and solved numerically. The two-dimensional transient model for the wall and wick is coupled with the one-dimensional transient model for the vapor flow when vaporization and condensation occur at the interface. A parametric study is performed to examine the effect of the boundary specification at the surface of the outer wall on the successful start-up from the frozen state. For successful start-up, the boundary specification at the outer wall surface must melt the working substance in the condenser before dry-out takes place in the evaporator.
Jang, J.H.; Faghri, A. [Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH (United States); Chang, W.S.; Mahefkey, E.T. [Wright Research and Development Center, Wright-Patterson, OH (United States)
New Hampshire Electric Co-Op - SmartSTART Energy Efficiency Loan...
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Effects of secondary air injection during cold start of SI engines
The paucity of exhaust oxygen during cold start of automobile SI engines limits the extent of exothermic chemical reactions in the exhaust port, manifold, and catalyst. The injection of air into the exhaust system therefore ...
Generation Maintenance Applications Center: Combined-Cycle Combustion-Turbine Static Starting System Maintenance Guide
This guide provides information to assist personnel involved with the maintenance of combustion-turbine static start systems, planning, predictive, and preventive maintenance techniques; failure mode information; and troubleshooting guidance.BackgroundAs the fleet of combustion turbines grows, it is critical for the starting systems to be understood and properly maintained in order to ensure the reliability of combustion-turbine generating units and the ...
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act Interviews of Current and Former Workers
February 1, 2010 February 1, 2010 MEMORANDUM FOR DISTRIBUTION "" ( "· FROM: DANIEL B. PONE~ SUBJECT: Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act Interviews of Current and Former Workers The Department embraces its responsibility for and commitment to the health and well- being of the Department of Energy's (DOE) current and former workers, both Federal and contractor employees. Two key programs that advance DO E's commitment to its former and current workers are the Department of Labor (DOL) managed Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP) and the Former Worker Medical Screening Program. In the context of support to EEOICP, DOE's role is to work on behalf of the program claimants to make sure that all available worker and
Microsoft Word - AREVA Benchmarking Site Visit and Interview Final 3-21-08.doc
QA: N/A QA: N/A Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management OFFICE OF LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING PROJECT Report from AREVA, NC Site Visit and Interview, Spring 2007 March 2008 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Report From AREVA NC Site Visit ii March 2008 INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Report From AREVA NC Site Visit iii March 2008 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended, established the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) within the Department of Energy (DOE). As part of its responsibilities to license and operate a geologic repository for disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW), OCRWM has the mission of transporting those
Method for reducing peak phase current and decreasing staring time for an internal combustion engine having an induction machine
A method for reducing the starting time and reducing the peak phase currents for an internal combustion engine that is started using an induction machine starter/alternator. The starting time is reduced by pre-fluxing the induction machine and the peak phase currents are reduced by reducing the flux current command after a predetermined period of time has elapsed and concurrent to the application of the torque current command. The method of the present invention also provides a strategy for anticipating the start command for an internal combustion engine and determines a start strategy based on the start command and the operating state of the internal combustion engine.
Amey, David L. (Birmingham, MI); Degner, Michael W. (Farmington Hills, MI)
Entropic Time
The formulation of quantum mechanics within the framework of entropic dynamics includes several new elements. In this paper we concentrate on one of them: the implications for the theory of time. Entropic time is introduced as a book-keeping device to keep track of the accumulation of changes. One new feature is that, unlike other concepts of time appearing in the so-called fundamental laws of physics, entropic time incorporates a natural distinction between past and future.
Caticha, Ariel [Department of Physics, University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, NY 12222 (United States)
Tritium Time Series from Ocean Station P
We present time series of tritium (3H) concentrations at varying depths in the water column at Ocean Station P(50�N, 145�W) in the northeast Pacific. Measurements started in the fall of 1974, at the time of the GEOSECS mapping of the North ...
A. E. Gargett; G. Ostlund; C. S. Wong
High resolution time interval meter
Method and apparatus are provided for measuring the time interval between two events to a higher resolution than reliability available from conventional circuits and component. An internal clock pulse is provided at a frequency compatible with conventional component operating frequencies for reliable operation. Lumped constant delay circuits are provided for generating outputs at delay intervals corresponding to the desired high resolution. An initiation START pulse is input to generate first high resolution data. A termination STOP pulse is input to generate second high resolution data. Internal counters count at the low frequency internal clock pulse rate between the START and STOP pulses. The first and second high resolution data are logically combined to directly provide high resolution data to one counter and correct the count in the low resolution counter to obtain a high resolution time interval measurement.
Martin, A.D.
Investigation of Diesel combustion using multiple injection strategies for idling after cold start of passenger-car engines
A comprehensive investigation was carried out in order to better understand the combustion behaviour in a low compression ratio DI Diesel engine when multiple injection strategies are applied just after the engine cold starts in low temperature conditions (idling). More specifically, the aim of this study was twofold: on one hand, to understand the effect of the multiple injection strategies on the indicated mean effective pressure; on the other hand, to contribute to the understanding of combustion stability characterized by the coefficient of variation of indicated mean effective pressure. The first objective was fulfilled by analyzing the rate of heat release obtained by in-cylinder pressure diagnosis. The results showed that the timing of the pilot injection closest to the main injection was the most influential parameter based on the behaviour of the rate of heat release (regardless of the multiple injection strategy applied). For the second objective, the combustion stability was found to be correlated with the combustion centroid angle. The results showed a trend between them and the existence of a range of centroid angles where the combustion stability is strong enough. In addition, it was also evident that convenient split injection allows shifting the centroid to such a zone and improves combustion stability after start. (author)
Payri, F.; Broatch, A.; Salavert, J.M.; Martin, J. [CMT-Motores Termicos, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Aptdo. 22012, E-46071 Valencia (Spain)
This patent relates to a pulse generator and more particularly to a time interval generator wherein the time interval between pulses is precisely determined. The variable time generator comprises two oscillators with one having a variable frequency output and the other a fixed frequency output. A frequency divider is connected to the variable oscillator for dividing its frequency by a selected factor and a counter is used for counting the periods of the fixed oscillator occurring during a cycle of the divided frequency of the variable oscillator. This defines the period of the variable oscillator in terms of that of the fixed oscillator. A circuit is provided for selecting as a time interval a predetermined number of periods of the variable oscillator. The output of the generator consists of a first pulse produced by a trigger circuit at the start of the time interval and a second pulse marking the end of the time interval produced by the same trigger circuit.
Gross, J.E.
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START Program: Lower 48 Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (Office of Indian Energy) (Fact Sheet)
START Program: 48 Contiguous States START Program: 48 Contiguous States Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team Empowering Indian Country to Energize Future Generations The on-the-ground START program is part of a broader DOE-IE effort to make reliable, accurate technical information and skills-based training available to tribal communities throughout the United States. Ultimately, these efforts will serve to further the Administration and DOE's shared commitment to provide Native American and Alaska Native communities with the tools and resources they need to foster tribal energy self-sufficiency and sustainability, advancing job creation, and enhancing economic competitiveness. The DOE Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs is charged by Congress to direct, foster, coordinate, and
EcoCAR2 Teams Start their Virtual Engines | Department of Energy
EcoCAR2 Teams Start their Virtual Engines EcoCAR2 Teams Start their Virtual Engines EcoCAR2 Teams Start their Virtual Engines May 17, 2012 - 4:11pm Addthis A North Carolina State University student works on an EcoCAR vehicle at the Year 3 finals last year in Milford, MI. | Energy Department photo. A North Carolina State University student works on an EcoCAR vehicle at the Year 3 finals last year in Milford, MI. | Energy Department photo. Shannon Brescher Shea Communications Manager, Clean Cities Program What are the key facts? First-year finals of the EcoCar2 competition begin Friday, May 18 in Los Angeles, CA. As the auto industry introduces more alternative fuel and energy efficient vehicles to dealerships across the U.S., teams of university students are also making sure consumers have more choices on the showroom floor.
New Jersey SmartStart Buildings - Pay for Performance Program | Department
New Jersey SmartStart Buildings - Pay for Performance Program New Jersey SmartStart Buildings - Pay for Performance Program New Jersey SmartStart Buildings - Pay for Performance Program < Back Eligibility Commercial Fed. Government Industrial Institutional Local Government Multi-Family Residential Nonprofit Schools State Government Savings Category Heating & Cooling Commercial Heating & Cooling Heating Cooling Home Weatherization Construction Commercial Weatherization Design & Remodeling Other Appliances & Electronics Commercial Lighting Lighting Manufacturing Maximum Rebate Varies for each program milestone $1 M per utility account (gas and electric) per year $2 M per project $4 M per entity per year Program Info State New Jersey Program Type State Rebate Program Rebate Amount $/kWh, $/therm, and $/sq. ft. incentives, vary based on expected energy
Department of Energy Small Business Conference Starts Today in Kansas City,
Small Business Conference Starts Today in Small Business Conference Starts Today in Kansas City, Missouri Department of Energy Small Business Conference Starts Today in Kansas City, Missouri May 10, 2011 - 12:00am Addthis Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy, the largest civilian contracting agency within the Federal government, is holding its 12th Annual Small Business Conference & Expo at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri from May 10-12, 2011. Drawing more than 1,600 participants, the conference and Expo will present information to help small businesses across the country benefit from federal funding including grant opportunities, contracting openings, and subcontracting options. "Small businesses are the building blocks of the clean energy economy,
Southwest Plume Cleanup at Paducah Site to Start by Summer 2013 |
Southwest Plume Cleanup at Paducah Site to Start by Summer 2013 Southwest Plume Cleanup at Paducah Site to Start by Summer 2013 Southwest Plume Cleanup at Paducah Site to Start by Summer 2013 April 1, 2012 - 12:00pm Addthis Deep soil mixing at the Paducah site will involve a large-diameter auger like this one. Deep soil mixing at the Paducah site will involve a large-diameter auger like this one. Senior Advisor for Environmental Management David Huizenga (right) and Paducah Site Lead Reinhard Knerr look at a three-dimensional model of the Paducah siteâs groundwater system. University of Kentucky College of Design students assembled the model for the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Citizens Advisory Board. The model was displayed at the April 18 Site-Specific Advisory Board Chairs Meeting in Paducah, where Huizenga spoke before taking his first tour of the Paducah site.
America's Best Student Start-Up Companies Pitch for Your Vote | Department
Best Student Start-Up Companies Pitch for Your Vote Best Student Start-Up Companies Pitch for Your Vote America's Best Student Start-Up Companies Pitch for Your Vote May 24, 2012 - 9:03am Addthis After pitching their business plan to panels of judges at the regional semifinal and final, six teams advanced to the national competition for a chance at the cash grand prize. | Energy Department file graphic. After pitching their business plan to panels of judges at the regional semifinal and final, six teams advanced to the national competition for a chance at the cash grand prize. | Energy Department file graphic. Michael Hess Michael Hess Former Digital Communications Specialist, Office of Public Affairs How can I participate? You can select your favorite. UPDATE: Voting closed June 12 at 2 p.m. EDT. NuMat Technologies from
The Race is On: Clean Energy and New Jobs in America, Starting in Michigan
The Race is On: Clean Energy and New Jobs in America, Starting in The Race is On: Clean Energy and New Jobs in America, Starting in Michigan The Race is On: Clean Energy and New Jobs in America, Starting in Michigan May 14, 2012 - 5:48pm Addthis Deputy Secretary Poneman Travels to Michigan to Highlight How America Can Win the Clean Energy Race, and the Jobs that come with it Amanda Scott Amanda Scott Former Managing Editor, Energy.gov On Friday, Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel B. Poneman traveled to Detroit, Michigan to speak to labor and environmental advocacy groups at the BlueGreen Alliance's Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference, tour Diversified Chemical Technologies, Inc. headquarters, and speak with students at Wayne State University. Throughout the day, Deputy Secretary Poneman highlighted the Energy Department's work to win the global race
Registration Starts Soon for 2013 Hanford Site Public Tours | Department of
Registration Starts Soon for 2013 Hanford Site Public Tours Registration Starts Soon for 2013 Hanford Site Public Tours Registration Starts Soon for 2013 Hanford Site Public Tours February 25, 2013 - 12:00pm Addthis Media Contact Cameron Salony, DOE firstname.lastname@example.com 509-376-0402 RICHLAND, Wash. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will open online registration on March 4 at 6 p.m. for tours of the Hanford Site in 2013. This driving tour of the site includes stops at the B Reactor National Historic Landmark, Cold Test Facility, Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility and the Plutonium Finishing Plant. All tour slots are filled on a first-come first served basis through the online registration system found on the Hanford website http://www5.hanford.gov/publictours/. Tour participants must be U.S. citizens and at least 18 years of age.
Order Module--DOE O 425.1D, VERIFICATION OF READINESS TO START UP OR
DOE O 425.1D, VERIFICATION OF READINESS TO START UP DOE O 425.1D, VERIFICATION OF READINESS TO START UP OR RESTART NUCLEAR FACILITIES Order Module--DOE O 425.1D, VERIFICATION OF READINESS TO START UP OR RESTART NUCLEAR FACILITIES "The familiar level of this module is divided into three sections. In the first section we will discuss the purpose of DOE O 425.1D and the requirements for 1) determining the level of readiness review (RR), 2) determining the startup authorization authority (SAA), and 3) the startup notification report. In the second section we will discuss 1) the requirements applicable to DOE ORRs and DOE RAs, and 2) the core requirements. In the third section we will discuss the 1) requirements for DOE field element and headquarters line management oversight of the startup or restart process, 2) requirements for the records management program, and
Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S): Biosafety Manual: 2.0 Starting and
2.0 Starting and Conducting Work Safely 2.0 Starting and Conducting Work Safely This section and Table 1 provide a simplified list to assist supervisors, work leads, and principal investigators in getting work with biological materials planned, assessed, authorized, and conducted. Specific sections of this manual and PUB-3000, Chapter 26 (Biosafety) should be consulted for additional information and requirements: Table 1 Guidance for Starting and Conducting Work image Guidance LBNL Policy Section Work Operation Planning, Risk Assessment, Authorization, and Control Complete and maintain a Biosafety Work Authorization (i.e., Biological Use Authorization (BUA), Biological Use Registration (BUR), Biological Use Notification (BUN), or Exposure Control Plan (ECP)) and any other required authorization. The Biosafety Work Authorization documents the work, risks, and controls. Implement the controls listed in the authorization. Biosafety Manual, Section 5.1
Top Student Team Wins $180,000 Toward Clean Energy Start Up | Department of
Student Team Wins $180,000 Toward Clean Energy Start Up Student Team Wins $180,000 Toward Clean Energy Start Up Top Student Team Wins $180,000 Toward Clean Energy Start Up June 15, 2012 - 2:57pm Addthis Michael Hess Michael Hess Former Digital Communications Specialist, Office of Public Affairs The winners were: Grand prize: NuMat Technologies from Northwestern University Second place: SolidEnergy Systems from Massachusetts Institute of Technology People's Choice: Navillum Nanotechnologies from University of Utah NuMat Technologies beat out five other finalists Wednesday to become the grand prize winner of the National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition, taking home $180,000 in prizes, which includes seed money for their company and additional prizes from sponsors including technical, design and legal assistance. SolidEnergy Systems came in second place, and Navillum
A study of start-up characteristics of a potassium heat pipe from the frozen state
The start-up characteristics of a potassium heat pipe were studied both analytically and experimentally. Using the radiation heat transfer mode the heat pipe was tested in a vacuum chamber. The transition temperature calculated for potassium was then compared with the experimental results of the heat pipe with various heat inputs. These results show that the heat pipe was inactive until it reached the transition temperature. In addition, during the start-up period, the evaporator experienced dry-out with a heat input smaller than the capillary limit calculated at the steady state. However, when the working fluid at the condenser was completely melted, the evaporator was rewetted without external aid. The start-up period was significantly reduced with a large heat input.
