Attention 2easy2Bpoor, Fonzie, and all you other haters. Come here to get educated.

[thebabydoc]

Pretty tough, in theory.

No doc is supposed to release ANY information on you without signed "authorization to release medical records"

Problem is, no one really checks on the signature, so I could just sign your name and request the info from any doc. It's easier if I am a doc, but all you have to do is make a fake letterhead, e.g.

Heywood Jablowme, MD, PC, FAAP
Practice Limited to Pediatric Endocrinology
1313 Mockingbird Lane
Torrance, CA 90220

request for medical records
Re: p0ink

I hereby authorize the release of all records pertaining to my medical care from ____ to ______

to Dr. Heywood Jablowme

signed: p0ink

please fax above records to Dr, Jablowme @ (602) 555-1212

You would, however, need to know what doctors to send this to.

It is VERY HARD to get insurance companies to send out any info, (most of which they don't have anyway), but I guess with a little knowledge of the system and a few friendly operators, you could-
for example, I could call your insurance company and claim to be investigating insurance fraud, multiple billing, etc... I'd ask for a record of payments to physicians on your behalf in the past 12 months, etc... Then I'd have a list of docs to start with to send the above phony letter... etc, etc, etc...
This would not be in any way an easy task overall... hard but not impossible.

 

[thebabydoc]

Hey, Fonz! Maybe you could help answer my question too... the same thing I asked Babydoc... I'm SURE with medical science out there, there is SOME sort of treatment for a girl who was burned like Jaqui... but I'm SURE it is something obscure and alternative... perhaps something in Europe... I have only found treatements for like... people with partial burns or just weak burns.. nothing like hers...

I'd appreciate it MONDO if you could help.

C-ditty

Sorry, didn't see ya there, oh great Karma Whore who never gives it out....

I have seen some stuff on artificial ears and noses made from new-age polymers and the like. This is not all that new and requires surgically implanted anchors onto which the artificial appendages are attached. I'm pretty certain thay have this stuff at Jackson Memorial in Miami (I believe it's the Ryder burn center) as well at every major burn center in the country. It's really the realm of the real plastic surgeons (those who really want to help peole with their skillz).

I'd also bet that that girl Jaqui is prolly in the process of getting those implant anchors surgically attached, she just needs to complete all of her grafts first, a process which may take years.

 

[KAYNE]

babydoc,

how easy is it for someone to do a medical history check on you? are they able to find out every scarp of information from every doctor you've been to? or are they only able to find out information from the doctor you give them? or is it based on which insurance you use?

IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE IN A MEDICAL OFFICE AND THEY ARE WILLING TO LOOK IT UP FOR YOU, IT IS VERY EASY. TRUST ME.



KAYNE

 

[Citruscide]

Sorry, didn't see ya there, oh great Karma Whore who never gives it out....

I have seen some stuff on artificial ears and noses made from new-age polymers and the like. This is not all that new and requires surgically implanted anchors onto which the artificial appendages are attached. I'm pretty certain thay have this stuff at Jackson Memorial in Miami (I believe it's the Ryder burn center) as well at every major burn center in the country. It's really the realm of the real plastic surgeons (those who really want to help peole with their skillz).

I'd also bet that that girl Jaqui is prolly in the process of getting those implant anchors surgically attached, she just needs to complete all of her grafts first, a process which may take years.

I hit you with some green goo...

Do you think there is anyway for her to get shit like... reformed??? Like in that movie Darkman? The artificial skin? I mean, it sounds pretty nuts to me, but I KNOW there has to be some sort of modern medicine or science out there that can help make her tons better.

C-ditty

 

[thebabydoc]

No.

Not to be an asshole, but do you think she's the only person, (poor or rich), that has been burned beyond recognition?
There's a cop here in Phoenix who got toasted like a marshmallow in the middle of a 'Smore when his cruiser blew up. Nothing happening on his end either.

The artifical ones are better looking than the real ones anyway.

The big picture, which you are missing, is that these people learn to live with their disfigurement. They are the same people inside and they will always know it as do the people who love them. It is WE who need to learn to accept it. I remember seeing this thing with the artificial ears and nose (I think it was an HBO special) and the guy basically said that sometimes he just didn't feel like putting them on because he really didn't care and it was only for people around him that didn't know him anyway. (It was someone who had been burned in the 9/11 Pentagon bombing.)

 

[KAYNE]

BABYDOC........WOULD YOU HAPPEN TO OWN A RED PORCHE???




KAYNE

 

[thebabydoc]

nope....

This one was for that hater Manny

 

[KAYNE]

YOU HAD TO POST A PIC OF THE HUMMER DIDNT YOU!!!



KAYNE

 

[Mandinka2]

You got me there, good sir- because steam "cracking" is not performed on ethene, rather than to precursors to produce ethene as I have described below. As for "entrophic," I have no idea what that means, I'm not sure it's even a word. Did you mean endothermic?

Ethene can be produced either by

Extraction from natural gas using fractional distillation followed by steam cracking (the technique for converting alkanes to alkenes)(750 - 900oC) followed by liquefaction of the gas (-100oC) and then further fractional distillation
OR
Extraction from crude oil using fractional distillation followed by steam cracking(750 - 900oC) of the naphtha or gas-oil fractions followed by liquefaction of the gas (-100oC) and then further fractional distillation.

The cracking process typically involves endothermic equilibrium reactions such as:

C2H6(g) C2H4(g) + H2(g) H = +138 kJ mol-1
C3H8(g) C2H4(g) + CH4(g) H = +81 kJ mol-1

To maximize the rate of the cracking reactions

1. the temperature can be increased so that the gas particles move more quickly and collide more often
2. increase the pressure which forces the gas particles closer together and collide more often
3. no catalyst is needed to increase the rate of this reaction since the steam provides the required activation energy

To maximize the yield of ethene, by Le Chetalier's Principle

increasing the temperature of the reactions favours the formation of products since the reactions are endothermic. So increasing the temperature speeds up the rate of the reaction and increases the yield of ethene.
a decrease in pressure would favour the the formation of products since there are more gaseous product molecules than there are gaseous reactant molecules. However, a decrease in pressure would slow down the rate of the reaction. For this reason the pressure is kept at or below atmospheric pressure.
removing the product will favour the formation of more product thereby increasing the yield of product. Equilibrium is therefore never actually achieved.

Now I don't know much about bioreactor design, but I can only guess that your poorly worded question asks how is this steam cracking process used within bioreactor design?

My guess is that you're merely referring to the fact that the steam, by virtue of increased pressure and temperature facilitates the breakdown of higher alkanes into lower alkanes which can then be easily dehydrogenated into hydrogen gas (H2) and Methane (CH4) as well as ethene and propene.

What you do with the coke byproduct I still can't understand.
Problem is that steam cracking has a low selectivity, is highly endothermic, and you still have that coke byproduct to deal with.

Personally, I would prefer straight ethane, propane, or butane dehydrogenation or even methane coupling as alternative processes.

Or did I over-analyze and by refering to the "steady state" were you in fact referring to the propagation step of steam cracking, in which case the answer would be:

H3C + H3CH3 --> CH4 + H3CH2

H3-CH2 --> H2C=CH2 + H
H + H3CH3-CH3 --> H2 + H3CH2
H3CH2 --> etc...


thank you for playing.....assclown

 

[Mandinka2]

You got me there, good sir- because steam "cracking" is not performed on ethene, rather than to precursors to produce ethene as I have described below. As for "entrophic," I have no idea what that means, I'm not sure it's even a word. Did you mean endothermic?

Ethene can be produced either by

Extraction from natural gas using fractional distillation followed by steam cracking (the technique for converting alkanes to alkenes)(750 - 900oC) followed by liquefaction of the gas (-100oC) and then further fractional distillation
OR
Extraction from crude oil using fractional distillation followed by steam cracking(750 - 900oC) of the naphtha or gas-oil fractions followed by liquefaction of the gas (-100oC) and then further fractional distillation.

The cracking process typically involves endothermic equilibrium reactions such as:

C2H6(g) C2H4(g) + H2(g) H = +138 kJ mol-1
C3H8(g) C2H4(g) + CH4(g) H = +81 kJ mol-1

To maximize the rate of the cracking reactions

1. the temperature can be increased so that the gas particles move more quickly and collide more often
2. increase the pressure which forces the gas particles closer together and collide more often
3. no catalyst is needed to increase the rate of this reaction since the steam provides the required activation energy

To maximize the yield of ethene, by Le Chetalier's Principle

increasing the temperature of the reactions favours the formation of products since the reactions are endothermic. So increasing the temperature speeds up the rate of the reaction and increases the yield of ethene.
a decrease in pressure would favour the the formation of products since there are more gaseous product molecules than there are gaseous reactant molecules. However, a decrease in pressure would slow down the rate of the reaction. For this reason the pressure is kept at or below atmospheric pressure.
removing the product will favour the formation of more product thereby increasing the yield of product. Equilibrium is therefore never actually achieved.

Now I don't know much about bioreactor design, but I can only guess that your poorly worded question asks how is this steam cracking process used within bioreactor design?

My guess is that you're merely referring to the fact that the steam, by virtue of increased pressure and temperature facilitates the breakdown of higher alkanes into lower alkanes which can then be easily dehydrogenated into hydrogen gas (H2) and Methane (CH4) as well as ethene and propene.

What you do with the coke byproduct I still can't understand.
Problem is that steam cracking has a low selectivity, is highly endothermic, and you still have that coke byproduct to deal with.

Personally, I would prefer straight ethane, propane, or butane dehydrogenation or even methane coupling as alternative processes.

Or did I over-analyze and by refering to the "steady state" were you in fact referring to the propagation step of steam cracking, in which case the answer would be:

H3C + H3CH3 --> CH4 + H3CH2

H3-CH2 --> H2C=CH2 + H
H + H3CH3-CH3 --> H2 + H3CH2
H3CH2 --> etc...


thank you for playing.....assclown

Don't know what "entrophic" means ?, I recomend you seek out the common chemical engineering term "entrophy". Ever heard of it , you pathetic copy and paste merchant... Ever heard of "Chevron" , they perform the cracking and pre-treatment phase in giant spherical bioreactors , how do I know? I used to work there as a chemical engineer? Please wipe the egg off your face before replying....Q.E.D.