Problem solving, practical

For once the National Farmers Union and the Ramblers Association have combined to oppose a development and a public enquiry will be necessary. The RSPCA has protested at the industrialisation of animals and has asked what will happen if they break loose from their enclosures. Although Ovis musimon is docile, all animal species, even man, produce occasional aggressive individuals. Meanwhile the garment industry has pointed out the importance of quality control and has questioned whether the necessary consistency can be obtained in a so-called natural product. 

It is assumed that chemical plant process workers will operate the production facilities as they will replace plants traditionally operated by them. Assuming that operators will not be expected to walk more than 200 yards from the control room, the control rooms will have to be spaced 400yards apart that is, one per 33 acres. Over 750 control rooms will be required for a million pounds per year operation. Building costs will therefore be much higher that on a conventional plant, and may well make the new process uneconomic, especially now that control rooms are being made stronger than in the past. 

The greatest opposition to the new fibre is the result of the waste disposal problems it will produce. Vast quantities of excreta will be deposited by the animals and will presumably have to be collected and dumped. Have the risks to health been fully considered Will decomposition produce methane and a risk of explosions  

What will happen when the animals become too old for productive use It has been suggested that they might be used for human food and it is claimed that they are quite palatable after roasting. To quote the Director of the Centre for the Study of Strategic Perceptions, The suggestion is nauseating. Five thousand years after the dawn of civilization and 200 years after the industrial revolution, we are asked to eat the by-products of industrial production.  

In some other instances, engineers have counted flanges on long and complicated piping networks to help estimate potential leak sources. Their time would have been better spent getting an estimate on the maintenance mind-set so as to determine what programs were in progress to reduce leaks by the ever-present threats of external corrosion. 

New Fibre Runs into Trouble— Land Use Excessive, Waste Disposal impossible  

The proposals by ICI and other chemical companies to invest millions of pounds in the production of a new fibre are already meeting widespread opposition. While nylon and polyester and the other fibres which have been in use since the dawn oj civilisation are manufactured in conventional chemical plants, the new fibre, known as WOOL ( Wildlife Origin Oily Ligament) will be grown on the backs of a specially developed breed ofOvis musimon. 

Opposition to the new fibre centres on the extensive areas of land required for its production. While a million pounds per year of nylon or polyester can be produced in a fraction of an acre, the same quantity of WOOL will require at least 25,000 acres of good land or a larger area of hill land. This land will no longer be available for growing crops or for recreation. 

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S. Kromidas, Practical Problem Solving in HPLC, John Wiley Sons, Ltd, Chichester (2000). 

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This valuable ancillary by Kim Woodrum (University of Kentucky) contains material to help the student practice problem-solving skills. For each section of a chapter, the author provides study objectives and a summary of the corresponding text. Following the summary are sample problems with detailed solutions. Each chapter has true-false questions and a self-test, with all answers provided at the end of the chapter. 

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