New Jersey SmartStart Buildings - Direct Install Program | Department of
New Jersey SmartStart Buildings - Direct Install Program New Jersey SmartStart Buildings - Direct Install Program New Jersey SmartStart Buildings - Direct Install Program < Back Eligibility Commercial Industrial Local Government Nonprofit Savings Category Heating & Cooling Commercial Heating & Cooling Heating Cooling Other Construction Appliances & Electronics Commercial Lighting Lighting Manufacturing Maximum Rebate Lesser of 70% of project costs or $75,000 per project; annual entity cap of $250,000 Program Info Funding Source New Jersey Societal Benefits Charge (public benefits fund); ARRA State New Jersey Program Type State Rebate Program Rebate Amount Varies Provider c/o TRC Energy Services The Direct Install program offers turn-key energy efficiency solutions to qualified industrial and commercial customers that, with some exceptions,
The timing device comprises an escapement wheel and pallet, a spring drive to rotate the escapement wheel to a zero position, means to wind the pretensioned spring proportional to the desired signal time, and a cam mechanism to control an electrical signal switch by energizing the switch when the spring has been wound to the desired position, and deenergizing it when it reaches the zero position. This device produces an accurately timed signal variably witain the control of the operator.
Bennett, A.E.; Geisow, J.C.H.
Emulating the fast-start swimming performance of the Chain Pickerel (Esox niger) using a mechanical fish design
Mean maximum start-up accelerations and velocities achieved by the fast-start specialist, northern pike, are reported at 120 ms-2 and 4 ms-1, respectively (Harper and Blake, 1990). In this thesis, a simple mechanical system ...
Watts, Matthew Nicholas
How can a veteran find information about starting a new small business |
can a veteran find information about starting a new small business can a veteran find information about starting a new small business BusinessUSA Data/Tools Apps Challenges Let's Talk BusinessUSA You are here Data.gov » Communities » BusinessUSA » Forums How can a veteran find information about starting a new small business Submitted by Data.gov Administrator on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 2:14am Log in to vote 2 I have an idea but where should I start?Would it be VA or SBA? thanks Add new comment Check out the interactive map Permalink Submitted by SteveM on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 10:10am. Check out the interactive map at www.sba.gov/vets. It shows your nearest Veterans Business Outreach Center, where you can talk to a counselor about both SBA and VA programs for vet biz owners. reply Nice website Permalink Submitted by kevincook on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 10:57am.
Rapid start-up / restart avionics provide robust fault tolerance with reduced Size, Weight And Power
An approach that uses rapid start-up computers to provide fault-tolerance and transient upset recovery while minimizing Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) is described. 1 2 This paper provides a status report on a research project conducted by Draper Laboratory ...
Robert Hammett
The agreement gives the go-ahead for work to start
international parties involved in an experimental nuclear fusion reactor project have initialed a 10bnThe agreement gives the go- ahead for work to start Fusion reactor work gets go-ahead Seven-euro (£682m) agreement on the plan. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter
PEER-REVIEW Start-up Experience at the Robbins Resource Recovery Facility
to assure that an oranized maintenance program exists, a computerized maintenance management system · Appendix - Initial Valve and Switch Alignment The system operating, maintenance and start-up procedures Plan Plant Compressed Air System Waste Management Plan Demineralized Water System Record Keeping
Start-up Optimization of a Combined Cycle Power Plant A. Linda, E. Sllberga,
bModelon AB, Lund, Sweden cSiemens AG, Energy Sector, Erlangen, Germany Abstract In the electricity market of today, with increasing de- mand for electricity production on short notice, the combined cycle to opti- mize are explored. Results are encouraging and show that energy production during start-up can
Start | Author Index 742-2 Kinetics of Arsenic Transformations in the Soil Environment.
Start | Author Index 742-2 Kinetics of Arsenic Transformations in the Soil Environment. Wednesday of Delaware, 152 Townsend Hall, Center for Critical Zone Research, Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, DE 19716 and Donald L. Sparks, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and the Center for Critical Zone
PIER Glossary An acronym table is provided as a "starting point" for determining the proper term.
PIER Glossary · An acronym table is provided as a "starting point" for determining the proper term. The reader can then look up the term in the glossary. · Note that "synonyms" are not usually considered Preference Act TC Tailored Collaboration TSD Technology Systems Division #12;PIER Glossary Word Definition
A tine-delay circuit which produces a delay time in d. The circuit a capacitor, an te back resistance, connected serially with the anode of the diode going to ground. At the start of the time delay a negative stepfunction is applied to the series circuit and initiates a half-cycle transient oscillatory voltage terminated by a transient oscillatory voltage of substantially higher frequency. The output of the delay circuit is taken at the junction of the inductor and diode where a sudden voltage rise appears after the initiation of the higher frequency transient oscillations.
Creveling, R.
Investigation and demonstration of a rich combustor cold-start device for alcohol-fueled engines
The authors have completed a study in which they investigated the use of a rich combustor to aid in cold starting spark-ignition engines fueled with either neat ethanol or neat methanol. The rich combustor burns the alcohol fuel outside the engine under fuel-rich conditions to produce a combustible product stream that is fed to the engine for cold starting. The rich combustor approach significantly extends the cold starting capability of alcohol-fueled engines. A design tool was developed that simulates the operation of the combustor and couples it to an engine/vehicle model. This tool allows the user to determine the fuel requirements of the rich combustor as the vehicle executes a given driving mission. The design tool was used to design and fabricate a rich combustor for use on a 2.8 L automotive engine. The system was tested using a unique cold room that allows the engine to be coupled to an electric dynamometer. The engine was fitted with an aftermarket engine control system that permitted the fuel flow to the rich combustor to be programmed as a function of engine speed and intake manifold pressure. Testing indicated that reliable cold starts were achieved on both neat methanol and neat ethanol at temperatures as low as {minus}20 C. Although starts were experienced at temperatures as low as {minus}30 C, these were erratic. They believe that an important factor at the very low temperatures is the balance between the high mechanical friction of the engine and the low energy density of the combustible mixture fed to the engine from the rich combustor.
Hodgson, J.W.; Irick, D.K. [Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Simulation and Validation of Vapor Compression System Faults and Start-up/Shut-down Transients
The statistics from the US Department of Energy show that about one-third of the total consumption of electricity in the households and industries is due to the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (AC & R) systems. This wide usage has prompted many researchers to develop models for each of the components of the vapor compression systems. However, there has been very little information on developing simulation models that have been validated for the conditions of start-up/shutdown operations as well as vapor compression system faults. This thesis addresses these concerns and enhances the existing modeling library to capture the transients related to the above mentioned conditions. In this thesis, the various faults occurring in a vapor compressor cycle (VCC) have been identified along with the parameters affecting them. The transients of the refrigerant have also been studied with respect to the start-up/shutdown of a vapor compression system. All the simulations related to the faults and start-up/shutdown have been performed using the vapor compression system models developed in MATLAB/Simulink environment and validated against the 3-ton air conditioning unit present in the Thermo-Fluids Control Laboratory at Texas A & M University. The simulation and validation results presented in this thesis can be used to lay out certain rules of thumb to identify a particular fault depending on the unusual behavior of the system thus helping in creating certain fault diagnostic algorithms and emphasize the importance of the study of start-up/shutdown transient characteristics from the point of actual energy efficiency of the systems. Also, these results prove the capability and validity of the finite control volume models to describe VCC system faults and start-up/shutdown transients.
Ayyagari, Balakrishna
Modeling data with multiple time dimensions
A large class of problems in time series analysis can be represented by a set of overlapping time series with different starting times. These time series may be treated as different probes of the same underlying process. Such probes may follow a characteristic ... Keywords: Dendrochronology, Douglas fir, Dual-time dynamics, El Malpais, Generalized additive models, Global climate change, Non-linear dynamics, Non-linear modeling, Pinon pine, Ponderosa pine, Portfolio forecasting, Retail lending, SETI@home, Scenario-based forecasting, Search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Time series, Tree rings
Joseph L. Breeden
Western Pond Turtle Head-starting and Reintroduction; 2004-2005 Annual Report.
This report covers the results of the western pond turtle head-starting and reintroduction project for the period of October 2004-September 2005. Wild hatchling western pond turtles from the Columbia River Gorge were reared at the Woodland Park and Oregon Zoos in 2004 and 2005 as part of the recovery effort for this Washington State endangered species. The objective of the program is to reduce losses to introduced predators like bullfrogs and largemouth bass by raising the hatchlings to a size where they are too large to be eaten by most of these predators. Thirty-five turtles were placed at the Woodland Park Zoo and 53 at the Oregon Zoo. Of these, 77 head-started juvenile turtles were released at three sites in the Columbia Gorge in 2005. Four were held back to attain more growth in captivity. Eleven were released at the Klickitat ponds, 22 at the Klickitat lake, 39 at the Skamania site, and 5 at Pierce National Wildlife Refuge (NWR). This brought the total number of head-start turtles released since 1991 to 257 for the Klickitat ponds, 136 for the Klickitat lake, 206 for the Skamania pond complex, and 255 at Pierce NWR. In 2005, 34 females from the two Columbia Gorge populations were equipped with transmitters and monitored for nesting activity. Twenty-four nests were located and protected; these produced 90 hatchlings. The hatchlings were collected in September and transported to the Oregon and Woodland Park zoos for rearing in the head-start program. During the 2005 field season trapping effort, 486 western pond turtles were captured in the Columbia Gorge, including 430 previously head-started turtles. These recaptures, together with confirmed nesting by head-start females and visual resightings, indicate the program is succeeding in boosting juvenile recruitment to increase the populations. Records were also collected on 216 individual painted turtles captured in 2005 during trapping efforts at Pierce NWR, to gather baseline information on this native population. Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) funded approximately 75% of program activities in the Columbia River Gorge from October 2004 through September 2005.
Van Leuven, Susan; Allen, Harriet; Slavin, Kate (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wildlife Management Program, Olympia, WA)
Digestion time
Digestion time Digestion time Name: Don Mancosh Location: N/A Country: N/A Date: N/A Question: I have always given the rule of thumb in class that material we eat is with us for about 24 hours before exiting the body. The question arises about the time value of liquids. Getting a big coke prior to a 3 hour drive generally means that there will be a stop along the way. Is there a generalization made about liquids in the body similar to the one for solid food? Replies: A physician would give a better answer, but I hazard this: the only liquids which people consume (deliberately) in significant quantities are water, ethyl alcohol and various oils. Water and alcohol are absorbed on a time scale of seconds to minutes through the mouth, stomach and digestive tract. The oils are huge molecules, so I'd guess like any other greasy food they get absorbed in the upper digestive tract. Some of them, perhaps the longest and most nonpolar, are not absorbed at all --- cf. the old-time remedy of mineral oil for constipation --- so there should be some average time-before-what's-left-is-excreted such as you're looking for, and my (wild) guess is that it would not differ substantially from that for food. You can define an average lifetime in the body for alcohol, since the natural level is zero. Rough guidelines are widespread in the context of drunk driving laws. But this is not really possible for water. One's body is normally full up to the brim with water, and there's no way for the body to distinguish between water molecules recently absorbed and molecules that've been moping around since the Beatles split up. Thus the water entering the toilet bowl after the pit stop is not in general the same water as was in the big coke. If you were to consider for water just the average time between drinking and peeing, it would seem to depend strongly on how well hydrated the body was before the drink, and how much was drunk. During sustained heavy exertion in the sun and dry air one can easily drink a pint of water an hour without peeing at all. On the other hand, if one is willing to drink enough water fast enough, so as to establish a high excess of body water one can pee 8 ounces 15 minutes or less after drinking 8 ounces.
Iowa Start-up May Be "America's Next Top Energy Innovator" |
May Be "America's Next Top Energy Innovator" May Be "America's Next Top Energy Innovator" Iowa Start-up May Be "America's Next Top Energy Innovator" August 4, 2011 - 1:09pm Addthis Company Licenses Technology from Ames Laboratory to Produce Titanium Powder for Use in Military, Biomedical and Aerospace Components Washington, DC -- U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced that an Iowa based start-up company has been selected to participate in the Department of Energy's "America's Next Top Energy Innovator" challenge. Iowa Powder Atomization Technologies (IPAT) has signed a technology license agreement to use technologies developed by Ames Laboratory to produce fine titanium powder that can be used to improve military, biomedical and aerospace components, and can possibly be used in
Major Projects with Quick Starts & Jobs Creation Office of Clean Coal
Projects with Quick Starts & Jobs Creation Projects with Quick Starts & Jobs Creation Office of Clean Coal Summary of Projects and Job Creation The following table outlines the near-term possibilities for projects that capture and sequester carbon from coal-based systems. The potential jobs associated with these activities are listed along with likely construction and operation dates. Since the funding is primarily for construction and associated activities, a rough estimate of 30 job years per $1 million dollars expended was used. COAL/CCS PROJECTS & JOBS CREATION GOV'T INDUSTRY TOTAL TOTAL FUNDING FUNDING FUNDING AWARD JOB PROGRAM/PROJECT ($Million) ($Million) ($Million) DATE CONSTRUCT OPERATE YEARS Current CCPI 440 660 1,100 2010 late 2011 2014 33,000 CCPI Plus $1000M for Additional Projects 1000 1000 2,000 2010 late 2011 2014 60,000
Exploration of cloud computing late start LDRD #149630 : Raincoat. v. 2.1.
This report contains documentation from an interoperability study conducted under the Late Start LDRD 149630, Exploration of Cloud Computing. A small late-start LDRD from last year resulted in a study (Raincoat) on using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to enhance security in a hybrid cloud environment. Raincoat initially explored the use of OpenVPN on IPv4 and demonstrates that it is possible to secure the communication channel between two small 'test' clouds (a few nodes each) at New Mexico Tech and Sandia. We extended the Raincoat study to add IPSec support via Vyatta routers, to interface with a public cloud (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)), and to be significantly more scalable than the previous iteration. The study contributed to our understanding of interoperability in a hybrid cloud.
Echeverria, Victor T.; Metral, Michael David; Leger, Michelle A.; Gabert, Kasimir Georg; Edgett, Patrick Garrett; Thai, Tan Q.
Method and apparatus for operating a self-starting air heating system
A self-starting, fuel fired, air heating system including a fuel burner fired vapor generator, a turbine, and a condenser connected in a closed circuit such that the vapor output from the vapor generator is conducted to the turbine and then to the condenser where it is condensed for return to the vapor generator. The turbine drives an air blower which passes air over the condenser for cooling the condenser and heating the air. Also, a condensate pump is driven by the turbine. The disclosure is particularly concerned with a method and apparatus which on start-up prevents the vapor generator's vapor output from being conducted to the turbine until a predetermined pressure differential has been achieved. However, after the vapor flow is once permitted, it cannot again be prevented until after the fuel burner has been shut off and restarted.
Heinrich, Charles E. (Mentor, OH)
Commissioning and Start Up of a 110 MegaWatt Cogeneration Facility
"In December of 1987, Union Carbide successfully brought on line a 110,000 KVA combined cycle cogeneration facility. The construction, commissioning and start up of this complex facility was accomplished in a remarkably short twelve months. As with all projects of any magnitude, there were several technical challenges that developed during the course of the year. These challenges and the Project Team response will be discussed in some detail. Some areas include: 1. Procurement 2. Technical review of specs and drawings 3. Existing manufacturing facility constraints 4. Mechanical problems 5. Electrical problems 6. Control system / instrumentation problems The commissioning and start up had to be coordinated with existing Plant operations. As a result of the Project Team's efforts, the cogeneration facility achieved 100% of design output on December 22, 1987 without any significant impact on the manufacturing facility."
