omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Hazira Gas Processing Complex. Hazira Gas Processing Complex (also known as HGPC) is a natural gas processing plant operated by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation in Hazira, India.

History 
Phase 1 of the plant was commissioned in the mid-1980s, and its infrastructure was designed for receiving natural gas along with associated condensate from the Mumbai High Off-shore Field. Once the condensate is separated and treated in condensate fractionation units, the gas undergoes several stages to extract liquefied petroleum gas and lower its dew point to below 5°C. This aims to prepare it for extended transport via the HVJ Gas Pipeline.

In 1986, the engineering, procurement, and construction contract for phase 1 was awarded to state-run Engineers India, which, in turn, ran the global tendering process on behalf of ONGC.

Accidents 

 Multiple explosions triggered a large-scale fire at the gas processing plant in Hazira, during the early hours of September 24, 2020. There were no reported casualties. Subsequently, according to the investigation report by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board, the explosions occurred because of the gaskets, which were not sourced from the original equipment manufacturers. Instead, 'O' rings were obtained from local markets and utilized without implementing any quality control measures.

References 

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Energy in Gujarat
Open Software in the Military Industry. Open software in the military industry refers to the use of open-source software (OSS) applications, frameworks, and tools in various military contexts. This approach contrasts with traditional proprietary software, offering unique advantages like cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and collaborative development but also bringing such challenges as security breaches and reliability. Also, US military sees the pressure from the ongoing wars across the globe and challenges on behalf of authoritarian regimes, that pushes US Army to boost their technological advance, that leads to using more broadly of open source software.

History 
The use of open software in the military industry has been influenced by the broader acceptation of open-source software. Initially it gained criticism but also innovation, cost reduction, and thus it became more popular.

In 2003, The U.S. Department of Defense has officially authorized the use of open-source software, provided it meets departmental policies and security standards, according to a policy memo by John P. Stenbit. This decision was praised by open-source advocate Tony Stanco.

Impact on military technology 
Open software has significantly impacted military technology. It has been instrumental in developing command and control systems, cybersecurity measures, and simulation and training software. The adaptability of open software allows for rapid modification and customization, which is crucial in the dynamic military context.

Examples of open software in military use 

 Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Used in various defense systems for its stability and security.
 Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS): An open standard for conducting real-time platform-level war simulation.
 The FalconView Mapping System: An open-source GIS software used by the U.S. Department of Defense.

External links 
 US Department of Defense Open Source Software FAQ

References 

Open source
Arms industry
Simon Lacey (engineer). Simon Lacey (born 9 June 1971) is a British engineer and head of aerodynamics at the McLaren Formula One team.

Career 
Simon Lacey graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in engineering and finished top of his class. In 1995, he held the position of aerodynamicist at the British Williams F1 Team. He remained with Williams until 1998 then joined the new British American Racing team.

After the success at Williams, the following years were more complicated. Indeed, BAR suffered from numerous teething problems and it was necessary to wait until the 2004 season to obtain the first satisfactory results: British American Racing finished in 2nd place in the constructor's championship. In 2006, under the name Honda Racing F1 Team, the team achieved its first success during the Hungarian Grand Prix, thanks to Jenson Button.

Simon Lacey left Honda in November 2006 for McLaren where he held the position of head of aerodynamics.

References

1971 births
Living people
Formula One designers
Aerodynamicists
Williams Grand Prix Engineering
Honda people
McLaren people
Ituka Solar Power Station. The Ituka Solar Power Station, is a  solar power plant under construction in Uganda. The power station is under development by AMEA Power, an independent power producer (IPP), domiciled in the United Arab Emirates.

Location
The power station is located in Ombaci Village, Uleppi Subcounty, Madi Okollo District, approximately , by road, southeast of the city center.

Overview
The construction site measures . The design calls for a ground-mounted photo-voltaic solar power station with generation capacity of 24 megawatts. The power will be sold directly to the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) for integration in the national electricity grid. A 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) has been signed between the developers and UETCL to guide the sale and purchase of electricity between the two. Construction started in August 2024 and commercial commissioning is anticipated in 2025.

