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This resource looks at the different types of industrial finishes available and their applications. It explores the reasons for finishing, and when and why different processes might be used. It then goes on...
Recent EU rules for the chemical industry -- the REACH package -- are set to improve our health and protect the environment. Obliging companies to register and provide information on the chemicals they use...
Twelve film clips, each covering a single chemical process, which describe how each process works, looking at raw materials, uses for the products, and the geographical siting of the plant. Topics are:...
An interactive business simulation of industrial decision-making. The uses acts as the manager responsible for planning, building and running a major chemical plant.
A video-based training pack dealing with the thermal decomposition of powders and its associated hazards. The videos explains how thermal instability happens, how it causes fires and explosions and how to...
Mark Tully investigates the Bhopal disaster of 1984 and its continuing devastation on the city’s inhabitants. Ten years after methyl isocyanate gas from a Union Carbide chemical factory leaked over the...
To remain profitable the chemical industry must produce a huge variety of products in immense quantites at high efficiency, all of which requires careful integrated planning of the large-scale manufacturing...
Relates closely to the course textbook. Looks at ways in which computer programmes are used in design as a tool for analysis and synthesis. Five compaies are shown, covering these topics in architecture,...
Looks at coke-making and the early history of gas lighting, and includes material on a surviving gas works at Newton Stewart in Scotland. Animation shows how coal tar collects as a by-product. Discusses...
The presenter, an historian of the chemical industry, demonstrates the chemistry involved in the three principal historical processes for the production of alkali. He visits sites associated with the...
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