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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Texaco"”.
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A detailed performance comparison of distillate fuels in the Texaco stratified charge engine
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1976
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Cost-benefit analysis of remediation methods for the Fairfax, Virginia Texaco terminal oil plume
This paper's objective is to determine the best approaches for clean-up of an underground oil leak using cost-benefit analysis. The background aspects of the leak, including a description and history of the oil plume, aspects of the site, and applicable Federal and local regulations, are discussed. …
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A crioulização em Martinica: leituras sobre identidade cultural, memória e território no romance Texaco
… da identidade cultural martiniquense, no romance Texaco, do escritor Patrick Chamoiseau. Partindo do conceito de crioulização elaborado por Édouard Glissant – no qual as culturas e os sujeitos são postos em Relação, criando estruturas identitárias imprevisíveis – pensa-se, através de imbricações …
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Modeling the Performance, Emissions, and Costs of Texaco Gasifier-Based Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Systems
… focuses on modeling and assessment of three Texaco gasifier-based systems using ASPEN, a steady-state chemical process simulator. The first model is a coal-fueled IGCC system with a radiant and convective high temperature gas cooling design. The second and third models use a total quench high …
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Enhancement of temporal and spatial resolution of 2-D reflection data: application to Texaco data over Venice Dome in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
… improve the temporal and spatial resolution of Texaco Line 6, facilitating interpretation of the salt structure geometry beneath the line. Applied through DISCO (Cogniseis) processing software along with modules developed at Virginia Tech, SAGC and prediction-error deconvolution perform …
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"Liens, Echos, Entrelacs Ou La Creolite Discursive Dans ""Solibo Magnifique"" Et ""Texaco"" De Patrick Chamoiseau Et Dans ""L'archet Du Colonel"" De Raphael Confiant"
… a detailed analysis of Solibo Magnifique and Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau and of L'Archet du Colonel by Raphael Confiant, I attempt to determine how French West Indian reality is best represented through the metaphoric and aesthetic development of a concept that, originally, is purely …
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Microchemical characterization of ash from fuel production
… sludge, 75% Pittsburgh #8 coal slurry in a Texaco gasification facility and at ash resulting from the incineration of municipal solid waste at several facilities in Virginia and North Carolina. This information is then compared with similar studies done on ash and slag from coal-burning …
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Corporate Social Responsibility and its Effects on Corporate-Community Relationships: A Case Study of Chevron's Richmond Refinery Fire in 2012
… as crisis prone as the oil industry. In<em> The Texaco Incident,</em> Hoff (1987) argues that corporations have a moral responsibility to keep their workers safe, regardless of whether harm was intended or not. Events leading up to an industrial accident at a Texaco Oil Refinery point to poor …
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Facies and provenance analysis of the Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) in Kansas
… The Precambrian rift succession, penetrated by Texaco Noel Poersch#1 (NP#1) well in Washington Co. at depths between 2846 and 11300 ft, comprises two successions. The lower one (11300-7429 ft) is dominated by clastic sediments and the upper one (7429-2846 ft) mainly by volcanic rocks, which …
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Biblique des derniers gestes de Patrick Chamoiseau : Fantastique et Histoire
… the worldwide success of his novels, especially Texaco, winner of the Prix Goncourt-award in 1992, but also to the fact that he is the leading theorist of the Créolité, an ideological movement whose aim is to preserve the character of Creole identity and culture against the threat of …
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Locating the Destitute: Place in Postcolonial Fiction (V.S. Naipaul, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Octavia Butler)
… A House for Mr. Biswas, Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco and Octavia Butler's Kindred. Using space as a narrative device and an analytical category, I question the tendency of mainstream postcolonial criticism to exchange the forceful binarism of the anti-colonial struggle for a largely discursive …
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An evaluation of the environmental fate of reactive dyes
… cultures of Pseudomonas docunhae, A 9046 and A texaco and mixed bacterial consortia (semi-continuous activated sludge, SCAS) aerobic degradation of azo and anthraquinone reactive dyes was studied. Two azo dyes were degraded by pure cultures of A docunhae and A 9046, suggesting that azo dyes can …
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Biodegradation, water solubility and characterisation studies of unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) of aromatic hydrocarbons
… degrading bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens (Texaco). Five synthesised alkylcyclohexyltetralins and an alkylcyclohexylnaphthalene, proposed previously as 'average' structures for some aromatic UCM components, were also exposed under the same conditions. After 50 days, biodegradation of the …
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System integration and optimization of copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle with various options for hydrogen production
… process is simulated based on the industrial Texaco IGCC plant in which the heat of syngas cooling process is utilized to supply extra steam requirement of the hydrolysis reaction in the Cu-Cl cycle. The effects of steam recovery in the hydrolysis reaction on energy and exergy efficiencies of …
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Traces de terre, traces d'encre... La rappresentazione dello spazio nella letteratura caraibica. (Francofona e Anglofona)
… works of Chamoiseau (Chronique des sept misères, Texaco, L’esclave vieil homme et le molosse, Livret des villes du deuxième monde, Un dimanche au cachot) and Confiant (Le Nègre et l’Amiral, Eau de Café, Ravines du devant-jour, Nègre marron) that explore the urban space of the creole En-ville. The …
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Geochemical studies of earth materials
… metal concentration for that population. The Texaco gasification system developed at the Monte Bello pilot plant efficiently burns petroleum-coke thereby producing syn-gas and electricity. This system produces more electricity than conventional burners, yet the only by-products are …