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Marti Group. The Marti Group is a Swiss construction company, consisting of over 80 subsidiaries, officially owned by Marti Holding AG. Besides Switzerland, they are active in neighboring countries such as Germany and Austria, and also outside of Europe such as China and Chile. The company is known for high-profile public and private sector projects and using innovative technologies. Their areas of expertise include building construction, construction and renovation of tunnels, road construction, hydraulic engineering, and other types of civil engineering. They're estimated to be the second largest construction company in Switzerland by revenue and number of employees, only surpassed by Implenia.

Major projects 

Tunnel construction:
 Expansion of the Gubrist Tunnel by building a third tunnel
 Expansion of the Petersberg railway tunnel in Germany, such that the tunnel was in service during construction
 Building an access tunnel to the Gotthard Road Tunnel
 Section of the Brenner Base Tunnel, one of the longest railway tunnels in the world
 Excavation of the Eppenberg Tunnel to double the capacity of the Olten-Aarau line
 Underground works on CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Skyscraper construction:
 Prime Tower in Zürich, the tallest building in Switzerland from 2011
 Roche Tower 2 in Basel, the current tallest building in Switzerland

Marti was one of the contractors involved in the Astra Bridge, which is a bridge that can be installed over a motorway, such that roadworks can be carried out under the bridge while there is uninterrupted two lane traffic right above them. This type of construction was the first of its kind. The bridge has a modular design, its parts can be carried by regular trucks and it can be installed in a matter of days.

Controversies 

In 2020, Marti was accused that their handling of construction waste resulted in fish deaths in the Blausee since 2018. Marti denied the accusation, saying that what they did was allowed by the authorities and it wasn't the cause of the fish deaths.  the case is pending in Swiss federal court.

References

Further reading

External links 
 
 Company channel on YouTube

Construction and civil engineering companies of Switzerland
Trapping mechanisms for carbon geosequestration. Trapping mechanisms for carbon geosequestration prevent carbon dioxide stored in geological structures from leaking into the atmosphere. As a means to lower greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide from carbon sequestration, especially in terms of carbon capture and storage, is able to be directed from power plants and other sources of greenhouse gas emissions, with carbon dioxide emissions being pumped into subterranean storage facilities. However, there is still the risk of the carbon dioxide leaking from the underground storage facilities. To address this, several trapping mechanisms have been proposed and researched.

Structural trapping 
This is most likely the main solution for preventing leaks. Impermeable (or low permeability) rocks such as caprock or similar material blocks the gas flow. Mudrocks, anhydrite, halite, or tight carbonates are materials that can act as a barrier to the upward buoyant migration of carbon dioxide.

Residual/capillary trapping 
Higher capillary forces to buoyant forces cause carbon dioxide to appear as pore-scale bubbles in the formation. This is the is a process through which micrometer scale carbon dioxide bubbles are immobilized by capillary forces within the complex pore structure of the storage rock.

Dissolution trapping 
Carbon dioxide dissolves into any water already present in the storage formation. As dissolution proceeds, the water phase density will increase, resulting in downward convective flow of the carbon dioxide saturated water.

Mineral trapping 
Chemical reactions between carbon dioxide, water, ions dissolved in the water, and formation minerals can result in carbon dioxide being permanently stored as a solid mineral phase. Examples of rock where this can take place are mafic or ultramafic lithologies.

References 

Carbon dioxide removal
Geology
Environmental technology
Unmanned Long-endurance Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft. The Unmanned Long-endurance Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft or ULTRA is a developmental unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Center for Rapid Innovation (CRI) and DZYNE Technologies Incorporated.

Background
Since 2008, the U.S. Air Force's primary reconnaissance aircraft has been the MQ-9 Reaper. However, at a price of $30 million per aircraft, it has been shown to be costly if lost; since 2017, five have been shot down by Houthi rebels in Yemen, including during the Red Sea crisis. Part of the cost comes from its configuration as a strike UAV, but only a "single-digit percentage" of surveillance missions it flew required a strike capability, so the Air Force pursued a simpler and cheaper alternative for flying pure reconnaissance missions.

Design and development
AFRL's CRI began development of an affordable UAS capable of multi-day duration flights in 2019, going from concept to first flight in less than 10 months. DZYNE had previously worked on the Long Endurance Aircraft Program (LEAP), which produced an autonomous aircraft deployed in 2016 and could fly for up to 40 hours. This prior experience led to the development of ULTRA, which the Air Force officially started buying in the 2025 budget request, procuring four drones for $35 million.

ULTRA is designed to be an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) truck capable of carrying a variety of electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) and radio frequency (RF), other low-cost intelligence collection payloads, and sensors to provide a reconfigurable platform. 

