Fume formation during black liquor droplet combustion: the importance of sodium release during devolatilization

"March 1992""Submitted to 1992 International Recovery Conference, June 7-11, 1992, Seattle, WA.

The significance of sodium release during devolatilization on fume formation in kraft recovery furnaces

"May 1993.""Submitted to Journal of Pulp and Paper Science.

Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples

Funder: NCI U24CA211006Abstract: The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) curated consensus somatic mutation calls using whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS), respectively. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, which aggregated whole genome sequencing data from 2,658 cancers across 38 tumour types, we compare WES and WGS side-by-side from 746 TCGA samples, finding that ~80% of mutations overlap in covered exonic regions. We estimate that low variant allele fraction (VAF < 15%) and clonal heterogeneity contribute up to 68% of private WGS mutations and 71% of private WES mutations. We observe that ~30% of private WGS mutations trace to mutations identified by a single variant caller in WES consensus efforts. WGS captures both ~50% more variation in exonic regions and un-observed mutations in loci with variable GC-content. Together, our analysis highlights technological divergences between two reproducible somatic variant detection efforts

Inorganic aerosol formation during black liquor drop combustion

Ph.D

Investigation of fume formation during pyrolysis of black liquor droplets

"October 1991.""Submitted for presentation at the AICHE Annual Meeting, November 17-22, 1991, Los Angeles, California.

Inorganic aerosol formation during black liquor drop combustion

"November 1993.""Submitted to AIChE Annual Meeting, November 7-12, 1993, St. Louis, Missouri.

Kraft black liquor char density

"March 1993.""Presented at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, November 1-6, 1992, Miami Beach, Florida.

Imaging black liquor sprays in an operating recovery furnace

"September 1991.""To be presented at the 1991 AIChE Annual Meeting, November 17-22, 1991, Los Angeles, CA.

Annual research review chemical recovery, March 23, 1992

"March 23, 1992."Kraft black liquor delivery systems: project 3657-2 / H. Jeff Empie ... [et al.] ; Combustion of bleach plant solids: project 3671 / Kenneth M. Nichols, Donald Sachs, Lucinda B. Sonnenberg ; Validated kraft recovery furnace modeling capability: project 3605 / Terry N. Adams ... [et al.] ; The effects of black liquor spray parameters on combustion behavior in recovery furnace simulations / Robert R. Horton, Thomas M. Grace, and Terry N. Adams ; The effect of recovery furnace bullnose designs on upper furnace flow and temperature profiles / Esa K. Vakkilainen, Terry N. Adams, and Robert R. Horton ; Progress on the combustion/flow interaction task / Robert R. Horton, Terry N. Adams, and Thomas M. Grace ; Progress on the convective section plugging task / Terry N. Adams and Robert R. Horton ; Char gasification / Stacey R. Lee and Kenneth M. Nichols ; NOx emissions from black liquor combustion / Kenneth M. Nichols, Laura Thompson, and Jeff Empie ; Fume formation / Chris Verrill and Kenneth M. Nichols