New Glycerol Upgrading Processes

New products from partial oxidation of glycerol

A surplus of glycerol production due to several reasons has initiated investigation of several routes of oxidative glycerol upgrading. Among the reaction products are substances such as dihydroxyacetone and several acids from oxidative upgrading of glycerol. Several routes of chemical oxidation and electrochemical oxidation have been published in literature. The ongoing project has focused on t...

Pluralism; an Old but New Phenomenon in Socio-political Processes

This paper presents pluralism as a historical process. The term pluralism frequently appears not only in the field of political philosophy but also in social sciences. In one sense, the growing literature is stimulating and enriching, nevertheless the abundance of material attempting to explain the various interpretations of pluralist theory can be convoluted and overwhelming. Despite the const...

Upgrading Bottleneck Constrained Forests

We study bottleneck constrained network upgrading problems. We are given an edge weighted graph G = (V; E) where node v 2 V can be upgraded at a cost of c(v). This upgrade reduces the delay of each link emanating from v. The goal is to nd a minimum cost set of nodes to be upgraded so that the resulting network has a good performance. The performance is measured by the bottleneck weight of a con...

Learning for Upgrading

Upgrading Narrow Gauge Standards

When the railways were nationalized between 1906 and 1907, the skeleton of the nationwide trunk rail network was nearly completed, as mandated in the Railway Construction Act of 1892. At the end of 1907, nationalized railway lines in operation totalled 7,165 km. Construction continued and 2,677 km of line were added by the end of 1919. In addition to active line expansion, the first decade afte...