ULTRA increased endurance and lowered acquisition cost by repurposing the manned Stemme S12 commercial sport glider and converting it to a military hardened drone using commercial-off-the-shelf UAV technology, existing manufacturing and supply channels, and limited custom avionics. Lower cost EO/IR and RF sensors are possible due to lower operating altitudes that do not require large optics or high-power RF. It can fly for over 80 hours while carrying over  of payload and it has a wingspan of over .

Endurance allows these sensors to cover areas with fewer aircraft. It has enough range and endurance to loiter for a day over a target after traveling over . The aircraft relies on an operator friendly command and control system that allows for "Point and Click" operations. Global operations are possible through satellite-based command and control links that also provide the high-rate ISR data feed to the operators in real time.

In May 2024, The War Zone reported that ULTRA was being operated from Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates. In July 2024, a successful three-day test flight was described to Axios.

See also
MQ-9 Reaper
RQ-4 Global Hawk
Aurora Flight Sciences Orion

References

External links

Flight video
DZYNE Technologies airborne systems

ULTRA
Christine Q. Wu. Christine Qiong Wu is a retired Chinese and Canadian mechanical engineer whose research focused on the mechanics of moving vehicles, walking robots, and walking people. She is a lung cancer survivor, and in her retirement has worked as a lung cancer patient research advocate.

Education and academic career
Wu has a 1986 bachelor's degree from Peking University. She moved to Canada for graduate study, earned a master's degree from the University of British Columbia in 1990, and completed a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1996.

After completing her Ph.D., she remained on the University of Manitoba faculty, becoming a professor of mechanical engineering. She was given the NSERC/MCI Industrial Research Chair in Heavy Ground Vehicles and Transportation Equipment in 2012. She served as president of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering for 2012–2014.

Cancer diagnosis and activism
Wu went on leave from her faculty position in 2015, after a diagnosis of lung cancer. Although never a smoker herself, she has worked to publicize the connection between smoking and lung cancer. She celebrated the eight-year anniversary of her diagnosis, and five-year anniversary of having a stable diagnosis, in 2023. She has also begun work as the leader of a research team for the Canadian Cancer Society.

Recognition
Wu was named a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) in 2009, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2014.

She was the 2016 recipient of the C. N. Downing Award of the CSME, and of the Judith Weiszmann Women in Engineering Champion Award of Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba.

In 2019 the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer gave her their Advocate Travel Award in recognition of her work in lung cancer education and advocacy.

References

External links
Home page at the University of Manitoba

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese mechanical engineers
Chinese women engineers
Canadian mechanical engineers
Canadian women engineers
Women mechanical engineers
Peking University alumni
University of British Columbia alumni
University of Manitoba alumni
Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Copper(II) trifluoroacetate. Copper(II) trifluoroacetate is the trifluoroacetate of divalent copper with the chemical formula Cu(CF3COO)2. It exists as the anhydride, hydrate and adducts of other solvents. The hydrate begins to lose two waters of crystallisation at 108 °C, and loses all crystal water at 173 °C to form the anhydrous form. This begins to decompose at 220 °C.  It finds some use as a reagent in organic chemistry.

Preparation 

Copper trifluoroacetate can be obtained by reacting trifluoroacetic acid with copper oxide, copper hydroxide or basic copper carbonate. Acetone can replace the water molecules in copper trifluoroacetate hydrate, and under reduced pressure conditions, the acetone can be removed to obtain anhydrous material.

Adducts
Copper trifluoroacetate forms adducts with a variety of Lewis bases, such as ammonia, water, dioxane, and quinoline.  The Lewis bases bind to the axial positions.

References 

Copper(II) compounds
Trifluoroacetates
Jeffrey T. Anderson. Jeffrey Thomas Anderson (born ) is a United States Navy vice admiral who serves as the commander of the United States Sixth Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO. He previously served as the director of operations of United States Indo-Pacific Command and commander of Carrier Strike Group 3.

Anderson attended the United States Naval Academy, graduating in 1991 with a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering. After completing flight training, he was designated a naval aviator in 1994. Anderson later completed an M.A. degree in national security and strategic studies at the Naval War College.

In May 2024, Anderson was nominated for promotion to vice admiral and assignment as commander of the United States Sixth Fleet, Task Force Six, and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO; deputy commander of United States Naval Forces Europe and Africa; and Joint Force Maritime Component Commander Europe.

