Technology fostering

SNR s fluidized-bed cogeneiation system is an early example of the commercial development of AFBC technology. Foster Wheeler designed, fabricated, and erected the coal-fired AFBC/boHer, which generates 6.6 MWe and 37 MW thermal (also denoted as MWt) of heat energy. The thermal energy is transferred via medium-pressure hot water to satisfy the heat demand of the tank farm. The unit bums 6.4 t/h of coal and uses a calcium to sulfur mole ratio of 3 to set the limestone feed rate. The spent bed material may be reiajected iato the bed as needed to maintain or build bed iaventory. The fly ash, collected ia two multicyclone mechanical collectors, may also be transferred pneumatically back to the combustor to iacrease the carbon bumup efficiency from 93%, without fly ash reiajection, to 98%. 

Canines are a proven operational tool for substance detection, but as a practice, canine detection remains more of a craft than a technology. The quasi-technological state of detector dog technology fosters variabiHty in detection capability and reliabiHty, resulting in varying degrees of skepticism. Nevertheless, canine detection is used as the basehne capability to which instmmental devices are compared. Furthermore, despite aU the unknowns and uncertainties, there are stiU many situations where detection dogs remain the best or, indeed, the only available option. 

PS-NCO was purchased from Argonaut Technologies, Foster City, California. 

Mateiial/System Producers/Suppliers Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Nextech Materials Arthur D. Little McDermott Technology Foster-Miller, Inc. Spectracorp, Ltd. Idatech Corp. Stuarts Energy Systems 3M DuPont Vairex Corp. Celanese AG Thermo Technologies Mechanology, Inc. ... 

The U.S. government, a primary sponsor of scientific and technological developments that fostered the computer and communications technologies needed by the on-line database industry, also sponsored database development projects, information usage studies, and combined computer database development—usage projects. The successors of some of these projects continue to be prominent and include DIALOG, MEDLINE, BRS, LEXIS, and the Chemical Abstracts Registry System. 

Are global technology networks and collaborations fostered Are individual objectives supporting the plan Is individual work organized Are teams adequately chartered Are individual motivation factors understood and acted upon Are researchers becoming active learners ... 

The 600 MWe Simplified Boiling Water Reactor was designed by an international team consisting of EPRI, General Electric, Bechtel, Bums and Roe, Foster Wheeler, Southern Company, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California (Berkeley), other U.S. utilities. 

The Department of Energy fosters a secure and reliable energy system that is environmentally and economically sustainable, acts as a responsible steward of the nation s nuclear weapons, and seeks methods to clean up our own facilities and to support continued United States leadership in science and technology. 

The LCQ and LCQ DECA are products of Thermo Electron Corporation (San Jose, CA) the Q-TOF is a product of Waters (Beverly, MA) the QSTAR, ProQUANT, and ProICAT are products of Applied Biosystems (Foster City, CA) and Spectrum Mill and the MSD TRAP XCT are products of Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, CA). 

The CFB gasifier at Varnamo, Sweden (modified Foster Wheeler technology)... 

Many more areas could have been discussed and will undoubtedly evolve in the coming years. It is hoped that this volume will help foster new science and even new technology. I am grateful to all the coauthors for their diligence and Springer-Verlag for their hosting our efforts. 

ASCOT [Asphalt coking technology] A process combining de-asphalting and decoking, offered by Foster-Wheeler, United States. 

There are 200 commercial products in cosmetics, apparel and sporting goods in which nanotechnology plays a role, said Lynn E. Foster, emerging technologies director for the... 

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