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Japan is an important market for AOS with a 1990 AOS consumption of 35,000 tonnes North America and Europe together consumed 22,000 tonnes of AOS in that year with the remaining 21,000 tonnes being taken up by India and South Korea [12]. India in particular represents a major future market for the consumption of AOS. 

Auxiliary power units are devices that can provide all or part of the non-propulsion power for vehicles. Such units are already in widespread use in a range of vehicle types and for a variety of applications, in which they provide a number of potential benefits (see Figure 1-10). Although each of these applications could provide attractive future markets for fuel cells, this section will focus on application to on-road vehicles (specifically trucks). 

Just how much methane is going to be in the market in the future Just what is going to be the impact of the Coal Conversion Act which, simply stated, requires that industries and electric utilities shall not build new facilities to burn natural gas or to burn petroleum What is the future market for methane ... 

HAMPTON CORNEIL has been a senior advisor for Exxon Enterprises Inc., an affiliate responsible for developing diversification opportunities for Exxon. Since 1975, he has been concerned with opportunities in energy conversion and storage. As a part of this effort, he has conducted various studies concerned with future markets for hydrogen. 

However, it is in the possible future markets for methanol that this commodity s major growth potential lies. Figure 9 depicts methanols unique versatility in todays energy picture. 

We have noted earlier that a refiner or fuel processor must live in an uncertain environment. He is subject to the vagaries of the supply of crude, the requirements of the market, and the perpetual question of the future markets for residual fuel. We have developed a processing approach—using the H-Oil process— which provides the degree of flexibility necessary to cope with this uncertain environment. A schematic flow diagram of such a multi-purpose plant is shown in Figure 8. The basic feature of this plant, which has been designed for the production of 0.3% sulfur fuel oil from various atmospheric residues, is its flexibility with respect to feedstock, product specifications, and future alternative uses of the plant. 

Fig. 2.3. Applications and future markets for nanoparticles and quantum dots.

As there are currently no retail markets for either hydrogen transportation fuel or fuel cell vehicles (FCVs), any discussion of such markets necessarily prospects the future. Such a task is inherently uncertain—many forecasts have been wrong even in mature markets. We undertake this risky enterprise by framing the discussion of future markets for hydrogen and FCVs around two questions. First, what is the history and future of mobility Second, within this future, why would anyone buy an FCV ... 

Future markets for biomedical microdevices for human genome studies, drug discovery and delivery in the pharmaceutical industry, clinical diagnostics, and analytical chemistry are enormous (tens of billions of U.S. dollars).In the following sections, major bioMEMS applications and microfluidics relevant to bioMEMS applications are briefly introduced. Because of the very large volume of publications on this subject, only selected papers or review articles are referenced in this entry. 

Rigby, D., 1995. Present and Future Markets for Sports—and Leisurewear. World Sports... 

The demand for electric energy is increasing in industrialized as well as in developing countries. Therefore, electricity production from biomass is often seen as one of the most important future markets for biomass worldwide. The same is also true, in principle, for the production of transportation fuels from biomass (see Chapter 8). 

The EU chemical industiy looks to China as the principal future market for its products, seeing that its dramatic growth will require imports to supplement domestic production for many years to come. Western European countries are finding that their domestic demand for chemicals has steadily slowed, influenced by the lack of population growth this puts emphasis on export and outsourcing to sustain the existing European-based chemical industiy. 

Capacity. The capacity of pultrusion equipment is steadily increasing and the future market for pultruded product may be in profiles much larger than anything possible with traditional materials such as aluminum or rolled steel sizes. The Goldsworthy Pulmaster is designed to produce profiles up to 90 cm wide and 60 cm high. 

Particularly, the mechanical reinforcement of polymer based structural components as well as the possibility to establish electrical conductivity or electrostatic charge dissipation capabilities are in the focus of interest. Nevertheless, successful development of future markets for polymer-carbon nanotube composites depends on an adequate price level of CNTs as well as other factors. To obtain products with tailored properties in a maintained quality, it is necessary to control the morphology along the whole processing chain, starting from the composite preparation up to the finally shaped component. 

PNC sales. Asia Pacific and the rest of the worlds (RoW) are expected to be strong future markets for nanocomposites with growing industrialization and infrastructure. Asia Pacific is expected to show the highest growth in demand and the market for nanocomposites is forecast to grow at a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of 18.8% between 2012 and 2018 [5]. 

Review of Nuclear Power in the UK. The formal position regarding the future of nuclear power in the UK is that it will be subject to a review in 1994. However, this debate has to some extent been brought forward by the investigations into the future market for coal in the UK. 

There is much controversy over the relationship between futures markets, speculative activity and price volatility. Some writers suggest that futures markets not only allow individual uncertainty to be reduced by hedging, but that an active (or liquid) futures market for a commodity will tend to reduce inherent price volatility. At the same time however, a minimum degree of price volatility is essential for ensuring the success of a futures market in a commodity, and for attracting speculators to it. 

At present, there are about 0.6 billion cars all over the world, with a predicted future market for power sources worth over US 150 billion. 

The report may find some potential application of PBT nanocomposites as high strength fibers after property optimization. It is also expected that the PBT nanocomposite will replace PBT, though this requires improved thermal and mechanical properties in comparison to PBT for the applications where general purpose grade PBT cannot be used. In particular, the automobile industry may be expected to be one of the important future markets for PBT nanocomposites. 

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