Good, R.
Re-START: The second operational test of the String Thermionic Assembly Research Testbed
The second operational test of the String Thermionic Assembly Research Testbed -- Re-START -- was carried out from June 9 to June 14, 1997. This test series was designed to help qualify and validate the designs and test methods proposed for the Integrated Solar Upper Stage (ISUS) power converters for use during critical evaluations of the complete ISUS bimodal system during the Engine Ground Demonstration (EGD). The test article consisted of eight ISUS prototype thermionic converter diodes electrically connected in series.
Wyant, F.J. [Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States); Luchau, D. [TEAM Specialty Services, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (United States); McCarson, T.D. [New Mexico Engineering Research Inst., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
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Amin, S. Massoud
Experience Based Interview Process for Power Plant Management: With a Pilot Application to Aging of Outage Support Equipment
Plant managers are responsible for ensuring that their facilities meet strategic asset management goals in an increasingly competitive power generation marketplace. This report describes an experience based interview (EBI) method for capturing the knowledge of plant staff to more efficiently identify technical or operational issues and make management decisions that protect assets. Included is a demonstration of the method in a pilot application to aging of support equipment that could impact outages in ...
Time Brightness
Perlmutter, et al., in Thermonuclear Supernovae, NATO ASI, v. 486 (1997) Perlmutter, et al., in Thermonuclear Supernovae, NATO ASI, v. 486 (1997) Cosmology from . . . Time Brightness ... . . . 50-100 Fields Lunar Calendar Scheduled Follow-Up Imaging at Hubble, Cerro Tololo, WIYN, Isaac Newton Scheduled Follow-Up Spectroscopy at Keck Almost 1000 Galaxies per Field RESULT: ~24 Type Ia supernovae discovered while still brightening, at new moon Berkeley Lab Keck WIYN Cerro Tololo Isaac Newton Hubble Strategy We developed a strategy to guarantee a group of supernova discoveries on a certain date. Just after a new moon, we observe some 50 to 100 high-galactic lattitute fields-each containing almost a thousand high-redshift galaxies-in two nights on the Cerro Tololo 4-meter telescope with Tyson & Bernstein's wide-field camera. We return three weeks later to observe the same
START-3: Operational Evaluations of the ISUS Engine Ground Demonstration Thermionic Power System
START-3 was a test program conducted in order to demonstrate and characterize the operational performance of the prototype Integrated Solar Upper Stage (ISUS) thermionic power system. The test device consisted of a graphite thermal storage uni~ multilayer foil insulation, and sixteen thermionic converters electrically connected in a series array. Several thermal input conditions were achieved during the test, which resulted in measuring converter performance at average converter hot shoe temperatures in the range of 1600 K to 2000 K. Results indicate that the ;hermionic converter; did not perform as weil as expected in the array individual sixteen converters is currently being performed.
Luchau, D.W.; Luke, J.R.; Wyant, F.J.
Design, construction and start-up of a modern coke plant
The planning and design of a 60-oven, 6m replacement coke battery and associated by-products plant for Republic Steel Corp, Chicago, are described together with the constructional methods used and problems experienced through start-up of the facility. Pushing emission control is achieved with a Mitsubishi-type land-based system and changing emission control with a Nippon Steel combination car and land-based system. A Takahax-Hirohax coke-oven gas desulphurization unit is included in the by-product plant. Construction began in March 1979 with the first push in December 1981.
Williams, A.E.
Computing a Probability Distribution for the Start of the Rains from a Markov Chain Model for Precipitation
The start of the rains is defined to be the first day, or two-day rain spell, in which greater than a specified total amount of rain occurs. A method of calculating the probability distribution of the start of the rains from a Markov chain model ...
R. D. Stern
Construction Timing and Expectations | Department of Energy
Construction Timing and Expectations Construction Timing and Expectations Construction Timing and Expectations October 16, 2013 - 5:07pm Addthis Creating a detailed construction schedule that allows all the project elements to be coordinated in a timely manner is fundamental to any successful construction project. The construction schedule should take into account that many tasks cannot be started before others are finished. It should also account for special schedule considerations related to renewable energy systems. Key elements of most new construction or major renovation projects include landscape, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, communication systems, and renewable energy systems. Maintaining the highest quality of construction across all elements is fundamental to any
Comparison of Photoluminescence Imaging on Starting Multi-Crystalline Silicon Wafers to Finished Cell Performance: Preprint
Photoluminescence (PL) imaging techniques can be applied to multicrystalline silicon wafers throughout the manufacturing process. Both band-to-band PL and defect-band emissions, which are longer-wavelength emissions from sub-bandgap transitions, are used to characterize wafer quality and defect content on starting multicrystalline silicon wafers and neighboring wafers processed at each step through completion of finished cells. Both PL imaging techniques spatially highlight defect regions that represent dislocations and defect clusters. The relative intensities of these imaged defect regions change with processing. Band-to-band PL on wafers in the later steps of processing shows good correlation to cell quality and performance. The defect band images show regions that change relative intensity through processing, and better correlation to cell efficiency and reverse-bias breakdown is more evident at the starting wafer stage as opposed to later process steps. We show that thermal processing in the 200 degrees - 400 degrees C range causes impurities to diffuse to different defect regions, changing their relative defect band emissions.
Johnston, S.; Yan, F.; Dorn, D.; Zaunbrecher, K.; Al-Jassim, M.; Sidelkheir, O.; Ounadjela, K.
Start-up and control method and apparatus for resonant free piston Stirling engine
A resonant free-piston Stirling engine having a new and improved start-up and control method and system. A displacer linear electrodynamic machine is provided having an armature secured to and movable with the displacer and having a stator supported by the Stirling engine housing in juxtaposition to the armature. A control excitation circuit is provided for electrically exciting the displacer linear electrodynamic machine with electrical excitation signals having substantially the same frequency as the desired frequency of operation of the Stirling engine. The excitation control circuit is designed so that it selectively and controllably causes the displacer electrodynamic machine to function either as a generator load to extract power from the displacer or the control circuit selectively can be operated to cause the displacer electrodynamic machine to operate as an electric drive motor to apply additional input power to the displacer in addition to the thermodynamic power feedback to the displacer whereby the displacer linear electrodynamic machine also is used in the electric drive motor mode as a means for initially starting the resonant free-piston Stirling engine. 3 figs.
Walsh, M.M.
A resonant free-piston Stirling engine having a new and improved start-up and control method and system. A displacer linear electrodynamic machine is provided having an armature secured to and movable with the displacer and having a stator supported by the Stirling engine housing in juxtaposition to the armature. A control excitation circuit is provided for electrically exciting the displacer linear electrodynamic machine with electrical excitation signals having substantially the same frequency as the desired frequency of operation of the Stirling engine. The excitation control circuit is designed so that it selectively and controllably causes the displacer electrodynamic machine to function either as a generator load to extract power from the displacer or the control circuit selectively can be operated to cause the displacer electrodynamic machine to operate as an electric drive motor to apply additional input power to the displacer in addition to the thermodynamic power feedback to the displacer whereby the displacer linear electrodynamic machine also is used in the electric drive motor mode as a means for initially starting the resonant free-piston Stirling engine.
Walsh, Michael M. (Schenectady, NY)
Start Up of a Nb-1%Zr Potassium Heat Pipe From the Frozen State
The start up of a liquid-metal heat pipe from the frozen state was evaluated experimentally with a Nb-1%Zr heat pipe with potassium as the working fluid. The heat pipe was fabricated and tested at Los Alamos National Laboratory. RF induction heating was used to heat 13 cm of the 1-m-long heat pipe. The heat pipe and test conditions are well characterized so that the test data may be used for comparison with numerical analyses. An attempt was made during steady state tests to calibrate the heat input so that the heat input would be known during the transient cases. The heat pipe was heated to 675C with a throughput of 600 W and an input heat flux of 6 W/cm 2 . Steady state tests, start up from the frozen state, and transient variations from steady state were conducted. Nomenclature English L length m . mass flow rate PS power setting r radius q heat flux q" heat flux per unit area T temperature v voltage V volume x axial location on heat pipe Greek e porosity r resist...
Since Its Founding; David E. Glass; Michael A. Merrigan; J. Tom Sena
A simple geometric algorithm to predict optimal starting gantry angles using equiangular-spaced beams for intensity modulated radiation therapy of prostate cancer
A fast, geometric beam angle optimization (BAO) algorithm for clinical intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) was implemented on ten localized prostate cancer patients on the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) 0126 protocol. The BAO algorithm computed the beam intersection volume (BIV) within the rectum and bladder using five and seven equiangular-spaced beams as a function of starting gantry angle for comparison to the V 75 Gy and V 70 Gy. A mathematical theory was presented to explain the correlation of BIV with dose and dose-volume metrics. The class solution 'W' pattern in the rectal V 75 Gy and V 70 Gy as a function of starting gantry angle using five equiangular-spaced beams (with two separate minima centered near 20 deg. and 50 deg. ) was reproduced by the 5 BIV within the rectum. A strong correlation was found between the rectal 5 BIV and the rectal V 75 Gy and V 70 Gy as a function of starting gantry angle. The BAO algorithm predicted the location of the two dosimetric minima in rectal V 75 Gy and V 70 Gy (optimal starting gantry angles) to within 5 deg. . It was demonstrated that the BIV geometric variations for seven equiangular-spaced beams were too small to translate into a strong dosimetric effect in the rectal V 75 Gy and V 70 Gy. The relatively flat distribution with starting gantry angle of the bladder V 75 Gy and V 70 Gy was reproduced by the bladder five and seven BIV for each patient. A geometric BAO method based on BIV has the advantage over dosimetric BAO methods of simplicity and rapid computation time. This algorithm can be used as a standalone optimization method or act as a rapid calculation filter to reduce the search space for a dosimetric BAO method. Given the clinically infeasible computation times of many dosimetric beam orientation optimization algorithms, this robust geometric BIV algorithm has the potential to facilitate beam angle selection for prostate IMRT in clinical practice.
Potrebko, Peter S.; McCurdy, Boyd M. C.; Butler, James B.; El-Gubtan, Adel S.; Nugent, Zoann [Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2 (Canada) and Division of Medical Physics, CancerCare Manitoba, 675 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 0V9 (Canada); Division of Medical Physics, CancerCare Manitoba, 675 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 0V9 (Canada); Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 (Canada) and Department of Radiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A 1R9 (Canada); Department of Radiation Oncology, CancerCare Manitoba, 675 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 0V9 (Canada) and Department of Radiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A 1R9 (Canada); Department of Epidemiology, CancerCare Manitoba, 675 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 0V9 (Canada)
ABWR start-up test analysis using BWR core simulator with three-dimensional direct response matrix method
The ABWR start-up test analysis has been done with the BWR core simulator using the three--dimensional direct response matrix (3D-DRM) method. The Monte Carlo code VMONT made the sub-response matrices for the 3D-DRM method. Each boundary surface was subdivided by 4 x 4 for transverse segments, by 4 for angular segments and by 4 for axial zones in a node. For the calculation speedup, the 3D-DRM code used the divided sub-response matrices data set. The code used the MPI and OpenMP for the parallelized method. The median value is set as the average critical eigenvalues. The changes from the maximum value to the minimum value are 0.34 %{Delta}k with the spectral history method and 0.40 %{Delta}k without it, and the respective standard deviations were 0.12 % and 0.14 %. Using the spectral history method decreased the variation by 0.06 %{Delta}k. The root mean square differences of the axial power distribution were about 6 % between the analysis results and the plant data. Using the currents which converged in the previous exposure step reduced the number of iterations when the CR pattern changed only slightly. The averaged calculation time for each exposure step was about 5 hours on 12 PC Linux cluster servers with Core 2 Quad 3 GHz. (authors)
Mitsuyasu, T.; Ishii, K.; Hino, T.; Aoyama, M. [Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Research Laboratory, 2-1 Omika-cho 7-chome, Hitachi-shi Ibaraki-ken, 319-1221 (Japan)
University of Pittsburgh Early Head Start (Family Foundations) is a 15-year project that
. The program continually serves 290 children in a home-based environment so that parents spend time
Mitigation of SCC Initiation on BWR Core Internals by Means of Hydrogen Water Chemistry During Start-Up
Hydrogen injection has been applied as a preventive measure against the stress corrosion cracking (SCC) phenomenon in many boiling water reactors. However, it can be applied only during normal plant operation since hydrogen is usually injected into the feedwater and this system is in standby mode during start-up operations. It is estimated that the core internals are subjected to the strain rate that may cause susceptibility to SCC initiation during start-up. Therefore, it is beneficial to perform hydrogen injection during start-up as well in order to suppress SCC initiation.For this purpose, we installed an additional hydrogen injection system to be used during plant start-up at the Tokai-2 power station. This trial Hydrogen water chemistry During Start-up (HDS) system was applied following the 19th refueling and maintenance outage in December 2002. By comparing results obtained during this start-up with HDS to previous start-up data using normal water chemistry, we made the following observations. First, as the reactor water temperature increased from initial conditions up to 180 deg. C via nuclear heating, dissolved oxygen and hydrogen peroxide concentrations decreased to levels lower than previously observed. Second, during subsequent nuclear heating, up to 250 deg. C, the dissolved oxygen concentration did not exceed 1 ppb, and the electrochemical corrosion potential was maintained in a low range near -400 mV versus the standard hydrogen electrode.
Abe, Ayumi; Tobita, Hidehiro; Nagata, Nobuaki; Dozaki, Koji; Takiguchi, Hideki [Japan Atomic Power Company (Japan)
Analysis of the Impacts of an Early Start for Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol
Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update (EIA)
2 2 Analysis of the Impacts of an Early Start for Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol July 1999 Energy Information Administration Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC 20585 This report was prepared by the Energy Information Administration, the independent statistical and analytical agency within the Department of Energy. The information contained herein should be attributed to the Energy Information Administration and should not be construed as advocating or reflecting any policy position of the Department of Energy or of any other organization. Service Reports are prepared by the Energy Information Administration upon special request and are based on assumptions specified by the requester. Preface The analysis in this report was undertaken at the request of the Committee on Science of the U.S.
START Program: Alaska Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (Office of Indian Energy) (Fact Sheet)
Empowering Indian Empowering Indian Country to Energize Future Generations The on-the-ground START program is part of a broader DOE-IE effort to make reliable, accurate technical information and skills-based training available to tribal communities throughout the United States. Ultimately, these efforts will serve to further the Administration and DOE's shared commitment to provide Native American and Alaska Native communities with the tools and resources they need to foster tribal energy self-sufficiency and sustainability, advancing job creation, and enhancing economic competitiveness. The DOE Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs is charged by Congress to direct, foster, coordinate, and implement energy planning, education, management, and programs that
ENERGY STAR Update: Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR Kicks Off (April 12, 2013)
2, 2013 2, 2013 Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR Kicks Off with Announcement of Top Pledge Drivers Earth Day is right around the corner and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is celebrating this important holiday by once again by announcing our top pledge drivers and inviting you to join all of us in changing the world with ENERGY STAR. Congratulations to: Georgia Power Company, Girl Scouts of the USA, Samsung Electronics, Nissan North America, and Ameren Illinois. Saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas pollution are more important than ever. Climate change is a real and urgent challenge affecting people and the environment worldwide. Through our collective energy-saving efforts, representing more than 3 million Americans, we are on track to save nearly $1.2
Feedback" An Article for Smart Grid News The Smart Grid Transition-Getting Started
Sharing Smart Grid Experiences through Performance Sharing Smart Grid Experiences through Performance Feedback" An Article for Smart Grid News The Smart Grid Transition-Getting Started We are on the ground floor of a Smart Grid transition that is leading us out of a centralized, information- limited infrastructure into an intelligent, modernized electric system. Simply put, our aim is to achieve a smarter grid, one that is merged with ubiquitous information and communication technologies that support a balance of centralized and distributed resources of all kinds and the active engagement of its consumers. Since 2005, a great deal of work has been done to define the vision for the Smart Grid and to communicate that vision to stakeholders. As a result, understanding has increased and many
A Method for Identifying Splice Sites and Translational Start Sites in Eukaryotic mRNA
This paper describes a new method for determining the consensus sequences that signal the start of translation and the boundaries between exons and introns (donor and acceptor sites) in eukaryotic mRNA. The method takes into account the dependencies between adjacent bases, in contrast to the usual technique of considering each position independently. When coupled with a dynamic program to compute the most likely sequence, new consensus sequences emerge. The consensus sequence information is summarized in conditional probability matrices which, when used to locate signals in uncharacterized genomic DNA, have greater sensitivity and specificity than conventional matrices. Species-specific versions of these matrices are especially effective at distinguishing true and false sites.
