omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Federal Ministry of Water Resources (Nigeria). The Federal Ministry of Water Resources is a federal ministry in Nigeria that is responsible for the management of water supply, irrigation, freshwater, and aquaculture. The ministry was established in 1976 to oversee the eleven river basin development authorities in Nigeria.

Appointment 
The current minister of water resources and sanitation is  Engineer Joseph Utsev. Which is appointed by president Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2023.

And the current permanent secretary is Alhaji Aliyu Shehu shinkafi from zamfara state which is appointed by president Tinubu on the 19th of January 2024.

The former minister of water resources is Engr. Suleiman Hussaini Adamu FNSE, FAEng., who was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari on 11 November 2015.

Responsibilities 
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources aims to provide sustainable access to safe and sufficient water to meet the cultural and socio-economic needs of all Nigerians, while enhancing public health, food security, and poverty reduction. The ministry also strives to maintain the integrity of the freshwater ecosystem of the nation. 

The Federal Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation is deeply concerned about the reported outbreak of cholera in some States of the Federation resulting in the death of 30 persons which attests to the severity of the situation.

Parastatals 
The ministry supervises the following river basin development authorities:

 Anambra-Imo River Basin Development Authority
 Benin-Owena River Basin Development Authority
 Chad Basin River Development Authority
 Cross-River River Basin Development Authority
 Hadejia Jama'are River Basin Development Authority
 Ogun-osun River Basin Development Authority
 Lower Benue River Basin Development Authority
 Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority
 Niger Delta River Basin Development Authority
 Upper Benue River Basin Development Authority
 Upper Niger River Basin Development Authority
 Sokoto-Rima River Basin Development Authority

Departments 
The ministry has the following departments:

 Dams and Reservoir Operations
 Finance and Accounts
 General Services
 Human Resource Management
 Hydrology
 Internal Audit
 Irrigation & Drainage
 Procurement
 Reform Co-ordination and Service Improvement
 River Basin Operations and Inspectorate
 Special Duties
 Water Quality Control & Sanitation
 Water Resources Planning and Technical Support Services
 Water Supply and PPP

References 

Federal Ministries of Nigeria
Rural development in Nigeria
Agricultural organizations based in Nigeria
L'Œuf électrique. () was a futuristic prototype concept  electric cyclecar designed in 1938, and built in 1942 by industrial designer Paul Arzens (1903-1990). It was acquired by the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris in 1993, and is currently at the Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse in Alsace.

History 
Arzens, a Parisian, and graduate of École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, designed this futuristic, economical, lightweight electric car prototype in 1938 (along with his concept car La Baleine), then built it in 1942, during World War II.

Car 
The spherical bodywork, with a fastback rear, is inspired by interwar cyclecars, and the bionic shapes of an egg, a bubble, or a drop of water. The body is aluminum, over a chassis formed from a  tube. The windscreen and doors are made of curved acrylic. Batteries account for most of the car's  weight.

Motorisation 
To circumvent fuel rationing during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II, Arzens used an electric motor, which was powered by five 12-volt batteries located under the bench seat. Each battery had a capacity of 250 ampere hours, and weighed . The car had a top speed of , and a range of .

After the war, Arzens replaced the electric motor with a  Peugeot single-cylinder petrol engine, which produced . This resulted in an increase in the car's top speed, to .

Museum 
Arzens used  as his personal car until his death in 1990, at which point it was donated to the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, which houses the collection of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. As of 2022, the car is at the Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse, together with La Baleine.

References

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1940s cars
Electric cars
Concept cars
Cars of France
Cyclecars
Individual cars
Phenyl glycidyl ether. Phenyl glycidyl ether, is a liquid aromatic organic chemical in the glycidyl ether class of compounds. It has the formula C9H10O2. It has the CAS Registry Number 122-60-1 and the IUPAC name of 2-(phenoxymethyl)oxirane. A key use is in the viscosity reduction of epoxy resin systems. It is REACH registered and on EINECS under the name 2,3-epoxypropyl phenyl ether.

Manufacture
Phenol and epichlorohydrin are reacted in the presence of a base and not a Lewis acid catalyst as normal with glycidyl ethers. A halohydrin is formed. This is followed by washing with sodium hydroxide in dehydrochlorination step. This forms phenyl glycidyl ether. The waste products are water and sodium chloride and excess caustic soda. One of the quality control tests would involve measuring the Epoxy value by determination of the epoxy equivalent weight.

