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Is The U.S. Losing Its Competitiveness in the Global Chicken Markets: A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis
Get PDFThough the last forty years of data showed that the U.S. chicken export growth was still positive, but it has slowed in more recent years. Other countries such as Brazil, the U.S. main competitor in the global chicken trade was able to expand its market shares in recent years. Simulation results showed that the United States will play important roles in future global chicken trade providing that the U.S. firms are willing to accommodate the non-tariff trade barriers imposed by major importing countries.International Relations/Trade,
Carbothermic reaction characteristics of Indonesian Lateritic Nickel Ore
No full textOrganized by School of Materials Engineering & Sustainable Engineering Research Cluster, 1st - 2nd December 2009 at Putra Brasmana Hotel, Kuala Perlis, Perlis.In Indonesia, oxide nickel ore in the form of lateritic ore resources occur at the amount of 16 % from total nickel lateritic ore resources in the world. This resource is very attractive not only from economically but also from technologically point of view. Therefore, some basic characteristics of Indonesian lateritic ore are investigated in this paper. The aim of this research is to understand some basic carbothermic reaction characteristics by using coal-A (anthracite) and charcoal (coconut shell) reductors. The reductors addition was 10, 13, 15, and 20 mass%. It was reduced at the temperature of 1250 °C for 2 hour. According the reaction, the recovery of Fe-Ni was comparable between coal-A and charcoal reductors at 80 and 75%, respectively. They tend to increase along with the increasing coal-A and charcoal reductor addition. The microstructure observation shows the presence of Fe-Ni alloy and slag, dominated by olivine and fayalite as products of the reaction
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