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People from Fayetteville, Georgia
United States Naval Academy alumni
United States Naval Aviators
Naval War College alumni
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Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
United States Navy admirals
Deepal S07. The Deepal S07 (, formerly the Deepal S7 until 2024) is a mid-size SUV produced by Deepal, the electric vehicle subsidiary of Chinese automotive company Changan Automobile since 2023. Changan has jointly developed the Deepal S07 with Huawei and CATL, and shares the platform with the previously launched Deepal L07. Production of the Deepal S07 started on May 31, 2023.

Overview

The Deepal S07 was designed in Turin (Italy) led by Design Director Bertrand Bach and exterior design manager Georgios Koukos for exterior design, while the interior design was led by Jaromir Chech.

The Deepal S07 has a 12.3-inch HUD and a landscape-oriented central screen features the Huawei DriveONE program, the Harmony OS infotainment system powered by Snapdragon 8155 chips, and batteries supplied by CATL.

The Deepal S07 is offered two versions, an EV and EREV. The EV version will be available with 218 hp or 258 hp and EREV gets a 238 hp electric motor and a 95 hp 1.5-liter gasoline engine. The Deepal S07 EV has a CLTC range of 520 km or 620 km for the long range variant. The EREV version has two battery options, supporting a 121 km range, and a 200 km CLTC range respectively. The fuel consumption of the S07 EREV is 4.95L/100km. The drag coefficient of the Deepal S07 is 0.258Cd and 0 – 100 km/h acceleration is within 6.7 seconds.

2024 facelift
In July 2024, Deepal announced the release of the 2024 facelifted model and renamed it to Deepal S07. It is equipped with the Huawei's "Qiankun Smart Driving" ADS SE autonomous driving system, which uses the visual solution to achieve intelligent assisted driving. It can realize intelligent assisted driving in scenarios such as highways and urban expressways. Its capabilities include lane change assist, obstacle avoidance, and parking assist in vertical/parallel/diagonal parking spots. 

The EREV powertrain system still uses a 1.5L engine (JL473QJ) as a range extender that outputs a maximum power of 70 kW (94 hp), paired with a 175 kW (235 hp) electric motor and a 39.05 kWh ShenXing battery pack from CATL, offering two pure electric cruising range options of 215 km and 285 km. The EV variant is equipped with a 160 kW electric motor. Under fast charging, the battery can be charged from 30% to 80% in 15 minutes.

Safety

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Deepal S07
Cars introduced in 2023
Production electric cars
Mid-size sport utility vehicles
Crossover sport utility vehicles
Cars of China
2020s cars
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Hybrid electric cars
Electric car models
Electric cars
Ralph Lee Palmer. Ralph Lee Palmer (19 June 1909 – 10 May 2005) was an American computer engineer and IBM Fellow.

Palmer studied electrical engineering at Union College in Schenectady, New York and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1931. Palmer joined IBM in Endicott, New York in 1932. In 1939 he became manager of the development department of IBM Poughkeepsie. In World War II, he worked on the US Navy version of the bombe, an electromechanical decryption system for the German Enigma machine, which the Poles and then the British had developed.

After the war, he was part of the project team that designed the IBM 604, one of the first IBM machines to make widespread use of electronics rather than mechanical systems for calculations. He went on to be one of the leading consultants to Thomas J. Watson Sr. in the development of the IBM 701. In 1954, after successfully completing the 701, he became Director of the Engineering Department at IBM.

In 1963 he became an IBM Fellow. In 1983 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). In 1989 he received the Computer Pioneer Award for his work on the IBM 604.

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1909 births
2005 deaths
IBM Fellows
American electrical engineers
Jeannie Darby. Jeannie Darby is an engineer and professor at the University of California, Davis, specializing in Civil and Environmental Engineering. From 2005 to 2010 she was the Gerald T. and Lillian P. Orlob Professorship in Water Resources Engineering.

Education 
Darby received her bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Rice University in 1978, followed by a Master of Science degree from Tufts University in 1982. She earned her Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Texas.

Career 
Darby joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1989. From 2004 to 2009, she served as Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She held the Gerald T. and Lillian P. Orlob Professorship in Water Resources Engineering from 2005 to 2010. In 2022 she was selected as the associate dean for academic personnel and planning.

Research 
Darby is known for her work in the field of water treatment, covering topics ranging from water quality management to sustainable infrastructure design. Her research includes investigations of the application of UV disinfection as a water treatment options. She has researched iron-based adsorbents for arsenic removal from groundwater, and is developing technologies for nitrate removal from drinking water sources.

Awards and Honors 
In 2001 the National Society of Professional Engineers awarded Darby the Engineering Education Excellence Award, and the American Society for Engineering Education awarded her with the Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education. In 2017 Darby and Vivian Jensen received the Small Systems Division award for their paper Brine Disposal Options for Small Systems in California’s Central Valley.