Other names
 phenyl glycidyl ether
 phenol glycidyl ether
 1,2-Epoxy-3-phenoxypropane
 1-Phenoxy-2,3-epoxypropane
 2,3-Epoxy-1-phenoxypropane
 2,3-Epoxypropyl phenyl ether
 3-phenoxy-1,2-epoxypropane
 benzene, (2,3-epoxypropoxy)-
 Ether, 2,3-epoxypropyl phenyl
 Glycidyl phenyl ether
 Oxirane, (phenoxymethyl)-
 propane, 1,2-epoxy-3-phenoxy-

Uses
It has been used for lowering the viscosity of epoxy resins. It undergoes anionic polymerization. It is one of a number of glycidyl ethers available commercially that are used to reduce the viscosity of epoxy resins. These are then further used in coatings, sealants, adhesives and elastomers. The use of the diluent does effect mechanical properties and microstructure of epoxy resins.

Toxicology
It has caused cancer in laboratory animals. It is also listed as a California Proposition 65 chemical. It is specifically mentioned by OSHA.

See also
 Epoxide
 Glycidol

References

Further reading

External links

  Safety Data Sheet
  Phenyl glycidyl ether supplier distributor parchem

Glycidyl ethers
Reactive diluents
ACS Energy Letters. ACS Energy Letters is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society. It was established in 2016 and the editor-in-chief is Prashant V. Kamat (University of Notre Dame). It covers research on all aspects of energy and aims for rapid publication.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Ei Compendex
Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology
Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
Inspec
Science Citation Index Expanded
Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 22.

Article types
The journal publishes the following article types: letters, energy express, reviews, perspectives, viewpoints, energy focus, and editorials.

References

External links

English-language journals
American Chemical Society academic journals
Chemistry journals
Monthly journals
Academic journals established in 2016
2016 establishments in the United States
GIS Arta. GIS Arta or GIS Art for Artillery is military software used to coordinate artillery strikes. It has been used in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It has fast targeting (one minute), it does not require reconnaissance units to use specialized devices (they use smartphones), and it does not require artillery pieces to be clustered together. It has been compared to the German artillery software  ESG Adler. It was developed by Ukrainian programmers, with involvement by British digital map companies.

See also 

 Delta (situational awareness system)

References

External links 
 GIS Arta, Official website

Location-based software
Military equipment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Euskotren 200 series. The Euskotren 200 series is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by Euskotren in the Basque Country, Spain from 1986 to 2018.

History
The trains were ordered by Euskotren in 1983, with the first unit being delivered in 1985. They entered service on 1 February 1986, originally in the Bilbao-Plentzia line, where they replaced the rolling stock inherited from FTS. The trains had been intended for use in the Bilbao metro (which took over most of the Bilbao-Plentzia railway), but ultimately new trains were built for it.  Thus, with the opening of the metro in 1995, the trains were transferred to the Txorierri, Urdaibai and Bilbao-San Sebastián lines. The trains were built entirely in the Basque Country: the motor cars by CAF in Beasain, the non-powered cars by Babcock & Wilcox in Sestao and the electrical equipment by Westingouse in Erandio.

The 20 trains originally consisted of 3 cars each. In 1996, 10 of them had a fourth car added, with the tree-car trains being used together with the 3500 series in the Urdaibai and Bilbao-San Sebastián lines. The remaining three-car trains had a fourth car added starting in 1999. All the new cars were built by CAF.

The 900 series, intended as a replacement of the 200 series, entered service in 2011. Starting in late 2017, the last 200 series units were retired from active service, with the trains being put up for auction in January 2018. On 24 November 2018, the last remaining unit was retired after a farewell trip, the train was then sent to the Basque Railway Museum for preservation.

Formations

Originally, each trainset was formed by two motored cars and two non-powered cars. Between 1996 and 2000 all units had a fourth (non-powered) car added.

See also
 Euskotren rolling stock

References

External links
 

Electric multiple units of Spain
200 series
CAF multiple units
Train-related introductions in 1986
1500 V DC multiple units
Robert S. Roth. Robert S. Roth (August 21, 1926 – July 16, 2012) was an American materials scientist known for his comprehensive research into the phase diagrams of ceramic materials and the structures of nonstoichiometric compounds.

Education and career
Roth studied geology at Coe College and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he obtained his PhD in 1951. He worked at the United States Geological Survey as a field assistant, and after his PhD, he joined the National Bureau of Standards (later NIST), where he remained for most of his career. Since 1981, he was a senior editor of the book series Phase Diagrams for Ceramists, a major set of reference books in the field of ceramic materials.

While visiting CSIRO in Melbourne, Australia in the 1960s, Roth collaborated with the Australian materials scientist Arthur D. Wadsley to understand the structures of transition metal oxides, which led to a series of publications. The ordered phases of transition metal oxides exhibiting shear structures are now referred to as the Wadsley-Roth phases.

