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McLennan, John | Final Report Geothermal Battery Energy Storage | Solar and wind power are being introduced into electric grids to supplement and replace conventional electricity production. The deployment of utility-scale storage has not kept pace to overcome the intermittent nature of solar and to a lesser extent wind. Large-scale energy storage is cur... | | 2020-06 |
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Allis, Rick | Reservoirs for Geothermal Battery Energy Report: a geological perspective | Workshop presentation | | 2020-05-18 |
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McLennan, John | Large-scale subsurface seasonal heat storage for future value | I too extend my welcome. And, I extend thanks to the NSF for the support of this research at the Univ. of Utah. The concept of storing heat in the ground is certainly not new. Many, many cases have investigated heat to be stored underground. Getting the heat underground is somewhat of a problem, but... | | 2020-05-19 |
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McLennan, John | Geothermal Battery Surface Facilities Economics and Finance as an O&G play | | | |
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Eddings, Eric | Modified CPD Model for Coal Devolatilization at UCTT Conditions | To study coal pyrolysis behavior at underground coal thermal treatment (UCTT) conditions, a modified CPD (M-CPD) model was developed and evaluated using two scales of experiments as well as two different coals, Utah Sufco and Illinois #6. Compared with the original CPD model, three major aspects wer... | Coal; pyrolysis; modeling; underground heating | 2019 |
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Eddings, Eric G. | Joint NSF-NSFC Workshop on Combustion Related to Sustainable Energy | A workshop on Combustion Related to Sustainable Energy was held in Hangzhou, China on March 10-12, 2014. The workshop was jointly sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). The purpose of the workshop was to bring together a limite... | Combustion, sustainable energy, research needs, climate change, renewable fuel, efficiency, Workshop China | 2016 |
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Rashid, Khalid; Powell, Kody | Dynamic simulation, control, and design of a novel solar thermal hybrid power plant | Solar power is among the promising technologies leading towards cleaner fuel. However, there are still technological challenges regarding the reliability of power generation due to its intermittency. This work demonstrates the synergies that exist in integrated hybrid systems, where a dispatchable f... | Solar energy--Research; Solar thermal energy--Research; Solar power plants--Research | 2017 |
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Sutherland, James Clayton | Advanced regression methods for combustion modelling using principal components | Modelling the physics of combustion remains a challenge due to a large range of temporal and physical scales which are important in these systems. Detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms are used to describe the chemistry involved in the combustion process yielding highly coupled partial differential e... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Ring, Terry Arthur | Growth kinetics of hexagonal sub-micrometric β-tricalcium phosphate particles in ethylene glycol | Recently, uniform, non-agglomerated, hexagonal b-tricalcium phosphate (b-TCP) platelets (diameter 400-1700 nm, h 100-200 nm) were obtained at fairly moderate temperatures (90-170 C) by precipitation in ethylene glycol. Unfortunately, the platelet aspect ratios (diameter/thickness) obtained in the ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Sutherland, James Clayton | Prediction of oxy-coal flame stand-off using high-fidelity thermochemical models and the one-dimensional turbulence model | An Eulerian one-dimensional turbulence (ODT) model is applied to simulate oxy-coal combustion, with specific aim at predicting flame stand-o distances. Detailed gas-phase chemical kinetics based on the GRI3.0 mechanism are utilized. A high-fidelity model for devolatilization is considered that predi... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Eddings, Eric G. | The potential of on-line optical flow measurement in the control and monitoring of pilot-scale oxy-coal flames | Digital image processing techniques oer a wide array of tools capable of extracting apparent displacement or velocity information from sequences of images of moving objects. Optical flow algorithms have been widely used in areas such as traffic monitoring and surveillance. The knowledge of instantan... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Smith, Philip J. | Reduced-order PCA models for chemical reacting flows | One of the most challenging aspects of turbulent combustion research is the development of reduced-order combustion models which can accurately reproduce the physics of the real system. The identification and utilization of the low dimensional manifolds in these system is paramount to understand and... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Sutherland, James Clayton | A comparison of various models in predicting ignition delay in single-particle coal combustion | In this paper, individual coal particle combustion under laminar conditions is simulated using models with various levels of complexity for the particle and gas phase chemical kinetics. The mass, momentum and energy governing equations are fully coupled between the particle and the gas phase. In the... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Ring, Terry Arthur | Room temperature co-precipitation synthesis of magnetite nanoparticles in a large pH window with different bases | Magnetite nanoparticles (Fe3O4) represent the most promising materials in medical applications. To favor high-drug or enzyme loading on the nanoparticles, they are incorporated into mesoporous materials to form a hybrid support with the consequent reduction of magnetization saturation. The direct sy... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Lighty, Joann | The role of open innovation in development of futuristic technologies for carbon capture in coal-fired power plants: an academic perspective | Coal is an important fossil fuel resource for electricity generation which also contributes to significant CO2 emissions. The process of capturing carbon dioxide for utilization and sequestration is an important area of research in this domain. Academia-industry collaborations are playing a signific... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Ring, Terry Arthur | Verification of analytic energy moments for the one-dimensional energy dependent neutron diffusion equation with MCNP5 and Attila-7.1.0 | The energy dependent neutron diffusion equation (EDNDE) is converted into a moment equation which is solved analytically for the 1-D problem of a bare sphere of pure 235U. The normalized moments 0-5 generated analytically are compared to normalized energy moments, from Monte Carlo N Particle 5 versi... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Ring, Terry Arthur | Validation of energy moments from the one-dimensional energy dependent neutron diffusion equation, MCNP5 and Attila-7.1.0 with the GODIVA experiment | Normalized neutron energy moments (moments) from the one-dimensional energy dependent neutron diffusion equation (EDNDE), Monte Carlo N Particle 5 version 1.40 (MCNP5) and Attila-7.1.0-beta version (Attila) are validated with the GODIVA experiment (GODIVA). Energy moments 0-5 for all three methods a... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Whitty, Kevin J. | A pulse-width modulation controlled wire-mesh heater apparatus for investigation of solid fuel pyrolysis | A novel wire mesh heater apparatus has been developed to study the devolatilization of solid fuels under pressurized conditions at well-controlled heating rates on the order of 1000 K/s. The apparatus combines direct current and pulse-width modulation with a fast-acting and high current-capacity re... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Sutherland, James Clayton | A filter-independent model identification technique for turbulent combustion modeling | In this paper, we address a method to reduce the number of species equations that must be solved via application of Principal Component Analysis (PCA). This technique provides a robust methodology to reduce the number of species equations by identifying correlations in state-space and defining new v... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Stringfellow, Gerald B.; Shurtleff, James Kevin | Heterostructures in GaInP grown using a change in Te doping | In organometallic vapor phase epitaxy, changes in growth conditions can be used to modulate the extent of CuPt ordering and, hence, the band gap energy of GaInP. One method is to add Te during growth. An increase in the band gap energy of 0.1 eV due to a decrease in ordering has been obtained by ... | Heterostructures; Alloys | 2000 |
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Pershing, David W. | Design and construction of a rotary kiln simulator for use in studying the incineration of hazardous waste | Rotary kilns have been used extensively in the cement industry to calcine limestone. In the past few years, the technology has been viewed as a possible option for the incineration of hazardous waste materials, especially for the disposal of solid wastes and the cleanup of contaminated soils and tra... | Rotary kilns; Hazardous waste; Waste burning | 1989-08 |
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Sarofim, Adel F. | Simulation of soot formation using particle dynamics with one dimensional nucleation mode | Two soot formation models using particle dynamics with one-dimensional nucleation mode directly coupled with gas phase chemistry are tested on three ethylene and three methane laminar premixed flames. These models demonstrate strength in the prediction of concentration profiles of major combustion p... | Soot formation models; Particle dynamics; One dimensional nucleation mode; Combustion chemistry | 2004 |
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Eddings, Eric G.; Sarofim, Adel F. | Experimental study of burning rate in jet-fuel pool fires | Experiments were carried out in a 30 cm diameter pool fire, for both transient and steady-state conditions, utilizing jet fuel, Norpar-15, and a surrogate mixture of hydrocarbons that simulates jet-fuel behavior in a pool fire. Steady state pool fire tests match previous results well. The transient ... | Pool fires; Jet propulsion fuel; Norpar-15 | 2004 |
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Pershing, David W. | Mechanisms of NOx formation and control: alternative and petroleum-derived liquid fuels | Petroleum-, coal- and shale-derived liquid fuels were burned in a downfired tunnel furnace to assess the impact of fuel properties on the formation and control of NOx emissions. A nitrogen-free oxidant mixture (Ar, C02 , 02) was used to isolate fuel NOx formation. Under excess air conditions fuel N... | Exhaust emissions; Alternative fuels; Petroleum-derived liquid fuels | 1981 |
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Eddings, Eric G.; Spinti, Jennifer C.; Smith, Philip J. | Soot volume fraction from extinction in JP-8 and heptane pool fires | Total extinction measurements from a multiple beam experiment using a 10mW laser diode are presented and compared to calculate soot volume fraction in heavily sooting pool fires from a 150 mm diameter pan of Jet Propulsion fuel 8 (JP-8) and heptane. Trends in attenuation are critiqued for the t... | Pool fires; Jet propulsion fuel | 2005 |