and expected future trends in dust explosion research R.K. Eckhoff* Department of Physics and Technology‚ University of Bergen‚ Allegaten 55‚ N-5007 Bergen‚ Norway ¨ Øresund Safety Advisers AB‚ Box 82‚ SE-20120 Malino‚ Sweden Abstract In spite of extensive research and development for more than 100 years to prevent and mitigate dust explosions in the process industries‚ this hazard continues to threaten industries that manufacture‚ use and/or handle powders and dusts of combustible materials. Lack
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Farmer walking in dust storm Cimarron County Oklahoma This picture‚ by Arthur Rothstein‚ was taken in April of 1936 in Cimarron County‚ Oklahoma (Library of Congress‚ 2008). Rothstein took this photo while in Boise City‚ Oklahoma on an assignment for Roy Stryker‚ of the federal government’s Farm Security Administration‚ to document the severity of the storms and devastation they brought. About 14 miles south of Boise City‚ Rothstein came across Art Coble digging out fence post from a sand drift
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a story that where the Dust Bowl affected Atticus because he had to leave his farming job from the crops that were dried out. With no crops to work out on Atticus had to provide for his family‚ and he had to be able to feed his family. The Dust Bowl was a big drought that made Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ and in some parts of Kansas‚ Colorado‚ and New Mexico. This took place in 1934 right in the middle of the Great Depression. The people who were affected were people were the people
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“Scorched earth. Abandoned farms. Skies black with dust. Houses buried under great dunes of earth. Decades after the drought and depression of the 1930s ended‚ images of the Dust Bowl are still familiar to millions of people worldwide” (Wesson.) That is what a normal day during the 1930’s was like. Back then people farmed to get their profit‚ especially in the southern plains of the U.S. People’s lives revolved around farming. If they didn’t get their crops planted on time‚ there wouldn’t be food
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ubiquitous computing researches. Smart dust is a tiny dust size device with extra-ordinary capabilities. Smart dust combines sensing‚ computing‚ wireless communication capabilities and autonomous power supply within volume of only few millimeters and that too at low cost. These devices are proposed to be so small and light in weight that they can remain suspended in the environment like an ordinary dust particle. These properties of Smart Dust will render it useful in monitoring real world
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“Heat and Dust” is a story which moves backwards and forward in time‚ between the present (Post British Colonization-1970) and the past (During British Colonization-1923). It tells a story of two Englishwomen in India‚ the narrator and her grandmother Olivia‚ whose lives are interwoven‚ separated by fifty years. The narrator’s search to find out about Olivia brings her to the heat and dust of Satipur‚ India She discovers that Olivia was a woman smothered by the social restrictions placed upon her
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GKE Task 1 A. Significant environmental /geographical factors that contributed to the development or expansion of the United States: 1. The Dust Bowl Farmers began to plow and plant wheat crops. When World War 1 began the massive wheat crops helped feed many Americans that in another part of the country try where in the beginning of a depression that was caused by the war. The wheat crops also helped feed numerous nations overseas. A drought that began in the beginning of the 1930’s
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hit me. It was like if my mother believed everything will be better‚ then it will. Today‚ she admitted my worst fear was true. I sit on my bed in disbelief until I fell asleep. My eyes burn from the blowing dust. I feel my throat dry as ever. I look around and don’t know where I am. The dust is worse than it’s ever been and I can’t find shelter. It painfully slaps
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CHILDREN OF THE DUST Word Count: 740 The post-apocalyptic novel‚ “Children of the Dust”‚ was published in 1985 by English author Louise Lawrence. The most recognisable themes in the novel are survival and adaptation: it is an undercurrent throughout the entire novel. The novel details the journey of life inside and outside of the bunker. It details the journey of the three generations of a family and their description a nuclear war. In every section a theme is explored: survival‚ the misuse
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