Mississippi

Growth faulted deltaic areas are highly prospective since they comprise of thick sections of good quality reservoir sands. Deltas usually overlay organic rich marine clays which can source the structures on maturation. Examples are the Niger, Baram or Mississippi Deltas. Clays, deposited within deltaic sequences may restrict the water expulsion during the rapid sedimentation / compaction. This can lead to the generation of overpressures. 

Land costs vary enormously both between and within countries. Compare the cost of coastal land in south Florida where it might be possible to consider rearing shrimp with that of Mississippi farmland suitable for catfish farming. The former might be thousands of dollars for every meter of ocean front, while the latter may be obtained for one or two thousand dollars per hectare. 

Mitchell A. Avery John R. Woolfrey University of Mississippi... 

Hard red winter (HRW) is an important bread wheat that accounts for more than 40% of the United States wheat crop and wheat exports. This fall-seeded wheat is produced in the Great Plains, which extend from the Mississippi River west to the Rocky Mountains, and from the Dakotas and Montana south to Texas. Significant quantities are also produced in California. HRW has moderately high protein content, usually averaging 11—12%, and good milling and baking characteristics. 

Nearly all domestic production of U.S. rice is located in the midsouth and California. Arkansas is the leading rice producing state with 40.6% of the national total in 1988. Following Arkansas in order of production share are California (18.5%), Louisiana (15.1%), Texas (14.6%), Mississippi (8.6%), and Missouri (2.6%). 

Cost Fa.ctors, The dehvered costs of the phosphate rock and sulfuric acid raw materials often account for more than 90% of the cost of producing NSP, thus the production cost varies considerably with plant location. Because the rock is richer in P2O5 than is the low analysis NSP product, NSP need not be produced near the phosphate mine. However, deUvery of sulfuric acid and shipment of product to market are important cost factors. Most United States NSP plants have been located east of the Mississippi river, with concentration in the southeastern and extreme southern parts of the country where the largest use of the product has occurred. Production and use of the product also has been high in California. 

Zinc. Zinc deposits in the United States extend from Maine through the Appalachian Mountains, and west through the Mississippi Valley into the Rocky Mountain states. U.S. reserves are estimated to be 27 x t Zn (108). World reserves and resources are 135 and 110 x 10 t, respectively. The... 

Because the highest possible interfacial area is desired for the heterogeneous reaction mixture, advances have also been made in the techniques used for mixing the two reaction phases. Several jet impingement reactors have been developed that are especially suited for nitration reactions (14). The process boosts reaction rates and yields. It also reduces the formation of by-products such as mono-, di-, and trinitrophenol by 50%. First Chemical (Pascagoula, Mississippi) uses this process at its plant. Another technique is to atomize the reactant layers by pressure injection through an orifice nozzle into a reaction chamber (15). The technique uses pressures of typically 0.21—0.93 MPa (30—135 psi) and consistendy produces droplets less than 1 p.m in size. The process is economical to build and operate, is safe, and leads to a substantially pure product. 

Pecans. Pecan is the most important horticultural crop native to North America (163). The United States is the only substantial producer of pecan, despite the fact that pecans have been introduced into AustraUa, Israel, South Africa, and Argentina. The principal producing states, from high to low, are Georgia, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Alabama, Oklahoma, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Arkansas, and California. Domestic production of 135,597 t/yr in 1990—1991 was valued at 308,954,500 (153). 

G. D. L. Morris, "Mississippi s Pro-Business Approach" Cbem. Week (May 27—June 3,1992). 

S. Didikov and co-workers, Water-Borne, Higher-Solids, andTowder Coatings Symposium, University of Southern Mississippi and Southern Society for... 

The documented occurrence of pesticides in surface water is indicative that mnoff is an important pathway for transport of pesticide away from the site of appHcation. An estimated 160 t of atra2ine, 71 t of sima2ine, 56 t of metolachlor, and 18 t of alachlor enter the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River annually as the result of mnoff (47). Field appHcation of pesticides inevitably leads to pesticide contamination of surface mnoff water unless mnoff does not occur while pesticide residues remain on the surface of the soil. The amount of pesticides transported in a field in mnoff varies from site to site. It is controUed by the timing of mnoff events, pesticide formulation, physical—chemical properties of the pesticide, and properties of the soil surface (48). Under worst-case conditions, 10% or more of the appHed pesticide can leave the edge of the field where it was appHed. 

The Mississippi River drains more than 1,125,000 mi of the conterminous United States and integrates the effect on stream water quahty of a large... 

W. S. Thompson, Effect of Chemicals, Chemical Atmospheres, and Contact with Metals on Southern Pine A Review, Research Report 6, Eorest Products Utilisation Laboratories, Mississippi State University, State College, Miss., 1969. 

Pluess-Staufer), and Pfizer Inc. The principal U.S. producers of precipitated products are Mississippi Lime Co. and Pfizer Inc. 

Coal deposits from east of the Mississippi River generally have acidic mineral constituents, ie, they are richer in siUca and alumina and tend to produce higher melting ash mixtures. These materials do not soften until above 1000°C and have limited problems with deposition on the inside walls of the boiler (slagging) or on the superheater tubes inside the boiler (fouling). 

A primary concern in coal-fired power generation is the release of air pollutants. Limits on SO2 output, 0.52 g/MJ equivalent of coal input to a new plant, have been estabflshed. Eor a bituminous coal of 27.9 MJ/kg there is thus an upper limit of 0.72% sulfur content. Relatively few coals can meet this requirement. The U.S. Department of Energy indicated recoverable reserves of 420 x 10 t in 1987 (2) that were categorized by sulfur content 33.5% had 0.6% S or less, 15.4% had between 0.61% and 0.83% S, 16.1% had between 0.84 and 1.67% S, 12.4% had between 1.68 and 2.50% S, and 22.6% had more than 2.5% S. The lowest sulfur coal, 86%, is found west of the Mississippi River, mainly in Montana and Wyoming, quite distant from the electric power demand centers in the East. A trend to utilization of the western coals has developed. 

In the mid-1970s, a test program to eradicate the boU weevil, carried out on an 8100-ha (81-km ) region of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, to plans for beltwide eradication of this devastating pest (8). The pest could be eliminated from the United States by the year 2015. 

Hercules and B. F. Goodrich are no longer in the polyether manufacturing business. In 1986, Hercules sold its polyether elastomer operation to B. F. Goodrich, which, after operating it for several years, in turn sold it and their whole specialty elastomer division to Zeon Chemicals USA, Inc., in 1989 (14). Zeon Chemicals USA, Inc., is a subsidiary of the Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd. At the present time, manufacture of polyethers is done by Zeon Chemicals in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Nippon Zeon in Tokuyama, Japan, and Daiso in Mizushima, Japan. Total production is estimated to be 13,000 to 15,000 tons per year. 

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