omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
VOC BioTreat. VOC BioTreat™ is a U.S. patent pending technology for Ramboll Environ.

This technology allows for the removal and chemical degradation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by piping them into a deep-tank aerated activated sludge wastewater treatment plant,  which meets U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards for VOC and hazardous air pollutant removal and can be used for existing pollution remediation infrastructure at refineries, chemical companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and others.

EPA goals 

The EPA regulates VOCs mainly because of their ability to create photochemical smog and regards reducing the concentration of VOC as an important to health and environmental goal.

Technological approach 

VOC BioTreat pipes biodegradable airborne VOCs into the biotreatment plant treating waterborne VOCs. This eliminates the need for a separate approach to address airborne emissions by using activated carbon filters and burning the resulting waste.

The work in developing the protocols and resulting solutions on VOC BioTreat was led by Dr. Carl Adams, Ramboll Environ's Global Practice Leader for Industrial Waste Management. Adams holds three patents involving advanced industrial wastewater treatment technology. He has worked with over 90 refineries in North America and around the world. He is recognized by the EPA as an expert in the development of cost-effective volatile organic compounds (VOC) control technologies, especially for refineries and petrochemical plants.

Awards and honors 

Following the use of VOC BioTreat at the Marathon Petroleum Company’s refinery in Garyville, Louisiana, ENVIRON, whose operations preceded Ramboll Environ, received the 2011 Grand Prize in Research from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. The Academy said, “Refineries and chemical industries with a current activated sludge system that meet certain criteria would be strong candidates for ENVIRON’s new VOC BioTreat approach,” while also noting that the technology “greatly reduces capital investment” and “long-term operational costs.”  

In September 2011, VOC BioTreat was a semi-finalist for the Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award. Chemical Engineering Magazine has awarded this biennial prize, continuously since 1933.

References

External links 

 American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists
 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Compliance Monitoring
 ENVIRON Corporation

Waste treatment technology
S-M-J Maverick I. The S-M-J Maverick I is an American aircraft designed for homebuilt construction.

Design and development
The S-M-J Maverick I is a single-seat, open cockpit, single-engine aircraft with a strut-braced low wing and conventional landing gear. The fuselage is of wood construction and the wing is aluminium.

Specifications (Maverick I)

See also

References

Homebuilt aircraft
Eaves Cougar 1. The Eaves Cougar 1 is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Leonard R. Eaves of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and made available in the form of plans for amateur construction.

Design and development
The Eaves Cougar 1 was based upon the Nesmith Cougar and features a strut-braced high wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from welded steel tubing and wood, covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its wing has a  span and can be folded for storage or ground transportation. Engines used typically range from  but the airframe can accept engines as powerful as the  Lycoming O-320.

The aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload is .

The construction of the prototype was commenced in January 1957 at Eaves' home in Oklahoma City. The design won third place in the 1963 Experimental Aircraft Association aircraft design competition. It was featured on the cover of Sport Aviation magazine in February 1963.

Eaves was killed in the crash of another homebuilt aircraft design on 3 March 2012 at age 92 and plans for the Cougar appear to be no longer available.

Specifications (Cougar 1)

References

Cougar 001
1960s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Martin Jetter. Martin Jetter (born 1959 in Germany), is a computer engineer and businessman. He studied at University of Stuttgart and received a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the same university.

Career 
Jetter started to work for IBM Deutschland GmbH as an application engineer in 1986. He became a manager of the industrial sector of IBM Central Europe in 1999, and a director in charge of Siemens Group in 2001. He was promoted to CEO of IBM Deutschland in 2006, and an IBM Corporate Director of Strategy in 2011. In 2012, he became CEO of IBM Japan, Ltd.

In January 2015, he became the senior vice president of IBM Global Technology Services.

In February 2019, he became the senior vice president and chairman of IBM Europe.

References

External links
 Martin Jetter: Executive Profile & Biography – Bloomberg Businessweek

1959 births
Living people
IBM employees
American business executives
German business executives
Japanese business executives
Steven Ray Hall. Steven Ray Hall (born July 6, 1959 in West Palm Beach, Florida) is the Chair of the Faculty and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

His research interests are in aerospace controls systems, including flexible space structure control, control of noise and vibration, especially in helicopters, and the development of smart material actuators. He is the coauthor of seven patents, mostly in the area of smart material actuation. His teaching includes graduate and undergraduate subjects in signals and systems, control theory, guidance and navigation, and flight mechanics and control.

Hall was the lead instructor for the Unified Engineering course freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare.

