Ocean Energy Recovery
This proceeding of the International Conference on Ocean Energy Recovery held in Honolulu, Hawaii from November 28-30, 1989 consists of thirty-eight papers. These papers explore various...
Cleaning Up Coal
Coal, which fueled the industrial revolution in the 19th century and two wars in the 20th, should continue to be a major power source well into the 21st century. Its abundance keeps the...
The Demonstration Project on Seismic Loss Estimation for Water Systems
This year a monograph is being produced that summarizes results of a four-year project by the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering (TCLEE) of ASCE in order to demonstrate...
Recent Lifeline Seismic Risk Studies
This monograph is a collection of four papers presented at the 1990 Annual Civil Engineering Convention and Exposition in San Francisco, California. The papers summarize seismic loss and...
Fired Up at Fort Drum
The U.S. Army's first major privatization contract was signed for design, construction, operation and ownership of the Fort Drum powerplant at the newly constructed base for...
Containment Model ? Test Program and Results
Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) completed the testing of a 1:6-scale containment building for a Light Water Reactor (LWR) in July 1987. The containment building was made of reinforced...
Development of a Test Validated Methodology for Predicting Concrete Containment Leakage
In the past several years, considerable research effort has been devoted by the Electric Power Research Institute and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the behavior of reactor...
Coal Gas Legacy
The remains of a former coal gasiication plant were uncovered during redevelopment of a site for the new City Hall in Waterloo, Ont. The coal tar waste was a dense, immiscible tarry fluid...
The Program Manager: Mind Over Machine
Computers are now clearly entrenched in the office of the engineer. Their advantages are obvious; for one, they allow the engineer to instantly accomplish tasks that took weeks in the...
Instrumentation of Landfill Cover Liners: Moisture Transport Studies
Accurate estimation of the amount of water leaking through the cover liner, into the landfill, is vital for estimating the possible amount of leachate that can be generated into a landfill...
Treatment Plant Modifications to Conserve Energy and Improve Performance
Creative funding along with thorough planning and design contributed to the successful energy conservation program at the Willow Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant, Salem, Oregon. By funding...
Peat Filtration for Oil Removal
An investigation was carried out to assess the potential of horticultural peat produced in Saskatchewan as a filter medium in treating five oil-in-water emulsions (standard mineral oil,...
Effect of Concentration on the Biological Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons Associated with In Situ Soil-Water Treatment
Sandy soil samples contaminated with weathered JP-5 jet fuel were mixed with uncontaminated sand to provide a concentration gradient from 187 to 1565 mg total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH)/Kg...
Biological Treatment of PAHs in Soil Residues in Simulated Land Treatment Systems
The lower molecular weight compounds (2 and 3 ring PAHs) are readily degraded by microorganisms. The heavier molecular weight PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon) compounds (4, 5 and...
Drainage of Landfill Covers and Bottom Liners
This paper presents two new tools for preliminary evaluation of drainage-system designs. The first is a set of equations that define the saturated-depth profile for steady drainage over...
The Water Erosion Prediction Project: Model Overview
A new generation of water erosion prediction technology is being developed by the USDA Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP). The WEPP models are a new erosion prediction technology...
The Water Erosion Prediction Project: Erosion Parameter Estimation
The USDA Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) includes a large field program for collection of experimental data to evaluate soil erodibility. Rainfall simulation techniques are used...
Biological Methods Petroleum Hydrocarbons Cleanup
Cleanup of the ground water and soils from hydrocarbon spills has mainly focused on air stripping and activated carbon for ground-water treatment, and vapor extraction and excavation followed...
A New Turbulence Model: The k-?-S Model
A new turbulence model, the k-?-S( turbulent kinetic energy-dissipation-Stochastic theory) model, is presented. Instead of the Boussinesq eddy viscosity concept in the k-? -E( turbulent...
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