omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Electricity Generation Company Malawi Limited. The Electricity Generation Company Malawi Limited (Egenco) is a parastatal company whose primary purpose is to generate electric power for use in Malawi and for possible sale to neighboring countries. As of April 2018, Egenco's generation capacity was . In May 2021, Egenco's generation portfolio increased to , when the 19 MW Tedzani IV Hydroelectric Power Station, was brought online.

Location
The headquarters of Egenco are in Chayamba Building, at 7 Victoria Avenue, in the city of Blantyre, the financial capital and largest city in Malawi. The geographical coordinates of Egenco headquarters are: 15°47'13.0"S, 35°00'20.0"E (Latitude:-15.786944; Longitude:35.005556).

Overview and history
Egenco was established when the Electricity Supply Commission of Malawi (ESCOM), hitherto the electricity monopoly in the country, was split, with Egenco assuming the role of electricity generation, and ESCOM retaining the roles of bulk purchase, transmission and distribution. Egenco became operational on 1 January 2017.

Operations
Egenco is responsible for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the power stations owned by the Malawian government. These include both hydroelectric and thermal power stations.

Operational stations
 Kapichira Hydroelectric Power Station: 128 megawatts
 Nkula A Hydroelectric Power Station: 24 megawatts
 Nkula A Hydroelectric Power Station: 100 megawatts
 Tedzani I Hydroelectric Power Station: 20 megawatts
 Tedzani II Hydroelectric Power Station: 20 megawatts
 Tedzani III Hydroelectric Power Station: 64 megawatts
 Tedzani IV Hydroelectric Power Station: 19.1 megawatts

Power stations in development
 Kammwamba Thermal Power Station: 300 megawatts

Governance
Egenco is governed by a seven-person board of directors. As of January 2018, the following comprised the Egenco board.

See also

List of power stations in Uganda
Electricity Regulatory Authority
Energy in Uganda

References

External links
 Egenco Homepage

Energy companies of Malawi
Government of Malawi
Electric power infrastructure in Malawi
Hydroelectric power companies
Hydroelectricity in Malawi
Energy companies established in 2017
2017 establishments in Malawi
Bruce E. Logan. Bruce Ernest Logan is an American civil and environmental engineer who serves as the Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering and the Evan Pugh University Professor in Engineering at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). He is also the director of Penn State's Engineering Energy and Environmental Institute and their Hydrogen Energy Center. His main research interest is in the development of water infrastructure technology, and his lab has developed devices that can produce electricity from wastewater. He is also known for his work developing microbial fuel cells. Since 2013, he has been the editor-in-chief of Environmental Science & Technology Letters, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (2013) for microbial electrochemical technologies for wastewater treatment and sustainable energy generation.

References

External links
Logan Lab Page

Editor profile at Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Living people
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
American civil engineers
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
American academic journal editors
Environmental engineers
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
VR Stalker. VR Stalker is a combat flight simulator video game developed by Morpheus Interactive and originally published by American Laser Games for the 3DO.

Gameplay

VR Stalker is a combat flight simulator featuring jets such as the F-14, F-16, and A-10.

Development
VR Stalker was developed by Utah-based Morpheus Interactive and was originally published by American Laser Games in the United States in 1994 as the first flight simulator for the 3DO. The following year, the game was picked up for PAL region distribution by BMG Interactive. Portions of the gameplay and graphics were reworked for this release and the game had to be resubmitted to The 3DO Company for approval. 

After VR Stalker, Morpheus made announcements for a multi-vehicle shooter game for 3DO called Saturncide and a personal computer game called Secrets of the Luxor, originally based on a Luxor Las Vegas attraction. Trademarks were filed for other titles including Geneticide and Fatal Contract. Morpheus entered a publishing agreement with Sanctuary Woods and began work on a real-time 3D engine with plans to release number of games starting in 1996. The partnership was dissolved shortly thereafter when Sanctuary Woods underwent corporate restructuring. Development of Secrets of the Luxor eventually went to Strata Interactive. None of Morpheus' other projects ever materialized. Morpheus president Ken Bretschneider, who worked as a digital and fine artist for VR Stalker, later went on to co-found The Void, a company which created virtual reality entertainment attractions.

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "A mild disappointment, but not if you are looking for fast action."

3DO Magazine gave the game two stars out of five, finding "plenty of fast, frantic action and varied missions" but that it "sits awkwardly between Shock Wave and Flying Nightmares, lacking the stunning arcade visuals of the former, while falling equally short on the realism stakes compared to the latter."

References

External links
 VR Stalker at MobyGames

1994 video games
3DO Interactive Multiplayer games
3DO Interactive Multiplayer-only games
BMG Interactive games
Combat flight simulators
Single-player video games
Video games about virtual reality
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the United States
Eileen Harkin-Jones. Eileen M. A. Harkin-Jones is the Bombardier Aerospace-Royal Academy of Engineering professor of composites engineering at the Ulster University.