Personal life 

He grew up in Florida, living in a half dozen towns throughout the central part of the state before graduating from high school in St. Petersburg, Florida. Living in Florida at the height of the space race, he developed an interest in aircraft and rockets early in life.

Since 2008, he is the Associate Housemaster of Simmons Hall, where he runs the Simmons Hall Residential Scholar program. He greatly enjoys living with the Simmons Hall community of students and scholars, which he describes as “warm, welcoming, and vibrant.” His daughter Caitlin lives with him at Simmons Hall and is a graduate student at Emerson College. His son Michael lives in nearby Watertown, Massachusetts. He is a certificated pilot, and proud owner of a Cessna Cutlass RG, which he flies on weekends and vacations.

University positions 

 Chair of the Faculty, 2013–present
 Associate Professor, 1991 – present
 Assistant Department Head, 1997-1998
 Assistant Professor, 1985-1991

Honors and awards 

 MacVicar Faculty Fellow, 2002
 Raymond L. Bisplinghoff Fellow, 1998
 Hertz Fellow, 1983-1985
 Member, Tau Beta Pi

Society memberships 

 Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
 Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
 Member, American Helicopter Society
 Member, American Society for Engineering Education

References 

Living people
1959 births
American aerospace engineers
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Ada Developers Academy. Ada Developers Academy (Ada) is a tuition free training program in software development for women and gender expansive people with no previous professional experience in computer programming.   Additional support available to students include laptops loans, childcare subsidies, free mental health therapy, and 1:1 mentors and tutors.

Overview
The academy offers 3 main programs: Ada Build, Ada Build Live and Ada Core. Ada Build is a self-guided curriculum that introduces beginners to Python and coding fundamentals through tutorials and video lessons. Ada Build Live is a 6-week virtual series led by staff who review the Ada Build curriculum with students to build comfort with Python and coding fundamentals. This series takes place in the winter, spring, and summer. Ada Core is an 11-month program teaching full-stack web development. This program is targeted towards intermediate students who understand foundation programming concepts. Students are in the Ada classroom for six core hours a day, five days a week for six months, followed by a five-month paid internship. The first six months in the classroom focuses on Python, Flask, JavaScript, React, HTML and CSS, and computer science fundamentals. The last five months is an internship placement. Interns are placed at sponsor companies including Amazon, Concur, Microsoft, Nordstrom, Redfin, Tableau/Salesforce, Zillow, etc. for practical, applied learning experiences. 97% of Ada students graduate from the program, and 94% land full time roles as software developers within 180 days of graduating. The most recent graduating cohort reported an average starting salary of $125,000.

Funding 
Ada began in 2013 as a project of Seattle's Technology Alliance and is funded through company sponsorship, individual donors, and public sources. Ada now operates as an independent non-profit organization headquartered in Seattle, WA with campuses in Seattle, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. (opening Fall 2023).  Ada also offers a digital campus available to students nationwide.  Ada's company sponsors include Amazon.com, Expedia, Zillow, and Chef. Sponsors provide applied learning internships for the students, and fund the students' education. Sponsoring companies such as Expedia stated that they participate in the program in order to recruit great talent, and also in order to improve their diversity. In 2021 Ada was one of four recipients of the Equality Can't Wait challenge grant funded by Melinda French Gates, Mackenzie Scott & Dan Jewitt, and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.  This $10m grant is currently fueling Ada's national expansion, and aim to significantly shift the representation of women and gender expansive people in software development careers.

See also
 Ada Lovelace

References

External links
 

2013 establishments in Washington (state)
Educational institutions established in 2013
Coding schools
Non-profit organizations based in Seattle
Educational organizations based in the United States
Women's education in Washington (state)
Women in computing
Education in Seattle
Computer science education in the United States
Garment bag. A garment bag  or suit bag  is a container of flexible material, usually used to ease transporting suits, jackets or clothing in general, and also to protect clothes from dust by hanging them inside with their hangers and then on a closet bar. The simplest models usually have a zipper that opens from top to bottom, in the middle of one side. They can be manufactured with different materials, such as fabric, leather or plastic.

Some models of garment bag may have a strap for holding them on the shoulder and quite often, some type of handle. They come in different shapes and sizes depending on the length of the clothes that should contain. Some designs have two handles that can be folded by the middle for ease of carrying.

Garment bags protect clothing from dust, dirt and smells. They help to keep clothes in good condition whether traveling or hanging in wardrobe. Some have an identification window to allow easy inspection of their contents.

Dangers 
Garment bags made of thin plastic are a risk to children who might play with them due to risk of death by asphyxiation.

