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Katarzyna Zdrojewska, FLN5_IB, index no. gd22943 1 Glencore plc is an Anglo–Swiss multinational company. It was established in 1975 under the name of Marc Rich & Co. in Switzerland. In 1994 company has been rebranded into Glencore. In 2012 Glencore acquired Xstrata, a large british company, thereby making the biggest takeover that took place in mining industry. Less than two years after the merger Glencore have announced that the Xstrata brand will be phased out. Currently the company is…

First, fission reaction produces heat easily because of the enormous amount of released energy result of nuclear process. As soon as the nuclear reaction happens, the water in the reactor begins to boil and generate vapor which moves the turbines to produce cheap electricity. In addition, most reactors developed in this century are molten-salt reactors which are significantly efficient since they have a reduced size that allows an easy elimination of waste materials. Also, such reactors lend…

professor, Dr. Kamran Fouladi, and Widener’s engineering department that I was able to succeed in my designing my senior project with my. The project was a concept of design of a micro-hydroelectric turbine that can be used in remote areas where electric cannot be found. The main focus was to make the turbine sustainable, efficient in creating power and cost effective. Without these four years of collegiate academics, I would not possess the engineering knowledge I have to be in this great…

the first Industrial Revolution. The second Industrial Revolution, building upon the technological growth with new discoveries in science, made products more efficient, and changed society to adapt for its commercial use. The invention of the steam turbine was more efficient than the earlier…

One of the most important issues today for the left is climate change, rampant disregard for the environment will leave the world in shambles. There are a few current issues for the environment as well, like whether to allow fracking and the keystone pipeline. While most Republicans still deny it is a thing the Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, have both put forth their own plans to combat its effects. Hillary’s plan mainly involves solar power plants providing energy,…

Over the many years mankind has been on the earth they have been building homes and structures. As the world was evolving and changing so were the buildings and structurers. It seemed to be mankind were constructing the building to the environment around them. So depending on what was going on had a huge impact on have the buildings were constructed. Now that mankind is all about wanting to save resources and create more self-sustaining buildings. A self-sustaining building is a structure that…

Nuclear energy is a very controversial topic because of the Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown, the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown, and the pollution effects. Both Greenpeace and the World Nuclear Association (WNA) have different views on these topics. The WNA believes that Chernobyl was a human based issue, but Greenpeace thinks that it is all the fault of using nuclear energy. The WNA thinks that the Fukushima disaster was not very preventable and a little bit of human error but mostly it was a freak…

that early spring morning. Three Mile Island accident was a series of failures that led to investigations and important changes in the nuclear industry. It all started on March 28th, 1979 at 4:00 when a feed pump stopped operating, which led to the turbine-generator to automatically shut down just as it is supposed to. The feed pump sends water to the steam…

earthquake damage, so the emergency diesel generators located in the basements of the turbine buildings started up” (WNA). Then, approximately 41 minutes later, the tsunami hit. The first wave and second wave were separated by an eight minute interval. The second wave had submerged the seawater pumps. Along with this, the diesel generators had been damaged, as well as everything else in the basements of the turbine buildings. The tsunami had also taken out roads, as well as decimating buildings,…