Emergence, delayed

All areas of the plant must be accessible to emergency personnel and equipment during emergencies. Delays in providing emergency treatment must be minimized. 

Two factors emerged to turn the focus of durable press the discovery that incorporation of a level of nylon or polyester in the fabric can substantially increase the garments abrasion resistance, and the reali2ation that the marketplace preferred cotton—polyester blends in delayed cure operations, even though 85% cotton—15% nylon fabric yields a suitable product. The 50% cotton—50% polyester fabric seemed particularly appropriate because it contained sufficient ceUulosic to benefit from a chemical finish and sufficient synthetic to provide strength and abrasion resistance. 

Although delayed cure cotton was the primary impetus in the rise to durable-press performance, the emergence of DP blends had the effect of reducing the importance of a tme delayed cure. The industry tended to revert back to precure fabrics and the utilisation of hot-head presses to set in creases, using the thermoplastic characteristics of the synthetic components as weU as a touch of recure from the hot-head presses. 

The effect of differential inflation on this project emerges in Fig. 9-35, with all (NPV)s corrected to their purchasing power in Year 0. The top line shows (NPV) for various rates of general inflation. The bottom line shows (NPV) for the differential-inflation case in which only the costs are allowed to increase while product selling price and thus cash income remain constant from year to year. The middle hne shows the effect of general inflation when the price rises are delayed by I year. The figure confirms that both of these situations take away from the attractiveness of the project. 

In this introductory chapter, I shall focus on the institutional beginnings of materials science, and materials engineering as well indeed, MSE became an accepted abbreviation at quite an early stage. Following an examination, in Chapter 2, of the earlier emergence of some related disciplines, the intellectual antecedents to and development of materials science in its early stages are treated in Chapter 3. The field made its first appearance in USA, and for a number of years developed only in that country. Its development elsewhere was delayed by at least a decade. 

Recognize the effects of stress in case of emergencies. The actual emergency probably will differ considerably from those practiced. The reluctance to acknowledge that the emergency exists is a well-known cause of delayed response. Complex decisions are doomed to failure... 

Emergency maintenance is that work which is required to be performed without delay due to a failure of a component which, if not implemented, would lead to further failures or even permanent damage, resulting in the total loss of the plant and equipment. Plant and equipment in such a condition may also be dangerous to personnel. 

Although not typically life-threatening, spinal cord compression is a true oncologic emergency because delays in treatment by mere hours may lead to permanent neurologic dysfunction. It is therefore incumbent on practitioners to... 

Emergency procedures Delayed-action casualty agent. 

Alarms are used to alert operators of serious, and potentially hazardous, deviations in process conditions. Key instruments are fitted with switches and relays to operate audible and visual alarms on the control panels and annunciator panels. Where delay, or lack of response, by the operator is likely to lead to the rapid development of a hazardous situation, the instrument would be fitted with a trip system to take action automatically to avert the hazard such as shutting down pumps, closing valves, operating emergency systems. 

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