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Traditional Wood Burning Ovens Versus Artisan Gas Fired Ovens

2012-06-24T23:16:00.002-07:00

I have previously stated my opinion that the traditional oven remains the best and only option to make a perfect Neapolitan pizza. Since then, I have discovered an alternative new generation oven, as seen in the photo above, which has caused me to slightly change my mind. There may be another way to cook your perfect Neapolitan pizza because I found that these ovens are actually very similar to the traditional wood burning ovens. The only difference is that they use gas to produce heat instead of wood. The purpose of today's article is for me to share with you the small differences between the two. With this I hope to help you understand all the advantages and disadvantages between the old and the new generation of pizza ovens by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the new gas fuelled ovens.

Advantages of Neapolitan pizza ovens that use gas

1) The new generation furnaces are far easier to use than the old ones. With gas ovens, you do not need to have all the experience or know all the tricks and skills in maintaining a constant temperature inside the oven, as you would with a wood burning oven. You simply need to set the temperature of the gas inside and it will remain at the temperature you set it at, for as long as you want.

2) The new generation Neapolitan gas oven cooks at exactly the same speed as a traditional wood burning oven because the temperature inside the oven can easily reach the 400 degrees specified by the strict Neapolitan rules of pizza making. Consequently, the quantity of pizzas you can produce using the new generation gas ovens is exactly the same as using the traditional wood ones.

3) The shape and form of the new generation oven is the same as the traditional one: dome shaped with a small opening at the front so you still keep the constant high temperatures inside, which is vital in the creation of pizza.

4) The pizza crust produced by the new generation oven has the same colour as those produced by a wood oven: nice, golden and pleasing to the eye.

Disadvantages of Neapolitan pizza ovens that use gas

1) As for the taste of the final product, there is a slight disadvantage with the gas oven: the use of burning wood to produce heat not only creates the required temperature in the creation of pizzas inside the oven, it also gives a distinctive fragrance and flavour to the pizza which you cannot achieve using the new generation gas oven. Therefore in the matter of taste, the traditional wood burning oven beats the new generation gas version.

The final verdict

In today's article I wanted to clarify these few points because the restaurant where I am now based is located in the city centre of Manchester. The use of wood burning ovens is not allowed in this location due to fire restrictions in the building. I heard that this problem is also affecting many of my friends and colleagues all over the world, therefore this new invention is the perfect solution for any pizzeria that is faced with restrictions on the use of traditional wood burning ovens. Upon weighing the advantages and disadvantages of these new generation gas ovens, I can say that they are definitely a much better option than the old gas shelf pizza ovens. Nowadays, many of the traditional oven makers in Naples are also producing these new generation ovens to meet the high demand worldwide due to licensing issues. The official name of the gas powered Neapolitan pizza oven is Artisan gas fired pizza oven.

Agostino Vitiello

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Dangers Associated With the Oil and Gas Industry

2012-06-24T23:15:00.002-07:00

The people who work in the oil & gas industry face many dangerous conditions every day. There are many aspects of this industry which can cause employees to get injured while working.

Aspects such as transportation, drilling, storage refining etc are dangerous since oil and gas are flammable in nature. In case the oil or the gas spills, it is very dangerous and a worker may lose his or her life. The risks, in this event, can make workers to be physically handicapped or even face severe trauma.

If you are a victim of such injuries, you have legal rights to seek compensation from the company. This will help you pay your medical bills along with other expenses while you get treatment. An experienced lawyer can help you and ensure that you fill all the procedures needed in the workers compensation's claim process, and you must make sure that you do everything to maximize the chances of securing your benefits. And before you seek employment in this industry, you should know about the possible dangers.

Types of dangers associated with the oil & gas industry

There are many types of accidents that are associated with the industry, and some of the common accidents that a worker can experience include tanker accidents, hydrocarbon leaks and spills, pipeline explosions, gaseous blowouts of hydrocarbon, and accidents associated with high pressure.

These types of incidents can greatly alter the physical appearance of a worker. Thus, it is necessary to have insurance. Having an insurance policy will help you in time of need.

There are some injuries that severely alter the life of the injured worker and some can be very serious and may even leave them incapable to work for their remaining lives. In case of such situations, the oil and gas company has to compensate you and also pay for the hospital bills. There is a workers' protection act that will help you if the company refuses to compensate you.

Although nowadays there are modern technologies which minimize the occurrence of incidents but these incidents still happen. Most oil and gas companies have improved their transportation systems and pipelines to minimize these uncertainties.

