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THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A VIDEO BASED COMPUTER IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM CONSISTING OF A 180 DEGREES LENS AND VIDEO CAMERA WHICH IS LINKED TO A VIDEO RECORDER AND MICRO-COMPUTER. THE VIDEO RECORDER ALLOWS FOR STORAGE OF THE IMAGES WHILE THE MICRO-COMPUTER ALLOWS RAPID REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT OF THE UNDERWATER IMAGE WHICH INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO: (A) ANALYZING MOVEMENT PATTERNS OF FISH ...

OVER 25 BILLION GALLONS OF WASTE WATER ARE PRODUCED EACH YEAR AS BY-PRODUCTS OF CIRCUIT BOARD PRODUCTION. WASTES, INCLUDING COPPER, LEAD, NICKEL, CHROMIUM, DISSOLVED ORGANICSACIDS, CAUSTICS AND CHLORINATED SOLVENTS MUST BE TREATED ANDDISPOSED OF OR RECYCLED. COMPLIANCE WITH ANTI-POLLUTION REGULATIONS HAS BECOME EXTREMELY COSTLY AND INCREASINGLY COMPLEX. A TECHNIQUE IS PROPOSED IN THIS PROJECT FOR ...

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ABOUT 28 MILLION POUNDS OF SPENT HYDROTREATING CATALYST CONTAINING $23,000,000 IN RECOVERABLE CHEMICALS WAS DIS POSED OF IN THE UNITED STATES DURING 1985. ONLY 20% OF THE SPENT CATALYST UNDERWENT SOME FORM OF RECLAMATION PROCESS- ING. THE AMOUNT OF SPENT HYDROTREATING CATALYST REQUIRING DISPOSAL IS EXPECTED TO DOUBLE BY 1994 WITH THE EX DISPOSAL IS EXPECTED TO DOUBLE BY 1994 WITH THE HYDRODESUL- F ...

NEW FEDERAL STANDARDS THAT COME INTO EFFECT IN 1988 WILL REQUIRE HEAVY DUTY DIESEL EXHAUST PARTICULATE EMISSION REDUCTIONS OF APPROXIMATELY 60%. IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT APPROXIMATELY 75% OF DIESEL PARTICLES ARE CHANGED DURING COMBUSTION AND COULD BE COLLECTED ON THE SURFACES OF AN ELECTROSTATIC AGGLOMERATOR (ESA). THESE PARTICLES WOULD GROW ON THE SURFACES BY AGGLOMERATION AND BE REENTRAINED INTO T ...

FOR A USER TO ORDER SATELLITE IMAGE DATA SETS FROM THE NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER INTELLIGENTLY AND RELIABLY, HEMUST VERIFY THAT THE DATA SET COVERS HIS REGION OF INTEREST AND IS FREE ENOUGH FROM CLOUD COVER TO BE USEABLE. TO SOLVETHIS PROBLEM, WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE WHICH INTERFACES TO AN INEXPENSIVE GRAPHICS BOARD TO DISPLAY SATELLITE ORBITS ON A M ...

THE USE OF SOLAR AND/OR ARTIFICIALLY IRRADIATED SEMICONDUCTOR POWDERS TO PHOTOCATALYTICALLY MINERALIZE 12-400 PPM TRICHLOROETHYLENE (TCE) CONTAMINATED WATER OBTAINED FROM A CANDIDATE SUPERFUND SITE IS PROPOSED. THESESEMICONDUCTOR POWDERS ARE INEXPENSIVE, NONTOXIC, RECYCABLE AND HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY EMPLOYED TO MINERALIZE TCE, PENTACHLOROPHENOL AND MANY OTHER HALOGENATED HYDROCARBONS RAPIDLY. THE ...

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THE PROPOSED PROGRAM INVLOLVES THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BREAD- BOARD 2.1 MICRON LIDAR AEROSOL PROFILER AND MEASUREMENTS OF AEROSOL BACKSCATTER. THE LIDAR WILL UTILIZE A NEW AND UNIQUE, ROOM TEMPERATURE, EYE-SAFE HOLMIUM LASER COMMERCIAL-LY SOLD BY SCHWARTZ ELECTRO-OPTICS (SEO). THIS EFFICIENT, SOLID STATE LASER IS BASED UPON A PROPRIETARY HOLMIUM: YSGG CRYSTAL DEVELOPED BY SEO AND CURRENTLY IS THE ON ...

THE USE OF METHANOL AS A LOW EMISSIONS, ALTERNATE FUEL TO GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL MAY BE LIMITED BY DIFFICULT COLD STARTING AND HIGH CO AND UNBURNED HYDROCARBONS DURING COLD OPERATION OF METHANOL-FUELED ENGINES. A FUELED VEHICLE TO PRODUCE DIMETHYL ETHER AND TO METER THE HIGHLY VOLATILE DIMETHYL ETHER INTO THE ENGINE TO ASSIST THE COLD STARTING AND COLD OPERATION. EXPERIMENTS WILL BE DONE TO MEAS ...