Summary:  Rana Novini ATOC 3500 Burn Pits Open-air pits are used to burn garbage and other wastes at bases... commonly discussed burn pit was the now-shuttered 10-acre pit at Joint Base Balad in Iraq. Waste products... in burn ...

Source: Toohey, Darin W. - Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder

Collection: Geosciences

Summary:  -MLV), PiT1 and PiT2, respectively, have been identified and deter- mined to function as two distinct... ). PiT1 also functions as a receptor for feline leukemia virus B (FeLV-B) and FeLV-T but not as an A... -MLV receptor, whereas some PiT2 orthologs have been determined to function as GALV and FeLV-B ...

Source: McMahon, Francis - Genetic Basis of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, National Institute of Mental Health

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  .K. Burns / Postharvest Biology and Technology 32 (2004) 79­87 Fig. 3. Postharvest peel pitting in `Marsh... Postharvest Biology and Technology 32 (2004) 79­87 Postharvest peel pitting at non... Alférez, Jacqueline K. Burns Horticultural Sciences Department, IFAS, Citrus Research and Education Center

Source: Burns, Jacqueline K. - Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  1 | Barbecues and Open Burning, September 2010 UC SANTA BARBARA POLICY AND PROCEDURE Barbecues... and Open Burning Contact: Environmental Health and Safety, Campus Fire Marshal/Designee Updated: September... 2, 2010 Supersedes: Burning and Open Fires on UCSB Property, February 1, 1985 Pages: 2 BARBECUES

Source: Liebling, Michael - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara

Collection: Engineering ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  Pit 1 4973 Pit 33 Pit 3 3915 Pit 2 867 Pit 4 1607 Pit 7 11131 Pit 5 5252 Pit 6 5251 Pit 8 1659 Pit... 13 5876 Pit 14 13123 Pit 16 983 ...

Source: Reisslein, Martin - Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University

Collection: Engineering

Summary:  , and indicated no posi tive or negative relationship. The normal pit capacity is 600 tons. The average daily burn... pound of waSte for both waste received into the pit prior to preprocessing and for waste burned... to make the economics of fuel processing more viable for mass burning ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  February 1995 Abstract An examination of 189 well-delineated mounds and pits in sandy soils of northern... . Slopes ranged from zero to 54%. Data indicate that mound and pit volumes increase with increasing slope... into the new pit. Mounds are often elongated in the downslope direction on steep slopes. Based on regression

Source: Schaetzl, Randall - Department of Geography, Michigan State University

Collection: Geosciences

Summary:  in the Colorado Front Range foundFire-induced soil water repellency is a key control on post-fire that burn... 2001). Time since burning was not a significant control to quantify changes in soil water repellency... after burning, and significant waterSoil water repellency and soil moisture were measured periodically

Source: MacDonald, Lee - Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  of Standards (1) Our limited experience indicates that pitting cor rosion failures are common, and your own... micrographs suggest that pitting may be occuring. I realize that some pitting attack would not present... a serious problem in the case you cite, but could you please comment on the role of pitting ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  it is impossible to burn this material." Small pit fires or small areas of smouldering refuse can frequently... Burning Wet Refuse JUNIUS W. STEPHENSON, P.E. Havens and Emerson, Ltd. New York, N.Y. ABSTRACT... burning refuse with a high moisture content. Low temperatures, the frequently accompanying smoke and ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  be collected in stony soil or under coarse roots (Vogt and Persson, 1991). Excavating soil pits is much more... the opportunity to measure root biomass col- lected from quantitative soil pits in northern hardwood stands... biomass. We excavated 18 soil pits in six northern hard- wood stands ranging in age from 14 to 121 yr

Source: Yanai, Ruth D. - Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management, SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  very economical. It suggests the tan- talizing aroma of golden, crusted chicken lying lazily over pit... and Pits Small grills on tripod legs are best for backyard barbe- cuing. About 8 halves of chicken can... a lot of attention to keep them attractive and clean enough for cooking. Pits can be used when

Source: Liskiewicz, Maciej - Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Universität zu Lübeck

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  REFUSE PIT STORAGE REQUIREMENTS A Waste Density Study in Operating United States Resource Recovery... the refuse pit in a resource recovery facility. It further lists results of a long term study done at three... construction or in de velopment or implementation. Most of these facilities employ mass-burn technology. Solid

