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W. H. Avery, R. W. Blevins, G. L. Dugyer, and E. J. Francis, Executive Summary—Maritime and Construction Aspects of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Plant Ships, Apphed Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Apr. 1976. 

Development The following discussion relates specifically to the use of what could be called radial-inflow, centrifugal-pump power-recovery turbines. It does not apply to the type of unit nurtured by the hydroelecti ic industry for the 1 ge-horsepower, large-flow, low- to medium-pressure differential area of hydraulic water turbines of the Felton or Francis runner type. There seems to have been little direct transfer of design concepts between these two fields the major manufacturers in the hydroelectric field have thus far made no effort to sell to the process industries, and the physical arrangement of their units, developed from the requirements of the hydroelectric field, is not suitable to most process-plant applications. 

Kletz, T.A. (1998) Process Plants A Handbook of Inherently Safer Design, Taylor and Francis Inc. 

Dardel, Francis de. Some Principles of Ion-Exchange Plant Design. Ultrapure Water, Tall Oaks Publishing, Inc., USA, October 1999. 

The cell division cycle in plants. Edited by J.A. Bryant and D. Francis... 

T. Kletz, Process Plants A Handbook for Inherently Safe Design , Taylor Francis, London, 1998. 

Harbome, J.B., Phytochemical Dictionary A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants, Taylor Francis, London, 1999. 

Andersen, 0.M. and Francis, G.W., in Plant Pigments and Their Manipulation, Davis, K.M., Ed., Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2004, chap. 10. 

R. Francis and D. J. Read, The contributions of mycorrhizal fungi to the determination of plant community structure, Managemeni of mycorrhizus in agriculture, horticulture and forestry (A. D. Robson, L. K. Abbott, and N. Malajc7.uk, eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, pp. 11-25. 

Distribution of241 Am in a dialysis system containing sediment, phytoplankton, and detrital matter established that a substantial amount of americium accumulated in all three phases both in fresh and marine waters (NRC 1981). The adsorption process was not reversible and the longer the americium was adsorbed, the more difficult the chemical was to desorb. Appreciable amounts of americium have been shown to adsorb to bacterial cells such as those found in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico (Francis et al. 1998). There is a potential that americium attached to biocolloids may facilitate its transport from the waste site. 

Figure 4.1. Removal of carbonate from Israeli arid soils as indicated by the X-ray diffractograms after extraction of the carbonate fraction by NaOAc-HOAc solutions at various pHs for 16 hours. C calcite d = 3.04 A, and D dolomite, d = 2.89 A. Number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 indicate non-treated soil (No. 1), treatments (No. 2-6) with NaOAc-HOAc solutions at pH 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0 and 4.0, respectively (after Han and Banin, 1995. Reprinted from Commun Soil Sci Plant Anal, 26, Han and Banin A., Selective sequential dissolution techniques for trace metals in arid-zone soils The carbonate dissolution step, p 563, Copyright (1995), with permission from Taylor Francis US)...

Figure 4.2. Dissolution of Ca from Israeli arid soils by NaOAc-HOAc solutions at various pHs after the extraction of the exchangeable fraction (after Han and Banin, 1995. Reprinted from Commun Soil Sci Plant Anal, 26, Han and Banin A., Selective sequential dissolution techniques for trace metals in arid-zone soils The carbonate dissolution step, p 568, Copyright (1995), with permission from Taylor Francis US)...

Figure 6.1. The fractional loading isotherms of Cu in a contaminated Israeli loessial soil at an initial (one hour) period and after 48 weeks. The soil was treated with increasing levels of metal nitrates and was incubated under the field capacity regime. Horizonal solid line represents the native content of Cu in the nonamended soil (Figure 6.1 - Figure 6.4, after Han and Banin, 2001. Reprinted from Commun Soil Sci Plant Anal, 32, Han F.X and Banin A.,The fractional loading isotherm of heavy metals in an arid-zone soil, pp 2700-2703, Copyright (2001), with permission from Taylor Francis)...

Fresquez P.R., Francis R.E., Dennis G.L. Sewage sludge effects on soil and plant quality in a degraded, semiarid grassland. J Environ Qual 1990 19 324-329. 

Figure 7.1. Elovich model (b), respectively. Soils were incubated under the saturation paste regime (modified after Han et al., 2002b. Reprinted from J Environ Sci Health, Part A, 137, Han F.X., Banin A., Kingery W.L., Li Z.P., Pathways and kinetics of transformation of cobalt among solid-phase components in arid-zone soils, p 192, Copyright (2003), with permission from Taylor Francis). Trace element concentrations in plants on California Donimo soil (pH 7.5) amended with metal sulfate-enriched sludge (Data from Mitchell et al., 1978).

Francis SA, Dewey FM, Gurr SJ (1996) Physiol Mol Plant Pathol 49 201... 

Harborne JB, Baxter H, Moss GP (1999) Phytochemical dictionary a handbook of bioactive compounds from plants, 2nd edn. Taylor Francis, London, pp 976 Hiltunen LH, White JG (2002) Cavity spots of carrot (Daucus carota). Ann Appl Biol 141 201-223... 

Altieri MA, Liebman MZ (1986) Insect, weeds and plant disease management in multiple cropping systems. In Francis CA (ed) Multiple cropping systems. MacMillan, New York, pp 183-218... 

The principle ways of designing inherently safer plants, and other ways of making plants user-friendly, are summarized below, with examples (Kletz, Process Plants A Handbook for Inherently Safer Design, Taylor Francis, 1998). 

Kletz, T.A. 1998. Plant Design for Safety. Philadelphia Taylor and Francis. 

Application of radiolabeled mirex to plants grown in a terrestrial/aquatic laboratory model ecosystem indicated that when the plant leaves were eaten by caterpillars, the aquatic system became contaminated. Mirex was detected in all segments of two aquatic food chains (alga > snail and plankton > daphnia > mosquito > fish) within 33 days. Undegraded mirex contributed to over 98.6, 99.4, 99.6, and 97.9% of the radiolabel in fish, snails, mosquitoes, and algae, respectively. No metabolites of mirex were found in any of the organisms (Francis and Metcalf 1984 Metcalf et al. 1973). 

Foyer, C.H., The contribution of photos5mthetic oxygen metabolism to oxidative stress in plants, in Oxidative Stress in Plants, Inze, D. and van Montagu, M., Eds., Taylor Francis, London, 2002, 33. 

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