Purpose The paper discusses the new concept of ‘Multinational Investment Projects’ (MIPs) and its application in the context of international business operations in China. The petrochemical industry in China is used as the industrial context in which we investigate the interplay between the Chinese government, which encourages growth and investment activities in the sector, and the multinationa...

Urban ambient air concentrations of 39 aromatic (including benzene, toluene, and xylenes) and aliphatic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were measured in Yokohama city, Japan. Yokohama city was selected as a case study to assess the amount of VOC released from Industrial area to characterize the ambient air quality with respect to VOC as well as to know the impact of petrochemical storage faci...

The synthesis of products through biotechnological process presents important advantages compared to chemical and petrochemical via. This is mainly because they make it possible to discover and explore innumerable routes of obtaining products with high aggregate value with very low environmental impact. The purpose of this work is the development of a deterministic model for biotechnological sy...

Based on the macroeconomic policies of the country regarding eliminating reliance on the sale of crude oil and in order to further develop the petrochemical industry and considering the special features of this industry including its technology based nature, facing fast changes and strong competition in the region, it is necessary for the active petrochemical companies to make plans with more i...

Financial efficiency evaluations in a network system, considering intermediate products, nowadays consideres great importance for managers. In the process of doing business analysis, each stage of in a network is of particular importance. In this paper, with the help of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the performance of a network with feedbacks are considerd. In this assessment, financia...

The industrial wastewater treatment is gaining more and more importance with the rapidly increasing need for expansion of existing plants and erection of new plants to cater the needs of chemical, pharmaceutical and petrochemical products and intermediates. The treatment of the wastewater is key to the sustainable and acceptable industrial growth. Petroleum industries and refineries are importa...

Abstract Non-isocyanate polyurethanes (NIPUs) constitute one of the most prospective groups eco-friendly materials based on their phosgene-free synthesis pathway. Moreover, steps obtaining includes use carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), which allows for promotion development capture and storage technologies. In this work, non-isocyanate were obtained via three-step pathway with epichlorohydrin. I step, ad...

optimistic. He found the theme of that statement — of what “will” happen in the future — to be troubling in that, in the 1920s, a radical change in technology, with similarities to biotechnology, was championed by luminaries such as Thomas Edison and Henry Ford: to replace hydrocarbons with carbohydrates. Despite broad support, including deans of MIT and Harvard, for the concept of manufactured...