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Anxiety levels of psychiatric patients during hospitalization and at time of discharge. | 1964-06 | Mentally Ill; Anxiety | This study was made to determine (a) if there is a significant difference between anxiety levels of psychiatric patients at a midway point in their hospitalization and at the time of their discharge, and (b) is extra-hospital factors such as illness, employment status, or follow-up care influence an... |
| 202 |
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Apparatus and method for recovery of bituminous products from tar sands | 1978-06-20 | An apparatus and method for (1) reducing agglomerated masses of tar sand and (2) recovering as a bituminous product the bituminous matrix material therefrom. The apparatus includes a vessel which is divided into an attrition zone enclosed by a screen member, a sand separation zone and a product reco... | |
| 203 |
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Apparatus for extracting bitumen from tar sand | 1982-01-19 | Patent; Extracting bitumen from tar sand; Extraction chambers; Countercurrent flow; Plurality; Individually sealed pressure adjusted interconnected extraction chambers in series; Tar sand; Bitumen | A method and apparatus for extracting bitumen from tar sand utilizes a plurality of individually sealed pressure adjusted interconnected extraction chambers in which the tar sand flows countercurrent to the flow of solvent with mixing in each extraction chamber of solvent and tar sand. Tar sand is p... |
| 204 |
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Apparatus for separating organic material from particulate tar sands and coal and agglomeration of the particulate residue | 1976-10-05 | Patent; Tar sands; Coal; Agglomeration of particle residue; Agglomerating liquid; Immiscible; Varsol; Ball agglomerates | A rotatable drum having an interior which tapers in a horizontal direction has a first port at the smaller end for receiving particulate Tar Sands or coal, and an agglomerating liquid, e.g. water, and a second port at the larger end for receiving an organic material separating liquid, e.g. Varsol, w... |
| 205 |
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Apparatus for the treatment of tar sand froth | 1976-07-06 | Patent; Tar Sand Froth; Improved recycling disc-type centrifuge; Converting flow direction; Recycled underflow | An improved disc recycling type of centrifuge apparatus which includes means for converting the flow direction of the recycled underflow and causing the recycled underflow to self impact. |
| 206 |
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Appendix 1: User guide for characterizing particulate matter | 2003-09 | Air quality; Particulate matter; PM; Characterizing particulate matter; Sampling PM; PM background; Photoacoustic analyzer; PA; Photoelectric Aerosol Sensor; PAS; PAH; Aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer; ATOFMS; Dilution and Sampling; Soil; Dust; Smoke; Liquid droplets; Atmosphere; Nitrate; Su... | This User's Guide is intended to assist environmental or military personnel who work with air quality measurements, regulations, and planning for the Department of Defense. Specifically, it focuses on an evaluation of three newly developed instruments for characterizing particulate matter (PM), gene... |
| 207 |
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Application of a self-adaptive detector system on a triple quadrupole ms/ms to high explosives and sulfur-containing pyrolysis gases from oil shale | 1983-12 | A totally computerized triple quadrupole MS/MS is being extended into a dynamic, self-adaptive chemical analysis system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. These first efforts toward Artificial Intelligence guided instrumentation (i.e. Expert Systems) involve the implementation of a self-adap... | |
| 208 |
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Appraisal of the technical and economic potential of U.S. tar sands | 1986-11 | U.S. tar sands constitute a large, essentially undeveloped resource that could, with technological advances. provide an important source for future liquid supplies of petroleum. The identified resource base, as reported in the update to the 19B3 report by the Interstate Oil Compact Commission (IDCC)... | |
| 209 |
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Areawide and local effects of tar sands development at the Sunnyside site in Utah: A socioeconomic analysis | 1984-04 | The Combined Hydrocarbon Leasing Act of 1982 (Public Law 97-78) provides guidelines for converting federal oil and gas leases to combined hydrocarbon leases in Special Tar Sands Areas (STSAs). The STSAs are designated by the U.S. Department of the Interior as areas that contain substantial deposits ... | |
| 210 |
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Arrangement for recovering viscous petroleum from thick tar sand | 1977-05-03 | Patent; Viscous oil; Tar sand; Petroleum; Recovering viscous petroleum; Large vertical dimension; Tubular member | An arrangement is provided for recovering viscous oil from a tar sand formation having a large vertical dimension including a substantially vertical lined shaft extending through the tar sand formation. A first opening is formed in the lower portion of the shaft lining and at least one lateral hole ... |
| 211 |
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Asphalt from Utah tar sands -- A JWBA project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy | 1989 | asphalt; Utah tar sands; JWBA project; asphalt production | JWBA has initiated a project for development of Utah's tar sands for production of specification-grade asphalt. Projected prices and costs strongly indicate economic viability within the market limitations. JWBA has licensed the water extraction technology developed at the University of Utah and has... |
| 212 |
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Asphaltene rejection from bitumens via supercritical fluid extraction | 1993 | asphaltene rejection; bitumen; supercritical fluid extraction; SFE; asphaltene content | Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) of bitumen was carried out in a continuous extractor using propane as the solvent at several temperatures and pressures. The asphaltene contents of the residual fractions in the extractor were compared to the asphaltene content of the original bitumen. Asphaltene... |
| 213 |
