Tragedy

The process related to the paint shop does not impose a significant pollution load on the environment compared to many other industrial activities. It is, however, essential that all possible aspects of environmental pollution by wastewater, environmental hydrology, environmental hydraulics and pneumatics, air, solid waste, noise and hazardous wastes etc. are reviewed to control any kind of pollution within the prescribed limits. Otherwise subsequent tragedies, if caused by environmental negligence in the industrial processes, may lead to the formation of stricter environmental laws. 

This book gives a broad introduction to these properties and limitations. It cannot make you a materials expert, but it can teach you how to make a sensible choice of material, how to avoid the mistakes that have led to embarrassment or tragedy in the past, and where to turn for further, more detailed, help. 

BLEVE The Tragedy of San Jiianico, Skandia International Insurance Corporation, Stockholm, Sweden, 1985. 

The blowdown valves on the boilers were operated by a special key, which had a lug on it so that it could not be removed when the valve was open. It was therefore impossible, in theory, for two blowdown valves to be open at the same time. However, the boiler fitter kept and jealously guarded a private key w ithout a lug and had used this one to open the blowdown valve on the boiler that was under repair. He forgot to tell the process foreman what he had done or to close the valve. The presence of this key would appear to have been of little moment as long as the correct procedure of complete isolation was maintained, but as soon as it was departed from, the additional key became a menace, which eventually enabled the present tragedy to occur, the accident report said. 

S. Hazarika, Bhopal—The Lessons of a Tragedy, Penguin Books, London, 1987. 

Learn from the mistakes of others. This invaluable and respected book examines the causes and aftemiaths of numerous plant disasters—almost every one of which could have been prevented. Case histories illustrate what went WTong and why it went wrong, and then guide you in how to circumvent similar tragedies. 

An initial explosion occurred on the production deck of the Piper Alpha Offshore Platform in the North Sea at about 1 00 PM on July 6,1988. The incident escalated into a tragedy that cost the lives of 165 of the 225 persons on the platform. Two additional fatalities occurred on a rescue boat. The Piper Alpha Platform was totally devastated. 

Points to Consider Regardless of how well you communicate risk information some people will not be satisfied. Never let your efforts to inform people about risks prevent you from acknowledging and saying tJiat any illness, injury, or deatJi is a tragedy. And finally, if people are sufficiently motivated, tJiey are quite capable of understan ng comple.v risk information, even if tliey may not agree witJi you. 

The great tragedy of Science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. 

Trauer-spiel, n. tragedy, -weide, /. weeping willow. 

In 1847 Joule married Amelia Grimes, and they had two children who suiwived them. Another son was horn on June 8, 1854, hut died later that month. This was followed by an even greater tragedy— within a few months Joule s wife also passed away. Joule never remarried, but spent the rest of his life with his two children in a variety of residences near Manchester. 

Haber, like all of us, suffered disappointment and tragedy in his life. In the years after World War I, he devised a scheme to pay Germany s war debts by extracting gold from seawater. The project. 

The importance of producing pharmaceuticals in enantiomerically pure forms was brought to the public s attention with the thalidomide (Formula 4.2) tragedy in the early 1960s. Thalidomide, as a racemic mixture, was originally produced in 1953 as a sedative and a non-addictive alternative to barbiturates. It was later found that it alleviated many of the unpleasant symptoms of early pregnancy but by 1961 its use had been linked with an increase in the number of severe birth deformities and it was withdrawn. It... 

W. Balistreri, M. Farrell, and K. Bove, Lessons from E-ferol tragedy, Pediatrics, 78, 503 (1986). 

The portal page (with cast of characters) to the complete work in 5 acts. "Ben Jonson (1573- 1637) was one of the foremost of the Jacobean dramatists. He wrote a number of plays (both comedies and tragedies) and a series of stylised masques for the Court. He had a keen eye for the follies of his contemporaries, and in this play he particularly... 

Leininger, L.J. "The Jacobean bind a study of "The Tempest", "The Revenge of Bussy d Ambois", "The atheist s tragedy", "A king and no king", and "The Alchemist", the major plays of 1610-1611, in the context of Renaissance expansion and Jacobean absolutism." PdD thesis, Univ of Massachusetts, 1975. 

Dryden, John John Dryden four tragedies. Edited by L.A. Beaurline and Fredson Bowers. Edited by L.A. Beaurline and Fredson Bowers. Chicago (IL) Univ of Chicago... 

As nylon and the plastics revolution became a part of modern life, the figure of Carothers receded tragically into the shadows. The horror of his death, the social stigma attached to mental illness and suicide, and prevailing social codes that discouraged the discussion of personal tragedies contributed to an atmosphere of secrecy that surrounded his life. As late as 1979, the Encyclopaedia Britannica credited Father Nieuwland with the discovery of Neoprene. 

This book is about the scientific roots of our modern way of life. It tells the story of pioneering chemists like Berthollet whose discoveries solved critical problems in their lifetimes. Readers should be forewarned. The lives of these scientists tend to be dramatic. They are filled with the joys of discovery, the excitement of their times, and even the anguish of human tragedy. 

The insecticide malathion was the hero in the 1976 tragedy in Pakistan. Poisoning started after measures were taken to fight malaria. At least 2800 of the 7500 workers in this area were poisoned [37]. When studied, the more highly toxic iso-malathion was found together with malathion in their bodies. It is known that iso-malathion transforms into the more highly toxic malaoxon, both in storage and directly in the environment. 

Interest in compounds of this generic type has cooled considerably in the wake of the thalidomide tragedy. 

This declaration of faith should have resounded in the Palace of Justice. No playwright could have conceived a more inspiring tragedy than the Farben judges, had they stood on the ashes of that other tyranny and exhorted free institutions to rise from their sleep. Such action alone could not have rescued our foreign policy from the fear on which it bases its appeal to public opinion, but it might have helped an alert public opinion to have seen its main current. 

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