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Touring the period June, 1975 to October, 1977 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. studied the catalytic hydroprocessing of solvent-refined coal (SRC) products. This work was sponsored by the United States Energy Research and Development Administration under a contract entitled The Chemical Characterization, Handling, and Refining of Solvent-Refined Coal to Liquid Fuels. Results from that study are the subject of this presentation. The final report recently was issued as FE2003-27, September 1977, available through NTIS. 

This research was carried out under contract no. EX-76-S-01-2550 with the United States Energy Research and Development Administration and a preliminary research grant from the University of Michigan, Division of Research Development Administration. A large part of it is taken from the doctoral dissertation of James C. Romine, University of Michigan, 1980. 

The authors wish to thank the FMC Corporation, Hydrocarbon Research Inc., Catalytic Inc., PAMCO, and the Pittsburgh Energy Research Center of ERDA for generously supplying samples of their coal liquid products. The work described here was sponsored by the United States Energy Research and Development Administration under Contract No. E( 49-18) 2031. 

The support of this work by grants from the National Science Foundation and the United States Energy Research and Development Administration is gratefully acknowledged. 

A modification of The Critical Incident Technique was published by the Division of Safety, Standards, and Compliance of the United States Energy Research and Development Administration in 1976. Because the method was also to be applied in the nuclear industry, where the terms Critical and Incident have their own connotations, a new name was used Reported Significant Observation (RSO) Studies. In a paper with that title, it is said that RSO was formally recognized as a significant hazard reduction tool. ... 

The author is indebted to Mr. B. Kalyanaraman for use of some of his esr spectra cind Dr. T. C. S. Chen for discussions. This work was supported in part through a contract with the United States Energy Research and Development Administration. 

The United States Energy, Research and Development Administration and before them the United States Atomic Energy Commission have supported the bulk of the work on rare earth oxides carried out by the author and his many coworkers. Indeed, a large fraction of the American work on the oxides has been sponsored by them. We acknowledge this active interest with gratitude. 

Acknowledgments. — The authors are grateful to the Energy Research and Development Administration for the support of this work under Contract W-7405-FNG-48 and to the Committee on Research of the University of California, Berkeley. They also wish to thank Dr. J. Scherer of the United States Department of Agriculture Laboratory, Albany, CA. for the use of his Raman facilities. 

The projections are based on a recent forecast (Case B) by the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) of nuclear power growth in the United States (2) and on fuel mass-flow data developed for light water reactors fueled with uranium (LWR-U) or mixed uranium and plutonium oxide (LWR-Pu), a high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), and two liquid-metal-cooled fast breeder reactors (LMFBRs). Nuclear characteristics of the fuels and wastes were calculated using the computer code ORIGEN (3). 

Ibid., p. 376 Energy Research and Development Administration, Nuclear Reactors Built, Being Built, or Planned in the United States as of Dec. 31,1976 (Oak Ridge, Tenn. ERDA Technical Information Center, 1977). 

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