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Flexible Plug and Play. Flexible Plug and Play is a research project looking at how to improve the connection of renewable energy generation, like wind farms, to electricity distribution networks in the UK.  According to the original submission to Ofgem, the electricity regulator, it will test new technical solutions to problems on the network and develop new commercial arrangements between the energy supplier and network operator.

Funding
The total cost of the project is £9.7 million.  In 2011 Ofgem awarded £6.7 million to UK Power Networks from its Low Carbon Network Fund.  UK Power Networks is contributing £2 million and the project partners a further £1 million.

Geographical area of research
According to the original bid submission a rural area of around 700km2 between Peterborough, March and Wisbech in Cambridgeshire has been chosen as the test bed for the Flexible Plug and Play project.   There are said to be 9 operational wind farms in the area with a total installed capacity of 100MW; a further 10 renewable generation sites have won consent or are at the submission stage, with an additional 10 sites currently subject to scoping studies. This gives a total of a further 188MW of potential wind generation in the same area.   However, the progress report of June 2012 says the potential has increased to 200MW. Apparently connecting these extra wind farms to the existing distribution network would be difficult for a number of reasons including voltage constraints, thermal constraints and reverse power flows.  It's said that using a traditional approach of network upgrading/reinforcement would be costly and time consuming.  As a result the research project will try out new ways of managing the existing network to accommodate this extra power without reinforcing the network.

IEC 61850 Standard

IEC 61850 is a standard for the engineering process for the configuration of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), the structure and naming of their data models and a number of communication mechanisms to support the real time operation of automation systems.  The Flexible Plug and Play project plans, it is said, to deploy it on the distribution network in the test area.  Silver Spring Networks and Cable and Wireless Worldwide are quoted as being the developing partners.

References

 

Renewable energy commercialization
OEB. OEB may refer to:
 The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge
 Online Educa Berlin, an annual conference on technology-supported learning 
 Online Egyptological Bibliography
 Ontario Energy Board, which regulates natural gas and electricity utilities in Ontario
 Open eBook, an e-book format
 Open English Bible, a Bible translation
 Operation Engineering Bulletin, a type of Aircraft flight manual
 KOPB-TV or Oregon Educational Broadcasting, a public television station
 Branch County Memorial Airport's FAA location identifier
 Oil Equivalent Barrel, unit of energy released by burning one barrel of crude oil
 Octavia E. Butler, an American science-fiction author
Bernard Price Memorial Lecture. The Bernard Price Memorial Lecture is the premier annual lecture of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers. It is of general scientific or engineering interest and is given by an invited guest, often from overseas, at several of the major centres on South Africa. The main lecture and accompanying dinner are usually held at the University of Witwatersrand and it is also presented in the space of one week at other centres, typically Cape Town, Durban, East London and Port Elizabeth.

The Lecture is named in memory of the eminent electrical engineer Bernard Price. The first lecture was held in 1951, and it has occurred as an annual event ever since.

