Small-scale pilot projects have demonstrated that integrated population, health and environment approaches can address the needs and rights of vulnerable communities. However, these and other types of health and development projects have rarely gone on to influence larger policy and programme development. ExpandNet, a network of health professionals working on scaling up, argues this is because...

In an attempt ot develop a one step process for the removal of H2S from sour gas, the engineering consideration were dealt with in two steps. In the first step it was attempted to derive the data required for establishing the design criteria for a pilot plant, by experimenting with a small bench scale.

A flax fiber pilot plant is needed to process small samples of flax straw into fibers to facilitate research on retting and fiber properties. Our objective was to develop and test a modular design for a flax processing pilot plant based on a commercial line that was capable of cleaning fiber and seed flax straw from unretted, dew-retted, and enzyme-retted samples. The USDA Flax Fiber Pilot Plan...

This paper describes development of the conceptual and mathematical models for the part of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) repository performance assessment that is concerned with what happens to the waste over long times after the repository is decommissioned. These models, collectively referred to as the "The Disposal Room Model," describe the repository closure process during which de...

Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTO) are extensively used when waste gases containing low solvent mixture concentration, generally between 0.25 and 5.00 gr/Nmc, have to be treated in order to reach established limits. A lot of manufacturers around the world are involved in this job, but still many factors are unclear, among these are: • temperature of ceramic packing bed • temperature differenc...

This pilot study of a school-based telepractice pilot project in a rural, remote county of North Carolina investigated the satisfaction of parents/caregivers, teachers, and administrators with a year-long telespeech therapy program delivered by a university clinic. Upon completion of the almost year-long project, a satisfaction survey incorporating a 5-point equal-appearing Likert scale (1= str...

A dynamic model developed in the HYSYS process simulator was validated using experimental data obtained from a pilot scale cyclohexane / n-heptane distillation. The resulting model was linked to the pilot unit’s DeltaV (Emerson Process Management) process control software. This link allowed non-measured parameter estimation to occur in parallel with the operation and control of the pilot plant ...