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Warren DeVries. Warren Richard DeVries is an American mechanical engineer.

Early life and education
DeVries's father and grandfather worked for Case Corporation. Warren DeVries earned two Bachelor's of Science degrees in 1971, the first in letters and engineering from Calvin College and the second in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He remained at UW–Madison to complete a Master's of Science in mechanical engineering in 1973, followed by a doctorate in the subject alongside minors in statistics and electrical and computer engineering in 1975.

Career
After serving as lecturer at UW–Madison for two years, DeVries became an assistant professor at the University of Michigan until 1982. Upon joining the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that year, DeVries was promoted to associate professor. DeVries was appointed to a full professorship in 1994, and left RPI in 1996 for Iowa State University, where he was chair of the mechanical engineering department until 2002. DeVries moved from Iowa State to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2006, to serve as dean of engineering and information technology. He stepped down from the deanship in 2014, and retained a professorship until retiring with emeritus status in 2018.

Awards and honors
DeVries was elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1997. The ASME elevated DeVries to honorary membership in 2014.

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Michael K. Jensen. Michael K. Jensen is an American mechanical engineer.

Career
Jensen earned a Master's of Science in mechanical engineering in 1976, and completed a PhD in the same subject in 1980, both from Iowa State University. He taught at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where, in 2005, he was appointed the founding project director and principal investigator of the Center for Future Energy Systems, a collaboration between RPI and Cornell University.

Awards and honors
Jensen was elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1996.

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Dioxycle. Dioxycle is a French-American technology startup company. Founded in 2021, it aims to develop sustainable ethylene from recycled carbon emissions. In 2023, it raised US$17 million in its Series A round from Lowercarbon Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe, and Gigascale Capital. The company's primary product is a proprietary electrolyzer that uses water, carbon dioxide, and electricity to produce ethylene. It moved from lab trials to its first prototype in 2022.

Corporate structure 
The company was cofounded by Sarah Lamaison, who serves as its chief executive officer, and its chief technology officer, David Wakerley.

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Technology companies of the United States
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Renewable energy technology companies
Carbon to Sea Initiative. The Carbon to Sea Initiative is an international non-profit scientific research program founded by Additional Ventures. It is a consortium of philanthropies.

Background 
The Carbon to Sea Initiative was founded by Mike Schroepfer, who served previously as Meta Platforms' chief technology officer. It was spun out of Schroepfer's fund Additional Ventures and is chaired by Schroepfer.

Research 
In 2023, it raised more than US$50 million for research into ocean alkalinity and if its modification could be an effective way to remove carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmosphere. As part of that research effort, Dalhousie University received $15 million in research funding.

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Non-profit corporations
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (abbreviated as LIST) is a public research institute created on January 1, 2015, by the merger of the Henri-Tudor Public Research Center and the Gabriel-Lippmann Public Research Center, both in Luxembourg.

This research and technology organization is active in the fields of materials, environment, information technologies and space. It is placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

In 2023, they had 710 employees from 60 nationalities.

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Luxembourg City
Michael Holroyd Smith. Michael Holroyd Smith (1847–1932) was a British pioneer of electrical and motor car engineering. He was born in Halifax on 22 December 1847, the son of Matthew Smith and his wife Mary Sutcliffe. Over his life he worked on various projects as a consulting engineer. In 1885 he was responsible for the design and construction of the Blackpool Electric Tramway,  a line in Blackpool that was Britain's first electric tramway and survives to this day, albeit in a rather different form. Between 1886 and 1890, he was responsible for the electrification of the City and South London Railway, the first deep-level tube railway in London. In the 1890s, he built at least two motor cars of his own design, though these do not appear to have gone into production. He died at his home in Llanrwst, Denbighshire on 6 July 1932.

Michael Holroyd Smith was a member of both the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

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1932 deaths
Zhang Shourong. Zhang Shourong (; 17 February 1928 – 14 July 2024) was a Chinese metallurgist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography 
Zhang was born in Jinan, Shandong, on 17 February 1928, while his ancestral home is in Ding County (now Dingzhou), Hebei. In October 1945, he was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University of Commerce (now Hebei University), but dropped out after 11 months and entered the Department of Metallurgy, National Peiyang University (now Tianjin University).

After university in June 1951, Zhang was assigned to Anshan Iron and Steel Plant. There, he was in turn the leader of the Research Group, head of Production Planning Department, and finally assistant director.

In May 1956, Zhang was transferred to Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei province, and appointed the leader of the Preparatory Group for the Ironmaking Plant of Wuhan Iron and Steel Plant. He successively served as smelting engineer, head of the production department, and head of the technical department. In January 1965, he became deputy chief engineer, rising to chief engineer in May 1980. He also served as chairman of the Science and Technology Association of Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation between June 1992 and July 2002.

On 14 July 2024, Zhang died in Wuhan, at the age of 96.

Honours and awards 
 1990 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Special) for the Development and Innovation of New Technologies for the '1.7 Meter' Rolling Mill System.
 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 1997 Foreign Member of the Mexican Academy of Engineering

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Leung Tsang. Leung Tsang  is an American electrical engineer, who is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He is best known for his contributions to the theory and computation of wave scattering, rough surface scattering and microwave remote sensing.