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  . ABSTRACT Burning wood waste in an existing horizontal return tubular boiler to generate steam... value and a low resale value; c) its removal or disposal by other means than by burning is often... -waste is a by-product of a number of industries in cluding lumber and furniture, and for years has been burned

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  size, considered as representative of the variation we observed on the inselberg. Pit1 was a micro... -carpet (60 cm diameter) made of only a few rosettes of P. geyskesii, Pit2 was a small carpet (3 to 5 m... diameter), and Pit3 was a wide carpet (10-15 m diameter). Supposing that carpets of P. geyskesii increase

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  and gross mineralization and net and gross nitri®cation in a chronosequence and an experimental slash-and-burn... soils of forest. Soil NH4 + and NO3 À concentrations were elevated for 2 months after burning but were... transformations before and after we created a new pasture by slashing and burning an area of the reference ...

Source: Harvard University, Harvard Forest

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  for fire prevention and suppression in resource recovery facilities using the mass burn technology... DESCRIPTION In a resource recovery facility of the "mass-burn" type, municipal solid waste is discharged from... refuse packers or transfer trailer trucks directly into a waste storage pit (see Fig. 1). From the ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  Soil and Water Conservation Board personnel, or other qualified professionals should select burial pit... pits. · Somewhat Limited--Soils may be used for burial, as long as limitations shown in the FOTG... on these soils (See Table 1, below). · Very Limited--Soils are generally not suited for burial pits without

Source: Mukhtar, Saqib - Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University

Collection: Engineering ; Renewable Energy

Summary:  ­76 Phospholipase A2 and postharvest peel pitting in citrus fruit Fernando Alferez, Yolanda Lluch, Jacqueline K... . Burns University of Florida, IFAS, Horticultural Sciences Department, Citrus Research and Education... peel pitting in mature `Fallglo' tangerines [Bower citrus hybrid (Citrus reticulata Blanco × C

Source: Burns, Jacqueline K. - Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  Mat. Sci. For., 247, 1-8 (1997) Pit Growth in Thin Metallic Films Gerald S. Frankel The Fontana... : pitting corrosion, pit growth, repassivation, thin films, aluminum Abstract. Studies of pit growth in thin... of the phenomenon of pitting corrosion. This paper summarizes several studies ...

Source: Ohio State University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Fontana Corrosion Center

Collection: Materials Science

Summary:  from four snow pits at Eclipse Icefield, Yukon Territory, Canada, were analyzed for stable isotopes... of the 2001 summer season over the 0.1 km2 area sampled ranges from 0.77 to 1.16 m w.e.. Snow-pit stratigraphy... and chemical records demonstrate that the low accumulation at pit 3 is due to an under-representation of winter

Source: Jones, Julia A. - Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Geosciences

Summary:  field across the spectral region, thus burning a wide hole or "pit" in the absorption profile. Within... , this "burning back" into the pit need only be repeated one or a few times in order to create a significant peak... that will be used. Then a pit (pits) are ...

Source: Suter, Dieter - Fachbereich Physik, Universität Dortmund

Collection: Physics

Summary:  ­Levy­9­like comet fragments remains to be learned. We present evidence that many 6­15 km diameter pits... . Craters and pits in global and medium­ resolution G1 and G2 (first two orbits) images of Europa show... are sustained. There is a spatially non­uniform population of pits (first seen by Voyager, with hundreds more

Source: Chapman, Clark R. - Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute

Collection: Physics

Summary:  of the planned burn was to clean up slash generated by the project. This would allow for in- creased vigor... and topography. Tremendous amounts of planning go into each pre- scribed burn to mini- mize risk and pro- vide... for fire fighter safety and protection of private property. Smoke generated by prescribed burns can

Source: USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station - Flagstaff Lab

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  , Chantilly, VA, USA NAWTEC17-2338 SUPPLEMENTAL PIT FIRE CONTROL DELUGE SYSTEM ­ SPOKANE REGIONAL WASTE... apparent that the pit fire protection system installed during construction of the Spokane Regional Waste... ) is a typical 800 ton/day mass burn facility designed, constructed and operated by Wheelabrator Spokane Inc