Included in the project is the construction of a medium voltage 33/132 kV transformer switchyard, through which the power generated here will be directed to the 132 kV Lira–Gulu–Nebbi–Arua High Voltage Power Line, for evacuation.

Developers
The power station is owned by AMEA Power, a renewable energy IPP with focus on Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Amea Power created a subsidiary that it owns 100 percent called Ituka West Nile Uganda Limited, a special purpose vehicle company specifically set up to develop, build and operate this solar power station.

Costs and funding
The cost of construction has not been disclosed as of December 2023. The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a subsidiary of the  Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) has committed to lend US$19 million towards the development of this power station. The PIGD is funded by donor countries: United Kingdom, Switzerland, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany and the World Bank Group.

In December 2023, the African Trade and Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI), announced its intention to support this development through its Regional Liquidity Support Facility (RLSF). ATIDI will provide payment guarantees for the benefit of the project on behalf of UETCL. The insurance policy will cover up to six months' worth of revenue for the IPP and be in place for an initial duration of 15 years. The insurance policy makes the investment project more bankable and more secure.

See also

List of power stations in Uganda
Soroti Solar Power Station
Tororo Solar Power Station

References

External links
 About the PIDG & EAIF

Solar power stations in Uganda
West Nile sub-region
Northern Region, Uganda
Alessandra Flammini. Alessandra Flammini (born 1960) is an Italian electrical engineer and metrologist whose research involves measurement in challenging environments, including smart sensors, wireless sensor networks, smart buildings, smart grids, and industrial applications. She is Professor of Electronic Measurements in the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Brescia, and leader of the university's Research Group on Embedded Systems and Smart Sensors.

Education and career
Flammini was born in Brescia in 1960, and earned a laurea (roughly equivalent to a master's degree) at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1985. After working for ten years in industry, and seven years as a researcher at the University of Brescia, she became an associate professor at the University of Brescia in 2002. She has been full professor there since 2016.

Recognition
Flammini was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions to wireless distributed measurements for industrial systems".

References

External links
Research Group on Embedded Systems and Smart Sensors

1960 births
Living people
Italian electrical engineers
Italian women engineers
Women electrical engineers
Metrologists
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
Fellows of the IEEE
Telluro-silver glance. Telluro-silver glance () — is a trivial name given by collectors and mineral dealers, miners, geologists and other professions to at least two ore mineralsrare ore minerals, tellurides of silver. It may refer to:

 Telluric silver glance — hessite, a rare ore mineral, telluric silver. Discovered in 1829, in the mines of Western Altai.
 Telluride silver glance (also written or graphic glance) — is sylvanite, a rare ore mineral mixed with gold and silver telluride, first discovered in Transylvania.
 Telluric silver glance (or Telluric Gold-Silverglance) — petzite, a rare ore mineral close to hessite; silver and gold telluride.

Gallery

References

See also 
 Glance (disambiguation)
 Tellurium
 Silver (disambiguation)
 Gold (disambiguation)
 Glances

Set index articles on minerals
Silver minerals
Gold minerals
Telluride minerals
Mining terminology
Mineral groups
Glances
New Zealand rail maintenance equipment. Various rail operators in New Zealand have used (and continue to use) rail maintenance equipment, such as ballast equalizers, tamping machines, work trains and overhead inspection carriages, to inspect, assess and maintain various components of the rail corridor.

Rail cranes

Various rail operators in New Zealand have used (and continue to use) rail cranes, for various tasks on maintaining the rail corridor, including accident recovery work. Typically there are two classes, EL indicating diesel, and ELS indicating steam operation.

EL Class rail cranes
EL 1007 was the first diesel rail crane used in New Zealand (originally No. 197 pre-TMS). It was built in 1943 by Ransomes & Rapier, and is currently stored at the Weka Pass Railway.

