Life sciences synthetic fuels. Semiannual progress report for the period ending June 30, 1983
This document describes the results of environmental and health studies of synthetic fuels conducted from January to June 1983. Activities reported cover not only research performed for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Health and Environmental Research (OHER), but also progress made in studies sponsored by DOE Fossil Energy. The latter studies are identified in the text. The report includes program elements identified with either a specific technology or comparative generic research activities. In Section 3, the studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth (UMD) gasifier are described, which involve primarily the documentation of results. Other parts of our activities, concerned with new health and safety initiatives at the Westinghouse fluid bed gasifier process development unit (PDU) and at the Texaco Inc. entrained flow gasifier PDU, are also presented. Results are reported in Section 4 on the characterization and biological testing of process and plant area samples collected during previous sampling campaigns at the H-Coal pilot plant. Finally, generic research activities concerned with the environmental and health evaluation of products, by-products, effluents, and upgraded product materials from fossil energy technologies are described in Section 5.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- OSTI ID:
- 5648884
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-8905; ON: DE84004572
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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