Honors and awards
Roth received the United States Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 1986. He received the Sosman Award in 1991, the John Jeppson Award in 1995, the Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award in 2003, all from the American Ceramic Society. He received the Buessem Award from the Center for Dielectric Studies in 2001.

Bibliography

References 

1926 births
2012 deaths
Coe College alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
National Institute of Standards and Technology people
American materials scientists
Solid state chemists
Materials scientists and engineers
Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering. The Ramsay Memorial Chair of Chemical Engineering is a named professorship in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL, established along with the department and the Ramsay Memorial Laboratory in 1923. They are named after Nobel Prize recipient William Ramsay. The chair was the first created for Chemical Engineering in the United Kingdom. The current professor is Marc-Olivier Coppens.

Ramsay Memorial Professors of Chemical Engineering 

 1923–1928 E. C. Williams
 1928–1935 William Edward Gibbs
 1934–1937 H. E. Watson
 1951–1965 M. B. Donald
 1965–1985 P. N. Rowe
 1985–1991 J. W. Mullin
 1991–1996 A. Cornish
 1996–2003 J. G. Yates
 2003–2012 A. G. Jones
 2012- Marc-Olivier Coppens

References

Chemical industry in the United Kingdom
Engineering education in the United Kingdom
Professorships in engineering
Professorships at University College London
Hugh Duncan Griffiths. Hugh Duncan Griffiths, , FRS, FREng is a British electronic engineer. He is known for his contributions in radar research, especially in bistatic radar and passive radar.

Career and research 
He has published over 550 research papers in journals and conference proceedings.
Books include Modern Antennas (Springer, 2005), Advances in Bistatic Radar (Scitech, 2007), Radar Automatic Target Recognition and Non-Cooperative Target Recognition (IET, 2013), An Introduction to Passive Radar (Artech House, 2017 – also published in Chinese, second edition 2022).

 Since 1982 he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation journal.

 In 2017 he was appointed Chair of the Defence Science Expert Committee (DSEC) in the UK Ministry of Defence. He is a member of the Home Office Science Advisory Council (HOSAC).

Awards and honours

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Members of the Order of the British Empire
20th-century British engineers
21st-century British engineers
British electrical engineers
People associated with radar
Scientific journal editors
RMAS Newton (A367). RMAS Newton was an underwater research vessel with limited provision for cable laying. She was originally used for sonar propagation trials.

History
RMAS Newton was built at Scott Lithgow Ltd's yard at Greenock. She had three Mirrlees Blackstone  diesel engines driving GEC generators for propulsion through a single screw and the ship's electrical supply. This gave her a service speed of . To aid manoeuvrability at low speed she had a nozzle rudder and a bow thruster. She was launched on 25 June 1975 and taken into service one year later, on 18 June 1976.

In 2000, she underwent a major refit which included replacing her Mirlees engines with Ruston RK 215 units. At the same time her cable handling equipment was removed. Subsequently, she was used as a training and support vessel for special forces. In 2005, she underwent a further refit at Birkenhead.

On 1 April 2008, she was taken over by Serco who operated her until 2010 when she was replaced by SD Victoria. In 2012 she was sent to Ghent for scrapping.

References

Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service
Serco Marine Services (ships)
Ships built in Glasgow
1975 ships
Reginald Otto Kapp. Reginald Otto Kapp (2 August 1885-20 February 1966) was a professor of electrical engineering at UCL.

He was appointed to the Pender chair in 1935.

References

External links 
www.reginaldkapp.org
Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery

Electrical engineers
1885 births
1966 deaths
Electrical engineering academics
Academics of University College London
Eva Sorensen. Eva Sorensen is a British chemical engineer. She was appointed in 2020 as interim head of the Department of Chemical Engineering while Marc-Olivier Coppens was on a year sabbatical. She is the first female to lead the department.

In 2018 she was honoured by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) with the Frank Morton Medal for promoting best practice in chemical engineering education. The citation read "Medal awarded to Professor Eva Sorensen for being a key driver for innovation in teaching and learning, inside and outside her own institution. She was noted by the committee to have worked tirelessly over several decades to promulgate best practice in chemical engineering education."

Sorensen was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to education and chemical engineering.

In 2024 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

References

Further reading 
 

Academics of University College London
British chemical engineers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Women chemical engineers
21st-century British women engineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Nano-Micro Letters. Nano-Micro Letters is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering nanotechnology. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The editor-in-chief is Yafei Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University). The journal was established in 2009.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus. According  to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 31.6.

References

External links

English-language journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals
Academic journals established in 2009
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Nanotechnology journals
William Buchanan (locomotive designer). William Buchanan (March 6, 1830 – January 20, 1910) was an American mechanical engineer. He spent most of his career designing high-speed steam locomotives for the New York Central Railroad including the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad No. 999 locomotive, designed to travel over . He also designed and improved freight locomotives for hauling heavy commercial freight. He was an authority on mechanical engineering in America and Europe and was elected to membership of the Institute of Civil Engineers of London.

Early life 
William Buchanan was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, on March 6, 1830. His father was a mechanic and blacksmith; Buchanan immigrated to the U.S. when he was young, and learned blacksmithing and machining at the Burden Iron Works at Troy, New York. In 1847, he became employed at the Albany and Schenectady Railroad as an apprentice in the machine shops of the company at Albany, New York. Early in his career he did mechanical work on the DeWitt Clinton locomotive.

Buchanan worked as a machinist in the machine shops of the Hudson River Railroad until July 1851 as a locomotive engineer on the New York City line. He became shop foreman and in June 1853 master mechanic of the Southern Division of the Hudson River Railroad.

Mid life and career 
Buchanan was given responsibility for the locomotive power of the Hudson River Railroad and the Troy and Greenfield Railroad in 1859 with the New York and Harlem Railroad added to his responsibilities in 1880. In 1881 Buchanan was placed in charge of the locomotive power of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad before being promoted in 1885 to the superintendent position of locomotive power and vehicle rolling stock. The West Shore Railroad was leased to New York Central Railroad in 1886 and at that time Buchanan was given the responsibilities of managing the locomotive engines and passenger cars in addition to his existing duties.

Buchanan made many improvements in locomotives from the West Albany machine shops and in recognition of his work was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers of London in 1891.

Buchanan designed and named the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad locomotive No. 999 engine in 1893. The locomotive pulled the New York state express train of vehicles on a test run from Rochester, New York, to Buffalo, New York on May 9, 1893. 

As well as his work on the 999 locomotive, Buchanan redesigned and improved existing locomotives for heavy duty freight with many of his designs for enormous train locomotives adopted by other railroad companies.

Later life and death 

Buchanan retired from the railroad business in 1899 after working for the New York Central since 1847. He died at South Norwalk, Connecticut, on January 20, 1910.

References

Sources

Further reading

1830 births
1910 deaths
19th-century American inventors
19th-century American engineers
19th-century American people
Businesspeople from New York City
People from Dumbarton
Scottish emigrants to the United States
Sysbench. In computing, sysbench is an open-source software tool. Specifically, it is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmarking tool designed for Linux systems. It is a C binary and uses LuaJIT scripts to execute benchmarks. It is most frequently used for database benchmarks, for example MySQL, but can also be used to create arbitrarily complex workloads that do not involve a database server for general testing. It is a multi-purpose benchmark that features tests for CPU, memory, I/O, and database performance testing. It is a basic command line utility that offers a direct way to benchmark computer hardware. It now comes packaged in most major Linux distribution repositories such as Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and Arch Linux.

History 
Sysbench was originally created by Peter Zaitsev in 2004. Soon after, Alexy Kopytov took over its development.

Design 
Sysbench tests the load by running multiple threads at the same time. The number of threads is specified by the user. Depending on the testing mode, Sysbench can test the total number of requests or the amount of time required to run the complete benchmark, or both.

Usage 
Sysbench can run benchmark tests specified in command line flags or in shell scripts. The type of test to run is specified in the command options and would be one of:

 cpu: CPU performance test
 fileio: File I/O test
 memory: Memory speed test
 mutex: Mutex performance test
 threads: Threads subsystem performance test

Sample Command Usage 
A commonly used variation of Sysbench may look like the following: sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --threads=32 run.

References 

Linux software
Benchmarks (computing)
Wang Zherong. Wang Zherong (; 5 October 1935 – 31 May 2022) was a Chinese tank design expert and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Wang was born in Gaoyang County, Hebei, on 5 October 1935, during the Republic of China. 

In 1956, he was accepted to the Harbin Military Academy of Engineering (now National University of Defense Technology), majoring in tank and armoured vehicle. After graduating in August 1962, he was despatched to the Armored Forces Academy of Science and Technology and was promoted to a group leader in the 201st Institute of the China North Industries Corporation. He served as deputy chief designer of the type 99 tank from January 1985 to January 2001. He was hired as a professor at Beijing Institute of Technology and North University of China in 2005.

On 31 May 2022, he died at the 301 Hospital, in Beijing, at the age of 86.

Honours and awards
2001 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
2001 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class) for the type 99 tank
2002 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation

References

1935 births
2022 deaths
People from Gaoyang County
Engineers from Hebei
National University of Defense Technology alumni
Academic staff of Beijing Institute of Technology
Academic staff of North University of China
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering