Stable supply process

In a stable supply process, manufacturing complexity tends to be low or manageable. Stable manufacturing processes tend to be highly automated, and long-term... 

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Processed milk products, which Include condensed, evaporated, malted and dry milks, cheese, whey, and ice cream and other frozen desserts, account for a large part of the overall Increase in zinc from the dairy products group. Cheese with its markedly increased use is chiefly responsible. Since 1909-13, the amount of zinc provided by cheese Increased more than fourfold and beginning in 1978, it has exceeded the amount contributed by fluid whole milk. In 1981, cheese provided 0.9 mg of zinc per capita per day or 7 percent of all the zinc in the food supply. Use of ice cream and other frozen desserts is now more than 10 times higher than in 1909-13. Half of this Increase occurred before the late 1930 s, and, since 1957-59, the small contribution of zinc from ice cream and other frozen desserts has been relatively stable. Other processed milk products have accounted for more zinc in recent years than at the beginning of the century. The amount, however, is somewhat less than the 0.6 mg per capita per day provided in 1946 when consumption of these products was highest. 

Most feedstock processes are still at the development or pilot plant stage, due to low feedstock supply and high capital and operation costs. Infrastructure and organisational improvements to guarantee a stable supply and markets for the generated material are required for such costs to become acceptable. 

In the simplest example of a jump mechanism, the species simply migrates to an adjacent vacancy. Whatever the relative energies of initial and final states of the transition, if the states are thermodynamically stable, the process is activated i.e., energy must be supplied to accomplish the transition. The precise route between sites depends on the potential energy surface. 

Takeda, O., Nakano, K., Sato, Y., 2011. In Symposium on Current Status Toward Stable Supply of Rare-Earth, 2011. The Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan, Tokyo, pp. 22-23. 

History. Methods for the fractionation of plasma were developed as a contribution to the U.S. war effort in the 1940s (2). Following pubHcation of a seminal treatise on the physical chemistry of proteins (3), a research group was estabUshed which was subsequendy commissioned to develop a blood volume expander for the treatment of military casualties. Process methods were developed for the preparation of a stable, physiologically acceptable solution of alburnin [103218-45-7] the principal osmotic protein in blood. Eady preparations, derived from equine and bovine plasma, caused allergic reactions when tested in humans and were replaced by products obtained from human plasma (4). Process studies were stiU being carried out in the pilot-plant laboratory at Harvard in December 1941 when the small supply of experimental product was mshed to Hawaii to treat casualties at the U.S. naval base at Pead Harbor. On January 5, 1942 the decision was made to embark on large-scale manufacture at a number of U.S. pharmaceutical plants (4,5). 

Opera.tlon, Because of the long residence time of the materials (8—10 h), the blast furnace process can exhibit considerable inertia, and control is usually appHed where the goal is maintaining smooth, stable input conditions. One of the most important aspects of blast furnace control is supply of consistent quaUty raw materials, which is why there is a strong emphasis on quaUty control at coke plants, peUeti2ing plants, and sinter plants (see Quality ASSURANCE/QUALITY control). 

Emulsion Polymerization. When the U.S. supply of natural mbber from the Far East was cut off in World War II, the emulsion polymerization process was developed to produce synthetic mbber. In this complex process, the organic monomer is emulsified with soap in an aqueous continuous phase. Because of the much smaller (<0.1 jira) dispersed particles than in suspension polymerization and the stabilizing action of the soap, a proper emulsion is stable, so agitation is not as critical. In classical emulsion polymerization, a water-soluble initiator is used. This, together with the small particle size, gives rise to very different kinetics (6,21—23). 

Aluminum prices have historically been more stable than other nonferrous metals. Beginning iu the 1970s, however, aluminum prices have fluctuated as shown iu Table 13 (30). These fluctuations reflect increased energy costs as well as increased costs of raw materials. Improvements in production processes as well as a rebalancing of demand and supply are expected to stabilize aluminum prices in the future. 

Sodium Tetrahydroborate, Na[BH ]. This air-stable white powder, commonly referred to as sodium borohydride, is the most widely commercialized boron hydride material. It is used in a variety of industrial processes including bleaching of paper pulp and clays, preparation and purification of organic chemicals and pharmaceuticals, textile dye reduction, recovery of valuable metals, wastewater treatment, and production of dithionite compounds. Sodium borohydride is produced in the United States by Morton International, Inc., the Alfa Division of Johnson Matthey, Inc., and Covan Limited, with Morton International supplying about 75% of market. More than six million pounds of this material suppHed as powder, pellets, and aqueous solution, were produced in 1990. 

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