Fluidized-bed combustion reduces atmospheric pollutants

Method of reducing sulfur and nitrogen oxides released during combustion of fossil fuels is described. Fuel is burned in fluidized bed of solids with simultaneous feeding of crushed or pulverized limestone to control emission. Process also offers high heat transfer rates and efficient contacting for gas-solid reactions

Matrix theory compactifications on twisted tori

We study compactifications of Matrix theory on twisted tori and non-commutative versions of them. As a first step, we review the construction of multidimensional twisted tori realized as nilmanifolds based on certain nilpotent Lie algebras. Subsequently, matrix compactifications on tori are revisited and the previously known results are supplemented with a background of a non-commutative torus with non-constant non-commutativity and an underlying non-associative structure on its phase space. Next we turn our attention to 3- and 6-dimensional twisted tori and we describe consistent backgrounds of Matrix theory on them by stating and solving the conditions which describe the corresponding compactification. Both commutative and non-commutative solutions are found in all cases. Finally, we comment on the correspondence among the obtained solutions and flux compactifications of 11-dimensional supergravity, as well as on relations among themselves, such as Seiberg-Witten maps and T-duality.Comment: 1+31 pages, v2: some comments and clarifications added, accepted for publication in Physical Review

CONVERSION OF URANIUM DIOXIDE TO URANIUM CARBIDE IN AN INDUCTION PLASMA TORCH REACTOR.

Exploratory studies were conducted to determine the feasibility of using an induction plasma torch reactor for converting uranium dioxide-graphite powder agglomerates to uranium carbide spheres

Harmonic oscillator with minimal length uncertainty relations and ladder operators

We construct creation and annihilation operators for harmonic oscillators with minimal length uncertainty relations. We discuss a possible generalization to a large class of deformations of cannonical commutation relations. We also discuss dynamical symmetry of noncommutative harmonic oscillator.Comment: 8 pages, revtex4, final version, to appear in PR

Multi-vortex solution in the Sutherland model

We consider the large-$N$ Sutherland model in the Hamiltonian collective-field approach based on the $1/N$ expansion. The Bogomol'nyi limit appears and the corresponding solutions are given by static-soliton configurations. They exist only for \l<1, i.e. for the negative coupling constant of the Sutherland interaction. We determine their creation energies and show that they are unaffected by higher-order corrections. For \l=1, the Sutherland model reduces to the free one-plaquette Kogut-Susskind model.Comment: Latex, using ioplppt.sty, 11 page

SPRAY FLUORINATION OF FUSED SALT AS A URANIUM RECOVERY PROCESS. A PRELIMINARY FEASIBILITY STUDY

Spray fluorination may be used to recover uranium as the volatile hexafluoride from molten fluorides by spraying the salt into a fluorine atmosphere. This dropwise liquid fused-salt fluoride volatility process applied to zirconiummatrix fuels, with the possible advantage of avoiding corrosive conditions involved in sparging. Experimental equipment was developed and tests were made for heat and mass transfer. From the data obtained, process design calculations indicated that a satisfactory equipment design is possible. (auth

Poincare covariant mechanics on noncommutative space

The Dirac approach to constrained systems can be adapted to construct relativistic invariant theories on a noncommutative (NC) space. As an example, we propose and discuss relativistic invariant NC particle coupled to electromagnetic field by means of the standard term $A^\mu\dot x_\mu$. Poincare invariance implies deformation of the free particle NC algebra in the interaction theory. The corresponding corrections survive in the nonrelativistic limit.Comment: 7 pages, JHEP style, final versio

Solitons and giants in matrix models

We present a method for solving BPS equations obtained in the collective-field approach to matrix models. The method enables us to find BPS solutions and quantum excitations around these solutions in the one-matrix model, and in general for the Calogero model. These semiclassical solutions correspond to giant gravitons described by matrix models obtained in the framework of AdS/CFT correspondence. The two-field model, associated with two types of giant gravitons, is investigated. In this duality-based matrix model we find the finite form of the $n$-soliton solution. The singular limit of this solution is examined and a realization of open-closed string duality is proposed.Comment: 17 pages, JHEP cls; v2: final version to appear in JHEP, 2 references added, physical motivation and interpretation clarifie