Education 
Harkin-Jones studied mechanical engineering at University College Dublin, and received first class honours in 1983. She completed her PhD at Queen's University Belfast working on materials for rotational moulding in 1992.

Research and career
Harkin-Jones was appointed a lecturer at Queen's in 1993. In 1999 Harkin-Jones became the first woman to be appointed an engineering professor in Ireland. Her research is on polymer processing and the development of materials. In 2015, she was appointed the Bombardier-Royal Academy of Engineering professor of composite engineering at Ulster University. At Ulster University she focuses on aerospace composites and sustainable plastic manufacture. Using injection moulding, thermoforming and additive manufacture, Harkin-Jones is exploring advanced thermoplastic composite materials for medical devices and aerospace. She has published over 200 peer reviewed papers, and secured funding over £12 million.

She is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Higher Education committee and Deputy Chair of the Northern Ireland Higher Education Authority. She is campaigning for gender equality in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at a national level. She is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Manufacturing.

Awards and honours
In 2017, she was appointed a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2011. In 2013, she was appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to higher education.

References 

20th-century Irish engineers
21st-century Irish engineers
20th-century Irish women engineers
21st-century Irish women engineers
Irish mechanical engineers
Aerospace engineers
Women aerospace engineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of University College Dublin
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Gabriel Śląsk. The Gabriel Śląsk (Silesia) was a Polish light aircraft designed and built by an amateur in the mid-1930s. After two flights the Polish authorities banned further development.

Development

Antoni Gabriel, a long-time aircraft enthusiast, took an aircraft mechanic's course during military service and on return home designed a single-seat, high-wing, light, cabin monoplane. It was entirely self-funded and was constructed by Gabriel and a carpenter friend, Jan Mencel. Even the propeller and tyres were built on Gabriel's farm. He began tests with a car engine but this was not powerful enough even to taxi the machine, though he did get some press coverage which led to the offer of an old,  Anzani 6 radial engine. This powered the first flight on 11 October 1936; it was the first time Gabriel had flown any aircraft but the flight lasted 45 minutes and ended, as night fell, by bonfire-light. After repairing some undercarriage damage and installing another home-made propeller, the Śląsk made its second flight in December 1936. This proved to be its last, as the resulting publicity attracted official attention. Concerns about structural strength and lack of design documentation led to a ban on further flights.

Stored in a farm building, the Śląsk survived the war and parts survived until 1963.

Design

Structurally, the Śląsk was a wooden aircraft. Its high wing was rectangular in plan out to blunted tips and had constant thickness over the whole span. The wing had a two-part, wooden structure with twin spars and was fabric covered. Constant chord ailerons reached out to the tips. There were parallel pairs of duralumin bracing struts on each side from the spars to the lower fuselage longerons.

The fuselage had a rectangular cross-section structure with wire cross-bracing. The Anzani engine was mounted with its cylinders projecting for cooling from an aluminium covered, tapered nose. Behind the engine the fuselage was fabric covered. Its depth was greatest under the wing, where the pilot's shallow-windowed, enclosed cabin under the leading edge was accessed by a hatch in its roof.

The Śląsk's fin was large and triangular and the narrow rudder broadened towards the keel. Its tailplane was mounted on top of the fuselage and braced from below with V-struts, carrying elevators with a gap for rudder movement. All empennage surfaces were fabric covered.

It had a fixed, conventional, tailwheel undercarriage of unusually wide track. The small mainwheels were mounted on wide-spread V-struts from the lower longerons at the meeting points with the wing bracing struts and near-vertical landing legs rose to the forward of these, stiffened by another strut to the base of the rear wing strut.

Specifications

References

Single-engined tractor aircraft
1930s Polish civil aircraft
Take Off TBM 11. The Take Off TBM 11 is an aircraft engine, designed and produced by Take Off GmbH of Hamm, Germany, for use in ultralight and homebuilt aircraft.

Design and development 
The TBM 11 engine is a twin-cylinder four-stroke, horizontally-opposed,  displacement, air-oil-cooled, gasoline engine design, with a clutch and damper reduction drive with reduction ratios of 3.55:1, 3.2:1 and 2.8:1. It employs dual electronic ignition and produces  at 7100 rpm, with a compression ratio of 11.5.

The engine is based upon a BMW motorcycle engine design.

The engine specifications carry a manufacturer's warning that the engine has not been tested, nor is certified for aircraft use, and that neither BMW nor Take Off accept any liability for aircraft use or consequential damages.

