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While successbil and economical system designs can be devised by experienced process engineers, the competent technical aid available from equipment supphers has led to a growing trend toward the purchase of complete systems, even on small jobs, rather than iu-plaut assembly from components on the basis of in-house designs. An idea of the change in capital investment for typical pneumatic-conveyor systems as a function of increasing transfer rates is given in Table 21-12. 

This powerful effect of prices in conveying information throughout the economic system naturally leads... 

For Economizer System. See Figure 1T48C. Refrigerant flow in the second (or later) stage is the sum of first-stage weight flow plus the weight flow of the vapor flashed from the economizer. ... 

Select the most economic system if the difference in costs is greater than 10 per cent. Otherwise, select the system for which the most experience is available. 

Any system whose top-level behavior is a consequence of the aggregate behavior of lower-level entities - biological systems, neural systems, social systems, economic systems, among many others - can, in principle, be simulated by an agent-based model. 

Chelants should not be used where the design is particularly sensitive to corrosive conditions (e.g., certain economizer systems). 

Some bioreactor systems must be completely protected from microbial contamination, meaning that not a single alien bacterium or virus particle can be allowed to penetrate the system. Reliable and economical systems need to be developed to achieve this level of contamination prevention. Along with the need for prevention is the need to be able to detect contamination at a level of a few microorganisms in a hundred kiloliters of medium. This degree of detection is not yet achievable. Research could vastly improve the crude detection methods that are used today. 

Three attributes characterize color hue, lighmess (or value), and saturation (or chroma) and they are graphically represented in color solids (e.g., Munsell solid. Hunter solid). The Munsell Color Notation is a rapid, portable, widespread, and economical system of color determination. However, as it depends on sensory evaluation by panels, many laboratories prefer when possible to replace human judgment by instrumental techniques that are easier to handle. The CIELAB established by the Commission International d Eclairage (CIE) has become widely used with the availability of reflectance spectrophotometric instrumentation. 

Economic efficiency refers to the use of resources so as to maximize production of goods and services. One economic system is more efficient than another if it can provide more goods and services to society without using more resources. A situation can be called economically efficient if ... 

Pareto efficiency, also known as Pareto optimality, is named after an Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923). The definition of a Pareto efficient economic system is that no re-allocation of given goods can be made without making at least one individual worse off (there is no way to make any person better off without hurting anybody else). Pareto improvement from a non-efficient system is achieved when a change to a different allocation makes at least one individual better off without making any other individual worse off [Varian 47],... 

Environmental economists and ecological economists work in very similar fields but with some differences that it might be useful for the reader to know about. Ecological economics can be defined as the field of study that addresses the relationship between ecosystem and economic systems in the broadest sense [23]. While the ecological economist has a biophysical view of value, the environmental economist states that the value cannot be reduced to a simple physical metric [18]. 

Wegener Sleeswijk A, van Oers LFCM, Guinee JB, Struijs J, Huijbregts MAJ (2008) Normalisation in product life cycle assessment an LCA of the global and European economic systems in the year 2000. Sci Total Environ 390(l) 227-240... 

When washing-off in a jet machine, a combination of liquor exchange and continuous overflow rinsing is advantageous [186]. Optimal rinsing procedures depend on machine parameters and the cost structure of the plant, but in general the most economical system appears to be ... 

The spurred impetus has been given to developing non pollutant vehicles, and consequently, the clean cars driven by the fuel cells loading proton exchange membranes (PEMFC), which based upon Nafion, have been surprisingly developed. A promising less pollutant and economical system is also expected, which will be the on site cogeneration system of electric power and the hot water supply with use of fuel cells combined with city gas pipe-lines. 

An analysis which focuses mainly on individual commodities, as conducted by Marx in much of Capital, volume 1, would not be worthy of such close attention to the type of commodities produced. It would not matter whether it was machines or corn or mirrors (Marx 1978 470). In a partial analysis of individual commodities, the theorist can concentrate specifically upon the production of value. For each individual commodity, an assumption can be made that it will be sold in the market place and that elements of the commodity used up in production will be replaced. But for Marx, this formal manner of presentation is no longer sufficient once we consider the total social capital and the value of its product (ibid. 470). The reproduction of the total social capital requires a consideration of both the value and the use-value of an individual commodity, the use for which it is required in the economic system. 

Marx therefore develops a macroeconomic approach to establishing the conditions under which the economic system can reproduce itself one in which individual commodities are both produced and sold in the market place. To achieve this task, Marx collects industrial activities into two great departments of production. Department 1 produces means of production, capital goods that replace the constant capital (C,) used up in production. Department 2 produces consumption goods that take the form of variable capital (V ,) consumed by workers, and are also consumed by capitalists out of the surplus value (St) extracted from the production process. As a starting point for this analysis, Marx assumes that capitalists consume all of their surplus value. Hence, the system does not grow, since none of the surplus is set aside for capital expansion. All available resources are devoted to either consumption or the renewal of constant capital. This is the case of simple reproduction. 

A different reading of Capital, volume 3, can be suggested, in which questions of realization are the main focus of analysis (see Rosenthal 1999). Thus far, in applying the Kalecki principle to Marx s circulation of money, we have assumed that monetary outlays take place, funding the purchase of all capital and consumption requirements. However, as capital expands, the volume of profits accumulates to such an extent that stringent demands are placed upon the economic system in terms of the amount of money that has to be cast into circulation for realization of these profits. Marx places realization problems at the centre of his analysis of the falling rate of profit. 

Eublic s interest in maintaining a proper balance between the two. We old that a termination by the employer of a contract of employment at will, which is motivated by bad faith or malice or based on retaliation, is not in the best interest of the economic system or the public good and constitutes a breach of the employment contract (7). 

There appear to be a number of ways in which this energy system can be rebuilt. Energy is not an end in itself. We are supplying energy for another more general purpose, - to provide society with the necessities and the luxuries of life. The way in which we use energy is determined in part by the sort of social and economic system we want and of course, the other way about ... 

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