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  , must be burned. It was found that if burned in the furnace, this material dripped into the ash pit... a .....ide range of wastes. The paper describes facilities for burning separately and in combination waste... in an economic man nero When reclaiming is not possible the material is either ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  . The record consists offurrows, pits, and discarded bivalve shells which were ob- served and sampled... appears to involve suction from between the shells. Continuous pit·furrow sys- tems indicate the number... . For example, the gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus, produces large, bowl- shaped pits while feeding on benthic

Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Fishery Bulletin

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  Fire Ecology Special Issue Vol. 4, No. 2, 2008 Meyer et al.: Truffle Abundance in Recently Burned... and Unburned Forests Page 24 Truffle AbundAnce in recenTly Prescribed burned And unburned foresTs in yosemiTe n... such as fire while minimizing adverse ecological impacts that may result from burning decades of accumulated

Source: North, Malcolm - Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  classed into two categories: large funnel-shaped pits dated to 600e 1100 AD (Vendel period e Viking Age... ) and small funnel-shaped pits dated to 240e540 AD (late Roman Iron Age e Migration period) respectively. Soil... features, while the composition in the small funnel-shaped pits was dominated by retene and methyl

Source: Stockholms Universitet, Zoologiska Institutionen, Theoretical Ethology Group

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  burning, these results suggest that a long-distance source was controlling the EC levels in the snow pit... of ambient mea- surements (1 km from the main camp), a series of snow pits, and Gaussian plume modeling... content is also evident. The average EC concentration in 1-m snow pits in the "clean air" ...

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  . The additive was sprayed onto the surface in the manure pit with an automatic spraying system. Ammonia... minutes. Pit chimney ventilation rates were measured with full-size airflow sensors. Tunnel wall fan... .9 m long and had a 2.4 m deep pit under a fully slatted floor with a pit surface area of 799 m2

Source: Ni, Jiqin "Jee-Chin" - Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University

Collection: Renewable Energy ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  and implement a prescribed burning program. The Hollis site is important ecologically because it supports unique... burns were conducted on 23 different days between June 1995 and August 1999, with a total of 138 acres... (58 hectares) burned, including approximately 10 acres (4 ha) which were burned twice. ...

Source: Schweik, Charles M. - Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  the concepts an4 options available in refuse handling cranes in facilities using the crane/pit design... or waste-to·energy facillties which burn refuse to generate steam. The burning or incineration of refuse... incineration as a method for refuse disposal. The majority of these operations are presently using the ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  calorific values, is more difficult to burn, and contains a much higher proportion of fines and abrasives... . The residue, amounting to about 35 per cent by weight of refuse burned, c ontained from 3 to 5 per cent c... (overlooking ibe adjoining storage pit), located at the front end of the furnace. · #12

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  -handling system comprises: (1) a push-pit with a hydraulic ram for receiving the shredded refuse from a transfer... waste as a supplementary fuel in coal burning, stoker fired power or steam gener ating plants. Although... mass burning of refuse is a well-developed technology, there are few installa tions of this type

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  FLL CLE PDX TPA SAN HNL OAK PIT RDU MCI IND BNA SJC SMF HOU SNA BDL JAX PBI MSY RSW Raw fuel burn... OAK PIT RDU MCI IND BNA SJC SMF HOU SNA BDL JAX PBI MSY RSW Fuel burn scaled to ASPM / ATL fuel burn... contribute significantly to the fuel burn and emissions at ...

Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Database Group

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  - ber of animals for a given time period. If a pit designed for 120 days of storage receives designated... manure amounts but does not fill to the designed level, the pit may be leaking. Evaporation from... these times, if additional liq- uids have to be added so that a pit can be agitated and pumped, it may

Source: Liskiewicz, Maciej - Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Universität zu Lübeck

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  naturally would burn every 15 to 45 years, clearing out old and dead plant materials and returning nutrients... , or 2 indicating an empty cell, a cell with a non-burning tree, or a cell with a burning tree... , and BURNING that have values of 0, 1, and 2, n n Figure 11.2.1 Cells to model area #12;408 Module ...