Lecturers

1951	Basil Schonland
1952	A M Jacobs
1953	H J Van Eck
1954	J M Meek
1955	Frank Nabarro
1956	A L Hales
1957	P G Game
1958	Colin Cherry
1959	Thomas Allibone
1960	M G Say
1961	Willis Jackson
1963	W R Stevens
1964	William Pickering
1965	G H Rawcliffe
1966	Harold Bishop
1967	Eric Eastwood
1968	F J Lane
1969	A H Reeves
1970 	Andrew R Cooper
1971 	Herbert Haslegrave
1972 	W J Bray
1973 	R Noser
1974 	D Kind
1975 	L Kirchmayer
1976 	S Jones
1977 	J Johnson
1978 	T G E Cockbain
1979 	A R Hileman
1980 	James Redmond
1981 	L M Muntzing
1982 	K F Raby
1983 	R Isermann
1984 	M N John
1985 	J W L de Villiers
1986 	Derek Roberts
1987	Wolfram Boeck
1988	Karl Gehring
1989 	Leonard Sagan
1990 	GKF Heyner
1991 	P S Blythin
1992 	P M Neches
1993 	P Radley
1994 	P R Rosen
1995 	F P Sioshansi
1996 	J Taylor
1997 	M Chamia
1998	C Gellings
1999	M W Kennedy
2000	John Midwinter
2001	Pragasen Pillay
2002 	Polina Bayvel
2003	Case Rijsdijk
2004	Frank Larkins
2005    Igor Aleksander
2006    Kevin Warwick
2007     Skip Hatfield
2008     Sami Solanki
2009     William Gruver
2010     Glenn Ricart
2011     Philippe Paelinck
2012     Nick Frydas
2013     Vint Cerf
2014     Ian Jandrell
2015     Saurabh Sinha
2016      Tshilidzi Marwala
2017      Fulufhelo Nelwamondo 
2018      Ian Craig 
2019      Robert Metcalfe
2020      Roger Price 
2021 Saifur Rahman
2022 Stuart J. Russell
2023 Jan Meyer
2024 Vukosi Marivate

See also

 List of engineering awards

References 

Recurring events established in 1951
Price, Bernard
Electrical engineering awards
1951 establishments in South Africa
Engineering education
Annual events in South Africa
Eastern United Colliery. Eastern United Colliery was a drift mine in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England served by the Great Western Railway's Forest of Dean Branch.

The colliery was one of the seven areas of deep gales - founded after the Dean Forest (Mines) Act in 1904.

The colliery exploited six seams containing  of coal which could give a working life of around 200 years (at an extraction rate of  per annum. The principal coal seam was the Coleford High Delf, a steam coal much in demand and said to be up to  thick.  Demand led to discussions with the Great Western Railway over the provision of a link to its network.

History
The first gale was granted on 19 March 1906 to Mr. J. R. Brown. Henry Crawshay & Company was offered the gale in October 1907 and completed the purchase on 24 December 1907. The purchase took place because the company was aware that the coal reserves at its Lightmoor Colliery would not last ten years, let alone the predicted twenty.

Construction of the railway connection began in 1908 along with the sidings but the facilities were basic, having a two-lever ground frame allowing access to the complex. A signal box at Eastern United was not provided until late 1913.

In early 1914 it was announced that Eastern was not the success everyone hoped as the western portion of the gale could not be exploited because of its geological condition. By 1916 its fortunes had changed, the coal seam had levelled out. By April 1919 output was up to  per day. Accounts showed that the colliery was running at a loss until 1923, except for a small profit made in 1919.

Expenditure at Eastern was made to modernise the facilities (including the repair and replacement of the boilers, the fitting of electricity and pumping equipment) and the provision of railway vehicles. In 1914 twenty  wagons were purchased from the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (at a cost of £16 5s 6d per wagon) to complement thirty  others. The older wagons had been rented and subsequently purchased (at a cost of £8 16s per wagon) from the Ince Waggon & Ironworks Co. of Wigan, through their broker - the Lincoln Wagon Co. of Doncaster.

The colliery was nationalized in 1947 and became part of the National Coal Board South Western Division. It closed on 30 January 1959.

See also
Forest of Dean Coalfield
National Coal Board

References

Underground mines in England
Forest of Dean
Coal mines in Gloucestershire
Dynon Avionics. Dynon Avionics is an American aircraft avionics manufacturer that specializes in non-certified electronic avionics.

Most of Dynon's instruments are not certified under FAA TSO specifications, and are developed for Experimental aircraft, Homebuilt aircraft, and Light Sport aircraft that include the avionics as part of their approved equipment during LSA certification. In the United States, aircraft of these types must operate under a Special Airworthiness Certificate.

In 2016 Dynon and the Experimental Aircraft Association gained Supplemental type certificate approval for the D10A EFIS in certain Piper and Cessna models.