Steven L. Salzberg
Start-up operations at the Fenton Hill HDR Pilot Plant
With the completion of the surface test facilities at Fenton Hill, the Hot Dry Rock (HDR) Geothermal Energy Program at Los Alamos is moving steadily into the next stage of development. Start-up operations of the surface facilities have begun in preparation for testing the Phase II reservoir and the initial steady-state phase of operations. A test program has been developed that will entail a number of operational strategies to characterize the thermal performance of the reservoir. The surface facilities have been designed to assure high reliability while providing the flexibility and control to support the different operating modes. This paper presents a review of the system design and provides a discussion of the preliminary results of plant operations and equipment performance.
Ponden, R.F.
Great Plains Coal Gasification Plant start-up and modification report. [Lurgi Process
This report will help in designing future coal conversion plants by documenting the areas which need additional research to obtain more reliable process data, more careful planning and equipment selection. The scope of this report is to: describe the problem with the particular process or item of equipment; identify the modification that was implemented to correct the problem; evaluate the impacts of the modification; and document the cost of the modification. Contents include the following: (1) process modifications (coal, oxygen and steam, gasification and gas processing, sulfur recovery, flare system, liquid processing, ash handling and solids disposal, other systems); (2) start-up schedule; (3) SNG production; (4) environmental data; and (5) cost data.
Miller, W.R.; Honea, F.I.; Lang, R.A.; Berty, T.E.; Delaney, R.C.; Hospodarec, R.W.; Mako, P.F.
Plummeting crude prices hurt West Coast work, but several projects start up
The U.S. West Coast this year will see the nation's first commercial offshore arctic production and the start-up of oil flow from the controversial Santa Maria basin off California. An even bigger controversy involves the best remaining U.S. petroleum prospect-the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The collapse in oil prices in 1986 has crippled drilling on the West Coast. The region always has had to contend with lower prices for lesser quality crudes and some of the highest operating costs in the U.S. But as oil prices continue to show stability, action will rebound in the two states that furnish more than one third of U.S. oil production.
Williams, B.
How Ancient Rock Got Off to a Hot Start | Advanced Photon Source
Quantum of Vibration in an Unexpected Place Quantum of Vibration in an Unexpected Place A Virus That Can Infect Lung Cancer Cells Imaging Plant Viruses Could Yield New Ways to Safeguard Crops Extreme Pressure Reveals a Volume Expansion Phenomenon A Nuclear Receptor with Implications for a Host of Diseases Science Highlights Archives: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 2001 | 2000 | 1998 | Subscribe to APS Science Highlights rss feed How Ancient Rock Got Off to a Hot Start OCTOBER 22, 2008 Bookmark and Share An olivine grain from Belingwe komattite sample MGZ8 containing melt inclusions. Inclusions were reheated to 1300° C and quenched to glass. A new technique that employs high-brightness x-ray beams has enabled scientists to play "detective" and solve a debate about the origins of
Start-Up Operations at the Fenton Hill HDR Pilot Plant
Ponden, Raymond F.
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Advanced hydrogen/methanol utilization technology demonstration. Phase II: Hydrogen cold start of a methanol vehicle
This is the Phase 11 Final Report on NREL Subcontract No. XR-2-11175-1 {open_quotes}Advanced Hydrogen/Methane Utilization Demonstration{close_quotes} between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Alternative Fuels Utilization Program, Golden, Colorado and Hydrogen Consultants, Inc. (HCI), Littleton, Colorado. Mr. Chris Colucci was NREL`s Technical Monitor. Colorado State University`s (CSU) Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory was HCI`s subcontractor. Some of the vehicle test work was carried out at the National Center for Vehicle Emissions Control and Safety (NCVECS) at CSU. The collaboration of the Colorado School of Mines is also gratefully acknowledged. Hydrogen is unique among alternative fuels in its ability to burn over a wide range of mixtures in air with no carbon-related combustion products. Hydrogen also has the ability to burn on a catalyst, starting from room temperature. Hydrogen can be made from a variety of renewable energy resources and is expected to become a widely used energy carrier in the sustainable energy system of the future. One way to make a start toward widespread use of hydrogen in the energy system is to use it sparingly with other alternative fuels. The Phase I work showed that strong affects could be achieved with dilute concentrations of hydrogen in methane (11). Reductions in emissions greater than the proportion of hydrogen in the fuel provide a form of leverage to stimulate the early introduction of hydrogen. Per energy unit or per dollar of hydrogen, a greater benefit is derived than simply displacing fossil-fueled vehicles with pure hydrogen vehicles.
The Challenge for Arms Control Verification in the Post-New START World
Nuclear weapon arms control treaty verification is a key aspect of any agreement between signatories to establish that the terms and conditions spelled out in the treaty are being met. Historically, arms control negotiations have focused more on the rules and protocols for reducing the numbers of warheads and delivery systems - sometimes resorting to complex and arcane procedures for counting forces - in an attempt to address perceived or real imbalances in a nation's strategic posture that could lead to instability. Verification procedures are generally defined in arms control treaties and supporting documents and tend to focus on technical means and measures designed to ensure that a country is following the terms of the treaty and that it is not liable to engage in deception or outright cheating in an attempt to circumvent the spirit and the letter of the agreement. As the Obama Administration implements the articles, terms, and conditions of the recently ratified and entered-into-force New START treaty, there are already efforts within and outside of government to move well below the specified New START levels of 1550 warheads, 700 deployed strategic delivery vehicles, and 800 deployed and nondeployed strategic launchers (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) silos, Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) tubes on submarines, and bombers). A number of articles and opinion pieces have appeared that advocate for significantly deeper cuts in the U.S. nuclear stockpile, with some suggesting that unilateral reductions on the part of the U.S. would help coax Russia and others to follow our lead. Papers and studies prepared for the U.S. Department of Defense and at the U.S. Air War College have also been published, suggesting that nuclear forces totaling no more than about 300 warheads would be sufficient to meet U.S. national security and deterrence needs. (Davis 2011, Schaub and Forsyth 2010) Recent articles by James M. Acton and others suggest that the prospects for maintaining U.S. security and minimizing the chances of nuclear war, while deliberately reducing stockpiles to a few hundred weapons, is possible but not without risk. While the question of the appropriate level of cuts to U.S. nuclear forces is being actively debated, a key issue continues to be whether verification procedures are strong enough to ensure that both the U.S. and Russia are fulfilling their obligations under the current New Start treaty and any future arms reduction treaties. A recent opinion piece by Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft (2012) raised a number of issues with respect to governing a policy to enhance strategic stability, including: in deciding on force levels and lower numbers, verification is crucial. Particularly important is a determination of what level of uncertainty threatens the calculation of stability. At present, that level is well within the capabilities of the existing verification systems. We must be certain that projected levels maintain - and when possible, reinforce - that confidence. The strengths and weaknesses of the New START verification regime should inform and give rise to stronger regimes for future arms control agreements. These future arms control agreements will likely need to include other nuclear weapons states and so any verification regime will need to be acceptable to all parties. Currently, China is considered the most challenging party to include in any future arms control agreement and China's willingness to enter into verification regimes such as those implemented in New START may only be possible when it feels it has reached nuclear parity with the U.S. and Russia. Similarly, in keeping with its goals of reaching peer status with the U.S. and Russia, Frieman (2004) suggests that China would be more willing to accept internationally accepted and applied verification regimes rather than bilateral ones. The current verification protocols specified in the New START treaty are considered as the baseline case and are contrasted with possible alternative verification protocols that could be e
Wuest, C R
Effect of CNG start - gasoline run on emissions from a 3/4 ton pick-up truck
This paper describes experiments to determine the effect on exhaust emissions of starting on compressed natural gas (CNG) and then switching to gasoline once the catalyst reaches operating temperature. Carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and detailed exhaust hydrocarbon speciation data were obtained for dedicated CNG, then unleaded gasoline, and finally CNG start - gasoline run using the Federal Test Procedure at 24{degree}C and at -7{degree}C. The results was a reductiopn in emissions from the gasoline baseline, especially at -7{degree}C. It was estimated that CNG start - gasoline run resulted in a 71 percent reduction in potential ozone formation per mile. 3 refs., 6 figs., 11 tabs.
Springer, K.J.; Smith, L.R.; Dickinson, A.G.
Tank Farm Contractor Phase 1 Feed Delivery and Storage and Disposal Mission Summary for 2006 Hot Start Extended Order
This is the level one logic diagram for the River Protection Project (RPP), Tank Farm Contractor, Phase 1, Feed Delivery Storage and Disposal Mission Summary for 2006 Hot Start.
Reducing cold start hydrocarbon emissions from port fuel injected spark ignition engines with improved management of hardware & controls
An experimental study was performed to investigate strategies for reducing cold start hydrocarbon (HC) emissions from port fuel injected (PFI) spark ignition (SI) engines with better use of existing hardware and control ...
Lang, Kevin R., 1980-
Use of Multiple Verification Methods to Evaluate Forecasts of Convection from Hot- and Cold-Start Convection-Allowing Models
This study uses both traditional and newer verification methods to evaluate two 4-km grid-spacing Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) forecasts: a �cold start� forecast that uses the 12-km North American Mesoscale Model (NAM) analysis and ...
Derek R. Stratman; Michael C. Coniglio; Steven E. Koch; Ming Xue
Seasonal Prediction of Air Temperature Associated with the Growing-Season Start of Warm-Season Crops across Canada
Seasonal prediction of growing-season start of warm-season crops (GSSWC) is an important task for the agriculture sector to identify risks and opportunities in advance. On the basis of observational daily surface air temperature at 210 stations ...
Zhiwei Wu; Hai Lin; Ted O�Brien
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�Eyeballing� Trends in Climate Time Series: A Cautionary Note
In examining a plot of a time series of a scalar climate variable for indications of climate change, an investigator might pick out what appears to be a linear trend commencing near the end of the record. Visual determination of the starting time ...
Donald B. Percival; D. Andrew Rothrock
Advanced Start of Combustion Sensor Phases I and II-A: Feasibility Demonstration, Design and Optimization
Homogeneous Compressed Charge Ignition (HCCI) has elevated the need for Start of Combustion (SOC) sensors. HCCI engines have been the exciting focus of engine research recently, primarily because HCCI offers higher thermal efficiency than the conventional Spark Ignition (SI) engines and significantly lower NOx and soot emissions than conventional Compression Ignition (CI) engines, and could be fuel neutral. HCCI has the potential to unify all the internal combustion engine technology to achieve the high-efficiency, low-emission goal. However, these advantages do not come easy. It is well known that the problems encountered with HCCI combustion center on the difficulty of controlling the Start of Combustion. TIAX has an SOC sensor under development which has shown promise. In previous work, including a DOE-sponsored SBIR project, TIAX has developed an accelerometer-based method which was able to determine SOC within a few degrees crank angle for a range of operating conditions. A signal processing protocol allows reconstruction of the combustion pressure event signal imbedded in the background engine vibration recorded by the accelerometer. From this reconstructed pressure trace, an algorithm locates the SOC. This SOC sensor approach is nonintrusive, rugged, and is particularly robust when the pressure event is strong relative to background engine vibration (at medium to high engine load). Phase I of this project refined the previously developed technology with an engine-generic and robust algorithm. The objective of the Phase I research was to answer two fundamental questions: Can the accelerometer-based SOC sensor provide adequate SOC event capture to control an HCCI engine in a feedback loop? And, will the sensor system meet cost, durability, and software efficiency (speed) targets? Based upon the results, the answer to both questions was 'YES'. The objective of Phase II-A was to complete the parameter optimization of the SOC sensor prototype in order to reach a juncture where plans can be and are discussed with an industry partner for how best to perform a more detailed implementation of the TIAX SOC technology on an HCCI engine system. This occurred, as evidenced the number of potential commercialization partners shown in Table 4. Potential Commercialization Partners Contacted (up to date as of January 31, 2010). During the two phases, a robust, engine-generic algorithm was developed that met the desired targets and was shown to work extremely well for HCCI engine operation.
Chad Smutzer
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Cold-Start Emissions Control in Hybrid Vehicles Equipped with a Passive Hydrocarbon and NOx Adsorber
We presents a study of the potential for using low-cost sorbent materials (i.e. Ag-Beta-zeolite and Fe-Mn-Zr transition metal oxides) to temporally trap hydrocarbons (HCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions during cold-start periods in HEVs and PHEVs over transient driving cycles. The adsorption behavior of the candidate sorbent materials was characterized in our laboratory flow reactor experiments. The parameters were then used to develop a one-dimensional, transient device model which has been implemented in the Powertrain Systems Analysis Toolkit (PSAT) to simulate a passive HC and NOx absorber device. The results show that such an absorber can substantially reduce HC and NOx emissions by storing them when the 3-way catalyst is too cool to function and re-releasing them when the exhaust temperature rises. These improved emission controls do not involve any penalty in fuel consumption or require any change in engine operation. The cost of these sorbent materials is also much less than conventional 3-way catalysts.
Gao, Zhiming [ORNL; Kim, Miyoung [ORNL; Choi, Jae-Soon [ORNL; Daw, C Stuart [ORNL; Parks, II, James E [ORNL; Smith, David E [ORNL
Supply curve impacts of Quick Start projects in Phase 1 of the Resource Supply Expansion Program
The Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) prepared this report under contract to the Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville), as part of the Resource Supply Expansion Project (RSEP). RSEP is a regional program instituted by Bonneville to expand conservation and renewable generation options available to resource planners and utilities. Resource alternatives are increased by RSEP through demonstration projects designed in a collaborative process that targets specific barriers to resource development including institutional, market, and reliability barriers. RSEP was launched with several projects that were designed and implemented quickly in 1992 to lay a foundation for future collaboration. The purpose of this report is to introduce the goal and structure of RSEP and to describe the so-called ``Quick Start`` RSEP projects in Phase One of RSEP. This description includes a preliminary estimate of the energy savings and/or other expected impacts of RSEP projects funded in FY 1992 and 1993. Similar estimates are also included for Bonneville projects to confirm wind and geothermal generation potential. Bonneville`s Geothermal Confirmation Agenda preceded implementation of RSEP, although it has a similar objective and collaborative approach.
Wright, G.A.; Warwick, W.M.; Durfee, D.L.
Nonlinear dynamics analysis of a membrane Stirling engine: Starting and stable operation
This paper presents the work devoted to the study of the operation of a miniaturized membrane Stirling engine. Indeed, such an engine relies on the dynamic coupling of the motion of two membranes to achieve a prime mover Stirling thermodynamic cycle. The modelling of the system introduces the large vibration amplitudes of the membrane as well as the nonlinear dissipative effects associated to the fluid flow within the engine. The nonlinearities are expressed as polynomial functions with quadratic and cubic terms. This paper displays the stability analysis to predict the starting of the engine and the instability problem which leads to the steady state behaviour. The centre manifold - normal form theory is used to obtain the simplest expression for the limit cycle amplitudes. The approach allows the reduction of the number of equations of the original system in order to obtain a simplified system, without loosing the dynamics of the original system as well as the contributions of non-linear terms. The model in...
