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Linear Approximation Line Pack Model for Integrated Electricity and Natural Gas Systems OPF

With the increasing installation of renewable energy electricity generation capacity, the penetration of natural gas fired generation is also substantailly increasing in power systems due to their fast response capability to mitigate system variability and uncertainty. The dependencies between the electricity system and the natural gas system are becoming more important to maintain the reliability of both systems. In integrated electricity and natural gas systems (IEGSs) operations, the nonlinearity of the natural gas system brings challenges to the system operators. In this paper, the IEGSs optimal power flow (OPF) model is proposed that includes the line pack of the gas system via linear approximation. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed model can obtain optimal solutions efficiently that are comparable in accuracy as the nonlinear line pack model.

24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION↗

Precise Fault Location on Transmission Lines Using Ensemble Kalman Filter

Accurate pin-pointing of faults on transmission lines minimizes outage time, labor, and costs. This letter proposes a simple yet effective ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) approach to accurately locating the faults on transmission lines within half-cycle time. The approach is easy to implement and does not require foreknowledge of either the fault type or an approximate guess of the fault location. Extensive results validate the effectiveness and accuracy of the EnKF-based fault location approach.

Fan, Rui↗

Pre-commissioning of the wide-dynamic range halo monitor to be installed in the Fermilab MI-8 line

The beam halo can contribute to beam losses in accelerators and is very difficult to measure. With an increase in beam intensity following the PIP-II upgrade at Fermilab, the beam losses are expected to be higher with some coming from beam halo. Therefore, it is important to measure the sources of beam halo to minimize the beam losses. A modified Halo Monitor developed by J-PARC will be installed in Fermilab MI-8 transfer line to measure the beam halo. In this paper, an update on the beam profile monitor fabrication is covered. The updates include the location selection for the Halo Monitor in the MI-8 transfer line, shielding options for instrumentation, initial testing of equipment, and ray tracing simulations for the Offner optics and the targets used in the monitor.

Babacan, Betiay [IIT, Chicago; Fermilab]↗

FFAG Beam Line for nuPIL - Neutrinos from PIon Beam Line

The Long Baseline Neutrino Facilities (LBNF) program aims to deliver a neutrino beam for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). The current baseline for LBNF is a conventional magnetic horn and decay pipe system. Neutrinos from PIon beam Line (nuPIL) is a part of the optimization effort to optimize the LBNF. It consists of a pion beam line after the horn to clean the beam of high energy protons and wrong-sign pions before transporting them into a decay beam line, where instrumentation could be implemented. This paper focuses on the FFAG solution for this pion beam line. The resulting neutrino flux is also presented.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗

Current status of the electron transport line from RCS to ESR: RTE line

The electron injection system of the U.S. Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is located outside of the RHIC tunnel. Electrons beams accelerated by the Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) must be transported to the Electron Storage Ring (ESR), which resides within the RHIC tunnel. To accomplish this, a dedicated beam transport line, referred to as RTE (RCS-to-ESR) line is being designed. The proposed conceptual design comprises three main sections; RCS extraction, a vertical bend and dispersion suppression region, and ESR injection matching. The extraction section uses pulsed kickers and septum magnets to achieve a total deflection angle of 3 degrees. To align the injection section with ESR, the beamline must provide a vertical elevation of 1.68 m, and an array of FODO cells is used to suppress the vertical dispersion. The total length of the RTE line is approximately 133 m, and this paper presents the current design status and considerations for this transport line.

Accelerator Physics↗

On-line vs. Off-line Coupling of Meteorological and Transport & Dispersion Models: Background, Advantages, Limitations, and Issues

This report discusses the advantages and limitations of on-line coupling of meteorological (Met) or computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes with transport and dispersion (T&D) models for the simulation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) plume dispersion at the meso- and urban-scales as compared to the more standard off-line coupling approach. In an off-line modeling system the Met/CFD and T&D codes are separate executables, the Met/CFD code is first run to completion, output files are written to hard disk, and then the T&D model reads in the Met/CFD files and is run to completion. An on-line modeling system is defined as having the T&D and Met/CFD codes running concurrently, sharing input and output between the models via computer random access memory (RAM) and in many cases the Met/CFD and T&D models are embedded in the same code.

