A LOGISTIC APPROACH TO ESTABLISHING BALANCED SCORECARD OF RUSSIAN OIL-PRODUCING SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

The aim of the study is to develop methodological recommendations for balanced scorecard practical implementation into activities of Russian oil-producing service organizations in present-day conditions on the basis of logistical principles. The perspectives for balanced scorecard development based on logistics principles and strategic management peculiarities of the oil-producing service organizations are proposed in the article. The indicators and their characteristic values, allowing to coordinate operational and strategic management and to obtain synergistic effect are suggested. As a result of the study, the authorial methodology of balanced scorecard using for oil-producing service organizations was developed in order to improve effective cooperation between service organizations of vertically integrated oil companies

Regeneration of a fibrous sorbent based on a centrifugal process for environmental geology of oil and groundwater degradation

Data were obtained in the experimental study of the process of regeneration of the fibrous sorbent centrifugally. This data characterised the dependence of the sorption rate of fibre loss in the regeneration of fibrous sorbent quality. We found that the increase of sorbent samples regeneration cycles based on polyethyleneterephthalate (PET) fibre of 1 to 50 leads to sorption reduction ratio of 20… 60 % and a weight loss of sorbent is 25-47 %. If the shelf life is increased up to three years, the sorbent does not reduce the rate of sorption and leads to increased sorbent losses due to its mechanical destruction during regeneration in a custom installation centrifugal experimental stand. It was established experimentally that the rate of oil sorption and oil, defined as the ratio of the mass of oil sorbed to the weight of the sorbent used, depends on the mean diameter of the fibres, the sorbent structure and viscosity petroleum products and varies between 5-20. It is also believed that all of the capillaries are filled uniformly and completely with a liquid. Another result of this research is the increase in the process productivity by increasing the average diameter of fibres, reducing the transverse dimension of the fibrous sorbent and increasing the radius and angular speed of the centrifuge perforated drum. A new experimental stand for centrifugal plant separating oil products from fibrous sorbent material has been proposed, which could be used to fight the oil pollution. This is the method used in environmental geology in the degradation of oil. Such a method can be extended to lower the groundwater or geological drilling. © 2016, Technical University of Kosice. All rights reserved

Installed base information utilisation in industrial service development and operations

This paper describes a systematic literature review conducted to determine how installed base information (IBI) is utilised in developing and operating industrial services. We found that the reviewed literature considers IBI useful and relevant for industrial service operations, and that it is mainly used to improve service quality and efficiency. However, it is evident that there is a shortage of empirical studies and further investigations that show concrete applications of IBI in different service activities. The existing research concentrates on particular contexts, such as preventive maintenance and asset management. The asset owner perspective is emphasised in the literature, but the use of IBI for service offerings, service contracts and service sales is rarely discussed. The literature indicates that many companies lack a holistic approach to IBI management, in general, and utilisation as a part of it. It is not uncommon for companies to build large databases, but fail to do accurate analyses based on the collected data.Peer reviewe

Influence of the Water Level in the Yenisei River on the Ecosystem of its Anabranch within the City of Krasnoyarsk