Products

Dynon produces products such as the SkyView and SkyView Touch glass cockpit system (combination EFIS, EMS, and moving map with synthetic vision and touchscreen), the D6/D60/D10A/D100 EFIS, D10/D120 EMS, FlightDEK D180 (combination EFIS and EMS), as well as ADAHRS, autopilots, transponders, ADS-B receivers, COM Radios, Autopilot Control Panels, Knob Control Panels, and other aircraft equipment.

In 2012, Dynon released the D1 Pocket Panel, and subsequently an updated D2 Pocket Panel in 2013. The D1 & D2 are portable EFISs that include a true AHRS and are suitable for use in any aircraft (including certified aircraft) as long as they are not permanently installed.

One of the earliest installations of a Dynon D10 EFIS system was on the Space Ship One, the first private aircraft into outer space.

References

External links
 

Avionics companies
Companies based in Woodinville, Washington
American companies established in 2000
Aerospace companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies established in 2000
Flame supervision device. For gas appliances, a flame supervision device (FSD) – alternative name: flame failure device (FFD) – is a general term for any device designed to stop flammable gas going to the burner of a gas appliance if the flame is extinguished. This is to prevent a dangerous buildup of gas within the appliance, its chimney or the room. Causes of flame failure include chimney downdraught, temporary interruption of the gas supply, gas under-pressure, liquid overspill on cooker hotplates or the draught from an oven door being opened and closed.

FSDs may utilize one of several technologies: thermoelectric valves, flame conductance, flame rectification, ultraviolet sensing devices and liquid expansion valves. 

FSD usage in consumer products differs among political units – in the U.S., FSDs are not required by law or regulation for gas range (or gas stove) top burners and consequently are not present on ranges in the U.S. Cooker hotplates may not have a FSD on each burner. If a hotplate is to be used in a multi-occupancy building every burner must have its own FSD.

When the FSD activates it should stop (or reduce to safe levels) gas flow to the burner until it is reset manually.

Older devices, such as bimetallic strips, were used in conjunction with pilot lights. The pilot light is no longer used in new devices, but may still be encountered on old appliances still in service. Pilot lights were withdrawn because their continual small flame represented a waste of fuel.  Pilot lights required their own FSD, typically a thermocouple which held the valve open.  Regular testing of FSD is a part of routine maintenance for gas appliances.

Other safety devices may be fitted in addition to an FSD. One type of these are the Vitiation Sensing Devices, that detect an adequate supply of oxygen for efficient combustion, thus avoiding the production of poisonous carbon monoxide. As well as detecting a blocked supply of oxygen, these must also detect a blocked exhaust or reversed flow in the exhaust flue owing to wind conditions. Two methods are used to provide these, an Oxygen Depletion System (ODS) that measures the availability of oxygen for combustion or an Atmospheric Sensing Device (ASD) measures excess heat rise in the exhaust.

See also
Flame detector

References

External links
 Gas Flame Supervision Devices: Information at Falkirk Council, UK (Archived 14 December 2013; Accessed 2 January 2017)

Gas technologies
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Natural gas safety
Butterfly Super Sky Cycle. The Butterfly Super Sky Cycle is an American homebuilt roadable gyroplane designed and manufactured by The Butterfly Aircraft LLC.

Design
The Super Sky Cycle is a pusher gyroplane with tricycle undercarriage and belt drive propulsion. A second two cycle engine drives the main wheels. A Kevlar tail provides directional control in flight. The rotors are able to be folded for road travel. Two  tanks are mounted in reserve.

Specifications

References

External links

 Youtube video
 Youtube video

Homebuilt aircraft
Roadable aircraft
Single-engined pusher autogyros
Henry Barraclough. Sir Samuel Henry Egerton Barraclough  (25 October 1871 – 30 August 1958) was an Australian mechanical engineer.

He was appointed CBE (military division) in 1919 having served in the Great War, and a year later was appointed to the civil division as a KBE. He was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sydney, 1915–1942 and President of the Australian Institution of Engineers (1935–36).