Specifications (TBM 11)

See also

References

External links 

Take Off aircraft engines
Air-cooled aircraft piston engines
2000s aircraft piston engines
Take Off TBM 12. The Take Off TBM 12 is an aircraft engine, designed and produced by Take Off GmbH of Hamm, Germany, for use in ultralight and homebuilt aircraft.

Design and development 
The TBM 12 engine is a twin-cylinder four-stroke, horizontally-opposed,  displacement, air-oil-cooled, gasoline engine design, with a helical gear mechanical gearbox reduction drive with reduction ratios of 3.5:1, 2.58:1, 2.13:1 and 1.8:1. It employs electronic ignition and produces  at 7200 rpm, with a compression ratio of 13.1:1.

The engine is based upon a BMW motorcycle engine design.

The engine specifications carry a manufacturer's warning that the engine has not been tested, nor is certified for aircraft use, and that neither BMW nor Take Off accept any liability for aircraft use or consequential damages.

Specifications (TBM 12)

See also

References

External links 

Take Off aircraft engines
Air-cooled aircraft piston engines
2000s aircraft piston engines
Xue Long 2. Xue Long 2 () is a Chinese icebreaking research vessel that entered service in 2019. She follows the naming of , China's first polar research vessel.

History
The 5 million euro design contract for China's first domestically-built polar research vessel was signed in 2012 with the Finnish engineering company Aker Arctic, though construction did not begin until December 2016. She was built at Jiangnan Shipyard.

Xue Long 2 now in service both as a supply vessel for China's research facilities in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and as a research vessel, with capabilities for geological and biological experimentation and surveying.

Design
Xue Long 2 measures  long, with a beam of  and a draft of  at full load.  She has a displacement of 14,300 tonnes.  She has a diesel-electric propulsion system, with two 8-cylinder and two 12-cylinder engines, both Wärtsilä 32-series designs, powering  two 7.5 MW Azipod propulsion units that give her a speed of up to  in open water and  when breaking  ice. Her ice class is Polar Class 3 and she is able to break ice while traveling either ahead or astern.

References

Icebreakers of China
Research vessels of China
2018 ships
Take Off GmbH. Take Off Ultraleichtflug GmbH (English: Take Off Ultralight Aircraft Limited), not to confuse with Take Off GmbH (Black Forest), is a German aircraft manufacturer based in Hamm. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft. It also builds aircraft engines, based upon BMW motorcycle engines.

The Minimum is a powered hang glider design that was introduced in 1979. This was followed by the Maximum, an ultralight trike, in 1989. The Merlin series of trikes was introduced in 1994.

The company also builds aircraft engines based upon BMW motorcycle engines, including the  TBM 11 and the  TBM 12.

The company also builds ground effect vehicles, airboats and propeller-driven snowmobiles.

Aircraft 
Summary of aircraft built by Take Off:
Take Off Minimum
Take Off Maximum
Take Off Merlin

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of Germany
Ultralight aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Joseph M. Prahl. Joseph M. Prahl (March 30, 1943 – April 19, 2018) was an American mechanical engineer and professor who trained as a backup Payload Specialist for the Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-50 in 1992.

Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Prahl attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, completed a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Harvard College in Cambridge in 1963, and then an M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Harvard University in 1968.

He joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University (then known as Case Institute of Technology) in 1968, becoming a full professor in 1985 and serving as department chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering from 1992 to 2007. After stepping down as department chair, in August 2007 Prahl was appointed as the faculty director for undergraduate recruiting and student life in the School of Engineering.

In 2010, Prahl was selected as a "Key Influencer" in Northeast Ohio and flew in an F/A-18 Hornet with the Blue Angels.

References

 https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1990/90-108.txt
 https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1991/91-066.txt
 http://engineering.case.edu/emae/Faculty/Joseph_Prahl

American astronauts
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
Case Western Reserve University faculty
Academics from Massachusetts
Engineers from Massachusetts
1943 births
People from Beverly, Massachusetts
2018 deaths
Geochemical Ocean Sections Study. The Geochemical Ocean Sections Study (GEOSECS) was a global survey of the three-dimensional distributions of chemical, isotopic, and radiochemical tracers in the ocean. A key objective was to investigate the deep thermohaline circulation of the ocean, using chemical tracers, including radiotracers, to establish the pathways taken by this. 

Expeditions undertaken during GEOSECS took place in the Atlantic Ocean from July 1972 to May 1973, in the Pacific Ocean from August 1973 to June 1974, and in the Indian Ocean from December 1977 to March 1978. 

Measurements included those of physical oceanographic quantities such as temperature, salinity, pressure and density, chemical / biological quantities such as total inorganic carbon, alkalinity, nitrate, phosphate, silicic acid, oxygen and apparent oxygen utilisation (AOU), and radiochemical / isotopic quantities such as carbon-13, carbon-14 and tritium.

