Technical evaluation

A. H. Landrock, Polyurethane Foams Technology Properties and Applications, Report 37, Plastic Technical Evaluation Center, Picatiuny Arsenal, Dover, N.J., 1969. 

The standard methods (26) of analysis for commercial lecithin, as embodied in the Official and Tentative Methods of the American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS), generally are used in the technical evaluation of lecithin (27). Eor example, the AOCS Ja 4-46 method determines the acetone-insoluble matter under the conditions of the test, free from sand, meal, and other petroleum ether-insoluble material. The phosphoHpids are included in the acetone-insoluble fraction. The substances insoluble in hexane are determined by method AOCS Ja 3-87. 

The pioneering 10-MW Solar One plant in Barstow, California, produced the most successful central receiver tests. The plant was funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and operated by Southern California Edison Company in the early to mid-1980s. EPRI provided technical evaluations of the experiment. The general conclusion drawn from Solar One and other experiments was that further substantial engineering development was needed. 

Feasibility Analysis The selection procedure is performed by an evaluation or technical and economic considerations. The technical evaluation determines whether a given option will work as planned. Some typical considerations follow ... 

If an option proves to be technically ineffective or inappropriate, it is deleted from the list of potential alternatives. Either follo ving or concurrent with the technical evaluation, an economic study is performed, weighing standard measures of profitability such as payback period, investment returns, and net present value. Many of these costs (or, more appropriately, cost saving may be substantial yet are difficult to quantify. (Refer to Economic Considerations Associated with Pollution Prevention.)... 

ISO/IEC 17025 replaces ISO/IEC Guide 25 and defines the internationally-accepted criteria for the technical evaluation of laboratories in the future. 

The research and technical evaluations have provided industry tvith extremely valuable information and design procedures, including, but not limited to, two-phase flow phenomena and runaway reactions during safety/over-pressure relief. 

Operate the Department of Defense Plastics Technical Evaluation Center... 

PLASTEC. The Plastics Technical Evaluation Center (PLASTEC) is one of approximately 20 technical information analysis centers sponsored by the US Dept of Defense (DoD) to provide the defense community with a variety of authoritative information services. Located at the Armament Research Development Command -(ARRADCOM), Dover, NJ, PLASTEC has been serving this community since 1960 via state-of-the-art reports, handbooks, newsletters, current awareness studies, engineering assistance, bibliographies, literature searches, technical inquiries and special investigations on plastics, composites and adhesives... 

The technical evaluation of a process includes the determination of the technical risk during design, start-up, and operation of the process. Factors increasing the technical risk are ... 

There are seven major steps, as shown in Figure 4.8, in an unconventional material technical evaluation process that should be considered ... 

FIGURE 4.8 Technical evaluation of foundry solid waste reuse program. 

The word safety used to mean the older strategy of accident prevention through the use of hard hats, safety shoes, and a variety of rules and regulations. The main emphasis was on worker safety. Much more recently, safety has been replaced by loss prevention. This term includes hazard identification, technical evaluation, and the design of new engineering features to prevent loss. The subj ect of this text is loss prevention, but for convenience, the words safety and loss prevention will be used synonymously throughout. 

This three-part philosophy of our responses — legal evaluations, policy critiques and technical evaluations based on the need for "good science" at all regulatory stages and presentation of constructive alternatives, led to other operating philosophies. 

Technical evaluation of options and consequence and risk analyses may be prepared. The analyses might include calculation of consequence severities for possible incidents. Subsequently, the basis for a mitigation system may be generated. This might involve, for example, a secondary containment structure, explosion suppression system, or scrubber. The rationale and technical design basis for such decisions should be documented and retained as part of the process knowledge. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1984, Review of Inplace Treatment Techniques for Contaminated Surface Soils, Vol. I Technical Evaluation, EPA-540/2-84-003a. 

L. Liu, G. Fitzgerald, M. Embry, R. Cantu, B. Pack, Technical evaluation of a fiber-optic probe dissolution system, Dissol. TechnoL, 15, 10-20 (2008). 

Figure 1 is a Flow Diagram of the RCRA permitting process. As can be seen it includes a detailed technical evaluation of the design and proposed operating procedures of the facility to insure that no harm will occur to either persons or the environment from operation of the facility. The major steps in the process are ... 

The NVLAP is comprised of a series of laboratory accreditation programs (LAPs), depending on what is requested and what is needed. Each LAP includes specific calibration and/or test standards and related methods and protocols assembled to satisfy the unique needs for accreditation in a field of testing or calibration. NVLAP accredits public and private laboratories based on evaluation of their technical qualifications and competence to carry out specific calibrations or tests. All are based on the ISO/IEC Guide 25 discussed in Section 2. The process involves an application and the payment of fees. This is followed by an on-site assessment. If deficiencies are found, these must be resolved to the satisfaction of the assessment team. The laboratory then participates in proficiency testing (Section 5.7) and a technical evaluation. 

Tadokoro Y, Kajiyama T, Yamaguchi T, Sakai N, Kameyama H, Yoshida K (1997) Technical evaluation of UT-3 thermochemical hydrogen production process for an industrial scale plant. Int J Hydrogen Energy 22 49-56. 

Beach, N.E., and Canfield, V.K. (1968) Compatibility of Explosives with Polymers. Picatinny Arsenal Plastics Technical Evaluation Center (PLASTEC) Report No. 33 (AD 672061). 

Selection of the program s goals is done through analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of the waste minimization options identified. Technical evaluation determines whether a proposed option is possible to implement (i.e., is the necessary equipment and/... 

U.S. Army. 1999a. Derivation of Health-Based Environmental Screening Levels for Chemical Warfare Agents A Technical Evaluation. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine. 

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