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Energy consumption is measured in kilowatt-hours per ton of product, the product being either chlorine or caustic. Most operators and technology suppliers choose caustic as the basis for measurement. This choice reflects the practical difficulties of measuring chlorine production accurately and taking into account system losses that end up principally as hypochlorite or HCl. Another comphcation is the dependence of anolyte current efficiency on the amount of acid or alkali present in the feed brine (Section 7.5.6.1). The caustic current efficiency, for all practical purposes, depends only on the membrane efficiency. It becomes more convenient and usually more accurate to measure the production of caustic. One need only measure the amount of solution produced and analyze its caustic content. Again for convenience and accuracy, and assuming the use of membrane cells, it is best to measure the output of cell liquor. This separates the electrolyzer and evaporator test runs. These measurements make it possible to calculate the anode current efficiency from analytical data and hence, to calculate chlorine production and specific power consumption. 

Flexibility. Changing customer requirements can be accommodated by finding less expensive parts suppliers, choosing faster transportation channels, increasing product output volume, and introducing modified products. 

In our discussion so far, we have assumed that each stage of the supply chain has a well-defined demand and supply distribution that it uses to set its safety inventory levels. In practice, this is not true for multiechelon supply chains. Consider a simple multiechelon supply chain with a supplier feeding a retailer that sells to the final customer. The retailer needs to know demand as well as supply uncertainty to set safety inventory levels. Supply uncertainty, however, is influenced by the level of safety inventory the supplier chooses to carry. If a retailer order arrives when the supplier has enough inventory, the supply lead time is short. In contrast, if the retailer order arrives when the supplier is out of stock, the replenishment lead time for the retailer increases. Thus, if the supplier increases its level of safety inventory, the retailer can reduce the safety inventory it holds. This implies that the level of safety inventory at aU stages in a multiechelon supply chain should be related. 

Choose suppliers who produce the required quality, not who offer the lowest price... 

Auditors need to appreciate that suppliers may choose to design a quality system for a purpose other than meeting automotive customer needs. 

Subcontracts enable you to choose the degree of control exercised over your subcontractors. With suppliers, your choices are often limited as you have no privileges. Control over your suppliers is therefore exercised by the results of receipt inspection or subsequent inspections and tests. If your confidence in a supplier is low, you can increase the level of inspection and if high you can dispense with receipt inspection and rely on in-process controls to alert you to any deterioration in supplier performance. 

On the state level, several pilot programs now allow customers to choose gas suppliers other than their LDCs. 

The electricity mdustiy is m the midst of a transition from a vertically integrated and regulated monopoly to an entity in a competitive market where retail customers choose the suppliers of their electricity. The change started in 1978, when the Public Utility Regulatoiy Act (PURPA) made it possible for nonutility power generators to enter the wholesale market. 

Seek alternative sources When a supplier can t deliver within budget or schedule, look for others who can. You may choose to accept a substitute rather than seek other sources. X X... 

Please indicate which three of the following six issues are the most important when choosing a disinfectant. (Bather comfort, cost, environmental issues, safety, suppliers service, water quality and clarity). 

International commerce prevails in the fine-chemical industry because suppliers and customers are often located in different countries, or even continents, and because transportation costs are almost negligible. For managing their international business, fine-chemical companies have to choose the most appropriate distribution channels. Basically, they can do it with their own means—either directly from their headquarters, or indirectly through a local... 

However, in order to achieve these objectives a good interpretation of corporate business needs into achievable R D objectives is essential. In some cases a supplier of a raw material, intermediate or component may choose to forward-integrate their business into production of the finished product. In other cases a manufacturer may wish to backwards-integrate into the production of the raw material(s) required for its current product(s). In either case it is obvious that in order to achieve success a company must make products available to its customers with useful functional properties and at a price that allows cost-effective use of that product in the customer s own products. That is, the product must give the customer s products a competitive advantage. 

Little is known about fuel transfer hose compatibility with ethanol. Some of the hoses used for gasoline may be adequate. Experience has demonstrated that dispensing hose made for gasoline will tolerate gasoline that has 10 volume percent ethanol [3.10]. Suppliers of fuel hose should be consulted when choosing hose that will be used for transferring ethanol. 

Affinity chromatography. Disposable empty columns, e.g., Bond Elut TCA (4-mL propylene columns with 20-pm frits) from Varian, Inc., can be used. Alternatively, if choosing an automatic system of sample/buffer loading and sample collection, e.g., the FPLC system from Amersham Biosciences, the affinity resins must be properly packed in columns recommended by the supplier. 

We observe that we have drawn from nonrenewable resources and emitted waste at four times the rate corresponding to that for the reaction. Of course, this is all a consequence of choosing a material, nonrenewable resource, coal, as the reactant and supplier of required chemical work The use of fossil fuel and the inefficiency of processes are responsible for most of the waste in industry. Figures 13.15 and 13.16 give an impression of the size of waste [30], where we should note that in the chemical industry, things quickly get worse if we move, for example, from base chemicals to fine chemicals to pharmaceuticals. 

Castable Polyurethane Elastomers explains the production process of polyurethane components from both the theoretical and practical points of view. It describes the underlying concepts for the raw material supplier recommendations and explains how to achieve application-specific properties in polyurethane. The book explains the production of prepolymers with special focus on health and safety issues. It presents the different types of methods available on both the micro and macro levels and explains the rationale behind choosing the system needed to create a cost-effective, application-specific product. 

This is an example of an organic cotton mask with charcoal filling. For mild MCS patients this mask is often sufficient, but the more severe MCS patient usually needs heavier protection. It s best to choose an official MCS mask from MCS-specialized suppliers rather than a normal construction cotton mask from hardware stores because the materials will be safer. MCS masks are usually made without chemicals. You can buy MCS masks from these online sources www.aehf.com, http //ican breathe.com, www.needs.com. 

Suppliers. Make sure they have the right skills, the necessary facilities and can control quality and costs to the desired standards. Preferably choose from prior or existing relationships. Geography, language and culture are important, secondary considerations. 

A computational fluid dynamics process can be divided into three steps pre-processing, flow computation, and post-processing (Fig. 8.1). The users are faced with a multitude of commercial programs for each step. Newcomers in particular find it difficult to choose a suitable program, in part because the development of codes is advancing at a rapid pace. For many years, www.cfd-online.com has provided an excellent overview of CFD (suppliers, literature, further links). 

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