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DOE issues RFQ for clean-energy projects at WIPP
The Department of Energy has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for interested parties that are looking to establish carbon pollution–free electricity (CFE) projects at its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in New Mexico.
Yoshiharu Nakamura
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 3 | May 2013 | Pages 378-384
Technical Paper | Selected papers from IAEA-NFRI Technical Meeting on Data Evaluation for Atomic, Molecular and Plasma-Material Interaction Processes in Fusion, September 4-7, 2012, Daejeon, Republic of Korea | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16445
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An electron swarm study using molecular gas-rare gas mixtures is briefly reviewed, and the advantage of using these mixtures to evaluate inelastic electron collision cross-section data for molecules through electron swarm study is explained. This advantage also suggests a new procedure for deriving a consistent set of electron collision cross sections for molecules by using electron swarm data measured in pure molecular gas and in the molecular gas-rare gas mixtures alternately. The procedure is detailed by using an example of C2H4. The derived cross-section set for C2H4 covers the energy range where a conventional electron beam experiment is not practical and can be crucial for the quantitative modeling of relevant plasmas.