Source: Landweber, Laura - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  to diffractive and non-diffractive factors. For the diffractive part, we first model the pit periodicity... -diffractive factors. For the diffractive part, we first model the pit periodicity for optical disks by using identical... ]. The oval shapes correspond to pit grooves. The track separations and pits ...

Source: Drew, Mark S. - School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  in the Colorado Front Range, and (2) determine the effect of burn severity, soil texture, vegetation type, soil... moisture, and time since burning on soil hydrophobicity . Five wild and prescribed fires ranging in age... been burned at high, moderate, or low severity, and three sites were in unburned areas. Additional

Source: MacDonald, Lee - Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  (empty vector) incubated with anti-CT (reacts with M1 and M23). ( 100.) (B Upper) Anti-CT immunoblot... resolved as 6-nm IMP protrusions in P-face images (protoplasmic leaflets) or as smaller pits in E... -faces (extraplasmic leaflets). The sizes and shapes of square arrays vary, but the IMPs and pits have ...

Source: Rash, John E. - Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  . The mass burn facility combusts a nominal 370 ton/day (tpd) and gen erates 10 MWe (net) of electricity... The plant is a single boiler/furnace arrangement (Fig. 1) designed for mass burn operation. The water wall... ft X 35 ft deep refuse pit. Above the pit is installed a bridge crane with an orange peel ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  Waste Management: Assist in site selection, design and construction oversight of landfills or burn pits

Source: US Army Corps of Engineers - Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CERC) Engineer Waterways Experiment Station Vicksburg, MS

Collection: Engineering

Summary:  . Ifanybreaksareapparent,repairthemimmediately. Likewise, checkthewallsofearthen waste storage pits... number of animals for a known number of days. If a pit designed for 180... ,particularlywithmanure fromdairycattle,whichformsacrustwhenitisstored.Ifadditionalliquids have to be added before the pits can

Source: Castillo, Steven P. - Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University

Collection: Engineering

Summary:  element pitting Received: 8 May 2003 / Accepted: 10 February 2004 / Published online: 8 April 2004... system (15 N). Because transport of nutrients between sectors requires flow through intervessel pit pairs... of adjacent xylem vessel elements, we quantified the area of intervessel pits, the number of pits ...

Source: Orians, Colin - Department of Biology, Tufts University

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  quantities of raw materials by burning longleaf branches in earthen pits and collecting the tar that oozed... PRESCRIBED BURNING ACTIVITY IN REMNANT LONGLEAF PINE (Pinus palustris) ECOSYSTEMS OF NORTH... RESERVED #12;ABSTRACT MARK DAVID KNOTT: Prescribed burning activity in remnant longleaf pine (Pinus

Source: Peet, Robert K. - Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  Dendrochronological Dating of Charcoal Originating from an Early Iron Age Fire-Set Pit in the Mining Area of Schwaz... of pits (Goldenberg & Rieser, 2004). Archaeological excavations in the pit MaukE (N 47°26'14'', E 11... Areas Fig. 2: Plan of the fire-set pit MaukE. S1, S2, S3 and S4 indi- cate the ...

Source: Nicolussi, Kurt - Institut für Geographie, Universität Innsbruck

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  the usage of the photonic nanojet to detect deeply subwavelength pits in a metal substrate for the purpose... -illuminated pits having lateral dimensions of only 100 Â 150 nm2 yield a 40-dB contrast ratio. The FDTD simulation... results show that pit-depth modulation and pit-width modulation can ...

Source: MacIver, Malcolm A. - Departments of Biomedical Engineering & Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University; Taflove, Allen - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Engineering

Summary:  defines the air pollutant emissions from a trench incinerator burning three types of refuse material: low... on Monroe's design criteria. The NCAPC unit consists of an above-ground pit sup plied with overfire air from... the horizontal to provide a curtain of air across the top of the pit and to direct air into the ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  -temperature fumarole pits were present downslope from the primary lake. On extending into these pits, the burning flow... pahoehoe- and `a`a- like features.TheVulcano flow, however, was em- placed in a burning state, where... -deep pits lined with trachytic-rhyolitic and sulfur blocks and ...

