Japanese refuse

PUR OX System Demonstration Test on Simulated Japanese Refuse... 

Since Japanese refuse contains a higher proportion of household garbage, its moisture content is higher than that of its U.S. counterpart. Additionally, its plastic content has been increasing in recent years. A comparison of Japanese and U.S, refuse is given in Table I. 

Using the PUROX System pilot plant of Union Carbide located at Tonawanda, New York, U. S. A., Showa Denko conducted a demonstration test on simulated Japanese refuse from June through August, 1978, after making some modifications of the plant. An overall view of the pilot plant appears in Figure 3. The purpose of the demonstration was to achieve the following three objectives. 

To conduct tests on simulated Japanese refuse and thereby collect additional data to supplement those obtained on U.S. refuse, in order to obtain the technical approval of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) of Japan for the PUROX System,... 

Simulated Japanese refuse A - High Moisture B - Intermediate moisture C - Standard moisture D - Low Moisture... 

Figure 4. Quality of Japanese refuse and simulated Japanese refuse...

A comparison of the pyrolysis gas obtained with Japanese standard refuse and with U.S. refuse (dry gas base) is given in Table III, It is apparent that higher percentage of water and CO2 in the gas are obtained in the case of Japanese refuse and that the heating value per unit volume of the dry gas obtained is lower,... 

The few explosions did not seem a miracle of deliverance to the civilians of the enemy cities upon whom the bombs would be dropped. In their behalf—surely they have claim—something more might be said about reasons. The bombs were authorized not because the Japanese refused to surrender but because they refused to surrender unconditionally. The debacle of conditional peace following the First World War led to the demand for unconditional surrender in the Second, the earlier conflict casting its dark shadow down the years. It was the insistence on unconditional surrender that was the root of all evil, writes the Oxford moralist G. E. M. An-scombe in a 1957 pamphlet opposing the awarding of an honorary degree to Harry Truman. The connection between such a demand and the need to use the most ferocious methods of warfare will be obvious. And in itself the proposal of an unlimited objective in war is stupid and barbarous. ... 

My cryonicist friends refuse to give up hope that memories still reside in the brain cell interconnections and chemistry, much of which can be preserved. Maybe they are right. After all, far back in the 1950s, hamster brains were partially frozen and revived by British researcher Audrey Smith. If hamster brains can function after being frozen, why can t ours In the 1960s, Japanese researcher Isamu Suda froze cat brains for a month and then thawed them. Some brain activity persisted. ... 

The ignition weight loss figures, which show the percentages of uncombusted materials, for both the Japanese and the U.S. refuse are substantially lower than the standard Japanese values obtained with the conventional stoker type incinerator, which are below 10 wt.% for a furnace of less than 200 Mg/d and below 7% for a furnace of more than 200 Mg/d. 

Furthermore, it was confirmed that addition of limestone to the refuse as the neutralization agent reduces the volume of HC1 in the off-gas to about 60%. Further study is required, however, of the relationship between the HC1 removal rate and the amount of limestone added and of the method of such addition as well. With the exception of its particulates, off-gas from the Dry Process PUROX System can satisfy Japanese national emission and effluent standards without any special treatment. 

If we reduce the number of actual failures, we will automatically reduce the number of both internal and external failures. This modern approach to quality, spearheaded by Japanese workers (1) but now formally applied over a much wider area (8), consists of prevention of failure rather than its detection. The idea is a simple one - to avoid refusing a product it is enough at the production stage to control the process in such a way that the manufactured product is as close as possible to the desired product. 

The definition of industrial application included in the Japanese patent law is similar to that imposed by the EPO in the EPC [72]. However, the fact that Japanese patent applications are rarely refused for lack of industrial application suggests that Japan s application of this criterion may be less stringent than that of the EPO. 

Whether bestiality, fanaticism, or heroism, the refusal of Japanese soldiers to surrender required new tactics and strong stomachs to defeat. In his best-selling 1943 book Guadalcanal Diary war correspondent Richard Tre-gaskis reported those tactics from the first land battles of the Pacific war at Guadalcanal... 

LeMay officially took command on January 20. He had 345 B-29 s in the Marianas and more arriving. He had 5,800 officers and 46,000 enlisted men. And he had all Hansell s problems to solve the Jet stream the terrible Japanese weather, seven days of visual bombing a month with luck and not much weather prediction because the Soviets refused to cooperate from Siberia, whence the weather came B-29 engines that overheated and burned out while straining up the long climb to altitude indifferent bombing ... 

When the 7th Australian Division landed near Balikpapan on the island of Borneo last month they found a town strongly defended by Japanese. As usual, the enemy fought from caves, from pillboxes, from every available hiding place. And, as usual, there was only one way to advance against them burn them out. Men of the 7th, who had fought the Japs before, quickly applied their flamethrowers, soon convinced some Japs that it was time to quit. Others, like the one shown here, refused. So they had to be burned out. 

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