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Injection Molding. In iajection mol ding a molten thermoplastic is iajected under high pressure iato a steel mold. After the plastic solidifies, the mold is opeaed and a part ia the shape of the mold cavity is removed. Geaeral descriptioas of the process and related equipment are given ia Refereaces 29—34. 

Approximately 97% of all turboexpander problems oeeur during the initial plant startup period. This eritieal period usually extends over several weeks, from the initial expander run until the plant pressures and temperatures are normalized and all related equipment is stabilized. 

Identify critical locations where fires can cause an initiating event that could fail redundant engineered safety functions, or disable redundant and diverse safety-related equipment. 

What is the extent of furnace and related equipment movements ... 

Related Equipment Event Report Nos Failure Diagnosis Report. ... 

Data encoding consists of converting historical failure records into formats that can then be used to calculate time-related and demand-related equipment failure rates. It is important that the encoding step be done so that plant information used to calculate failure rates can be traced through each step back to the raw data. The minimum set of information that must be recorded includes ... 

When a wire rope is operated close to the minimum design factor, the rope and related equipment should be in good operating condition. At all times, the operating personnel should minimize shock, impact, and acceleration or deceleration of loads. Successful field operations indicate that the following design factors should be regarded as minimum ... 

The safe and efficient operation of fluid power systems, system components and related equipment requires a means to control pressure within the system. There are many types of automatic pressure control valves. Some of them merely provide an escape for excess pressures some only reduce the pressure and some keep the pressure within a pre-set range. 

Corrosion of condenser tubes and related equipment There have been many surveys of the problems of corrosion of condenser and heat-exchanger tubes and related components in marine service and others dealing with oil refinery service. 

Beakers and other related equipment made of polyethylene, polypropylene, Teflon or glassy carbon are usually used in the preparation of such solutions. 

Additional applications of this technology for rapid lead discovery and lead optimization have been reported [87, 90-93]. It should also be noted that a variety of chemical transformations, in particular in the area of transition-metal catalyzed reactions, have been performed with this or related equipment (Chapt. 11) [25]. Other monomode microwave reactors using related concepts to introduce high-throughput were recently introduced by CEM Corp. (Discover or Explorer line of products, Fig. 12.7.) [81]. At the time of writing this review no published synthetic applications using this microwave reactor were available. 

The OFRR offers an excellent solution to implement pGC. It has a circular cross section by design, which is well compatible with all the GC-related equipments that are currently in use. Moreover, OFRR achieves dual use as the separation column as well as the detection body, which is in sharp contrast with other pGC systems having separate column and detector. By placing an optical fiber taper or a waveguide in contact with the OFRR, we are able to achieve multipoint real-time on-column detection, which greatly simplifies the pGC system. 

Many of these lockout devices are not specifically designed for use in the chemical industry (e.g., chains, padlocks) and are available from a local hardware store or manufacturer specializing in safety equipment. Other lockout devices (for example, valve-specific lockouts or valve box-locks) are more specialized and must be purchased from safety or valve-related equipment vendors. 

It is important to distinguish the types of time-related and demand-related equipment failure rate data that can be found and used in afire risk assessment. Basically, four types of data and corresponding data sources provide both time-related and demand-related failure data as shown in Table 6-3 and discussed in the following sections. 

The chemical industry is research intensive. It hires over 15% of all scientists and engineers in the U.S. The four industrial sectors spending the largest amounts on R D are aircraft and missiles, 25% electrical equipment, 17% chemicals and allied products, 11% and motor vehicles and related equipment, 11%. Of the total for chemicals about 10% of chemicals and allied products R D is federally financed, compared to 76% of aircraft and missiles R D and 44% of electrical and communications equipment R D. Thus chemical R D is heavily subsidized by industry. 

Pumps and compressors are designed per technical specifications and standards developed over years of operating and maintenance experience. Table lO-lO lists some of these standards for pumps and compressors and for related equipment such as lubrication systems and gearboxes which, if not properly specified, could lead to many operational and maintenance problems with the pumps and compressors. These standards specify design, construction, maintenance, and testing details such as terminology, material selection, shop inspection and tests, drawings, clearances, construction procedures, and so on. 

Process Verification. Unless otherwise specified, provess verification used as the inspection shall be subject to Government verification at the time the first batch is prepared and at random intervals during the production, but not less than once during each week of continuous operation. Verification will consist of surveillance of the process and related equipment to determine that practices, methods and procedures are being properly applied, and that the products are produced under the requirements of this specification. A record shall be made of each batch of explosive prepared to insure that the following requirements have been met ... 

The first edition comprised Val. Section 200 to Val. Section 1300, providing 75 validation SOPs covering design qualification, utilities qualification, facility qualification, equipment qualification, training needs, and major sterile and nonsterile operations-related equipment. 

The 1957 Defence White Paper made clear that there would be fewer research and development projects and production orders for military aircraft in future. In July 1957 a backgroimd paper was circulated to the Cabinet listing a number of well-known aircraft firms where workers were likely to be made redundant as a result. It was expected that over the next four or five years the numbers employed in the manufacture of airframes, aero-engines and related equipment, excluding electrical equipment, would fall by about 100,000 to about 150,000, or what had been the level before the Korean War. ° The programmes for guided... 

Examples include the development of more sensitive and reliable automatic instrumentation for monitoring chemicals, radiation and biological materials in the environment, of safety-or-environment-related add-on equipment for vehicles, of pollution-control technology and of safety-related equipment for use in industry, mining and the home. 

W.G. Hudson, Conveyors and Related Equipment, Wiley, New York, 1954. 

The safe and efficient operation of boilers at pressures over 1000 psi (68 atm) requires continuous monitoring of the water conditioning system. Early detection of any contamination entering the system is essential, so that immediate corrective action can be taken before the boiler and its related equipment are damaged. 

Design of Heat Exchangers, Chillers, or Other Related Equipment... 

Workshops on operational responsibilities, record keeping, good housekeeping practice, and routine maintenance of the cooling tower and related equipment to minimize microbial growth. 

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