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  • Enabling Feasibility Assessment of Solar Thermal Energy Systems for Industrial Process Heating Applications

    Creator:
    Karki, Saroj
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    Existing studies on industrial heat demand have shown that more than 50% of the industrial process heat demand is in the range of low (<60 °C), medium (60-150 °C), and medium-high (<250 °C) temperatures. Most of the manufacturing industries across the world depend on combustion of carbon-based fossil fuels, either...
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    technical resources required to perform the feasibility assessment

  • Fracture toughness of void-site-filled skutterudites

    Creator:
    Eilertsen, James S.
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    Thermoelectric materials are playing an increasingly significant role in the global effort to develop sustainable energy technologies. Consequently, the demand for materials with greater thermoelectric efficiency has stimulated the development of state-of-the-art interstitially doped skutterudite-based materials. However, since intermetallics are often embrittled by interstitial substitution, optimal skutterudite-based device design, manufacture,...
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    Applications: A Bird's Eye View. MRS bulletin / 2006, 31 (3), 188. 4. Rowe, D. M.; Bhandari, C. M

  • Seismic performance of diagrid steel structures using single and double friction mass dampers

    Creator:
    Ramadhan, Garlan
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    The steel diagrid structural system is a recent load bearing and lateral resisting structural system for tall building structures that is relatively unexplored in the western United States. One possible reason for the little use of diagrid systems in earthquake prone regions is the lack of guidelines and application examples...
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    . .............................................................................. 62 Figure 5.8. Inter-story drift ratio of floor 64 in X-dir due to shallow crustal earthquakes

  • Steady State Modeling of the Minimum Critical Core of the Transient Reactor Test Facility

    Creator:
    Alberti, Anthony L.
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    With the advent of next generation reactor systems and new fuel designs, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has identified the need for the resumption of transient testing of nuclear fuels. The DOE has decided that the Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is best suited...
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    analysis code developed at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland [42]. SERPENT 2 was chosen based on: 1

  • Neutronic Analysis of a Liquid Metal Fast Reactor Experiment in the Large-I Position of the Advanced Test Reactor

    Creator:
    Lilley, Benjamin C.
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    Material testing experiments are needed to enable the next generation of nuclear fission reactors. Concluding in 2009, the Boosted Fast Flux Loop (BFFL) project was devised as a way to test fast reactor materials and fuels in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR), however the experiment location it used is now...
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    . Technical and functional requirements (and desired capability) were established. 2.2.2 Boosted Fast Flux

  • Investigation of In-tube Non-equilibrium Condensation of Low Global Warming Potential Refrigerants

    Creator:
    Jacob, Tabeel A.
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    This work investigates the in-tube condensation of low global warming potential (GWP) zeotropic refrigerant mixtures R448A, R450A, R452A, R454B and R454C. These refrigerants have been proposed for a wide range of commercial heating, ventilation, air-conditioning applications, but their heat and momentum transport phenomenon were not well understood. Thus, in this...
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    Dissertation
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    analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 3.5.4 Calibration of temperature sensors

  • Feasibility study on a soluble boron-free small modular reactor

    Creator:
    Mart, Justin R.
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    The elimination of soluble boron creates several advantages for Small Modular Reactor (SMR) operation. Most of these advantages are realized through significant core simplification (removal of pipes, pumping, and purification systems), the removal of the corrosive effects of soluble boron, and from improved safety effects. However, removing soluble boron creates...
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    Engineering students for their moral encouragement and technical help. Lastly, I would like to

  • Advancing the understanding of bulk metallic glasses as structural materials through exploration of mechanical properties

    Creator:
    Naleway, Steven E.
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    Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) offer a great deal of potential through their near-theoretical strength, potentially high toughness and unique forming and molding traits. However, there are still a number of outstanding issues that bar their widespread use. This thesis describes the investigation of three research questions each designed to further...
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    .............................................................................................................. 64 5.4 CONCLUSIONS

  • Scaling study of the depressurized conduction cooldown event in the high temperature test facility using RELAP5-3D/ATHENA

    Creator:
    Aldridge, Robert J.
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    In 2008, the Department of Energy (DOE) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NCR) decided that the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) would be the Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR). In support of the licensing and validation effort of the VHTR, Oregon State University was tasked with designing, building, and operating a...
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    .......................................................................... 57 4. DESCRIPTION OF RELAP5-3D MODELS OF THE MHTGR AND HTTF ............ 64 4.1 The MHTGR

  • Orb Web Vibrations: Modeling, Localization, and Measurement

    Creator:
    Otto, Andrew W.
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    The orb web is a multipurpose structure---serving as a home for its inhabitant spider, as a prey capture device, and as a physical extension of the spider’s sensing abilities. Biologists are particularly interested in the spider’s ability to locate prey trapped in its web by sensing the vibrations induced from...
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    Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 4.3.5 Video Processing