See also
 Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP)
 Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS)
 World Ocean Atlas (WOA)
 World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

References

External links
 GEOSECS data, International Research Institute for Climate and Society
 GEOSECS data, Ocean Data View
 Rivers of the Sea: The Story of GEOSECS, 1975 documentary about the study

Biological oceanography
Carbon
Chemical oceanography
Oceanography
Physical oceanography
Flex Seal. Flex Seal is an American brand of adhesive bonding products made by the family-owned company Swift Response in Weston, Florida. Founded on February 28, 2011, the company employs 100 people led by its pitchman and Chief Executive Officer Phil Swift. Flex Seal has become a popular internet meme due to its television advertisement demonstrations of the product in absurd and exaggerated situations, as well as Swift's enthusiasm and loud voice, much like that of late Billy Mays.

Products 
The company makes a line of adhesive bonding products that are based around the concept of liquid rubber.  

Flex Shot was released as an alternative to a caulk gun.  Flex Tape was released as a waterproof tape.  Flex Glue was released as a fix-all adhesive.

The company has also made several ancillary products over the years, including Block Out, Slick Fix, Maximum Traction, Foamazing, Blast Off and Winter Wax.

Advertising 

Flex Seal has gained attention for its television advertising, including a popular advertisement where Phil Swift bisects a boat hull, repairs it with Flex Tape, and successfully drives it on a lake. A 2017 collaboration between Inside Edition, the Good Housekeeping Institute and a Lake Hopatcong marina recreated this experiment and found that although some water began to collect in the repaired boat, it "remained seaworthy" with a driver.

From 2013 to 2019, the company sponsored NASCAR Xfinity Series team JD Motorsports, sponsoring drivers who have included Ross Chastain, Landon Cassill, and Jeffrey Earnhardt. During one 2017 race, Flex Tape was used to repair crash damage on the car that the company sponsored, which was driven by Garrett Smithley.

References 

2011 establishments in California
Companies based in California
Infomercials
Adhesive tape
American inventions
Brand name materials
Internet memes
Internet memes introduced in 2017
American companies established in 2011
Manufacturing companies established in 2011
Companies based in Florida
Pawl. A pawl is a movable lever that engages a fixed component to either prevent movement in one direction or restrain it altogether.  As such, it is a type of latch and can also be considered a type of dog.  It typically consists of a spring-loaded lever that engages a mating component at a steep enough angle to restrain it.  Pawls are often tapered, being widened at their pivot for anchoring and narrow at their tip.

Applications 
Anchor windlass A pawl is used in an anchor windlass to prevent a free-spooling chain by grabbing and snubbing an individual link.  Similar mechanisms include a Devil's claw, or a claw and dog.
Ratchet A pawl is used in combination with a ratchet gear in socket wrenches, bicycle freehubs, winches, ratchet reels for diving, fishing, and many other applications.
Ladder Dogs (in the form of pawls) are used on extension ladders to temporarily anchor their sections to one-another.
Table saw Pawls are used on table saws to prevent a workpiece being sawn from kicking back.
Transmission A parking pawl is a device in an automobile automatic transmission which prevents it from moving when the vehicle is parked .
Revolvers The hand (pawl) indexes the cylinder.

References 

Mechanisms (engineering)
Fasteners

de:Sperrklinke
Liu Baixin. Liu Baixin ; born 10 June 1935) is a Chinese physicist.

Upon graduating from Tsinghua University in 1961, Liu began teaching there. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998, "[f]or outstanding contributions to the understanding of amorphous alloy formation by ion beam mixing." In 2001, Liu was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

References

1935 births
Living people
20th-century Chinese physicists
21st-century Chinese physicists
Tsinghua University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic staff of Tsinghua University
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Physicists from Shanghai
Maharaja Institute of Technology Mysore. Maharaja Institute of Technology Mysore (MIT Mysore) was started in the year 2007, by Maharaja Educational Trust(R).

Description 
MIT Mysore is an engineering college recognized by the Government of Karnataka and the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, affiliated to the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi. The Institution Accredited by National Board of Accreditation (NBA)

Location
It is situated at Belavadi Village, Srirangapatna Taluk, Mandya District about 3 km from Columbia Asia Hospital Junction Mysore at beautiful, enchanting and sprawling landscape

Academics programs 
The Institution has five undergraduate programmes, three postgraduate programmes, and one Diploma Programme. 

Undergraduate programmes

Postgraduate programmes

Activities
MIT Mysore conducts its annual fest during February or March every year. It has also conducted many Job Fairs with maximum campus recruitment.

Campus
It has three buildings. The main building contains all the undergraduate branches, Second Building for basic science departments namely Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry where as the third building called PG Block houses the MBA and MCA departments.

References

Engineering colleges in Mysore
2007 establishments in Karnataka
Educational institutions established in 2007