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Eor pesticides to leach to groundwater, it may be necessary for preferential flow through macropores to dominate the sorption processes that control pesticide leaching to groundwater. Several studies have demonstrated that large continuous macropores exist in soil and provide pathways for rapid movement of water solutes. Increased permeabiUty, percolation, and solute transport can result from increased porosity, especially in no-tiUage systems where pore stmcture is stiU intact at the soil surface (70). Plant roots are important in creation and stabilization of soil macropores (71). 

Production. World production of raw steel, largely continuously cast, is shown in Table 6. U.S. production has approached 9.0 x 10 t/yi") over 90% of which is continuously cast. The amount melted in electric furnaces approached 40% and in 1995 was stiU increasing. 

The float glass manufacturing process was developed by PHkington Brothers Ltd. of England in 1959. It starts with a large continuous tank furnace... 

Most petrochemical processes are essentially enclosed and normally vent only a small amount of fugitive emissions. However, the petrochemical processes that use air-oxidation-type reactions normally vent large, continuous amounts of gaseous emissions to the atmosphere (10). Six major petrochemical processes employ reactions using air oxidation. Table 30-5 lists the atmospheric emissions from these processes along with applicable control measures. 

While startup and shutdown occur relatively infrequently in large continuous plants, they are inherent in batch plant operation. Most startup and shutdown procedures, whether devised empirically or theoretically, are designed to follow a recipe of actions with no feedback. Thus, if upsets occur, there is often no way to change the startup or shutdown in time to avoid imwanted process exclusions. Procedures are needed that incorporate feedback and adaptive techniques to the problem of plant startup and shutdown. 

Similar observations can be made on other installation factors - for example, stractures and building. While traditionally (large) continuous plants are built outdoors and (small) batch plants indoors, it may not necessarily imply that small and intermediate-scale continuous plants should follow this mle. Product containment and contamination requirements may dictate the need for an enclosed manufacturing environment, meaning that little saving in capital may be realized. 

Maintenance may be handled either by employees hired especially for that job or by an outside contractor. The latter is most economical when workers in most trades are needed only occasionally. The company does not need to hire these workers full time, but still has their talents available when they are needed. Even in a large plant where a number of employees skilled in each maintenance trade are needed full time, contract maintenance may be used as a supplement at times of turnarounds (a planned time when large continuous plants are shut down to do preventive maintenance, repairs, and inspections) or especially heavy demands. For instance, during the turnaround of a 140,000 bbl/day (22,000 m3/day) Tidewater Oil Company refinery, the number of maintenance personnel rose from a preshutdown level of 181 to 924 men.48 Fewer men could have been used, but the downtime of the refinery would have been increased. In this instance the plant contracted for all of its maintenance. 

Most glass is melted in large (continuous) tanks that can melt 400 00 t a day for production of other glass products. The process is continuous with the raw materials fed into one end as molten glass is removed from the other end. Once the process (called a campaign) is begun it is continued indefinitely, night and day, often for several years until the demand is met or the furnace breaks down. 

The third and final step in both cases consisted of operating the column or tower continuously with a constant feed and constant draw-off of products. In distillation this step is represented by the large continuous fractionating columns now used in many petroleum and chemical plants. In adsorption it is represented by the Hypersorption process (8, 4, 28, 29). 

Is the cooling system designed for a large, continuous process application, such as oil, steel, pulp and paper, or petrochemical Is there a risk of oil, ammonia, or sulfur compounds leaking into the system Are there problems of black slime and under-deposit corrosion Who makes the water treatment decisions on-site Is it the laboratory, utilities, production, or all departments collectively Will the customer look for training support ... 

The main effort on Forest Service lands will be directed at the 32,000 acres of pine that have been identified as susceptible to beetles and on operable terrain. Plans call for harvesting of the mature and overmature susceptible pines over a 15- to 30-year period. In order to limit the impact on the recreational and esthetic qualities, small clearcuts and patch cuts will be the common treatment used to break up the large continuous areas of susceptible trees into smaller areas. Immature stands will be thinned to prevent stagnation and reduce future susceptiblity. 

There are many different reactor designs but the two most commonly used are fixed bed and batch slurry phase. For a fixed bed reactor a given volume of solid particulate or monolith supported catalyst is fixed in a heated tube located within a furnace and liquid and/or gaseous reactants flow through the bed. This type of process is commonly used for large continuous-volume production where the reactor is dedicated to making only one product such as a bulk chemical or petroleum product. 

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