Dedicated Solutions

The basic features of a typical Cannon double-arm pour robot, normally supplied to 

Each mould carrier is usually provided with two pneumatic cylinders for opening and closing. Upon demand, the closing system can be actuated hydraulically or mechanically. 

Mould identification - necessary in order to transmit the appropriate mould/formulation information to the dosing system - is achieved with a code reader. The electrical controls 

As stated previously, the lower half of the mould carrier is composed of two independent platens. They are fitted with a guiding system to ensure maximum parallelism between the platens. 

In order to ensure equal clamping pressure and complete closure of the moulds over the entire parting line, pneumatically inflated tubes stroke each platen. They are inflated after the monld carrier has been closed and deflated just before opening. The total stroke is a few centimetres. The clamping force afforded by this system is 12,700 kg, using a working pressure for the air bags of 0.3 MPa. 

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The term is used where such a combination may be beneficial compared with dedicated solutions (including synergies achieved). It can highlight several areas in which it operates ... 

Much labor has been dedicated to establishing a common technique enabling one to solve the problem of choice. Some solutions suggested are useful, others are less efficient. Below we shall examine the most prominent ones. 

Ammonia from coal gasification has been used for fertilizer production at Sasol since the beginning of operations in 1955. In 1964 a dedicated coal-based ammonia synthesis plant was brought on stream. This plant has now been deactivated, and is being replaced with a new faciUty with three times the production capacity. Nitric acid is produced by oxidation and is converted with additional ammonia into ammonium nitrate fertilizers. The products are marketed either as a Hquid or in a soHd form known as Limestone Ammonium Nitrate. Also, two types of explosives are produced from ammonium nitrate. The first is a mixture of fuel oil and porous ammonium nitrate granules. The second type is produced by emulsifying small droplets of ammonium nitrate solution in oil. 

The estimated world production capacity for hydrazine solutions is 44,100 t on a N2H4 basis (Table 6). About 60% is made by the hypochlorite—ketazine process, 25% by the peroxide—ketazine route, and the remainder by the Raschig and urea processes. In addition there is anhydrous hydrazine capacity for propellant appHcations. In the United States, one plant dedicated to fuels production (Olin Corp., Raschig process), has a nominal capacity of 3200 t. This facihty also produces the two other hydrazine fuels, monomethyUiydrazine and unsymmetrical dimethyUiydrazine. Other hydrazine fuels capacity includes AH in the PRC, Japan, and Russia MMH in France and Japan and UDMH in France, Russia, and the PRC. 

The obvious solution to the limitations imposed by shared bus communications is to fully connect each processor to all other processors via dedicated pathways. The problem is that the number of such pathways grows rapidly, N N — l)/2, where N is the number of processors. The inherent costs and complexity of such a system render it an impractical solution for large-scale parallel computing. 

While serious research of the behavior of CA systems demands the use of dedicated hardware, the often high cost of such hardware sometimes prevents its acquisition, particularly by young researchers and graduate students just entering this field of study. It is therefore important to realize that there are many excellent software-only solutions that can often be used very effectively for research. While the list provided below is by no means exhaustive, it gives some idea of the kind of packages that are currently available either commercially or via anonymous ftp over the Internet. 

Piloting (http //www.montell.com/montell/ products/p-pilo.html) Montell is able to test new materials and combinations in dedicated laboratory facilities. Montell s development facilities allow testing of new solutions without committing full scale industrial resources. 

Finally, the introduction of focused microwave instruments further enabled to speed up the synthesis of libraries, by reducing the actual time needed for reaction [28-34]. The combination of using dedicated microwave instruments and sohd or solution phase tagging subsequently became a very powerful tool for PASP and SPOS apphcations [25,26,33-51]. 

Rinard dedicated his research to a detailed analysis of methodological aspects of a micro-reactor plant concept which he also termed mini-plant production [85] (see also [4, 9, 10] for a commented, short description). Important criteria in this concept are JIT (Just-in-time) production, zero holdup, inherent safety, modularity and the KISS (keep it simple, stupid) principle. Based on this conceptual definition, Rinard describes different phases in plant development. Essential for his entire work is the pragmatic way of finding process solutions, truly of hybrid character ]149] (miniaturization only where really needed). Recent investigations are concerned with the scalability of hybrid micro-reactor plants and the limits thereof ]149], Expliddy he recommends jointly using micro- and meso-scale components. 

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