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Assay products from Green River oil shale | 1986-02-18 | Pyrolysis stoichiometry; Green River; Oil shale; Oil; Mahogany zone; Colorado; Utah; Pairwise correlation coefficients; Pyrolysis; Elemental analyses of shales and oils; Organic carbon; Gas composition; Elemental composition; Oil shale grade; Raw shale | Data from 66 material-balanced assays conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Laramie Energy Technology Center, and The Oil shale Corporation were compiled and analyzed to determine the pyrolysis stoichiometry for Green River formation oil shales originating in and near the Mahogany zon... |
| 214 |
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Assays of oil shale cuttings and cores, P. R. Spring and Hill Creek oil-impregnated sandstone deposits | 1977-07 | In 1973 the Utah Geological and Mineral Survey drilled sixteen core holes in the P.R. Spring and Hill Creek oil-impregnated sandstone deposits in the southeast Uinta Basin, Uintah county, Utah (figures 1 and 2). The holes were drilled in cooperation the U.S. Bureau of Mines under a grant from that a... | |
| 215 |
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Assessment and control of water contamination associated with shale-oil extraction and processing | 1979; 1980 | The Los Alamos National Laboratory's research on assessment and control of water contamination associated with oil shale operations is directed toward the identification of potential water contamination problems and the evaluation of alternative control strategies for controlling contaminants releas... | |
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Assessment of research needs for oil recovery from heavy-oil sources and tar sands | 1982-03 | The Fossil Energy Research Working Group (FERWG), at the request of J. W. Mares (Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy) and A. W. Trivelpiece (Director, Office of Energy Research), has reviewed and evaluated the U.S. programs on oil recovery from heavy oil sources and tar sands. These studies were p... | |
| 217 |
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Assessment of unconventional fuels development costs | 2013-05-07 | ICSE; Unconventional fuels; Development cost; Oil Shale; In situ; Ex situ; Oil Sands; Utah; Uinta Basin | Presentation given at the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 7, 2013. |
| 218 |
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Association of uranium and other metals with crude oil, asphalt, and petroliferous rock | 1954-10 | uranium; crude oil; asphalt; petroliferous rock | Some crude oil, natural asphalt, and petroliferous rock are appreciably radioactive, but little is known about the actual uranium content and the chemical nature of the uranium compound or compounds in these materials. Semiquantitative spectrographic analyses of the ash of 29 samples of crude oil, 2... |
| 219 |
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Atomistic modeling of oil shale kerogens and asphaltene along with their interactions with the inorganic mineral matrix | 2011-04 | atomistic modeling; oil shale kerogens and asphaltene; inorganic mineral matrix | The goal of this project is to obtain and validate three dimensional atomistic models for the organic matter in both oil shales and oil sands. In the case of oil shales the modeling was completed for kerogen, the insoluble portion of the organic matter; for oil sands it was for asphaltenes, a class ... |
| 220 |
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Atomistic modelling of oil shale kerogens and asphaltenes | 2012-10-21 | Atomistic modeling; Oil shale; Kerogens; Asphaltenes; 3D models; Pyrolysis; Computational modeling; Molecular mechanics; HyperCHem/ReaxFF; Ab initio calculations; Gaussian/GAMESS; DIFFUSE; CRYSOL | |
| 221 |
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Attachment 2 - Statement of program objectives clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources | 2011-12 | ICSE; Oil shale research; Energy; Oil sands resources; Domestic oil shale; Environmental impact; Basin scale simulation; Liquid fuel production; In-situ thermal processing; Environmental; Legal; Policy issues; University of Utah | This Statement of Project Objectives (SOPO) reflects the performance period from October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2013. It includes tasks/subtasks funded in fiscal year 2009 (Phase 1) and tasks/subtasks funded in fiscal year 2010 (Phase II). Tasks/subtasks initiated during Phase I that are anti... |
| 222 |
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Attachment 2 - Statement of program objectives: Clean and secure energy from domestic oil shale and oil sands resources | 2009-09-24 | ICSE; University of Utah; Energy; Oil shale; Oil sands; CO2 capture; Liquid fuel; In-situ thermal processing; NOx emissions; CO2 emissions; Flameless oxy-gas process heaters; Efficient CO2 capture; Large Eddy Simulation; LES | The University of Utah (the Recipient), via their Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (the Institute), shall pursue research to improve industry's ability to utilize the vast energy stored in domestic oil shale and oil sands resources in a manner that shall minimize environmental impact and effect... |
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Attachment 3--Statement of project objectives (mod 003) | 2009 | Project; Research; Tasks; Industry; Academic; Public outreach; ISCE; DOE; Department of Energy; Repository; Large Eddy Simulation; LES; ARCHES; Oxy-coal; DQMOM; Power generation; Retrofit; Gasification; Entrained-flow; Radiation modeling; In-situ fuel production; Mercury control | This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy under Award Number FC26-08NT0005015. C. Tasks to be performed (Phase 2) |
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnostic assessment methods used by advanced practice registered nurses. | 2004-05 | Diagnosis; Primary Care | This nonexperimental, exploratory research study used a self-administered questionnaire to gather data from advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) in Utah. The results of this study imply that the majority of APRNs who diagnose and treat children with ADHD are family nurse practitioners (58.4%)... |
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Attrition and abrasion models for oil shale process modeling | 1991-10-25 | As oil shale is processed, line particles, much smaller than the original shale are created. This process is called attrition or more accurately abrasion. In this paper, models of abrasion are presented for oil shale being processed in several unit operations. Two of these unit operations, a fluidiz... |