It is quite like ethylene glycol. It has a boiling point of 188.2°C and a melting point of -59°C(7). What are the specific heat capacities of glycerol, water and olive oil? Glycerol: 2.5 J/g/°C (4) Water: 4.18 J/g/°C (2) Olive oil: 2.0 J/g/°C (3) How do the properties of these three liquids compare to the properties of the liquids used in radiators? Glycerol has some useful properties.
Na2CO3 10H2O Ni(NO3)2 6H2O CoCl3 8H2O Cr(C2H3O2)3 H2O CHAPTER 13 NOTES Lesson 13.1 Properties of liquids: - liquids have a variable shape, but a fixed volume. - liquids usually flow at different rates. - liquids don’t compress or expand significantly. - liquids have a high density in comparison to gases. - soluble gases mix homogeneously.
The mobile phase used in this particular experiment was Methanol and 0.1M sodium dihydrogen phosphate at a ratio of 30:70 and a pH of 4.5, slightly acidic. The stationary phase is the silica based particles packed within the column. The key characteristic of HPLC is the sheer pressure it works under. In fact HPLC is often referred to as high pressure liquid chromatography. The pressure at which the machine used in this investigation works is around 1900psi (pounds per square inch) which is the equivalent of 129.29 atmospheres!
About half of all Americans consume more than 300 mg of caffeine a day, making it America’s most popular drug. Caffeine is found in consumables like coffee, tea, cola, chocolate, etc. Caffeine medically known as trimethylzanthine. Its chemical formula is C8H10N4O2. When in pure form, caffeine is a white crystalline powder that taste very bitter.
The productive limits of the ground have not been determined, but cover more than one million acres, and this could reach two million acres, when more ground is proven. Initial production (IP) rates often exceed 1,000 barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) per day with a 90% oil and liquids mix, very styling today. The Wolfcamp is a blanket formation across the Permian Basin and acts as a source rock for much of the areas conventional oil and gas production. The Wolfcamp rock unit generally varies in thickness from 800-1,200 feet, with some areas up to 2,000 feet thick. The depth of the Wolfcamp formation varies from around 5,000 feet on the normally pressured southeastern side of the play to more than 10,000 feet in the over pressured northwest, where the play is generally considered richer in oil.
State Farm insures more cars and homes than any other insurer in the U.S., is the leading insurer of watercraft and is also a leading insurer in Canada. State Farm's 17,700 agents and 68,600 employees serve 81 million policies and accounts - more than 78.7 million auto, fire, life and health policies in the United States and Canada, and more than 1.9 million bank accounts. This risk assessment analysis segment of this strategy analysis will consider each of the sub sectors of the financial services sector in which the subsidiaries of State Farm Companies operate. State Farm's primary industry focus is insurance. Within the insurance sub-sector of the financial
| Patterson-uti energy(Nasdaq: pten) | BUY | EPS (2012) = $2.50 | Target Price (2012): $28.00 | P/E (ttm) = 8.53 | Qualitative Risk Assessment:Above Average Risk | | Report Date | March 28, 2012 | | Recent Price | $17.55 | | 52-Week Range | $15.06 – $34.09 | | 52-Week %Δ | -55.82% | | Avg. Vol. (3m) | 4.102,740 | | Shares Out. (mrq) | 183,295,000 | | Sector | Basic Materials | | Industry | Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration | Investment ThesisPatterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (PTEN) is the second-largest land-based oil and gas drilling and exploration company in North America. Patterson operates within three business segments: Contract Drilling, Pressure Pumping and Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production.
It is also contributed to United States oil industry by seventeenth percent of produce oil, as said by (Pam Barrett pg. 43) “Oil is by far the largest of Alaska’s industries”, and (R. Warren Anderson ) “Former Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton summed up its success in 2003 that Today the pipeline produces 17 percent of our domestic petroleum. It has pumped nearly 14 billion barrels of oil and $400 billion into our economy”, it gave jobs for several thousand people, Alyeska workers and sub-contractors. The pipeline has help Alaska which is the most heavily tax state to the most tax-free state. Alaska has profit more than half of the income from the pipeline has produces and the other profit goes to the United States.
In present time, the land is known as the Athabascan Oil Sands. The Athabascan Oil Sands are composed of about 70% sand or clay, 10 % water, and between 0-17% heavy oil or bitumen. The heavy oil in a sense is wrapped around in sand particles which in turn surrounds water that contains other things such as titanium and vanadium. The Athabascan oil deposit is the largest reservoir
The production of ethylene and derivatives such as polyethylene is highly integrated, requires large capital investments and goes along with a high operating leverage. Polyethylene is a commodity product, which trades globally and within a narrow price band. Critical success factors in the polyethylene business are: • Large plant sizes as large plants offer significant economies of scale • Vertical integration as a result of the highly integrated production process • Stable supplies of ethane of naphtha to support the highly integrated process and to allow for operating rates near 100% • Ethane as input o Plant cost for ethane cracking are about half of plant for cracking naphtha. o Operating cost are lower as dracking ethane requires less energy, manufacturing intensity and equipment than cracking naphtha • Low transportation cost including duties and levies as a result of the commodity product nature and the narrow price brand of polyethylene. • High global capacity utilization, as prices and profit margins are closely linked to the global operating rate i.e.