Technology Development Unit

Fryman, Charles E. Screening Methodology for Assessing the Adequacy of Blast Protection for Control Rooms and Other Site Buildings A Workbook for BP Oil Refineries. Report No. 1993-221031. Sunbury BP International Limited, Manufacturing and Supply Technology Development Unit. July 1993. 

BP Oil, M S Technology Development Unit, Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex TW 16 7LN, United Kingdom. 

Secondary Lead. The emphasis in technological development for the lead industry in the 1990s is on secondary or recycled lead. Recovery from scrap is an important source for the lead demands of the United States and the test of the world. In the United States, over 70% of the lead requirements are satisfied by recycled lead products. The ratio of secondary to primary lead increases with increasing lead consumption for batteries. WeU-organized collecting channels are requited for a stable future for lead (see BATTERIES, SECONDARY CELLS Recycling NONFERROUS METALS). 

Crow, M. (1988). Synthetic Fuel Technology Development in the United States. New York Praeger Publishing. 

The fuel eell is a nineteenth eentuiy invention in the twentieth eentury it heeame the heart of an eleetroehemical power plant and power souree, whieh is now in a stage of advaneed technology development. Its first and only applieation since the early 1960s, has been as an auxiliary power souree for spaee flights by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). During the past decade, development for terrestrial (eivihan and defense) applieations has led to its commercialization and research on utilization in a variety of applications. Programs in the United States, Japan, Europe, and some other eoimtries are focused on the development of fuel cell power plant/power sources for (1) base-load,... 

U.S. EPA, Permeable Reactive Barrier Technologies for Contaminant Remediation, EPA/600/R-98/125, Office of Research and Development, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, September 1998. 

Solid-supported technologies are already well established methods in medicinal chemistry and automated synthesis. Over the last couple of years new trends have evolved in this field which are of utmost importance as they have the potential to revolutionize the way chemical synthesis especially for library production is performed. Microchip-based synthesis technologies and multistep sequences with solid-supported catalysts or reagents in flow-through systems are only two spectacular examples. A new approach is the use of solid-supported systems for the scale-up of chemical reactions thereby enabling the rapid and smooth transition from discovery to development units. 

In general, technical developments will lead to a decrease in overall costs of this technology per unit of installed generating capacity (kWe). Some types of fuel cells need to achieve higher power densities per kg weight or m3 most need to increase lifetimes of stacks or other plant components. For smaller applications, the technology must reach a reliable level sufficient to allow the plants to operate unattended. 

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