invasive species implications for industrial cooling water systems

... 95 Invasive Species: Implications for Industrial Cooling Water Systems 127 Sanjeevi Rajagopal and Gerard van der Velde Chlorination and Biofouling Control in Industrial Cooling Water ... Southampton Water (UK) a population of the invasive clam Mercenaria mercenaria has become established near a power plant discharge Thus invasive species have implications for industrial cooling water systems, ... advantageous for those concerned with the operation and management of industrial cooling water systems 2 Biofouling in Cooling Water Intake Systems: Ecological Aspects 15 Biofouling in Industrial Cooling...

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:03

... high prices for water) Application example 3.3.1: Water flow control of water cooled condensers with a water valve Today water cooled condensers are popular in chillers, with the cooling water cooled ... taken so the water pipe is drained for water during water pump off periods Industrial refrigeration with very large capacity requirement Large reduction in water consumption compared to water cooled ... line Water pump Condenser Receiver Water Cooled Condenser Control Liquid flow control with a water valve Cooling PC water in Compressor Condenser Liquid flow control with a motor valve Cooling water...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 14:12

... context of domain-specific frameworks, for example, in [38] for the definition of a visualization approach for collaborative planning systems, and in [39] for knowledge systematization in the construction ... uniform basis for attaching quantifiable information to UML models QoS information represents directly or indirectly the physical properties not only of the application’s components in the form ... architectural paradigm and the semantic web technology to provide a promising platform for the next-generation ESSs for the industrial systems domain [2] [3] ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work has been cofunded in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... Demand, Users and Innovation 2001 ISBN: 84064 469 Technology, Knowledge and the Firm Implications for Strategy and Industrial Change Edited by Ken Green Professor of Environmental Innovation Management, ... built on ICT, have major implications for the cost and speed of the innovation process Also, higher levels of involvement and integration of users and consumers facilitate industrial specialization ... sharing documents, diagrams, formulae, symbols and images Groupware facilitates the communication and sharing of information and knowledge The enormous amount of information collected in various...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... (2), 135–64 Pavitt, K (2002), Systems Integrators as “Post -Industrial Firms, Brighton: SPRU Penrose, E (1959), The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, Oxford: Oxford University Press Petroski, ... purchasing them in the markets for technological knowledge Intellectual property rights can perform the essential informational role of signalling, spreading the information that the knowledge ... national and industrial traditions and institutions: as such it is difficult for it to swarm elsewhere (Nooteboom, 2002) See Antonelli et al (2003) for an analysis of the international markets for technology...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... and products dedicated to deepwater exploration and production Specialist designs for deepwater drilling platforms, namely Tension Leg Platforms, floating production systems and Spars, have been ... reliability for deepwater subsea systems was learned in shallower waters But there’s more to it than that Over the past 20 years Shell companies have invested over $500 million in deepwater research ... standards recognize deepwater exploration and production as occurring in water depths of over 400 metres, and ultradeepwater exploration and production activities in water depths of over 1000...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... capabilities have proved translatable from shallow water to deepwater contexts, whereas others are at best ‘near matches’ For example, for the most part deepwater down-hole well completions are conventional ... month The charge for the basic Internet bank service is comparable to the charge the bank demands for a mailing service for paying bills through the centralized Swedish systems for paying bills ... reflect the relative performance of the companies in deepwater activity BP is a world leader in deepwater (together with Petrobras and Shell) ARCO had some successful deepwater discoveries through...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... reformulated gasoline; reformulated in the sense that the gasoline is ‘designed’ for specific use and requirements in FCVs Unlike methanol, the reformulated gasoline is a nonrenewable fuel For ... (methanol reformer) ϩ/Ϫ ϩ/Ϫ Ϫ (gasoline reformer) ϩ/Ϫ ϩ Range of vehicle Change for consumer ϩϩ ϩϩ ϩϩ Notes: Dependent on the way hydrogen is made Efficiency data are still lacking for gasoline reforming ... race for the dominant design for FCVs sharpened DaimlerChrysler continued its efforts on the methanol reformer It received (modest) support from its partner Ford, Mazda (33 per cent owned by Ford),...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... channels for products Clients for technology Clients for R&D services Industrial partners for technology development Partners for production & distribution Partners for foreign expansion services ... partnerships: clients, partners for technology development or for production or for distribution Some firms also relied on foreign market relationships either for information or as a source of variety ... Perspectives, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press Maruo, K (1998), Strategic Alliances for the Development of Fuel Cell Vehicles, Goteborg: Göteborgs Universitet Moltavelli, J (2000), Forward Drive:...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... (2001), ‘Markets for technology and their implications for corporate strategy’, Industrial and Corporate Change, 10 (2), 419–51 Arundel, A and A Geuna (2001), ‘Does proximity matter for knowledge ... largely driven by the search for new opportunities related to pharmaceuticals, but their implications are straightforward for food science However the two fields form separate research environments ... and industrial upgrading’, Industrial and Corporate Change, 10 (4), 893–920 Steinmueller, E (2000), ‘Does information and communication technologies facilitate “codification”of knowledge?’, Industrial...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... with implications for their positions in problem definition and solution Prior to World War I most countries established GRIs that specialized in food safety and quality Due to its implications for ... (k) The latter ratio is 4.9 for GRI, indicating their proclivity for contributing to problem solving clearly above their level of own assignments Since the j-ratio for the three large firms by ... referring separately to their definition and their solution has implications not only for the analysis above but also more generally for understanding competence enhancement The literature is not...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... count once for Pfizer, once for Pharmacia, and once for Cambridge OECD background papers contain provisional data pointing towards decreases in the USA and Japan for corporate expenditure for basic ... More detailed information exists for only a few countries, including the USA where the business sector itself collects the data (Larson, 2001).9 Fortunately, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation ... patenting The expected benefits of basic research for design of drugs are therefore much higher than, for example, the design of new materials for semiconductors These sectors are defined in terms...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... Industries Association Promotion Act for Electronic Industries 88 chn F 66 Te Project for High Performance Computers Research Ass for Electronic Industries Act for Research Consortium tra jec tor ... (1993), ‘Path-dependence and predictability in dynamic systems with local network externalities: a paradigm for historical economics’, in D Foray and C Freeman (eds), Technology and the Wealth ... Elgar Freeman, C and F Louçã (2001), As Time Goes By, Oxford: Oxford University Press Freeman, C and L Soete (1997), The Economics of Industrial Innovation, 3rd edn, London: Pinter Grübler, A.,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... sunlight) and water treatments (well watered, no watering, and waterlogged) For the well-watered (control) seedlings, soil moisture content was kept at 0.7 cm3 cm–3 Watering was withheld for a period ... re-watering to a constant soil moisture content of 0.7 cm3 cm–3 For the waterlogged treatments, the pots were placed into a larger sealed pot completely filled with water to saturate the soil for ... identification of species that are suitable for growing under different irradiances and periodic water deficits Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the National Council for Forest Research...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... medical tourism for both foreign and local consumers and mitigate the risks Research methodology is outlined below, followed by the policy implications of medical tourism for health systems at their ... its policy implications have yet to be considered within the context of a health system This paper presents a conceptual framework of medical tourism and policy implications for health systems in ... conclusion emphasizes the need for concerted data collection efforts and identifies variables for further analysis of medical tourism’s potential impact on health systems Research methodology Media...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... of invasive species in freshwater habitats In order to control and monitor introductions, it is important to know which species are in the trade and to develop identification tools for these species ... of these species are aquarium fish species In chapter IV, I investigated whether the species coverage of aquarium fish COI in both databases are broad enough for monitoring invasive species that ... applications…… .…2 1.2 Establishing what are the species in the trade………… ………8 1.3 DNA barcoding for monitoring invasive species …… ……….9 1.4 References for chapter I……………………… 13 Chapter II: Tracking...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:16

