Facilities and plants

On resources The manpower, material, facilities, and plant needed to execute a particular contract shall be established, documented, and agreed with senior management prior to submission of any tender, bid, or offer. The estimate shall include the resources to manage and carry out the work required and in addition the resources required to verify that work has been completed in accordance with the contractual requirements. ... 

The optimal routing of a two-phase flow pipeline was investigated by Shamir (SI). Such pipelines are commonly used to convey both oil and gas from producing wells to collecting facilities and plants. They obviate the necessity for oil-gas separation facilities at the well head, which are sometimes uneconomical or impractical. In this context it is reasonable to assume that the pipeline will operate under the pressure differential naturally available between the source (well) and the point of delivery (refinery) and that the desired flow rate is specified. Hence one constraint on the optimal route is given by... 

Research facilities and plants have also released plutonium to the atmosphere. For example, the Mound Plant in Miamisburg, Ohio, released about 0.03 kCi (1x10 Bq) to the atmosphere from the beginning of its operation through 1976 (NEA/OECD 1981). A commercially operated reprocessing plant in West Valley, New York, has reportedly released 0.000005 kCi (1.7x10 Bq) to the atmosphere over the course of 6 years (NEA/OECD 1981). 

Lewis, B. X, and Matron, J. P., (1973), Facilities and Plant Engineering Handbook, McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 123-148. 

There is a good deal of pubhcly available information concerning incidents that can be of value to all facilities and plants. The public dissemination of accident and incident histories will help all companies improve their safety. For legal reasons, it may be necessary to change some of the information to protect individuals and to keep sensitive industrial information secret, but changing the information in this way is not likely to change the value of the lessons learned. 

Table 9 War damages and dismantling of selected facilities and plants of the chemical industry of the SBZ...

On the eve of the war, particularly after an impending state of war was declared, considerable measures were undertaken in order to prevent chemical disasters. These included moving hazardous and harmful substances away from industrial zones, moving chemicals to several places aroimd industrial facilities and in smaller quantities in order to minimize the consequences of any accident, neutralizing or destroying hazardous and harmful matter, and suspending operations in some facilities and plants that operate with harmful materials. 

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