Penalty elements

The economic importance of an ore deposit itself is largely affected by mineral or metal prices. Mine closures and reopenings are a common event in the mineral iadustry for this reason. Economics can also be affected by the ore composition, for example, by unacceptable levels of penalty elements ia the ore. The assessment of overall economics of exploiting a given ore deposit is similar to that for any large-scale industry. The various cost components are those associated with equipment, labor, utiUties, contingencies, operation and production, transportation, working capital, suppHes, maintenance. 

The analyses to be reported here were obtained by means of isoparametric penalty elements developed at M.I.T. and incorporated within the finite element analysis program FEAP listed in the text by Zienkiewicz (2). The element formulation will be des-... 

Also of major importance is the content of piecions metals, particularly silver, which contributes significant value, and the presence of the critical impurity elements arsenic, antimony and bismuth, which attract cost penalties. Smelters often have a limited capacity to remove penalty elements within the lead bullion refining operation, and hence need to balance the intake of impurities so as to remain within various capacity limitations. This can often require careful blending of a range of feed concentrates to obtain the optimum feed mix. 

Net mine revenues derived from each metal must also take account of any treatment or refining charges payable to smelters for processing the concentrate. Lead (and zinc) concentrate treatment chatges involve a complex formula based on payable metal content, the presence of credit or penalty elements, prevailing metal prices, differing payment terms and several other components (see Chapter 15). Most individual mines will be... 

At primary refineries (whether thermal or electrolytic), silver and gold are valuable by-products. Copper is easUy removed from bullion and will normally be sold in matte or speisse form. Arsenic, antimony, tin, bismuth and some other minor metals may also arise as by-products at electrolytic refineries, but this is not widespread. Their removal is costly, and where a saleable by-product is not produced, they are considered penalty elements (see Appendix B for details of recent price trends in minor metal by-products). At secondary smelter/refineries the trend is similarly towards increased by-product recovery. As weU as antimony, the key materials here are plastic (or polypropylene), and less commonly sodium sulphate (for detergent manufacture). 

FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING OF POLYMERIC FLOW PROCESSES The continuous penalty technique... 

The use of selectively reduced integration to obtain accurate non-trivial solutions for incompressible flow problems by the continuous penalty method is not robust and failure may occur. An alternative method called the discrete penalty technique was therefore developed. In this technique separate discretizations for the equation of motion and the penalty relationship (3.6) are first obtained and then the pressure in the equation of motion is substituted using these discretized forms. Finite elements used in conjunction with the discrete penalty scheme must provide appropriate interpolation orders for velocity and pressure to satisfy the BB condition. This is in contrast to the continuous penalty method in which the satisfaction of the stability condition is achieved indirectly through... 

Kheshgi, H. S. and Scriven, L. E., 1985. Variable penalty method for finite element analysis of incompressible flow. Int. J. Numer. Methods Fluids 5, 785-803. 

After application of Green s theorem to the second-order velocity derivatives (to reduce inter-element continuity requirement) and algebraic manipulations the working equations of the continuous penalty scheme are obtained as... 

In conjunction with the discrete penalty schemes elements belonging to the Crouzeix-Raviart group arc usually used. As explained in Chapter 2, these elements generate discontinuous pressure variation across the inter-element boundaries in a mesh and, hence, the required matrix inversion in the working equations of this seheme can be carried out at the elemental level with minimum computational cost. 

Temperature variations are found by the solution of the energy equation. I he finite element scheme used in this example is based on the implicit 0 time-stepping/continuous penalty scheme described in detail in Chapter 4, Section 5. 

Solution of the flow equations has been based on the application of the implicit 0 time-stepping/continuous penalty scheme (Chapter 4, Section 5) at a separate step from the constitutive equation. The constitutive model used in this example has been the Phan-Thien/Tanner equation for viscoelastic fluids given as Equation (1.27) in Chapter 1. Details of the finite element solution of this equation are published elsewhere and not repeated here (Hou and Nassehi, 2001). The predicted normal stress profiles along the line AB (see Figure 5.12) at five successive time steps are. shown in Figure 5.13. The predicted pattern is expected to be repeated throughout the entire domain. 

The dynamics of inter- vs intrastrand hole transport has also been the subject of several theoretical investigations. Bixon and Jortner [38] initially estimated a penalty factor of ca. 1/30 for interstrand vs intrastrand G to G hole transport via a single intervening A T base pair, based on the matrix elements computed by Voityuk et al. [56]. A more recent analysis by Jortner et al. [50] of strand cleavage results reported by Barton et al. [45] led to the proposal that the penalty factor depends on strand polarity, with a factor of 1/3 found for a 5 -GAC(G) sequence and 1/40 for a 3 -GAC(G) sequence (interstrand hole acceptor in parentheses). The origin of this penalty is the reduced electronic coupling between bases in complementary strands. 

The final element which influenced the room shape selection was volumetric efficiency. To provide a given room floor area and overhead clearance requires a much larger volume for a shell of revolution than is required by a more typical rectangular-shaped room. The unusable extra floor space and volume to be ventilated in a spherical or cylindrical shell are significant penalties. 

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B. M. A. Rahman, and J. B. Davies, Penalty function improvement of waveguide solution by finite element, IEEE Transactions Microwave Theory and Techniques 32, 922-928 (1984). 

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