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Do you ever wonder who’s responsible for creating the fuel sources that keep our busy world up and running? The answer is chemical engineers. A chemical engineer is a researcher who uses chemistry to solve problems related to the production of food fuel, medicines, and other products. Chemical engineers are a vital part of our society, however their expertise in energy sources is one of the most vital because of its ongoing development in our daily society. Renewable energy sources are energies…

To recommend whether the cash rate should be decreased, increased or should remain unchanged. The main purpose of this recommendation is to satisfy the three main objectives of the Reserve Bank of Australia. We look at the some of the factors that affects the RBA cash rate such as International economic conditions, domestic conditions of Australia and the stability of financial markets in Australia. International economic conditions: One of the major issue that Reserve bank of Australia…

There are environmental and economical factors that need be considered into the decision of whether or not to approve the construction of the Keystone Pipeline XL. My personal opinion based on a strictly economical standpoint would be to approve it, reason being; it would create construction jobs and increase the supply of crude oil to the refineries in Texas. Thus, improving our economy. According to Kennedy from CBS News, “If Keystone were approved, (James Bambino of Platts, a provider of…

Muscle cars are high-performance automobiles, most Muscle cars are fitted with a V8 engine designed for fast acceleration. Muscle cars are for street use, road racing, and sometimes drag racing. A lot of people are into muscle cars, they like to get old, rusted out, ones and fix them up. It takes a lot of work though; buying new parts, and installing them. Many people don’t race their muscle cars, they keep them for show. The muscle car industry took off over the 1950s. The early 70s brought…

Both the reading and the lecture attempt to discuss what the story of the weapon called "burning mirror" was in the Greeks navy who defended themselves with the Roman navy. While the lecture states three reasons for taking advantages of this weapon, not only does the lecturer disagrees with them, but she also presents some evidence to refute them all. First, the author maintains that the technology for manufacturing a class of large copper sheet for burning mirror could not exist in that time.…

Personal Protection products and Safety, Risk Management tools), Environment (formulate cleaner fuel, improve water usage and quality, reduce air emissions and develop strategic environmental plans), Reliability and Productivity (keep working operation at peak efficiency). [3] 1.2.5 Case Study IV KKB Engineering Berhad set their missions as “To be "Supplier of First Choice" of Customers, have consistent "Fair and Equitable return of Investment" for Shareholders, progress through continuous…

Based on the resource curse thesis, there seems to be an inverse relationship between the abundance natural resources and economic growth. Gelb’s (1988) cross-country economic analysis of oil exporting countries (Algeria, Indonesia, Nigeria, Venezuela, Ecuador and Trinidad and Tobago) was one of the early studies on the negative connection between natural resources wealth and economic development. The studies revealed that windfalls from natural resources during the booms periods of 1974 – 1978…

4.19 Optimization of ship fuel consumption The OPEX of a ship are mainly dependent upon the following factors. - Fuel consumption (FC) of ship’s main engine (ME) - Fuel consumption of auxiliary engines (AE) - The scheduled maintenance expenses - The owner’s everyday expenses While some regard that cost of loading and offloading of natural gas as the operating expenditures of ship. As mentioned by Stopford, M., 2009, Vessel’s fuel bills consume almost 76% of sailing costs, and some other…

SHELL is one of the biggest oil and Gas Company in today’s oil and gas industry. It has two parent companies one being transport and trading (Shell Wikipedia, 2017) and other which I am interested and going to talk about is called as Royal Dutch petroleum company known as SHELL. Since last few decades gas exploration and production has become an important portfolio of Shell's business. Shell has acquired British Gas Group in year 2016 thus making it the world's largest producer of liquefied…

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…