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Wireless Compliance Institute. The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI) is an organization that functions as an operational group within The Automation Standards Compliance Institute (ASCI), to establish specifications and processes used in the testing and certification of wireless products and systems for the ISA100.11a wireless standard. Manufacturing and automation control systems users and suppliers work together in the Wireless Compliance Institute to develop and deploy standards-based, industrial wireless devices and systems.

The mission of the ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute  is to build consensus around industry standards arising from the work of ISA100 Standards Committee on Wireless Systems for Automation, and to enforce their effective and consistent application. WCI owns the 'ISA100 Wireless COMPLIANT' certification scheme and conducts independent testing and certification of devices to ensure they conform to the ISA100.11a standard.  By providing the ISA100 Wireless Compliant stamp of approval, users, suppliers and integrators can function under a single technical standard, enhancing inter-operability in the selection and deployment of wireless products and systems.

History
In 2006, The Automation Standards Compliance Institute  (ASCI) was formed by the International Society of Automation to provide organizational focus for certification and compliance assessment activities in the automation industry. The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute was created in 2009 under ASCI to allow further organization and infrastructure for specific processes and developments related to the ISA100 family of wireless standards.

WCI Membership
WCI members are generally from the manufacturing and automation controls community. WCI memberships are classified as Supplier and Non-Supplier. Supplier membership is offered to any organization that manufactures or supplies products used in industrial wireless systems. A Non-Supplier membership is offered to organizations not classified as a Supplier. Both Supplier and Non-Supplier memberships pay annual dues based on membership level.

Governing Board (April 27, 2012)
 Honeywell - Dan Sheflin (Chairman)
 Yokogawa - Dr. Penny Chen  (Vice Chairman)
 Shell Global Solutions - Berry Mulder (User Representative)
 General Electric - Justin Smith
 Azbil – Hisashi Sasajima

References

Standards organizations in the United States
Paramotor Inc FX series. The Paramotor Inc FX series is a family of American paramotors that was designed and produced by Paramotor Inc of Weldon Spring, Missouri for powered paragliding.

Design and development
The company started as an importer of the French Adventure F series of paramotors and also sold the Japanese Daiichi Kosho Beat. It then introduced its own designs, the FX series in the mid-1990s. The company currently produces military specification paramotors for sale to governments, the military and police.

The FX series was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. All models feature a paraglider-style high-wing, single-place or two-seats-in-tandem accommodation and a single engine in pusher configuration. As is the case with all paramotors, takeoff and landing are accomplished on foot.

All models were delivered from the factory with a hand throttle. Options available included a reserve parachute and electric starting. The line was noted for its unusually long three year warranty.

Variants
FX1
Initial model powered by a  Solo 210 two-stroke engine. Empty weight is .
FX2
More powerful model with a  Zenoah G-25 two-stroke engine. Empty weight is .
FX3
Model with a  Zenoah G-25 two-stroke engine.
FX4
Model with a  Zenoah G-25 two-stroke engine.
FX5
Model with a  Zanzottera MZ 34 two-stroke engine.

Aircraft on display
Cradle of Aviation Museum - FX1

Specifications (FX1)

References

1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Knud Bryn. Knud Ørn Bryn (15 March 1855 – 28 May 1941) was a Norwegian engineer and industrialist. He was one of the pioneers in the development of modern hydropower plants in Norway.

Biography 
Bryn was born in Trondheim, Norway. He was the son of Thomas Bryn (1813-1902) and Kristine Emilie Caroline Richter (1825-1869). He  was the brother of anthropologist Halfdan Bryn and engineer Alfred Bryn. Bryn graduated from the Trondheim Technical School (Trondhjems Tekniske Læreanstalt) in 1874 and completed engineering exam at the Technical University of Munich in  1877. He worked first as an engineer at various railway. In 1883, he established the Trondheim Electric Bureau. In 1884, Bryn moved Christiania (now Oslo). In 1886. he was appointed first director of Christiania Telephone Society.
In 1898, he established Hafslund ASA the company which operated the power grid supplying electricity to Oslo.  He served as manager of Hafslund until 1928.  Bryn was chairman from 1929 to 1936 of AS Tyssefaldene, a power company supplying power to energy-intensive industrial companies in
Odda, the main commercial and economic centre of the region of  Hardanger.

