omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
ROV KIEL 6000. The ROV KIEL 6000 is a remotely operated vehicle built by Schilling Robotics, Davis, California. It's in the possession of the German GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. The ROV has been designed for certain scientific tasks with a max. operational depth of 6,000 m (19,685 feet). The ROV is electrically powered and directly linked to the operating ship via a deep-sea glass fiber cable. It can be operated from ships of opportunity which fulfill certain requirements such as deck space and stability, power supply, dynamic positioning and crane/winch capacities.

ROV KIEL 6000 is used within multidisciplinary scientific projects such as the Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean" and for the installation and maintenance of ocean observatories.

Technical specifications

External links
 Technical Speciafications from the IFM-GEOMAR Website
 ROV KIEL 6000 GEOMAR Website

Remotely operated underwater vehicles
Robotic submarines
ROV KIEL 6000
Ships built in California
Intralox. Intralox, headquartered in the New Orleans, Louisiana, suburb of Harahan is a manufacturer of conveyor belts. Intralox specializes in modular plastic conveyor belts and related services and equipment.

Intralox is the largest division of Laitram, LLC, and has regional headquarters in Amsterdam and Shanghai and assembly centers located around the globe. Intralox's products and services are used in general food processing, meat, poultry and seafood processing, beverage handling, can manufacturing, baking, case and box handling, and packaging.

History
In 1949, Intralox founder J. M. Lapeyre invented an automatic shrimp-peeling machine  that changed the industry. He patented his shrimp peeler and 190 other inventions during his lifetime. He also founded multiple companies under parent company, Laitram, LLC, including Laitram Machinery, Intralox, Lapeyre Stair, and Laitram Machine Shop — all based on his inventions.

Intralox registered the first patent for modular plastic belting in 1970 and has been the first company to introduce many of the conveying concepts in the market today and currently holds more than 490 active patents worldwide.

Recognition
 Intralox ARB Conveyance Technology Acclaimed for Handling New, Greener Beverage Packages with Ease
 Special Recognition for International Trade Efforts
 NSF  Food Safety Leadership Award 2010
 2009 China Food Safety Provider Award: Intralox EZ Clean Family of Hygienic Solutions
 European Anuga FoodTec Award 2009: Intralox ARB Technology and Hygienic Solutions

References

External links 
 Intralox.com

Laitram, LLC
Blackburn-Walker biplane. The Blackburn-Walker biplane was a pioneer aeroplane built in Great Britain in 1909 by Harold Blackburn and Albert Walker. It is not known whether it actually flew.

Development
The Blackburn-Walker biplane was a tailless three-bay tandem pusher craft with a canard elevator and the engine in front of its two occupants, which was designed and built by Harold Blackburn and Albert Walker in 1909. The placement of the engine ahead of the wing leading edge was unusual, with a long driveshaft passing between the two occupants to the two-bladed pusher propeller. The flywheel was extensively drilled for lightness. A precarious step below the engine allowed access to the crank handle and radiator. Lateral control was provided by twin narrow-chord rudders between the upper and lower planes.

The two extant photographs of the aircraft are marked 'Dagenham, Barking', though it is not clear whether this refers to the short-lived Experimental Flying Ground at Dagenham established by the Royal Aeronautical Society or the nearby Handley Page field at Barking. Given that Handley Page supplied components to the nascent aviation industry the latter seems more likely.

It would appear that the original configuration was not successful as by 1910 the machine sported large leading-edge extensions on both upper and lower wings to provide increased lift.

The ultimate fate of the Blackburn-Walker biplane is unknown.

References

1910s British sport aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Biplanes
Canard aircraft
Tangent EMG-5. The Tangent EMG-5 (Electric Motor Glider Model 5) is a proposed single-place electric airplane designed to be certified in the US either as an FAR Part 103 compliant ultralight (no pilot's license needed in the US), as a motor glider (glider pilot license required in the US), or as an experimental amateur built airplane (private pilot license required in the US).

Design and development
The aircraft design incorporates a pilot in prone position, retractable tricycle landing gear, folding wings, ballistic recovery parachute system, and electric propulsion motors that rotate to allow limited thrust vectoring. The thrust vectoring is intended to be used in conjunction with Fowler flaps to meet the Part 103's requirement of less than 27.6 MPH stall speed.  The target price for the aircraft is approximately $20,000USD.

The EMG-5 started construction before March 2012.  Flight tests were anticipated to commence in Corning, California in early 2013.

The designer of the EMG-5 had based its development under the assumption that the batteries were considered part of the fuel with regard to the FAR 103 regulations and thus not included in the aircraft's maximum empty weight of 254 pounds (115 kg).  As the development of the EMG-5 progressed Tangent Aircraft was spending money on research and development at an alarming rate and felt that it was very necessary to get a definitive interpretation from the FAA to ensure that their investment would not be in vain.  Unfortunately, the FAA responded that "... the weight of [the] batteries must be included when determining the empty weight of the ultralight vehicle and that empty weight must not exceed 254 pounds."  As a result, Tangent Aircraft significantly slowed development of the EMG-5 and began developing the EMG-6.