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES↗

A solar-pumped fluorescence model for line-by-line emission intensities in the B–X, A–X, AND X–X band systems of {sup 12}C{sup 14}N

We present a new quantitative model for detailed solar-pumped fluorescent emission of the main isotopologue of CN. The derived fluorescence efficiencies permit estimation and interpretation of ro-vibrational infrared line intensities of CN in exospheres exposed to solar (or stellar) radiation. Our g-factors are applicable to astronomical observations of CN extending from infrared to optical wavelengths, and we compare them with previous calculations in the literature. The new model enables extraction of rotational temperature, column abundance, and production rate from astronomical observations of CN in the inner coma of comets. Our model accounts for excitation and de-excitation of rotational levels in the ground vibrational state by collisions, solar excitation to the A{sup 2}Π{sub i} and B{sup 2}Σ{sup +} electronically excited states followed by cascade to ro-vibrational levels of X{sup 2}Σ{sup +}, and direct solar infrared pumping of ro-vibrational levels in the X{sup 2}Σ{sup +} state. The model uses advanced solar spectra acquired at high spectral resolution at the relevant infrared and optical wavelengths and considers the heliocentric radial velocity of the comet (the Swings effect) when assessing the exciting solar flux for a given transition. We present model predictions for the variation of fluorescence rates with rotational temperature and heliocentric radial velocity. Furthermore, we test our fluorescence model by comparing predicted and measured line-by-line intensities for X{sup 2}Σ{sup +} (1–0) in comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy), thereby identifying multiple emission lines observed at IR wavelengths.

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS↗

Characterization of magnetic field lines in connection with the transport of field lines in Beltrami magnetic fields

Single and double curl Beltrami magnetic fields are studied numerically in connection with their transport properties and the results are compared and analyzed by characterizing the magnetic field lines. In the phase space of single curl Beltrami field, islands of regular field lines are embedded into the chaotic sea. Whereas the field lines for certain solutions of double curl Beltrami field are chaotic over the entire space. Due to the presence of regular islands in phase space, the chaotic trajectories show stickiness phenomena which is characterized by the distribution of a chaotic field line. The dynamical traps in chaotic orbits due to stickiness phenomena are also characterized by the distribution of finite distance Lyapunov exponents. Finally recurrence time distribution of chaotic trajectories is plotted to understand their global behaviour.

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY↗

Suspension-line wave motion during the lines-first parachute unfurling process

A new mathematical approach to modeling the lines-first parachute unfurling process is presented. The unfurling process is treated as two distinct phases: a suspension-line unfurling phase, during which a massless-spring model of the suspension-line elasticity may be employed; and a canopy unfurling phase, during which a formulation considering suspension-line wave mechanics is employed. Histories of unfurled length and tension at the vehicle obtained using the model are compared with flight test data, and generally good agreement is observed.

Poole, L. R.↗

Line formation in the solar chromosphere. I - The C II resonance lines observed with OSO 8

The temperature structure of the upper chromosphere is investigated using center-to-limb measurements of the C II resonance lines at 1335 A from the University of Colorado spectrometer aboard OSO 8. Spectrum synthesis of these lines shows them to be extremely sensitive to the temperature and the physical extent of the 20,000 K plateau proposed by Vernazza et al (1973). Hydrostatic equilibrium models of the quiet chromosphere are computed to obtain theoretical spectra of the Lyman lines and continuum as well as the center-to-limb behavior of the C II lines. Good agreement is found with observations for a plateau at 16,500 K with about 25% more material than that of Vernazza et al.

Lites, B. W.↗

Sodium D-line emission from Io - Comparison of observed and theoretical line profiles

High-resolution spectra of the D-line profiles have been obtained for Io's sodium emission cloud. These lines, which are produced through resonance scattering of sunlight, are broad and asymmetric and can be used to infer source and dynamical properties of the sodium cloud. In this paper we compare line profile data with theoretical line shapes computed for several assumed initial velocity distributions corresponding to various source mechanisms. We also examine the consequences of source distributions which are nonuniform over the surface of Io. It is found that the experimental data are compatible with escape of sodium atoms from the leading hemisphere of Io and with velocity distributions characteristic of sputtering processes. Thermal escape and simple models of plasma sweeping are found to be incompatible with the observations.

Carlson, R. W.↗

Line-by-line transport calculations for Jupiter entry probes

Line-by-line calculations of the radiative transport for a condition near peak heating for entry of the Galileo probe into the Jovian atmosphere are described. The discussion includes a thorough specification of the atomic and molecular input data used in the calculations that could be useful to others working in the field. The results show that the use of spectrally averaged cross sections for diatomic absorbers such as CO and C2 in the boundary layer can lead to an underestimation (by as much as 29%) of the spectral flux at the stagnation point. On the other hand, for the turbulent region near the cone frustum on the probe, the flow tends to be optically thin, and the spectrally averaged results commonly used in coupled radiative transport-flow field calculations are in good agreement with the present line-by-line results. It is recommended that these results be taken into account in sizing the final thickness of the Galileo's heat shield.

