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Preliminary engineering analysis of quench-station designs in large...
Preliminary engineering analyses of quench station designs in large-scale coal gasification plants were performed with a primary emphasis on environmental pollutant distribution... -
Pennsylvania Spatial Data: Mississippian Sandstones Assessment Unit
From the site: "The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The Assessment Unit... -
Preliminary evaluation of a concept using microwave energy to improve an...
This report describes the results of a preliminary evaluation performed to: (1) determine if microwave energy could be used to regenerate a zeolite adsorbent and (2) to evaluate... -
OPTIMIZATION OF DEEP DRILLING PERFORMANCE--DEVELOPMENT AND BENCHMARK TESTING...
The industry cost shared program aims to benchmark drilling rates of penetration in selected simulated deep formations and to significantly improve ROP through a team... -
Fate of trace mercury in the combustion of coal. [11 references]
Coal, fly ash, and flue gas samples were analyzed for mercury (Hg) by double gold amalgamation-flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The purpose of the study was to... -
Gas cooled fuel cell systems technology development
This report documents in detail the work performed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the Energy Research Corporation during the fourth phase of a planned multiphase... -
Review of stiffness and implicit finite difference methods in combustion modeling
Stiffness is a mathematical characteristic which is exhibited in combustion models when some components of their solutions respond quickly to system perturbations whereas others... -
Radium concentration factors and their use in health and environmental risk...
Radium is known to be taken up by aquatic animals, and tends to accumulate in bone, shell and exoskeleton. The most common approach to estimating the uptake of a radionuclide by... -
Advanced Reservoir Characterization and Development through High-Resolution...
The Eva South Morrow Sand Unit is located in western Texas County, Oklahoma. The field produces from an upper Morrow sandstone, termed the Eva sandstone, deposited in a... -
Integrated low emissions cleanup system for direct coal fueled turbines...
The United States Department of Energy, Morgantown Energy Research Center (DOE/METC), is sponsoring the development of advanced, coal-fueled turbine power plants such as... -
USGS NGMDB: Whitley City quadrangle
From the National Geologic Map Database site: "Geology of the Whitley City quadrangle, Kentucky and the Kentucky part of the Winfield quadrangle" -
Development of an integrated, in-situ remediation technology. Topical report...
Contamination in low permeability soils poses a significant technical challenge to in situ remediation efforts. Poor accessibility to the contaminants and difficulty in delivery... -
Developing/modifying coal-grinding procedures and equipment to produce...
This is the final report for the Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC21-76-ET10256, Developing/Modifying Coal Grinding Procedures and Equipment to Produce Predictable Size... -
A novel geotechnical/geostatistical approach for exploration and production...
This research program has been designed to develop and verify a unique geostatistical approach for finding natural gas resources. The project has been conducted by Beckley... -
Pyrolysis and devolatilization of low-rank coals: Final report, April 11,...
The effects of pyrolysis conditions and coal type on the nature of water-soluble organic effluents have been investigated using a small pyrolysis reactor system and a variety of... -
Field and laboratory leaching studies of retorted Kentucky oil shales:...
This report summarizes the first year's progress of a field study on the reclamation, geotechnical, engineering and elemental release or leaching characteristics of retorted... -
Development of molten carbonate fuel cell power plant. Quarterly progress...
Work proceeded this quarter mainly under three program tasks. Under Task 1.0, work was started on preparing a description of the reference Steam Injection System. It is planned... -
Pyrolysis of asphalt ridge tar sand
Isothermal and nonisothermal pyrolysis experiments have been conducted on Asphalt Ridge tar sand. Oil produced from the isothermal experiments has a molecular weight of... -
Fabri-Valve Knife Gate Valve: METC SOA Test Valve No. A-11 and Test Valve...
The 6-inch ANSI Class 600 Fabri-Valve Knife Gate Valve (METC SOA Test Valve No. A-11) accumulated 313 cycles in the Valve Static Test Unit (VSTU) and 684 cycles in the Valve... -
Applications of stochastic optimization, Task 4
This report illustrates the power of the new stochastic optimization and stochastic programming capabilities developed around the ASPEN simulator in solving various types of...