Finance is fundamental; accounting is merely the set of procedures, techniques, and reports that make possible the effective execution of the finance function.

In their quest to remain competitive in our changing business environment, managers must work effectively with people, who are our most valuable asset. They are the heart and soul of a company's core competency, critical to the successful implementation of any strategic plan, operational initiative, or specific project undertaking.

Figure 67.14 summarizes the project-planning and control process. The process provides for planning according to goals and requirements and control by exception. The process is initiated by establishing detailed project requirements, and in meeting them, we simultaneously achieve the goals of a project.

Projects are a very common feature of organizational work. They are prominent in aerospace and defense; construction; product development; public sector water, transportation and urban development; strategic thrusts; and in all kinds of team-related activity, including continuous improvement and reengineering activity.

Various degrees of pollution management have been carried out for centuries. Roman sewers are well known. For much of this time, emphasis was on reducing esthetic problems in cities. When a connection was made between disease and microorganisms harbored in human wastes, the urgency to remove these wastes from human contact increased.

CHAPTER 65 AIR POLLUTION-CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES C. A. Miller United States Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 65.1 SULFUR DIOXIDE CONTROL 65.1.1 Control Technologies 65.1.2 Alternative Control Strategies 65.1.3 Residue Disposal and Utilization 65.1.4 Costs of Control 2012 20 1 3 2015 2015 2015 65.5 VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND ORGANIC HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS 2022 65.5.1 Conventional Control Technologies 2023 65.5.2 Alternative VOC Control Technologies 2024 METALHAZARDOUSAIR POLLUTANTS INCINERATION ALTERNATIVE POLLUTIONCONTROL APPROACHES GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE 65.9.1 CO2 65.9.2 Other Global Warming Gases 65.9.3 Ozone-Depleting Substances 2024 2025 2025 2026 2026 2027 2028 65.2 OXIDESOF NITROGEN—FORMATION AND CONTROL 2015 65.2.1 NO^ Formation Chemistry 2015 65.2.2 Combustion Modification NCX, Controls 2016...

This equipment usually has a capacity of less than 10 tons or 35 kW. When the peak cooling load and latent heat requirements are appropriate, this less expensive type of equipment is used. In this case the air quantity is determined in a different way. The peak cooling load is first computed as 1.3 times the peak sensible cooling load for the structure to match the coil SHF. The equipment is then selected to match the peak cooling load as closely as possible.

Atmospheric air is a mixture of many gases plus water vapor and countless pollutants. Aside from the pollutants, which may vary considerably from place to place, the composition of the dry air alone is relatively constant, varying slightly with time, location, and altitude.

Water solubility in any open or semi-open system can be important. The dilution of a salt or glycol brine, or of alcohol by entering moisture, merely necessitates strengthening of the brine.

The science and technology of deep refrigeration processing occurring at temperatures lower than about 150 K is the field of cryogenics (from the Greek kryos, icy cold).

Since a secondary coolant cannot be used below its freezing point, certain ones are not applicable at the lower temperatures. Sodium chloride's eutectic freezing point of -2O0C limits its use to approximately -120C. The eutectic freezing point of calcium chloride is -530C, but achieving this limit requires such an accuracy of mixture that -4O0C is a practical low limit of usage. Water solubility in any open or semi-open system can be important. The dilution of a salt or glycol brine, or of alcohol by entering moisture, merely necessitates strengthening of the brine. ...

Compressed air provides power for many manufacturing operations. Energy stored in compressed air is directly convertible to work. Conversion from another form of energy, such as heat, is not involved.

Compressed air provides power for many manufacturing operations. Energy stored in compressed air is directly convertible to work. Conversion from another form of energy, such as heat, is not involved. Compressed air can be supplied by several different types of compressors (Fig. 61.1). The choice depends on the amount, pressure, and quality of air a plant system requires. The reciprocating compressor is manufactured in a broad range of configurations.

One of the results of the study of fluid mechanics has been the development of the use of hydraulic oil, a so-called incompressible fluid, for performing useful work. Fluids have been used to transmit power for many centuries, the most available fluid being water. While water is cheap and usually readily available, it does

An internal combustion engine is a device that operates on an open thermodynamic cycle and is used to convert the chemical energy of a fuel to rotational mechanical energy. This rotational

The process of generating power depends on several energy-conversion processes, starting with the chemical energy in fossil fuels or the nuclear energy within the atom. This energy is converted to thermal energy, which is then transferred to the working fluid, in our case, steam. This thermal energy is converted to mechanical energy with the

Like other internal combustion engines, the gas turbine requires an outside source of starting power. This is provided by an electrical motor or diesel engine connected through a gear box to the shaft of the gas turbine (the high-pressure shaft in a multishaft configuration). Other devices can be used, including the generator of large electric utility gas turbines, by using a variable frequency power supply.

Gas turbines are heat engines based on the Brayton thermodynamic cycle. This cycle is one of the four that account for most of the heat engines in use. Other cycles are the Otto, Diesel and Rankine.

Although a large number of reactor types have been studied for possible use in power production, the number now receiving serious consideration is rather small.

The performance characteristics of centrifugal pumps and fans (i.e., rotating fluid machines) are described by the same basic laws and derived equations and, therefore, should be treated together and not separately.