Formosa, Fabien
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, that vibrating insoles can help elderly people balance, and has applied to patent the technology. In 2006 in thedevelopmentofanembryo,whencellshave to act together to produce precisely timed and coordinated events. "How does a cell
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University of Pittsburgh Early Head Start (Family Foundations) is a 15-year program that
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The purpose of this report is to provide data for preparation of a NEPA Environmental Impact Statement in support the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). One of the GNEP objectives is to reduce the inventory of long lived actinide from the light water reactor (LWR) spent fuel. The LWR spent fuel contains Plutonium (Pu) -239 and other transuranics (TRU) such as Americium-241. One of the options is to transmute or burn these actinides in fast neutron spectra as well as generate the electricity. A sodium-cooled Advanced Recycling Reactor (ARR) concept has been proposed to achieve this goal. However, fuel with relatively high TRU content has not been used in the fast reactor. To demonstrate the utilization of TRU fuel in a fast reactor, an Advanced Burner Reactor (ABR) prototype of ARR is proposed, which would necessarily be started up using weapons grade (WG) Pu fuel. The WG Pu is distinguished by relatively highest proportions of Pu-239 and lesser amount of other actinides. The WG Pu will be used as the startup fuel along with TRU fuel in lead test assemblies. Because such fuel is not currently being produced in the US, a new facility (or new capability in an existing facility) is being considered for fabrication of WG Pu fuel for the ABR. This report is provided in response to �Data Call� for the construction of startup fuel fabrication facility. It is anticipated that the facility will provide the startup fuel for 10-15 years and will take to 3 to 5 years to construct.
S. T. Khericha
Interview of John Rutter
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Rutter, John
Interview with Michael Herzfeld
Campbell in a conference; and I really wanted to work with him and decided to go to Oxford; In Oxford, I wanted to work with John Campbell, who could not be my supervisor as he was in the faculty of history and so I was assigned the next thing... some recordings and I played them for her which she thought were �wailing noises� My first gift to her were the half used batteries � a very romantic first gift - don�t you think? Anyway, she seems to have forgiven me for that. The next summer things...
Herzfeld, Michael
Interview with Herbert Huppert
of my work 26:53:06 Carbon sequestration, putting carbon dioxide into a compressed, liquid-like form, in the large porous reservoirs beneath the Earth's surface at about a kilometre, I became interested in a rather curious way; one day a small woman... (Sarah Lyle) came to my room and told me that she was captain of the University women's rugby football club, a third-year earth scientist, and wanted to do a project on carbon sequestration with me as her supervisor; I told her I knew nothing about...
Huppert, Herbert
Interview of Ronald Dore
Maruyama; Maruyama �industry� since his death; he had tuberculosis after the war and had operation which deflated one lung; was in the army and in Hiroshima when the atom bomb dropped; destined to become professor of political science at Tokyo 0...
Dore, Ronald
Interview: NRDC's Frances Beineclie
fracturing (fracing, pronounced "fracking") to enhance the recovery of oil and natural gas. This involves
Berkowitz, Alan R.
Interview of Toshi Takamiya
in Hokkaido where I went to do some field study; I was not very good at theoretical economic analysis so decided to do field research; my shift to literature I find difficult to justify, only that there was no good job possibility available in economics... and could speak it well compared to other Japanese students; I really wanted to study English phonetics and do a scientific analysis of the English language, but there was no such course in the faculty; then I happened to attend Professor Kuriyagawa...
Takamiya, Toshi
Interview of Ben Shneiderman
come by a much more conscious, systematic approach, working on the problem; I am quite flexible in the way I work; I don't carry a notebook with me; I am a list-maker and very persistent on things; my favourite way is socially working through; I work... with music in the background nor go jogging with music in my ears 26:26:17 My father had more of a religious training at a traditional Heder, and he was quite knowledgeable and skilled at reading from the Torah in Hebrew; I went to a Hebrew school after...
Shneiderman, Ben
Interview of John Sulston
and the extraordinary advance and enlightenment that has occurred as a result of our discovery process; recent landmarks include the cosmological revolution, the Darwinian revolution, the discoveries of fundamental physics, which completely change the world view... spend their lives visualizing things without such aids; do look with dismay at schools which are junking a lot of the hands-on squishy biology that we all did; I can't see any real justification, and no health and safety issues, provided you take a few...
Sulston, John
Interview of Barry Keverne
to buy groceries for her as a small child. I went to the junior school that had only two classes; it had no lavatories, just a hole in a field at the bottom of the playground. I remember having to queue up every morning to get a spoonful of cod-liver oil...
Keverne, Barry
Interview with an octopus
Octopuses are extraordinary creatures: Despite their numerous biological divergences from humans, they display impressive intelligence. Aquarists and scientists alike have noted instances of octopuses having what appear ...
Krakauer, Hannah Lauren
Interview with Ethan Munson
Ethan Munson is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. His research focuses on tools for managing software documents and on ...
Claus Atzenbeck
Interview of Martin Rees
worked on gamma ray bursts which release in a fraction of a second more power than the sun puts out in its entire lifetime; trying to get clues on the nature of matter under extreme conditions, nature of black holes etc.; so two main areas are how... telescopes up into orbit can observe in a way that you can't on the ground; above earth's atmosphere you get much sharper images but also certain kinds of radiation infra-red, ultra-violet and x-rays which are emitted by cosmic objects and which don't get...
Rees, Martin
Interview of Ken Edwards
; Michael Ashburner, who is a bit younger than me, was obviously a rising star; David Cove, who went off to Leeds to be a Professor., was large in every sense; the place bubbled with ideas and coffee breaks sometimes went on for an hour and a half; it was a...
Edwards, Ken
Interview of Anne Lonsdale
not; aware of strained relations from early on; I was much closer to my father; my mother was uncertain of life which made her dictatorial; she had come from a simple background and had gone to Leeds University; her older sister had been to Newnham... which made her feel inadequate; she then married her professor at Leeds; father went from there to found physics department at Leicester; brought my mother into a social world where she felt out of her depth; she remained so all her life but was always...
Lonsdale, Anne
Interview of Jeremy Sanders
or washing, and could concentrate on the work; I made a friend there in my first week who was also Jewish, from a very similar background in Leeds; he had been to a grammar school and had always come top which I had never done; most of the people in the class...
Sanders, Jeremy
Interview of Richard Smith
teacher, Ernst Wangerman, who subsequently went on to have a chair in European History at Leeds; he had been a pupil of Christopher Hill's and had published his Oxford DPhil in the Oxford series; I thought that quite exotic from the point of view...
Smith, Richard
Interview of Richard Smethurst
was the QC, a Fellow of All Souls, and very bright, having done the MPhil in economics some years before, and a man called John Swift who was his junior, who also became a leading QC; the Monopolies Commission works a bit like a law court, there is a certain...
Smethurst, Richard
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in 2007, when he was with McKinsey & Co. It is inter- esting to compare the increasing percentage of chief
Interview of Owen Gingerich
of the bomb to Tinian to put it together before it was flown to Hiroshima; as a result he became one of the leading proponents to ban nuclear weapons; he had been to both Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombing; we were once in a Japanese restaurant... as supervisor; there were thirty-two of us; I got a merchant marine card as a cattleman although I had not had any farm experience; we went to Poland with some eight hundred horses in 1946, on a reconditioned liberty ship with the horses in stalls on the upper...
Gingerich, Owen
Interview with Jeffrey Long
to- wards creating sustainable energy and cleaning cur- rentately relevant to the sustainable energy movement. W e werein research regarding sustainable energy ? �You never know
Gururangan, Kapil; Owen, Elaine; Rai, Manisha; Bhat, Prashant
Interview of Ruth finnegan
to the Londonderry High School until I was thirteen; learned a great deal there; parents felt they wanted us to have some education outside Northern Ireland so I was sent to a Quaker boarding school in York called 'The Mount'; parents made huge sacrifices financially... ; also while in Southern Rhodesia I had revised my thesis as a book which was published as 'Limba Stories and Storytelling'; I had also begun the book that became 'Oral Literature in Africa'; got to know Robin Horton there and we cooperated on a kind...
Finnegan, Ruth
Interview of Horace Barlow
that real, and I was much more interested in steam engines; I remember our first car and the moment it came up the drive; it must have been about 1925; my father had driven it home having bought it in London; he was not a good driver and made terrible noises... appreciate the significance of this as far as perception was concerned; having been tutored by people like Tommy Gold, Donald Mackay and others, I reckon I am one of the earliest generation of people interested in psychology, who have understood...
Barlow, Horace
Interview of John Polkinghorne
to ordination; the Church of England believes in the apprentice system still so there are lots of things about being a clergyman that you can only learn on the beat; you have to do three years under the supervision of an experienced priest, serve your title...
Polkinghorne, John
Interview of Maurice Bloch
, though I quite liked rugby; I had been very good at boxing in France but did not continue for long in England because the games master thought it was a good idea; I became a very keen brass rubber as a child; I like music and regret never having a chance...
Bloch, Maurice
Interview of Don Cupitt
's Court or somewhere; in those days Cambridge was short of accommodation; underneath his bed was a large wooden box, and one day he pulled it out and it was full of brass scientific instruments; this was the beginnings of the Whipple Museum for the History...
Cupitt, Don
Interview of Julian Hunt
that made you feel you should take an interest and participate in aspects of public life; children who are not brought up in capital cities feel politics quite alien generally, whereas those in such cities feel politics are relevant to them; the Dragon... dealing with large questions such as the growing UK nuclear power programme, also researching acid rain; sadly these sorts of findings are not communicated well so that the Government was apparently not aware of acid rain until some twenty years after...
Hunt, Julian
Interview of Chris Hann
of the valley was still green fields in the 1950s; today it is a shopping centre, originally designed by my father, which serves a much larger community in the once flourishing industrial zones of Gwent; I grew up with green fields and parks, but it was an urban... with a good climate 50:51:24 I was never close to Jack Goody as a graduate student; he was officially my supervisor, but that was because somebody had to put their name down to take responsibility; I am grateful to him for doing that, but I don't think he...
Hann, Chris
Interview with Owen Lattimore
coming in from Mongolia, Xinjiang (Chinese Turkistan), and Tibet; fascinating to see camels coming into the rail freight-yards delivering goods; problem of how to get the wool we had contracted for through lines to Tianjin so it could be shipped... on terrain, what are the problems of herding and keeping animals in good condition; now writing for �Scientific American� a paper on long-haul caravans 0:10:18 In 1920�s not only bringing down wool but vast quantities of sheep�s intestines to be sold...
Lattimore, Owen
Interview of Paul Hockings
, journalist and wool-classer in Auckland, but more importantly took part in the excavation of the landing site of the first moah hunters; next went to Vancouver and worked briefly in the University of British Columbia Museum; also worked as a script writer...
Hockings, Paul
Interview of Barry Supple
halved it. It was a continuation of the work initiated by Jack, and no doubt he was capable of writing it but didn't. He had written on fluctuations in the wool trade in the late sixteenth century, so it was with his advice that I did it. I had to work...
Supple, Barry
Interview of Alison Richard
and harvest their wool which is of high quality; this could be done by plucking rather than sheering by Eskimos as an alternative to working for oil companies; they were interested in having someone with knowledge of the social dynamics of these animals; I...
Richard, Alison
Interview with Tony Wrigley
be transformed by photosynthesis which is very inefficient; thus quantity of energy in any organic economy is very tiny; only way is to tap fossil fuels; work of de Vries and Van de Woude 'The First Modern Economy' 34:36:03 Role of animals in productive...
Wrigley, Tony
Interview of Robert Hinde
-Einstein manifesto in 1955 against nuclear weapons; it gave rise to conferences on science and world affairs, the first meeting of which was held in 1957 and involved scientists from both sides of the iron curtain; has had many subsequent meetings and workshops... , mostly on nuclear weapons but on other subjects too; the movement got the Nobel Peace prize with Sir Joseph Rotblat in 1995; when I joined in the 1980's it worked primarily at the political level, trying to get the right scientific insights across...
Hinde, Robert
Interview of Brian Harrison
and Hendon, and were likely to move further out; that was thought to be appalling as it would drag the estate down; I remember my parents complaining about somebody shouting to her husband in the garden from an upstairs window; you just didn't do that sort... term in 1954 for putting a clepsydra above one of these holes and attaching to the arm that tilted when a certain amount of water had gone out, a toilet roll, which then plunged down, much to everyone's excitement, into the Hall in assembly after...
Harrison, Brian
Interview of Peter Mathias
; his mother kept a boarding house for seamen opposite the Royal Marine Barracks in Plymouth; my father was never within the faith in a dedicated sense; he met my mother when there was a Navy Day in Weymouth and he showed parties around his warship; my... friendship more abruptly than many of the other people I have known; clearly he had a very powerful brain; he ran an informal group and we used to meet in his flat in the Charring Cross Road about twice a term; he would always cook the supper and we would...
Mathias, Peter
Interview with Charlie Loke
impression; learnt to play hockey and even rugger; have always been a scientist, particularly biology; had wanted to be a marine biologist but discouraged by family so ended up doing medicine; but as soon as qualified reverted to research as true interest... of dining in hall every night as undergraduates; now much harder to create a community spirit 35:40:00 Did a lot of sport; played hockey, tennis and squash for the college; also played golf; Kendall give me an ultimatum as he thought sport was taking too...
Loke, Charlie
Interview of Caroline Humphrey
� school and I tried my best, but I was no good at it; I was in the third hockey� team for my house; theatre, debating, and that kind of thing I did at� Cambridge, not at school; when I came here I entered Girton College; I mostly� gave up on music, though...
Humphrey, Caroline
Interview of Paul Rabinow
; cosmopolitan enlightenment sense that we have to live with difference which can be a good thing, and that intolerance is not so admirable 29:40:14 As a child I was passionately involved in sports, roller hockey in particular; a strange obsession...
Rabinow, Paul
Interview of Azim Surani
of music; I do find that it inspires me but I find it distracting when working in the lab; when I was at school I used to like playing tennis and cricket, and I also played hockey; I don?t think I was very good at it but I did enjoy tennis particularly...
Surani, M Azim
Interview of Stephen Cleobury
young; I was confirmed about fifteen, but remember being told by the Bishop that by eighteen I would be an atheist; I was deeply shocked; remember struggling through Hans K?ng's book 'Does God Exist?'; my grandfather wrote about natural philosophy and I...
Cleobury, Stephen
Interview of Richard Keynes
lady Mayor of Cambridge; Gwen Raverat was my mother's sister and 'Period Piece' was based on letters written by my American grandmother to her family in Philadelphia 10:07:18 Father was a senior surgeon at Bart's until the sixties and then became a... went to Rio for three months and worked on how electric eels produce electricity; became interested then in education of biologists in the Third World; problem was we never got enough money from Unesco; at the Royal Society had meeting where ICSU...
Keynes, Richard
Interview of Marilyn Strathern
as an undergraduate supervisor; I used to go round to the house on Shelley Row as her children were little; I still remember the first essay I wrote for her; it was such a leap forward from what I had been doing in Part 1 and I was so excited; I went to the University... -century management, and these things are all running simultaneously and it is a very complex place; that of course keeps it creative; the complexity means that there are all kinds of metaphorical nooks and crannies that allow idiosyncratic procedures, or used to...
Strathern, Marilyn
Interview of Robert Foley
essays were geared toward taking facts then sifting and analysing them; he was also good at getting us to look for originality in our thinking, which Cambridge encourages, but I got it early; thus Geoffrey Boxall, who was also a good cricketer, was a bit... human variation in an ecological environment; that was always what we wanted to do; creatively working with Marta in the 1990s, suddenly we had a better understanding of how human diversity and human evolution went together; that creativity was very much...
