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Produits Equipements Industriels. PEI (Produits Equipements Industriels) is a monthly French magazine launched in 1989 for industry professionals. It is published by Thomas Industrial Media, a subsidiary of Thomas Industrial media BVBA whose offices are located in Mechelen, Belgium.

Informations 
10 times a year, PEI, provides a digest of the latest products news and technologies available on the French market.
In 2009, nearly 45 700 subscribers received PEI, mostly engineers and purchasing managers. PEI also publishes newsletters and updates its website with daily news about new products and services available to the French market.

PEI is published in Super A4 format since 2009, in a new style and with an enriched content. It covers articles on latest technologies, interviews and views from market leaders, application stories as well as industry news.

The headquarters of the publication is in Boulogne Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

Thomas Industrial Media is the French subsidiary of Thomas Industrial media BVBA also present in Germany, Italy and Turkey.
Thomas Industrial media BVBA publishes as well other industrial publications and websites across Europe.

In English and distributed all across Europe:
 Industrial Engineering News (IEN)
 Processing and Control News (PCN)
 Power In Motion (PIM)
In German and distributed in Germany:
 Technische Revue (TR)
In Italian and distributed in Italy:
 IEN Italia
 Manutenzione Tecnica e Management
 Il Distributore Industriale
In Turkish and distributed in Turkey:
 Endustri Dunyasi

Circulation 
The magazine is free and available only on request for industry professionals. Over 45 100 copies are distributed ten times a year.

External links
 PEI's website

1989 establishments in France
Magazines published in France
French-language magazines
Magazines established in 1989
Monthly magazines published in France
Free magazines
Mass media in Mechelen
Multilingual magazines
Owen Saunders. Sir Owen Alfred Saunders, FREng, FRS (24 September 1904 – 10 October 1993) was an English applied mathematician, engineering science academic, and university administrator.

Early life 

Owen Saunders was born in Streatham, London, the only son of Alfred George Saunders, an engineer, and Margaret Ellen Saunders (née Jones). Saunders was educated at Emanuel School in south London (1913–19). He attained a general science degree from Birkbeck College, London (1921–23) and went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Career 

From 1926 to 1932, Saunders started work as a scientific officer at the Fuel Research Station, part of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, in Greenwich.  He continued his studies in parallel, gaining a first class BSc in special mathematics and an MSc in physics. He collaborated with Margaret Fishenden and C. H. Lander throughout their careers

In 1932, Saunders joined Imperial College as a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 1937, he became the first Clothworkers Reader in Thermodynamics. He researched aircraft piston engines and jet engines. In 1942, during World War II, he joined the Ministry of Aircraft Production. He undertook research into turbine engines, working with Sir Harold Roxbee Cox and Sir Frank Whittle. In 1946, he returned to Imperial College as Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Between 1964 and 1966, Saunders was the Dean of the City and Guilds College. In 1966, he became Acting Rector of Imperial College after the sudden death of Sir Patrick Linstead, then the Rector. From 1967 to 1969, he was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. In 1985, as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Royal Holloway College, he oversaw its merger with Bedford College.

Honours 
Saunders was a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1958) and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1960 and was made an Honorary Fellow in 1965. He was created a Knight Bachelor for his services in 1965. He won the Max Jakob Memorial Award in 1966.

Personal life 
Owen Saunders married Marion McKechney in 1935 and they had three children. After her death in 1981, he married Daphne Holmes. He was a full member of The Magic Circle. He died in Reigate, Surrey.

See also
 List of vice-chancellors of the University of London

References

External links 
 Sir Owen Saunders — video and podcast archive

1904 births
1993 deaths
Mathematicians from London
Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Engineering academics
English mechanical engineers
English magicians
Academics of Imperial College London
Rectors of Imperial College London
Vice-chancellors of the University of London
Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Knights Bachelor
People educated at Emanuel School
20th-century English mathematicians
Deans of the City and Guilds College
20th-century English engineers
Edoardo Amaldi ATV. The Edoardo Amaldi ATV, or Automated Transfer Vehicle 003 (ATV-003), was a European uncrewed cargo spacecraft, named after the 20th-century Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi. The spacecraft was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) on 23 March 2012, on a mission to supply the International Space Station (ISS) with propellant, water, oxygen, and dry cargo.

Edoardo Amaldi was the third ATV to be built, following Jules Verne (2008) and Johannes Kepler (2011). At the time of its launch, it was the world's largest single operational spacecraft, with a total launch mass of over . The ATV completed its mission successfully, and was deorbited on 3 October 2012, burning up in the Earth's atmosphere as planned.