References
 Profile, adb.anu.edu.au; accessed 22 March 2016.
 ‘BARRACLOUGH, Sir (Samuel) Henry (Egerton)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 18 Aug 2012

1871 births
1958 deaths
Australian engineers
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Academic staff of the University of Sydney
Chintadripet railway station. Chintadripet is a railway station on the Chennai MRTS line. It was opened in November 1995. It is built on the bank of Cooum River alongside Arunachala Street, opposite the new secretariat building. The station will be connected with the Chennai Metro Government Estate station, which is currently under construction. The station building contains a 1150 square metres parking area in its lower level.

Sub-station
In 1998, a traction sub-station was established at the station to cater to the power requirement of MRTS. As per the regulations of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB), the minimum monthly charges were to be based on the demand actually recorded in a month or 90 per cent of the contracted demand, whichever was higher. Contracted demand for this sub-station was originally fixed at 5,200 kVA, which was subsequently reduced to 2,500 kVA with effect from February 1999.

Station layout

Gallery

Maintenance
In 2010, nearly  3.4 million was spent on various kinds of maintenance activities at the station. The maintenance and beautification effort was carried out for the occasion of the inaugural function of the new secretariat building.

See also
 Chennai MRTS
 Chennai suburban railway
 Chennai Metro
 Transport in Chennai

References

Railway stations in India opened in 1995
Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System stations
Railway stations in Chennai
Soft core (synthesis). A soft core (also called softcore) is a digital circuit that can be wholly implemented using logic synthesis.  It can be implemented via different semiconductor devices containing programmable logic (e.g., ASIC, FPGA, CPLD), including both high-end and commodity variations. Many soft cores may be implemented in one FPGA.
In those multi-core systems, rarely used resources can be shared between all the cores.

Examples of soft core implementations are soft microprocessors, graphics chips like AGA or Open Graphics Project, harddisc controllers etc.

See also 
 SoC (System-on-a-chip)
 PSoC (Programmable System on a Chip)
 FPGA (Field-programmable gate array)
 Reconfigurable computing
 Minimig - Example implementation of custom chips replications
 Open-source hardware
 List of open source hardware projects

References

External links 
 Microprocessor cores on Opencores.org (Expand the "Processor" tab)

Open hardware electronic devices
The Butterfly LLC. The Butterfly LLC was an American aircraft manufacturer specializing in homebuilt gyroplanes. Complete gyroplane kits were offered for the homebuilt market, as well as completed aircraft marketed for law enforcement surveillance. "The" was prefixed to the name of products.

The company seems to have gone out of business at the beginning of 2015.

Aircraft

References

External links
Company website archives on Archive.org

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Homebuilt aircraft
Autogyros
Belite Ultra Cub. The Belite Ultra Cub is an ultralight aircraft built by Belite Aircraft and intended as a tribute to the Piper Cub on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. The UltraCub was introduced at AirVenture 2012.

Design and development
The Ultra Cub is a single-engine, single-place, strut-braced high-wing monoplane with either tricycle or conventional landing gear. The fuselage is constructed of riveted aluminum tubing with Dacron fabric substrate and (optionally) Oracal (adhesive vinyl) colored covering. The wing spar is aluminum with birch wood ribs, although a carbon fiber spar option is available. The wings can be folded for ground transportation or storage. The landing gear is made from spring steel. Storage includes three under-seat lockers. The turtledeck is removable. The standard engine used is the  Half VW four-stroke powerplant.

Variants
Sealite
Version first flown in December 2013, equipped with amphibious floats and with an empty weight of .

Specifications (Ultra Cub)

See also

References

External links

Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
ATLS-9701. ATLS-9701 is a small unnamed U.S. Navy active service auxiliary Aerial Target Launch Ship operated by the Pacific Targets and Marine Operations Division (PTMO), U.S. Department of the Navy. The ship possesses VHF, UHF, Sat-Phone, NIPR/SIPRNET communication capabilities, equipped with Nobeltec Navigation system, and BQM-74 aerial targets launchers.