Biography
Leung Tsang was born and grew up in British Hong Kong. Completing high school education at Wah Yan College, he received S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees all from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During his doctoral studies, he was advised by Jin Au Kong.

From 1981 and 1983, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he became an assistant professor. From 1983 to 2014, he was a professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Washington, where he acted as a department chair from 2006 to 2011. In January 2015, he joined University of Michigan as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Tsang is a fellow member of IEEE and Optica. He was the president of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society from 2006 to 2007; previously, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, sponsored by the same society. In 2020, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions in wave scattering and microwave remote sensing theories for satellite missions."

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Books

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1950 births
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Microwave engineers
American telecommunications engineers
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Remote sensing professionals
Omsk Refinery. The Omsk Refinery () is an oil refinery plant in the Russian city of Omsk, one of the largest in the country. This refinery has belonged to the Russian state-owned company Gazprom since 1995 through its subsidiary Gazprom Neft. The refinery produces over 50 different types of oil products, including gasoline, jet fuel, bitumen, and natural gas. Their products generally follow European emission standards. Its aromatics complex produces a range of aromatics of high purity: benzene (99.98% purity), p-Xylene (99.95% purity) and o-Xylene (99.6% purity).

History 
In 1949, Soviet authorities approved the decision to construct a new oil refinery near the city of Omsk. This refinery first started operations on 6 September 1955, and began processing gasoline by 1959. It was subordinate to the Ministry of Oil Industry from 1951 to June 1957, then to the Omsk Sovnarkhoz's Oil Industry Directorate from July 1957 to 1962.

Feedstock from Bashkortostan was initially processed at Omsk. Feedstock from Siberia followed in 1964. Later feedstocks were delivered through the Ust-Balyk–Omsk pipeline.

By the mid-1970s, the refinery processed an estimated 24 million tons of oil products, the highest in the entire country.

A unit commissioned in 1994 enabled the refinery to process heavy oil and to increase oil conversion rates to 85%.

In 1995, the refinery became a part of Sibneft, which was renamed to "Gazprom" in 2006.

As of 2021, the refinery could process 22 million tons of refined petroleum products per year and the capital invested to date in the plant was 60 billion rubles.

As of 2021, the refinery was able to produce 300,000 tons of internationally-certified Jet A-1 jet fuel per year. The refinery was then able to regulate "production levels for automobile and aviation fuels, as well as raw materials for lubricants. The central hydrocracking portion of the  also will ensure further processing of heavy petroleum fractions into diesel fuel, jet fuel, and other high-quality products in compliance with Euro 5-quality standards". The refinery now complied fully with the clean air and ecology regulations adopted under a decree of May 2018, and was fitted out with sulfur-removal technologies in order to remove 99.8% of sulfur compounds.

On 25 April 2024, Russian media reported a fire at the Omsk Refinery. The authorities used firefighting trains to combat the blaze. 

On 26 August 2024, an explosion and subsequent fire took place burning some , injuring seven workers. Crude distillation unit named CDU-11, one of the "two largest primary refining units at the plant" was destroyed. The unit was responsible for roughly one-third of plant capacity. One of the seven injured later died.

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Pilot Cars Limited. Pilot Works and Friction Cars, Ltd. was a short lived British automobile company that produced cars from 1911 to 1912. The first and final Pilot automobiles were made by its holding company Motor Schools Limited between 1909 and 1911, and again in 1914.

Origin
The company was started by Turberville Smith of London. Smith had originally formed Motor Schools Limited, a driving and maintenance school. The first Pilot automobile was a motorcab was made by the driving school between 1909 and 1911.

As a side note. Motor Schools Limited also taught Aviation under Mr T W K Clarke, aeronautical engineer, an aviation pioneer, and founder of the first aeronautical engineering works in Britain.

Cars

In 1909, Motor School Ltd displayed two cars at the Olympia Motor Show. One was a chassis with a 4-cylinder White and Poppe engine of  for £275 and the other a landaulot mounted on the same type of chassis for £425. The following year they displayed another 4-cylinder car, this one with a Hillman engine and belt and cone-pulley drive. Both of these were probably the only cars produced with these specifications.

In 1911 Pilot Cars Ltd was formed to produce a smaller car. This had a Coventry-Simplex single-cylinder engine of only , in addition to friction drive. In 1912–1914, yet another engine was employed in their cars — a Chapuis-Dornier 4-cylinder of . This two-seater car also used a friction drive. It was shown at the 1912 and 1913 Olympia Motor Shows. This appears to be the last car produced with Pilot Cars Ltd having been placed in liquidation in 1912.

There was a new company formed in March 1914 called Pilot Cars and Motor Schools Ltd. According to Graces Guide this was formed out of a merger of Motor School Ltd and Friction Cars Ltd. This company was deleted from the companies register in 1916.

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Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions. The Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR), is a five-year research project (March 2014–December 2018) supported by Department for International Development, DFID and the Canadian IDRC (International Development Research Centre) that aimed to improve adaptive livelihoods for vulnerable groups by better understanding the enablers and barriers to widespread and transformative adaptation at multiple governance scales. ASSAR was part of the CARIAA (Collabora ve Adapta on Research Initiative in Africa and Asia) program.