Foley, Robert A
Interview with Wendy James
that is sitting over another world of creativity that is their own; the dancing is part of the non-Christian world; it was explicitly banned by the old missionaries; even now it is seen as the immoral behaviour of youth 31:49:19 In 'The Listening Ebony' I tried... essays 43:42:23 On Evans-Pritchard�s manuscripts, there is no light; Godfrey, as literary executor, swore that there was nothing in the way of academic or personal papers that came to him; various papers were physically left in the Institute, mainly...
James, Wendy
Interview of Peter Loizos
on the L.S.E. as it was the only place I knew; at BBC found projects uninteresting as really wanted to be a creative film-maker; shared memories of the L.S.E.; initially course painful and difficult; wrote many essays on kinship, encouraged by Anthony Forge... ; after a few years found it unsatisfying; took to reading anthropology books in the British Museum and in 1966 went to the L.S.E. and met Raymond Firth; very welcoming; in British Museum had read an essay by Evans-Pritchard which suggested it would take...
Loizos, Peter
Interview of Gillian Beer
; another way of thinking about how creativity works. I wrote a set of essays on Virginia Woolf - I really like working in essay length - called 'The Common Ground'; again I was very struck by Woolf's capacity to re-imagine the world, and how she reinvents... and her sister; left them extremely poor; he had been a proof-reader at the Daily Telegraph but also ran evening classes in literature at St Bride's Institute; he was clearly a man of great creativity; he was a rather beautiful man; my parents did not live...
Beer, Gillian
Interview of Stephen Gudeman
academic achievement beyond good schooling; they could never quite understand anthropology or why I should want to do it; my father would play with me and was an excellent athlete; he was very organized and creative in his business; I remember him showing... of Mathematics', in which I found an essay on music and maths and the relation between harmony and mathematics; I have always thought there was a link between maths and the kind of music that I enjoy - a sense of symmetry, pattern, organization; I do not listen...
Gudeman, Stephen
Interview of Colin Renfrew
Society; joined no secret societies, except that David Frost and I with one or two friends, formed a dining club called the Cabal, which was by invitation only, and we had very elaborate dinners once a term in the Garden House Hotel 8:16:08 Frank Stubbings... of the energy of archaeologists had to go into establishing chronologies which were mainly solved by radiocarbon dating; that meant that archaeologists could now talk about something else as their primary interest; I am not a radiocarbon specialist but I did see...
Renfrew, Colin
Interview of Jonathan Parry
with a fellow Cambridge graduate student, Tony Carter; he introduced me to village India; he took me off for about a week to stay in the village where he was doing fieldwork; it was an amazing confidence boost because I learnt the practicalities of how... by Freddy Bailey's work and Tony Carter was also interested in factional politics; was told of Kangra villages where political rivalries looked interesting though I never actually wrote about that at all; I think it was the most difficult fieldwork that I...
Parry, Jonathan
Interview of Hermann Hauser
to Vienna after my father's death as she loves the city; my father was in many ways the exact opposite; he was a country boy and an entrepreneur; he built up a wine wholesale business; I suppose a lot of my own entrepreneurial urges come from the fact... on mountain walks together he would tell me about physics and maths, that you could turn lead into gold but that no sane person would do it as you needed an atomic reaction; he talked about atomic physics in particular and the discoveries of quantum mechanics...
Hauser, Hermann
Interview With Ikhlaq Sidhu
electric vehicles the to you, right? If this is going size of the battery industryindustry. California announced that they would put policy forward that would support electric vehicles,electric vehicles them together to work on these studies. So we are the size of the battery industry
Gagnon, Alex; Cherone, Jennifer; Linn, Felicia; Iantorno, Stephano
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A hardware-based transient characterization of electrochemical start-up in an SOFC/gas turbine hybrid environment using a 1-D real time SOFC model .
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Effect of CNG start-gasoline run on emissions from a 3/4 ton pick-up truck
This paper describes experiments to determine the effect on exhaust emissions of starting on compressed natural gas (CNG) and then switching to gasoline once the catalyst reaches operating temperature. Carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and detailed exhaust hydrocarbon speciation data were obtained for dedicated CNG, then unleaded gasoline, and finally CNG start-gasoline run using the Federal Test Procedure at 24{degree}C and at -7{degree}C. The result was a reduction in emissions from the gasoline baseline, especially at -7{degree}C. It was estimated that CNG start - gasoline run resulted in a 71 percent reduction in potential ozone formation per mile. 3 refs., 6 figs., 11 tabs.
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods and Local Time Stepping for Wave Propagation
Locally refined meshes impose severe stability constraints on explicit time-stepping methods for the numerical simulation of time dependent wave phenomena. To overcome that stability restriction, local time-stepping methods are developed, which allow arbitrarily small time steps precisely where small elements in the mesh are located. When combined with a discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretization in space, which inherently leads to a diagonal mass matrix, the resulting numerical schemes are fully explicit. Starting from the classical Adams-Bashforth multi-step methods, local time stepping schemes of arbitrarily high accuracy are derived. Numerical experiments validate the theory and illustrate the usefulness of the proposed time integration schemes.
Grote, M. J.; Mitkova, T. [University of Basel, Rheinsprung 21, CH-4051 Basel (Switzerland)
Start | Author Index 741-7 Speciation and Release Kinetics of Cadmium and Zinc in Thai Paddy Soil.
Start | Author Index 741-7 Speciation and Release Kinetics of Cadmium and Zinc in Thai Paddy Soil Ginder-Vogel 1 , Rufus L. Chaney 2 and Donald L. Sparks 1 , (1)Department of Plant and Soil Sciences is harmful to human health. Although Cd has no biological role in rice, rice can take up Cd from soil
QCD Critical End Point: How it started, How it grew, and Where it goes
The presence of a critical end point in the QCD phase diagram can deform the trajectories describing the evolution of the expanding fireball in the {mu}{sub B}-T phase diagram. If the average emission time of hadrons is a function of transverse velocity, as microscopic simulations of the hadronic freezeout dynamics suggest, the deformation of the hydrodynamic trajectories will change the transverse velocity ({beta}{sub T}) dependence of the antiproton-to-proton ratio when the fireball passes in the vicinity of the critical end point. An unusual {beta}{sub T}-dependence of the p-bar/p ratio in a narrow beam energy window would thus signal the presence of the critical end point.
Asakawa, Masayuki [Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, 560-0043 (Japan)
Start-Up of Air Conditioning Systems After Periods of Shutdown (Humidity Considerations)
In many cases the single most important energy conservation measure that can be taken is to turn equipment off when it is not needed. In the case of air conditioning, this generally means turning it off when occupants leave and turning it back on in time to have the space comfortable when they return. In humid climates special problems are often encountered when a system is restarted after a period of shutdown. The temperature and humidity in the space rises during the period of shutdown. Unfortunately the latent load required to bring the space back to comfort conditions is usually much higher than the sensible load. Most methods of control are ill suited for this duty. This paper examines the response of various types of air conditioning systems during this recovery period and makes recommendations for system designers.
Todd, T. R.
CLIC simulations from the start of the linac to the interaction point
Simulations for linear colliders are traditionally performed separately for the different sub-systems, like damping ring, bunch compressor, linac, and beam delivery. The beam properties are usually passed from one sub-system to the other via bunch charge, RMS transverse emittances, RMS bunch length, average energy and RMS energy spread. It is implicitly assumed that the detailed 6D correlations in the beam distribution are not relevant for the achievable luminosity. However, it has recently been shown that those correlations can have a strong effect on the beam-beam interaction. We present first results on CLIC simulations that integrate linac, beam delivery, and beam-beam interaction. These integrated simulations also allow a better simulation of time-dependent effects, like ground perturbations and interference between several beam-based feedbacks.
Schulte, Daniel; Blair, G A; D'Amico, T E; Leros, Nicolas; Redaelli, S; Risselada, Thys; Zimmermann, Frank
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Time Series and Forecasting
Time Series and Forecasting. Leigh, Stefan and Perlman, S. (1991). "An Index for Comovement of Time Sequences With ...
Start-to-end beam dynamics simulation of double triangular current profile generation in Argonne Wakefield Accelerator
Double triangular current profile (DT) gives a high transformer ratio which is the determining factor of the performance of collinear wakefield accelerator. This current profile can be generated using the emittance exchange (EEX) beam line. Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) facility plans to generate DT using the EEX beam line. We conducted start-to-end simulation for the AWA beam line using PARMELA code. Also, we discuss requirements of beam parameters for the generation of DT.
Ha, G.; Power, J.; Kim, S. H.; Gai, W.; Kim, K.-J.; Cho, M. H.; Namkung, W. [POSTECH, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 790-784 (Korea, Republic of); Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States); POSTECH, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 790-784 (Korea, Republic of) and Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States); POSTECH, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 790-784 (Korea, Republic of) and Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 790-784 (Korea, Republic of); Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 790-784 (Korea, Republic of)
Fabrication and testing of an enhanced ignition system to reduce cold-start emissions in an ethanol (E85) light-duty truck engine
This report describes an experimental investigation of the potential for an enhanced ignition system to lower the cold-start emissions of a light-duty vehicle engine using fuel ethanol (commonly referred to as E85). Plasma jet ignition and conventional inductive ignition were compared for a General Motors 4-cylinder, alcohol-compatible engine. Emission and combustion stability measurements were made over a range of air/fuel ratios and spark timing settings using a steady-state, cold-idle experimental technique in which the engine coolant was maintained at 25 C to simulate cold-running conditions. These tests were aimed at identifying the degree to which calibration strategies such as mixture enleanment and retarded spark timing could lower engine-out hydrocarbon emissions and raise exhaust temperatures, as well as determining how such calibration changes would affect the combustion stability of the engine (as quantified by the coefficient of variation, or COV, of indicated mean effective pressure calculated from successive cylinder pressure measurements). 44 refs., 39 figs.
Gardiner, D.; Mallory, R.; Todesco, M. [Nexum Research Corp., Kingston, Ontario (Canada). Thermotech Engineering Div.
Demonstration of oxygen-enriched combustion system on a light-duty vehicle to reduce cold-start emissions
The oxygen content in the ambient air drawn by combustion engines can be increased by polymer membranes. The authors have previously demonstrated that 23 to 25% (concentration by volume) oxygen-enriched intake air can reduce hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), air toxics, and ozone-forming potential (OFP) from flexible-fueled vehicles (FFVs) that use gasoline or M85. When oxygen-enriched air was used only during the initial start-up and warm-up periods, the emission levels of all three regulated pollutants [CO, nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), and NO{sub x}] were lower than the U.S. EPA Tier II (year 2004) standards (without adjusting for catalyst deterioration factors). In the present work, an air separation membrane module was installed on the intake of a 2.5-L FFV and tested at idle and free acceleration to demonstrate the oxygen-enrichment concept for initial start-up and warm-up periods. A bench-scale, test set-up was developed to evaluate the air separation membrane characteristics for engine applications. On the basis of prototype bench tests and from vehicle tests, the additional power requirements and module size for operation of the membrane during the initial period of the cold-phase, FTP-75 cycle were evaluated. A prototype membrane module (27 in. long, 3 in. in diameter) supplying about 23% oxygen-enriched air in the engine intake only during the initial start-up and warm-up periods of a 2.5-L FFV requires additional power (blower) of less than one horsepower. With advances in air separation membranes to develop compact modules, oxygen enrichment of combustion air has the potential of becoming a more practical technique for controlling exhaust emissions from light-duty vehicles.
Sekar, R.; Poola, R.B.
Compiling for time predictability
Within the T-CREST project we work on hardware/software architectures and code-generation strategies for time-predictable embedded and cyber-physical systems. In this paper we present the single-path code generation approach that we plan to explore and ... Keywords: compilers, real-time systems, time predictability, worst-case execution-time analysis
Peter Puschner; Raimund Kirner; Benedikt Huber; Daniel Prokesch
Certifying execution time
In this paper we present the framework Abstraction-Carrying CodE Platform for Timing validation (ACCEPT), designed for timing analysis of embedded real-time systems using the worst-case execution time (WCET) as the safety parameter. In the context ...
V�tor Rodrigues; Jo�o Pedro Pedroso; M�rio Florido; Sim�o Melo de Sousa
Prenatal alcohol exposure pattern and timing and minor structural malformations and growth deficiencies
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The use Na, Li, K cations for modification of ZSM-5 zewolite to control hydrocarbon cold-start emission
This paper addresses the problem of controlling hydrocarbon emissions from cold-start of engines by investigating the adsorbents which could adsorb the hydrocarbons at cold temperatures and hold them to 250-300 ?. The materials, that has been studied, are based on the modification of ZSM-5 (SiO{sub 2}/Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} = 35) zeolite with Li, K, Na cations. It has been shown that the introduction of Li, Na and K in an amount that is equivalent to the content of Al in zeolite results in occurrence of toluene temperature desorption peaks at high-temperatures. The toluene temperature desorption curves for 5%Li-ZSM-5 and 2.3%Na-ZSM-5 zeolites are identical and have peak toluene desorption rate between 200 to 400 ?. Upon analysis of toluene adsorption isotherms for 2.3%Na-ZSM-5 and 5%Li-ZSM-5, it was concluded that the toluene diffusion inside of the modified zeolites channels is extremely slow and the sorption capacity of 2.3%Na-ZSM-5 is higher than with 5%Li-ZSM-5. The 2.3%Na-ZSM-5 didn't change toluene temperature programmed desorption (TPD) rate of curve after the treatment in environment with 10% ?{sub 2}? at 750-800 ? for about 28 h. The 2.3%Na-ZSM-5 zeolite is very promising as adsorbent to control the cold-start hydrocarbon emissions.
Golubeva V.; Rohatgi U.; Korableva, A.; Anischenko, O.; Kustov, L.; Nissenbaum, V; Viola, M.B.
January 2009 The Y-12 Times
The group began work in spring 2008 and has already toured the Western Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC) laboratories and interviewed members of Congress and government...
Timing discriminator using leading-edge extrapolation
A discriminator circuit to recover timing information from slow-rising pulses by means of an output trailing edge, a fixed time after the starting corner of the input pulse, which is nearly independent of risetime and threshold setting is described. This apparatus comprises means for comparing pulses with a threshold voltage; a capacitor to be charged at a certain rate when the input signal is one-third threshold voltage, and at a lower rate when the input signal is two-thirds threshold voltage; current-generating means for charging the capacitor; means for comparing voltage capacitor with a bias voltage; a flip-flop to be set when the input pulse reaches threshold voltage and reset when capacitor voltage reaches the bias voltage; and a clamping means for discharging the capacitor when the input signal returns below one-third threshold voltage.
Gottschalk, B.
A discriminator circuit to recover timing information from slow-rising pulses by means of an output trailing edge, a fixed time after the starting corner of the input pulse, which is nearly independent of risetime and threshold setting. This apparatus comprises means for comparing pulses with a threshold voltage; a capacitor to be charged at a certain rate when the input signal is one-third threshold voltage, and at a lower rate when the input signal is two-thirds threshold voltage; current-generating means for charging the capacitor; means for comparing voltage capacitor with a bias voltage; a flip-flop to be set when the input pulse reaches threshold voltage and reset when capacitor voltage reaches the bias voltage; and a clamping means for discharging the capacitor when the input signal returns below one-third threshold voltage.
Gottschalk, Bernard (Palo Alto, CA)
Method and apparatus for measuring response time
A method of measuring the response time of an electrical instrument which generates an output signal in response to the application of a specified input, wherein the output signal varies as a function of time and when subjected to a step input approaches a steady-state value, comprises the steps of: (a) applying a step input of predetermined value to the electrical instrument to generate an output signal; (b) simultaneously starting a timer; (c) comparing the output signal to a reference signal to generate a stop signal when the output signal is substantially equal to the reference signal, the reference signal being a specified percentage of the steady-state value of the output signal corresponding to the predetermined value of the step input; and (d) applying the stop signal when generated to stop the timer.