History

ATLS-9701 was built in 1998 for MQM-8G Vandal Targets program run by the Naval Air Systems Command. She was used for firing the MQM-8G super-sonic targets simulating cruise missiles, which were reconfigured RIM-8 Talos long-range naval surface-to-air missiles, in order to test the Phalanx and RIM close-range defensive systems deployed by the Navy. MQM-8G's were remote-controlled, non-recoverable vehicles, 36.2 feet in length, 7.3 feet in diameter, and weighing 8,225 pounds.

After the last MQM-8 targets were launched in 2005, the ATLS-9701 was converted to firing BQM-74 targets and also became a platform for the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy for VBSS maritime training, confined space clearing, on-ship container access, and testing helicopter fast-roping skills, among other activities.

On April 4, 2013, ATLS-9701 was used by the members of the 13th MEU Maritime Raid Force, who fast-roped onto her from a CH-46 helicopter during VBSS training. On January 11, 2015, the 15th MEU Maritime Raid Force exercised their boarding skills on the ATLS-9701 in San Diego Bay during interoperability training.

References

External links
 
 ATLS-9701

Auxiliary ships of the United States
1998 ships
Norman Aviation. Norman Aviation is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer originally based in Lévis, Quebec and now in Saint-Anselme, Quebec. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of steel tube and wood ultralight aircraft on a custom basis.

The company was founded by and is currently owned by Jacques Norman, to produce his designs and those of other designers. All his aircraft utilize 4130 steel tube fuselage construction and wooden wings, with the whole aircraft covered in doped aircraft fabric.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of Canada
Blue Waters, Perth. Blue Waters is a historic private residence located on Canning Highway in Como, Western Australia. The house was built in 1954 by Mabel and Keith Perron (the brother of Stan Perron). Designed as a "party palace", it became the hub of the Perth social scene for many years.

History 
Shortly before the Second World War, the Perrons were inspired by a magazine illustration of a Florida Art Deco house design. Construction of the 1930s design was delayed until 1954 because of wartime restrictions. Building materials were rationed during the war, and the design of Blue Waters involved a greater quantity of brickwork and glass than the quotas allowed. To overcome the handicap, Keith Perron established a brickworks. Other technical challenges could not be met in Australia, the curved glass windows and frames having to be shipped from the U.K.

The house became both a social hub and a landmark outside which tour buses would regularly pause. On a return trip from Darwin, the Perrons' two young sons brought back two baby crocodiles in a shoe box, and set up a small pond in the backyard for them. One was later donated to the Perth Zoo after venturing outside the property. Daughter Judith had a modelling career and used the house for photographic shoots. A cousin, Marshall Perron lived there for a while as a young man before establishing himself as a Northern Territory politician and chief minister.

In 1961 the house, complete with its original furniture, was sold to Joy and Eric Lillingston for £A12,500 m, equivalent to  in  In 1965, it was bought by a bookmaker named Botica, and later by a Mr Sowden who was the deputy mayor of Fremantle. In the 1970s, the Norvillas family acquired it and stayed for 35 years before selling in 2006 to David Cavanagh. Cavanagh contacted the original owners for their advice in restoring the property to its original condition.

The house was listed on the Municipal Heritage Inventory of the City of South Perth in December 1994, affording it a "high level of protection" under the City of South Perth Town Planning Scheme. The statement of significance for the house's registration noted its "aesthetic, representative and rarity cultural heritage significance".

The house has been featured in a number of films, including The Reckoning, a 2014 crime thriller, which starred Jonathan LaPaglia, Luke Hemsworth and Viva Bianca.

Design 
The building was designed by architect Keith D'Alton, and has featured in national reference books on Australian architecture for its interwar design features and its distinctive curved glass windows.

References 

Buildings and structures in Perth, Western Australia
Como, Western Australia
Art Deco architecture in Western Australia