Two 60 tonne Cowan Sheldon diesel rail cranes were built in 1979, after an initial tender in 1976. Both weighing 134 tonnes with a configuration of two 3-axle bogies and two relieving bogies, EL 6019 (nicknamed "Speedy") and EL 6002 (nicknamed "Tweety") accompanied by appropriate cartoon iconography entered service in 1980. Both are now under the ownership of KiwiRail.

In 2005, one of the two cranes sent to Wairoa as part of a work train, and two wagons, ended up falling into the Nuhaka River as two spans of the bridge it was intended to repair collapsed under the weight of the train. As a result, EL 6019 has been decommissioned, and is currently stored.

ELS Class rail cranes
Until the first diesel class rail cranes were built in 1943, steam rail cranes were in regular use by NZR under the more recent TMS classification of ELS. Remaining examples are now in the hands of preservation groups.

Preserved rail cranes
Silver Stream Railway maintain a preserved New Zealand Railways Ransomes and Rapier 15 Ton lift steam crane (ELS 1599/No. 124), built around 1946, and acquired in 1997.

ELS 4007/No. 200, a Craven Bros. Ltd 40 Ton Breakdown steam crane, is listed as being preserved by Steam Incorporated.

References

Maintenance of way equipment
Rail transport in New Zealand
Terminal Autonomy AQ-400 Scythe. The AQ-400 Scythe is a one-way attack drone designed and built by Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

History
Terminal Autonomy, previously named One Way Aerospace, was founded in mid-2022 by two veterans of the British and Australian militaries and a Ukrainian engineer to develop various low-cost, domestically produced kamikaze drones. One product was the AQ-400, which was first demonstrated in spring 2023. The Armed Forces of Ukraine received the first batch in December 2023. Initial plans are to produce 100 units per month, and then scale up to 500 per month in Q2 2024, with a goal of producing 1,000 units monthly.

Design
The AQ-400 is characterized by swift assembly, mass production capabilities, and cost-effectiveness. The fuselage is made from milled sheets of plywood from civilian furniture factories, which is a more scalable alternative than 3-D printing or other materials such as fiberglass. Technical training is not required, allowing them to be manufactured at scale without skilled labor. Although some components are sourced from abroad, the focus is on maximalizing production within Ukraine's borders. It has two sets of wings, one forward and one rear, with a wingspan of 2.3 m; 30 fully-assembled Scythes can be stacked in one shipping container for transport. Take off is achieved from short airstrips using its own tricycle landing gear or from a catapult using rocket boosters. Overall weight is 100 kg with a 43 kg payload, of which 32 kg is the warhead which can be thermobaric or hold two 122 mm artillery shells. Using the standard gas engine and pusher propeller, the AQ-400 has a cruise speed of , a top speed of 200 km/h, endurance of 6.5 hours, and a strike range of 750 km; depending on the engine option, range could be increased as far as , or payload increased to  at a reduced range.

Guidance at low altitude uses a laser altimeter to approach at 30 m to minimize the effects of electronic warfare to jam GPS navigation until very close to the target. At high altitudes of 3,000 m, it navigates with a visual positioning system using roads and other visible landmarks. A video link option is available so an operator can manually guide the drone to hit moving targets, but this adds costs and only works at shorter ranges. The basic Scythe airframe costs USD$15,000, which increases to USD$30,000 with a guidance system and other features; this compares to around USD$20,000 for a Shahed-136 one-way attack munition used by Russia. Swarms can use a leader-follower method, where one lead drone carrying a navigation system is followed by nine basic drones, which help saturate the target area and draw off enemy defenses from the lethal version. The use of such drones is intended to overwhelm air defenses as well as make them expend expensive interceptors against cheaper targets, exhausting their supplies over time.

Operators

See also
Shahed-136
Liutyi
Trembita (cruise missile)
UJ-25 Skyline

References

External links
AQ 400 SCYTHE Terminal Autonomy
Ukraine's long-range drones using Western tech to hit Russia

Loitering munition
Weapons of Ukraine
Unmanned military aircraft of Ukraine
Alexandria Engineering Journal. The Alexandria Engineering Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal that covers experimental, theoretical, and computational aspects in the field of engineering and applied science. It is published by Elsevier on behalf of the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University and the editor-in-chief is  Ayman Abdel-Khalik (Alexandria University).

Sections
The journal is organized in five sections:
Chemical Engineering and Applied Sciences
Civil and Architecture Engineering
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Nuclear Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Mechanical, Production, Marine and Textile Engineering

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Scopus
Science Citation Index Expanded
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Ei Compendex
INSPEC

References

External links

English-language journals
Elsevier academic journals
Academic journals established in 2000
Engineering journals
Monthly journals
Elk River Water Tower. The Elk River Water Tower is a historic water tower in Elk River, Minnesota, United States.  It was built in 1920 to improve the city's firefighting infrastructure, and uses a design popular from 1890 to 1940.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 for its significance in the themes of "community planning and development" and "engineering".  It was nominated for its impact on community development and as a representative of a once-common but vanishing design.

In 2021, Elk River was able to restore the water tower using Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants.  The tower was returned to its original color scheme of silver with a red top, with black block lettering of the city's name.

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Sherburne County, Minnesota

References

1920 establishments in Minnesota
Buildings and structures in Sherburne County, Minnesota
National Register of Historic Places in Sherburne County, Minnesota
Towers completed in 1920
Water towers on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Christoph Zimmermann (engineer). Christoph Zimmermann (born 7 June 1968) is a Swiss engineer and former chief designer of the BMW Sauber Formula One team.

Career 
Zimmermann completed an apprenticeship at ABB and is a mechanical engineer by profession. He worked as a composite and model designer at Sauber in Hinwil from 1989 before moving to Swift Engineering in 1999. He returned to Sauber as head of composite design in 2000. In October 2007, Zimmermann was announced as the chief designer at BMW Sauber, succeeding Jörg Zander.

Career timeline
 Designer – Sauber-Mercedes (1989–1991).
 Designer – Sauber (1992–1999).
 Senior engineer – Swift Engineering (1999–2000).
 Head of composite design – Sauber (2001–2005).
 Head of composite design – BMW Sauber (2006–2007).
 Chief designer – BMW Sauber (2008–2011).

References

1968 births
Living people
Formula One designers
Sauber Motorsport
Pakistan Machine Tool Factory. The Pakistan Machine Tool Factory (PMTF) is a Pakistani manufacturer of power and machine tools based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It was established in Karachi in 1968, the facility was built for the local manufacture of machine tools under technical cooperation and technology transfer agreements with Oerlikon-Bührle of Switzerland.

History and challenges
Established in Karachi in 1968, PMTF has faced many challenges over the years. Despite completing contracts worth Rs 7.5 billion in 2019, over 700 PMTF employees have gone without salaries for four months. The factory is on the brink of collapse due to financial constraints. Short-sighted government policies and a long and failed privatization process over decades have adversely affected the company's performance and turned it into an ailing unit.

Revival plan
In February 2019, the government approved a recovery plan for the PMTF and decided to rehabilitate and restructure the collapsing PMTF, excluding it from the privatization process for state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The government approved handing over the PMTF to the Strategic Plans Division to replace the ailing government tools manufacturing unit.

Collaboration with SSGC-AE
PMTF and Sui Southern Gas Company Alternate Energy Limited (SSGC-AE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to unlock "Green Molecules" renewable natural gas potential. As a result, PMTF will supply biogas/biomethane, a renewable natural gas, to SSGC-AE.

References

External links
  - official website

Manufacturing companies of Pakistan
Engineering companies of Pakistan
Machine tool builders
Companies based in Karachi
Manufacturing companies established in 1968
Ana García Armada. Ana García Armada is a Spanish electrical engineer specializing in Wireless communication, especially involving multi-carrier and multi-antenna communications, signal processing, and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing. She is a professor at Charles III University of Madrid.

García earned a licenciate from the Technical University of Madrid in 1994, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1998. Her doctoral dissertation, Contribución al desarrollo de técnicas de prototipado rápido de sistemas de comunicaciones, was directed by Miguel Calvo Ramón. In the same year she joined the academic staff of Charles III University. She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions to wireless communications transceivers".

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Spanish electrical engineers
Spanish women engineers
Women electrical engineers
Technical University of Madrid alumni
Academic staff of the Charles III University of Madrid
Fellows of the IEEE
Future Science City North station. Weilaikexuechengbei (Future Science City North) station () is the northern terminus of Line 17 of Beijing Subway which opened on December 30, 2023.

Location 
The station is located on Puqingsi South Street, in the Beijing Future Science City, in Tugou Village, Xiaotangshan, Changping, Beijing.

History 
The construction of the station started in 2016. The station was called Weilai Kejicheng Beiqu () at the time.

In 2021, the station was officially renamed as Future Science City North.

The structure of the station was completed no later than 2022.

Station layout 
Future Science City North station is an underground station, orientated northeast–southwest, with a total length of 320.1 metres, a total width of the main structure of 23.7 metres, a total floor area of 22,962 square metres, and a platform length of 186 metres, with a platform width of 14 metres.

The station has three underground floors and one island platform. There is property above the station developed by China Resources Land.

There are 3 exits, lettered B, C and D, with Exit B leading to Yingcai North 1st Street, C to Weilaikexuecheng Road and D to Puqingsi Road. Exit C is accessible.

References 

Beijing Subway stations in Changping District
Railway stations in China opened in 2023
Hera Diesel Power Plant. The Hera Diesel Power Plant is a diesel fuel powered power station in Cristo Rei, Dili Municipality, East Timor.

History
The power plant was commissioned in December 2011.

Technical specifications
The power plant has an installed generation capacity of 119 MW. It consists of seven electric generators. The operation and maintenance of the plant is done by Wärtsilä.

See also
 List of power stations in East Timor

References

2011 establishments in Timor-Leste
Dili Municipality
Energy infrastructure completed in 2011
Oil-fired power stations
Power stations in Timor-Leste
Abraham Adgeh. Abraham Adgeh (; born 1965) is an Ethiopian-Israeli writer, social activist, and scholar on the history of the Beta Israel. He is also a structural engineer and head of the laboratory department at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. For his literary work, he won the Yuri Stern Minister of Immigrant Absorption Prize for Creative Immigrants in 2008.

Biography 
Adgeh was born in a rural village in Ethiopia. His father was a blacksmith, and he grew up with five brother and sisters. His elementary school was an hour's walk from his home, and his high school was three hours away from his house.

At the age of 17, he fled to Sudan after finding out that Mossad was organizing an immigration route for Ethiopian Jews to emigrate. He walked 600 kilometers with 15 other Jews, and was caught on the border by a Sudanese patrol officer 38 days later. He was transferred to a refugee camp, where he stayed for one year with a tropical disease. He forged a passport and left for a flight to Paris, and arrived in Israel in January 1984. Two years after immigrating, he reconnected with his parents.

He graduated from a high school in Haifa and completed his studies at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Since 1998, he has served as the head of the laboratory department in their Construction and Maintenance Division.

Research and activism 
Adgeh frequently gives lectures at colleges and other public institutions on the history of the Ethiopian Jewish community. In 2013, he was appointed as a member to a committee in the field of literature at the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration. He volunteers for the Israeli government program "A New Way" to formulate policy for the integration of Ethiopian immigrants into Israel society.

On 28 September 2017, Adgeh, as part of the tenth Piyut Festival, hosted a conference for "Longing for Jerusalem Event of the  in an Encounter with the Hebrew Language".

References 

1965 births
Living people
Ethiopian Jews
Ethiopian emigrants to Israel
Israeli engineers
Israeli scholars
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni