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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"oil refinery"”.
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From <i>Zadruga</i> to oil refinery: Croatian immigrants and Croatian-Americans in Whiting, Indiana, 1890 to 1950
… and their Croatian-American children in the oil-refining city of Whiting, Indiana. It utilizes both traditional and quantitative sources.</p> <p>The Whiting Croatians came from a single emigration district along the Croatian Military Border. Changes from communal to individual ownership of …
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Lichens as air pollution assays on the Western Cape coast
… source and put in the vicinity of the Caltex oil refinery for four month after which they were analysed for their fluorescence and chlorophyll content. In all transects, lichen species richness and percentage cover increased with distance from the oil refinery, suggesting that indeed lichens …
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An integrated assessment of environmental impact and sustainability of oil refinery development and operations in a developing country: a case study of Kaduna refinery in Nigeria
… to enhance understanding of sustainability in oil refinery development and operations in a developing country, using a case study of the Kaduna refinery, Nigeria. The study considered the sustainability indicators for the assessment; environmental, economic, and social. The literature review …
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Utopia and Oblivion
… the industrial infrastructure of a now defunct oil refinery for the bioremediation of toxic soils, restoration of functional riparian ecologies, and reinhabitation of the site by human and non-human life. The context of the project is based on the assumption that such an undertaking is highly …
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INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING AND REVITALISATION IN THE UK COASTAL ZONE
… economic and environmental consequences of oil refinery closures in the coastal zone of the UK. It assesses the subsequent economic regeneration of the sites affected, and discusses in particular the redevelopment processes that have occurred at two of the sites. Despite recent calls for a …
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The Effects of Feedback on Safety Observations and Related Behaviors
… the employees' BBS observations in a Midwestern oil refinery. Results suggest that carefully interlocking the behavior of front-line employees with managerial practices can enhance effective BBS programs. Contextual features that may bolster or mitigate the effects of such systems are described …
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State-of-the-art Approaches for Sequencing, Assembling and Annotating Naphthenic Acid Degrading Bacterial Metagenomes
… acids (NAs) are the main toxic component of oil refinery wastewater and require special processes to be removed. Harnessing bacterial biodegradation for NA removal has the potential to be effective, yet NA-degrading bacteria and pathways are poorly understood and uncharacterized. To improve …
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SuperLoad Crossing of Millard Avenue Bridges Over Duck Creek and CSX Railroad
… on the route from the Port of Toledo to a nearby oil refinery. The bridge over Duck Creek is a three span straight slab-on- steel girder bridge and the CSX is a horizontally curved slab-on- steel girder bridge having five continuous spans. The horizontal curve of the steel super structure is …
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Thermal hydraulic design of a salt-cooled highly efficient environmentally friendly reactor
… to provide process heat applications such as oil refinery needs of heat and electricity. The reactor uses the binary salt NaF-BeF₂ as the primary coolant, and uses U-Zr-H as fuel and to provide neutron moderation. Design options were studied under the constraints of maximum fuel temperature of …
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Conectividad Alegal: Remaking and Resilience in the Bay of Havana
… as a whole. The Bay, bracketed by an inoperable oil refinery and a degrading thermoelectric plant, is currently characterized by abandoned industry. While these forgotten sites restrict pedestrian access and foster pollution, they provide a critical connection to the shoreline, and therefore to …
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Class actions within the field of environmental law
… pollution. A single factory, or for instance an oil refinery, can cause toxic fumes polluting the air, and thus causing significant harm to people and the environment. Massification can produce dangerous living or working conditions which demand the mass to become the focal point of change. In …
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Beyond program : designing future industries for the public realm
The thesis project is sited on an existing BP oil refinery site in Whiting, Indiana, just across the state border from Chicago. The project aims to operate within the context of the ongoing debate between the private corporation and its relationship with the public realm (including the …
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When Companies Rule: Corporate Political Authority in India, Kenya and South Africa
… to three contemporary case studies: the Reliance oil refinery and township in India, the Del Monte pineapple plantation and estate in Kenya, and the Lonmin platinum mine and surrounding settlements in South Africa. It finds that company actors are motivated by one or more of three key factors: …
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PHYSIOLOGY AND ESTUARINE ECOLOGY OF PHENANTHRENE-DEGRADING BACTERIA (MYCOBACTERIUM, MICROLAYER, METABOLITES, PAH, MARINAS, NEW HAMPSHIRE)
… active were sediments collected near an oil refinery and water samples collected downstream from a dredging operation. Coal tar-derived PAH, analyzed in dredge and downstream sediments by capillary gas chromatography, were introduced into the river in high concentrations over several …
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Evaluating rhizodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in wetland sediments containing spartina patens
… basin that was a former salt marsh at an active oil refinery. Spartina patens were grown in basin sediments during a field study and a greenhouse study over three consecutive growing seasons. Ninety percent (90%) survival was observed in field study plots containing sediments with <12% PHC. In …
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Optimisation of heat exchanger network maintenance scheduling problems
… heat exchanger network case studies from crude oil refinery preheat trains. The demonstrated meth- odology is shown to be robust, reliable and efficient. In the second area of this thesis, the aforementioned novel technique is applied to the scheduling of the regeneration of membranes in reverse …
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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
… important in an industry 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 …
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The effect of zeolite type on the hydrocracking of long n-paraffins
… as to the lifetime of the planet’s crude oil reserves, it is indisputable that they are finite and will, eventually, become exhausted. As such it is desired to devise methods whereby currently available non-crude oil derived hydrocarbon feedstocks may be utilised for the production of …
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