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Application of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Systems for Powering Safety Monitoring Systems of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations. OESI 2.0 M-1 T-1-P1.1 – Objective 1 Interim Report: Summary of Offshore Oil and Gas Well Monitoring Systems and Process Power Requirements

This report is part of a comprehensive research initiative aimed at evaluating the technoeconomic feasibility of deploying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions monitoring systems powered by small-scale renewable energy sources on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The study has three primary objectives: summarizing available GHG monitoring systems for the OCS, modeling a renewable marine energy source (specifically ocean thermal energy conversion, or OTEC), and modeling the collocation of OTEC power sources with offshore oil and gas activities to offset power demand.

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Natural Gas Methane Emissions in the United States Greenhouse Gas Inventory: Sources, Uncertainties and Opportunities for Improvement

Presentation summarizing key findings of a Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis Report at an Environmental Protection Agency workshop: 'Stakeholder Workshop on EPA GHG Data on Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems' on November 19, 2015. For additional information see the JISEA report, 'Estimating U.S. Methane Emissions from the Natural Gas Supply Chain: Approaches, Uncertainties, Current Estimates, and Future Studies' NREL/TP-6A50-62820.

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One–Step Fabrication of Nanocrystalline Nanonetwork SnO 2 Gas Sensors by Integrated Multilaser Processing

An integrated multilaser process is developed to fabricate nanocrystalline nanonetwork SnO 2 gas sensors in one integrated procedure, which combines electrodes fabrication, nanomaterials deposition, and postannealing. Interdigit electrodes are fabricated on an Au-coated fused silica substrate using a picosecond (ps) laser, which ablates the Au coating from the back of the substrate to pattern the electrodes. A novel transmitted Ps laser deposition (TPLD) process is designed to deposit SnO 2 nanonetwork on the interdigit electrodes with precise deposition area control under a close target-to-substrate distance. The obtained SnO 2 nanonetwork is in situ postannealed by a CO 2 laser to improve the crystallinity, while the nano morphology and grain size keep intact. To investigate the morphology and formation process of the nanonetwork, the microstructure of the laser-deposited SnO 2 layer is characterized. As a result, the crystallization control of CO 2 laser annealing is investigated through analyzing the Raman spectrum, X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns, and lattice structures of the samples. By exposed to H 2 atmosphere, the fabricated gas sensor is demonstrated for H 2 monitoring.

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Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn kernel fiber ethanol

Corn kernel fiber ethanol that can be produced concurrently with corn starch ethanol has recently been approved as cellulosic biofuel in the USA, suggesting that fiber ethanol could be eligible for a higher credit price than conventional starch ethanol due to its anticipated lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A life-cycle analysis was conducted to quantify ethanol's GHG emissions. Here we show that fiber ethanol's life-cycle GHG emissions (36-39 g CO(2)e MJ(-1)) are close to meeting the US cellulosic biofuel's legislative mandate of 60% GHG emissions reduction relative to gasoline (similar to 94 g CO(2)e MJ(-1)), with slightly lower emissions under the nth plant mature fiber technology than under the state of technology (SOT). The co-product, distiller's grain with solubles (DGS), can notably affect fiber ethanol's GHG emissions, and this impact may need to be further examined when evidence of DGS market impacts becomes available. (c) 2018 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

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Comprehensive Gas-Phase Peptide Ion Structure Studies Using Ion Mobility Techniques: Part 2. Gas-Phase Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange for Ion Population Estimation

Gas-phase hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) using D{sub 2}O reagent and collision cross-section (CCS) measurements are utilized to monitor the ion conformers of the model peptide acetyl-PAAAAKAAAAKAAAAKAAAAK. The measurements are carried out on a home-built ion mobility instrument coupled to a linear ion trap mass spectrometer containing electron transfer dissociation (ETD) capabilities. ETD is utilized to obtain per-residue deuterium uptake data for select ion conformers, and a new algorithm is presented for interpreting the HDX data. Using molecular dynamics (MD) production data and a hydrogen accessibility scoring (HAS)-number of effective collisions (NEC) model, hypothetical HDX behavior is attributed to various in-silico candidate (CCS match) structures. The HAS-NEC model is applied to all candidate structures, and non-negative linear regression is employed to determine structure contributions resulting in the best match to deuterium uptake. The accuracy of the HAS-NEC model is tested with the comparison of predicted and experimental isotopic envelopes for several of the observed c-ions. It is proposed that gas-phase HDX can be utilized effectively as a second criterion (after CCS matching) for filtering suitable MD candidate structures. In this study, the second step of structure elucidation, 13 nominal structures were selected (from a pool of 300 candidate structures) and each with a population contribution proposed for these ions. .

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Development of a Low-Level 39Ar Calibration Standard – Analysis by Absolute Gas Counting Measurements Augmented with Simulation

This paper describes the generation of 39Ar, via reactor irritation of potassium carbonate, followed by quantitative analysis (length-compensated proportional counting) to yield calibration standards that are approximately 50 and 3 times atmospheric background levels. Measurements were performed in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s shallow underground counting laboratory studying the effect of gas density on beta-transport; these results are compared with simulation. The total expanded uncertainty of the specific activity for the ~50x 39Ar in P10 standard is 3.6% (k=2).

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Diffusion of methane and other alkanes in metal-organic frameworks for natural gas storage

Diffusion of methane, ethane, propane and n-butane was studied within the micropores of several metal organic frameworks (MOFs) of varying topologies, including the MOFs PCN-14, NU-125, NU-1100 and DUT-49. Diffusion coefficients of the pure components, as well as methane/ethane, methane/ propane and methane/butane binary mixtures, were calculated using molecular dynamics simulations to understand the effect of the longer alkanes on uptake of natural gas in MOB. The calculated self diffusion coefficients of all four components are on the order of 10(-8) m(2)/s. The diffusion coefficients of the pure components decrease as a function of chain length in all of the MOFs studied and show different behaviour as a function of loading in different MOB. The self-diffusivities follow the trend DPCN-14 < DNU-125 approximate to DNU-1100 < DDUT-49, which is exactly the reverse order of the densities of the MOFs: PCN-14 > NU-125 approximate to NU-1100 > DUT-49. By comparing the diffusion of pure methane and methane mixtures vvith the higher alkancs, it is observed that the diffusivity of methane is unaffected by the presence of the higher alkanes in the MOFs considered, indicating that the diffusion path of methane is not blocked by the higher alkanes present in natural gas. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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