The Domestic Scene

Australia currently produces approximately 200 000 tonnes of nitric acid (100% basis) per year (Ref. MD5). It is a cyclical market that responds directly to the performance of the agricultural and mining sectors. This occurs because Australian nitric acid is used almost exclusively for the production of ammonium nitrate (a nitrogen-based fertilizer and a mining explosive). The nitric acid industry has grown from a production capacity of 32 000 tonnes in 1967 (Ref. MD1 ). During the last decade, large deviations in production levels have occurred (Refe. MD3, MD4, and MD5). The overall trend has been for a 3% increase each year. 

A breakdown of the areas of application within Australia are shown below  

Western Australian Market Distribution Fertilizer Manufacture (NH4NO3) 10% 

Australia is highly dependent upon the fertilizer and explosives industries. The Western Australian market is unique in its links with the explosives industry. Urea has largely replaced ammonium nitrate as a compound fertilizer. 

Other graphs and tables which compliment the domestic market analysis are presented in Appendix B. They relate to almost all areas of activity for the local nitric acid industry. A list of these tables and figures is given below  

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Liliana B. Andonova is Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Studies at Colby College. She is the author of Transnational Politics of the Environment The European Union and Environmental Policies in Central and Eastern Europe (MIT Press). The book compares the regulatory reform and implementation of chemical safety and air pollution policies in three CEE countries Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. Her current research interests include trade and environment issues in transition economies, the role of public-private partnerships in global governance, climate change politics, and the influence of international institutions on the domestic scene. 

Twenty-five years ago the domestic supply of acetic acid came from the distillation of wood. This, in the form of calcium acetate, was reacted with acetyl chloride to produce acetic anhydride to satisfy the wants of the infant cellulose acetate rayon industry. Shortly thereafter a better process came on the scene utilizing the reactants sodium acetate, sulfur dichloride, and chlorine. 

It is clear that for a number of political and economic reasons the FT-synthesis, as the only large-volume carbon-based process having survived on the industrial scene, can only compete in countries where coal is both abundant and cheap and where the political situation favors or requires a domestic base of chemical feedstock. It seems that South Africa was the only place to meet these requirements. 

The final paper in the second section is entitled THE ROLE OF SMALL SCALE TECHNOLOGY IN INNOVATION. This paper deals with an innovation issue which is just emerging on the American domestic scene, although it has been an issue in the developing nations for some time--that is, innovation for small-scale, decentralized, low energy, low pollution, and... 

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ABSTRACT The problems in the current domestic use of the pitot tube combining micro-manometer to verify the mining mechanical anemometers were analyzed. Based on the structure principle of hydrodynamics, under the premise of the test with no violation of the orders anemometer verification, a new method based on wind speed equivalent weight to verify the anemometer was introduced. And the field test in the scene of the Key Laboratory of Hebei Province for Mine Disaster Prevention demonstrates that this method is a simple, fast, and accurate method to verify the mining mechanical anemometers within the expiration date of the wind tunnel. 

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