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New Concept In Louver Blade Design Reduces Energy Losses, Peggy Kitchen, R. David Moore

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

A new louver blade design, developed through extensive wind tunnel tests, employs an airfoil shape with excellent aerodynamic characteristics. Stressed-skin construction adds strength and rigidity permitting the use of longer blades and the elimination of unnecessary frame sections. Lever arms and linkage rods are placed out of the airstream, further reducing resistance to airflow. Louvers and dampers employing this design will have a pressure drop of from 1/4 to 1/10 that of units of traditional design.

Fuel Gas From Wood Waste, V. K. Mathur, R. A. Caughey

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

Design, construction and operation of a new type of gasifier for the production of fuel gas from wood waste (sawdust, chips, bark, etc.) are discussed. Data obtained from pilot plants are presented. The gasifier is inexpensive, easy to operate and has about 95% efficiency.

Banquet Speaker: Energy -- What We Must Do, Peter Van Nort

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

You have heard for the last two days and will hear tomorrow relative to energy what people are planning, what is being researched, what is proposed, what is possible, what is being tested, etc. I would like to tell you what each of us must do relative to energy. I hope you will excuse me for being presumptuous….

The message might better be called a plea -- a plea from one person committed to the great- ness of this country and more importantly, committed to its survival in its present form….

We are in a crisis….Never before have we run …

Heat Recovery System For Glass Melting Furnace, Milton J. Murry

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

The installation and operating of a 100 ton per day glass melting furnace by Flat River Glass Company to make specialty bottles provided an excellent opportunity for recovery of waste heat. The furnace operates at 2300°F, and four feeders to bottle making machines operate at 2100“F. The 120,000 s.f. packaging area is next to the furnace bay, and it is heated solely by reclaimed heat from the melting furnace bay.

There are two systems that are used to transfer this waste heat from the furnace area to the packaging area. The first of these systems is a water loop. Water …

An Analysis Of Solar Heating Costs In Arkansas Broiler Houses, Ralph Gunderson, J. Martin Redfern

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

This study is based on the computer simulation model of a solar heated broiler house in four locations in Arkansas. This simulation model estimated the annual energy savings in each broiler house due to the installation of a solar heating system. This paper uses present value analysis to estimate the life cycle costs of heating conventional and solar heated broiler houses in the state of Arkansas. From these calculations, the number of years required to achieve a break-even cost of heating is estimated.

The Development Of Coal-Based Emulsions And Their Potential Impact On The National Economy, Murphy I. Song

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

The proposed national energy policy emphasizes the use of coal replacing oil and gas. Coal-oil mixture (COM) can be produced using techniques developed in recent years to replace oil and gas. Large existing utility and industrial boilers could be converted to bum COM by retrofitting the boilers. In addition, the COM provides definite financial advantages to the owners of large utility and industrial boilers. The use of COM impacts on the national economy through new investment for retrofitting utility and industrial boilers, through reduced importation of residual oil, and through increased demand for coal.

Usable Energy Resources Expand Under The Economic Pressures Of Fuel Scarcity, Raphael Shen

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

Until mankind finds properties in materials that are useful and usable under given economic conditions, these materials are not resources. In the past, many of them became usable as the ones they replaced became scarce and expensive. Market induced R & D toward profit seeking and cost minimization hastens to incorporate currently unused materials into the productive processes. With the increase in oil and natural gas prices, hitherto untapped energy sources present themselves as attractive alternatives. There will be no permanent shortage of energy resources, and the current energy crisis will be a page of past history in the foreseeable …

The Cost Of Crop Residues As An Auxiliary Fuel Source For Coal-Fired Power Plants, Cameron Short, Burton C. English, Steve K. Johnson, Earl O. Heady

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

Estimates are made of the costs of crop residues as an auxilary fuel to existing coal-fired power plants. Costs of crop residues include costs for foregone agronomic benefits of incorporating crop residues, and costs for harvesting transporting processing and boiler modifications. A range of cost estimates is given depending on annual demand.

Innovations In Heat Pumps, Ronald Hunter Howell, Harry J. Sauer Jr.

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

The status of the residential heat pump industry is reviewed. Some potential improvements in energy efficiency, operational reliability, and initial cost are described and delineated. These possible innovations include two-speed or variable speed compressors, reliable defrost initiation and termination, improved system components, modifications to the basic thermodynamic cycle, add-on-heat pumps, solar assisted heat pumps, annual cycle energy system, chemical heat pumps, and gas fired heat pumps.

Comparison Of Stirred And Immobilized Cell Reactors For Ethanol Production, Oliver C. Sitton, J. L. Gaddy

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

Biomass can be converted to sugars by hydrolysis with enzymes or mineral acids. These sugars can be converted into a number of chemical intermediates in biological reactors. Biological reactions are generally slow and selection of the most efficient reactor is important in these applications.

Immobilized cell reactors allow high cell densities and high throughput by attaching microorganisms to a fixed support. This paper compares the rate of production of ethanol from glucose by Saccharomyces Cerevisiae in a packed column and a stirred reactor.

Continuous stirred reactor studies showed a washout rate of .27 hr^-1. The optimum rate of …

University Of Missouri--Rolla Wood Energy Research, Yildirim Omurtag, V. J. Flanigan, Nathan E. Welch

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

The overall objective of this project is to conduct a research and development program which will lead to the early commercialization of wood gasification technology to process wood residues typical of those found in the Ozark region.

It's The Effort That Counts, Wayne L. Daniel

UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy

This paper outlines the approach taken by a graphic arts company to continue operating within the confines of its non-interruptible General Service Rate for natural gas and simultaneously expand its production volume.

Second Leray Spectral Sequence Of Relative Hypercohomology, Saul Lubkin, Goro C. Kato

Mathematics

A second Leray spectral sequence of relative hypercohomology is constructed. (This is skew in generality to an earlier one constructed by S. Lubkin [(1968) Ann. Math. 87, 105-255].) The Mayer-Vietoris sequence of relative hypercohomology [Lubkin, S. (1968) Ann. Math. 87, 105-255] is also generalized.

Student Profile, Fall 1978, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, Office Of Student Information Systems, Wright State University

Wright State University Student Fact Books

The student profile fact book has general demographic information on all students enrolled at Wright State University for Fall Quarter, 1978.

Volume 2, Number 10 (October 1978), The Otec Liaison

The OTEC Liaison

No abstract provided.

Light Scattering Studies Of Orientational Fluctuations Of Cs2, Scott Whittenburg

Chemistry Faculty Publications

We have measured the depolarized Rayleigh relaxation time of CS2 as a function of temperature and concentration in an optically isotropic solvent CCl4. The concentration dependence of the relaxation times indicates the importance of orientational pair correlation in CS2. The orientational pair correlation factor is found to depend on concentration at high CS2 concentration, as well as viscosity and temperature, in contrast to what is observed in other small molecules. The single particle reorientation times were obtained by extrapolating from the depolarized Rayleigh relaxation times to infinite dilution. These were compared with the predictions of the hydrodynamic slip and stick …

A 200 Year Record Of Carbon-13 And Carbon-14 Variations In A Bermuda Coral, Y. Nozaki, D. M. Rye, K. K. Turekian, Richard E. Dodge

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

A 200 year old brain coral, captured in Bermuda in 1976 was slabbed and x-rayed. Using the annual growth bands sequential, dated samples were taken over the entire growth period of the coral and analyzed for Δ¹⁴C, δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O. During the past 80 years atmospheric variations in Δ¹⁴C and δ¹³C due to human effects, such as release of bomb C-14 and dilution of both C-14 and C-13 by fossil fuel burning, are closely tracked by the coral. Prior to 1900 divergences between the coral and tree Δ¹⁴C …

Serologic And Hematologic Values Of Bison In Colorado, Edward O. Keith, James Ellis, Robert W. Phillips, Maxine M. Benjamin

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Recent economic and aesthetic interest in North American bison (Bison bison) has lead to increased interstate transport of these animals. Serologic and hematologic standards for bison are needed to detect disease in transported animals as well as within herds. This paper describes variation in blood physiological parameters in bison caused by variations in diet and season. Blood was taken from six bison and analyzed for serologic and hematologic parameters. Significant variation was found in blood urea nitrogen, chloride, cholesterol, creatinine, eosinophil, glucose, hemoglobin, lactic dehydrogenase, leukocyte, packed cell volume, potassium, serum globulin, serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase, SGPT, and …

Two-Nucleon Transfer To T-Mixed States In ¹⁶O, H. T. Fortune, R. Middleton, Oleksa-Myron Bilaniuk

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

In a comparison of the reactions ¹⁴N(t, p) to the g.s. quadruplet of ¹⁶N and ¹⁴N(³He, p) to the dominantly T=1 analogs in ¹⁶O, only the 2⁻ levels have the expected cross-section ratio: σ(³He, p) over σ(t, p)=0.5. The cross sections for O⁻ and 3⁻ levels of 16O are reduced by a further factor of 2. Direct-reaction calculations are unable to reproduce the results. NUCLEAR REACTIONS ¹⁴N(t, p), ¹⁴N(³He, p), E=15.0 MeV; measured σ(Eₚ, θ). T mixing effect on reaction mechanism.

