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Industrial analysis of hydrocarbon gases 25 years ago was limited almost to Orsat-type absorptions and combustion, resulting in crude approximations and inadequate qualitative information. The more precise method of Shepherd (56) was available but too tedious for frequent use. A great aid to the commercial development of hydrocarbon gas processes of separation and synthesis was the development and commercialization of high efficiency analytical gas distillation units by Podbielniak (50). In these the gaseous sample is liquefied by refrigeration, distilled through an efficient vertical packed column, the distillation fractions collected as gas and determined manometrically at constant volume. The operation was performed initially in manually operated units, more recently in substantially automatic assemblies. 

Wind is free, but building and maintaining the wind turbines that convert wind energy to electrical energy is not. Over the past 20 years, the reliability and efficiency of wind turbines have improved, resulting in dramatically lower costs for electricity produced from wind power. In the near future look for highly efficient vertical-axis wind turbines in which the blades rotate like a carousel. 

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Hence, if a negative heat flux drives convection, it acts also directly on the thermocline, and provides a more efficient vertical mixing than schemes based on gradient approximations only. Details on the calculation of the turbulent mixing coefficient and the parameter 7 are given in Large et al, (1994) and the hterature cited therein. 

Easily interpretable patterns are observable the first one is an horizontal pattern, located around 15 Hz, and is due to Pilgrim noise. Four regularly spaced vertical patterns are also observable, and shows the detection efficiency. They are due to the presence of the 4 inner circonferential notchs of successive 60%, 40% 20% and 10% deepness notchs. 

Screw presses have been used extensively in North America, but are not popular in Europe. The mash is added at the top of a vertical rotating screw. As the mash moves down it is compressed in the taper and juice flows out through slatted conical walls. Compression of the pomace blocks channels for juice flow and iuhibits juice extraction. Extensive use of press aids is necessary for efficient operation. 

Another thermally efficient kiln is the modem mixed-feed vertical kiln ia which coke is admixed with 8.5—20 cm lump limestone and charged into the top of the vertical kiln by a mobile, overhead charging system. However, use of this kiln is waning since the quaUty of mixed-feed kiln lime does not equal that of the other three kilns described above, owing to ash contamination from the coke and poorer reactivity and to the higher cost of coke in most areas. 

Many kilns that formerly were direct coal-fired or producer-gas verticals were retrofitted to natural gas firing with center-burners and after World War II, dramatically improving lime quaUty, kiln capacity, and fuel efficiency. By the 1960s, this improved vertical kiln had lost favor to rotary and other special kilns because of the supply and cost problems of oil and gas in the United States and the spectacular improvement in rotary kiln performance. Many natural gas-fired center burners were permanently closed and dismanded because they could not be converted to coal. However, the reverse occurred in Europe where the extensive oil and gas discoveries heightened interest in the new, advanced vertical kilns. 

Miscellaneous Kilns. A U.S. kiln, the Fluo-Sohds, appears to be another vertical kiln type, but this is its only similarity. It operates on a different principle. It utilizes as kiln feed only a discrete granulation of 0.225—2.4 mm (65—8 mesh) sizes. DeHcately controlled by air and exhaust gas pressure, the kiln feed of granules is fluidized as a dense suspension. Because it is instmmented, this kiln can produce a very reactive lime at better than average thermal efficiency. The kiln, however, has limited utifity because the cost of obtaining the kiln feed with many hard, compact limestones is prohibitive. 

One of the most efficient implementations of the slurry process was developed by Phillips Petroleum Company in 1961 (Eig. 5). Nearly one-third of all HDPE produced in the 1990s is by this process. The reactor consists of a folded loop with four long (- 50 m) vertical mns of a pipe (0.5—1.0 m dia) coimected by short horizontal lengths (around 5 m) (58—60). The entire length of the loop is jacketed for cooling. A slurry of HDPE and catalyst particles in a light solvent (isobutane or isopentane) circulates by a pump at a velocity of 5—12 m/s. This rapid circulation ensures a turbulent flow, removes the heat of polymeriza tion, and prevents polymer deposition on the reactor walls. 

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