Consumer products configured

Applications Major application areas of LC-MS technology are pharmaceuticals (up to (LC-PDA-ESP)4-MS configurations), environmental protection (metal spe-ciation), food industry, biotechnology, petrochemicals and consumer products. Many of the additives used in plastics production are insufficiently volatile to be analysed by GC-MS, and are more readily analysed by LC-MS. Similarly, some oligomers are not readily... 

When classifying chemical products, Seider et al. [3] identify three categories (1) basic chemicals (commodity and specialty chemicals, bio-materials, and polymeric materials) (2) industrial chemicals (films, fibers, paper,. ..) and (3) configured consumer products (dialysis devices, post-it notes, transparencies, drug delivery patches,. ..). In the manufacture of epitaxial silicon wafers, a thin film of crystalline silicon is often deposited on a polished crystalline silicon... 

Refining is considered a dirty processing effort. Product separation of refined product streams is not as clean as efforts to process petrochemicals. Refiners have the flexibility to blend final fuel products. Thus, there is no exact recipe used by all refiners to produce consumer products. Multiple crude oils are processed and then blended to meet consumer fuel product specifications. Table 18.1 lists the refining streams that are blended to produce consumer products. The consumer products are familiar. However, within a refinery these products are blended from portions of crude oil fractions from the listed reforming process units. To complicate the situation further, not all refineries are configured identically. Many different processing operations can be used to refine and separate product streams to blend the products listed in Table 18.1. 

The calendar pack and monthly cost to the consumer not only position the product toward enhanced consumer acceptance but also toward better patient compliance, especially with expensive medications. In contrast, inhalation aerosol units, because of their pattern of chronic use, frequently contain sufficient doses to last several months. Suffice it to note, it behooves the marketing unit to work with financial analysts to determine the optimal product configuration and cost profile that maximizes consumer acceptance and convenience, unit turns, profits, and resources. 

Be knowledgeable about many of the steps in designing configured industrial and consumer products. 

In this second edition, the scope of Part One is broadened to include the idea-generation stage in designing new chenucal products, and the search for chemicals or chemical mixtures that have the desired properties and performance. When a process is required to produce the chemicals, the steps in process design are covered, expanded beyond those presented in the first edition. When configured industrial or consumer products are needed, with or without a new chemical process, the steps in detailed product design are covered with many examples... 

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