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The text is deliberately concise. Each chapter is designed to cover the content of one 50-minute lecture, twenty-seven in all, and allows time for demonstrations and illustrative slides. A list of the slides, and a description of the demonstrations that we have found appropriate to each lecture, are given in Appendix 2. The text contains sets of worked case studies (Chapters 7, 12, 16, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 27) which apply the material of the preceding block of lectures. There are examples for the student at the end of the book worked solutions are available separately from the publisher. 

Ahuja S, Aisante KM, eds. Handbook of Isolation and Characterization of Impurities in Pharmaceuticals. Vol. 5. Separation Science and Technology Alsante KM, Hatajik TD, Lohr LL, Santafianos D, Sharp TR. Solving Impurity/Degradation Problems Case Studies. Chapter 14. San Diego, CA Academic Press 2003 361-400. 

Part III, "Case Studies" (Chapters 9 through 12), takes these illustrations a bit further, namely, by demonstrating the analysis for some of the most important processes in industry energy conversion, separations, and chemical conversion. Chapter 12 briefly discusses the concept of life cycle analysis, which aims to compare the consolidated inputs and outputs of a process or a product "from the cradle to the grave" [9], and its extension to include the minimization of process irreversibilities in a so-called exergetic life cycle analysis [10]. 

Thus, LCA is a tool to evaluate and analyze the environmental burden of a product throughout all stages of its life. Thermodynamic analysis, on the other hand, is not restricted to a product, but is equally well applied in the analysis of processes. A product and a process are separate entities, but they are related since the purpose of a process is to manufacture a product. Because of this, thermodynamic analysis can easily be used for a product (e.g., lost work per unit weight product, as in the polyethylene (PE) case study, Chapter 11). 

Westcott, B. L. Enemark, J. H. In Inorganic Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy, Lever, A. B. P., Solomon, E. I., Eds. Inorganic Electronic Structure and SpeOroscopy, Volume II Applications and Case Studies, Chapter 7, 1999 pp 403-450. 

II Single company/ new space Your company undertakes, on its own, an initiative to create new space in the supply chain Viable option if the company has the resources to undertake this alone Acme, our case study (Chapter 10), is an example... 

Part IV Supply Chain Case Studies (Chapters 38 to 45)... 

Introduction Sustainable development is a vast concept from an engineering perspective, which has been demonstrated through a number of cases in industry (see Part II of the prescribed textbook). Students must be able to critically analyse such cases and highhght how the concepts are applicable to engineering management and could be applied to another industry sector or product in South Africa (as described in the textbook cases). For this module one of the case study chapters of the prescribed textbook will be allocated to each student... 

No company, or supply chain for that matter, will stay in business if it just covers direct costs. They must recover fixed costs as well. But awareness of direct costing and its impact on behavior is important to supply chain decisions on pricing and investments. A decision to participate as a supply chain partner should consider direct costs and contribution to profit. In our Acme case study (Chapter 7), the company chose to focus on high contribution, as opposed to high contribution margin, business as part of its strategy. If our housewares executive had followed the same path, the company would have taken the Sears offer. 

Chapter 5 is devoted to safety in offshore oil and gas industry. Some of the topics covered in this chapter are offshore industrial sector risk picture, offshore worker situation awareness concept, offshore industry accident reporting approach, and offshore industry accidents case studies. Chapter 6 is devoted to case studies of oil tanker spill-related accidents, oil tanker spill analysis, and oil spill causes. Chapter 7 presents various important aspects of human factors contribution to accidents in the oil and gas industry and fatalities in the industry. Some of the topics covered in this chapter are human factors that affect safety in general, categorization of accident-related human factors in the industrial sector, categories of human factors accident causation in the oil industry, and recommendations to reduce fatal oil and gas industry incidents. Chapter 8 is devoted to case studies of maintenance influence on major accidents in the oil and gas industry and safety-instrumented systems and their spurious activation in the oil and gas industry. 

Not only are all five purposes closely connected but they can lead to what appears to be contradictory findings. Certain policies or practices may promote greater participation for some members of a school whilst at the same time reinforce barriers to participation for others. Indeed, the impact of some policies and practices even on individual members may be ambivalent. Such instances are explored in the case study chapters, later in the book. One prevalent example is the practice of withdrawing students with low literacy levels from mainstream... 

This volume on ceramics and refractories is divided into three sections. The first section, "Ceramics and Refractories," is divided into seven chapters. Apart from an introductory section. Chapter 1 mainly details the applications of ceramics and refractories. Chapter 2 is on selection of materials and it describes the two stages in selection with a case study. Chapter 3 is on new developments in the ceramic and refractory fields. Chapter 4 describes the phase equilibriums in ceramic and refractory systems and outlines the three important systems, namely, unary, binary, and ternary. Corrosion of ceramics and refractories is the subject of Chapter 5. Chapter 6 discusses failures in ceramics and refractories. Design aspects are covered in Chapter 7. 

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