Texas Hold

The number of industrial-waste injection wells more than doubled between 1967 and 1986.3 In 1986, Class I injection wells were concentrated in two states, Texas (112 wells) and Louisiana (70 wells), which between them had a total of 69% of all wells (263 wells). Growth from 1984 to 1986 was concentrated in Texas, with a 38% increase from 81 to 112 wells. The only other states to show a significant increase from 1984 to 1986 were Indiana (13 proposed wells) and California (7 proposed wells). Nine states had had industrial-waste injection wells in the past but did not have any permitted Class I wells in 1986 (Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wyoming). One state (Washington) had a Class I well in 1986, but no record of industrial wastewater injection before that year. The total number of industrial-waste injection wells increased to 300 at the end of the 1990s and beginning of this century, approximately 100 Class I hazardous waste injection wells and about 200 Class I wells that hold nonhazardous waste.1-18... 

CHARLES A. MIMS is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. He earned his B.Sc. in chemistry at the university of Texas, Austin, and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He has 15 years of industrial research experience at Exxon, is the author of over 65 research publications, and holds three patents. His research interests focus on catalytic kinetics in various energy and hydrocarbon resource conversion reactions, and the fundamentals of surface reactions. 

A lire disaster costing 67 million occurred in Texas City, Texas, on the SS Grandcamp (16 April 1987) due to spontaneous ignition of stored fertilizer in the ship s hold. A release of steam from an engine leak caused the atmosphere of the ammonium nitrate fertilizer to be exposed to temperatures of 100 °C. Ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) decomposes exothermically releasing 378 kJ/g mol. Its rate of decomposition can be described by the Arrhenius equation ... 

THOMAS F. EDGAR holds the Abell Chair in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned a B. S. in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas and a Ph. D. from Princeton University. Before receiving his doctorate, he was employed by Continental Oil Company. His professional honors include selection as the 1980 winner of the AIChE Colburn Award, ASEE Meriam-Wiley and Chemical Engineering Division Awards, ISA Education Award, and AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award. He is listed in Who s Who in America. 

LEON LASDON holds the David Bruton Jr. Centennial Chair in Business Decision Support Systems in the Management Science and Information Systems Department, College of Business Administration, at the University of Texas at Austin and has taught there since 1977. He received a B. S. E. E. degree from Syracuse University and an M. S. E. E. degree and a Ph. D. in systems engineering from Case Institute of Technology. 

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith is professor of public policy at the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A M University in College Station. He holds the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Chair of Business and Government at the Bush School. He was previously professor of political science and director of the Institute for Public Policy at the University of New Mexico. Professor Jenkins-Smith s areas of research include science and technology policy, environmental policy, public perceptions of environmental and technical risks, and national security policy. Professor Jenkins-Smith has written books on the public policy process and policy analysis and has served on a number of committees for the National Research Council. 

Figure 16.17 Polymer storage in pellet form can be done in large silos, each of which can hold 185,000 lb (7-10 hr of production). The silos can be mixed to ensure uniformity before the pellets are added to a tank car holding nearly the same amount as one silo. (Courtesy of BP Chemicals, Alvin, Texas)...

Grandcamp Explosion. An explosion of 2300 tons of Ammonium Nitrate (AN) fertilizer, which cook place aboard the SS Grandcamp on April 16, 1947, while the ship was being loaded in the harbor at Texas City, Texas. The explosion was started by a fire in one of the holds As a result of the explosion, a fire developed in one of the holds of the SS High Flier (moored 600 ft away from, ihe Grandcamp), conrg sulfur. This fire spread id one of the holds contg 960 tofts of AN which exploded on April. 17... 

Bradley received a BS in chemical engineering and an MS in environmental engineering irnrr Rirr L nivervtv He also hold an MBA from the University of Texas... 

See Praesel, 967 S.W.2d at 392. (Holding the reporting statute in Texas is a voluntary reporting mechanism and failure to report the condition is not negligence per se. The recording statutes control no actual conduct that leads to harm, and imposing liability for failure to report would expose physicians to an overly broad civil liability.)... 

Dr. Randolph earned a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and biology from Wayland College in Texas. He also holds a Ph.D. in experimental pathology from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was introduced to his scientific career in clinical laboratory science at the Armed Forces Academy of Health Sciences, San Antonio, Texas during a 4-year tour of duty in the U.S. Army between 1972 and 1976. 

Hackerman quickly rose through the academic ranks at UT and served as chairman of the chemistry department (1952-62), dean of research and sponsored programs (1961-62), vice president and provost (1962), vice chancellor of academic aifairs (1963-67), and university president (1967-70). In 1970,hejoinedthefacultyofRice University as a professor of chemistry and president of the university, holding both appointments until his retirement in 1985. Beginning in 1982 and continuing until 2005 Hackerman chaired the Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert A. Welch Foundation, which had a large impact on fundamental chemical research in the state of Texas. 

Professor Wes Borden holds the Welch Chair at the University of North Texas, which he assumed in 2004. He previously spent the bulk of his academic career at the University of Washington. 

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