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You cannot motivate others toward safety or create an environment in which they are involved, inspired, or impelled toward safety unless you set the example. Always wear the correct personal protective equipment when entering areas that require it. Drive according to the acceptable standards and always adhere to the speed limits. Stop completely at stop signs and red traffic lights all the time. Look after your well-being. 

Clean up your garage and carport at home and ensure that when you are working at home that the safety rules applicable at woric are also applied at home. If you are a representative of safety, you must walk the talk. 

Credibility is most important and is a necessary power base from which to motivate and inspire others toward safety. Becoming personally involved in and participating in the near miss incident reporting and remedy system (NEMIRR) is a must to build credibility for the systan and for all involved. 

Believe in safety, practice safety, and you will find it easier to inspire others to do the same. 

The success of any safety management system and, especially the NEMIRR system, relies on the culture within which the system operates. One has to obtain the buy-in from employees and all levels of line management for the system to work. 

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At pressures to a few bars, the vapor phase is at a relatively low density, i.e., on the average, the molecules interact with one another less strongly than do the molecules in the much denser liquid phase. It is therefore a common simplification to assume that all the nonideality in vapor-liquid systems exist in the liquid phase and that the vapor phase can be treated as an ideal gas. This leads to the simple result that the fugacity of component i is given by its partial pressure, i.e. the product of y, the mole fraction of i in the vapor, and P, the total pressure. A somewhat less restrictive simplification is the Lewis fugacity rule which sets the fugacity of i in the vapor mixture proportional to its mole fraction in the vapor phase the constant of proportionality is the fugacity of pure i vapor at the temperature and pressure of the mixture. These simplifications are attractive because they make the calculation of vapor-liquid equilibria much easier the K factors = i i ... 

For multiple reactions in which the byproduct is formed in series, the selectivity decreases as conversion increases. In this case, lower conversion than that for single reactions is expected to be appropriate. Again, the best guess at this stage is to set the conversion to 50 percent for irreversible reactions or to 50 percent of the equilibrium conversion for reversible reactions. 

Partially vaporized feed reverses these effects. For a given separation, the feed conditions can be optimized. No attempt should be made to do this at this stage in the design, since heat integration is likely to change the optimal setting later in the design. It is usually adequate to set the feed to saturated liquid conditions. This tends to equalize the vapor rate below and above the feed. 

Figure 6.7 The composite curves set the energy target and the location of the pinch.

Not all problems have a pinch to divide the process into two parts. Consider the composite curves in Fig. 6.10a. At this setting, both steam and cooling water are required. As the composite curves are moved closer together, both the steam and cooling water requirements decrease until the setting shown in Fig. 6.106 results. At this setting, the composite curves are in alignment at the hot end,... 

To arrive at the electronic configuration of an atom the appropriate number of electrons are placed in the orbitals in order of energy, the orbitals of lower energy being filled first (Aufbau principle ), subject to the proviso that for a set of equivalent orbitals - say the three p orbitals in a set - the electrons are placed one... 

With respect to fuels utilized as heating fuels for industrial furnaces, or as motor fuels for large diesel engines such as those in ships or power generation sets, the characteristics of primary importance are viscosity, sulfur content and the content of extremely heavy materials (asphaltenes) whose combustion can cause high emissions of particulates which are incompatible with antipollution legislation. 

There are no official specifications for obtaining a minimum level of engine cleanliness from a fuel. However, all additives in France are subject to approval by the Direction des Carburants (DHYCA), with the objective of having data that prove, first of all, the product to be harmless, and second, the product s effectiveness. Likewise, the automotive manufacturers, in establishing their specifications, set the minimum performance to be obtained by the fuel with regard to engine cleanliness. 

The graph gives the yields that the refiner would obtain at the outlet of the atmospheric distillation unit allowing him to set the unit s operating conditions in accordance with the desired production objectives. 

In order to draw the property-yield curves for residues, the end point is set, the initial point is variable and can be as low as 300°C. 

From these data, it is possible either to size a desulfurization unit, or to set the operating conditions for an existing unit. 

Market forces determine the demand for a product, and the demand will be used to forecast the sales of hydrocarbons. This will be one of the factors considered by some governments when setting the production targets for the oil company. For example, much of the gas produced in the South China Sea is liquefied and exported by tanker to Japan for industrial and domestic use the contract agreed with the Japanese purchaser will drive the production levels set by the National Oil Company. 

The prime global authority is the International Maritime Organisation. The IMO sets the standards and guidelines for the removal of offshore installations. The guidelines specify that installations in less than 75 meters of water with substructures weighing less than 4,000 tons be completely removed from the site. Those in deeper water must be removed to a depth of 55 meters below the surface so that there is no hazard to navigation. In some countries the depth to which structures have to be removed has already been extended to 100m. 

Not to overload the Statidard, three supplements are predetermined for it. The Supplement A (compulsory ) with the list of statistics is due to compulsory determination by non-destructive magnetic method of mechanical properties test. This Supplement provided the possibility to set the reasonable compromise between two opposite tendencies -to simplify utmost a body of mathematics or, on the contrary, to complicate it to such extent that it becomes inaccessible. 

