Selected Publications by Alden Staff

AIR & GAS FLOW MODELING

• Optimization of Loddby Type Recovery Boiler Aerodynamics Through Isothermal Flow Modeling. 
  TAPPI Engineering Conference, Seattle, WA, September 1990. Anderson, D.K. 1990. 
  
  
• Performance Improvement of Chemical Recovery Boilers.
  AFRC International Symposium on Combustion in Industrial Furnaces and Boilers, Short Hills, New Jersey, September 1989; and 1989 ASME Industrial Power Conference, Hartford, Connecticut, October 1989. Anderson, D.K. 1989.
  
  
• Application of Reburning to a Cyclone Fired Boiler. 
  EPA/EPRI Joint Symposium on Stationary NOx Control, San Francisco, California, March 1989. Anderson, D.K. (co-author). 1989.
  
  
• Development and Demonstration of Sorbent Injection for SO2 Control on Tangentially Fired Boilers.
  First EPA/EPRI Combined FGD and Dry SO2 Control Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, October 1988. Anderson, D.K. (co-author). 1988.
  
  
• Leveraging Physical Flow Modeling and CFD to Optimize SCR Designs.
  27th International Conference on Coal Utilization and Firing Systems, Clearwater, Florida, March 2002; and Electric Power Conference, Houston, TX, March 2003. Kozlak, M.J. (co-author). 2003.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES 

• Status of Fish Protection Technologies and Costs at Cooling Water Intake Structures (CWIS). 
  Symposium on Cooling Water Intake Technologies to Protect Aquatic Organisms, Sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2003. Taft, E. P., T. C. Cook, N. Olken, J. L. Black, K. D. Zammit, and D. A. Dixon.  2003.
  
  
• Fish Protection Technologies:  A Status Report.
  In: Power Impacts on Aquatic Resources Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 12-15, 1999.  Sponsored by Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Taft, E.P. 1999.
  
  
• Design of Intakes with Fish Handling Capability. 
  ASCE-sponsored book, ISBN 0-87262-291-6, 1982. Taft, E. P. (co-author).  1982. 

HYDRAULIC MODELING

• Application of Hydraulic Modeling to Headworks Design. 
  Proceedings: 77th Annual Water Environment Federation Conference, New Orleans, October 2004. Johansson, Andrew E.,  B. J. Christiansen, S. S. Lipske, B. M. McKenna, J. C. Bish and W. C. Lordan. 
  
  
• Air Entrainment in a Partially Filled Horizontal Pump Suction Line.
  ASME International Joint Power Generation Conference, New Orleans, Louisianna, June 2001. Johansson, Andrew E., Padmanabhan, Sanders, Smith, and Hafer. 2001.
  
  
• Hydraulic Model Evaluation of Tailrace Flow Patterns at the Proposed Summersville Hydroelectric Project.
  ADSO Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 1998. Johansson, Andrew E., Padmanabhan, and Cyr. 1998.
  
  
• Engineering and Biological Evaluation of the Alden/Concepts NREC Turbine.
  HydroVision 2002, Portland, Oregon, July 2002. Stacy, Philip S., Hecker, Amaral, Cook, Metzger, McMahon, and  Fetfatsidis. 2002.
  
  
• Fluid Dynamic Evaluation of a Sea Vessel Oil Tank Using a Physical Model.
  Proceedings, ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 1997. Stacy, Philip S., M. Padmanbhan, and P. DiCarlo. 1997.
  
  
• Physical Scale Model and Computational Fluid Dynamics Model Study of a CSO Solids/Floatables Screening Structure.
  Water Environment Federation Collection Systems Conference, San Francisco, California, May 2002. White, Dean K., L. van der  Tak, A. Davis, K. O’Connor, F.J. Pocci. 2002.
  
  
• Effect of Dual Flow Screens on the Hydraulic Performance of Pump Intakes.
  Proceedings, 27th Congress of IAHR, San Francisco, California, August 1997. White, Dean K., M. Padmanabhan, and J. Larsen. 1997.
  
  
• Calibration of a Movable  Bed River Model.
  Proceedings, ASCE International Symposium on Sediment Transport Modeling, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 1989. White, Dean K., G. E. Hecker, and J. Larsen. 1989.
  
  
• Connecticut River Fishways: Model Studies.
  ASCE Journal of the Hydraulics Division, HY 7, p. 1219. White, Dean K., Bruce J. Pennino. 1980.

NUMERIC MODELING (CFD)

• Representing the Bed Roughness of Coarse-Grained Streams in Computational Fluid Dynamics.
  Submitted for review by Earth Surface Processes and Land Forms. Gessler, D., S.K. Carney, and B.P. Bledsoe. 2004.
  
  
• CFD for Predicting Shear Stress in a Curved Smooth Trapezoidal Channel.
  Submitted for review by Earth Surface Processes and Land Forms. Gessler, D. and R.N. Meroney. 2004.
  
  
• Computer Program for Stability Analysis of Steep Cohesive Riverbanks.
  Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, No. 25, pp. 175-190. (Technical and Software Bulletin). Gessler, D., S.E. Darby, S.E., and C.R. Thorne. 2000.
  
  
• Application of 3-Dimensional Mobile Bed, Hydrodynamic Model.
  Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 125, No. 7. pp. 737 - 749. Gessler, D., B. Hall, M. Spasojevic, F. Holly, H. Pourtaheri, and N. Raphelt. 1999.
  
  
• Prediction of Discontinuity in Stage-Discharge Rating Curves.
  Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 124, No. 3. pp. 243 – 252. Gessler, D., J. Gessler, and C.C. Watson. 1998.
  
  
• Prediction of  Stack Plume Downwash Using computational Fluid Dynamics.
  Proceedings of FEDSM'03, 4th ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2003. Lin, F., S.A. Cain, and L.A. Maroti. 2003. 
  
  
• Defining the Hydraulic Zone of Influences Using CFD. 
  Symposium on Cooling Water Intake Technologies to Protect Aquatic Organisms, US EPA, May 2003. Lin, F., J.E. Ricahrdson, and D. Gessler. 2003.  
  
  
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Analysis of Flow Conditions at Deerfield River Fish Bypasses.
  4th Bioengineering Symposium, American Fisheries Society, Baltimore, Maryland, August 2002. Lin, F., J.L. Ragonese, and T.C. Cook. 2002. 
  
  
• CFD Evaluation of Hydraulic Conditions at a Fish Diversion System. 
  HydroVision 2002, Portland, Oregon, July 2002. Lin, F. and G.E. Hecker.  2002.
  
  
• Innovative 3-D Numerical Simulation of Thermal Discharge from Browns Ferry Multiport Diffusers.
  Proceedings of IJPGC'02:  International Joint Power Generation Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2002. Lin, F., G.E. Hecker, B.T. Smith, and P.N. Hopping.  2002