Arnold, J. O.↗

Investigation of LANDSAT D Thematic Mapper geometric performance: Line to line and band to band registration

The geometric accuray of LANDSAT TM raw data of Toulouse (France) raw data of Mississippi, and preprocessed data of Mississippi was examined using a CDC computer. Analog images were restituted on the VIZIR SEP device. The methods used for line to line and band to band registration are based on automatic correlation techniques and are widely used in automated image to image registration at CNES. Causes of intraband and interband misregistration are identified and statistics are given for both line to line and band to band misregistration.

Begni, G.↗

TM Geometric Performance: Line to Line Displacement Analysis (LLDA)

An early acquired TM data frame (track 23, frame 35 of 22 August 1982) was used to assess the geometric performance of the LANDSAT-4 thematic mapper instrument. The developed method consists in determining the displacements of adjacent lines by locating the maximum of the correlation profile between the two lines. Then the line to line displacement is used to characterize the TM instrument in respect to: scan to scan jitter and image skew, scan profile non-linearity, along scan jitter, detector to detector displacement, and band to band displacement. To verify the quality of the reported performance parameters, some extracted geometric parameters were used to correct the original raw data. Comparison between P-tape data and results of reprocessed data shows no significant differences in an area of 1024 x 1024 pixels.

Fusco, L.↗

Line-shape asymmetry of water vapor absorption lines in the 720-nm wavelength region

Spectral line-shape analyses were performed for water vapor lines broadened by argon, oxygen, and xenon in the 720-nm wavelength region. A line-shape asymmetry was observed, which is attributed to statistical dependence or correlation between velocity- and state-changing collisions. The generalized (asymmetric) Galatry profile, which results from the soft-collision profile and includes correlation between velocity- and state-changing collisions, was fitted to the observed line shapes and was found to compare favorably with the observed data. The most prominent asymmetries were observed with xenon as the buffer gas.

Grossmann, Benoist E.↗

Forbidden lines of np(q) ions. II - Line intensities

Ground state forbidden transitions of np(q) ions of C, N, O, Ne, Mg, Si, S, and Fe can provide important information on the state of cosmic ionized gases. The line intensities of 95 transitions of these ions have been tabulated, including those used to calculate the line ratios as well as other strong lines of the ions in the ground state terms in the same temperature and density ranges treated previously. These data can be used for calculations of the absolute line intensities if the ionic abundances are known. These calculations are important for studies of the solar transition region, ionized nebulae, circumstellar nebulae such as found in symbiotic stars, supernova remnants, interstellar bubbles produced by stellar winds, and emission regions in active galactic nuclei.

Lynch, John P.↗

A non-local thermodynamic equilibrium, line-blanketed synthetic spectrum of Iota Herculis - C, Al, and Si lines

A non-LTE line-blanketed model stellar atmosphere is used to compute a model of I Herculis (B3 IV) with a Teff of 17,500 K and a log g of 3.75, following the conclusions of Peters and Polidan (1985). Detailed profiles of a number of lines of C, Al, and Si in the 1200-2000-A region are computed, including the resonance lines of C II, Al II, and Al III. These profiles are compared to observations obtained from the coaddition of eight IUE SWP images, using a technique developed by Leckrone and Adelman (1989). Comparison of carbon lines with a model that is underabundant in carbon by a factor of 2 relative to the sun indicates that the C abundance of Iota Her is at most one-half solar. Non-LTE effects are examined by comparing an LTE model possessing identical atmospheric parameters with the non-LTE model. Substantial differences in the populations of the model atomic states are found, but differences in the temperature structure of the two models often mask the non-LTE effects in the synthetic spectra.

Grigsby, James A.↗

Anisotropic line emission and the geometry of the broad-line region in active galactic nuclei

Attention is given to an escape probability-based formalism, including the interaction with a background opacity, which is used to predict line-beaming factors for broad-line region (BLR) clouds of AGN. Several computational details necessary to model gas exposed to an intense nonthermal continuum are outlined. It is found that all hydrogen lines are strongly inwardly beamed, and that C IV 1549 is moderately beamed. The implications of this for the geometry of the emission-line regions of AGN are discussed. Beaming is found to cause the source-cloud separation to be overestimated by variability studies (so that the radiation field at the BLR is even more intense than previously thought); it can even cause spherical geometries to have little instantaneous response to continuum changes.

Ferland, G. J.↗