Source: Wright, Robert - Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Collection: Geosciences

Summary:  control which are not met in plants burning coal, oil, and other relatively uniform fuels. The tendency... . On charging floors, pro vide sweep holes through parapet walls for sweeping spillage back into the storage pit... -trailers are to be weighed, 50 feet is the recommended minimum. · Adequate drainage for scale pit · Stop ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  Pitting in Aluminum Thin Films Supersaturation and Effects of Dichromate Ions A. Sehgal,* D. Lu... , The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA ABSTRACT The growth of pits in 209 nm thick Al films... in chloride solutions with and without dichromate ions was examined using image analysis of the growing pits

Source: Ohio State University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Fontana Corrosion Center

Collection: Materials Science

Summary:  , variations in burn severity are likely to mediate deciduous establishment in organic-rich stands... . Observations of natural tree regeneration in stands that burned at different ages also indicate that a decrease... .................................................................................................................... 62 Chapter 4: ...

Source: Ruess, Roger W. - Institute of Arctic Biology, Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  in the bottom ash, it is not surprising that its burning efficiency is only 90% versus 99+% for the coal. Finer... mining how refuse can be burned in existing boilers. Some additional information sampling procedures... that "the data did not show a decrease in bottom ash accumulation rate when burning fine-grind refuse

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  remains of a shallow pit structure. Testing revealed chunks of burned adobe, many with structural... Boomgarden for comments and suggestions Figure 5 4. Results for Feature C Feature C (Figure 4) is the burned... impressions, and burned beams above the unprepared floor. Testing also yielded 15 artifacts, ...

Source: Utah, University of - Energy and Geoscience Institute, Geothermal Research Group

Collection: Renewable Energy ; Geosciences

Summary:  Burn #12;· Over 150 genera of edible geophytes used at time of European contact · Most used seasonally... or as "fallback" food · At least 10 genera served as dietary staples · Some plants actively managed via burning... carbohydrate forms, like inulin, and require pit-roasting or other processing to render large ...

Source: Utah, University of - Energy and Geoscience Institute, Geothermal Research Group

Collection: Renewable Energy ; Geosciences

Summary:  , alkenes and acetylene while a proton-transfer-reaction ion- trap mass spectrometer (PIT-MS) quantified 12... in conjunction with the PIT-MS (GC-PIT-MS) to evaluate PIT-MS measurements and to aid in the identification... analysis are compared to emission ratios calculated directly from measurements. The ...

Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Chemistry Division, Department of Applied Science

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  % A 10 emulsão estável 28% A 12 emulsão moderada 100% B 14.9 sem emulsão #12;Uitlizando parâmetros de... aumento de T) temperatura de inversão de fase (PIT) Abaixo da PIT : o/w Acima da PIT : w/o PIT com... pequena (< 1 mN m-1) Aquecimento próximo a ...

Source: Loh, Watson - Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Collection: Chemistry

Summary:  -4 Open Pit (Surface) Mining... ..................................................................................................3-5 Conventional Open-Pit and Underground Mines... ......................................................4-11 Open Pits

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  , the capacity of storage pits, and ihe controls for refuse cranes. Receiving anc/ Burning o( Refuse Any large... yards burned by Using a multiplier of 3.84 which, by several pit checks as noted earlier, seems to fit... a given number of tons into an empty receiving pit, leveling off, ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  to mass-burn technology. However, this paper highlights the major disadvantage of RDF technology... selective about the wastes that they accept than do mass-burn plants. In this particular case, every single... by a shredder, can release explosive vapor concentrations through large areas of the plant. Mass-burn plants do

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  of soot formation is driven by the negative environmental and health impact brought about by the burning... material at the edges of nanoscale pits. Given the similarity of the electronic structure at these graphite... is a central ingredient for control of soot formation during the burning of fossil fuels, a problem with major

Source: Heinz, Tony F. - Center for Electron Transport in Molecular Nanostructures & Departments of Physics & Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Collection: Engineering ; Physics ; Materials Science

Summary:  Pit Distribution in Titan's Equatorial Region. Kimberly Adams and Donna M. Jurdy, Northwestern... .75 km/pixel (256 pixels/degree). In this image we can see small pits [3], in the eastern portion... of the T8 im- age, between two mountains [4]. The pits range in size up to 2 km in diameter. Pits on Titan

Source: Jurdy, Donna M. - Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University

Collection: Geosciences

Summary:  the effects of surface irregu- larities on A. nodosum fronds (wounds, branch axils, and lateral pits resulting... -free lateral pits and branch axils on host fronds. In October 2007, after the reproductive season for V. lanosa... , the percentage of microsites colonized by this epiphyte was statistically similar for wounds and lateral ...

