Two H-type microbial fuel cells were prepared. The anaerobic chambers were inoculated with rice paddy field soil and fed cellulose as an energy source. In one reactor, the anode and cathode were connected with a wire (closed circuit, CC), while they were not connected in the other reactor (open circuit, OC). The OC reactor actively produced methane. In the CC reactor, however, an electric curre...

Last year, in the NOON03 conference, we pointed out the importance of reactor sin 2 2θ 13 measurement and showed a realistic experimental idea to measure sin 2 2θ 13 precisely using world's most powerful reactor complex. Since then, the conceptual design of the experiment and negotiations with electric power company, have been progressing. In this proceedings for the NOON04 conference, the pres...

A coupling process of anaerobic methanogenesis and electromethanogenesis was proposed to treat high organic load rate (OLR) wastewater. During the start-up stage, acetate removal efficiency of the electric-biological reactor (R1) reached the maximization about 19 percentage points higher than that of the control anaerobic reactor without electrodes (R2), and CH4 production rate of R1 also incre...

The Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor (ALMR) is a US Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored fast reactor design based on the Power Reactor, Innovative Small Module (PRISM) concept originated by General Electric and fieled with ternary metal Iiel (under development by Argonne National Laboratory in the IFR Program). Higher actinide transmutation may be accomplished in the ALMR by using either a breedi...

Feasibility Study of Shaped Electrode The objective of this project was a feasibility study of a novel, large-area plasma reactor for thin film production, based on a shaped electrode technique (“lens”) to compensate the standing wave non-uniformity. Cylindrical Test Reactor In the first phase a cylindrical reactor was designed and constructed to show the “proof of principle” of a novel electro...

In order to search for economically and environmentally optimized fusion reactors, physics properties, engineering designs and the cost of electricity (COE) are evaluated by the PEC (Physics-Engineering-Cost) system code for several magnetic confinement fusion reactors including tokamak (TR), helical (HR) and spherical tokamak (ST) reactors. The life-cycle CO2 emission amounts are also evaluate...

A new methodology is developed for the prediction of RPV embrittlement that utilizes a combination of domain models and nonlinear estimators including neural networks and nearest neighbor regressions. The Power Reactor Embrittlement Database is used in this study. The results from newly developed nearest neighbor projective fuser indicate that the combined embrittlement predictor achieved about...

2 ABSTRACT A model for the chemistry in a plasma fuel reformer or plasmatron has been developed. The plasma fuel reformer is set up to produce syngas (hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas mixture) from partial oxidation of hydrocarbons. The behavior of methane as fuel has been investigated to characterize and simulate the plasmatron performance. The goal of this work has been improved understanding...