Big business in the Russian economy and politics under Putin's rule; The Russian power industry shortly before reforms; Ukrainian metallurgy: the economic link in the oligarchical system. OSW Study 5/2002

Big business in Russia: The pace of ownership transfer in the Russian economy has speeded up considerably over the last year. There has been a significant rise in the number of acquisitions of whole enterprises, and large blocks of shares in individual firms and plants. Similarly the number of mergers, bankruptcies and take-overs of failing firms by their strongest competitors has grown. The Russian power industry: This study is an overview of the current condition and principles on which the Russian power sector has been functioning so far. This analysis has been carried out against the background of the changes that have been taking place in the sector since the beginning of the 1990s. This text also contains a description of guidelines and progress made so far in implementing the reform of the Russian power industry, the draft of which was adopted by the government of the Russian Federation in summer 2001. However, the purpose of this study is not an economic analysis of the draft, but an attempt to present the political conditions and possible consequences of the transformations carried out in the Russian power sector. The final part attempts to evaluate the possibilities and threats related to the implementation of the reform in its present shape. Ukrainian metallurgy: The metallurgic sector, like the east-west transit of energy raw materials, is a strategic source of revenue for Ukraine. Over the last ten years, this sector has become Kiev's most important source of foreign currency inflows, accounting for over 40 per cent of its total export revenues. The growth of metallurgic production, which has continued almost without interruption since the mid-1990s, has contributed considerably to the increase in GDP which Ukraine showed in 2000, for the first time in its independent history.

Location of manufacturing plants by industry, county, and employment size: 1954. Based on a special tabulation of the 1954 census of manufacturers.

pt. 1. Food and kindred products; tobacco manufactures.--pt. 2. Textile mill products; apparel and related products; leather and leather goods.--pt. 3. Lumber and wood products; furniture and fixtures.--pt. 4. Pulp, paper, and products; printing and publishing.--pt. 5. Chemical and products: petroleum and coal products; rubber products.--pt. 6. Stone, clay, and glass products; miscellaneous manufactures.--pt. 7. Primary metal industries; fabricated metal products.--pt. 8. Machinery, except electrical; electrical machinery.--pt. 9. Transportation equipment; instruments and related products.

The coal future : economic and technological analysis of initiatives and innovations to secure fuel supply independence /

Includes bibliographies.

Demand for world coal through 1995 : analysis report /

"AR/IA/79-32"

Greater coal utilization : joint hearings before the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs and Public Works, United States Senate, pursuant to S. Res. 45, the National fuels and energy policy study, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session on S. 1777.

"Serial no. 94-18 (92-108)"

Coal & Illinois industry : the impact of the National Energy Acts of 1978 /

Doc. No. 79/33.

Energy and labor cost of alternative coal-electric fuel cycles /

"Project no. 80.172."

Secondary recovery of coal fines : an environmental and economic cost benefit analysis : b final report /

"Contract: ER 57."

Test and evaluation period of 120,000 pph atmospheric fluidized bed combustion boiler with 3,500 kw cogenerated electric power /

"ILENR/CD-87/02."

Experiments upon vegetables, discovering their great power of purifying the common air in the sun-shine, and of injuring it in the shade and at night : To which is joined, a new method of examining the accurate degree of salubrity of the atmosphere /

Tail-pieces; side notes.

Sensitive plants and noxious weeds of the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest /

"R 6-MBS-02-1991"--P. [4] of cover.

Interim technical progress report : technical evaluation services, clean liquid and/or solid fuels from coal : interim report for period October 1972-August 1974 /

"Contract no. 14-32-0001-1234."

Notes on the use of anthracite in the manufacture of iron : with some remarks on its evaporating power /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 32148.10.

Pore, surface and fillet moisture in centrifuged beds of coarse coal

The moisture content of the coarse coking coal product from the centrifuges of preparation plants was investigated to evaluate the contribution of three types of water: that held internally in pores, that in fillets at points of contacts between the particles, and the moisture covering the surface. A standardised laboratory centrifuge test was used to measure the total non-centrifugable moisture (NCM) content and also the quantity held in internal pores, called NCMi. The fillet moisture NCMf was estimated by means of a formulation which relies on experimentally measured holdup volumes, supplemented by a physical model. The surface moisture NCMs could then be derived by difference. The NCMf, which depends on the body force, the particle size and the surface tension and contact angle of the liquid, ranges from effectively zero for large particles to 10% for fines. The surface moisture NCMs is of the order of 0.5% for high rank coals and increases to 4.5% for lower rank coals. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.