http://www.ntis.gov/rss/RSSNTISCategoryList.aspxNational Technical Reports Libraryen(c) 2008, National Technical Information Service. All rights reserved.5http://www.ntis.gov/images/logoRSS.jpghttp://www.ntis.govUnder the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory, a multi-disciplinary team led by the Advanced Power and Energy Program of the University of California at Irvine is defining the system engineering issues a ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010102152In 1992, the U.S. Department of Energy forged partnerships with industry and academia under the Advanced Turbine Systems (ATS) Program to go beyond evolutionary performance gains in utility-scale gas turbine development. Agreed upon goals of 60 perce ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010102157In February 2009, the Office of Inspector General received a letter from Congressman Mark Steven Kirk of Illinois, which included constituent allegations that an exclusive technology licensing agreement by Argonne National Laboratory was tainted by i ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009962820Topics: Introduction; Single Fuel in the Battlefield; Coordinating the Overall Alternative Fuel Qualification Process; Army Alternative Fuels Qualification; Army Fuel Requirements and the JP-8 Spec; Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (C ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA506043This supplement is provided as a read-ahead for attendees in addition to other materials It provides a draft set of assumptions: * Assumptions helpful in establishing working level dialogue on the needs and the possible technology solutions to addres ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA506044This report presents the data collected for groundwater detection monitoring at the Idaho Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) Disposal Facility (ICDF) during calendar year 2008. The detection-monitoring progr ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009963733The Arctic could hold about 22 percent of the worlds undiscovered conventional oil and natural gas resources. The prospects for Arctic oil and natural gas production are discussed taking into consideration the nature of the resources, the cost of dev ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101942This report discusses the status and the accomplishments of the environmental protection program at Argonne National Laboratory for calendar year 2008. The status of Argonne environmental protection activities with respect to compliance with the vari ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009963864This report presents the major assumptions of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) used to generate the projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2004 (AEO2004), including general features of the model structure, assumptions concerning energy ma ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101442The Battery Life Estimator (BLE) Manual has been prepared to assist developers in their efforts to estimate the calendar life of advanced batteries for automotive applications. Testing requirements and procedures are defined by the various manuals pr ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009963763An update to the FY 2007 assessment of the state of technical research progress toward biochemical process goals, quantified in terms of Minimum Ethanol Selling Price. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009962490The goal of the CCT Program is to furnish the U.S. energy marketplace with a number of advanced, more efficient coal based technologies meeting strict environmental standards. These technologies will mitigate the economic and environmental impediment ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101830Study using photoelectron spectroscopy, inverse photoemission, and X-ray absorption and emission to derive the electronic structure of interfaces in CIGSS and CdTe thin-film solar cells. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009964209This document summarizes some of the achievements to date resulting from one of the most successful government/industry partnerships ever implementedthe Clean Coal Technology Demonstration Program (CCT Program). Presented here is solid evidence that ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101839The goal of the CCT Program is to furnish the U.S. energy marketplace with a number of advanced, more efficient, and environmentally responsible coal-based technologies that can overcome the economic and environmental impediments that limit the full ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101829Coproduction of power, fuels and chemicals offers an innovative, economically advantageous means of achieving the nations energy goals. Coproduction involves the integration of three major building blocks: (1) Gasification of coal or other hydrocarbo ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101828It is common practice in passive microwave remote sensing (microwave radiometry) to express observables as temperatures and in the case of polarimetric radiometry to use what are called 'Modified Stokes Parameters in Brightness Temperature' to descri ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=N20090027897Under support from TARDEC, an effort to develop a 10 kWe compact reliable robust power system for combat-vehicle applications is well underway. This system operates on battlefield-spec JP-8 to provide silent auxiliary power for the vehicle. The refor ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505892With oil production in decline in most countries outside OPEC, Azerbaijan is seen as one of the few non-OPEC countries capable of increasing its output significantly over the next few years. However, conflicting claims over the maritime and seabed bo ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010102062Equatorial Guinea has become a significant oil exporter since the discovery and development of large offshore oil reserves in the mid-1990s. While oil production has increased from 5,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) to current levels of close to 365,000 b ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010102063The Department of Defense (DOD) relies on a global network of defense critical infrastructure so essential that the incapacitation, exploitation, or destruction of an asset within this network could severely affect DOD's ability to deploy, support, a ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101344This report documents the results of the research project completed by the Center for Energy, Transportation and the Environment (CETE) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) under Federal Transit Administration Cooperative Agreement TN- ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101948Energy Education Resources: Kindergarten Through 12th grade is published by the National Energy Information Center (NEIC), a service of the Energy Information Administration (EIA), to provide students, educators, and other information users a list of ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101441Energy Education Resources: Kindergarten Through 12th Grade is published by the National Energy Information Center (NEIC), a service of the Energy Information Administration (EIA), to provide students, educators, and other information users a list of ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101159Energy Education Resources: Kindergarten Through 12th Grade is published by the National Energy Information Center (NEIC), a service of the Energy Information Administration (EIA), to provide students, educators, and other information users a list of ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101160In the Annual Energy Outlook 2001, projected world oil prices increase from $17.35 per barrel (1999 dollars) in 1999 to about $27.60 per barrel in 2000 and begin falling in 2001. By 2020, the projected price is $22.41 per barrel, as technological imp ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101443In 2000, thermoelectric power plants accounted for 39 percent of total U.S. freshwater withdrawals. Traditionally, power plants have withdrawn water from rivers and other water sources to cool the steam used to produce electricity, so that it may be ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010100917On December 19, 2008, the Utah State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) held a quarterly oil and gas lease sale. At that sale, the BLM auctioned 116 parcels, including 77 parcels that became subject of a Federal District Court temporary in ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101944We have an established project at LLNL to develop the tools needed to constrain fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions using measurements of thecarbon-14 isotope in atmospheric samples. In Figure 1 we show the fossilfuel plumes from Los Angeles and San ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009964117The Hellsgate Big Game Winter Range Wildlife Mitigation Project (Hellsgate Project) was proposed by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (CTCR) as partial mitigation for hydropowers share of the wildlife losses resulting from Chief Jos ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009961805The primary objective of the DOE-NE Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative (NHI) is to develop the nuclear hydrogen production technologies necessary to produce hydrogen at a cost competitive with other alternative transportation fuels. The focus of the NHI is ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009951554This report summarizes the findings of the Department of Energy's (DOE) monitoring of the impact of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the natural gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico region from late August 2005 through early March 2006. During that time, ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101835Research and development is critical if the U.S. is to maintain its technological edge. The question is: how should our national research and development investment be shared between the public and private sectors. When the result will clearly benefi ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101834Natural gas is a vital contributor to a diverse, well-balanced U.S. energy portfolio. Today, it is the second largest source of energy in the United States next to oil, accounting for 24 percent of all energy consumed. Natural gas has a critical role ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010102150The Office of Oil and Gas Global Security and Supply, Office of Natural Gas Regulatory Activities prepares quarterly reports showing natural gas import and export activity. Companies are required, as a condition of their authorizations, to file quart ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101867The Office of Oil and Gas Global Security and Supply, Office of Natural Gas Regulatory Activities prepares quarterly reports showing natural gas import and export activity. Companies are required, as a condition of their authorizations, to file month ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101868The Office of Oil and Gas Global Security and Supply, Office of Natural Gas Regulatory Activities prepares quarterly reports showing natural gas import and export activity. Companies are required, as a condition of their authorizations, to file month ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101865The Office of Natural Gas & Petroleum Import & Export Activities prepares quarterly reports showing natural gas import and export activity. Companies are required, as a condition of their authorizations, to file quarterly reports. This report is for ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101885The Office of Oil and Gas Global Security and Supply, Office of Natural Gas Regulatory Activities prepares quarterly reports showing natural gas import and export activity. Companies are required, as a condition of their authorizations, to file month ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101866Job generation has been a part of the national dialogue surrounding energy policy and renewable energy (RE) for many years. RE advocates tout the ability of renewable energy to support new job opportunities in rural America and the manufacturing sect ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009963557Imagine a future in which power from our most abundant and lowest cost energy resource is pollution-free. Imagine a future in which we no longer have concerns about the effects power and fuels production will have on the global climate of our childre ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010100810The Office of Fossil Energy and NETL are pleased to present this FY 2006 Office of