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    and used as fuel for the town and vehicle fuel and industrial fuel, however very rarely are all the emissions captured. Methane is less dominant in the atmosphere compared to carbon dioxide, but it is still 20 times more powerful as any greenhouse gas. Health hazards is also an effect. The inhalation of coal dust can cause black lung disease. Miners and people who live in nearby towns are most affected. Cardiopulmonary disease, hypertension and kidney disease are found to be higher than normal…

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    Guyana Frontier Mining Corporation (GMFC) is a public mineral exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V: GYG), and is focused on the exploration, discovery and development of precious metals deposits located within the South American country of Guyana. The company formerly Shoreham Resources Ltd came into operation in the year 1987 and began acquiring interests in Guyanese gold exploration properties in 2007. The company holds various rights to obtain working interest in…

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    British Petroleum(BP) was initially registered as Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited. It was founded in 1909 by William Knox D’Arcy an English who discovered oil in Iran. The company was state owned by Britain until 1970 it was privatized under the era of Margaret Thatcher. The company has been struggling and a posted loss of $811 million until it repositioned the company in 2001. The company wanted to be the leader of an environmentally friendly oil company and had associated themselves with the…

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    Physics practical theory: Hydrochloric acid is a clear is a highly corrosive, strong mineral acid with many industrial uses. Major production started in the Industrial Revolution, hydrochloric acid is used in the chemical industry as a chemical reagent in the large-scale production of PVC plastic, and MDI/TDI for polyurethane. It has numerous smaller-scale applications, including household cleaning, production of gelatine and other food additives, descaling, and leather processing. About 20…

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    Safety-Critical Inventions

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    In the ancient times people used simple tools to operate and secure their lives, but as the world evolved they have invented improved tools to insure longer and better life. Some of these tools are electricity, water pipe systems and others concern critical issues, such as health and nuclear energy. Inventions such as the defibrillator, heart-lung machines and even robotics, as well as nuclear reactors are also known as safety-critical systems. They are increasingly computer-based systems, but…

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    Thermosel Stainless Steel Bellow Expansion Joint was designed to utilize the piping system and to monitor the thermal expansion or terminal movement where the utilization of extension circles is undesirable or unreasonable. We offer this Thermosel Stainless Steel Bellow Expansion Joint that can prevent the unnecessary damage caused by vibration, pressure thrust, thermal growth, and other mechanical issues that can affect to the piping system. These Expansion joints are uniquely intended to…

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    Gazprom Case Study

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    operating worldwide and is a natural gas provider for Russia and for more than 30 other countries. Gazprom was founded in 1989 by restructuring the USSR Gas Industry Ministry (Gazprom, n.d./2015). In the following years, Gazprom became a global company for gas supplies. The company’s share in the global gas reserves is about 17 per cent and the share in the Russian gas reserves makes up 72 per cent (Gazprom, n.d./2015). The company has almost the same per cents for the gas output. Gazprom is now…

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    flag of Saint Vincent and Grenadines. Chronological facts of the case are as follows: 20.08.2004 – 29.10.2004: The vessel M/V “Louisa” was conducting surveys of the sea floor in the internal waters and territorial sea of the Spain to locate oil and gas deposits on the basis of a permit issued by the Spanish Ministry of Environment. 29.10.2004: The vessel was voluntarily docked at Port El Puerto de Santa Maria. 01/02/2006: The Spanish authorities boarded, searched and detained the vessel. During…

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    Exxon Valdez Case Study

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    Exxon Valdez Table of Contents Introduction: (Skinner, S.K. and Reilly, W.K., 1989)[1] A catastropic event taken place on March 24th 1989 at Prince William Sound, Alaska. An Oil Tanker known as Exxon Valdez owned by Exxon Shipping company was transporting 53.09451 million US gallons of crude oil. At 12:04 am the ship struck the Prince William Sound, Bligh reef. This caused 10.8 million US gallons of crude oil to spill hereby creating a huge environmental disaster and it was known that…

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    Coal Mining Negatives

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    Discussion There are obviously both negatives and positive impacts of Mpumalanga coal mines. Positives being the economic growth they provide not only to Mpumalanga, but to South Africa as a whole. While negatives being the environmental damages they have caused and are causing presently. Mostly on the agriculture due to the land destruction and the polluting of water and air which is having a knock on effect of the communities living in Mpumalanga. In order to find out whether the positives…

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