The ASSAR project integrated multidisciplinary scientific research (at the regional and theme levels), capacity building, and stakeholder engagement. to enhance knowledge of the obstacles and facilitators to successful climate adaptation. Research teams will collaborate in multiple South Asian and African nations to produce reliable information that decision-makers and others may utilize to create effective adaptation strategies.

ASSAR works in a regulated format in six countries across West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa as well as three states (Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu) in India, on case-study related research and sought to combine climatic, social, economic and environmental change.

Project Goals 
The goal of the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) project is to enhance the management of existing hazards while enabling proactive, longer-term approaches to climate change adaptation in semi-arid regions. ASSAR seeks to address the requirements of practitioner and government stakeholders through participatory work from 2014 to 2018, helping to design more effective policy frameworks and creating more durable adaptation solutions.

ASSAR also collaborated with partners to identify obstacles to adaptation, comprehend distinct vulnerabilities, and investigate the necessary steps to enable more widespread, effective, and sustained adaptation. Also, the goal of ASSAR's research is to create a distinct and comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms and elements that prevent adaptation and continue vulnerability.

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Research projects
Elyse Rosenbaum. Elyse Rosenbaum is an American electrical engineer, the Melvin and Anne Louise Hassebrock Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the director of the Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning. Her research involves the reliability of integrated circuits, including modeling the effects of heat, electrostatic discharges, aging, and other forms of stress on semiconductor-based circuit components.

Education and career
Rosenbaum earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a master's degree from Stanford University, in 1984 and 1985 respectively, and became a researcher at Bell Labs. Returning to graduate study, she completed a Ph.D. in 1992 at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, Thin oxide reliability in integrated circuits, was supervised by Chenming Hu.

She has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 1992, and was named Melvin and Anne Louise Hassebrock Professor in 2016.

Recognition
Rosenbaum was named an IEEE Fellow in 2011, "for contributions to electrostatic discharge reliability of integrated circuits".

She received the Industry Pioneer Award in 2017, at the 39th Electrical Overstress/Electrostatic Discharge Symposium (EOS/ESD).

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Home page

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Judy Cha. Judy Jeeyong Cha is an American physicist who is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. Her research considers 2D materials for next-generation technologies, including quantum computing and low-dissipation electronics.

Early life and education 
Cha grew up in South Korea. She has said that she loved mathematics and science as a child. She was an undergraduate student in engineering physics at Simon Fraser University. She earned her doctorate at Cornell University, where she worked with David A Muller and developed nanoscale electron spectroscopies. Cha was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. She worked with Yi Cui on 2D materials, and became interested in topological systems. The topological systems developed by Cha can be used to control electron transport and spin.

Research and career 
Cha joined the faculty at Yale University in 2013, where she was one of the first faculty appointed to the Energy Sciences Institute, and eventually made the Carol and Douglas Melamed Professor. She moved to Cornell University in 2022, where she built a laboratory that fabricates and characterizes 2D nanomaterials. She is particularly interested in phase transformations and structure-property relationships in chalcogonides. She has developed new strategies to create superconducting and metallic nanowires, which hold promise for quantum computation, and in situ approaches for transmission electron microscopy.

Awards and honors 
 2016 Yale Arthur Greer Memorial Prize 
 2017 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Azrieli Global Scholar for Quantum Materials 
 2018 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
 2019 Moore Foundation EPiQS Materials Synthesis Investigator Award
 2024 Fellow of the American Physical Society "for pioneering contributions in the development of nanoscale synthesis and characterization methods for topological nanomaterials, resulting in enhanced properties of the topological electronic states for device applications and fundamental studies"

Selected publications

Personal life 
Cha is married to Alex Kwan, a psychiatrist who is a professor in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering.

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Volgograd Refinery. The Volgograd Refinery () was an oil refinery plant in the Russian city of Volgograd, one of the largest in the country. This refinery has belonged to the Russian company Lukoil since 1990.

History 
In February 1952, construction of a new oil refinery plant near Volgograd began, which was completed by December 1957 and began operations soon after. In the following years, the refinery significantly expanded its production capacity and range.

In 1990, the plant became a part of Lukoil.

In 2005, the production of petroleum coke through calcination began at the refinery, with production at about 100,000 tons per year.

In 2006, the refinery began to produce gasoline that fit the European emission standard of Euro-3. The refinery also began production of diesel fuel.

In June 2015, the introduction of a new refining unit to facilitate the production of LNG, which increased the refinery's processing capacity to 14.5 million tons per year.

In May 2016, the refinery began producing fuel that fulfill the Euro-5 standard.

In 2020, the refinery ranked second among 480 enterprises across much of southern Russia.

In February 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, the refinery was hit by a drone from the Ukrainian military.
On 31 January 2025, Ukrainian drones attacked the refinery again, causing a fire at the facility.  Russian sources said the fire was quickly extinguished.

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Oil refineries in Russia
Oil refineries in the Soviet Union
Buildings and structures in Volgograd Oblast