Ignacio Álvarez Castelao: Housing developments for power station workers

Isabel Álvarez and Raquel

Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows have contributed to the productive and technological upgrading of many host economies, whereas the discussion about the entry modes of multinational companies (MNC) and developmental effects is far from being concluded. Our aim is to exam the relative importance of host country differences in the understanding of FDI configuration and their modes of entry, ...

Recent Technical Developments in Thermal Power Station Supervisory and Control Systems

INTRODUCTION WHILE thermal power stations must ensure a secure power supply, recently efficient middle-range power operations and environmental preservation are also becoming increasing important issues. As a result, there is a need for more sophisticated operation and control to keep pace with the increase in supervisory and operational items. Moreover, changes in the OVERVIEW: The rising impo...

Exploring Homeowner Opposition to Public Housing Developments

Power Consumption Minimization of Khormoj Compressor Station

Arguably, the natural gas transmission pipeline infrastructure in Iran represents one of the largest and most complex mechanical systems in the world. The optimization of large gas trunk lines known as IGAT results in reduced fuel consumption or higher capability and improves pipeline operation. In the current study, a single-objective optimization was conducted for Khormoj compressor station o...

Blood lead level among fuel station workers.

OBJECTIVES This study aims to determine the level of lead in blood of fuel station workers and in a group of people not occupationally exposed to lead METHODS 53 control subjects with low risk lead exposure and 45 fuel station workers comprising the study group were included in this study in a period from September 2008 to December 2009. Blood samples were collected and analyzed for each subj...