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    Hydrotreater - cost of +1 deg inlet temp

    Dear all, I'm looking for a way to quantify the cost to increase a hydrotreater inlet temp by 1 degree. Specifically, I am at a loss of how to correlate the megwatts per ton of feed required to heat up +1 degree to the cost of the associated fuelgas per ton reactor feed. I am not working in...
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    Global vs detail oriented brain

    We all know the anecdotes about micro managers and other detail minded people. My boss is detail minded, actually several colleagues are detail minded and I have the impression that it's the company culture, or let's say it has worsened because it hadn't struck me when I joined a couple years...
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    How much credit do you give to socially handicapped people?

    Everything is in the title, but just to explain the context: There are 2 socially handicapped people in the company where I work (> 100 people). They are not engineers but work in departments that often tend to consider themselves as the center of the universe instead of a unit that is...
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    Global warming: the Skeptical Environmentalist

    This book by Bjorn Lomborg is a Masterpiece with a capital M. Lomborg analyses the world's biggest problems like Gordon Ramsey would cut an onion: quickly, beautifully and effortlessly. If anybody can point me to a more informative and objective book about global warming, please stand up! (btw...
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    Greatest physical misconceptions

    What about a thread on the greatest fundamental physical misconceptions. They can be historical or present-day. I'll kick off with a real life example. At home we have a jug with a water filter because the tap water is disgusting. We usually let it in the sink after filling it because filtering...
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    How will we replace plastics?

    I find it funny how many people wonder what we should do if we run out of oil (economically speaking), while there's a whole range of solutions readily available (GTL, nuclear, fuel cell, hydro, solar, wind...). A much more tricky question IMHO is, how are we ever going the replace LDPE, HDPE...
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    Teamwork

    Does anybody have a good example of (even better: recipe for) successful teamwork? My theory (slightly exaggerated of course for the sake of the discussion) is that true efficiency can only be achieved when you do something on your own. A team is a necessary evil to achieve something you can't...

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