Regulatory constraints

The first step in designing a stack for air pollution control purposes is to determine exactly what regulatory constraints and requirements exist at the particular site. These constraints and requirements may be so severe that alternative means of air pollution control may have to be sought. In any case, the regulations specify a performance standard to which the stack must be designed, and against which the design can be evaluated. 

Bearing in mind that most chemicals manufactiue arises from companies that are subject to market mechanisms modified, to varying degrees, by regulatory constraint, it is unlikely that there will be any single approach to technological development that wiU dominate. 

A second pitfall is to try and list all of the regulatory constraints or lists on which a particular chemical has the misfortune to be found. In this day and age, most chemicals are on one list or another, or if not, one is lured into a false sense of security because the particular chemical of interest appears to be relatively free of potential issues. However, this usually has more to do with the fact that there has not been sufficient testing done on the material to determine its hazard, or it is not made in sufficient volumes to exceed a... 

In most pharmaceutical situations, however, there is often insufficient latitude in the formula or process to allow the necessary experimentation. The pharmaceutical industry is subject to regulatory constraints that make EVOP impossible to employ in validated production processes and, therefore, impractical and expensive to use. Moreover, EVOP is not a substitute for good laboratory-scale investigation and, because of the necessarily small changes utilized, is not particularly suitable to the laboratory. In pharmaceutical development, more efficient methods are desired. 

Before a drug is put forward for a clinical trial, there are ethical and regulatory constraints for the design and conduct of a clinical trial that have to be considered. 

Legal and regulatory constraints for the discharge into public sewage network and in the environment. 

Regulatory Constraints The presence or absence of a solvent on various regulatory lists, for example, SARA 313, can either restrict or increase the cost of its use. 

Figure 5 The iterative optimization process. An initial model is developed, used to predict process performance, tested by comparison with experiment, refined, and used to improve prediction. The process naturally accommodates changes in economic or regulatory constraints.

Zinc Dithionite. Zinc dithionite [7779-86-4], ZnS204, is a white, water-soluble powder. Although it exhibits somewhat greater stability in aqueous solution compared to sodium dithionite at a given temperature and pH, it is no longer used in the United States because of regulatory constraints on pollution of water by zinc. 

Takayama, Akira, "Behavior of the Firm Under Regulatory Constraint", American Economic Review (1969) Vol. 59. 

Another regulatory constraint to innovation, but one which is indirect, may occur as a result of the cost of environmental control. To the extent that the costs of environmental control divert resources away from other corporate activities, like R D, and to the extent that innovation is directly related to the level of these resources, regulation is likely to penalize innovative activity. 

Step 2. What Environmental and Regulatory Constraints Exist ... 

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