Analysis of the initial situation

The analysis of the initial situation should help to identify the initial conditions encountered by the business in question. The aim is to pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of the business and of the personality of the person running the business, so as to formulate future goals and alternative solutions. 

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In what arecis do I have knowledge and How many hours in each working week do 

Collect data and information on the problem Help through consultative service 

Develop and analyse alternative solutions Help through consultative service 

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The tendency of a certain process to occur or not may be expressed in terms of the equilibrium constant. If we study the results of simple thermal measurements, thermodynamics will help us to calculate equilibrium constants of processes which have not been previously attempted, or which are difficult to study directly. It can answer the question how far but is quite unable to answer how fast A host of industrial processes, such as the cracking of light naphtha to form ethylene, or the synthesis of ethanol from ethylene and water vapour, depend initially on a very careful analysis of the equilibrium situation over a wide range of temperatures. Only when the feasibility of a new process has been demonstrated, by thermodynamic methods, is it necessary to build pilot plants and choose catalysts. Once a reaction strikes the rocks of an unfavourable equilibrium constant, no mere catalyst can salvage the wreck. 

The temperature increases the rate of the one-stage simple reaction. The situation is different in the case of chain reaction. The change in temperature and other conditions not only change the reaction rate but can change the mechanism of the reaction and composition of the formed products. This can be illustrated by analysis of the mechanism of the hydrocarbon oxidation at different temperatures, concentration of the reactants, and the rates of initiation [288]. Varying the conditions of oxidation, the mechanism and products of the reaction can be changed. 

An initial step in addressing such situations should be the performance of an analysis of the sensitivity of a risk assessment model to changes in the variable. If the model proves relatively insensitive to conservative bounds to the variable, then further consideration of uncertainty for this variable may be unnecessary and a point estimate may suffice. 

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