Mission payload

 Source: ESA

Amaldi letter
In addition to its primary cargo, the ATV carried a reproduction of a letter written by its namesake, Edoardo Amaldi, in 1958. This document, whose original is of significant historical value, reflects Amaldi's vision of a peaceful and non-military European space organisation – a blueprint for the real-life ESA.

Mission summary

Launch
Edoardo Amaldi arrived at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, in August 2011 to undergo pre-launch preparations. The spacecraft was mounted on an Ariane 5ES rocket, and was launched on 23 March 2012 by Arianespace on behalf of the European Space Agency.

Docking
The ATV docked with the ISS on 28 March 2012, five days after its launch. In addition to resupplying the Expedition 30 astronauts, Edoardo Amaldi used its thrusters to boost the station's altitude.

Deorbit
The ATV was initially planned to undock from the ISS on 25 September 2012. However, a command program error during the undocking procedure delayed the release, and Edoardo Amaldi did not actually undock until 21:44 GMT on 28 September. The spacecraft finally deorbited and performed a destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean on 3 October 2012, taking with it a payload of station waste.

ATV missions

See also

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, a NASA program to develop uncrewed commercial resupply spacecraft
Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station
Similar cargo spacecraft
H-II Transfer Vehicle
Progress spacecraft
SpaceX Dragon

References

External links

ESA – ATV
ESA – Edoardo Amaldi Fact Sheet (PDF)
"ATV-3 docks to the ISS" . BIS-Space.com. 29 March 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2013.

Automated Transfer Vehicles
Spacecraft launched in 2012
Spacecraft which reentered in 2012
Supply vehicles for the International Space Station
The Unfinished Revolution. The Unfinished Revolution is a 2001 book by Michael Dertouzos that proposes why and how technology should be made to work for humans. It goes on to state that until this goal has been met the computer revolution is 'unfinished'.

Summary 

In the foreword to the paperback edition, written by Tim Berners-Lee shortly after Michael Dertouzos's death, he succinctly summarizes the objectives of the book by stating the three areas he believes computers still need improvement in: "helping us to communicate better with each other, by helping with the actual processing of data, and by being less of a pain in the process." More specifically, the book breaks this down into five buckets that need special attention and improvement:
Natural Interaction
Automation
Individualized Information Access
Collaboration
Customization

Natural interaction 

Dertouzos argues that since humans are not born with keyboard and mouse inputs to interact with the world why should we be expected to interact with computers in such a fashion. Instead he states that computers should engage us through our existing five senses and goes on to mostly focus on examples for vision and hearing. His primary focus for providing input to computer systems lies in proposals within the speech recognition area but he also emphasizes the need to simplify software interface systems, while warning against reducing them down to an unreasonably small number of options (such as a car only being able to accelerate or turn right).

Further reading

External links 
 Publisher's Book website

2001 non-fiction books
Human–computer interaction
Technology books
HarperCollins books
Sikorsky S-41. The Sikorsky S-41 was an amphibious flying boat airliner produced in the United States in the early 1930s. Essentially a scaled-up monoplane version of the Sikorsky S-38 biplane flying boat, Pan Am operated the type on routes in the Caribbean, South America, and between Boston and Halifax.

Development
The S-41 had a parasol wing configuration, with two radial engines mounted on struts between the fuselage and the wing. The cabin was completely enclosed within the all-metal hull and could seat 15 passengers.

The United States Navy purchased three examples and designated them RS-1; these were joined by two Pan Am aircraft pressed into Navy service and designated RS-5.

Variants
S-41A
S-41B
S-41C
RS-1
United States Navy designation for three S-41s for evaluation.
RS-5
Two S-41s impressed into service with the United States Navy.

Operators

 Pan Am
 United States Navy

Accidents and incidents
 On 27 August 1931, A Sikorsky S-41, NC41V of Boston-Maine Airways  crash landed in  while making the run between Halifax (N.S.) and Boston (MA). After clinging to the sides of a partially inflated life raft in rough seas for two hours, the 12 survivors were rescued by the F/V Nova Julia, a mackerel seiner out of Gloucester MA, captained by Capt. Leo Favaloro. There was one fatality. Seventy-year-old Edward Bamwell was assumed trapped in the wreckage as it disappeared beneath the waves just a moment after he gallantly allowed one of the three women passengers to precede him to the waiting raft. The Sikorsky had only been in service one month. Heavy fog was cited as the cause of the crash. The S-41 was repaired and reregistered as NC60V.
 On 28 October 1931, Col Thomas C. Turner, Chief of the Aviation Section of the United States Marine Corps, flew as a passenger in a Sikorsky RS-1 to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After arrival, the aircraft became stuck in the sand; when he got out to inspect it, he was struck in the head by one of its propellers. He died from his injuries two days later.

