Worldwide Sites

Industry has indicated that the number of production lines undertaking coating of glass bottles with monobutyltin trichloride is around 500, with an estimated 2000 production lines worldwide. Sites in the EU could be expected to use a little over 1 tonne of monobutyltin trichloride per year on average. 

Crises Communication. BASF goes to great lengths to ensure that the facilities at its worldwide sites are as safe as possible, often putting procedures in place that exceed the statutory regulations. It is of course impossible, even though we employ the most sophisticated measures, to totally rule out an accident or... 

The STAR-H2 reactor has a central safety rod and an active scram circuit. It also will have a decay heat removal path through the flibe loop. However, in order to achieve the levels of safety required for deployments of tens of thousands of STAR-H2 plants worldwide - sited near cities, it will be essential to avoid core damage even in the absence of a scram. The technology to achieve passive safety response to anticipated transients without scram (ATWS) events was well developed for the IFR concept [XXIV-15] and was famously demonstrated in tests conducted at the EBR-II reactor [XXIV-16]. 

A catalyst is a material that accelerates a reaction rate towards thennodynamic equilibrium conversion without itself being consumed in the reaction. Reactions occur on catalysts at particular sites, called active sites , which may have different electronic and geometric structures than neighbouring sites. Catalytic reactions are at the heart of many chemical industries, and account for a large fraction of worldwide chemical production. Research into fiindamental aspects of catalytic reactions has a strong economic motivating factor a better understanding of the catalytic process... 

The abrasive industry is highly competitive and many small companies worldwide successfully compete by specializing in a particular segment of the business, eg, disk wheels, mounted points, and mbber wheels. Costs in the fused abrasive industry are primarily in materials and electric power. Thus manufacturers seek out plant sites having the lowest power costs. Costs for coated abrasive manufacturers are capital and labor intensive and they seek out sources of low cost labor. 

As of the mid-1990s all commercial phosphoms is manufactured at a few sites around the world. Significant production occurs in Idaho and Montana in the United States, in the Netherlands, in Kazakstan, and in China smaller production occurs in Prance, Russia, and India. A large amount of furnace capacity has been shut down worldwide because of cost pressure from electric power costs, phosphate derived from purified wet acid, and detergent phosphate bans legislated in the Western World. However, as of late 1995, additional production is stiU being brought on line in China. 

Worldwide production capacity of Hquid polysulfides is about 33,000 t with manufacturing sites in the United States, Japan, and Germany. Total consumption is about 28,600 t. Approximately 50% is for insulating glass sealants, 30% for constmction appHcations, and - 10% for aircraft sealants. In addition, - 909 t of the soHd polysulfide mbbers are sold each year. 

On a worldwide basis the printing industry ranks as number four in manufacturing employment. Over 4.5 million people ate employed at mote than 350 thousand sites. In the United States, 1993 employment exceeded 1.5 million, an increase of over 180 thousand jobs in the period of 1982—1993. Similar growth in employment is being experienced worldwide. Table 1 shows industry trends in the United States, which ate typical of those worldwide. These do not include revenues from packaging or office copying. 

Receptor models are powerful tools for source apportionment of particulates because a vast amount of particulate species characterization data have been collected at many sampling sites worldwide, and because many aerosol species are primary pollutants. Most of the information available is for elemental concentrations, eg, lead, nickel, and alurninum, although more recent measurements have provided data on concentrations of ionic species and carbonaceous compounds. At a sampling (or receptor) site, the aerosol mass concentration of each species i is... 

Ex situ or off-site, regeneration of base metal catalysts is a service offered by several vendors worldwide, including Catalyst Recovery, Inc., of Lafayette, Louisiana, and Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada Catalyst Recovery, Europe of Rodange, Luxembourg Nippon CRI of Miyako, Japan Englehard (formerly Edtrol) of Salt Lake City, Utah Eurecat, U.S., of Pasadena, Texas and Eurecat, SA of La Voulte, Erance (22—28). 

Clearly the largest application for filtration is air pollution control. On a worldwide basis the annual sales revenues for all types of pollution control equipment is around 150 billion dollars, with air pollution control devices being a substantial part of tliese equipment sales. The following is a summary of Web sites recommended to be consulted for specific vendor information on air filtration devices. A brief description of each site is provided. Many of these sites will link the reader to other sites containing additional information on product information. 

Address Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Worldwide Medicines Group World Headquarters, Rt. 206 Provinceline Rd., PO. Box 4500 Princeton, NJ 98543-4500 USA Phone +1 800 321 1335 Web site www.bms.com... 

Insulin is a peptide hormone, secreted by the pancreas, that regulates glucose metabolism in the body. Insufficient production of insulin or failure of insulin to stimulate target sites in liver, muscle, and adipose tissue leads to the serious metabolic disorder known as diabetes mellitus. Diabetes afflicts millions of people worldwide. Diabetic individuals typically exhibit high levels of glucose in the blood, but insulin injection therapy allows diabetic individuals to maintain normal levels of blood glucose. 

Studies have been undertaken to examine the potential of several other tidal power sites worldwide. Scientists estimate that a barrage across the Severn River in western England could supply as much as 10 percent of the country s electricity needs (12 gigawatts). Similarly, several sites in the Bay of Fundy, in Cook Inlet, Alaska, and the White Sea in Russia have been found to have the potential to generate large amounts of electricity. 

CAMPUS, the plastics database CAMPUS is an internationally known database software for plastic materials, developed by close cooperation with leading plastics producing companies. It is available worldwide from leading material suppliers. More than 50 plastics producers are participants of CAMPUS. Information about the latest list of participants and distribution addresses can be found at the CAMPUS homepage http //www.CAMPUSplastics.com/. This web site also includes extensive information about the data content of CAMPUS and links to the participants web sites. It is important to emphasize that only CAMPUS participants distribute CAMPUS diskettes. Each plastic producer distributes his own diskette to his customers without charge. 

---