When network weights have been trained to appropriate values, the NSC is ready to start classifying. The data set to be classified is specified in the same manner as previously used for the training and validation sets. The classifier is applied to data through the use of a menu and generates a list including filenames, suggested class and the neuron outputs from the output layer (used for decision). The result is currently presented in a simple text editor, from which it can be saved and included in other documents. 

The operation is quite simple One sets the frequency to the lowest value, adjusts the gain and phase to the desired sensitivity using a special calibration standard discussed below and performs a zero-compensation on a defect free zone of the standard. Now one is ready to test. As one slides the probe across the surface of an aluminum structure, a signal response will be indicative of the presence of corrosion or of the presence of a subsurface edge. 

The sensibility to defects and other testing parameters of pieces can be modified by the geometry of the piece to be controlled and the conception of the probe. It is sufficient to set the direction of circulation of eddy currents, regulate the magnetic field intensity and choose the coil of the appropriate size. 

Calibration procedure bases on rope specimens and corresponds to the Standard Pratice ASTM 1574. It takes a piece of the rope under test having a nominal metallic cross-section area (LMA=0) to set zero point of the instrument. Rope section with the LMA value known is used to set the second point of LMA calibration charactiristics. It is possible to use the air point calibration when there is no rope in a magnetic head (LMA=100%). 

Since the known stress calibration method was adopted to perform the SPATE setting, the calibration factor was directly obtained from the preliminary tests above mentioned. However, it is interesting to observe that assuming the correction factor equal to 1 at 10 Hz, the ratio of Cf at the others investigated frequencies (2 and 5 Hz) to the calibration factor at 10 Hz gives ... 

The filter according equation (1) allows a practical application of a second derivative, because it has only the noise amplification like a first derivative. This is shown in fig. 3 on a experimental data set. The SNR of the true second derivative is too low for correct edge detection, whereas the CT filter gives reliable results. 

The ultrasonic controls section, shown in Figure 7, provides the means for the user to set the operating parameters for the inspection. The majority of the controls are direct equivalents of those found on a conventional ultrasonic flaw detecfor some additional controls are provided to give access to the special features of the CamuS system. The Controls area is sub-divided into three parts. 

The repulsion between two double layers is important in determining the stability of colloidal particles against coagulation and in setting the thickness of a soap film (see Section VI-5B). The situation for two planar surfaces, separated by a distance 2d, is illustrated in Fig. V-4, where two versus x curves are shown along with the actual potential. 

The free energy minimum is found by differentiating equation (A2.5.18) with respect to s at constant Tand setting the derivative equal to zero. In its simplest fonn the resultant equation is... 

The key quantity in barrier crossing processes in tiiis respect is the barrier curvature Mg which sets the time window for possible influences of the dynamic solvent response. A sharp barrier entails short barrier passage times during which the memory of the solvent environment may be partially maintained. This non-Markov situation may be expressed by a generalized Langevin equation including a time-dependent friction kernel y(t) [ ]... 

There are two fimdamental types of spectroscopic studies absorption and emission. In absorption spectroscopy an atom or molecule in a low-lying electronic state, usually the ground state, absorbs a photon to go to a higher state. In emission spectroscopy the atom or molecule is produced in a higher electronic state by some excitation process, and emits a photon in going to a lower state. In this section we will consider the traditional instrumentation for studying the resulting spectra. They define the quantities measured and set the standard for experimental data to be considered. 

The traditional instruments for measuring emission and absorption spectra described above set the standard for the types of infonnation which can be obtained and used by spectroscopists. In the more recent past, several new... 

At still shorter time scales other techniques can be used to detenuiue excited-state lifetimes, but perhaps not as precisely. Streak cameras can be used to measure faster changes in light intensity. Probably the most iisellil teclmiques are pump-probe methods where one intense laser pulse is used to excite a sample and a weaker pulse, delayed by a known amount of time, is used to probe changes in absorption or other properties caused by the excitation. At short time scales the delay is readily adjusted by varying the path length travelled by the beams, letting the speed of light set the delay. 

Disadvantages. The magic angle must be extremely stable and accurately set. The spiiming speed must show good stability over the duration of the experiment. The probe needs to be accurately tuned and careful correction for irradiation and detection variations with frequency, and baseline effects are necessary. The gain... 

Microwaves from the waveguide are coupled into the resonator by means of a small coupling hole in the cavity wall, called the iris. An adjustable dielectric screw (usually machined from Teflon) with a metal tip adjacent to the iris pennits optimal impedance matching of the cavity to the waveguide for a variety of samples with different dielectric properties. With an appropriate iris setting the energy transmission into the cavity is a maximum and simultaneously reflections are minimized. The optimal adjustment of the iris screw depends on the nature of the sample and is found empirically. 

The steady-state solution without saturation to this equation is obtained by setting the time derivatives to zero and taking the tenns linear in as in equation (B2.4.11). 

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