Source: NONE; Scrosati, Ricardo - Department of Biology, St. Francis Xavier University

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Geosciences

Summary:  transponder (PIT) tags for 145,000 juvenile spring chinook salmon Oncorhyn- chus tshawytscha tagged as part... of a large-scale tagging project. A total of 325 PIT tagged mortalities were col- lected during the 28-d... and the continuity of personnel at a tagging station. The use of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags in ...

Source: USDA Forestry Service, Boise Aquatic Sciences Lab.

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  were obtained in tests of pit construction by antlion larvae (Myrmeleontidae), which may serve... for a list of local wolf spiders). In addition, because all of the study sites had been burned several years... that these insects will actively seek out fine grained, stable sands for pit construction and that their ...

Source: Carrel, James E. - Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  from the main camp), a series of snow pits (up to 20 km from Summit Camp), and Gaussian plume modeling... content is also evident. The aver- age EC concentration in 1-m snow pits in the "clean air" sector... of Summit Camp are a factor of 1.8­2.4 higher than in snow pits located 10 km and 20 km to the north ("down

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  Process. Weighed collection vehicles dis charged their loads into a receiving pit with a capacity 241... of 600 TPD (545 tpd). Four pan conveyors, forming a live bottom in the pit, transported the refuse... of similar capacity to the receiving pit. A rotating scraper and drag conveyor carried the Refuse Derived

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  production rates in burned and unburned soils from three study re- gions in interior Alaska. Second, at one... ecosystem exchange (NEE) and ecosystem respi- ration (ER) across an unreplicated factorial design of burning... ). Our laboratory study showed that burning reduced the sensitivity of decomposition to in- creased

Source: Turetsky, Merritt - Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  Modeling the environmental dependence of pit growth using neural network approaches M.K. Cavanaugh... Accepted 21 May 2010 Available online 26 May 2010 Keywords: A. Aluminum alloys C. Pitting corrosion C... . Neural networks a b s t r a c t Corrosion pits have been shown to nucleate fatigue cracks

Source: Ohio State University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Fontana Corrosion Center

Collection: Materials Science

Summary:  Pit Pattern Classification in Colonoscopy using Wavelets Diplomarbeit zur Erlangung des... classification method, namely the pit pattern classification scheme, developed some years ago delivers very... on the pit pattern classifica- tion method and all methods are highly focused on different wavelet methods

Source: Uhl, Andreas - Department of Computer Sciences, Universität Salzburg

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  is to avoid burning material in the ash pit. There is no question that smaller particles will burn better than... a little less secondary shredder power and might gain the same burn-out. What was the major justification... or "balling up" the tin cans. Inasmuch as Monroe County and RG&E have yet to ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  low power reactor critical in Oak Ridge 1944 Wigner/Fermi/Wheeler/DuPont (US) 100-B high power reactor... 100-B high-power pile Fusion power Fission power Ignition margin keffective for criticality Alpha... L. John Perkins LLNL 5/8/01 Ignition/Burn is a Done Deal ­ Or is It? The ...

Source: Fusiongnition Research Experiment (FIRE)

Collection: Plasma Physics and Fusion

Summary:  day mass burn waste-to-energy plant that has been in operation since 1991. The plant is owned... at the transfer station, these trucks are permitted to dwnp directly into the waste storage pit after arriving... , in part, to their chemical content, but also because they need to be fed into the pit or boilers more

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  of etch pit size distributions on dissolving minerals Ian N. Maclnnis" and Susan L. Brantley Department... of etch pit size distributions on dissolving minerals. In: S.L. Brant- ley and M.A. Velbel (Editors... have applied the theory of crystal size distributions to the evolution of etch pit size distributions

Source: Brantley, Susan L. - Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University

