Cement Production at Deva Cement Factory from Romania
This paper describes the experiences relating to the modernization of the production process and environmental protection at Deva Cement Factory, Carpatcement Holding S.A. The production process, equipments and installations improvement was considered. Besides the technological flow modernization measures, the company adopted certain solutions for improving the performances linked to the technological process automation and optimal control. A local control in each particular operation and an optimum control of entire plant are enforced. The technological flow on-line simulation and control through specific software in order to get optimal process parameters represent possibilities of improving the performances.
Automation of Cement Industries
The cement industry is growing rapidly on account of the overall development of the Indian economy resulting into increased civil constructions activity due to expanding investment in the infrastructures. The cement industry experienced a complete shift in the technology of production from wet process to dry process. The automations are not only cost effective method but also improve the longevity and reduce the total cost of operation over the life of the system. The focus of this paper is to discuss automation process and hardware for cement plant.
Analogy, Supposition, and Transcendentality in Narrative Argument
Rodden writes, “How do stories persuade us? How do they ‘move’—and move us? The short answer: by analogies.” Rodden’s claim is a natural first view, also held by others. This chapter considers the extent to which this view is true and helpful in understanding how fictional narratives, taken as wholes, may be argumentative, comparing it to the two principal (though not necessarily exclusive) alternatives that have been proposed: understanding fictional narratives as exhibiting the structure of suppositional argument, or the structure of a kind of transcendental argument. Three key aspects of understanding a fictional narrative as an argument from analogy are identified. First, the argument will be relativistic or depend in an essential way upon the circumstances or intentions of the auditor or author. Second, in view of the first aspect, the argument will be loose and subjective, and accordingly less likely to yield knowledge. Third, the argument will not exhibit a distinctive structure applicable only to fictional narratives. I find that the third, and sometimes the first and second, of these same three aspects apply to understanding fictional narratives as suppositional arguments. I present considerations that point to a way of establishing that some extended fictions exhibit the structure of a kind of transcendental argument that is neither relativistic nor subjective, is knowledge-generating, and is uniquely applicable to fictional narratives. This supports literary cognitivism—the thesis that “literary fiction can be a source of knowledge in a way that depends crucially on its being fictional.”