Johanson, Edward W. (New Lenox, IL); August, Charles (Darien, IL)
Johanson, E.W.; August, C.
Time-Resolved Time-Resolved Time-Resolved Print Of the four fundamental parameters that we use to perceive the physical world (energy, momentum, position, and time) three correspond to the three broad categories of synchrotron experimental measurement techniques: spectroscopy (energy), scattering (momentum), and imaging (position). The fourth parameter-time-can in principle be applied to all the techniques. At the ALS, many experiments can be carried out in real time, with data being recorded from the same sample as it changes over time. Some time-resolved experiments take advantage of the pulsed nature of the ALS's synchrotron radiation, which, like a strobe light, can capture a series of "snapshots" of a process that, when viewed sequentially, show us how a given process evolves over time. Other experiments simply require two pulses: one to "pump" energy into the sample system and a second to probe the system's excited state.
... as the resolution that's directing us to write these high level guidelines. ... Just this year we've seen for instance uranium enrichment facilities in Iran ...
... And because of our tight deadlines, we formed our resolutions to produce a sooner rather ... it that we're not putting a hard line in the sand but putting ...
Starting ppm2oof
... OOF: Finite Element Analysis of Microstructures. ... [8] You should have about 50MB of free memory (RAM) to run this script and it should take less ...
a combination of regenerative and conventional friction braking to slow the vehicle. In regenerative braking, energy from the wheels turns the electric generator, creating...
visible. Car is stopped at an intersection. Battery: The battery is used to store energy generated from the gasoline engine or, during regenerative braking, from the...
... the business, you can have Wyatt connections and you can have -- if it's not appropriately secured and the boxes haven't got tempest protection, it's ...
prairie restoration starting
warm for prairie seeds to germinate. Thinking of the prairie plants as a summer garden crop, for those of you that plant gardens annually, may give you a better perspective on all...
Getting Started at NERSC
Operations for: Passwords & Off-Hours Status 1-800-66-NERSC, option 1 or 510-486-6821 Account Support https:nim.nersc.gov firstname.lastname@example.com 1-800-66-NERSC, option 2 or...
Managing time, part 2
Masterful time management means not just tracking of messages in your personal environment, but managing your coordination network with others.
Peter J. Denning; Ritu Raj
... STRATWARM observed and FLARES expected ... observed and PROTON FLARE expected (- - ) STRATWARM ... time of observed solar or geophysical ...
QuickTime VR
QuickTime VR. Christine Piatko and Sandy Ressler. ... Sandy Ressler's Office. Plant Floor of Black & Decker in Fayetteville NC. ...
Timed Property Sequence Chart
Property Sequence Chart (PSC) is a novel scenario-based notation, which has been recently proposed to represent temporal properties of concurrent systems. This language balances expressive power and simplicity of use. However, the current version of ... Keywords: Property Sequence Chart, Real-time specification patterns, Timed Property Sequence Chart, Timing properties
Pengcheng Zhang; Bixin Li; Lars Grunske
The Role of Integration Time in Determining a Steady State through Data Assimilation
The length of time an ocean model and its adjoint should be integrated in determining a steady state compatible with observed data is investigated. The starting point is based upon a suggestion that only one time step is required. This method ...
Jochem Marotzke
Gibbsianness versus Non-Gibbsianness of time-evolved planar rotor models
We study the Gibbsian character of time-evolved planar rotor systems on Z^d, d at least 2, in the transient regime, evolving with stochastic dynamics and starting with an initial Gibbs measure. We model the system by interacting Brownian diffusions, moving on circles. We prove that for small times and arbitrary initial Gibbs measures \
A. C. D. van Enter; W. M. Ruszel
{sup 210}Po-Be start-up source rods for 300 MWe Qinshan Nuclear Power Station
In order to perform the start-up of the pressurized water reactor (PWR) for the 300 MWe Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, a pair of {open_quotes}primary{close_quotes} source rods with {sup 210}Po-Be neutron sources were made successfully. The total neutron emission was 3.0x10{sup 8} n/s and the dimensions of the source rod were 10 mm in diameter and 3173 mm long. The research on the source core ({sup 210}Po-Be source) and source rod technology is described in this paper. A new production line has been established and approved source rod technology has been used. AU examinations demonstrated that the quality of a pair of source rods is up to or superior to the technical specifications.
Cai Shan-yu; Zhang pin-yuan; Gao Wan-shan; Mao Shi-qi [China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing (China)
Method and apparatus for improved start-up procedures in conventional steam power generators and dual fluid Cheng cycle engines
In a start-up procedure for a steam injected gas turbine engine, a chamber; compressor means for introducing air into the chamber; means for introducing steam within the chamber, including at least a steam injection line; means for heating air and steam in the chamber, including at least a hydrocarbon fuel source and means for combustion; turbine means response to a mixture of air, combustion products and steam for converting the energy associated with the mixture to mechanical energy; counterflow heat exchanger means, including at least superheater and evaporator sections, for transferring residual thermal energy for the mixture exhausted from the turbine means, to incoming water and steam, wherein the evaporator section includes a water storage drum between, and connected with, the evaporator and superheat sections, the connection between the drum and superheater sections including a steam injector control valve, and means for providing incoming water at temperatures below the normal operating boiling temperature to the evaporator section.
Hamill, J.; Digumarth, R.; Conlon, W.; Cheng, D.Y.; Chang, C.N.
Quantum Operation Time Reversal
The dynamics of an open quantum system can be described by a quantum operation, a linear, complete positive map of operators. Here, I exhibit a compact expression for the time reversal of a quantum operation, which is closely analogous to the time reversal of a classical Markov transition matrix. Since open quantum dynamics are stochastic, and not, in general, deterministic, the time reversal is not, in general, an inversion of the dynamics. Rather, the system relaxes towards equilibrium in both the forward and reverse time directions. The probability of a quantum trajectory and the conjugate, time reversed trajectory are related by the heat exchanged with the environment.
Crooks, Gavin E
Gavin E. Crooks
Method for starting and operating an advanced regenerative parallel compound dual fluid heat engine-advanced Cheng cycle(ACC)
In a Cheng cycle, dual fluid heat engine of the type is described having: (i) a gas turbine engine including a compressor for compressing a first working fluid, having a compressor outlet, a combustion chamber in fluid communication with the compressor outlet, a turbine unit having an inlet in fluid communication with the combustion chamber for performing work by expansion of working fluid, and a turbine exhaust; (ii) a heat recovery steam generator coupled to the turbine exhaust for heating a second working fluid having a superheater with an outlet and an inlet, an evaporator having an outlet coupled to the superheater inlet and an evaporator inlet, a heat recovery boiler between the evaporator inlet and outlet having a drum; (iii) an injector for introducing heated second working fluid from the heat recovery steam generator into the gas turbine; (iv) a coolant inlet port for introducing coolant to at least one of turbine nozzles and blades in the gas turbine; and (v) control valve means for selectively throttling flow rate of second working fluid into the gas turbine connected upstream of the injector; (vi) a compressed gas source and pressure regulator selectively in communication with the drum; (vii) a sensor system coupled to gas turbine engine and the heat recovery steam generator for temperature and pressure detection; and (viii) a control system for operating fuel flow to the gas turbine; a method of operation of the heat engine comprising: (a) initializing start conditions in the gas turbine engine and the heat recovery steam generator with the control system; (b) setting the control valve means for idle flow condition of the heat engine; (c) pressurizing the drum with the compressed gas source, (d) starting the gas turbine engine from idle to full load; (e) throttling second working fluid flow rate with the control valve means and shutting off the compressed gas source.
Cheng, D.Y.
Grouped Failure Times TIED FAILURE TIMES - TWO CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOSTATISTICS
ionships between smoking and lung cancer or heart disease and the life span study of over 100,000 Japanese atom bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki #Beebe #4##. Another important reason for grouping data is that it is often di#cult or even impossible to obtain exact life time, because ethical, physical or economic restrictions in research design allow the subjects in the follow-up study to be monitored only periodically. Thus, this type of study only provides the grouped information, i.e., the exact failure time is unknown and the only available information is whether the event of interest occurred between two inspection times. The following study illustrate situations where periodic inspection is used: The National Labor Survey of Youth #NLSY# study of time to weaning of breast-fed newborns in which 927 #rst-born children of mothers who chose to breast feed their children were interviewed yearly. Similar to continuous data in survival analysis, grouped survival data can involve c
Mei-Jie Zhang; Mei-jie Zhang Ph. D
On the Time Times Temperature Bound
Recently Hod proposes a lower bound on the relaxation time of a perturbed thermodynamic system. For gravitational systems this bound transforms into a condition on the fundamental quasinormal frequency. We test the bound in some spacetimes whose quasinormal frequencies are calculated exactly, as the three-dimensional BTZ black hole, the D-dimensional de Sitter spacetime, and the D-dimensional Nariai spacetime. We find that for some of these spacetimes their fundamental quasinormal frequencies do not satisfy the bound proposed by Hod.
A. Lopez-Ortega
Women & early-stage entrepreneurship : examining the impact of the venture funding crisis on male and female-led technology start-ups; Women and early-stage entrepreneurship; Examining the impact of the venture funding crisis on male and female-led technology start-ups.
??Women in technology have always been a minority and the number of women who are founders of venture backed start-ups is even lower. This research� (more)
Swaminathan, Shuba
Network as Discovery Instrument: A Quick-Start Guide (2013 DOE JGI Genomics of Energy and Environment 8th Annual User Meeting)
Gregory Bell of Berkeley Lab on "Network as discovery instrument: a Quick-Start Guide" at the 8th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Bell, Gregory [Berkeley Lab
Brawley 10MW Geothermal Plant Plant Manual for Southern California Edison Company and Union Oil Company of California: Systems Start-up and Operations, Volume II
Each system within the facility is considered from an operation viewpoint. There are five subsegments within this operation's viewpoint. Prerequisite conditions, start-up, normal operating, emergency and shutdown.
Women & early-stage entrepreneurship : examining the impact of the venture funding crisis on male and female-led technology start-ups
Women in technology have always been a minority and the number of women who are founders of venture backed start-ups is even lower. This research empirically investigates venture capital funding received by entrepreneurs ...
A Potential Reduction Algorithm With User-Specified Phase I - Phase II Balance, for Solving a Linear Program from an Infeasible Warm Start
This paper develops a potential reduction algorithm for solving a linear-programming problem directly from a "warm start" initial point that is neither feasible nor optimal. The algorithm is of an "interior point" variety ...
Freund, Robert M.
What Time is It?
... These are sometimes marketed as "atomic clocks", but ... problems include incorrectly setting your local time zone on the clock, batteries that need ...
The time calibrator of an electric signal displayed on an oscilloscope is described. In contrast to the conventional technique of using time-calibrated divisions on the face of the oscilloscope, this invention provides means for directly superimposing equal time spaced markers upon a signal displayed upon an oscilloscope. More explicitly, the present invention includes generally a generator for developing a linear saw-tooth voltage and a circuit for combining a high-frequency sinusoidal voltage of a suitable amplitude and frequency with the saw-tooth voltage to produce a resultant sweep deflection voltage having a wave shape which is substantially linear with respect to time between equal time spaced incremental plateau regions occurring once each cycle of the sinusoidal voltage. The foregoing sweep voltage when applied to the horizontal deflection plates in combination with a signal to be observed applied to the vertical deflection plates of a cathode ray oscilloscope produces an image on the viewing screen which is essentially a display of the signal to be observed with respect to time. Intensified spots, or certain other conspicuous indications corresponding to the equal time spaced plateau regions of said sweep voltage, appear superimposed upon said displayed signal, which indications are therefore suitable for direct time calibration purposes.
Owren, H.M.; Johnson, B.M.; Smith, V.L.
Real-time shading
Real-time procedural shading was once seen as a distant dream. When the first version of this course was offered four years ago, real-time shading was possible, but only with one-of-a-kind hardware or by combining the effects of tens to hundreds of rendering ...
Marc Olano; Kurt Akeley; John C. Hart; Wolfgang Heidrich; Michael McCool; Jason L. Mitchell; Randi Rost
Semantics, experience and time
The computational hypothesis, with its inherent representationalism, and the dynamical hypothesis, with its apparent absence of representations and its commitment to continuous time, stand at an impasse. It is unclear how the dynamical stance can handle ... Keywords: Computation, Experience, Invariance, Semantics, Situatedness, Time
Stephen E. Robbins
This patent relates to means for ascertaining the instant of arrival of a shock wave in an exploslve charge and apparatus utilizing this means to coordinate the timing of two operations involving a short lnterval of time. A pair of spaced electrodes are inserted along the line of an explosive train with a voltage applied there-across which is insufficient to cause discharge. When it is desired to initiate operation of a device at the time the explosive shock wave reaches a particular point on the explosive line, the device having an inherent time delay, the electrodes are located ahead of the point such that the ionization of the area between the electrodes caused by the traveling explosive shock wave sends a signal to initiate operation of the device to cause it to operate at the proper time. The operated device may be photographic equipment consisting of an x-ray illuminating tube.
Tuck, J.L.
Digital time delay
Method and apparatus are provided for generating an output pulse following a trigger pulse at a time delay interval preset with a resolution which is high relative to a low resolution available from supplied clock pulses. A first lumped constant delay provides a first output signal at predetermined interpolation intervals corresponding to the desired high resolution time interval. Latching circuits latch the high resolution data to form a first synchronizing data set. A selected time interval has been preset to internal counters and corrected for circuit propagation delay times having the same order of magnitude as the desired high resolution. Internal system clock pulses count down the counters to generate an internal pulse delayed by an internal which is functionally related to the preset time interval. A second LCD corrects the internal signal with the high resolution time delay. A second internal pulse is then applied to a third LCD to generate a second set of synchronizing data which is complementary with the first set of synchronizing data for presentation to logic circuits. The logic circuits further delay the internal output signal with the internal pulses. The final delayed output signal thereafter enables the output pulse generator to produce the desired output pulse at the preset time delay interval following input of the trigger pulse.
Environment Induced Time Arrow
The spread of the time arrows from the environment to an observed subsystem is followed within a harmonic model. A similarity is pointed out between irreversibility and a phase with spontaneously broken symmetry. The causal structure of interaction might be lost in the irreversible case, as well. The Closed Time Path formalism is developed for classical systems and shown to handle the time arrow problem in a clear and flexible manner. The quantum case is considered, as well, and the common origin of irreversibility and decoherence is pointed out.
Janos Polonyi
An electrically variable time delay line is described which may be readily controlled simuitaneously with variable impedance matching means coupied thereto such that reflections are prevented. Broadly, the delay line includes a signal winding about a magnetic core whose permeability is electrically variable. Inasmuch as the inductance of the line varies directly with the permeability, the time delay and characteristic impedance of the line both vary as the square root of the permeability. Consequently, impedance matching means may be varied similariy and simultaneously w:th the electrically variable permeability to match the line impedance over the entire range of time delay whereby reflections are prevented.
Clemensen, R.E.
Time Evolution of Entanglement Entropy from Black Hole Interiors
We compute the time-dependent entanglement entropy of a CFT which starts in relatively simple initial states. The initial states are the thermofield double for thermal states, dual to eternal black holes, and a particular pure state, dual to a black hole formed by gravitational collapse. The entanglement entropy grows linearly in time. This linear growth is directly related to the growth of the black hole interior measured along "nice" spatial slices. These nice slices probe the spacelike direction in the interior, at a fixed special value of the interior time. In the case of a two-dimensional CFT, we match the bulk and boundary computations of the entanglement entropy. We briefly discuss the long time behavior of various correlators, computed via classical geodesics or surfaces, and point out that their exponential decay comes about for similar reasons. We also present the time evolution of the wavefunction in the tensor network description.