Collection: Geosciences

Summary:  SEYMOUR, G., AND A. TECLE. 2004. IMPACT OF SLASH PILE SIZE AND BURNING ON PONDEROSA PINE FOREST... SEYMOUR AND AREGAI TECLE. IMPACT OF SLASH PILE SIZE AND BURNING ON PONDEROSA PINE FOREST SOIL PHYSICAL... 86001 ABSTRACT Slash-pile burns associated with restoration thinning treatments may change soil

Source: USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station - Flagstaff Lab

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  Pitting corrosion of aluminum Z. Szklarska-Smialowska Fontana Corrosion Center, The Ohio State... describes the experiments performed during the last few decades which enhance knowledge of the pitting... of aluminum. Speci®cally, metastable and stable pits, pit chemistry and the eect of intermetallics on ...

Source: Ohio State University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Fontana Corrosion Center

Collection: Materials Science

Summary:  taken from infill ash layers in lateral and isolated pits which are dispersed all over the sites (fig. 6... ). Among other uses, these pits provided clay for the mud-and-daub walls and probably for pottery and where... used as dumps as secondary use. So, everyday life wastes ­ pottery sherds, flint tools, burned hearth

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  is an integral component of forest ecosystems. Intermittent burns are natural disturbances that occur at varying... on a forested landscape are dependent on timescale (Shakesby and Doerr, 2006). Loss of vegetation (high burn... intensity), increased risk of erosion, soil hydrophobicity, or loss of organic material (high burn ...

Source: Dyer, Bill - Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  unit shown in Fig. 2 is representative of larger open pit type incinerators. It allows test burning... open"pit incinerator. Of particular interest is a curve of nitrogen oxide formation with varying exeess... with the problem of burning a high sodium content waste, the designer must know the form in- which ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  Effects of Controlled Burns on Soil Nutrients and Respiration Implication for Possible Sandplain... in maintaining areas of sandplain grassland, a globally rare ecosystem. Effects of prescribed burning... documented. We studied soils of unburned oak forests and burned oak forest. We found that organic soil

Source: Vallino, Joseph J. - Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  : Science and Theory Relative Disposal Time #12;Disposal: Science and Theory Disposal Options · Pit burial... · Landfilling · Incineration · Rendering · Composting #12;Disposal: Science and Theory Pit Burial · One... ; DeRouchey et al., 2005 ) Pit burial in China, Thailand, and Indonesia. Images: AP #12;Disposal

Source: Benson, Eric R. - Department of Bioresources Engineering, University of Delaware

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  discussions with Mike Burns. My regards to Melissa Franklin, "the only worthwhile human being on the physics... . In these experiments, micrometer scale pits are etched into a silicon substrate and then exposed to the ion beam. Dur... - ing sputtering, the larger pits expand, and the smaller ones contract. Figure 1.1 is an example

Source: Prentiss, Mara - Department of Physics, Harvard University

Collection: Physics

Summary:  the significant role of post-fire erosional response at three recent burn sites (1999, 2002, 2003). In the first... . .................................................................................59 2. Soil pit at Austa site (1999). Dense understory contributes roots to near-surface hillslope... . ...

Source: Roering, Joshua J. - Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon

Collection: Geosciences

Summary:  than the simple pit and crane approach used with the mass refuse burning method. Availability... CONSIDERATIONS IN THE DESIGN OF A SHREDDED MUNICIPAL REFUSE BURNING AND HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM R. S... with the considerations involved in design ing a system to burn shredded mUnicipal sol id waste and to ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  dimension, after which they are con veyed to the storage pit for burning with the other refuse. The addition... by burning them in a 40-year old batch-type incinerator or by depositing them in a public landfill... from the city council. Its rated burning capacity of 600 #12;FIG. 1 248 #12;TT PlANT FIG. 2 , ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  Geochemistry of the rare-earth elements and uranium in the acidic Berkeley Pit lake, Butte, Montana... of depth in the Berkeley Pit lake, a large acidic mining lake in Butte, MT. The REE show very little... . The REE profiles of the pit waters show a depletion in light REE when normalized against NASC and the host

Source: Wood, Scott A. - Department of Geological Sciences, University of Idaho

Collection: Geosciences

Summary:  of enormous pyres of cattle and sheep burning. All in all around four million animals were killed to prevent... be burned or rendered, and the government were left with a serious problem. Just how do you dispose of so... -mouth disease epidemic. which fluid could move, and it is thick enough to dig out a burial pit. The role