Specifications

References

Abandoned civil aircraft projects
Micro Aviation B22 Bantam. The Micro Aviation B22 Bantam is a New Zealand ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Micro Aviation NZ of Hamilton, New Zealand and later of Mandeville, New Zealand. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development
The aircraft complies with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules as well as the United Kingdom BCAR Section "S" regulations. It features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing has an area of  and is supported by V-struts and jury struts. The engine is mounted above the cockpit on the forward end of the main keel tube. Standard engines available are the  Rotax 582 two-stroke and the  Jabiru 2200 four-stroke powerplant.

Operational history
Two Bantams are in use by park rangers in Kruger National Park in South Africa. Total production has exceeded 300 aircraft.

The World Directory of Leisure Aviation reviewed the Bantam and described it as "a simple practical aircraft characterized by its agility, vice-free handling and ease of maintenance."

Variants
B22J
Higher powered version
B22S
 Standard model

Specifications (B22J Bantam)

References

External links

1980s New Zealand ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
New Zealand design
Tetrakis(pyridine)silver(II) peroxydisulfate. Tetrakis(pyridine)silver(II) peroxydisulfate is a chemical compound which contains silver in the rare oxidation state of +2.

Preparation
The salt can be easily prepared by oxidizing a soluble silver salt with excess potassium peroxydisulfate in aqueous pyridine solution, where upon the product precipitates out almost quantitatively.

 2 AgNO3 + 8 C5H5N + 3 K2S2O8 → 2 [Ag(C5H5N)4]S2O8 + 2 K2SO4 + 2 KNO3

Structure

Since the Ag2+ ion has a d9 configuration, the salt is paramagnetic.

Properties

The compound is in the form of non-hygroscopic orange granulate. It is stable in the air for several days when stored away from light, and is stable up to several months if dried in vacuo over potassium hydroxide, decomposing into a white paste. Its stability can be attributed to its insolubility in both polar and non-polar solvents.

The compound decomposes at 137 °C. It dissolves in concentrated nitric acid without reduction, and is converted to the black silver(I,III) oxide in aqueous sodium hydroxide solution.

It is a powerful oxidizing agent, and is illustrated by the fact that it oxidizes Mn2+ ions to permanganates. When the pyridine ligands were removed, the transient square planar [Ag(H2O)4]2+ remains, which spontaneously oxidizes water to oxygen.

 Ag2+ + e−  Ag+ {E° = +1.980 V}

Applications in organic chemistry

The complex ion can easily oxidize alcohol, aldehyde and amine, and capable of decarboxylating α-hydroxycarboxylic acids and phenylacetic acids to give the corresponding carbonyl compounds. Benzylic C-H bonds are oxidatively converted to carbonyl groups:

Aromatic thiols and allylaryl thioethers are oxidized to arylsulfonic acids, which gives an alternative route to produce arylsulfonic acids with mild conditions.

Safety

As the compound contains the peroxydisulfate ion as the counter anion, this compound should be treated as an explosive even though its explosive properties were not well established. The complex also releases tiny amounts of pyridine vapor which is a possible carcinogen.

References

Silver compounds
Pyridine complexes
Persulfates
Reagents for organic chemistry
Chalmers Knitting Mills. Chalmers Knitting Mills was a historic factory building located at Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York.  It was built in 1913 and expanded in 1916.

The original section was a four-story, brick building.  The 1916 addition was a seven-story, steel frame and reinforced concrete building with concrete block.  The addition was set at a near-right angle to the original section, giving the building an L-shaped footprint.  The mill produced undergarments and remained in operation under the Chalmers name until the founders' death in 1959.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

The city of Amsterdam was awarded a $1.4 million Restore New York state grant to demolish the factory, which was razed in 2011. The state Department of Environmental Conservation provided $1.9 million to clean up the contamination.

References

Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Industrial buildings completed in 1913
Industrial buildings completed in 1916
Buildings and structures demolished in 2011
Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, New York
1913 establishments in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, New York
Demolished buildings and structures in New York (state)
Peter Hansford. Peter George Hansford  is an English civil engineer. He served as the 146th President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) (2010-2011) and succeeded Paul Morrell as the UK government's chief construction adviser in November 2012.

Career
Hansford studied civil engineering at the University of Nottingham, and then worked at Amey Roadstone Construction and Maunsell Consultations Asia in Hong Kong. He later joined the Nichols Group, working as engineering manager for London's Docklands Light Railway City extension and Beckton extension projects (1989-1992). He also has a MBA from Cranfield University.

