DIAL PUBLICATIONS LIST JULY 1, 1997 - JUNE 30, 1998

PUBLICATIONS

Bauman, L.E. and Zhong, L., July 1997, "Monitoring Magnetohydrodynamics Boundary Layers Using Emission Line Shape Features," Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol.11, No. 3, pg. 361.

Bauman, L.E., 1998, "Non-coincident Multi-wavelength Emission Absorption Measurements in MHD Plasmas," Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 135-150.

 

Lindner, J.S., Guice, J.D., and Zhou, C., 1997, "FTIR Analysis of Effluents from Mixed Waste Remediation Processes," Optical Sensing for Environmental and Process Monitoring, A &WMA, Vol. VIP-67, pp. 197-209.

 

Miller, G.P. and Winstead, C.B., September 1997, "Inductively Coupled Plasma Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy," Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy, Vol. 12, pp. 907-912.

 

Miller, G.P., September 1997, "A Simple, Inexpensive, Hyperthermal Atomic Oxygen Sensor," Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 68, No. 9, pp. 3557-3562.

 

Monts, D.L., Singh, J.P., Su, C.F., Abhilasha, Zhang, H., Yueh, F.Y., and Singh, S.K., 1998, "Toward Development of a Laser-based Continuous Emission Monitor System for Toxic Metals in Off-gases," Special issue of Combustion Science and Technology on Incineration of Hazardous Wastes: Fifth International Congress on Toxic Combustion By-products, Vol. 134, pg. 103.

 

Monts, D.L., January 1998, "Comparison of Atomization Sources for a Field-deployable Laser Optogalvanic Spectroscopy System," Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 66-72.

 

Singh, J.P., Yueh, F.Y., Zhang, H., and Cook, R.L., October 1997, "Study of Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy as a Process Monitor and Control Tool for Hazardous Waste Remediation," Process Control and Quality, Vol. 10, pp. 247-258.

 

Vasudev, R. and Novicki, S.W., 1998, "Sub-Doppler Polarization Spectroscopy of OH Ejected by Vibrational State-selected trans HONO (A1A"): OH Vector Correlations, Energy Correlation between Coincident OH,NO Pairs, and Energy Transfer Pathways," Chemical Physics, Vol. 226, pp. 201-215.

 

Zhu, Z., Green, R.A., and McCarthy, M., September 1997, "A Fieldable Air-ICP for On-line Toxic Metal Monitoring," Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy.

PRESENTATIONS/PROCEEDINGS

Costley, R.D., July 1997, "Torsional Waveguide Sensor for Molten Materials," Review of Progress in Quantitative NDE, The University of San Diego, San Diego, California.

 

Costley, R.D., Ingham, W.M., and Simpson, J.A., October 1997, "Liquid Level and Density Sensor for Liquid Slurries," 37th ORNL-DOE Conference on Analytical Chemistry in Energy Technology, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

 

Costley, R.D., Mazzola, M.S., and Grothaus, M.G., December 1997, "Pulsed Acoustical Technique for Decontamination of Piping and Containment Systems," X change '97: The Global D&D Marketplace, Miami, Florida.

 

Costley, R.D., December 1997, "Laser Ultrasonics for Material Characterization," Invited Seminar given at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

 

Hamilton, J.M., Toghiani, H., and Lindner, J.S., October 1997, "Application of FTIR Spectroscopy to Process Control. 37th ORNL-DOE Conference on Analytical Chemistry in Energy Technology, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

 

Henderson, M. and Costley, R.D., October 1997, "Nonintrusive Pressure Sensing in Closed Drums," 37th ORNL-DOE Conference on Analytical Chemistry in Energy Technology, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

 

Lindner, J.S., October 1997, "Evaluation of the Combustion Systems of the Plasma Hearth Process Using FTIR Spectroscopy," 37th ORNL-DOE Conference on Analytical Chemistry in Energy Technology, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

 

McCown, J., Luthe, J.C., Henderson, M., and Nail, B., December 1997, "Experience with Networked Control: Industrial Processes in a Laboratory Environment," 10th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-97), International Society for Computers and their Applications, San Antonio, Texas

 

Miller, G.P., Baldwin, D.P., and Zamzow, D.S., March 1998, "High-resolution Interferometric Spectrometer for Continuous Emission Monitoring," American Chemical Society, 215th National Meeting, Dallas, Texas.

 

Okhuysen, W.P. and Norton, O.P., June 1998, "The Spin-up Transient of the Molten Glass within a Plasma Arc Centrifugal Treatment (PACT) System," ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Flows in Manufacturing Processes, Washington, DC.

 

Pian, C.C.P, January 1998, "Assessment of Air Pollution Control Needs for Thermal Treatments of Hazardous Waste Remediation," Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Temperature Air Coal Combustion, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.

 

Pian, C.C.P, June 1998, "Analysis of Coal-fired Magnetohydrodynamic Power Generators Experiments," 29th Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, AIAA Paper No. 98-2923, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Plodinec, M.J., Cicero-Herman, C.A., Marra, J.C., and Marra, S.L., December 1997, "Advances in Nuclear Waste Glasses - Bringing the Past into Our Future," Advances in the Fusion of Glass, 5th International Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

 

Shah, V., July 1997, "Sensor Development for High Temperature Viscosity Measurement," Review of Progress in Quantitative NDE, The University of San Diego, San Diego, California.

 

Singh, J.P., Zhang, H., and Yueh, F.Y., July1997, "Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy as a Continuous Emission Monitor," Gorden Research Conference, Plymouth, New Hampshire.

 

Singh, J.P., Yueh, F.Y., Zhang, H. and R.L. Cook, October 1997, "Study of Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy as a Process Monitor and Control Tool for Hazardous Waste Remediation.," FACSS '97 Conference, Providence, Rhode Island.

 

Singh, J.P., October 1997, "Explosive Detection in Soil by Photo Fragmentation - Laser-induced Fluorescence (PF-LIF) Spectroscopy," Invited Lecture, Interdisplinary Laser Science (ILS-XIII), Optical Society of America, Long Beach, California.

 

Singh, J.P., Miller, T., Yueh, F.Y., and Monts, D.L., February 1998, "Development of a Photofragmentation-Laser Induced Fluorescence (PF-LIF) Sensor for the Detection of 2,4,6 Trinitrotoluene (TNT) in Soil and Groundwater," Sixty-second Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Biloxi, Mississippi.

 

Singh, J.P., June 1998, "Topical Report on the Methods of Plasma Flow Diagnostics," Invited Lecture, Conference of the Low Temperature Plasma, Petrozavdsk, Russia.

 

Su, C.F., Yueh, F.Y., Singh, J.P., Rigsby, J. III, and Cook, R.L., March 1998, "The Effect of Glass Sample Temperature on Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy," PITTCON '98 Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

Su, Y., Monts, D.L., Singh, S.K., Machiraju, R., Philip, T., and Jang, P.R., June 1998, "Feature Extraction from Images of Thermal Treatment Systems," Proceedings of the 29th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, AIAA 98-2481.

 

Vasudev, R., Usachev, A., Dunsford, W.R., Singh, J.P., Yueh, F.Y., and Cook, R.L., 1997, "Detection of Off-gas Compounds by Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy," 28th Plasmadynamics and Laser Conference, AIAA 97-2379, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Yueh, F.Y., Singh, J.P., Su, C.F., Vasudev, R., and Marra, J.C., 1997, "Elemental Concentration Measurement of Vitrified Glass by Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy," Proceedings of the 1996 Joint Fall Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, pp. 33-42.

 

Zhang, H., J.P. Singh, and Yueh, F.Y., March 1998, "An Evaluation of Filter Efficiency by Using Two LIBS system", PITTCON '98 Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

Zhou, C., Toghiani, H., Hamilton, J., Wiser, R., and Lindner, J., October 1997, "Kinetic Studies of Gas-phase Reactions between NO₂ and CHCl₃ using FT-IR Spectroscopy," Poster presentation at 24th Annual Conference of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, Providence, Rhode Island.

