Higher Frequency Acoustic Measurements of Coarse Bedload Transport
Although sensors have been developed which provide high temporal resolution for the measurement of wave profiles, flow fields and suspended sediment concentrations within the coastal system,...
Standing Wave Measurements of Bedload Thickness: Feasibility in an Air System with Model Sediment
A novel technique would yield information about bedload thickness from measurements of a standing wave pattern produced by a sound source insonifying the bottom at normal incidence. The...
Pilot-scale Trickling Filter Nitrification at the Longmont WWTP
Nitrification rates in trickling filters can be affected by influent organic matter, filter length, and hydraulic loading rate. The effects of these parameters on nitrification rate were...
Inventory of Constructed Wetlands for Municipal Wastewater Treatment in the U.S.
The U.S. EPA's Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory is conducting an inventory of constructed wetlands (CW) for municipal wastewater treatment in the U.S. The inventory is...
Vacuum Anaerobic Treatment: A New Approach
Anaerobic processes have an organic loading limit that when exceeded leads to process failure. The research summarized in this paper demonstrates that both organic removal rate enhancement...
LRFD: Still Waiting
Introduced in 1986, load and resistance factor design (LRFD), has a way to go before it becomes standard practice for steel design. LRFD-based design typically results in savings on gravity...
Probing the Golden Gate
The Golden Gate Bridge has just come through the most detailed analysis ever attempted in its 53-year-old history. This analysis was squeezed into a desktop computer that calculates twice...
Evaluating the Dynamic Operating Benefits of Hydro Power Plants
In 1986, the Electric Power Research Institute asked Decision Focus to develop a new planning model to quantify the dynamic operating benefits of power technologies that offer operating...
Load/Resource Matching for Period-of-Record Computer Simulation
The Southwestern Power Administration (Southwestern), an agency of the Department of Energy, is responsible for marketing the power and energy produced at Federal hydroelectric power projects...
Standard Safety and Control Concept for Double Regulated Small and Medium Hydro Turbines
The paper proposes a standard control concept for double regulated small and medium hydro turbines. The concept is based on minimum protection requirements for safe and reliable quick...
Repair of Rainbow Project Unit Number Eight
This is a case history that discusses diagnosis and correction of a AC synchronous generator problem. The problem involved loss of mechanical integrity between the generator's...
Seismic Analysis of the Bonneville 1st Powerhouse
The Bonneville 1st powerhouse monoliths were constructed during the period of 1938 to 1942 and were designed against seismic loads using the old lateral coefficient method. The Corps of...
Concrete Gravity Dam Cracking Analysis Methodology
This paper describes a methodology for the prediction and evaluation of cracking behavior in concrete gravity dam's for use in periodic safety investigations as outlined in...
Modernization of Hydroturbines?New Approach to Effectiveness, Reliability, Environment
Renovation of hydraulic turbines is one of the major lines in LMZ production and is aimed at rehabilitation of hydroturbines and increasing efficiency, rated output and energy production....
Direct Load Cell-Based Weighing Lysimeter System
A low-cost weighing lysimeter system is described which is capable of measuring evapotranspiration with an accuracy of 0.05-0.10 mm. A two-lysimeter system with electronic data logger...
Accuracies of Lysimeter Data Acquisition Systems
Electronic dataloggers are integral parts of most weighing lysimeter systems. Dataloggers supply excitation voltages to lysimeter load cells and measure resulting voltage signals. Resolution...
Water and Salt Movement Under Trickle Irrigation
Experiments have been conducted to study the effect of the drip irrigation parameters on the movement of water and salt in the trickle wetted soil volume. The study indicated that for...
Estimation of Loading via Fingered Flow
Results of experimental investigations of fingered preferential flow are combined into a concise, conservative engineering methodology for predicting pollutant transport through fingered...
Source of Atrazine and Desethylatrazine in a River, During Base Flow
A budget of atrazine and desethylatrazine loads was computed for a 116-kilometer reach of the Cedar River in Iowa to determine where these compounds enter the river during base-flow conditions....
Sediment Transport Measurements in the Nile River at Bani Mazar
Measurements of sediment transport on the Nile River were conducted at Bani Mazar (200 km South of Cairo) during high and low water stages. Bed-load and suspended-load transport rates...
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