Accommodation ships

Indeed, ocean passenger ships have proved to be so suitable for emergency work, w ith their vast and readily adaptable accommodation spaces and high speeds, often superior to contemporary warshi])s, that in wartime they have been converted to serve in many very different capacities - as troopships, auxiliary cruisers, hositital ships, commerce raiders, accommodation ships and aircraft carriers, as well as in a number of even more specialised roles. 

The Rober t I.ey laid up as an accommodation ship at Pillau in the eastern Baltic.. Apart from camoufla je colours on her side, she has nets draped over her funnel. 

The Ilambur Sud Amerika liner Monte Rosa in a strikinjj zebra-striped camouflajje scheme. She was also used as an accommodation ship in the Baltic. tUamhurfi Siid-Amerika)... 

Miciwliingcio were sold to the Imperial Iranian Navy in 1976 for service as naval accommodation ships based at Hushire and Bandar Abbas. 

Ship-shaped FPSOs must be designed to weather vane i.e. must have the ability to rotate in the direction of wind or current. This requires complex mooring systems and the connections with the well heads must be able to accommodate the movement. The mooring systems can be via a single buoy or, in newer vessels designed for the harsh environments of the North Sea, via an internal or external turret. Figure 10.33 shows a schematic of the Shell-BP Foinaven FPSO. 

Two modifications of the duidized-bed reactor technology have been developed. In the first, two gas-phase duidized-bed reactors coimected to one another have been used by Mobil Chemical Co. and Union Carbide to manufacture HDPE resins with broad MWD (74,75). In the second development, a combination of two different reactor types, a small slurry loop reactor followed by one or two gas-phase duidized-bed reactors (Sphetilene process), was used by Montedision to accommodate a Ziegler catalyst with a special particle morphology (76,77). This catalyst is able to produce PE resins in the form of dense spheres with a diameter of up to 4—5 mm such resins are ready for shipping without pelletization. 

Top drums are generous in size to accommodate possible heavy listing and high-trip operating conditions. In addition, drums must be located in the fore and aft positions rather than longitudinally to minimize the risk of uncovering tubes as the ship rolls. 

Once the target number of samples was defined, the frequency of collection and the number of samples to be collected on each collection date were determined, based on an overall total sampling period of 1 year. The sampling plan specified collection every other week, primarily to accommodate the workload at the analytical laboratories. Sampling had to occur early in the week to preclude problems with shipping samples over the weekend. With these considerations in place, specific dates for collection of commodity samples could readily be set. 

In the event that accommodation and care for the frogs is not possible, X laevis surgically extracted ovaries containing oocytes can be ordered through Nasco (Fort Atkinson, WI) however the quantity and quality of the oocytes cannot be guaranteed upon shipping. 

Mineral matter characterization in coal has received considerable attention. Given and Yarzab (1) discussed the problems posed by mineral matter in various coal analyses. Furthermore, mineral matter complicates the chemical treatment of coal. It also has many adverse effects on commercial coal utilization. Coal consumers pay to ship mineral matter, to accommodate its impact on capital equipment and operations, and to dispose of the resultant ash. The impact of coal minerals on utilization motivated Consol s initial interest in mineralogy (2). The results reported here are from a second phase of the FTIR method development, in which extensive improvements were made to the methods. 

The second example demonstrated immobilization via ship in a bottle , ionic, metal center, and covalent bonding approaches of the metal-salen complexes. Zeolites X and Y were highly dealuminated by a succession of different dealumi-nation methods, generating mesopores completely surrounded by micropores. This method made it possible to form cavities suitable to accommodate bulky metal complexes. The catalytic activity of transition metal complexes entrapped in these new materials (e.g, Mn-S, V-S, Co-S, Co-Sl) was investigated in stereoselective epoxidation of (-)-a-pinene using 02/pivalic aldehyde as the oxidant. The results obtained with the entrapped organometallic complex were comparable with those of the homogeneous complex. 

Palladium nanoparticles (nm-Pd) were synthesized by ship-in-a-bottle technique in supercages of NaA zeolite. The behaviors of electrodes of thin film of nm-Pd accommodated in NaA zeolite were characterized by cyclic voltammetry. The results illustrated that the nm-Pd possess particular properties for hydrogen reaction, i.e. in contrast to hydrogen absorption on massive palladium electrode, the surface processes of hydrogen adsorption-desorption become the dominant reaction on electrodes of thin film of nm-Pd. The processes of adsorption and desorption of carbon monoxide on the electrodes were studied using in situ electrochemical FTIR reflection spectroscopy. It has been revealed that in comparison with CO adsorbed on a massive Pd electrode, the IR absorption of CO adsorbed on nm-Pd particles accommodated in NaA zeolite has been enhanced to about 36 times. 

As for the Great Britain, she had her accommodation modified to permit her to carry up to 1,650 soldiers and thirty horses on each voyage to Sevastopol. The large Crimean troo]fing fleet also included twelve Cunard ships and numerous other vessels from the P O, Royal Mail and other fleets, all requisitioned by the. Admiralty under the terms of the mail subsidy contracts concluded with these companies. 

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