... kg/s An integrated solar heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying viii Nomenclature mw Mass flow rate of water kg/s M Mass of water in the water tank kg Mc Moisture content dimensionless ... space for analysis and optimization of solar water heating systems They optimized the solar water heating system by minimizing annual life cycle cost An integrated solar heat pump system for cooling, ... making an effort to recover it Furthermore, the performance of a conventional heat pump system is greatly limited by the heat source An integrated solar heat pump system for cooling, water heating...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:37

... parameters, state variables, boundaries, etc.) Examples of open systems are: groundwater systems, social systems, as well as most of the natural systems Four types of variables characterize a model of ... generalized from Industrial Dynamics (Forrester, 1961) and Urban Dynamics (Forrester, 1969), developed by Jay W Forrester, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology This discipline is based on systems ... approach to water management as a management method which requires an integration of three interrelated systems: natural (water system), socio-economic (water users) and administrative (water management)...

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... was used to collect data for all the three types of services: a fastfood restaurant for pure service, an airline for mixed service, and a longdistance telephone company for quasi-manufacturing ... customers SERVQUAL, an instrument for measuring service quality was developed on the basis of the above five dimensions SERVQUAL has been gaining acceptance as a platform for work in service quality ... of the reasons for the importance of service quality are: q The economy of the USA and other western nations has become a service economy For example, in the USA service accounts for approximately...

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