omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Shuqaiq 2 IWPP. Shuqaiq 2 IWPP (Independent Water and Power Project) is an integrated water and power plant project in Shuqaiq, Saudi Arabia. Construction of Shuqaiq 2 IWPP began in 2007 and achieved commercial operation in 2010. The project's power and desalination units are located adjacent to the existing Shuqaiq 1 power and desalination complex, 105 km south of Abha and 140 km north of Jizan, on the south-western (Red Sea) coast of Saudi Arabia.

The electricity and water produced at the plant is supplying power to southern grid and water to Abha, Jizan and other southern cities. The plant is currently on full production.

The Project is based on BOO (Build Own Operate) basis, under a 20-year PWPA (Power and Water Purchase Agreement) for the design, construction, commissioning, testing, ownership, operation and maintenance of a new 850 MW Arabian Heavy Crude Oil fired power and 216,000 m3/day (48 MIGD) desalination plant and associated facilities.

Shareholders

The plant is owned by SqWEC (Shuqaiq Water & Electricity Company) and shareholders are:
 ACWA Power: 40%
 Public Investment Fund: 32%
 Gulf Investment Council: 20%
 Saudi Electricity Company: 8%

Project schedule

- LLA: Land Lease Agreement
- PWPA: Power and Water Purchase Agreement
- EPC: Engineering, Procurement, Construction
- O&M: Operations and Maintenance
- ICOD: Initial Commercial Operation Date
- PCOD: Project Commercial Operation Date

Plant configuration

The Shuqaiq 2 IWPP comprises three (3) units of Arabian heavy crude oil fired boilers, (3) condensing steam turbines and one reverse osmosis water unit comprising 16 trains. The construction of power and desalination plant was carried out by MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries).

Electricity is fed to the National Grid, SA via a 380kV GIS Substation, which was constructed by Areva, now Alstom.

See also 

 Qurayyah IPP
 Rabigh 2 IPP
 List of largest power stations in the world
 List of power stations in Saudi Arabia

References 

Fossil fuel power stations in Saudi Arabia
Oil-fired power stations in Saudi Arabia
Power stations in Saudi Arabia
Integrated water and power plants
Project Loghman. The Khalije Fars (Persian Gulf) class is a destroyer class, the class was previously designated a training ship. 
In terms of size and armament the vessel is the first true destroyer built by Iran.

Many experts believe that it was referred to as a training vessel in order to cover the real goal of the vessel. 
The class is five times larger than the Jamaran, which means it is at least 5,500 tons and 7,000-7,500 tons full. A model which appeared in November 2014 shows a radar above the destroyer.

Contruction began on November 11, 2019.

See also

References 

Destroyer classes
Destroyers of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy
Ship classes of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy
Military projects
Ben Taskar. Ben Taskar (March 3, 1977 – November 18, 2013) was a professor and researcher in the area of machine learning and applications to computational linguistics and computer vision.  He was a Magerman Term Associate Professor for Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. He co-directed PRiML: Penn Research in Machine Learning, a joint venture between the School of Engineering and Wharton. He was also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Public Policy. At the University of Washington, he held the Boeing Professorship.

He was the first person to define Max-margin Markov networks and a pioneer in statistical relational learning.

Ben Taskar died of an apparent heart attack on the night of November 17, 2013, at the age of 36.

Bibliography

References

Sources 
 Ben Taskar memorial, UW CSE News
 UW computer science professor Ben Taskar passes away at 36 news, Geek Wire

2013 deaths
American computer scientists
Machine learning researchers
American artificial intelligence researchers
Logic programming researchers
University of California, Berkeley faculty
University of Pennsylvania faculty
University of Washington faculty
Stanford University alumni
1977 births
Desulfotomaculum geothermicum. Desulfotomaculum geothermicum is a thermophilic, fatty acid-degrading, sulfate-reducing bacterium. It is capable of growing at temperatures of up to  and is commonly found in geothermal environments, such as hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents. The species was first isolated from a hot spring in Beppu, Japan, in 1992 and was later characterized in detail.

Desulfotomaculum geothermicum is of interest to scientists because of its ability to degrade organic matter and produce methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The bacteria play an important role in the global carbon cycle and are thought to contribute to the carbon balance in hot springs and other geothermal environments. Additionally, the enzymes produced by Desulfotomaculum geothermicum are of interest for biotechnological applications, such as the production of biofuels and the removal of sulfates from industrial wastewater.

References

Further reading
Anandkumar, Balakrishnan, et al. "Effect of thermophilic sulphate-reducing bacteria (Desulfotomaculum geothermicum) isolated from Indian petroleum refinery on the corrosion of mild steel." Current Science (00113891) 97.3 (2009).
Adams, Michael W., et al., eds. Biochemistry and physiology of anaerobic bacteria. Springer, 2003.

External links
LPSN

Type strain of Desulfotomaculum geothermicum at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Peptococcaceae
MCM-41. MCM-41 (Mobil Composition of Matter No. 41) is a mesoporous material with a hierarchical structure from a family of silicate and alumosilicate solids that were first developed by researchers at Mobil Oil Corporation and that can be used as catalysts or catalyst supports.

Structure 
MCM-41 consists of a regular arrangement of cylindrical mesopores that form a one-dimensional pore system. It is characterized by an independently adjustable pore diameter, a sharp pore distribution, a large surface and a large pore volume. The pores are larger than with zeolites and the pore distribution can easily be adjusted. The mesopores have a diameter of 2 nm to 6.5 nm.

Properties 
Contrary to zeolites, the framework of MCM-41 has no bronsted acid centers because there is no aluminium contained in the lattice. The acidity of alumina-doped MCM-41 therefore is comparable to that of the amorphous alumosilicates.

MCM-41 is not hydrothermally stable because of the slight wall thickness and the low degree of cross-linking of the silicate units.

Synthesis 
To achieve a defined pore diameter surfactants are used that form micelles in the synthesis solution. These micelles form templates that help build up the mesoporous framework. For MCM-41 mostly cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) is used.

The surfactant first forms rod-like micelles that subsequently align into hexagonal arrays. After adding silica species these cover the rods. Later, calcination leads to a condensation of the silanol groups so that the silicon atoms are bridged by oxygen atoms. The organic template is oxidized and disappears.

Uses

MCM-41, as the zeolites, are widely used as catalytic cracking.  MCM-41 type materials have been widely used as support of heterogeneous catalysts  and also used for separations.

References 

Mesoporous material
Paramount Airways Limited. Paramount Airways Limited was a British inclusive-tour charter airline based at Bristol Airport. It operated flights from Bristol, Belfast and Birmingham to Mediterranean destinations. The airline entered receivership on 14 November 1989. It also operated Cessna Citation executive jets as Paramount Executive.

History

Paramount ordered two new McDonnell Douglas MD-83s, with the first one delivered on 24 April 1987 to allow operations to start on 1 May 1987. During the European winter, the airline operated charter flights from Gatwick Airport to Goa. The airline acquired two more MD-83s for the 1988 charter season.

In 1989, the company entered administration with debts of £11 million, it was also under examination by the Serious Fraud Office over the loss of £13.5 million by the Eagle Trust which it had close links and shared a chairman.

Fleet
Paramount Airways operated the following aircraft:

See also
 List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom

References

External links

Defunct airlines of the United Kingdom
Airlines established in 1986
Airlines disestablished in 1989
Biosphere House. The Biosphere House () in the village of Fischbach bei Dahn in the German state of Rhineland-Pfalz is a nature experience centre and important regional tourist attraction.

Location 
Fischbach lies in the southern part of the Palatine Forest, the German part of the Wasgau region, near the Franco-German border and in the heart of the cross-border Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve. The Biosphere House and its grounds are on the eastern edge of the municipality on the water meadows of the Saarbach stream.

Development and structure 
The Biosphere House was set up as a decentralised project of the world exposition Expo 2000 in Hanover. The project is based on the modular principle and is continually being developed:

Originally the Biosphere House was a single-storey building that opened in March 2000 as an information centre for the biosphere reserve. An important part of the centre is a multi-faceted multimedia exhibition.

In March 2002, two years after its opening, the nature experience centre (Naturerlebniszentrum) was added. This consists of an exhibition room with adjacent accommodation and a restaurant, as well as an interactive circular path. This is 1,500 metres long and has 14 way stations with interesting information about the region; it is also pram- and wheelchair-friendly. The nature experience centre is frequently used by school classes.

In June 2003 a treetop walkway was opened with a length of 270 metres and running through the treetops of the Palatine Forest over suspension bridges and plate bridges (Tellerbrücke). The aerial high point and finish is an "eagle's nest", 35 metres high, from where there are good views over the biosphere reserve. To return to the ground there is a 45 metre long slide. In its first 3 years 467,000 people experienced the walkway.

The Water Experience Path (Wasser-Erlebnis-Weg) was opened in 2006. The ca. 2 kilometre long route along the Saarbach comprises 14 stations, at which various aspects of water are presented, e.g. hydropower, water creatures and water quality. Also in 2006 the second floor of the main building of the Biosphere House was opened with an exhibition with an interactive history on the subject of waterbodies and stream valleys (Gewässer und Bachtäler).

Economics 
Because visitor numbers were much higher than the original prognosis, the Biosphere House can fund its own routine operations and only resorts to state subsidies for its larger projects. About 45 employees – 15 permanent and 30 seasonal – work at the  Biosphere House.

External links 

 Fischbach Biosphere House website

Natural history museums in Germany
Museums in Rhineland-Palatinate
Buildings and structures in Südwestpfalz
Nature centres in Germany
Thermococcus barophilus. Thermococcus barophilus is a piezophilic and hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. It is anaerobic and sulfur-metabolising, with type strain MPT.

Nomenclature

The name Thermococcus barophilus has Greek roots, thermo for heat, kokkos for the spherical cells, baros for weight, and philos for loving. Overall, the name means "organism with a spherical body that gravitates to heat and to the pressure of the water column."

Physiology

T. barophilus can grow at even higher temperatures if the pressure is high, as well.  At an atmospheric pressure, it can grow at temperatures of 45–90 °C, with an optimal temperature of 85 °C, but it can grow at temperatures as high as 100 °C if the hydrostatic pressure is 15.0–17.5 MPa. Sulfur is necessary for its growth, but it can also grow slowly in absence of sulfur. Membrane lipid has a major archaeol component.

Genome 
The genome of T. barophilus has been sequenced and is circular in nature with a size of 2,010,078bp. It has also a circular plasmid pTBMP1. The genome sequence shows that it has the carboxydotrophic pathway and bears seven different hydrogenase complexes.

Transcriptome 
The transcriptome analysis of this organism has also been done. It has been found that, 378 genes are differentially expressed in T. barophilus  under different pressure conditions. Genes related to energy production and conversion, inorganic ion transport and metabolism and crabohydrate transport and metabolism are upregulated. Genes which are downregulated are involved in amino acid transport and metabolism, nucleotide transport and metabolism, replication and repair and recombination and inorganic ion transport and metabolism.

References

Further reading

External links

LPSN
Type strain of Thermococcus barophilus at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Euryarchaeota
Archaea described in 1999
Victor On-kwok Li. Professor Victor On-kwok Li (born October 11, 1954) is an American Hong Kong academic. He is best known for his contributions to the development of Information technology. He received the Government of Hong Kong Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2001, and he is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Prof. Li is currently chair professor and head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He also serves as Managing Director of Versitech Ltd. He is also on the boards of SUNeVision Ltd., China.com Ltd., and Anxin-China Holding Ltd. Prof. Li also chairs the Executive Committee, HKU Initiative on Clean Energy and Environment.

From 2007 to 2012, he served as Associate Dean of Engineering at HKU. Before joining HKU in 1997, he was a professor of electrical engineering (EE) at the University of Southern California (USC) and director of Communication Sciences Institute of USC. He chaired the Computer Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society from 1987 to 1989, and the Los Angeles Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Group from 1983 to 1985.

Prof. Li's doctoral adviser was Prof. Wilbur Davenport, who was a student of Prof. Robert Fano.

References

Fellows of the IEEE
1954 births
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the University of Hong Kong
University of Southern California faculty
Recipients of the Bronze Bauhinia Star
Cytosorbents Corporation. CytoSorbents Corporation is a publicly traded company located in Princeton, New Jersey.

CytoSorbents sells a cytokine adsorbing column ("CytoSorb" which received CE mark approval in 2011) — a blood purification technology based on porous polymer beads that act like sponges in an attempt to remove harmful inflammatory mediators like Cytokines, Bilirubin, Myoglobin from the blood.

The use of hemoperfusion columns is generally limited to patients who are critically ill in high-resource counties, and they require a patient to be connected to a hemofiltration system such as Dialysis, Hemofiltration Cardiopulmonary bypass or ECMO. Other blood purification devices are using different technologies with different performance parameters. This is including polymyxin B hemoperfusion columns (Toraymyxin), which failed to show significance in a clinical trial for sepsis. The CytoSorb technology has actually the largest body of clinical data confirming safety and efficacy. Clinicaltrials.gov is giving an overview over running research projects.

CytoSorbents was awarded a $3.8 million contract by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for its “Dialysis-Like Therapeutics” program to treat sepsis by removing cytokines and pathogen-derived toxins. The US Army awarded the Company a $1.15 million small-business innovation research contract to evaluate the technology in burn and trauma.

References 

Companies based in New Jersey
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
Medical technology companies of the United States
I W Jones Eng'r.. I W Jones Eng'r was an American engineering firm that operated from offices on Main Street in Milton, New Hampshire, from 1899 to 1930. The firm built water-powered factories and hydroelectric plants. Ira W. Jones was the principal of the firm.

Ira W. Jones
Ira W. Jones was born in Milton on June 10, 1854. His father was George H. Jones (1826 – after 1910), and his mother was Lucy Jane Varney (1827–1897). Ira had an older sister Addie V. (1848 - ?), an older brother Charles A. (1852 - ?), and a younger sister Nettie J. (1863 - ?). In the 1870 US census, Ira and his brother Charles are shown as working on their father's farm in Milton. However, in the 1880 census, while Charles is still shown as working on the farm, Ira's occupation at 25 years of age is shown as "sets water wheels". In the next available census from 1900, Ira was living in Lebanon, Maine, across the Salmon Falls River from Milton. He had married Lucia C. Wentworth in 1887 and had two children, Nettie age 13 and Mary age 8, at the time of the 1900 census. Ira's occupation was listed as hydraulic engineer in 1900. 

Jones's formal education began in the public schools in South Milton, New Hampshire. He graduated from Milton High School and went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied drafting at Starr King Drawing School. After completing at Starr King, Jones spent three additional years in Boston making patterns and models. He then spent four years learning the millwright trade before spending a year and a half with a Worcester, Massachusetts, machinery manufacturer as a machinist and draftsman. For the next 13½ years, from about 1887 to 1900, Jones worked selling equipment from machinery manufacturers in Dayton, Ohio, and Worcester. Around 1900, Jones founded an engineering and consulting firm that employed 10 to 15 engineers.

The offices of I.W. Jones Engineers were on Main Street in Milton. The firm specialized in dams, water wheels and turbines, mill buildings and hydroelectric plants and undertook contracts all over New England, the southern states and Canada.

I W Jones Eng'r. projects

See also

 Economy of New Hampshire

References

Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States
Defunct engineering companies of the United States
Defunct companies based in New Hampshire
Companies based in Strafford County, New Hampshire
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1899
Design companies disestablished in 1930
1899 establishments in New Hampshire
1930 disestablishments in New Hampshire
Privately held companies based in New Hampshire
Defunct privately held companies of the United States
American companies established in 1899
American companies disestablished in 1930
MassTransit-Project. MassTransit is free software/open-source .NET-based Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) software that helps .NET developers route messages over RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, SQS, and ActiveMQ service busses. It supports multicast, versioning, encryption, sagas, retries, transactions, distributed systems and other features. It uses a "Control Bus" design to coordinate and the Rete algorithm to route. Since it does not include "business monitoring" or a "business rules engine" (and requires programming to implement sagas for orchestration), MassTransit is typically considered to be in the category of "lightweight ESB" software.

The project is led by Microsoft MVP and national conference speaker Chris Patterson ("phatboyg"), who is also the author of the TopShelf project, and is co-authored by Dru Sellers.  By February 2021 downloads of the package through NuGet passed 26,000 per week.

MassTransit is similar to a commercial offering called NServiceBus, and developers often pick one or the other for their implementation. The similarity is no accident, as the authors note that  MassTransit was first built in 2007 as an alternative to NServiceBus, and the projects share the use of some code.  Other similar "NuGet" ESB packages include Rebus and Rhino Service Bus.

References

.NET software
Message-oriented middleware
Anion-exchange chromatography. Anion-exchange chromatography is a process that separates substances based on their charges using an ion-exchange resin containing positively charged groups, such as diethyl-aminoethyl groups (DEAE). In solution, the resin is coated with positively charged counter-ions (cations). Anion exchange resins will bind to negatively charged molecules, displacing the counter-ion. Anion exchange chromatography is commonly used to purify proteins, amino acids, sugars/carbohydrates and other acidic substances with a negative charge at higher pH levels. The tightness of the binding between the substance and the resin is based on the strength of the negative charge of the substance.

General technique for protein purification 

A slurry of resin, such as DEAE-Sephadex is poured into the column. The matrix that is used is insoluble with charged groups that are covalently attached.  These charged groups are referred to as exchangers like cation and anion exchangers. After it settles, the column is pre-equilibrated in buffer before the protein mixture is applied. DEAE-Sephadex is a positively-charged slurry that will have electrostatic interactions with the negatively charged atoms, making them elute later than the positively-charged molecules in the interested sample. This is a separation technique used widely to discover specific proteins, or enzymes in the body. Unbound proteins are collected in the flow-through and/or in subsequent buffer washes. Proteins that bind to the positively charged resin are retained and can be eluted in one of two ways. First, the salt concentration in the elution buffer is gradually increased. The negative ions in the salt solution (e.g. Cl−) compete with protein in binding to the resin. Second, the pH of the solution can be gradually decreased which results in a more positive charge on the protein, releasing it from the resin. Both of these techniques can displace the negatively charged protein which is then eluted into test tubes fractions with the buffer. 

The separation of proteins will depend on the differences in total charge. Composition of ionizable side chain groups will determine the total charge of the protein at a particular pH. At the isoelectric point (pI), the total charge on the protein is 0 and it will not bind to the matrix. If the pH is above the pI, the protein will have a negative charge and bind to the matrix in an anion exchange column. The stability of the protein at values above or below the pI, will determine if an anion exchange column or cation exchange column should be used. If it is stable at pH values below the pI, the cation exchange column be used. If it is stable at pH values above the pI then the anion exchange column can be used.

References 

Chromatography