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Living people
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Tufts University alumni
Rice University alumni
University of California, Davis faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Janet Sater. Janet M. Sater is an American mechanical engineer at the Institute for Defense Analyses, where her research has involved advanced composite materials, smart structures, exoskeletons, and biomimetics.

Sater is the daughter of an electrical engineer, and went into college intending to study marine biology. Instead she shifted to engineering, specializing in metallurgy, after discovering an affinity with working with her hands and eyes. She went to Purdue University for graduate study, focusing on work with aluminum. There, she earned a master's degree in 1985, and completed her Ph.D. in 1988.

In 2014, Purdue gave her the title of Outstanding Materials Engineer "in recognition of her demonstrated excellence in the areas of materials processing and manufacturing, composites, smart/adaptive materials and structures, morphing materials and structures, nastic materials, and biomimetic materials and her dedication to the School of Materials Engineering". She was named as an ASME Fellow in 2015, and is also a Fellow of ASM International. In 2022, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers gave her their Dedicated Service Award.

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
Women mechanical engineers
Purdue University alumni
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Tribromoethylene. Tribromoethylene is a bromoalkene and a trihaloethylene with the chemical formula . It can be made from 1,1,2,2-tetrabromoethane.

Tribromoethylene reacts with potassium hydroxide to yield dibromoacetylene via dehydrobromination, this reaction is analogous to the synthesis of dichloroacetylene from trichloroethylene. Tribromoethylene reacts with nitric acid to form dibromoacetic acid.

References

Bromoalkenes
PG&E Powerhouse. PG&E Powerhouse, also known as Sacramento River Station B is a historic building located in Sacramento, California, constructed in 1912 by notable architect Willis Polk. Originally used by Pacific Gas and Electric PG&E as an auxiliary power plant and transformer substation, it played a key role in transforming voltage for distribution. 

In 1924, PG&E upgraded the facility, making it the largest steam turbine power plant in the region. However, in 1957, PG&E sold the building, and its interior was stripped of all metal components and equipment, leaving behind a large open space. 

In November 2021, the building became home to the SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity (MOSAC) as part of a $40.8 million redevelopment project.

See also
Sacramento, California

References

Neoclassical architecture in California
Beaux-Arts architecture in California
National Register of Historic Places in Sacramento, California
Paul-Joseph Bodin. Paul-Joseph Bodin (September 20, 1847, Saumur – February 16, 1926, Paris) was a French engineer. He is credited, among other things, with the construction of the Viaur Viaduct near Aveyron in Southern France in 1902.

Biography 
The son of architect and archaeologist , he graduated from Centrale in 1871.

After serving as a captain aide-major during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he joined the Société de construction des Batignolles (SCB) as an engineer in 1873. He specialized in the study and execution of major projects involving bridges and metal structures.

In 1883, he became a lecturer and professor at the École centrale de Paris. He became a member of its council in 1897 and taught there until 1919, becoming an honorary professor afterwards, after declining the directorship of the school in 1911. He was one of the founders and presidents of the Société des amis de l'École centrale and the Maison des Centraux. He also served as president of the Caisse de secours des élèves for twenty-five years.

Bodin became president of the Société nouvelle des Mines d'Hamimaté, managing director of the Société franco-tunisienne d'entreprises et travaux métalliques and the Société française d'entreprises au Brésil, as well as director of Chargeurs d'Extrême-Orient.

Having become chief engineer of the SCB, Jules Goüin appointed him to the board of directors and the management committee.

He was president of the Société des ingénieurs civils de France in 1903, of the general Congress of civil engineering, and of the École Spéciale d'Architecture, a member of the Superior Council of Public Works, the Council of the Syndicate Chamber of Metal Construction of France, and numerous other commissions.

He is buried in the Planques cemetery in Albi.

Honours 

 Officer of the Legion of Honour
 Officer of the Academy
 Knight of the Order of Christ (Portugal)

He also received the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889 as a collaborator of the Société de construction des Batignolles, especially for the Viaur Viaduct project, and the Montyon Prize (scientific category) in 1903 for his conception of "balanced arches."

Tribute 

In 1932, Paul-Bodin Street in the 17th arrondissement of Paris was named in his honour.

A boulevard in Albi also bears his name.

The village of Tanus named its main road (formerly RN 88) Avenue Paul-Bodin.

Selected works 

 Viaur Viaduct (1902)
 Trinity Bridge  (1897)
 Pont-Aven Footbridge (1907)
 Faux Namti Bridge (1907)
 Asopos Viaduct (1908)

References 

20th-century French engineers
Officers of the Legion of Honour
École Centrale Paris alumni
Bridge engineers
19th-century French engineers