Assignment #3: Production and Operations Management Marathon Oil – Case Study November 10.2010 BUS 508: The Business Enterprise Explain one possible option that Marathon could take to reduce the time involved in the production process. Oil refineries are huge sized plants‚ processing an average of a hundred thousand to several hundred thousand barrels of crude oil a day. Using process optimization‚ Marathon could reduce the time involved in the production process. The goal is to maximize
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Elasticity of Labour Demand A firm always incurs a change in labour or capital. It is important for a firm to know the effects on the wage or capital increase since it would help the firm make accurate decisions. A change in wage would make an impact on the firms employment. When there is a wage cut‚ it reduces the price of labour relative to that of capital‚ and now labour is cheaper. However‚ when the wage increase the price of labour increases and the firm would substitute away from labour toward
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entrance of the USA to the war. The push by the allies against Japan lasted 4 years and was accounted for in many battles. The Japanese expansion became to large for it’s own good for they did not have the sufficient amount of resources to defend and substation all of their occupied islands‚ which eventually lead to their downfall. The tide of war turned when the allies slowly began winning key battles at Coral sea‚ New Guinea‚ the Solomon’s and Guadalcanal. By 1945 the allies had taken back many Japanese
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Find below the configuration of a Delta-Delta transformer and the transformer setup of a substation found locally around Britain. As electricity is essential to life as we know it‚ failure protection needs to be considered‚ these measures are normally taken when supply exceeds demand these are; brownouts- Where the generated supply on energy has
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rings - the arenes. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution is a reaction in which the hydrogen atom of an aromatic ring is replaced as a result of an electrophilic attack on the aromatic ring (Attkins & Carey‚ 1990). There are steps to an electrophilic substation. First‚ attack of the electrophile on the aromatic ring‚ creating a resonance-stabilized carbocation called an arenium ion‚ which is an ion that is the result of an electrophilic attack on a benzene ring. And deprotonation of the arenium ion by
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A REPORT ON ASSEMBLY OF THE HIGH PRESSURE MODULE OF STEAM TURBINE BY APOORV MOHAN SHRIVASTAV UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF Shri. Jagarnath Orav Senior Manager (IMM) BHARAT HEAVY ELECTRICALS LIMITED‚ BHOPAL (MADHYA PRADESH) MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (A Constituent College of Manipal University) MANIPAL – 576104‚ KARNATAKA‚ INDIA CERTIFICATE This is to certify that this project report carried out by Mr. APOORV MOHAN SHRIVASTAV‚ student of B.E. AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING‚ of MANIPAL
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In his book William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure‚ Harold Bloom makes multiple claims in regards to Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure; however‚ the most significant is his argument that the problems within the play are ethical and are concerning conduct. This claim‚ makes the argument that Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is heavily satirical‚ but what makes it such? Within his work Shakespeare calls attention to many of the issues of Puritanism through the use of many rhetorical devices and
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Declaration This report is prepared by Mr rakesh mehta student of met‚ Mumbai while working as a summer trainee with MARS REALTORS. This report is in the partial submission of the requirements of the PGPM+MBA program . This report is intended solely for the education purposes for any circulation. The information contained in this report has been obtained from website is solely for the education purposes and not intended for any publication. The report is not intended to infringe any copyrights
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Wilcox R E 1996 Micro superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) system for protection of critical industrial and military loads IEEE Trans. Magn. 32 2276–9 [20] Parizh M‚ Kalafala A K and Wilcox R 1997 Superconducting magnetic energy storage for substation applications IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 7 849–52 [21] Aware M V and Sutanto D 2004 SMES for protection of distributed critical loads IEEE Trans. Power Deliv. 19 1267–75 [22] Ise T‚ Ishii J and Kumagai S 1999 Compensation of harmonics and negative
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GE GAP Guidelines A Publication of GE Global Asset Protection Services GAP.2.5.2 September 3‚ 2001 OIL AND CHEMICAL PLANT LAYOUT AND SPACING INTRODUCTION Loss experience clearly shows that fires or explosions in congested areas of oil and chemical plants can result in extensive losses. Wherever explosion or fire hazards exist‚ proper plant layout and adequate spacing between hazards are essential to loss prevention and control. Layout relates to the relative position of equipment or units
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