Plants of Australia

S.L. Everest, in Poisonous Plants of Australia (Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1974) p. 357. 

J.H. Maiden, Useful Native Plants of Australia, Turner and Henderson, Sydney, 1889. 

Everist, S. L. 1981. Poisonous Plants of Australia. London Angus and Robertson. 966 pp. 

An air monitoring study at a waste-water treatment plant in Australia found time-averaged hydrogen sulfide levels of 1-2 ppm near the primary clarifiers and inlet structure, and levels <1 ppm at various other locations in the 10-hectare plant site (Koe 1985). 

The complex Lodge deposits have quite a complicated flowsheet. Typical examples include operating plants in Australia and South America. An example of a plant that uses both gravity and flotation is the Wheal Jane Concentrator in Cornwall, UK, shown in Figure 21.2. 

Replacement of Mercury Chlor-Alkali Plants with New Membrane Plants in Australia... 

Figure 10.1 shows the location of the nine plants around Australia, while Table 10.2 shows details and capacities of these plants [1]. 

The existing Sydney and Melbourne plants were well out of phase with market requirements in their respective states, requiring additional transport costs to move product to the market. However, the market requirements for NSW and Victoria/ South Australia/Tasmania are sufficiently close that identical sized plants could be built, with significant cost savings in engineering and procurement compared with construction of two plants of differing capacity. The Melbourne and Sydney chlor-alkali plants are therefore identical up to the point of manufacture of compressed, dry chlorine. Even the plant layout has been kept identical. 

The tobacco plant was long used by Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans. The word tobacco derives from tabacum, the Indian name for the pipe they used to smoke it. Nicotine, the principle psychoactive chemical in tobacco, was named after Jean Nicot de Villemain, a French diplomat who advocated its use in Europe in the late 1500s (Rudgley 1999). It is less commonly known that tobacco grew wildly in the interior of Australia, and was used by inhabitants there before Europeans arrived. 

The concentrations of seawater and brackish water can vary significantly, and as such there is a difference between the concentrate produced from seawater desalination plants and brackish water desahnation plants. Seawater typically has a level of total dissolved solids (TDS) between 33,000-37,000 mg/L. The average major ion concentration of seawater is shown in Table 2.1 along with water from the Mediterranean Sea, and water from Wonthaggi off the southern coast of Australia. Seawater sahnity increases in areas where water evaporates or freezes, and it decreases due to rain, river runoff, and melting ice. The areas of greatest salinity occur and latitudes of 30° N and S where there are high evaporation rates. 

The western grey kangaroo (Macropusfuliginosus), the major indigenous herbivore in southwestern Australia, avoids plants of the family Myrtaceae (which include Eucalyptus spp. cloves, and guava), which includes 3500 species on that continent. Essential oils characterize the Myrtaceae many species contain two to nine of these. In one experiment, seven Myrtaceae species were not browsed, while comparable species of other families were. All seven species contained the monoterpene 2,5-dimethyl-3-methylene 1,5-heptadine. The kangaroos also browsed one non-Myrtaceae species (Sollya heterophylla, Pittosporaceae) very little. This species contained the same monoterpene (Jones etal, 2003). 

The Wattle, a plant of the same genus as the foregoing, and which grows luxuriantly in South Australia, yields, according to PiESsk, a very similar perfume. 

The largest nitroglycerine plant in the world has been in operation since 1956 by I.C.I. of Australia and New Zealand Ltd. at Deer Park, Victoria [47]. The Biazzi system is used there. The normal output from this unit is 4400 lbs per hour of nitroglycerine, and it can be raised to 6600 lb [46]. 

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Copper was recognized as nutritionally essential by 1924 and has since been found to function in many cellular proteins.470-474 Copper is so broadly distributed in foods that a deficiency has only rarely been observed in humans.4743 However, animals may sometimes receive inadequate amounts because absorption of Cu2+ is antagonized by Zn2+ and because copper may be tied up by molybdate as an inert complex. There are copper-deficient desert areas of Australia where neither plants nor animals survive. Copper-deficient animals have bone defects, hair color is lacking, and hemoglobin synthesis is impaired. Cytochrome oxidase activity is low. The protein elastin of arterial walls is poorly crosslinked and the arteries are weak. Genetic defects in copper metabolism can have similar effects. 

The HiSmelt process being developed jointly by CRA of Australia and Midrex Direct Reduction Corp. uses a horizontal vessel, relying on turbulence in the bath to spray particles of slag and iron into the atmosphere above the bath, where heat is transferred from the post-combustion flame to the particles. Here, air is used instead of oxygen, thus removing the requirement of an oxygen plant. This technology emphasizes bottom injection of coal and dust into the iron bath. 

Technology Centers also collect information about safety and loss-related incidents and quickly communicate it to other plants within the center s scope so that action can be taken to prevent similar incidents elsewhere. As a result of this safety alert procedure, complete information on a safety-related incident in a polystyrene plant in Australia can reach a similar unit in Ohio or California within 48 hours. At the same time the incident would be reported to other Dow locations in Australia, to Dow s Pacific Area headquarters, and to the corporate safety and loss prevention group for dissemination through their respective channels. 

An annual local market (Western Australia) of 65 000 tonnes for a 60%(wt) nitric acid product is envisaged for this plant. This market assessment is based upon anticipated demand from a new 50 000 tonne/year ammonium nitrate production facility. There is also an opportunity to exploit the potential South- East Asian market for up to 60 000 tonnes per year. This market may well be viable if low-cost shipping can be guaranteed through an arrangement with Alcoa of Australia Ltd. Alcoa imports caustic soda into WA, and the ships leave empty. It is proposed to use one of these ships to export up to 27 000 tonnes of 60% nitric acid into the foreign market. 

The site chosen for the nitric acid plant, as a part of the larger chemical plant, is a 10 hectare plot in the Bunbury district of Western Australia. The site is located between the port handling facilities (for alumina) belonging to Alcoa of Australia Ltd, and Leschenault Road. The site runs parallel to the Preston River and is less than 1 km from the main port area. It features easy port access, adjacent rail facilities, and an abundance of river water (for process cooling purposes). 

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