Source: Brierley, Andrew - Gatty Marine Laboratory, School of Biology, University of St Andrews

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  I- 300 200 100 .. 0 z => l, --- REFUSE RECEIVED -x-x- REFUSE DUMPED IN PIT REFUSE BURNED REFUSE... RECEIVED .,x-x- REFUSE DUMPED IN PIT -- REFUSE BURNED REFUSE SENT TO DUMP ,-,,-,,-,uo REFUSE FROM DUMP... in detail. The incinerator had to be capable of burning do mestic and ...

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  40 60 80 100 (b) F366 -80 -60 -40 -20 0 20 40 (f) HIllslope discharge 1999 06/07 06/21 07/05 07/19 08... .g., Bishop, 1991; Peters et al., 1995; McGlynn et al., 1999; Burns et al., 2001), functional intercomparison... pit faces in the Maimai M8 catchment revealed extensive macropores Matric potential (cm H2O) ...

Source: McDonnell, Jeffrey J. - Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management, Oregon State University

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Geosciences

Summary:  be recovered by burning directly or after processing into refuse-derived fuel (RDF). Alternatively... -volatilisation and char burnout within the waste particles are evaluated. Since the burning of volatiles and CO... the organic material to release liquid products that can be condensed then purified and burned to efficiently

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  open; there is no pitting or discoloration 7b Web strap ­ Check for melting or charring, chemical burns

Source: Wechsler, Risa H. - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Collection: Physics

Summary:  ; side plates are not spread open; there is no pitting or discoloration 4-b Wire rope ­ Check for broken... or charring, chemical burns, weld splatter, broken stitches, cuts or tears, damage to eyes or fittings

Source: Wechsler, Risa H. - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Collection: Physics

Summary:  as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy we will burn them, an economic law as certain as the law of gravity... . Today we face a great moral crisis. Human-made climate change pits the rich and powerful against

Source: Hansen, James E. - Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Collection: Multidisciplinary Databases and Resources

Summary:  as if it were some kind of giant open-pit conflagration spewing toxic filth into the atmosphere. Only one thing... cent of household waste. Here the remaining 60 per cent goes into the ground; in Sweden it's burned... with lack of political will than pollution. The arguments against are a smokescreen; the burning issue here

Source: Columbia University - Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT)

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  before using a barbeque grill, fire pit, or chimenea. KKK Check your school's rules before using... -tip ashtrays. Don't smoke in bed or when you've been drinking or are drowsy. ! ! SmokingSense CandleCareBurn... anything that can burn. Never leave a candle unattended. Blow it out when you leave the room or go to sleep

Source: Argerami, Martin - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  at the plant is 250 millisieverts in a year. April 2nd : An 8-inch crack is found on a pit where cables... are stored. The pit is near the water intake channel to the reactor and water is found to be spilling out... , meaning it is quite toxic. After reaffirming that water is spilling out of a crack in the pit near

Source: Toohey, Darin W. - Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder

Collection: Geosciences

Summary:  EARLY POST-FIRE PLANT ESTABLISHMENT ON A MOJAVE DESERT BURN SCOTT R. ABELLA School of Environmental... more extensive in recent decades in southwestern United States arid lands. Burned areas pose management... cover of the exotic annual Bromus rubens averaged nine times lower on the burn than on a paired unburned

Source: Abella, Scott R. - School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  Influence of Pit-Shape Variation on the Decoding Performance for Two-Dimensional Optical Storage... , jao]@wustl.edu Abstract-- We study the influence of the variation in the shape of the pits for the two... on pit shape is studied by comparing the noise-tolerance thresholds for the algorithm. The TwoDOS model

Source: O'Sullivan, Joseph A. - Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Collection: Engineering

Summary:  , hampering the soil and plant is fundamental to any treatment of ability to quantify the role of pits... hydraulic failure. In several studies, short and narrow pit connections to minimize air entry. partial... the lowest xylem pressures, and the smaller roots, which at the narrow pits. The structure

Source: Stiller, Volker - Department of Biological Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology