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The sample is burned in oxygen at 1000°C. Nitrogen oxide, NO, is formed and transformed into NO2 by ozone, the NO2 thus formed being in an excited state NO. The return to the normal state of the molecule is accompanied by the emission of photons which are detected by photometry. This type of apparatus is very common today and is capable of reaching detectable limits of about 0.5 ppm. 

The first requirement is a source of infrared radiation that emits all frequencies of the spectral range being studied. This polychromatic beam is analyzed by a monochromator, formerly a system of prisms, today diffraction gratings. The movement of the monochromator causes the spectrum from the source to scan across an exit slit onto the detector. This kind of spectrometer in which the range of wavelengths is swept as a function of time and monochromator movement is called the dispersive type. 

This is an analysis frequently conducted on oil lubricants. Generally, the additive is known and its concentration can be followed by direct comparison of the oil with additive and the base stock. For example, concentrations of a few ppm of dithiophosphates or phenols are obtained with an interferometer. However, additive oils today contain a large number of products their identification or their analysis by IR spectrometry most often requires preliminary separation, either by dialysis or by liquid phase chromatography. 

Natural gas analysis has considerable economic importance. In fact, commercial contracts increasingly specify not just volume but the calorific or heating value as well. Today the calorific value of a natural gas calculated from its composition obtained by chromatography is recognized as valid. There is therefore a large research effort devoted to increasing the precision of this analysis. 

Because this separation is not subject to precise standards today, the resulting wide variations make comparisons between laboratories risky. 

In spite of considerable development of thermodynamics and molecular theory, most of the methods used today are empirical and their operation requires knowledge of experimental values. However, the rate of accumulation of experimental data seems to be slowing down even though the need for precise values is on the rise. It is then necessary to rely on methods said to be predictive and which are only estimates. 

The two numbers each have their own utility which explains why both are taken into account when setting specifications. Nevertheless, in the context of refining today, it is the minimum MON that is the most difficult constraint for the refiner. For example, to obtain an 85 MON for Eurosuper it often happens that the RON is greater than 95 in actual practice it is 96 or even 97. Likewise, Superplus can represent, for an 88 MON, an RON of 99 or 100. 

To the refiner, the question of octane numbers in future gasolines is of primary importance because it determines the course of operations, the development or on the contrary the stagnation of such and such a process. Table 5.12 thus gives an example of the typical composition by origin and concentration of different base constituents of three grades of the most common motor fuels distributed today in Europe conventional premium gasoline at 0.15 g Pb/1, Eurosuper and Superplus. 

Table 5.21 gives the characteristics of stocks used today to formulate heavy fuels. A few of these are strongly downgraded compared with their homologs of 1970s. 

More precisely, the rate of ozone formation depends closely on the chemical nature of the hydrocarbons present in the atmosphere. A reactivity scale has been proposed by Lowi and Carter (1990) and is largely utilized today in ozone prediction models. Thus the values indicated in Table 5.26 express the potential ozone formation as O3 formed per gram of organic material initially present. The most reactive compounds are light olefins, cycloparaffins, substituted aromatic hydrocarbons notably the xylenes, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde. Inversely, normal or substituted paraffins. 

At this point in time, the total sulfur content of crudes was not taken into consideration, since most of them were produced and refined in the United-States and contained less than 1%, and only the gasoline coming from corrosive crudes needed sweetening (elimination of thiols) for them to meet the specifications then in force. Today all crudes containing more than one per cent sulfur are said to be corrosive . 

Furthermore, the formulators having shown plenty of imagination, it would seem illusory to provide an exhaustive list of additives used today. We will mention only the families of additives, protected of course by patents, but well established and widely commercialized. 

Today the surfactants are required to have an ability to clean hot parts of the admission system as far as the vaive seats. 

Originally, mud was made from clay mixed with water, a simple system. Today the preparation and treatment of drilling fluid has reached a sophistication which requires specialist knowledge. The reason for this becomes clear if we consider the properties expected. 

In today s operations a mud motor or a mud turbine are mostly used for directional drilling. Rotary drilling may be carried out between mud motor / turbine drilling i.e. the use of these is often restricted to a certain interval only. 

The following types of artificial lift are commonly available today ... 

Suppose you have to meet an obligation to pay a bill of 10,000 in 5 years time. If you could be guaranteed a compound interest rate in your bank of 7% per annum (after tax) over each of the next 5 years, then the sum which you would have to invest today to be able to meet the obligation in 5 years time would be ... 

If you were offered 7,130 today, or 10,000 in exactly 5 years time, you should be indifferent to the options, unless you could find an alternative investment opportunity which yielded a guaranteed interest rate better than the bank (in which case you should accept the money today and take the alternative investment opportunity). 

The closest analogy to a project investment is to consider how much you are required to pay today for the promise of 10,000 in 5 years time. Assuming the only options are the bank or the offer, then the maximum you should be prepared to pay today is 7,130. If you are requested to pay more, then you would do better by putting the 7,130 in the bank. 

A fatal accident and some other disasters, which were caused by small cracks, lead to a more strict consideration of the security of these steam drums. Parallel to these the economical pressure, due to the globalisation of the today s industry, lead to the increase of the pressure and the rotation speed of the paper production machines for a higher output of the production, which means, that all safety aspects from the design and the material will be exploited totally. On the other hand cast iron is also not a ductile and comfortable material, like the most steels for the pressure equipment. 

Even the replacement of the hydrotest by a NDT method is only sufficient, if you perform much more than it is usual today e.g. a complete ET of the cylindrical part, which requires the possibility to rotate the drum during the shut down and is therefore much more time consuming and expensive. 

It obvious a today s demand on repetitive inspections to predict the safety of pressure equipments during the oncoming service period. The acceptance from the industry for this kind of testing is accessible, if you can fulfil this requirement an enlarge in this way the competitiveness. 

Life extension of existing critical industrial installations is a major challenge for today s applied research in this context structural integrity assessment and monitoring play an essential role. 

The war itself also drove the development of improved and miniaturised electronic components for creating oscillators and amplifiers and, ultimately, semiconductors, which made practical the electronic systems needed in portable eddy current test instruments. The refinement of those systems continues to the present day and advances continue to be triggered by performance improvements of components and systems. In the same way that today s pocket calculator outperforms the large, hot room full of intercormected thermionic valves that I first saw in the 50 s, so it is with eddy current instrumentation. Today s handheld eddy current inspection instrument is a powerful tool which has the capability needed in a crack detector, corrosion detector, metal sorter, conductivity meter, coating thickness meter and so on. 

Technology has converged and seems likely to continue to do so, particularly with the parallel developments in the personal computer. The P.C. today has the power needed to analyse and interpret the often confusing responses obtained in eddy current tests, in real time as the tests are being made. The responses we get from a testpiece come, as we all know, equally from features we are not interested in as they do from significant features. 

An extension of these metliods to 3D is the Feldkamp algorithm [7], a standard in 3D-tomographic reeonstruction today. In this case off-midplane voxels are taken into eonsideration through weighted filtered 3D-baekprojection. llie weighting compensates for the longer way an oblique ray has to travel. 

X-ray tubes are used in a broad variety of technical applications the classical application certainly is the radiographic inspection. For the penetration of high-Z materials, relatively high power is required. This lead to the development of X-ray tubes for laboratory and field use of voltages up to 450 kV and cp power up to 4,5 kW. Because of design, performance and reliability reasons, most of these maximum power stationary anode tubes are today made in metal-ceramic technology. 

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