Bryn was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was decorated Commander with Star of the Order of St. Olav in 1928.

References

1855 births
1941 deaths
Businesspeople from Trondheim
Engineers from Trondheim
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
19th-century Norwegian engineers
Norwegian business executives
Norwegian company founders
Norwegian industrialists
Recipients of the St. Olav's Medal
Paramotor Inc. Paramotor Inc is an American aircraft manufacturer formerly based in Oyster Bay, New York and presently in Weldon Spring, Missouri. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paramotors.

The company started as an importer of the French Adventure F series of paramotors and also sold the Japanese Daiichi Kosho Beat. It then introduced its own designs, the FX series in the late 1990s.

Today the company produces "ruggedized" paramotors for military and law enforcement customers.

Aircraft

References

External links

Company website archives on Archive.org

Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Paramotors
Top-lit updraft gasifier. A top-lit updraft gasifier (also known as a TLUD) is a micro-kiln used to produce charcoal, especially biochar, and heat for cooking. A TLUD pyrolyzes organic material, including wood or manure, and uses a reburner to eliminate volatile byproducts of pyrolization. The process leaves mostly carbon as a residue, which can be incorporated into soil to create terra preta.

Dr Thomas B Reed and the Norwegian architect Paal Wendelbo independently developed the working idea of a TLUD gasifier in the 1990s.

A TLUD gasifier is a considerable improvement on the rocket stove, being a more efficient way to achieve smoke-free combustion of the fuel.

Design 

A TLUD gasifier stove  is commonly constructed with two concentric cylindrical containers.

The inner cylinder is the fuel pot. The fuel pot has holes in the base. These holes are the primary air inlet. The fuel pot also has holes on the neck, like the skirt, serving as a secondary air inlet.

The outer cylinder has holes near the bottom on the sides. During combustion, air enters these holes, either by natural air draft or forced with a DC fan depending on requirement and construction model.

Any biomass with less than 20% water content can be used as fuel. The user fills the fuel pot up to the neck, just below the secondary air inlet holes. The user ignites the top layer of fuel for the pyrolysis to start. Air then flows in through the primary and secondary air inlets. The primary inlet helps the draft of pyrolysed wood gas flow up.

The secondary air inlet blows hot air by the time it travels around the fuel pot. The secondary inlet above the fuel layer helps burn the wood gas. 

YouTube has many instructional videos, with further explanation on other websites.
A range of construction plans to make TLUD gasifier stoves

See also
 List of ovens

Notes

References 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Biodegradable waste management
Thermal treatment
Bioenergy
Sustainable gardening
Kilns
Code scaling, applicability, and uncertainty. Code scaling, applicability, and uncertainty (CSAU) methodology is a systematic approach proposed by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission that can be used to identify and quantify overall nuclear reactor uncertainties, and this estimate methods for reactor safety analysis is in lieu of the earlier licensing practice that used deterministic methods with conservative assumptions to address uncertainties. Since the methodology was proposed about two decades ago, it has been widely used for new reactor designs and existing light water reactor power uprates.

References

External links
 
 

Nuclear safety and security
Ayyappa Masagi. Ayyappa Masagi is an Indian engineer and founder of the Water Literacy Foundation. He  is known as "Water Doctor" due to his non-profit work. The foundation focuses on water conservation projects across India, providing a wide range of solutions to India's water scarcity problem.

Personal life
Ayyappa Masagi was born in the small village of Gadag-Betageri, Karnataka. In his childhood, he faced acute water shortages, having to walk for hours with his mother to fetch water from the nearest stream bed. His passion for water conservation started because of this and grew as he gained relevant knowledge from his parents as well as research about water and agriculture. After graduating, he worked for Larsen & Toubro for 23 years as a mechanical engineer. Wanting to pursue his passion for helping India's growing water scarcity issue, he quit his job and founded the Water Literacy Foundation.