References 

Luggage
VSEL Heavy Engineering Workshop. The VSEL Heavy Engineering Workshop located at Michaelson Road in the Barrow Island area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England is a Grade II listed former ammunitions workshop that belonged to Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering. Known locally as the 'Gun Shop' the vast complex was constructed in stages between 1875 and 1900 and consists of 42 by 11 bays (roughly  by  or over  of land - a larger footprint than nearby Devonshire Dock Hall). The building was a major component of the engineering division within Vickers and supplied the British Army and Royal Navy throughout World War I and World War II. Everything from basic shells to heavy duty gun turrets for ships, tanks and other land vehicles were produced and assembled at the workshop. The Historic England states the following of the building: 'It clearly indicates the scale of operation of the shipbuilding and engineering works at the turn of the century; its roadside frontages make a major contribution to the industrial scene in a town where the buildings of other major C19 industries have been almost completely swept away.'

The Gun Works is now owned by BAE Systems which operates their Submarine and Land & Armaments divisions in Barrow.

References

External links
  Vickers Photographic Archive

VSEL Heavy Engineering Workshop
VSEL Heavy Engineering Workshop
VSEL Heavy Engineering Workshop
VSEL Heavy Engineering Workshop
1875 establishments in England
Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. The Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame honours "those engineers from, or closely associated with, Scotland who have achieved, or deserve to achieve, greatness", as selected by an independent panel representing Scottish engineering institutions, academies, museums and archiving organisations.

The Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame was established by the Institution of Engineers in Scotland in 2011.
New inductees are announced each year at the IES James Watt Dinner.

Inductees
Douglas Anderson
William Arrol
John Logie Baird
George Balfour
Alexander Graham Bell
James Blyth
David Boyle
Thomas Graham Brown
Sir George Bruce
William Kinninmond Burton
Craig Clark
Victoria Drummond
Henry Dyer
David Elder
John Elder
Francis Elgar
Sir William Fairbairn
Mary (Molly) Fergusson
George Forbes
Alexander Gibb
Hugh Gill
James Goodfellow
Nigel Gresley
Graeme Haldane
Naeem Hussain
Alexander Carnegie Kirk
David Kirkaldy
Carol Marsh
James Clerk Maxwell
Gordon McConnell
Elijah McCoy
Sir Jim McDonald
Andrew Meikle
Sir Duncan Michael
Sir Donald Miller
David Milne
William Murdoch
Robert Napier
Anne Neville
James Newlands
Percy Pilcher
Dorothée Pullinger
William Rankine
David Boswell Reid
John Rennie
Ian Ritchie
John Scott Russell
Stephen Salter
Anne Gillespie Shaw
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stirling
William Symington
Thomas Telford
Robert William Thomson
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
Robert Watson-Watt
James Watt
William Douglas Weir
Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow
James Young

References

External links
Official site

Science and technology halls of fame

Science and technology in Scotland
Engineering
2011 establishments in Scotland
2011 in science
Ace Scooter. The Ace Scooter is an American aircraft that was designed for homebuilt construction.

Design and development
The Ace Scooter is a single place, strut-braced, high wing aircraft with conventional landing gear, which is steel. The tractor engine is mounted above the wing. The open cockpit has a short rounded nose. The fuselage is of wood construction with aircraft fabric covering.

Specifications (Scooter)

References

Homebuilt aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Bonomi BS.19 Alca. The Bonomi BS.19 Alca () was a single seat, tractor configuration motor glider, designed and built in Italy shortly before World War II.  It had an unusual retractable undercarriage used only for take-offs. Only one was built.

Design and development

In the mid-1930s some glider designers were beginning to think about incorporating an engine, to form a self-launching aircraft. One of the first of these, the Carden-Baynes Auxiliary flew in 1935.  It was very clearly primarily a glider, particularly when its engine and propeller were folded away into the fuselage, an operation possible in flight.  The BS.19 Alca of 1936 was closer to a high aspect ratio light aircraft, with no provision of a foldaway propeller.  It was the first powered aircraft designed by Camillo Silva for Aeronautica Bonomi.  The Alca, a single seater, was powered by a small flat twin engine of unknown make but producing between  and .

The Alca's cantilever mid-mounted monoplane wing was built in three parts around a box front spar and a second rear spar.  There was a short centre section, only about 10% of the span and integrated into the fuselage, plus two outer panels.  The wing plan was strongly straight tapered, largely on the trailing edge, ending in elliptical tips; there was also strong taper in thickness.  Covering was a mixture of plywood and fabric.  Long ailerons occupied more than half the span.

