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We still need to improve how we assess risks and manage their impacts. But we also have to do it in a cost-conscious way, balancing risk management with cost efficiencies—they are not mutually exclusive. Governments must also play a more proactive role in the safety oversight process, but still allow the free market to find their own solutions. Industry and govermnent must work coUaboratively to find the best solutions. Hopefully, this book will help take us closer to that goal. And, I also hope that this book demystifies safety from risk, shows its power, and proves that it can even be fun. 

The data presented in the previous chapter clearly indicate the universal importance of investigating particle cohesion under various conditions for establishing the scientific basis for explaining (and controlling) the mechanical properties of disperse systans in various natural and industrial processes. An important aspect of such investigations is the use of surface-active substances (surfectants), which at a low bulk concentration accumulate at the interfaces and radically change their properties. Before addressing specific results pertinent to the studies of contacts between particles of various natures in various surfactant solutions, let us briefly summarize the concepts of the adsorption of surfactants, primarily of the thermodynamics of adsorption. 

A primary goal of this chapter is to learn how to achieve control over the pH of solutions of acids, bases, and their salts. The control of pH is crucial for the ability of organisms—including ourselves—to survive, because even minor drifts from the optimum value of the pH can cause enzymes to change their shape and cease to function. The information in this chapter is used in industry to control the pH of reaction mixtures and to purify water. In agriculture it is used to maintain the soil at an optimal pH. In the laboratory it is used to interpret the change in pH of a solution during a titration, one of the most common quantitative analytical technique. It also helps us appreciate the basis of qualitative analysis, the identification of the substances and ions present in a sample. 

Why Do We Need to Know Ihis Material Chemical kinetics provides us with tools that we can use to study the rates of chemical reactions on both the macroscopic and the atomic levels. At the atomic level, chemical kinetics is a source of insight into the nature and mechanisms of chemical reactions. At the macroscopic level, information from chemical kinetics allows us to model complex systems, such as the processes taking place in the human body and the atmosphere. The development of catalysts, which are substances that speed up chemical reactions, is a branch of chemical kinetics crucial to the chemical industry, to the solution of major problems such as world hunger, and to the development of new fuels. 

Of the many areas where NMR is applied these days, two can be considered as being established. The most important is certainly its use for structure elucidation, from small molecules up to medium-sized proteins in solution no university with an analytical lab can afford to be without a liquid-state, high-resolution NMR system. Most chemistry students will come into contact with NMR at least once during their courses. Second, is diagnostic medical imaging, which many of us may have experienced personally. From the first crude and blurred NMR images that were acquired over 30 years ago, incredible developments have been achieved by the efforts of researchers and industry alike. 

The uniform structure of Austenite (fee, with the carbides in solution) is the structure desired for corrosion resistance, and it is these grades that are widely used in the chemical industry. The composition of the main grades of austenitic steels, and the US, and equivalent UK designations are shown in Table 7.7. Their properties are discussed below. 

Reducing problematic behavior to biological causes calls for pharmaceutical solutions and here too powerful corporate interests foster such explanations. The redefinition of hyperactivity as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), for example, has significantly benefitted the pharmaceutical industry. The use of Ritalin as a treatment for ADD has doubled since 1995, and it is prescribed to over 4 million children in the US. Production of the drug is up 700 % since 1990, and 90 % of the production is consumed in the US where pharmaco-genomics is a burgeoning field. Europeans have been more cautious, and the International Narcotics Control Board of the UN has expressed concern about the growing tendency to redefine behavior as amenable to pharmaceutical modification. 

As an example of a different form of problem more common to the ba ic chemical industry, let us consider the case where concentrated solutions of ferrous chloride are the by-products of an industrial process. In this particular example at different points of the process cycle, two questions arose the first being a need to know the vapor pressure of hydrochloric acid over mixtures of FeC -HCH O and the second, the solubility of FeCl2 as a function of HC1 concentration. 

Most of us are familiar with the hquid form of ammonia known as ammonium hydroxide (NH OH), a colorless liquid that, with its strong odor, is irritating to the eyes and potentially harmful to the moist mouth and nose, throat, and lungs if its vapors are breathed. Weak solutions of NH OH are ingredients in household cleaning ammonia. Concentrated ammonium hydroxide has many industrial uses, including the manufacture of rayon, fertilizers, refrigerants, rubber, pharmaceuticals, soaps lubricants, inks, explosives, and household cleaners. 

Catalytic behavior. The eatalytic experiments were performed using a 0.1 mM solution of B02, pH 3 and room temperature. The coneentrations of azo dyes found in industrial waste streams are usually around 0.1 mM. Initially, different amoimts of the catalyst C2-Ms and C2-Us/Ms were employed inside the 0.01 g to 0.1 g range in the presence of H2O2. The mineralization of B02 is 80e oxidation, as shown in reaetion (36) with its transformation into carbon dioxide where the nitrogen atom undergoes a eomplete oxidation. 

I have no feeling for economic aspects. Industry does find it possible to use solid support enzymes. The unmodified polymer is relatively cheap. We have received 5 gal samples (of a 30% aqueous solution) at zero cost from industrial sources. Of course, our chemical modifications would add to the cost. Nevertheless, the initial material should present no economic problems, since it is available to us because it is being manufactured for some large-scale uses. 

One of the most common laboratory techniques for determining the concentration of a solute is titration. Titrations are used daily to monitor water purity and blood composition, and for quality control in the food industry. The solution being analyzed is called the analyte, and a known volume is transferred into a flask. Then a solution containing a known concentration of reactant is measured into the flask from a narrow calibrated cylinder called a buret until all the analyte has reacted (Fig. L.2). The solution in the buret is called the titrant, and the difference between the initial and final volume readings of the buret tells us the volume of titrant that has drained into the flask. The determination of concentration or amount by measuring volume is called volumetric analysis. 

The chapter, Safety Matrix People Applying Technology to Yield Safe Chemical Plants and Products by Davis of Dow Chemical, is concerned with protecting and improving safety in chemical plants. Dow Chemical has dramatically improved its safety record and seized a leadership position among chemical companies in the past decade. This improvement is not an accident, but the result of a dedicated attitude and systemic application that should be exported to the entire chemical industry. The lessons here would make us all winners and demonstrate that the chemical engineers are the solutions rather than the problems. 

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