Purpose Sabaf, a world leading manufacturer of components for domestic gas cooking appliances, went through a transformation process between 1993 and 2005 to develop a strategic approach to corporate responsibility. This case describes the learning and change process within the company that set the ground for today’s success. Design/methodology/approach This teaching case builds on data gathere...

Work is focused on a gas company that wishes to develop a better understanding of its safety culture and identify potential enhancement opportunities. The hypothesis that emerged from an exploratory phase of work suggests that the corporate restructuring initiated four years ago, which has divided the company into distinct business units, has reduced organizational reliability. This issue raise...

Good morning, Mr. Chairman, I am Dr. Michael Durham, President of ADA Environmental Solutions (ADA-ES). ADA-ES is a company that develops and commercializes novel air pollution control technology for the power industry. We are currently managing a $6.8 million program involving a team of the-nations leading engineers and scientists to scale-up and demonstrate sorbent-based mercury control techn...

Global warming created by large scale emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) are a worldwide concern. Due to this, the issue of green gas network has required more attention in the last decades. Here, we address the GHG-based problem that arises in a gas network where gas flow is transferred from the Town Board Station (TBS) to consumers by pipeline systems. Given this environment, an optimization...

1 Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, Franje Kuhača 20, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia 2 MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company, H-2443 Százhalombatta, P.O. Box 1, Hungary 3 Croatian Veterinary Institute Zagreb, Veterinary Department Vinkovci, Josipa Kozarca 24, HR-32100 Vinkovci, Croatia 4 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Chemical...

one of the biggest problems of using data envelopment analysis for the evaluation of performance is the weakness of the separability for the decision maker units. this problem is generalizable because of the lower quantity of units in comparison with the ¬input and output quantities of the model [1]. this matter considerably reveals itself in the evaluation process of 23 provincial gas companie...

Taoyan Zhao 1,*, Ping Li 2,*, Jiangtao Cao 2 and Tian Li 3 1 School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China 2 School of Information and Control Engineering, Liaoning Shihua University, Fushun 113001, China; [email protected] 3 Sinopec Tianjin Natural Gas Pipe Company, Tianjin 300457, China; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] (T.Z.); liping...

The article presents the detection of gases using an infrared imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer (IFTS). The Telops company has developed the IFTS instrument HyperCam, which is offered as a shortor long-wave infrared device. The principle of HyperCam operation and methodology of gas detection has been shown in the paper, as well as theoretical evaluation of gas detection possibility. Calcul...

The oil and gas industry is involved in a global supply-chain that includes domestic and international transportation, ordering and inventory visibility and control, materials handling, import/export facilitation and information technology. Thus, the industry offers a classic model for implementing supply-chain management techniques. In a supply-chain, a company is linked to its upstream suppli...