scholarly journals Value impact assessment: A preliminary assessment of improvement opportunities at the Quantico Central Heating Plant

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.R. Brambley ◽  
S.A. Weakley
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Central Heating ◽  
Heating Plant

Everyday Radioactive Goods? Economic Development at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena E. Stawkowski
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Nuclear Test ◽  
Central Heating ◽  
Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Heating Plant ◽  
Eastern Kazakhstan

I first heard of “radioactive coal” in the summer of 2012, when I was living in the small village of Koyan, one of many settlements in Eastern Kazakhstan that hosted the Soviet-era Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. A scandal over the sale of radioactive coal had erupted in the fall of 2011 when local media began reporting on a train from Kazakhstan carrying more than eight thousand tons of it (in 130 wagons) to a heating plant in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Upon discovering that radioactivity in the shipment was eight times higher than normal, Kyrgyz authorities had it removed from the Bishkek's central heating plant. Rather than discarding it, they put it to use elsewhere, including in the heating stoves of more than one orphanage, a kindergarten, and several rural schools. When media covered this development, public outcry forced Kyrgyz politicians to demand that the coal be returned to Kazakhstan; allegations of corruption and arrests of Kyrgyz officials ensued. Political wrangling over responsibility and refunds meant that negotiations between Kazakh and Kyrgyz authorities took more than a year to complete. Finally, Kazakhstan allowed the coal to be returned.

Heritage Place Building Theory, Heritage Impact Assessment and the Role of the Sacred Dimension

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Michael J. Kimball
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Outstanding Universal Value ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Management And Conservation

Heritage properties increasingly face a number of core challenges to their management and conservation. Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA), especially that which focuses on UNESCO’s notion of outstanding universal value, effectively identifies threats posed by some of these challenges. However, heritage is not only a potential or actual recipient of negative impacts. Through heritage enterprises—private, non-profit or public entities whose missions include heritage education, management and/or conservation—heritage also impacts its place, that is, the set of relations that includes location, activities, values, objects and contextual communities. Heritage Place Building Theory (HPBT), a participatory approach that comprises four place building orientations and five analytical dimensions, facilitates the development of a reciprocal (bi-directional) HIA protocol, which is better suited to addressing and transforming core challenges to heritage management and conservation. In this article, HPBT and its relevance to a reciprocal HIA are presented and explained. Furthermore, a new, sixth HPBT dimension—the sacred—is defined and explored through a preliminary assessment of two heritage enterprise examples.

VACUUM-CAVITATION DEAERATOR OF SAMARA STATE DISTRICT POWER STATION

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
Anatoly Aleksandrovich KUDINOV ◽  
Svetlana Kamilovna ZIGANSHINA
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Model ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
District Power Station ◽  
Power Station ◽  
Industrial Installation ◽  
Central Heating ◽  
Heating Plant

The paper presents the results of the experimental research of vacuum-cavitation deaerator of streaming water used in Samara state district power station. A study of the experimental model of this deaerator and its pilot industrial installation allowed the introduction of vacuum-cavitation deaeration in the central heating plant of Samara state district power station.

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