The abundance of proven natural gas reserves in Indonesia have a positive impact on its people during transition to clean energy sources.The had produce 20% less carbon dioxide compare fuel from crude oil. After being processed, the can be distributed form LNG, CNG, LPG, and CBM, depends distribution facility. From all those types, CNG received more attention because utilization does not requir...

An experimental VLF WorldWide Lightning Location (WWLL) network is being developed to provide realtime locations of cloud to ground lightning discharges occurring throughout the globe. This network has expanded from a limited number of stations in the Western Pacific to its current state of 11 stations, in most longitude sectors, with additional stations planned in the near future. As part of t...

Wildfires are of the forest-related disasters caused by inhumane factors.  Spreading of these fires is due to the increase of the density of flammable plants. Two important approaches to prevent this occurrence are fuel treatment and fire suppression resources preparedness. In this paper, a mixed integer programming model is proposed based on the covering location and assignment problems which ...

The Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) features a closed fuel cycle for efficient conversion of fertile uranium and management of minor actinides. A full actinide-recycle fuel cycle is envisioned with two major options: One involves intermediatesized (150 to 500 MWe) sodium-cooled fast reactors with uranium-plutonium-minor-actinidezirconium metal alloy fuel, supported by a fuel cycle based on pyr...

A new acoustical sensing system for the nuclear power industry has been developed at The Pennsylvania State University in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratories. This sensor uses the high temperatures of nuclear fuel to convert a nuclear fuel rod into a standing-wave thermoacoustic engine. When a standing wave is generated, the sound wave within the fuel rod will be propagated, by acous...

A fire on the Mir space station in 1997 threatened the spacecraft and its crew of six [1]. The fire involved an oxygen jet leaking from a lithium–perchlorate oxygen generator. The fire involved three factors not normally encountered in terrestrial fires: enhanced oxygen, inverse flames (in that the oxidizer is surrounded by fuel), and microgravity. The present work examines some effects of thes...