Published work

Masagi authored Bhageeratha: War on Water Crisis, Converting Dry Land into Wet Land, where he discusses his own life experiences with water issues and project work with the Water Literacy Foundation. The book also explains different techniques to save and recharge our water.

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Wishtel. WishTel is an Indian manufacturing company that produce various IT products, founded in Mumbai by Milind Shah. The manufacturing facilities are currently in Maharashtra and Gujarat.

WishTel is an Indian IT products manufacturing company. On 23 March 2012, it announced the launch of a range of low-cost tablet devices by the name of IRA. The company claims to bring cheap and efficient computing devices in the fields of education where the Indian Government has often made efforts with the OLPC initiative and the Aakash (tablet) project.

The company was also the second lowest bidder for the Aakash project where they lost to DataWind. The CEO of the company Mr. Milind Shah has also claimed that WishTel would be bidding for the Aakash 2 project which was announced by Kapil Sibal who is currently the minister of communications and information technology for India.

IRA Tablets

The idea of producing these tablet computers is partly inspired by the fact that there is a big gap between technology and education, and partly by the introduction of another series of low-cost tablets – Aakash tablets – in 2010.

Wishtel designed its tablets according to the required specifications from Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan under the National Mission on Education, and are being funded by the Ministry of Human Resource.

The seven-inch tablets would be the first such devices to support 23 Indian regional languages. They operate on Android (operating system), and additional applications can be downloaded from the Android Market.

These tablets will be distributed by Wishtel's 350 distributors nationwide at Rs. 4,000 (for Ira) and Rs. 5,500 (for Ira Thing).

References

External links
 WishTel Official Site

Manufacturing companies based in Mumbai
Computer hardware companies
2012 establishments in Maharashtra
Technology companies established in 2012
Indian companies established in 2012
Irv Culver. Irven Harold Culver (May 11, 1911 – August 13, 1999) was an American aeronautical engineer.

Most notable of all his accomplishments, Culver is credited for solving a fatal flaw in the Lockheed P-38, related to high-speed compressibility problems which killed a test pilot.

A humorous episode during World War II resulted in giving the very secret Lockheed Advanced Development Projects division the name "Skunk Works". A phone call from the U.S. Department of the Navy to W. A. "Dick" Pulver was misdirected to Irv Culver who answered the phone with "Skonk Works, inside man Culver" and the name stuck. Another variant of the story relates that the original Skunk Works was located in a circus tent adjacent to the Lockheed plastics fabrication facility which smelled bad and reminded the engineers of the L'il Abner comic strip. Reportedly, Culver showed up for work wearing a civil defense gas mask as a gag and when he answered the phone he said "Skonk Works" referring to the cartoon. "Kelly overheard him and chewed out Irv for ridicule: "Culver, you're fired," Johnson roared. "Get your ass out of my tent." Culver showed up for work the next day and Johnson never said a word.    Kelly Johnson referred to Culver as "a brilliant designer" in his autobiography 

Culver was interested in a variety of aircraft configurations and developed guidelines for laying out the twist distribution on tailless aircraft. He also helped to design an experimental helicopter, distinguished by a forward-sweeping blade, that was extremely easy to fly. In 1966, Culver, Thomas Hanson and Lance Hook were awarded a patent (US3261407) for a rigid rotor system which set world speed records for Lockheed helicopters and laid the foundation for aerobatic rotorcraft. It earned Culver the Dr. Alexander Klemin Award from the American Helicopter Society.

In recent years, Culver was noted by Dan Armstrong, President of Experimental Soaring Association, for his work with Jim Maupin designing gliders intended to be built by craftsmen from plans. Culver is a well-known aerodynamicist.  He published a 13-page paper on the design analysis for the Windrose 15-meter glider that he designed with Maupin.

Aircraft designs collaborated on 
Crown City Glider Club Screaming Wiener
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
Maupin Carbon Dragon
Maupin Windrose
Maupin Woodstock One
Volmer VJ-24W SunFun
Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross Corrected horizontal stabilizer position, friction, and control stiffness issues.

References 

American aerospace engineers
1911 births
1999 deaths
East Perth Gas Works. East Perth Gas Works was built in 1922 for the Perth City Council to produce town gas from coal, supplying the city of Perth in Western Australia.  It could initially supply  of gas per day.

It was built on the site of the earlier 1886 Perth Gas Company plant.

The works was situated on the north bank of Claise Brook and operated until its decommissioning in 1971.  It was dismantled over a number of years, and the landmark 20-sided gasometer known as the "No. 2 Cityholder" was removed in 1985.

As a result of the processes in its operation, land surrounding the works was badly contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). From the mid-1980s, a major environmental remediation project on behalf of the State Energy Commission of Western Australia, which owned the land, was undertaken to remove the contaminated soils created by the works.   Remediation included dredging of  of adjacent riverbeds and removal and treatment of  of soil.

References

East Perth, Western Australia
Oil and gas companies of Australia
List of most expensive buildings. In the following, a building is defined as a structure with a roof and walls that stands permanently in one place. Airports are excluded as their construction cost includes runways and systems; however, terminal buildings are included in the list.

See also 
Megaproject
List of megaprojects
List of largest buildings
List of tallest buildings
List of largest hotels

References

 

Expensive Buildings In The World, List Of Most
buildings
Lists of buildings and structures
List of missile boat classes. A list of classes of missile boats used by naval forces around the world.

China
 Houbei class (Type 022), the first combat vessel with a catamaran hull.

Croatia

Egypt
 Ambassador MK III class

Finland
  - modified version of the Osa class

France
 La Combattante II type fast attack craft - built for export
  - built for export

Germany

  - exported to Greece, Chile and Egypt

Greece
 Roussen class (Super-Vita) - Used by the Hellenic Navy
  - Modified and upgraded version of the La Combattante IIIa class.
  - version of the French La Combattante III class.
  - ex-German Tiger class

India
 Next Generation Fast Attack Crafts (NGFACs)

Indonesia

Iran
 Thondar class
 Kaman class

Israel
 Sa'ar 3-class missile boat
 Sa'ar 4-class missile boat used by Israel, with variants also in service in South Africa, Sri Lanka and a small number of other countries.
 Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat used by Israel, with variants also in service in Mexico and Greece.

Italy
 Sparviero class patrol boat class seven now decommissioned Hydrofoils

Japan

  - based on

Korea, North

Korea, South

Malaysia
 Handalan class
 Perdana class

Norway
 Skjold - used by Norway, a stealthy surface effect catamaran

Pakistan
 Azmat class - based on Type 037II Houjian-class missile boat
 Jalalat II class
 Jurrat class(improved Jalalat II class)

Philippines
Multi-purpose Attack Craft Mk. 3
Nestor Acero-class Fast Attack Interdiction Craft

Russia/USSR
 Komar-class missile boat - The world's first missile boat, widely exported
 Osa-class missile boat - probably the worlds numerous missile boat, widely exported
 Matka-class missile boat - hydrofoil missile boat
 Sarancha-class missile boat - hydrofoil missile boat
 Project 1239 hydrofoil missile boat

Sweden
 Stockholm class
 Göteborg class
 Visby class

Taiwan
 Kuang Hua VI-class missile boat - Indigenously developed for Taiwan's navy
 Hai Ou-class missile boat - based on Dvora-class
 Dvora-class fast patrol boat - Israeli design, armed with missiles by Taiwan

Thailand
 Ratcharit - used by Thailand, a fast attack missile boat

Turkey
 Kılıç - used by Turkey, a fast attack missile boat
 Rüzgar class fast attack craft
 Doğan class fast attack craft
 Kartal class

United States
 Pegasus class, hydrofoils, all six now decommissioned

Vietnam
 BPS-500 class missile boat

Yugoslavia

Notes

References

Missile
Fly Products Power. The Fly Products Power is a family of Italian paramotors that was designed and produced by Fly Products of Grottammare for powered paragliding.

Design and development
The aircraft line features a paraglider-style high-wing, single-place or two-place-in-tandem accommodation and a single engine in pusher configuration. As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot.

The Power line all use the same seat harness and frame assembly. Most models also use the Solo 210 engine, combining it with different diameter propellers and protection cages to create higher thrust models. The model numbers correspond to the propeller diameter in centimetres and also indicate the maximum pilot weight in kilograms. The Power 70 model uses direct drive, but the 95, 115 and 30 models all use a reduction drive. These can be converted from one model to another more powerful one by mounting a larger propeller and protection cage to accommodate heavier pilot weights. Standard fuel is .

A one or two-seat tricycle wheeled carriage called the Trike Delta was also manufactured by the company. This unit mounts the power unit to convert the paramotor into a powered parachute.

Original factory options available for the Power line included electric starting,  fuel tank, high performance exhaust system and a harness with quick release buckles and storage pockets.

Variants
Power 70
Single seat version, with a direct drive  Solo 210 engine,  diameter propeller and maximum pilot weight of 
Power 95
Single seat version, with a 2.5:1 reduction drive  Solo 210 engine,  diameter propeller and maximum pilot weight of 
Power 115
Single seat version, with a 2.5:1 reduction drive  Solo 210 engine,  diameter propeller and maximum pilot weight of 
Power 130
Single seat version, with a 2.5:1 reduction drive  Solo 210 engine,  diameter propeller and maximum pilot weight of 
Power Plus
Single or two-seats-in tandem version, with a 2.2:1 reduction drive  Zanzottera MZ 34 engine,  diameter propeller and maximum pilot weight of 
Power Jet
Single seat version, with a 4:1 reduction drive  Per Il Volo Top 80 engine
Power Sky
Single seat version, with a 4:1 reduction drive  Sky engine

Specifications (Power 70)

References

1990s Italian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Dimethylcadmium. Dimethylcadmium is the organocadmium compound with the formula .  It is a colorless, highly toxic liquid that fumes in air. It is a linear molecule with C-Cd bond lengths of 213 pm. The compound finds limited use as a reagent in organic synthesis and in metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). It has also been used in the synthesis of cadmium selenide nanoparticles, although efforts have been made to replace it in this capacity due to its toxicity.

Dimethylcadmium is prepared by treating cadmium dihalides with methyl Grignard reagents or methyllithium.

The same method was used in the first preparation of this compound. 

Dimethylcadmium is a weak Lewis acid, forming a labile adduct with diethyl ether. A yellow, air-sensitive adduct is formed with 2,2'-bipyridine.

References 

Cadmium compounds
Neurotoxins
Foul-smelling chemicals
Methyl complexes
Substances discovered in the 1910s
Pyrophoric materials
Methyl compounds
Assut de l'Or Bridge. The Assut de l'Or Bridge (, ) is a white single-pylon cable-stayed bridge in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, designed by Valencian architect and civil engineer Santiago Calatrava and completed in December 2008. The name l'Assut de l'Or is Valencian for the Dam of the Gold and refers to a dam that was located nearby. Calatrava called it the Serreria Bridge.

Design
The bridge crosses the Túria Gardens in southeast Valencia, Spain near the east end of the City of Arts and Sciences complex. Its design is a variant of Santiago Calatrava's 1992 design of a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge in Seville, Spain. In the Serreria bridge, the pylon is curved backward and back-stayed to concrete counterweights in the roadway.  The aesthetic effect of the Serreria bridge arises in part from the curved pylon and the 29 parallel cables supporting the bridge deck, accented at night by spotlighting of the cables and the pylon.  The bridge deck has two carriageways, three lanes each for cars and one additional lane for a tramway, and a carriageway for only pedestrian and cycle traffic along the middle spine of the deck by the cable stays.

Gallery

See also
Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin, Ireland, in which the forward curved pylon is also back-stayed 
The Erasmusbrug in the Netherlands, another single pylon cable-stayed bridge in which the pylon is back-stayed
Montolivet Bridge - another bridge in the City of Arts and Sciences designed by Santiago Calatrava

Notes

References

External links

 L´Assut de l´Or Bridge (Serreria Bridge), Valencia, Spain (2009), Luis Viñuela y José Martínez Salcedo

Bridges in the Valencian Community
Bridges completed in 2008
Bridges by Santiago Calatrava
Buildings and structures in Valencia
Transport in the Valencian Community
Tourist attractions in Valencia
Cable-stayed bridges in Spain