 

Zhu, Zhubiao and Miller, G.P., October 1997, "Chemometric Basefunction Component Method for Detection Improviement in Air-ICP/AES," 24th Annual Conference of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, Providence, Rhode Island.

 

Zikratov, G., Singh, J.P., Vasudev, R., and Yueh, F.Y., March 1998, "Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy of Glasses Doped with Hafnium or Plutonium," PITTCON '98 Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

REPORTS

Technical

Cook, R.L., Monts, D.L., Jang, P.R., Lindner, J.L., Luthe, J.C., Gresham, L., Okhuysen, W., Norton, O.P., Singh, J.P., Yueh, F.Y., Arunkumar, R., and Miles, D.M., January 1998, "Diagnostic Field Measurements at Dow's Ethylene Furnace," DIAL Trip Report 98-2.

 

Lindner, J.S., Zhou, C., and Andol, J., 1997, "Instrumenting and Analyzing Performance of the SSTB Components, Part 1: Analysis of the Thermatrix Flameless Oxidizer Using FTIR Spectroscopy," Final Report, MSE Contract.

 

Lindner, J.S., Jang, P.R., and Gresham, L.L., 1997, "Imaging System Operations Manual for Argonne National Laboratory," Final Report, ANL-West Contract 71481002.

 

Plodinec, M.J. with DIAL Research Professionals, December 1997, "Application of Modern Diagnostic Methods to Environmental Improvement," U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-FG02-93CH 10575, FY 97 Annual Report.

 

Singh, J.P., Zhang, H. and Yueh, F.Y., September 1997, "DOE and EPA Continuous Emission Monitoring Test at EPA National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL)," U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-FG02-93CH-10575, Trip Report 97-2.

 

Singh, J.P., Zhang, H., and Yueh, F.Y., 1997, "Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Measurement, Plasma Arc Centrifugal Treatment PACT-6 Slip Stream Test Bed (SSTB) 100 hour Duration Controlled Emission Demontration (CED) Test, Instrumentation and Analysis Performence of the PACT-6 SSTB Components," U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-FG02-93CH 10575, Trip Report 97-1.

 

Zikratov, G., Vasudev, R., Yueh, F.Y., and Singh, J.P., September 1997, "Elemental Analysis of Vitrified Glass by Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy," Final Report for Westinghouse Savannah River Company.

Technical Memos

Costley, R.D. and Henderson, M., April 1998, "Drum Pressure Monitor," DPM498.

 

Lindner, J.S., October 1997, "Imaging Technologies," IT1097.

 

Miles, D.M., April 1998, "Test Facilities," FACLITIES498.

 

Singh, J.P. and Yueh, F.Y., April 1998, "Spontaneous Raman Probe," SRP498.

 

Wiser, R., May 1998, "Standard Gas Analysis Capabilities," GAC598.

PATENTS & DISCLOSURES

Costley, R.D. and Henderson, Mark, "Nonintrusive Pressure Sensor for Sealed Containers," Provisional Patent Application.

 

Costley, R.D., K. Balasubramaniam, Singh, J.P., Shah, V., and Winstead, C., "Viscosity and Temperature Measurements at Very High Temperature by Ultrasonic Reflection," Provisional Patent Application.

 

Lindner, J.S., Issued February 4, 1997, "Real Time Combustion Controller," U.S. Patent 5,599,179.

 

Singh, J.P., Yueh, F.Y., Zhang, H., and Cook, R.L., 1997, "Analytical Method Using Laser induced Breakdown Spectroscopy," U.S. Patent S No. 08/705,267.

 

Singh, J.P., Balasubramaniam, K., Costley; R.D., Shah, V.V., and Winstead, C, Issued November 11, 1997, "In-situ, Real Time Viscosity Measurement of Molten Materials with Laser Induced Ultrasonics," U.S. Patent 5,686,661.

THESIS, DISSERTATIONS

Henderson, Mark E., December 1997, "Fourier Transform Profilometry with Code in Matlab," Masters Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University.

 

Miles, Dana M., August 1997, "Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction of Soil Contaminated with Trichloroethylene and Perchloroethylene," Masters Thesis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University.