Specifications (S-41A)

See also

References

Notes

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1930s United States airliners
Flying boats
S-041
Amphibious aircraft
Twin-boom aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1930
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Elomatic. Elomatic is a globally operating consulting & engineering partner in developing and improving industrial investments within the process, machinery, marine, energy and pharmaceutical industries. It has customers in more than 80 countries across the globe.

History 

Elomatic was founded in Turku in 1970 by Ari Elo. An important step for Elomatic was taken in 1974 when Mr. Elo decided to invest in engineering model technology.

Ownership 

Elomatic is a privately owned corporation. The current chairman of the board of directors is Patrik Rautaheimo.

Organisation 

Elomatic has four business units: Marine and Offshore Energy, Process & Energy, Machinery & Equipment, and Pharma. In addition, Elomatic offers e.g. technical analysis and visualization services.

References

Engineering companies of Finland
Consulting firms established in 1970
Information technology consulting firms of Finland
Finnish companies established in 1970
Shrink tunnel. A shrink tunnel or heat tunnel is a heated tunnel mounted over or around a conveyor system.  Items (such as packaging) have shrink film loosely applied; with heat, the film shrinks to fit snugly around the wrapped object.

Uses
 Shrink labels.
 Combining small items for sale and display (example: bottled water).
 Tamper resistant or Tamper-evident bands or seals.
 Form large unit loads for transport.
 Form primary barrier on foods such as cheese, meats and fish.
 Skin packs.

Types
Several types of shrink tunnels are available.  The heat source can be based on heating element (electrical resistance), infrared heater, steam, or gas flame.  Often forced air is used to improve convection, sometimes focusing the heat on one component of the item.

Tunnels are available with or without a conveyor system.  Some are built into a production line or are integral with machinery that also applies the shrink film. Others are movable by hand or by castors. A shrink tunnel, referred to as an oven, may be equipped with an integrated conveyor of two different kinds: the roller conveyor or the belt conveyor. Roller conveyors can be used with polyolefin, PVC, and shrink polyethylene films. The space in between the rollers is filled with hot air from the bottom of the tunnel to shrink the film layer around the object, creating a sealed package. When used with polyolefin and PVC based films the rollers are called "live" or spinning. When used with polyethylene films the rollers are called "dead" or not spinning. The tunnels with Teflon mesh belts and polymer mesh belts are used for smaller packages, or when the package may have an instability and need a stable platform.

Some heat shrink tunnels have two or more zones for heating and controlled cooling.

See also
Heat gun

References

 Soroka, W, "Fundamentals of Packaging Technology", IoPP, 2002, 
 Yam, K. L., "Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology", John Wiley & Sons, 2009, 

Packaging machinery
Plastics applications
Industrial ovens
Vale gas field. Vale () is an offshore gas field in the North Sea located  north of the Heimdal gas field. The depth of the water in the field area is . Vale is considered a satellite to Heimdal field and is connected to it by a pipeline. 
Estimated reserves at Vale stand at  of natural gas and  of gas condensate. Vale gas field is expected to produce  of natural gas and  of condensate.

History
Production started on 31 May 2002, according to the Plan for Development and Operation approved by Norway in the spring of 2001. Total investment has been 800 million NOK which also included modifications on Heimdal, drilling operations, subsea templates and pipelines.

Ownership
The Vale field is operated by Sval Energi (50%) with LOTOS holding 25.757% and PGNiG holding 24.243% of the stake.

The field was originally operated by Norsk Hydro.  In 2007, the operations were transferred to Statoil as a result of the merger between Statoil and Hydro Oil & Gas.  In 2012, Centrica acquired Statoil's stake and took over operatorship; operatorship passed to Sval Energi upon their acquisition of Centrica's subsidiary, Spirit Energy's Norwegian assets in 2022.

See also

Heimdal gas field
Oseberg Transport System
Grane oil field
Oseberg oil field
North Sea oil
Economy of Norway

References

External links
 Vale – Equinor

Oil fields in Norway
Natural gas fields in Norway
North Sea energy
TotalEnergies
Centrica
List of megaprojects. This is a list of megaprojects, which may be defined in the following categories:
 Projects that cost more than US$1 billion and attract a large amount of public attention because of substantial impacts on communities, the natural and built environment, and budgets.
 Projects with "initiatives that are physical, very expensive, and public".

Some examples include bridges, tunnels, highways, railways, hospitals, airports, seaports, power plants, dams, wastewater projects, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), oil and natural gas extraction projects, public buildings, information technology systems, aerospace projects, and weapons systems. This list identifies a wide variety of examples of major historic and contemporary projects that meet one or both megaproject criteria identified above.

Legend

Aerospace projects

Disaster cleanup

While most megaprojects are planned and undertaken with careful forethought, some are undertaken out of necessity after a natural disaster occurs. There have also been a few human-made disasters. Major restoration was necessary after the destruction caused by World War I and II, some of which was paid for by German reparations for World War I and for World War II.

Energy projects

Science projects

Research and development efforts

Physics and Astronomy infrastructure

Spacecraft

Other spaceflight projects

Sports and culture projects

Every Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup in the latter part of the twentieth century and entering into the 21st century has cost more than $1 billion in arenas, hotels etc., usually several billions. The Olympic Games are considered to be the world's foremost international sporting event with over 200 nations participating. Sports-related costs for the Summer Games since 1960 is on average $5.2 billion (USD) and for the Winter Games $393.1 million dollars. The highest recorded total cost was the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, costing approximately US$55 billion. The International Olympic Committee requires a minimum of 40,000 hotel rooms available for visiting spectators and an Olympic Village that is able to house 15,000 athletes, referees, and officials.

Roads and transport infrastructure

Ground transportation systems like roads, tunnels, bridges, terminals, railways, and mass transit systems are often megaprojects. Numerous large airports and terminals used for airborne passenger and cargo transportation are built as megaprojects.

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

Oceania

Planned cities and urban renewal projects

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America

Water-related

Ports, waterways, canals, and locks for ships carrying passengers and cargo are built as megaprojects.

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

South America

Hospitals

Europe

See also
 List of most expensive U.S. public works projects

References

External links
 Megaprojects in Dubai

Lists of most expensive things
Megaprojects
Infrastructure-related lists
Rot-proof. Rot-proof or rot resistant is a condition of preservation or protection, by a process or treatment of materials used in industrial manufacturing or production to prevent biodegradation and chemical decomposition. Decomposition is a factor in which organic matter breaks down over time. It is commonly caused by fungus, mold or mildew.

There are natural conditions where the environment is inhospitable to animals, bacteria and fungus, for example in high altitude and the freezing subzero temperatures of the Arctic and Antarctic, which creates a similar suspension. The proofing of materials may also prevent dry rot and wet rot.

See also

Dust resistant
Fireproofing
Rustproofing
Thermal resistant
Toughness
Waterproofing

Chemical properties
Materials science
Rotorcraft XR-11. The Rotorcraft XR-11, known by the company as the X-2 Dragonfly, was an American two-seat lightweight helicopter built in the 1940s for evaluation by the United States Air Force by the Rotorcraft Corporation of Glendale, California.

Design and development
The XR-11 was a powered by a  Continental A100 piston engine driving two three-bladed contra-rotating rotors. Only one was built and first flown in 1947, it was re-designated the XH-11 in 1948, the project was later cancelled.

Variants
XR-11
United States Air Force designation later changed to XH-11, one built.

Operators

United States Air Force

Specifications

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

 

1940s United States military utility aircraft
1940s United States helicopters
Aircraft first flown in 1947
Single-engined piston helicopters
Tandem rotor helicopters
XR-11
Aircraft with fixed quad landing gear
Partenavia Alpha. The Partenavia P.70 Alpha was a 1970s Italian two-seat light aerobatic trainer designed by Luigi Pascale and built by Partenavia.

Design and development
The Alpha was a low-wing monoplane with a fixed tricycle landing gear and powered by a  Rolls-Royce Continental O-200-A engine. The Alpha first flew on the 24 April, 1972, but only one was built and it did not enter production as the company was pre-occupied with producing the Partenavia P.68.

Specifications

References

Notes

Bibliography

Astore
1950s Italian civil utility aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1972
Rajive Bagrodia. Rajive Bagrodia is an Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur.  He is the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Scalable Network Technologies as well as an emeritus professor of computer science at UCLA.

Education and research

Rajive Bagrodia received his Bachelor of Technology in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and his MA and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. As a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, his areas of research included wireless networks, mobile computing & communications, network simulation & analysis, and parallel & distributed computing. He led a research team in mobile computing and parallel and distributed programming and developed simulations systems such as Maisie, Parsec, and GloMoSim. This research was funded by The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Design of Mobile Adaptive Networks Using Simulation and Agent Technology(DOMAINS) project at UCLA. Given these results in performance prediction for complex, large-scale computer and communication systems, he founded Scalable Network Technologies in 1999.

Bagrodia has continued to conduct a prolific amount of research. He has published over 150 research papers in Computer Science journals and spoken at international conferences on high performance computing, wireless networking, and parallel simulation. He has also provided commentary on issues relating to cyberwarfare and warfighter training.

References

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
IIT Bombay alumni
American computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American scientists