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Nanomaterials in the Workplace

Policy and Planning Workshop on Occupational Safety and Health

By: James T. Bartis,Eric Landree

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Nanomaterials in the Workplace

Policy and Planning Workshop on Occupational Safety and Health

By: James T. Bartis,Eric Landree

What are the challenges the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and related federal agencies face when allocating limited resources so that worker health and safety go hand in hand with innovation and technical progress? This was the central issue addressed at a workshop on nanotechnology and occupational safety and health hosted by the RAND Corporation on October 17, 2005. The workshop focused on policy and planning issues (as opposed to scientific issues) that are key to understanding the options available to NIOSH in formulating and implementing its strategic objectives to protect the safety and health of workers exposed to nanoscale materials. This document of the conference proceedings draws on discussions during the workshop and places the discussions within a policy framework for further consideration by NIOSH.

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0833039520

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Producing Liquid Fuels from Coal

Prospects and Policy Issues

By: James T. Bartis,Frank Camm,David S. Ortiz

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Producing Liquid Fuels from Coal

Prospects and Policy Issues

By: James T. Bartis,Frank Camm,David S. Ortiz

Large U.S. coal reserves and viable technology make promising a domestic industry producing liquid fuels from coal. Weighing benefits, costs, and environmental issues, a productive and robust U.S. strategy is to promote a limited amount of early commercial experience in coal-to-liquids production and to prepare the foundation for managing associated greenhouse-gas emissions, both in a way that reduces uncertainties and builds future capabilities.

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199

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Rand Corporation

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0833046764

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9780833046765

Oil Shale Development in the United States

Prospects and Policy Issues

By: James T. Bartis,Tom LaTourrette,Lloyd Dixon,D. J. Peterson,Gary Cecchine

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Oil Shale Development in the United States

Prospects and Policy Issues

By: James T. Bartis,Tom LaTourrette,Lloyd Dixon,D. J. Peterson,Gary Cecchine

In the early 1980s, industry and government took a hard look at the economics of extracting oil from vast deposits of shale that lie beneath the western United States. Oil prices subsided, and interest waned. With oil prices spiking and global demand showing no signs of abating, reexamining the economics of oil shale makes sense. In this report, the authors describe oil shale resources; suitability, cost, and performance of new technologies; and key policy issues that need to be addressed by government decisionmakers in the near future.

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0833041002

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9780833041005

Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels

By: Frank A. Camm,James T. Bartis

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Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels

By: Frank A. Camm,James T. Bartis

This technical report explains an analytic way to design and assess packages of financial incentives that the government can use to cost effectively promote early experience with coal-to-liquids (CTL) production of liquid fuels in the face of significant uncertainty about the future. The report applies two complementary analytic methods. The first uses observations from successful voluntary agreements in the commercial world to identify principles that the government can use to design a relationship with a private investor that is likely to ensure that early CTL production experience occurs cost effectively. Such a relationship yields investor and government behavior that, in turn, generates a set of cash flows to and from investor and government over time. The second analytic method takes these cash flows as given and assesses their effects on the investor and the government. It measures effects on an investor in terms of changes in the investor's real (adjusted for inflation) after-tax internal rate of return (IRR). It measures effects on the government in terms of changes in the real net present value (NPV) of cash flows to and from the government when assessed at the discount rate set by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for investments of this kind. The cash-flow analysis focuses on a hypothetical CTL combined-cycle production plant that uses a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology to convert coal into about 30,000 barrels per day (bpd) of diesel and naphtha; significant amounts of electricity, some of which can be sold off site; and carbon dioxide, which can be sequestered or sold for use in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) off site.

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0833045105

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9780833045102

Protecting Emergency Responders

Lessons Learned from Terrorist Attacks

By: Brian A. Jackson,D. J. Peterson,James T. Bartis,Tom LaTourrette,Irene T. Brahmakulam

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Protecting Emergency Responders

Lessons Learned from Terrorist Attacks

By: Brian A. Jackson,D. J. Peterson,James T. Bartis,Tom LaTourrette,Irene T. Brahmakulam

In December 2001, a conference held in New York City brought together individuals with firsthand knowledge of emergency responses to terrorist attacks to discuss ways to improve the health and safety of emergency workers who respond to large-scale disasters. The meeting considered the responses to the September 11, 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the 1995 attack at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as well as the emergency responses to the anthrax incidents that occurred through Autumn 2001. This book is intended to help managers and decisiomakers understand the unique working and safety environment associated with terrorist incidents, understand the equipment needs of emergency workers, and improve education and training programs and activities directed at the health and safety of emergency responders.

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0833032577

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Protecting Emergency Responders Volume 2

Community Views of Safety and Health Risks and Personal Protection Needs

By: Tom LaTourrette,D. J. Peterson,James T. Bartis,Brian A. Jackson,Ari Houser

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Protecting Emergency Responders Volume 2

Community Views of Safety and Health Risks and Personal Protection Needs

By: Tom LaTourrette,D. J. Peterson,James T. Bartis,Brian A. Jackson,Ari Houser

Firefighters, law enforcement officers, and emergency medical service responders play a critical role in protecting people and property in the event of fires, medical emergencies, terrorist acts, and numerous other emergencies. The authors examine the hazards that responders face and the personal protective technology needed to contend with those hazards. The findings are based on in-depth discussions with 190 members of the emergency responder community and are intended to help define the protective technology needs of responders and develop a comprehensive personal protective technology research agenda.

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175

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Rand Corporation

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0833036033

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9780833036032

Constraints on JP-900 Jet Fuel Production Concepts

By: James T. Bartis,G. Torrance Flint

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Constraints on JP-900 Jet Fuel Production Concepts

By: James T. Bartis,G. Torrance Flint

Researchers at the Energy Institute of Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) are conducting research on producing jet fuel by coprocessing coal or coal-derived products with low-value liquid intermediates produced during petroleum refining. To date, most of this research effort has focused on a coal-tar blending process. Penn State currently plans to build a one-barrel per- day pilot plant and produce 100 barrels of product to be delivered to and tested by the Air Force Research Laboratory. Recognizing the limited availability of the coal-tar derived liquids used in the coal-tar blending process, the Penn State research team has recently shifted its attention to a co-coking process, in which a mixture of solid coal and a refinery intermediate, decant oil, is used to produce a combination of liquid fuels and coke.

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0833041444

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Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 4

Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines for Structural Collapse Events

By: Henry H. Willis,Nicholas G. Castle,Elizabeth M. Sloss,James T. Bartis

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Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 4

Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines for Structural Collapse Events

By: Henry H. Willis,Nicholas G. Castle,Elizabeth M. Sloss,James T. Bartis

This monograph serves as a technical source for National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) incident commander guidelines for emergency response immediately following large structural collapse events. It gives guidelines for personal protective equipment (PPE), focusing on required modifications to responders' typical PPE ensembles because of the duration of response and the need to prevent exposures to likely hazards from pathogens, airborne dusts, and gaseous hazardous materials.

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0833041029

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9780833041029

Critical Materials

Present Danger to U.S. Manufacturing

By: Richard S. Silberglitt,Richard Silberglitt,James T. Bartis,Brian G. Chow,David L. An,Kyle Brady

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Critical Materials

Present Danger to U.S. Manufacturing

By: Richard S. Silberglitt,Richard Silberglitt,James T. Bartis,Brian G. Chow,David L. An,Kyle Brady

The United States economy, and especially its manufacturing sector, is dependent on the supply of raw and semi-finished materials used to make products. While the United States has extensive mineral resources and is a leading global materials producer, a high percentage of many materials critical to U.S. manufacturing are imported, sometimes from a country that has the dominant share of a material's global production and export. This report specifically identifies 14 critical materials for which production is concentrated in countries with weak governance, as indicated by the World Governance Indicators published by the World Bank. China is the controlling producer of 11 of these critical raw materials, nine of which have been identified as having high economic importance and high supply risk. As its market share and domestic consumption of critical materials has grown, China has instituted production controls, export restrictions, mine closings, and company consolidations that have led to two-tier pricing, which creates pressure to move manufacturing to China and contributes to strong price increases for these materials on the world market. To mitigate the impact of these market distortions on the global manufacturing sector, this report suggests the need for actions that (1) increase resiliency to supply disruptions or market distortions and (2) provide early warning of developing problems concerning the concentration of production."--Page 4 of cover.

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0833079271

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Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of Increasing Renewable-Energy Use

By: Michael Toman,James Griffin,Robert J. Lempert

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Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of Increasing Renewable-Energy Use

By: Michael Toman,James Griffin,Robert J. Lempert

How could producing 25 percent of U.S. electricity and motor-vehicle transportation fuels from renewables by the year 2025 affect U.S. consumer energy expenditures and CO2 emissions? This report finds that reaching 25 percent renewables with limited impact on expenditures requires significant progress in renewable-energy technologies and biomass production. Without substantial innovation in these areas, expenditures could increase considerably.

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Book's by James T. Bartis

Nanomaterials in the Workplace

Nanomaterials in the Workplace

Producing Liquid Fuels from Coal

Producing Liquid Fuels from Coal

Oil Shale Development in the United States

Oil Shale Development in the United States

Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels

Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels

Protecting Emergency Responders

Protecting Emergency Responders

Protecting Emergency Responders Volume 2

Protecting Emergency Responders Volume 2

Constraints on JP-900 Jet Fuel Production Concepts

Constraints on JP-900 Jet Fuel Production Concepts

Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 4

Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 4

Critical Materials

Critical Materials

Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of Increasing Renewable-Energy Use

Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of Increasing Renewable-Energy Use

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