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Self Assessment Essay

Thomas Byrne

    The approach going into critiquing for peer review as just an overall look at grammar, spelling, structure while keeping in mind the five important elements of an article. Balance and neutrally were important to me while looking over the article/contributions. Not being bias throughout the article/contributions helped keep the neutrality balanced considering it was important so certain social norms or cultures are not offended or taken back. With looking at what to add to the article, critical thinking as a main aspect when contributing to articles was important. This was important for finding and selecting material used for the contributions.

    My contributions started with an edit to the main article and seeing what I could contribute to this article. After researching the topic more and seeing that there could be more contributions added based on the materials gathered. I found that the article I selected could have had more in the general summary of the topic. Another contribution was creating the section on the composition of Petroleum coke. Through journal articles I complied data and other interesting finds the composition. A table was best suited to show an idea what makes up petroleum coke. I believe that any information can be valuable information. With my contributions I believe it has enhanced the article but only in a way where someone could be able to benefit from the information.

The peer review portion of this assignment allow us to compare but also be able to conduct our own style but overall looking at the 5 main elements of an article/ contribution. The way I found my peer reviews was just by default of those whose articles were not being reviewed to be able to give someone proper feedback. My feedback was sub-par with basic grammar, spelling and structure but also looked at making sure they get the feedback they deserve. There was no looking into my contribution sources or what I could potentially add. With reviewing I looked at sources along to see if anything was infringed. A lot of people had their flow and structure ready but being a rough copy, I felt that there was still more potential for a completed article.

I did receive feedback from one person when I checked but didn’t notice anymore. The feedback received was very basic with grammar, spelling and structure. I wish to get a little more feedback in a sense of adding more or what to eliminate/ reduce. I’m glad I got something but a little bit more on neutrality, balance, and even more on my sources.

    Overall, I learned how administrative and how Wikipedia functions overall. I learned that it is possible to comprise much of the worlds information onto one site or even consider the page a database. I was able to enhance my contribution skills and even just general enhance my writing skills for balance, non-bias and structured writing. It was also cool to see how we can use Wikipedia as a source by adding credentials and citing our own work to be able to isolate and utilized important material where copyrighting and misinformation can be avoided. This assignment was super unique compared other assignments, one reason was the idea of doing an assignment based on a site where we were guided away from using the site due to many issues such as misinformation. This assignment spread over the course was semester was slow to start but as the pace picked up the assignment revealed to be a different style of an assignment allowing one to find information that is not available to the public. Also, the one other thing about the assignment is that making sure that everything is on point and the 5 elements of an article are met. The assignment being open to the public if articles and contributions are published. Wikipedia can be used in my field especially in the environmental assessment sector to make the public aware of environmental risks and hazards. It can also look at different issues and solutions to solve them. An example of environmental assessment would be chemical processing where both negative and positive outcomes occur. So making the public aware that there are also some positive in the process in cleaning up waste is important because if done right risk and hazards decrease making the area safe.

peer review
Evaluate an article: Assignment 2- edit an article

Edited- Petroleum coke

-Edited/ Created- Composition of Petcoke

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Assignment 3 - drafting contributions

Introduction when going through varies Wikipedia articles this one caught my eye, I believe any resource should have an approximate make-up or composition. There are also environmental hazards that are not mentioned through externalities like watershed and emission.

Rough draft- Petroleum coke-Composition of Petroleum coke

Petcoke, altered through the process of calcined which it is heated or refined Raw coke eliminates much of the component of the resource. Usually petcoke when refined does not release the heavy metals as volatiles or emissions.

Depending on the petroleum feed stock used, the composition of petcoke may vary but the main thing is that it is primarily carbon. Petcoke is primarily made up of carbon, when in pure form petcoke can weigh 98-99% which creates a carbon based compound with the hydrogen filling in. In raw form hydrogen can have a weight range of 3.0- 4.0%. Petcoke in its raw(green coke) nitrogen at 0.1- 0.5%  and sulfur 0.2- 6.0% become emissions after the coke calcined. source petroleum-coke-petcoke-and-refinery-residues

Through process of thermal processing the composition in weight is reducted with the volatile matter and sulfur being emitted. This process ends in the honeycomb petcoke which accroding to the name giving is a smei solid carbonious structure with holes in it.*

source petroleum-coke-petcoke-and-refinery-residues

Depending on the petroleum feed stock used, the composition of petcoke may vary but the main thing is that it is primarily carbon. Petcoke is primarily made up of carbon, when in pure form petcoke can weigh 98-99% which creates a carbon based compound with the hydrogen filling in. In raw form hydrogen can have a weight range of 3.0- 4.0%. Petcoke in its raw(green coke) nitrogen at 0.1- 0.5%  and sulfur 0.2- 6.0% become emissions after the coke calcined.

Other heavy metals found can be found with in petcoke as impurities due to that some of these metals come in after processing as volatile.

'Environmental Hazards '  Environmental concern from petcoke stems from the by product. Piles of used petcoke pile up in mounds and if heavy winds occur fine dust drifts away. Also the by waste has no where to go as the by-product accumulates as petcoke is processed meaning there is an issue is waste management and is currently issue in the cities of Chicago, Detroit and Green bay

Externalities stem from petcoke that causes a potential environmental impact. With the use of petcoke emissions such as the emission of sulfur.. There is also the potential for water pollution through refining of petcoke through runoff from refining. The amount of sulphur removed depends on the method.

There is a small potential for vanadium poisoning due to vanadium's toxicity.

Sources-

https://proquest-safaribooksonline-com.proxy.library.carleton.ca/book/electrical-engineering/power-systems/9780081001851/3dot-petroleum-coke-petcoke-and-refinery-residues/st0010_html_3#X2ludGVybmFsX0h0bWxWaWV3P3htbGlkPTk3ODAwODEwMDE4NTElMkZzdDAwMjVfaHRtbF8zJnF1ZXJ5PQ==

https://www.nam.org/CRSreport/

Tripathi, Nimisha. (01/01/2019). Microbial removal of sulphur from petroleum coke (petcoke). Fuel (Guildford). (235). p.1501 - 1505.

https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.library.carleton.ca/science/article/pii/S001623611831442X

https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/alberta-petcoke-gets-around/