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Weirauch, Wendy

<i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i> Staff, Houston, Texas

HP Impact: HPImpact: API becomes accredited ISO 9000 registrar

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

The American Petroleum Institute (API) has become an accredited International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9000 Quality System Registrar. This new API Quality Registrar (APIQR) service pr..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Does fuel quality affect air quality?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

The European Program on Emissions, Fuels and Engine Technologies (EPEFE) has done significant research on the interactions between engine technologies and fuel quality on exhaust emissions. A CONCAWE ..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Bus programs evaluate alternative fuel use

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

A bus that runs with an extra clean and silent engine has been developed through cooperative efforts of three Dutch organizations. DAF, Vialle and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientifi..

HP In Brief: HPIn Brief

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Speeding technology to market is key to survival in a global economy, according to Dr. Francis J. Honn, chairman of the Commercial Development Association Education Foundation. "Companies that quickly..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Study asks: What are minimum costs to limit 'greenhouse' gases?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

A recent report by consulting firm WEFA, Inc. examines economic ramifications from the U.S.-proposed carbon-emission reductions to control global warming. Considerable debate is ongoing whether increa..

HP Impact: HPImpact: No alternative fuel is 'panacea'; three lead in benefits, says AIChE

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has conducted an objective, comprehensive, and quantitative side-by-side analysis of the leading alternative transportation fuels (ATFs). The study..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Energy outlook projects worldwide oil demand at 116 MMbpd in 2020

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

The Annual Energy Outlook 1998 from DOE's Energy Information Administration (EIA) is the first with projections to 2020. The projections also reflect a greater shift to electricity market restructurin..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Users rate 'valuable' technologies in life

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

Results of an American Society for Quality survey conducted by the Gallup Organization shows that information and networking technologies are not always what they promise to be. U.S. consumers report ..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Skill standards urged for workforce

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

As the workforce is increasingly expected to master sophisticated technology and information systems, businesses realize that having skilled workers is what will make them competitive in the next cent..

HP Impact: HPImpact: Soil remediation research expects to provide new techniques soon

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Weirauch, Wendy

In the mid-1980s, when industry realized that the costs of using best developed available technologies for soil remediation were extremely high, industry and regulators asked: "How clean is clean enou..