Though they have succeeded to lessen the injuries yet they cannot completely eradicate accidents. The injured workers should perceive the available benefits which they should have to recover from accidents.

It is very important to know your rights. Just in case you meet an accident, you should be able to ask for compensation.

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Bhopal Gas Tragedy

2012-06-24T23:14:00.002-07:00

The Bhopal disaster commonly referred to as Bhopal gas tragedy was a gas leak incident in India, considered one of the earth's worst industrial devastation. It occurred on the awful night of December 2-3, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (U.C.I.L) pesticide plant in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, India. A leak of methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals from the plant resulted in the death toll of thousands of people. The toxic substance made its way in and all around the towns which were located near the plant.

The U.C.I.L factory was built in the year 1969 to produce the pesticide sevin using methyl isocyanate(M.I.C.) as an intermediate. Later on, a methyl isocyanate production plant was added in the year 1979. U.C.I.L was the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation; U.C.C with Indian Government controlled banks. In 1994, the Supreme Court of India allowed U.C.C to sell it's share. Union Carbide sold U.C.I.L to the Eveready Industries India Limited. It was later sold to McLeod Russel (India) Ltd. Finally Dow Chemical Company purchased U.C.C in 2001.

The tragedy happened during the mid-night of December 2-3, 1984, when water entered inside a tank containing tons of M.I.C. The resulting reaction increased the temperature inside the tank to over 200 °C and thus raised the pressure. About 30 metric tons of methyl isocyanate escaped from the tank into the atmosphere with in half an hour. The gases were raged by south-easterly winds over Bhopal.The gases immediately caused visible damage to the trees.The problem was made worse by the mushrooming of slums in the vicinity of the plant.

The leakage caused many short-term health effects in the surrounding areas. Apart from M.I.C, the gas clouds contained carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, oxides of nitrogen hydrogen cyanide and carbon dioxide, either produced in the storage tank or in the atmosphere. The initial effects of exposure were coughing, vomiting, severe eye irritation and a feeling of suffocation. The acute symptoms were burning in the respiratory tract and eyes, breathlessness, stomach pains and vomiting.

It was estimated that one to two lac people have permanent injuries. Reported symptoms were immune and neurological disorders eye problems, respiratory difficulties, female reproductive difficulties and birth defects among children born to affected women, cardiac failure secondary to lung injury.

Aftermath of the leakage was that the medical staff was unprepared for the thousands of casualties. The Bhopal plant medical doctor did not have proper information about the properties of the gases.Doctors and hospitals were not informed of proper treatment methods for this gas inhalation. They were simply told to give cough medicine and eye drops to their patients. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, the health care system became tremendously overloaded.

Factors that were identified later in the inquiry leading to the magnitude of the gas leak include: failure of several safety systems due to poor maintenance, storing M.I.C in large tanks and filling beyond recommended levels, poor maintenance after the plant ceased M.I.C production, safety systems being switched off to save money including the M.I.C tank refrigeration system which could have mitigated the severity of the disaster.

Other factors identified were: use of a more dangerous pesticide manufacturing method, large-scale M.I.C storage, plant location close to a densely populated area, undersized safety devices, and the dependence on manual operations,plant management deficiencies were also identified i.e. insufficient maintenance, reduction of safety management, lack of skilled operators, and inadequate emergency action plans. Even today the worst effects of the disaster can be witnessed.

Immediately after the tragedy,legal proceedings involving U.C.C, the United States and Indian governments, local Bhopal authorities,started. U.C.C. CEO Warren Anderson was arrested but released on bail by the Madhya Pradesh Police in Bhopal on December 7th of the year 1984. Anderson was detained but released six hours later on a negligible bail amount and flown out on a government plane.

Civil and criminal cases are still pending in the District Court of Bhopal, Indian, United States District Court, and Manhattan involving U.C.C, U.C.I.L employees, and Warren Anderson. In the year June 2010, seven ex-employees, including the former U.C.I.L chairman, were convicted in Bhopal of causing death by negligence and sentenced to two years imprisonment and a fine of about two thousand dollars each. This was the maximum punishment allowed by law. An eighth former employee was also convicted, but he died before judgment was passed.

Now owned by Dow Chemical Company, Union Carbide denied allegations against it. Also, the corporation claims that the incident was the result of sabotage, stating that safety systems were in place and operative. It also stressed that it did all it could to lessen human suffering following the disaster. The company stressed the immediate action taken after the disaster and their continued commitment to helping the victims.

However, Bhopal once again marched against the culprits on the anniversary of the catastrophe hoping to get the justice soon, because justice delayed is no justice.

Rajul, ezine article writer.

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