Development Of A New Technique For The Analysis Of Pesticides In Water, Prasad K. Kadaba, Pramode K. Bhagat, Radko Osredkar, V. R. K. Murthy

KWRRI Research Reports

A Nuclear Double Resonance Spectrograph has been designed and constructed with emphasis on quadrupolar nuclei of half-integral spins. The use of a data acquisition and processing system featuring the A/D converter, signal averager with built in fast Fourier transformation hardware greatly improves the S/N ratio. The spectrograph has been used to detect certain organochlorine, carbamate and symmetrical triazine pesticides. Concentration levels that can be detected range from 15 to 100 micrograms per liter. Since the measurements are done below ice temperatures, heat-labile compounds can be detected without conversion to more suitable derivatives as in gas chromatography. Fats and oils in …

Influence Of Nitrogen Fertilization On The Quality And Quantity Of Streamflow From A Forested Watershed, George B. Coltharp, Michael T. Shearer, Everett P. Springer, Robert F. Wittwer

KWRRI Research Reports

This project was designed to determine the effects of nitrogen fertilization on the quality and quantity of streamflow eminating from an eastern hardwood forest watershed. A 40.67 ha watershed, located in mountainous eastern Kentucky, was aerially fertilized in late April 1975. The forest stand was principally oak, hickory, and yellow poplar, 50 - 55 years of age and in a relatively undisturbed condition. A helicopter applied anunonium nitrate at a rate of 504 kg/ha. Because a large part of applied nitrogen fertilizer ends up in the highly mobile nitrate nitrogen.form, this is the principal ion monitored in this study. No …

A Proposed Revision Of Kentucky's Water Rights Legislation, Richard Ausness

KWRRI Research Reports

Kentucky's present system of water law consists of a statutory water withdrawal permit system superimposed upon a body of common-law water rights doctrine. The rights of water users are often uncertain under this system, particularly in periods of water shortage. The proposed revision of Kentucky's existing water rights legislation, would greatly reduce the significance of common-law water rights and would remedy some of the weaknesses in the present statute.

Part 1 of the proposed statute establishes an administrative structure; Part 2 deals with water withdrawal permits; Part 3 retains the present statute's provisions on the regulation of dams and impoundments, …

Chesapeake Bay Baseline Data Acquisition Appendix Ix: Wetlands Alteration, Chesapeake Research Consortium, Incorporated, University Of Maryland, Center For Environmental And Estuarine Studies, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Reports

No abstract provided.

Chesapeake Bay Baseline Data Acquisition Appendix X: Effects Of Boating And Shipping On Water Quality, Chesapeake Research Consortium, Incorporated, University Of Maryland, Center For Environmental And Estuarine Studies, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Reports

No abstract provided.

Non-Splitting Unitary Perfect Polynomials Over Gf(Q)T, Mickie Sue Harbin, Jacob T. B. Beard Jr.

Mathematics Technical Papers

It has been conjectured that there are infinitely many distinct pd-equivalence classes of non-splitting unitary perfect polynomials over GF(pd) for each prime p and each odd integer d > 1. The conjecture is proved in the affirmative in the cases i) p < 97, ii) 2 ^ GF(p) is not a square, iii) 2 ^ GF(p) is a square and all of the positive integer intervals determined by distinct odd powers of ^t contain a square, where GF*(p) = (^). In addition, it has been determined that iii) is satisfied by 314 primes p > 97.2

A Rapid Algorithm For Reliability Optimization Of Parallel Redundant Systems, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu, H. Sivaramakrishnan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A rapid method is proposed for optimization of reliability of multiconstraint parallel redundant systems. The constraints need not be linear. This method provides good starting values, which are close to the boundary of the feasible region, for the number of redundant units in each subsystem. No proof has been presented to establish the optimality obtained by this method. Yet for examples tried out this method provides optimal or near optimal solutions.

Mathematical Models Of Porous Flow, Donald Greenspan

Mathematics Technical Papers

In this paper a new, viable mathematical approach to the analysis of porous flow is developed. Liquids and solids are modeled as sets of particles which interact in accordance with both long range (gravity) and short range (molecular type) forces. The resulting nonlinear, n-body problem is resolved numerically on a digital computer. A variety of fundamental porous flow type problems, solved on the University of Texas at Arlington IBM 370-155, are described and analyzed.

Chesapeake Bay Baseline Data Acquisition Appendix Xi: Shoreline Erosion, Chesapeake Bay Research Consortium, Incorporated, University Of Maryland, Center For Environmental And Estuarine Studies, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Reports

No abstract provided.

Chesapeake Bay Baseline Data Acquisition: Final Report, Maurice P. Lynch, Andrew J. Mcerlean, Chesapeake Research Consortium, Incorporated

Reports

This report forms one of several appendices which are the body of

the Chesapeake Bay Baseline Data Acquisition Final Report. These

appendices are as follows:

Appendix I. A Chesapeake Bay Directory

Appendix II. Submerged Aquatic Vegetation

Appendix III. Toxics in the Chesapeake Bay

Appendix IV. Eutrophication

Appendix V. Shellfish Bed Closures

Appendix VI. Dredging and Spoil Disposal

Appendix VII. Modification of Fisheries

Appendix VIII. Hydrologic Modifications

Appendix IX. Wetlands Alteration

Appendix X. Effects of Boating and Shipping on Water Quality

Appendix XI. Shoreline Erosion

Glinn Ranch Quadrangle, Keith County, Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

7.5' topgraphic quadrangle showing exposures of bedrock formations and other geologic information.

41° 15' — 41° 22'30"

101° 30' — 101° 37'30"

Scale 1:24,000

Completed September 20, 1978

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file