Rivers research projects

The water temperature and thermal behaviour of the reservoirs of Mequinensa and Riba-roja have been dealt with in different studies and reports. These include water quality controls commissioned by the Ebro River Authority, the CHE [36-39], some study by the Catalan Water Authority, the ACA [42], several degree and PhD thesis at the Technical School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona [43—48] and research projects aimed to study the dispersion of the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha [40, 41]. However, the reservoir with the most information available regarding its thermal behaviour is the reservoir of Riba-roja as it has received an important research effort because of the invasion of zebra mussel. 

Duerden, P. 1991. The Alligator Rivers Analogue Project - Characterisation of the development of the uranium dispersion fan. Proc. Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XV, 4-7 November, Strasbourg, France, published by the Materials Research Society, USA, 529-536. 

Financial support was provided by a grant from the Office of Naval Research (N00014-98-1-0530) and the Georgia Rivers LMER Project (DEB 94-12089). 

A major LAII research project is the Flux Study, whose principal purpose is a regional estimate of the present and future movement of material between the land, atmosphere, and ocean in the Kuparuk River basin in northern Alaska. 

A garment manufacturer, Griffin Manufacturing Co., Fall River, Massachusetts, a partner in this research project, produces a jogging bra which is constructed of two layers of knitted fabric. The blue outer fabric contains 43% cotton, 43% polyester and 14% Lycra spandex. The white inner lining contains 90% CoolMax and 10% Lycra spandex. CoolMax is a DuPont trademark for fabric containing DuPont tetra-channel Dacron polyester fiber. - All these materials are characterized in another section of this report. 

In the Southern and Pacific Ocean off Japan, the amount of plastic debris has increased significantly in the last 20 years (Plastic Debris from Rivers to Sea 2009). The Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) and the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF) in recent years have conducted studies to identify and... 

Brown, B. (1985). Whatever happened to Sibaral Radio Liberty Research, RL 420/85, 4 pp. Brown, B. (1986). What whl cancellation of the Siberian River Diversion Project mean to Central Asia Radio Liberty Research, RL 334/86,3 pp. 

Finally, the book is in the line with the aim of the Basin sub-project of connecting the scientific research to practical research cases and demands of River Basin Managers and associated stakeholders. 

In the fall of 1999, a pilot zeolite barrier was installed at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) in Western New York. The WVDP is an environmental management project being conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with the cooperation of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Details of the installation are reported by Moore et al. (2000). The clinoptilolite material used in the barrier had previously been studied by Cantrell (1996) for a proposed installation at the DOE Hanford Facility, by Fuhrmann et al. (1995) for use at the WVDP, and by Lee et al. (1998) for the 1998 installation at Chalk River, Ontario. The range of previously estimated distribution coefficients (Kd) was from 650 mL/g (Fuhrmann et al.) to 2600 mL/g (Cantrell). The variation across these studies is most likely attributable to differences in the source water and experimental conditions, although the data interpretation... 

Harmon, H., Schlahta, S, Wester, D., Walker, J., Fink, S., and Thompson, M. Tanks Focus Area Savannah River Site Salt Processing Project Research and Development Summary Report, Report TFA-0105, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, May 2001. 

Baker, G. Clarke, P. Gerstle, R. Mason, W. Phillips, M., "Emission Characteristics of Major Fossil Fuel Power Plants in the Ohio River Valley," Knapp, K. T., Project Officer EPA Contract No. 68-02-3271, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, 1984. 

Reckhow, K.H., and Gray, J. (2000) Neuse River Estuary modeling and monitoring project stage 1 stage 1 executive summary and long-term modeling recommendations. Report no. 325-A of the Water Resources Research Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 

The impetus for further developments was the recognition of the economic significance of corrosion phenomenon during the 19th century that led the British Association for the Advancement of Science to sponsor corrosion testing projects such as the corrosion of cast and wrought iron in river and seawater atmospheres in 1837. Early academic interest in corrosion phenomenon (up to the First World War) was followed by industrial interest due to the occurrence of equipment failures. An example of this is the corrosion-related failure of condenser tubes as reported by the Institute of Metals and the British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association in 1911. This initiative led to the development of new corrosion-resistant alloys, and the corrosion related failure of condenser tubes in the Second World War was an insignificant problem. 

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