Chevron has estimated that it saved $100 million a year after it withdrew a refinery from the Texas electricity grid and relied on an on-site generator, which allowed it to recycle waste heat from the generation process for refining.
It is also used in odorants, insecticides, detergents, wetting and emulsifying agents, wax preparations, and antifoaming agents and in textile scouring and the flotation process for refining lead and zinc ores.
Of the survey studies reporting qualitative data, one was rated moderate quality; the majority of these studies provide little detail on the process for refining categories and themes for the open-ended responses.
Although we describe the specific process for refining BCD's aberration-detection method, the issues presented are common across jurisdictions, and the principles and results are likely to be generalizable.
Aqua regia is a highly corrosive process used for refining the highest quality gold.
Establish ongoing process for refining and selecting core measures: build stakeholder agreement on vital, standard measures of performance that are used by payers, regulators, consumers and accreditors to promote public reporting and value-based purchasing schemes across different payers and to harmonise regulation, accreditation and certification.
Otherwise, he would have tried to refine the labels or create a system for verifying dairy farmers' claims (a process for which the Food and Drug Administration issued guidelines — in 1994).
Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) serves as a key process in refining industry for converting heavy oil to valuable vehicle fuel such as gasoline and diesel.
A definition was applied to each code and a code book was developed and used for refining the coding process (code dictionary available on request).
The numerical model was developed using the ANSYS Fluent package supplemented with a stiff set of ordinary differential equations describing a kinetic scheme of radical chain reactions, and with user modules for refining physicochemical processes.
