scholarly journals Opportunities for Solar Industrial Process Heat in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin McMillan ◽  
Carrie Schoeneberger ◽  
Jingyi Zhang ◽  
Parthiv Kurup ◽  
Eric Masanet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Process Heat

scholarly journals Solar for industrial process heat: A review of technologies, analysis approaches, and potential applications in the United States

Energy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 206 ◽  
pp. 118083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie A. Schoeneberger ◽  
Colin A. McMillan ◽  
Parthiv Kurup ◽  
Sertac Akar ◽  
Robert Margolis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Process Heat

Detecting Sources of Ionizing Radiation in the Waste Stream

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Needham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ionizing Radiation ◽  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
Control Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Radioactive Waste Disposal ◽  
Radioactive Material

Why is the detection of radioactive sources important to the solid waste industry?: Radioactive material is used extensively in the United States in research, medicine, education, and industry for the benefit of society (e.g. smoke detectors, industrial process gauges, medical diagnosis/treatment). Generally speaking, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and state governments regulate the use and disposal of radioactive materials. Licensed radioactive waste disposal facilities receive the bulk of the waste generated in the United States with exceptions for low-level waste (e.g. medical patient waste) that may be disposed of as municipal waste. According to the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Inc (CRCPD)., there has been an increasing number of incidence involving the detection of prohibited radioactive wastes at solid waste management facilities. While the CRCPD acknowledges that the increased incidence may be partially attributed to the growing number of solid waste facilities that have detection systems, undetected sources of ionizing radiation can harm the environment, have a negative impact on employee health and safety, and result in significant remedial actions. Implementing an effective detection/response plan can aid in the proper management of radioactive waste and serve to minimize the potential for negative outcomes.

scholarly journals Matching Solar Systems to Industrial Needs

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. C. Brown ◽  
S. A. Stadjuhar
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
System Component ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Solar Systems ◽  
Heat Requirements ◽  
Process Heat ◽  
Industrial Needs

This paper presents the results of an applications analysis of solar industrial process heat for six cities in the United States. Over 70 percent of the industrial plants in each city are identified and process heat requirements typical of the industries are recorded. Using actual meteorological and economic data for these sites and actual solar system component characteristics, a long-term average performance estimate is generated for each of six generic solar systems using each of approximately 20 actual collectors. The simulation program used in obtaining long-term annual performance has been specifically developed by SERI and is a significant tool in such analyses because of its short computational time and flexibility. A cost analysis is made for each case in order to provide criteria by which promising specific applications can be identified.

Revisiting Parabolic Trough Concentrators for Industrial Process Heat in the United States

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig S. Turchi ◽  
Parthiv Kurup ◽  
Guangdong Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
Indirect Costs ◽  
Plant Size ◽  
The United States ◽  
Steam Generation ◽  
Parabolic Trough ◽  
Process Heat ◽  
Solar Field

After significant interest in the 1970s, but relatively few deployments, the use of concentrating solar collectors for thermal applications, including enhanced oil recovery, desalination, and industrial process heat (IPH), is again increasing in global interest. In particular, recent advances in collector design and manufacturing have led to reduced cost per square meter of aperture area. In this study, analysis of a modern parabolic trough that is suited for use in small solar IPH (SIPH) applications predicts that the installed solar field cost can be as low as $170/m2. A slightly higher cost of $200/m2 is estimated for facilities typical of a SIPH plant size. Full project costs will include additional costs for contingency, piping and heat exchanger interface, and project indirect costs. The cost for solar-generated heat by SIPH is quantified by defining the levelized cost of heat (LCOH). California offers a favorable environment for SIPH given its good insolation, gas prices typically higher than the national average, and policies promoting solar-thermal deployment. Given historically low gas prices, competing with natural gas remains the primary challenge to deployment. However, this study finds that the solar LCOH for many regions in California is lower than the LCOH from natural gas, using a representative installed solar hardware price and the average price for industrial natural gas in California. Lastly, modification are in progress to the parabolic trough model within NREL’s System Advisor Model (SAM) to allow users to more easily predict performance for these steam-generation applications.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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