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April - June 1999 Issue

Publications

The following publications of Energy Laboratory and related research were released during the past period or are cited as references in this issue. MIT theses may be ordered from the Library Document Services, MIT, Room 14-0551, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. Other publications may be ordered from Energy Laboratory Publications, MIT, Room E40-473, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, only if a price is assigned and only if prepaid by check payable to "MIT Energy Laboratory." Prices are postpaid surface mail. For air delivery, add 15% to US, Canada, and Mexico, and 30% elsewhere. A list of publications is available on request.

Reports and Working Papers

Soderholm, P. Environmental Policy in Transition Economies: The Effectiveness of Pollution Charges. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Working Paper No. MIT-CEEPR 99-006WP. 18 pages. May 1999. $10.00

Other Publications

Ahn, N. A System Dynamics Model of a Large R&D Program. PhD thesis. MIT Department of Nuclear Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts. May 1999.

Alcala, J., F. Gaudette, S. Suresh, and S. Sampath. Instrumented Spherical Micro-Indentation of Plasma-Sprayed Coatings. MIT report, December 1998. 33 pages. $10.00

Audette, III, W. Estimation of Oil Consumption Due to In-Cylinder Vaporization in Internal Combustion Engines. MS thesis. MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts. June 1999.

Audette, W., and V. Wong. A Model for Estimating Oil Vaporization From the Cylinder Liner as a Contributing Mechanism to Engine Oil Consumption. Society of Automotive Engineers Paper No. 1999-01-1520. Presented at International Spring Fuels and Lubricants Meeting and Exposition, Dearborn, Michigan, May 3-6, 1999. Available from SAE Customer Sales and Satisfaction Department, 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, Pennsylvania 15096-0001.

Cheong, W., and P. Barton. "Azeotropic distillation in a middle vessel batch column. 1. Model formulation and linear separation boundaries." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, v. 38, no. 4, pp. 1504-1530, 1999.

Cheong, W., and P. Barton. "Azeotropic distillation in a middle vessel batch column. 2. Nonlinear separation boundaries." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, v. 38, no. 4, pp. 1531-1548, 1999.

Cheong, W., and P. Barton. "Azeotropic distillation in a middle vessel batch column. 3. Model validation." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, v. 38, no. 4, pp. 1549-1564, 1999.

DiPippo, M., K. Sako, and J. Tester. Ternary Phase Equilibria for the Sodium Chloride-Sodium Sulfate-Water System at 200 and 250 Bar Up to 400°C. January 1999. Submitted to Fluid Phase Equilibria. 48 pages. $10.00

Ellerman, A. "The next restructuring: environmental regulation." The Energy Journal, v. 20, no. 1, pp. 141-147, 1999.

Giannakopoulos, A., and S. Suresh. "Determination of elastoplastic properties by instrumented sharp indentation." Scripta Materialia, in press, 1999.

Hansen, K., M. Weiss, and S. Kwak. "Allocating R&D resources: a system dynamics approach." Research-Technology Management, forthcoming, July-August 1999.

Jitcharoen, J., N. Padture, A. Giannakopoulos, and S. Suresh. "Hertzian-crack suppression in ceramics with elastic-modulus-graded surfaces." Journal of the American Ceramics Society, v. 81, no. 9, pp. 2301-2308, 1998.

Joskow, P. "Regulatory priorities for infrastructure sector reform in developing countries." Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1998, The World Bank, pp. 191-223, 1999.

Joskow, P., and R. Noll. "The Bell Doctrine: applications in telecommunications, electricity, and other network industries." Stanford Law Review, v. 51, no. 5, May 1999.

Joskow, P., and R. Schmalensee. "The political economy of market-based environmental policy: the US acid rain program." The Journal of Law and Economics, v. XLI, no. 1, pp. 37-83, April 1998.

Lachance, R., J. Paschkewitz, J. DiNaro, and J. Tester. Thiodiglycol Hydrolysis and Oxidation in Sub- and Supercritical Water. May 1999. To be published in Journal of Supercritical Fluids. 37 pages. $10.00

Pindyck, R. "The long-run evolution of energy prices." The Energy Journal, v. 20, no. 2, pp. 1-27, 1999.

Reagan, M., J. Harris, and J. Tester. Molecular Simulations of Dense NaCl-H2O Solutions from Ambient to Supercritical Conditions. February 1999. Submitted to The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 29 pages. $10.00

Salvatierra, D., J. Taylor, P. Marrone, and J. Tester. Kinetic Study of Hydrolysis of Methylene Chloride from 100 to 500°C. May 1999. Submitted to Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 24 pages. $10.00

Skolnikoff, E. "The role of science in policy: the climate change debate in the US." Environment, v. 41, no. 5, p. 16, June 1999.

Sparks, K., J. Tester, Z. Cao, and B. Trout. Configurational Properties of Water Clathrates: Monte Carlo and Multi-dimensional Integration versus the Lennard-Jones and Devonshire Approximation. May 1999. Submitted to The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 33 pages. $10.00

Suresh, S., and A. Giannakopoulos. "A new method for estimating residual stresses by instrumented sharp indentation." Acta Materialia, v. 46, no. 16, pp. 5755-5767, 1998.

Tester, J., and J. Cline. Hydrolysis and Oxidation in Sub- and Supercritical Water: Connecting Process Engineering Science to Molecular Interactions. Paper No. 252. Presented at National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Symposium on Corrosion in Supercritical Processes, Corrosion 99, San Antonio, Texas, April 25-30, 1999. 23 pages. Available from NACE International, Conferences Division, PO Box 218340, Houston, TX 77218-8340.

Tester, J., R. Danheiser, R. Weinstein, A. Renslo, J. Taylor, and J. Steinfeld. Supercritical Fluids as Solvent Replacements in Chemical Synthesis. May 1999. Submitted to US Environmental Protection Agency for publication in American Chemical Society Symposium Series on Green Chemistry. 31 pages. $10.00

Tolsma, J. Analysis of Heteroazeotropic Systems. PhD thesis. MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts. June 1999.

Weaver, J., T. Vaughan, R. Adair, and R. Astumian. "Theoretical limits on the threshold for the response of long cells to weak extremely low frequency electric fields due to ionic and molecular flux rectification." Biophysical Journal, v. 75, pp. 2251-2254, November 1998.

Weinstein, R., A. Renslo, R. Danheiser, and J. Tester. "Silica-promoted Diels-Alder reactions in carbon dioxide from gaseous to supercritical conditions." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, v. 103, no. 15, pp. 2878-2887, 1999.

Yanch, J., et al. "Boron neutron capture synovectomy: treatment of rheumatoid arthritis based on the 10B(n,a)7 Li nuclear reaction." Medical Physics, v. 26, no. 3, pp. 364-375, March 1999.
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