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    Engineering Outsourcing

    The issue of outsourcing is both a function of the short term investments that American companies are making that will one day come back to haunt us. Look at the Semi conductor industry which created vast leaps in the way we all live- from computers- phones- TV's etc. No country can maintain...
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    fastest growing segments of engineering

    From what I can see, Environmental- (due to global warming), Alternative Energy/Biofuels (as Oil prices race to $100/ barrel again ), Power/Utility (to redesign power grids and integrate alternative sources) and for the Oil folks-Offshore Petroleum engineering services (to mine oil from the...
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    Max Flow through pipe

    Alberto: I would do as devaxrayz put it, with further addition. I think you need to analyze this problem abit more than the simplistic form of looking at max flow. You need pipe characteristics,i.e material of pipe, roughness, length to point of delivery, types of bends if any to delivery...
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    Heavy HC from breathing valve during pipeline pigging

    Rob: Remember the primary rule in Engineering ethics- social safety, I believe these guys may be correct but for own proof you can do the following: - Material balance for the escapes at the vent. - Check the explosive safe and trigger limits for this HC over a known volume around the vessel-...
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    OIL and WAter separation.

    Just an addition to JMW's advise. If you don't know the mass, use a smaller container, e,g a tin can, -measure its weight/ mass, and dimensions. Pour the liquid-mix to half or full to the brim, measure its weight, -deduct from can's mass= liquid mass in can. -divide container volume to can's...

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