The Alca's flat sided fuselage was deep from the nose to behind the wing trailing edge where the underside swept upwards, producing an almost boom like rear fuselage.  The pilot's open cockpit, fitted with a small windscreen, was placed just ahead of mid chord between the spars.  The upper fuselage line was almost flat and the little twin cylinder engine was high in the nose with its cylinder heads exposed for cooling. At the rear the empennage was conventional, though in glider fashion the straight edged fixed surfaces were small in area compared with the control surfaces.  A tailplane braced from both above and below was mounted on the fin just above the fuselage; together with its balanced elevator it had a tapered, round tipped plan, with a cut-out for movement of the straight edged, though rounded, balanced rudder which extended to the keel.  The Alca had a conventional glider type, rubber sprung landing skid plus tail bumper but it also had an unusual wheeled undercarriage for take-off.  This featured a wheel on each side mounted on a half axle attached to the lower fuselage longeron and a vertical shock absorbing leg to the wing.  After take-off, this was retracted and not used again until the next departure.

Data on the Alca's performance under power have survived, but not on its gliding characteristics beyond a comment that they were excellent, as was the handling.  Only the prototype was built.

Specifications

References

1930s Italian sailplanes
Motor gliders
Aircraft first flown in 1936
WV1. WV1 or WV-1 may refer to:
 Lockheed WV-1 Warning Star, a surveillance aircraft
 West Virginia's 1st congressional district
 U.S. Route 50 in West Virginia, formerly West Virginia Route 1
 WorldView-1, a commercial Earth observation satellite
 WV1, a postcode district in Wolverhampton, England; see WV postcode area
WV2. WV2 or WV-2 may refer to:
 Lockheed WV-2 Warning Star, a surveillance aircraft
 West Virginia's 2nd congressional district
 West Virginia Route 2
 WorldView-2, a commercial Earth observation satellite
 WV2, a postcode district in Wolverhampton, England; see WV postcode area
 Nickname of boxer Wilfredo Vázquez, Jr.
WV3. WV3 or WV-3 may refer to:
 Lockheed WV-3 Warning Star, a surveillance aircraft
 West Virginia's 3rd congressional district
 West Virginia Route 3
 West Virginia Route 3 (1920s)
 WorldView-3, a commercial Earth observation satellite
 WV3, a postcode district in Wolverhampton, England; see WV postcode area
John T. Blake. John Twiss Blake (c. 1901 – June 26, 1987) was an American research scientist at the Simplex Wire and Cable company. in Boston, Massachusetts who, along with Charles R. Boggs, found that proteins present in natural rubber were responsible for water absorption.  Blake and Boggs showed that the proteins could be isolated by repeated centrifugal action on liquid latex. In 1926 Simplex applied for a patent on the deproteinized rubber.  This became the basis for a new product family of lightweight, moisture-proof Anhydrex-insulated power and communication cables.  He made significant contributions to understanding various degradation mechanisms of rubber, including the effects of water absorption, exposure to light, ozone, and microbes.

Blake was born and educated in Boston. He graduated from Tufts College with honors in 1921 with a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1924 with a doctorate in organic chemistry and chemical engineering. His doctoral advisor was James F. Norris, and the title of his thesis was Rates of reaction of certain organic chlorine compounds.

After obtaining his doctoral degree, he worked at Simplex Wire and Cable Co., starting as a research chemist and eventually serving as senior vice president.  Blake was an organizer and chairman of the Boston Rubber Group.

In 1953, Blake received the Charles Goodyear Medal.

Blake later received an honorary doctor of science degree from Tufts University in 1956, and a degree in advanced management.

He died on 26 June 1987 at age 86 in Hyannis, Massachusetts after a brief illness.

References

1900s births
1987 deaths
Polymer scientists and engineers
Tufts University School of Engineering alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Submarine cables
Kam-Craft Kamvair-2. The Kam-Craft Kamvair-2 is an American aircraft designed for homebuilt construction.

Design and development
The Kamvair-2 is a two- or four-place, strut-braced, high-wing amphibious aircraft, powered by a single engine mounted over the wings. The fuselage is of all-wood construction.

Specifications (Kamvair-2)

See also

References

Homebuilt aircraft
Southern Aeronautical Scamp. The Southern Aeronautical Scamp is an American aircraft designed for homebuilt construction and Formula V Air Racing.

Design and development
The Scamp is a single place, mid-wing aircraft with conventional landing gear. The fuselage is constructed with steel tubing and covered with fabric. The wings are of all wood construction.

Specifications (Scamp)

See also

References

Renegade
1960s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft