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Rickard, J. C., The 2020 Mill-Utility Requirements for Market Kraft Pulp, AIChE Symp. Series Advances in Forest Products Environmental and Process Eng., The 1993 Forest Products Symp., (C. L. Verrill, ed.), 90(302) 167, AIChE, New York (1994)... 

Near-critical pSFC applications can be described as those where the mobile phase is solvent-modified CO2, pressurized only enough to maintain a single phase, with temperatures near (typically less than) the critical temperature. Many commercially available HPLC bonded silica phases have been used with modified-C02 mobile phases to achieve normal-phase separations, the choice of stationary phase being dictated by sample polarity. The modifiers added to CO2 acceptably overcome the unwanted analyte-sUica interactions observed with neat CO2 mobile phases. For structural separation of polar compounds such as pharmaceuticals [typically weak acids or bases of molecular weight (MW) < 1000], polar phases such as diol-, amino-, and cyano-bonded silica (or bare sihca) are used. Numerous apphcations for pharmaceutical, natural product, environmental and other compound classes have been reported in the recent hteratiu e (reviewed in Refs. ). For structural separation of higher-molecular-weight, less polar compounds, octyl- or octadecyl silane (ODS)-bonded phases are used... 

Ultimately, I seek to explain the cultural, productive, environmental, and cognitive context within which cotton growing farmers in Gujarat adopt, develop and diffuse genetically-engineered crop biotechnology. 

The operations group will develop general operating and maintenance objectives for the facilities which will address product quality, costs, safety and environmental issues. At a more detailed level, the mode of operations and maintenance tor a particular project will be specified in the field development plan. Both specifications will be discussed in this section, which will focus on the input of the production operations and maintenance departments to a field development plan. The management of the field during the producing period is discussed in Section 14.0. 

If extra treatment capacity is not cost effective another option may be to handle the produced water differently. The water treatment process is defined by the production stream and disposal specifications. If disposal specifications can be relaxed less treatment will be required or, a larger capacity of water could be treated. It is unlikely that environmental regulators will tolerate an increase in oil content, but if much of the... 

The current or potential iadustrial appHcations of microemulsions iaclude metal working, catalysis, advanced ceramics processiag, production of nanostmctured materials (see Nanotechnology), dyeiag, agrochemicals, cosmetics, foods, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology (9,12—18). Environmental and human-safety aspects of surfactants have begun to receive considerable attention (19—21). 

A. E. Broderick (Union Carbide). HEC did not become a viable commercial product until the early 1960s. In addition to the general production problems and market development costs, new products face a variety of environmental controls in the 1990s that add more constraints to market development. None the less two more recentiy developed water-soluble polymers have achieved limited market acceptance and are described below. 

Chlorine Per Capita Consumption. The U.S. per capita consumption of chlorine increased rapidly from 1955 to 1970, with an average aimual growth of 5.8% (Fig. 3). There has beenUtde, if any, growth since 1970 however, and recessionary effects, product maturity, and environmental pressures are evidenced in the cycHc fluctuations. Fluctuations in per capita consumption of chlorine and caustic have more or less tracked each other over the years, although chlorine per capita consumption has consistently exceeded that of caustic soda since 1967. 

Environmental considerations also were reflected in coal production and consumption statistics, including regional production patterns and economic sector utilization characteristics. Average coal sulfur content, as produced, declined from 2.3% in 1973 to 1.6% in 1980 and 1.3% in 1990. Coal ash content declined similarly, from 13.1% in 1973 to 11.1% in 1980 and 9.9% in 1990. These numbers clearly reflect a trend toward utilization of coal that produces less SO2 and less flyash to capture. Emissions from coal in the 1990s were 14 x 10 t /yr of SO2 and 450 x 10 t /yr of particulates generated by coal combustion at electric utiUties. The total coal combustion emissions from all sources were only slightly higher than the emissions from electric utiUty coal utilization (6). 

These processes tend to produce Hquids that are higher priced than those derived from cmde oil. Timing for commercialization depends on a number of factors, including price of cmde oil, need for energy self-sufficiency, and environmental considerations. The factors are different for each of the potential sources. Environmental considerations include polution from burning the fuel itself, poUution from the whole production cycle, and production of gases that are involved in the enhanced greenhouse effect (see Air pollution). 

Although 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde can be made by the saligenin route, it has been made historically by the Reimer-Tiemann process, which also produces sahcylaldehyde (64). Treatment of phenol with chloroform and aqueous sodium hydroxide results in the formation of benzal chlorides, which are rapidly hydrolyzed by the alkaline medium into aldehydes. Acidification of the phenoxides results in the formation of the final products, sahcylaldehyde and 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde. The ratio of ortho and para isomers is flexible and can be controlled within certain limits. The overall reaction scheme is shown in Figure 1. Product separation is accomphshed by distillation, but this process leads to environmental problems because of the quantities of sodium chloride produced. 

Environmental Factors. The control, recovery, and disposal of mercury-bearing waste products are as important to the mercurials industry as the manufacturing process. The difficulties involved in removing mercury from waste-product streams and the problems of recovery or disposal have resulted in a substantial reduction in the number of manufacturers of mercury compounds as well as in the variety of mercury compounds being manufactured. Moreover, the manufacturing process used for a mercury compound may not necessarily be the most efficient or economical. Rather, the choice may depend on the nature of the by-products, the toxic hazard of the process, and the ease of recovery of the mercury from the waste-product stream. 

Many countries have adopted chemical substance iaventories ia order to monitor use and evaluate exposure potential and consequences. In the case of essential oils used in many fragrance appHcations, these oils must be on many of these Hsts. New essential oils used in fragrances are subject to premanufactuting or premarketing notification (PMN). PMN requirements vary by country and predicted volume of production. They require assessment of environmental and human health-related properties, and reporting results to designated governmental authorities. 

Scrap that is unsuitable for recycling into products by the primary aluminum producers is used in the secondary aluminum industry for castings that have modest property requirements. Oxide formation and dross buildup are encountered in the secondary aluminum industry, and fluxes are employed to assist in the collection of dross and removal of inclusions and gas. Such fluxes are usually mixtures of sodium and potassium chlorides. Fumes and residues from these fluxes and treatment of dross are problems of environmental and economic importance, and efforts are made to reclaim both flux and metal values in the dross. 

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