Thomas Hartman; Juan Maldacena
Hartman, Thomas
Time, energy & form
Physical manifestations of time occur in natural forms of all sizes. Architectural form serves as shelter while providing a built envelope of human life, simultaneously influencing and influenced by energetic activities ...
McInnis, Martha Jane
Dogs and Time
Question: I travel often and worry how leaving for long periods of time (and boarding my dog) will affect her. I wouldn't think that dogs could understand the concept of...
Wood Use Across Time
?Forest products history and use ?Forest resource- the big picture ?Consumption- the big picture ?Trends forest products industry ? pulp & paper ? solid woodBack in Time ?1492 ? Columbus sailed the ocean blue! ? wood use- fuelwood American Indians ?1634: Jean Nicolet
Scott Bowe; United States Wood Use
Technical Talks Timing
Talks Timing The technical talks should last a maximum of 15 minutes with 5 minutes for set-up and 5 minutes for Q&A. No teamgroup presentations are allowed. The objective of...
Interview with Robert Sloan, paleontologist, by Joe Cain Interview with
exhibits for children's museums ·Mechatronic devices ·Rube Goldberg contraptions Products are showcased
Timing system of the Swiss Light Source
The timing system of the Swiss Light Source is based on the event system concept of APS, Argonne [1]. However, for SLS the hardware was completely redesigned while preserving the software compatibility with the APS system. This gave us a head start in the implementation: we could use the latest available hardware and take advantage of the features integrated in the EPICS software. The event system is used as the sole timing distribution method, for hardware trigger delivery (assisted with a high-precision delay at a few places) and for controlling all the timing-related tasks of operation: injector sequencing, filling patterns, software synchronization, timestamps and so on. The event network is also extended to the beamlines to allow synchronization of the beamline experiments. The implementation consists of the hardware (Gigabit Ethernet link, FPGAs) and a firmware core written in VHDL. The functionality of the cards can be modified in situ by rewriting the firmware in flash memory. On the other hand, the f...
Korhonen, T T; Korhonen, Timo; Heiniger, Martin
NSIT Computer Time Services: Internet Time Service (ITS) ...
Page 1. NIST Special Publication 250-59 NIST Computer Time Services: Internet Time Service (ITS), Automated Computer Time Service (ACTS), ...
Quantum tunneling time
A simple model of a quantum clock is applied to the old and controversial problem of how long a particle takes to tunnel through a quantum barrier. The model I employ has the advantage of yielding sensible results for energy eigenstates, and does not require the use of time-dependant wave packets. Although the treatment does not forbid superluminal tunneling velocities, there is no implication of faster-than-light signaling because only the transit duration is measurable, not the absolute time of transit. A comparison is given with the weak-measurement post-selection calculations of Steinberg.
P. C. W. Davies
HGP-A Wellhead Generator, Proof-Of-Feasibility Project 3 MW Wellhead Generator, Start-Up Training and Operating Manual
The start-up manual is an information aid to initially familiarize plant operators with the plant operation and later be used as a reference manual while operating the plant. This start-up manual is supplemented by the Plant Data Manual which contains a detailed description of the philosophy of operation and equipment characteristics. The sequencing herein presents the necessary operating procedures which must be followed in order that a smooth start-up is obtained. The sequence includes, first conditioning the well and stabilizing the steam/water separations, and then bringing the operating machinery on line. The Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams and Electrical Drawings are included under Section 12.0 and are frequently referred to in the text. Information for ''trouble-shooting'' is provided in the maintenance and operations manuals on all the equipment.
PJM Interconnection Interview on Wind
Vol. 9, No. 5 - December 5, 2007 Vol. 9, No. 5 - December 5, 2007 PJM on wind Wind power is growing rapidly in the United States and in Pennsylvania where 8 wind farms that total 259 megawatts now operate. Those wind farms already generate enough power for about 80,000 homes. Another 4,714 megawatts are in various stages of development within Pennsylvania, which would create enough power for an additional 1.4 mil- lion homes. Just in the Keystone state, wind power is creating thousands of jobs. Across the nation, wind power provides hundreds of millions of dollars of tax payments and rental fees to land- owners, and displaces more and more electricity that would otherwise be made by burning coal, oil, or natural gas. Wind farms create zero air pollution; require no destructive
Interview with Edward C. Morse
my interests in fusion and nonproliferation benefit BSJ: Anythe mother of all nonproliferation courses� and I attended
Horne, Tiffany; Moses, Mike; Yang, Jennifer; Linn, Felicia; Hsueh, Stacy; Fox, Emily
An interview of Edwin Salpeter
in finding a job elsewhere and emigrating; luckily for him there was in Sydney, Australia, a manufacturer of glass, including the glass for light bulbs; he used to sell light bulbs to Phillips but they claimed his bulbs were getting too expensive so...
Salpeter, Edwin
Interview of Professor Chie Nakane
with Celia, just the three of us, in a restaurant. When he became the Provost of King?s College he kindly invited me to stay in the Provost?s Lodge. He seemed to enjoy the role of Provost in spite of the various commitments. It is an unforgettable memory...
Nakane, Chie
Interview of the John Simpson
to be found in England, but there was one Chinese restaurant in Cambridge before the War; I seem to remember it was somewhere near the Round Church � 5:31:07 We went by boat to Bombay then went by train to Calcutta; then we flew from Calcutta across the Hump...
Simpson, John
Interview of Haroon Ahmed - 2009
grabbed it and tore it to pieces and told us not to go down by ourselves again; the first impressions of England were not very positive; we used to go down to the restaurant and all the English food seemed terrible, so my sisters and I asked for fried eggs...
Ahmed, Haroon
Interview of Sir Frank Kermode
; the teachers mostly came from the old Victorian universities, Leeds, Liverpool, some of them were ex-servicemen; one or two boys whom I knew had parents who could support them at Oxford or Cambridge but mine certainly couldn't; I won a scholarship to Liverpool...
Kermode, Frank
Scalapino Interview | ornl.gov
thing that's happened in the last 25 years is the development of experimental techniques that give us atomic-level resolution and incredible frequency and momentum...
An interview with George Steiner
the left arm but mother disagreed and I learnt to write with my right hand; she saw no point in compromise which is echoed in my intense opposition to political correctness with regard to handicaps; had a sister seven years older who died recently; this age... House, a scholar's scholar; had taken over two years to redo, and then published 'The Death of Tragedy' 37:32:04 Stayed at 'The Economist' for four years and then assigned to go to the United States to cover the debate over the atomic energy act; got...
Steiner, George
of the current job. Credit Ratings or Garnishments Nothing, unless job related. About credit ratings since
Sheridan, Jennifer
Interview of Sir David King
rather than GDP growth which is what we have had for many years; if we look at physics or engineering, what do we use as alternatives to energy sources from fossil fuels; we have nuclear, solar, wind, and geothermal energy, but how do we mine those forms... immediately did was to set about a study of energy research in the United Kingdom; there was this fascinating discovery that here we were about to go into a period when we needed to find alternative forms of energy other than fossil fuel based, and yet our...
King, David
years, while the rest of nuclear weapons. You don�t have towas getting to be an Nuclear Weapons of Energy, and 101 thatnuclear which was the nuclear weapon design unit at the lab,
An interview with Bob Rowthorn
and mountaineering; went on various Aldermaston marches for CND but even in those days I was in favour of nuclear power; apart from Thompson, my tutor, did have a specialist called Higman in my third year; I got a post-graduate research fellowship at Berkeley... ; the First World War led to widespread belief in the possibilities of central planning; in wartime the objectives of a society are relatively limited and many desires of people are pushed aside; focus on more weapons etc. which the state can often do quite...
Rowthorn, Bob
Interview of Keith van Rijsbergen
sequence of cluster methods called BK, the core of which was based on his work; as a supervisor he took an interest in what I was doing when it really mattered; I was an appalling writer to begin with, it was so condensed that if I was to write the same... used; any information retrieval experiment that is done, even with commercial systems, they tend to use the Porter Algorithm; Martin was not really a researcher, more of a developer, writing the software and building a system; he and Karen did not get...
Rijsbergen, Keith van
program from how to find plutonium in a little course calledcourse on how to find plutonium in suitcases because thatyou really want to smuggle plutonium or uranium what you do
Interview of Gareth Stedman Jones
to follow the edge of a crater that would be made if a bomb landed there; it was a period when nuclear war didn't seem inconceivable; I remember the committee being invited to SHAPE to hear the NATO case; I also got involved in the Labour Club alongside... , something that no academic institution would feel empowered to do these days; that sort of informality and trust is something that I've liked most about Cambridge; I think Cambridge is a strange place because its nearly all immigrants from one place...
Stedman Jones, Gareth
case for unconventional superconductors. Since the discovery of cuprate high-temperature superconductors in the 1980s, what findings have contributed the most to understanding...
Interview of Sally Falk Moore
so heinous; what was not difficult was to connect the firms that they worked for or the Government; you knew who set up the camps or the gas, but you could not connect the executive people in the Government with this operation; I suggested that what... peoples some of the surrounding myths; then came my first professional break which came from Laura Nader; she held a conference on law and anthropology sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and held at Burg Wartenstein, the castle they had bought...
Moore, Sally Falk
Franklin F. Snyder Interview with
mean we had normal circumstances and my father had a grain and flour mill. Before that, he'd been in
US Army Corps of Engineers
Interview with Colonel John Cross
concentric than the Gurungs, Magars radiate less differences within their whole; never unloved or turned away by any Magar or Gurung - I cherish more than anything in the world, I feel entirely integrated; I yearn for this places, part of the family 24... subsumed of the many. Not fearless; fearful of the fear of fear. Only fierce when too much drink, and anger. "A Gurkhas anger never happens, but when it does, it is unable to be measured."; Seen any acts of wanton cruelty in your travels? No, I have heard...
Cross, John
An interview with Akira Hayami
it was difficult for professors to study abroad, but a new president of Keio decided later to establish a system whereby younger scholars could to so; he established the Fukuzawa Foundation and I was fortunate in being the second to go under this scheme; I left... : 'Migration: The Intersection of Interclass Mobility and Geographical Mobility'; migration is normally from rural to urban for the lower classes; for the higher classes, several migrations happened but a core of them remained rural; those lower classes who...
Hayami, Akira
Probabilistic timed behavior trees
The Behavior Tree notation has been developed as a method for systematically and traceably capturing user requirements. In this paper we extend the notation with probabilistic behaviour, so that reliability, performance, and other dependability properties ... Keywords: behavior trees, model checking, probabilities, timed automata
Robert Colvin; Lars Grunske; Kirsten Winter
Genepool Time Heatmaps
Genepool Time Heatmaps Genepool Time Heatmaps Heatmap of Time and Slots Requested vs Time Waited (in hours) | Queue: All | Last 7 Days Time Requested Slots 1wk Job Count Longest Wait 1 23.0 (233) 0.37 (1819) 27.54 (49888) 5.85 (124593) 1.23 (39835) 0.34 (732) 0 0.4 (224) 0.02 (1) 217325 538.96 2 0 0.01 (19) 2.54 (78) 0.2 (140) 0.99 (2683) 0 0 0 0 2920 9.1 4 0.08 (1) 0 2.82 (141) 0.36 (143) 1.07 (12) 0.06 (5) 0.01 (5) 0.06 (1) 1.3 (5) 313 20.48 6 0.01 (2) 0 0.09 (32) 0.07 (1) 0 0 0 0 0 35 1.22 8 0.04 (24) 4.32 (7423) 5.31 (1999) 0.53 (316) 13.14 (2486) 0.01 (2) 1.21 (88) 1.3 (34) 8.33 (68) 12440 46.16 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8.56 (1) 0 1 8.56 16 0 0 0 0.03 (1) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.03 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.01 (1) 1 0.01 32 0 0 0 0.04 (14) 0 0 0 0.01 (6) 0 20 0.26
Internet Topology over Time
There are few studies that look closely at how the topology of the Internet evolves over time; most focus on snapshots taken at a particular point in time. In this paper, we investigate the evolution of the topology of the Autonomous Systems graph of the Internet, examining how eight commonly-used topological measures change from January 2002 to January 2010. We find that the distributions of most of the measures remain unchanged, except for average path length and clustering coefficient. The average path length has slowly and steadily increased since 2005 and the average clustering coefficient has steadily declined. We hypothesize that these changes are due to changes in peering policies as the Internet evolves. We also investigate a surprising feature, namely that the maximum degree has changed little, an aspect that cannot be captured without modeling link deletion. Our results suggest that evaluating models of the Internet graph by comparing steady-state generated topologies to snapshots of the real data ...
Edwards, Benjamin; Stelle, George; Forrest, Stephanie
Timed fast charger
In a charger for rechargeable electrochemical cells, a transformer charging circuit supplies a charging current to the battery at a fast charge rate for a predetermined time followed by a continuous slow charge rate. A normally closed automatic reset thermostat in series with the rectifier diodes in the charging circuit, and thermally coupled to them, opens after a period of time, dependent upon the heat generated by the rectifier diodes and upon the thermal mass of the thermostat and diodes, and terminates the fast charge current. A resistor, shunted across the thermostat and thermally coupled to it, establishes a slow charge rate current path when the thermostat opens. Heat generated in the resistor causes the thermostat to remain open as long as the battery is connected and ac power is supplied to the transformer primary winding.
Mullersman, F.H.
Space Time Matter inflation
We study a model of power-law inflationary inflation using the Space-Time-Matter (STM) theory of gravity for a five dimensional (5D) canonical metric that describes an apparent vacuum. In this approach the expansion is governed by a single scalar (neutral) quantum field. In particular, we study the case where the power of expansion of the universe is $p \\gg 1$. This kind of model is more successful than others in accounting for galaxy formation.
Mariano Anabitarte; Mauricio Bellini
Method and apparatus for set point control for steam temperatures for start-up of the turbine and steam generator in unit power plants
A method and apparatus are described for controlling the set point for steam temperatures for cold start-up of a steam generator-turbine unit wherein inlet steam temperature and turbine load absorption are steadily and substantially simultaneously increased in accordance with a predetermined relationship so as to reach their final values substantially synchronously.
Bloch, H.; Salm, M.
A B S T R AC T Starting with Houtkoop and Mazeland's (1985) study of discourse units, and touching upon recent studies aimed at detailing unit projection in
A B S T R AC T Starting with Houtkoop and Mazeland's (1985) study of discourse units, and touching upon recent studies aimed at detailing unit projection in interaction, this article argues that the drive toward abstract and discrete models for units and unit projection is potentially misleading. While
LanSchool Classroom Control Software Instructions Make sure all computers are on! To start LanSchool click the green circle in the system tray
1 LanSchool® Classroom Control Software Instructions Make sure all computers are on! To start LanSchool click the green circle in the system tray To turn on all computers click the down arrow next to Shutdown and click Power On #12;2 The Wake On LAN List will appear. Click Power On, all computers will then turn on
de Lijser, Peter
Shale Webinar Series to Start September 13th The Penn State Marcellus Education Team will be offering a new monthly Shale webinar series beginning
Shale Webinar Series to Start September 13th The Penn State Marcellus Education Team will be offering a new monthly Shale webinar series beginning Thursday, September 13th from 1:00 to 2:00 PM. Tom the series with an overview of trends and updates on shale development. Tom will provide an analysis of shale
Jan/Feb "The Y-12 Times"
to start up an impressive 10 weeks ahead of schedule and under budget, resulting in money saved on the project. Beth Schaad stated, "HEUMF's achieving operational readiness was...