Along with several other nuclear physics laboratories around the world, the NSCL has undertaken the challenge of stopping a radioactive ion beam in order to make low-energy beams for experiments that require nearly thermal beam energies (precision mass measurements, laser spectroscopy, etc.). As part of the LEBIT (Low Energy Beam and Ion Trapping) Project at the NSCL, a gas stopping station is ...

A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling study has been conducted to evaluate the application of overfire air (OFA), Fuel Lean Gas Reburn (FLGR), and Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (SNCR) to reduce NOx emissions from Owensboro Municipal Utilities’ Elmer Smith Station. Smith Station Unit 1 is a nominally rated 150 MWe single-wall cyclone fired boiler with three barrels. FLGR is a NOx con...

The emergency service station (ESS) location problem has been widely studied in the literature since 1970s. There has been a growing interest in the subject especially after 1990s. Various models with different objective functions and constraints have been proposed in the academic literature and efficient solution techniques have been developed to provide good solutions in reasonable times. How...

The groundbreaking invention of carbon dioxide and oxygen electrodes in the 1950s resulted in the construction of the blood-gas analyzer by Severinghaus and Bradley in 1959.1 Since that time, blood-gas analysis has been established as a powerful diagnostic tool in critical care. When lightweight, portable analyzers were first introduced in 1995, we started testing them in our local physician-st...

In the event of an emergency due to a fire or other crisis, a necessary but time consuming pre-requisite, that could delay the real rescue operation, is to establish whether the ground or area can be entered safely by human emergency workers. The objective of the VIEW-FINDER project is to develop robots which have the primary task of gathering data. The robots are equipped with sensors that det...

The largest two-shaft gas turbine in the United States has been operated in combined cycle service at the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company Horseshoe Lake Station since May 1963. The same design unit has been operated in peaking and stand-by service at Public Service Electric and Gas (Essex, N. J.) station since December 1963. The 0.G & E. unit has a NEMA rating of 25 Mw base load. The PSEG uni...