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MANY UTILITY AND INDUSTRY COAL-FIRED BOILERS HAVE ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS (ESPS) ALONE, WHICH ARE NOT CAPABLE OF REMOVING SO2. MANY OLDER ESPS WILL REQUIRE UPGRADING IN THE 1990S TO MEET MORE STRINGENT PARTICULATE STANDARDS. ETS, INC. HAS TESTED ITS PATENTED LIMESTONE EMISSION CONTROL (LEC) SYSTEM, DEMONSTRATING GREATER THAN 90% SO2 REMOVAL CAPABILITY. LECS CAN BE PLACED DOWNSTREAM OF ESPS. IT ...

A PROGRAM IS PROPOSED TO SHOW THE FEASIBILITY OF DEPRESSED COLLECTORS FOR VERY HIGH AVERAGE POWER (APPROX. 1MW) GYROTRON OSCILLATORS FOR FUSION APPLICATIONS. INITIAL CALCULATIONS INDICATE THAT COLLECTION EFFICIENCIES EXCEEDING 75% CAN BE REALIZED. USE OF SUCH A COLECTOR ON A GYROTRON WITH A BASE EFFICIENCY OF 30% WOULD INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY TO OVER 60%. SUCH A DRAMATIC INCREASE IN EFFICIENCY WOU ...

BECAUSE OF THEIR LONG DECAY TIMES, SCINTILLATORS IN NEUTRON LOGGING TOOLS ARE RESPONSIVE PRIMARILY TO THE GAMMA RADIATION FROM THE NEUTRON CAPTURE SPECTUM. THIS INHIBITS POROSITY MEASUREMENTS IN GAS-FILLED ZONES AND SUBSTANTIALLY LIMITS THE ELEMENTAL INFORMATION ON THE STRATA WHICH CAN BE ACQUIRED. ADVANCES IN NEUTRON LOGGING TOOLS REQUIRE A NEW SCINTILLATOR MATERIAL CAPABLE OF MAKING PRECISION ME ...

WE DESCRIBE A NOVEL LEAK DETECTOR FOR XENON THAT HAS DIRECT APPLICATION TO TESTING RADIO-ISOTOPE-POWERED THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS. SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRATION OF OUR INNOVATION WILL ALLOW IMPROVED EFFICIENCY IN THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS BY REMOVING THE HELIUM THAT IS NOW ADDED TO THE XENON BUFFERGAS FOR LEAK CHECKING PURPOSES. THE PHASE I RESEARCH PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE THE CRITICAL DESIGN INFORMATION ...

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SURFACE METAL OXIDE AND OXYHYDROXIDE LAYERS HAVE BEEN IMPLICATED AS TRITIUM TRAPS IN STAINLESS STEELS. A NEW TECHNIQUE IS BEING DEVELOPED FOR MEASURING HYDROGEN ISOTOPE DIFFUSION WITHIN THIS LAYER AND WITHIN PERMEATION BARRIERS MEANT TO LIMIT TRITIUM INVENTORY IN THESE MATERIALS.

IF THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT IS TO BE SUCCESSFUL, MUCH MORE RAPID DNA SEQUENCING WILL BE REQUIRED. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT PRESENT TECHNOLOGY IS 100-500 TIMES TOO SLOW TO PERMIT SEQUENCING OF THE ENTIRE HUMAN GENOME BY THE ORIGINAL PROJECTED COMPLETION DATE OF 2005. CURRENTLY, THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TECHNOLOGY EMPLOYED FOR LARGE SCALE DNA SEQUENCING INVOLVES REAL-TIME, FOUR COLOR, FLUORESCENT LINE IMAGIN ...

THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE ANALYSIS OF A HIGH HARMONIC, HIGH EFFICIENCY MICROWAVE GENERATOR THAT APPEARS TO BE SUITABLE FOR APPLICATIONS SUCH AS A DRIVER FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF LINEAR COLLIDERS. THE CONCEPT EMPLOYS A ROTATING "SPIRALING" BEAM TO EXCITE AND AMPLIFY CIRCULARLY POLARIZED MICROWARE RADIATION IN AN INTERACTION OUTPUT WAVEGUIDE. MODULATION OF A LINEAR, HIGH POWER, SMALL DIAMETER BEAM ...

IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT KEY TO MAINTAINING OR EXPANDING THE PETROLEUM/NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION CAPABILITY OF THE U.S. IN THE WORLD MARKET. NEW INTERWELL SEISMIC IMAGING OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF RESERVOIR DESCRIPTION, SIMULATION, AND MANAGEMENT. THIS TECHNOLOGY OFFERS ONE OF THE FEW MEANS AVIALABLE TODAY FOR EVALUATING THE STATE OF THE RESERVOIR BETWEEN S ...