Расположенная в черте города Красноярска в 35 км ниже Красноярской ГЭС Абаканская протока р. Енисей является, с одной стороны, важным рекреационным водоемом, а с другой стороны, подвержена нескольким типам антропогенного воздействия (зарегулирование дамбой, поступление ливневых и теплых вод, наличие садкового рыбоводного хозяйства), ухудшающего ее рекреационные свойства из-за чрезмерного зарастания макрофитами и скоплений метафитона нитчатой водоросли рода Spirogyra, ухудшения органолептических и микробиологических показателей воды. Природные климатические факторы способны существенно модифицировать влияние антропогенных факторов, что представляет интерес в плане прогнозирования и принятия решений по ликвидации негативных явлений. Целью работы является оценка влияния режима уровня воды р. Енисей в весенне-летний период на экосистему протоки через сравнение данных в многоводный (2021) и средневодный (2020) годы. Гидрофизические, гидрохимические и гидробиологические измерения проводили с мая по август 2020 и 2021 гг. сверху вниз на станциях левобережья: 1 – выше дамбы (фон), 2 – ниже дамбы, 3 – напротив выпуска теплых вод ТЭЦ, 4 – пляж, ниже рыбоводных садков. В 2021 г. вода в протоку поступала только снизу (к ст. 4 и 3), так как водопропускные трубы в теле плотины были засыпаны. В 2021 г., по сравнению с 2020 г., на зарегулированном участке протоки значительно увеличились численность и биомасса фито- и зоопланктона, возросла первичная продукция планктона, а аналогичные показатели фитоперифитона и зообентоса, напротив, снизились по причине их формирования на свежезалитых грунтах. Метафитон отсутствовал, но в августе спирогира стала доминировать в биомассе фитоперифитона. Концентрации нитрит-иона в воде увеличились в зарегулированной части протоки, а нитрат-иона и общего фосфора – на всех станциях протоки, в том числе и на фоновой, получающей воды из Красноярского водохранилища. Наблюдаемая в 2021 г. «вспышка трофии» в планктоне ст. 3 и 4 обусловлена длительным (полтора месяца) удержанием высокого уровня воды в протоке, позволившим использовать биоте вымываемые из затопленных берегов органические вещества и биогены, и аналогична таковой в экотонных зонах выклинивания подпора водохранилищ. Ежегодное увеличение концентраций минеральных форм азота и общего фосфора на нижних станциях, по сравнению с другими станциями, вероятно, обусловлено эвтрофирующим влиянием садкового рыбоводного хозяйстваLocated within the city of Krasnoyarsk, 35 km downstream of the Krasnoyarsk Hydropower Plant, the Abakanskaya anabranch of the Yenisei River, on the one hand, is an important recreational water body and, on the other hand, is subject to several types of anthropogenic impact (regulation by a dam, inflow of storm and warm waters, fish farming). These impacts worsen its recreational properties due to excessive growth of macrophytes and metaphytic filamentous algae of the genus Spirogyra, causing deterioration of organoleptic and microbiological parameters of water. Natural climatic factors can significantly modify the influence of anthropogenic factors, which is of interest in terms of forecasting and decision-making about the elimination of negative factors. The aim of the present work is to assess the influence of the water level regime of the Yenisei River in the spring–summer period on the anabranch ecosystem by comparing the data for the high-water (2021) and medium-water (2020) years. Hydrophysical, hydrochemical, and hydrobiological measurements were carried out from May to August 2020 and 2021 at locations on the left bank: 1 – upstream of the dam (reference), 2 – downstream of the dam, 3 – opposite the outlet of warm water, 4 – at the beach, downstream of the fish farm. In 2021, water entered the anabranch only from downstream (to locations 4 and 3), since the culverts in the dam body were filled up. In 2021, compared to 2020, the abundance and biomass of phyto- and zooplankton in the regulated section of the anabranch significantly increased, the primary production of plankton increased, but the corresponding parameters of phytoperiphyton and zoobenthos, on the contrary, decreased due to their formation on freshly flooded soils. Metaphyton was absent, but in August, Spirogyra began to dominate in the phytoperiphyton biomass. Nitrite ion concentrations in the water increased in the regulated part of the anabranch, and the nitrate ion and total phosphorus concentrations increased at all locations, including the reference location, receiving water from the Krasnoyarsk Reservoir. The plankton “abundance outbreak” observed in 2021 at locations 3 and 4 was caused by the water level in the anabranch remaining high over a long period (one and a half months), which made it possible for the biota to use organic matter and nutrients washed out from the flooded banks; the outbreak was similar to those occurring in the ecotone zones of inputs to the upper parts of reservoirs. The annual increase in the concentrations of mineral forms of nitrogen and total phosphorus at the lower locations compared with other locations was probably due to the eutrophic influence of fish farmin

Сохранность и доступность. Миф или реальность? (Из опыта НИЦКД РГБ)

«Preservation» and «accessibility» - these two concepts represent core directions of activities of libraries, archives and museums. Based on the experience of research-and-development Document Conservation Centre of the Russian State Library, the article considers the possibility of the existence, interaction and development of these directions in a harmonious collaboration, without replacing one another.«Сохранность» и «доступность» - два этих понятия символизируют основные направления деятельности библиотек, архивов и музеев. На основе опыта, накопленного научно-исследовательским центром консервации документов Российской государственной библиотеки (НИЦКД РГБ), в статье рассматривается вопрос о возможности существования, взаимодействия и развития этих направлений в гармоничном сотрудничестве, без подмены одного другим

Assessment of the state of social and labor sphere of rural areas in the Ural Federal District

The article presents the author’s calculations of the labor sphere state of rural areas of the Ural Federal District (Russia). It is substantiated that labor (human) capital is the most important element of ensuring the functioning of the entire agrarian sphere. The estimation of labor productivity in the agricultural sector, the rate of wage growth, as well as relative social and labor indicators of the agricultural direction to the general economic is conducted. The authors consider the ratio of agrolabor productivity growth and decrease in the number of workers in this sphere, which is associated with a number of factors, resulting in the construction of a system of sociolabor factors interaction contributing to the development of rural areas, based on analytical dat

Conceptual approaches to improvement of the sustainability management mechanism of the agrarian sphere development of the region in the Russian Federation

In the framework of the study, the authors consider conceptual approaches to improve the management system of agrarian sphere development of regions in the realities of this industry functioning in the Russian Federation. Agrarian sphere is shown in aspects of socio-economic territorial system with its subsystems. The transition mechanisms of the agrarian sphere to the rails of sustainable development due to the choice of priority development directions within the life cycle are presented. The necessity of applying an integrated approach to the solution of industrial and social problems of the agricultural sector of the country is proved and reasoned