Vendor specification

At the end of this chapter you will find three annexes. The first of these is a list of nomenclature used in the chapter. There are quite a few equations that are sununarized in the foregoing sections and hence, you will need to refer to this annex from time to time. The second annex is a list of recommended references that I have relied on over the years, plus some interesting Web sites for you to visit for vendor-specific information as well as supplemental design and equipment sizing information. The final annex is the Questions for Thinking and Discussing. Remember to refer to the Glossary at the end of the book if you run across any terms that are unfamiliar to you. 

Remco Engineering - Manufacturer of systems for water treatment, waste water recycling, heavy metal recovery and filtration. Provides some good general information plus vendor specific, http //www.remco.com. ... 

For screw-type mixers, proper clearance between the rotating element and the mixer housing must be maintained to vendor specifications. If the clearance is improperly set, the mixer will bind (i.e., not enough clearance) or fail to blend properly. 

Noise can cause a serious nuisance in the neighbourhood of a process plant. Care needs to be taken when selecting and specifying equipment such as compressors, air-cooler fans, induced and forced draught fans for furnaces, and other noisy plant. Excessive noise can also be generated when venting through steam and other relief valves, and from flare stacks. Such equipment should be fitted with silencers. Vendors specifications should be checked to ensure that equipment complies with statutory noise levels both for the protection of employees (see Chapter 9), as well as for noise pollution considerations. Noisy equipment should, as far as practicable, be sited well away from the site boundary. Earth banks and screens of trees can be used to reduce the noise level perceived outside the site. 

If the equipment is a commercial product, the installation and operational qualifications can be obtained from the equipment vendor. This would include the vendor specifications and... 

Print rates based on start-to-finish runs estimated from vendor specifications or supplied data with a certain number of slides. 

According to the vendor, specifications for the Oxidair Model EH thermal oxidizer include the following ... 

Another source gives cost estimates for non-vendor-specific biofilters that range from 5 to 10/kg of contaminant ( 2.27 to 4.54/lb) (D10940A, p. 4-28). 

A similar technology to wet oxidation is supercritical water oxidation (SCWO), which operates at temperatures and pressures above the critical point of water (374.2°C, 22.1 mPa). A general discussion of SCWO is included in the RIMS library/database (T0756), and it lists several vendor-specific SCWO technologies. 

Vendor specifications are used as acceptance criteria for operational qualification of equipment. Vendors typically define specifications for analytical equipment instruments such that they can be met easily at the time of installation. However, these specifications are so stringent that problems arise after a period of usage of the instruments, and requalification tests fail. 

To truly decouple client code from vendor solutions, the vendor-specific exception has to be handled by the adapters as well. If Vendor A API throws exceptions that are proprietary, there must be a try-catch block surrounding the Vender A API call that either handles it in die catch block or rethrows the MolstructureConversionException that contains information in the vendor exception for the client to handle. Otherwise the vendor proprietary exception... 

Once the interface is defined, the vendor-specific adapters can be implemented. Assume we use MDL Cheshire as the chemistry intelligence engine we need a CheshireMolstructurelnspectorlmpl class. By the same token, you can also create an AccordMolstructurelnspectorlmpl class. 

In the case of the chemistry database, the situation is more complex. Compound data cannot be queried or updated using standard SQL. The read and write operations are encapsulated in vendor-specific Oracle data cartridges. Therefore, the Data Persistence Layer has another responsibility— hide vendor specifics with a standard interface so that the Business Layer does not care about vendor variations. 

Today s programmable microprocessor controller operating systems are the result of about a half-century of evolution and provide the available repeatability and reliability required on the plant floor. In the past, achieving these objectives meant choosing a vendor-specific operating system and choosing that vendor s entire control system. This can be a... 

I have also avoided mentioning the various features of vendor-specific synthesis tools. However, there are certain cases when it becomes necessary to show an example of an implementation. In such a case, the feature is shown as it is implemented in the ArchSyn (version 14.0) synthesis system developed at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. 

Ionization efficiency of a compound defines the conversion of a neutral molecule to a charged particle (ion). It directly affects the detection limit and sensitivity of a mass spectrometer in LC/MS system. There are several instrumental parameters that play important roles in the ionization efficiency of a compound. These parameters (and their names) are usually vendor-specific. 

Data in the vendor-specific paragraphs that follow were obtained primarily from vendor literature, vendor and industry contacts, trade literature, and electronic news services sponsored by vendors. 

Need Identification Manufacturing Decision Basic Chemistry Detailed Chemistry Task Identification Unit Operations Basic Plant Engineering Detailed Engineering Vendor Specifications Component Acquisition Construction Plan and Schedule Plant Construction Operating Procedures Commissioning and Start>up Production Plan and Schedule... 

A+ certification makes individuals more marketable to potential employers. Also, A+ certified employees may receive a higher base salary, because employers won t have to spend as much money on vendor-specific training. 

Agents provide an interface to plug in different types of converters. File converters translate data from instrument vendor-specific or indnstry-standard formats into native or human-readable formats. Common indnstry standardized formats are, for instance, JCAMP (e.g., DX, JDX, CS), ANDI, AIA, NetCDF, MDL Molflle and related formats (e.g., SD, SDF), ASCII formats (ASC, TXT, CSV), and XML-based formats. Most of the commercially available instrument software can import or export one of these formats. Conversion can either be done using an implemented converter in the application server of the target software or by specifying an executable for streaming conversion. 

File Converter is a software or software library to translate data from instrument vendor-specific or industry-standard formats into native or human-readable formats. 

For the rest of this subsection, we will focus on vendor-specific features that go above and beyond the standard DDL capabilities for schema evolution. 

A similar but opposite assumption is also in play with the prescriptive approach. The presence of a criterion may imply that the characteristic in question is the only means by which the system can be rendered safe . Continuing the HL7 example above, there is the assumption that the use of any other communication standard would be intrinsically associated with intolerable risk. Clearly this logic does not follow. A system may use a perfectly reliable vendor-specific message format, one that the manufacturer has utilised for many years and has a great deal of operational experience with. Indeed a change in technology to meet the requirements of the... 

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