Fossil Energy Fuel Cell Program Annual Report, a compilation of abstracts from the fuel cell projects managed through these offices. These abstracts are divided into s ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010102149This is the first annual edition of the Energy Information Administrations (EIA) Oil and Gas Field Code Master List Updates. It was preceded by 14 annual editions of the complete, unabridged Oil and Gas Field Code Master List, the 1996 and future edi ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101156This is the seventeenth annual edition of the Energy Information Administration.s (EIA) Oil and Gas Field Code Master List. It reflects data collected through October 1998 and provides standardized field name spellings and codes for all identified oi ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101157The purpose of this publication is to provide standardized names and codes for identifying domestic fields. Use of these field names and codes fosters consistency of field identification by government and industry. As a result of their widespread ado ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101158When the average price per barrel of oil recently hit an all-time high of over $68.00 per barrel, and gasoline prices topped $3.00 a gallon, many Americans were once again driven by economic concern to question the Nation's energy policies. Every Pre ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505436The US Navy is investigating hydrogen fuel cells powered by reformed naval logistic diesel fuel as a means of providing distributed ship service electrical power. Operation on diesel fuel requires a reformer system to remove sulfur and convert the sy ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505568It is difficult to grasp a more demanding power consumer than the military. The modern military has come to rely on increasingly complex communications/electronic equipment that require a dependable, lightweight, compact power source that has the abi ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505639The United States faces profound security and economic challenges directly related to the growing constraints on established global energy resources. U.S. Army energy demand is projected to outgrow affordable supplies even after accounting for the im ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505447The most widely used transient form of stored energy in biological systems is the complex, organic molecule, adenosine triphosphate (ATP). However, the much smaller, simpler pyrophosphate (PPi) molecule could potentially serve as an inexpensive, high ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA505809Reducing emissions from diesel engines is one of the most important public health challenges facing the country. Despite EPA's stringent diesel engine and fuel standards taking effect over the next decade, the 20 million engines already in use will c ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101114The Strategic Center for Natural Gas (SCNG) of the DOEs National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) sponsored a two-day workshop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 29- 30, 2002. The purpose of the workshop was to gather stakeholder input on rese ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101826In this report, we start by examining previous efforts at linking science and DOE EM research with cleanup activities. Many of these efforts were initiated by creating science and technology roadmaps. A recurring feature of successfully implementing ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009963597As demand for energy rises, so does the necessity of producing clean, safe, reliable energy from renewable sources like the sun and the wind. Fortunately, many of the key technologies that can unlock the power of these renewable resources are already ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009962023In less than three months, Iraqs citizens will choose a new Council of Representatives (CoR) in the countrys first parliamentary elections since 2005. When the new CoR convenes next year, its first order of business will be to select a prime minister ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010102113The following Strategic Plan describes how the C&PS program intends to meet the challenges of the National Energy Strategy to: (1) enhance America's energy security; (2) improve the environmental acceptability of energy production and use; (3) increa ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101822Several unintentional hypergolic fluid related spills, fires, and explosions from the Apollo Program, the Space Shuttle Program, the Titan Program, and a few others have occurred over the past several decades. Spill sites include the following govern ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=N20090029348This report describes operations at SunLine Transit Agency for a prototype fuel cell bus and five compressed natural gas (CNG) buses. This is the fifth evaluation report for this site, and it describes results and experiences from October 2008 throug ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009963558Coal is Americas most abundant fossil fuel. Its combustion creates the steam that produces 65 percent of this countrys electricity. The burning of coal, however, liberates two types of gases that have been linked to the formation of acid rain: nitrog ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010101832Westland Irrigation District, as contractor to Bonneville Power Administration, and West Extension Irrigation District, as subcontractor to Westland, provide labor, equipment, and material necessary for the operation, care, and maintenance of fish fa ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009961821Threemile Falls Dam (Threemile Dam), located near the town of Umatilla, is the major collection and counting point for adult salmonids returning to the Umatilla River. Returning salmon and steelhead were enumerated at Threemile Dam from June 7, 2007 ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE2009961822The US Department of Energy (DOE) initiated a cooperative agreement in 1992 with the South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies (SCIES) for the Advanced Gas Turbine Systems Research (AGTSR) program. In 2002, the DOE established a follow-up cooperati ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2010102156