Hansford is a Fellow of the ICE and of the Association for Project Management, and chaired the ICE's expert panel contributing to the UK government's Low Carbon Construction IGT report (2010), a key building block of the industry reforms started by Morrell.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to innovation in civil engineering.

Infrastructure Steering Committee

Hansford, ICE Past President, chaired the Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC), a group of leading clients, consultants, contractors and academics who were a focal point for industry input into the work of the IUK Infrastructure Cost Review implementation programme. This Industry Standards Group report was prepared in response to the 2010 Infrastructure Cost Review programme.

Involved with the Infrastructure UK cost study, Hansford has also worked on various strategic reviews including ones for the Highways Agency, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Network Rail.

Chief Construction Adviser

On 2 July 2014, construction minister Michael Fallon announced that Hansford's term of office would be extended to November 2015. In July 2015, the Government announced that "the role of the Chief Construction Adviser will not be continued after the incumbent Peter Hansford’s tenure ends in November 2015."

References

English civil engineers
Living people
Alumni of Cranfield University
Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Lombok Institute of Flight Technology. Lombok Institute of Flight Technology, also known as LIFT, is an Indonesian higher learning institution specializing in theoretical and practical aeronautical science education. 

Based on Lombok Island (approximately 60 miles east of Bali Island), the institute received its educational accreditation as a flight academy from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Indonesia in 2010. 

The institute operates from Lombok International Airport, Bima Airport and Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin III Airport.

History
The Lombok Institute of Flight Technology was established in 2011. It received a pilot school certificate license number 141D-012 from the Ministry of Transportation, Director General of Civil Aviation.

The Lombok Institute of Flight Technology has enrolled more than 200 professional pilots internationally.

In 2018, LIFT earned its accreditation from the International Education Accreditation Council (IEDACC).

In 2020 the Lombok Institute of Flight Technology was acquired by Mr. Lalu Didiek Yuliadi, SE.

Facilities
LIFT's flight training campus is located in the Senggigi resort area, on the island of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. LIFT maintains a satellite campus (academics only) in Serpong, Tangerang, in West Jakarta.

LIFT maintains a fleet of six Liberty XL2 flight training aircraft from Liberty Aerospace Corporation. These aircraft were produced in Melbourne, Florida, in 2010. 

LIFT operats a flight simulation department that houses two full-motion flight simulators capable of semi-realistic reproduction of flight in Liberty XL2 aircraft.

Academics
The institute offers professional pilots courses in the following areas of aeronautical theory:
Basic Aerodynamics
Advanced Aerodynamics
General Navigation
Radio Navigation
Meteorology
Aircraft Systems
Instrumentation & Electronics
Radio Theory
Operational Procedures
Aircraft Weight & Balance

Faculty and staff
As of 2012, the Chief Flight Instructor is Russell Sherwood.

References

External links
 
 Indonesian media publication

Colleges in Indonesia
Aviation in Indonesia
Lombok
2011 establishments in Indonesia
Universities and colleges established in 2011
Osama Kamal. Osama Kamal (; born 5 April 1959) was the Egyptian minister of petroleum and mineral resources.  He was sworn into President Mohamad Morsi's cabinet, the Qandil Cabinet, on 2 August 2012, following the 2011–2012 Egyptian uprising that deposed President Hosni Mubarak. He was in office until 6 May 2013.

Early life and education
Kamal was born on 5 April 1959 in the Nile Delta city Zagazig. He attended Cairo University, faculty of engineering, and graduated from the chemical engineering department in 1982. Kamal began his career at the state-owned Engineering for Petroleum and Process Industries (Enppi) as an engineer. A few years later, Kamal switched to another public-sector energy company, known as Petrojet.

The Egyptian Petrochemicals Holding Company
Osama Kamal helped establish Egyptian Petrochemicals Holding Company (Echem) in 2002, which belongs to Egypt's petroleum ministry, and is mandated with managing and developing Egypt's petrochemicals industry. Kamal was appointed chairman of Echem in 2009. While Kamal was in charge of Echem, a crisis erupted pertaining the Agrium fertiliser plant in the Nile Delta city of Damietta. In 2008, Agrium, which is 30% owned by Echem, was faced with a popular campaign that alleged that the factory was bad for the environment, causing Egypt's government to abruptly cancel the project. Agrium was offered a 26% stake in the state-owned Egyptian fertilizer producer MOPCO instead. However, the project resumed in 2011, which dragged Agrium and Echem into more controversy. The project was completed and started operation in 2016.

Carbon Holdings
Currently Eng. Osama Kamal resides on the board of the Egyptian industrial company, Carbon Holdings. In addition he acts as a Chief Strategy Officer.

Political career
On 2 August 2012, Kamal was sworn into the Qandil Cabinet, as the minister of petroleum and mineral resources. His term ended on 7 May 2013 and he was replaced by Sherif Haddara in the post.

Personal life
Kamal is married and has three daughters and three grandchildren.

References

1959 births
Living people
Qandil Cabinet
Petroleum ministers of Egypt
People from Zagazig
Cairo University alumni
20th-century Egyptian engineers
21st-century Egyptian engineers
Chemical engineers
Wendt W-2 Swift. The Wendt W-2 Swift was a two-seat, single-engine, braced high-wing monoplane built in the United States just before World War II.  Only one was built.

Design and development
The Wendt Aircraft Co. was formed in February 1939 to build the W-2 Swift, the prototype of which turned out to be their only product. It had a high braced wing, built around two spruce spars.  The ribs were made of spruce and birch with steel wire internal bracing.  Its leading and trailing edges were metal, with fabric elsewhere.  The wing was braced on either side by pairs of V-form, steel struts mounted on the lower fuselage longerons.  The fuselage was a chrome molybdenum steel tube structure, fabric covered over plywood formers and spruce stringers.  The enclosed cabin, which seated two side-by-side with dual control, was under the wing, with the 90 hp (67 kW) single row radial LeBlond engine mounted immediately ahead of it under a clean NACA cowling in the short nose.

The tail unit was metal framed and fabric covered.  The tailplane was externally braced and the elevators carried trim tabs.  The fin was straight edged but the rudder, which extended to the bottom of the fuselage and worked in a cut-out between the elevators, had a full, curved trailing edge.

The Swift had a fixed, conventional undercarriage with faired main legs and wheels, rubber shock absorbers and half-axles hinged under the fuselage.  The main wheels had brakes and the tailwheel was steerable.

Specifications

Notes

References

1930s United States civil utility aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1939
Single-engined tractor aircraft
HYLAS 2. HYLAS 2 is a geostationary High throughput satellite operated by Avanti Communications. HYLAS, an acronym for Highly Adaptable Satellite, was launched on Ariane 5 from Guyana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana, on 2 August 2012.

Construction
HYLAS 2 was constructed by Orbital Sciences Corporation on the STAR-2 platform for the UK telecommunications company Avanti Communications Plc.

Features
HYLAS 2 features 4 active and 6 gateway Ka beams covering Northern and Southern Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. HYLAS 2 is also equipped with steerable spot-beams to direct extra capacity in required areas when needed.

See also

HYLAS 1
HYLAS 3

References

Satellites of the United Kingdom
Spacecraft launched in 2012
High throughput satellites
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Ariane commercial payloads
Satellites using the GEOStar bus
Learning Record Store. A Learning Record Store (LRS) is a data store system that serves as a repository for learning records collected from connected systems where learning activities are conducted. It is an essential component in the process flow for using the Experience API (xAPI) standard by ADL or the Caliper standard by IMS Global. The Experience API is also known as the "Tin Can API" and is an Open Source e-learning specification developed after AICC and SCORM. The concept of the LRS was introduced to the e-learning industry in 2011, and proposes a shift to the way e-learning specifications function.

History
SCORM has been the e-learning industry software specification for interoperability from 2001 until the present. The governing body of SCORM, Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), realized that the specification was not keeping up with advancements in technology, and that it needed to be updated. ADL issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) asking for assistance with updating the SCORM specification. The BAA was awarded to Rustici Software, and the result was a one-year research and development project called Project Tin Can. The final result of Project Tin Can was the Experience API along with the concept of the LRS.

Overview
xAPI-enabled learning activities generate statements, or records of e-learning in the form of "I did this" or "Actor verb object". These statements are transmitted over HTTP or HTTPS to an LRS. The main function of an LRS is to store and retrieve the data that's generated from Experience API statements.

An LRS can exist inside a traditional learning management system (LMS), or on its own. LRSs can communicate learner data with other systems, such as LMSs, sensor-enabled devices, mobile technology, and other LRSs. Systems sending data to an LRS are known as "Activity Providers". Individual learners can have their own LRSs, or Personal Data Lockers, in which they store all of their learning data for their own personal records. 

xAPI statements are capable of being sent to multiple LRSs at once. With traditional LMSs, a learner's data stays with the organization that administers the LMS. When the LRS is introduced, the sharing of learning data is possible, and the learning data can follow the learner wherever the learner goes (for example, from job to job or from school to school).

LRSs offer the ability to create very in-depth e-learning analytics because of the large amounts of learning data they record and store. Traditional e-learning specifications like SCORM are limited to storing simple data points such as a final score, or that a course has been started or completed. With the statement structure that the LRS records, there are many data points that can be reported against. Reports can be pulled on any number of combinations of "actor", "verb" and "object".  However, an LRS that is built strictly to the Experience API specification doesn't have a built-in reporting mechanism. The LRS administrator (or the administrator of the LMS in which the LRS exists) must provide means to access the data in the LRS, and in turn create a reporting system for the data.

References

Data management software