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    The Ursinus Weekly, October 9, 1975

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    \u2779 elects Delli-Bovi; Jill Leauber fills vacancy • Ursinus hosts family fete • Danforth Foundation offers fellowships • Dept. addition • From the cluttered desk of the U.S.G.A. President • Correction • Editorial: The Fact, after or before • Focus: Dr. Parsons • Overview: Intro. Philosophy • Lions in another Bowl? • The Throwaway children • U.S.G.A. Carnival • Phila. singers open season • Aerosmith: Bedlam • Opportunity for women • Reflections: A letter home • AFC forecast • George McGinnis: $3 million man • Field hockey report • Lebanon Valley crushes Ursinushttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1042/thumbnail.jp

    Chemical reaction pathways affecting stratospheric and mesospheric ozone

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    Catalytic cycles and other chemical pathways affecting ozone are normally estimated empirically in atmospheric models. In this work we have automatically quantified such processes by applying a newly developed analysis package called the Pathway Analysis Program (PAP). It used modeled chemical rates and concentrations as input. These were supplied by the Module Efficiently Calculating the Chemistry of the Atmosphere MECCA box model, itself initialized by the Free University of Berlin Climate Middle Atmosphere Model with Chemistry. We analyzed equatorial, midlatitude and high-latitude locations over 24-hour periods during spring in both hemispheres. We present results for locations in the lower stratosphere, upper stratosphere and midmesosphere. Oxygen photolysis dominated (>99%) in situ ozone production in the equatorial lower stratosphere, in the upper stratosphere and in the mesosphere. In the lower stratosphere midlatitudes the ozone smog cycle (already established in the troposphere) rivaled oxygen photolysis as an in situ ozone source in both hemispheres. However, absolute ozone production rates in midlatitudes were rather slow compared with at the equator, typically 1650 ppt ozone/day. In the equatorial lower stratosphere, five catalytic sinks were important (each contributing at least 5% to chemical ozone loss): a HOx cycle, a HOBr cycle and its HOCl analog, a water-HOx cycle and a mixed chlorine-bromine cycle. Important in midlatitudes were the HOx cycle, a NOx cycle, the HOBr cycle and the mixed chlorine-bromine cycle. In lower-stratosphere high latitudes, the chlorine dimer cycle and the mixed chlorine-bromine cycle dominated in both hemispheres. A variant on the latter, involving BrCl formation, also featured. In the upper stratosphere high latitudes (where strong negative ozone trends are observed), a nitrogen cycle, a chlorine cycle, and a mixed chlorine-nitrogen cycle were found. In the mesosphere, three closely related HOx cycles dominated ozone loss

    Simulations of the Impact of Co-injected Gases on CO 2 Storage, the SIGARRR Project: Processes and Geochemical Approaches for Gas-water-Salt Interactions Modeling

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    International audienceThe composition of the captured CO 2 mixture may considerably vary both qualitatively and quantitatively depending on the sources, the selected technologies for purification... Many other compounds could be co-captured at various concentration levels and their potential co-storage along with CO 2 could be considered. Since these compounds may change the behavior of the CO 2 rich mixture, operators of the whole CCTS chain therefore wait for Jerome Corvisier et al. / Energy Procedia 114 (2017) 3322-3334 3323 clear recommendations in terms of admissible concentration levels for the various co-injected impurities while regulators need tools allowing them to formulate these recommendations. The SIGARRR project aims at conducting precise geochemical simulations to model the long-term behavior of co-injected gases within CO 2 storage sites based on a combination of experimental and numerical approaches, to ensure the reliability of numerical simulations. Within this context and the recent improvements in both processes and geochemical codes, this paper presents the water solubility precise calculations for CO 2 and most of the potential impurities N 2 , O 2 , Ar, CO, H 2 S, SO 2 , CH 4 , H 2 and the brine solubility relatively accurate geochemical simulations for CO 2 , N 2 , O 2 and CH 4 as well
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