omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Jiménez Municipality, Coahuila. Jiménez is one of the 38 municipalities of Coahuila, in north-eastern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Jiménez. The municipality covers an area of 3040.9 km2 and is located on the international border between Mexico and the USA, here formed by the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande), adjacent to the U.S. state of Texas.

In 2010, the municipality had a total population of 9,935. Oil was recently discovered in Jiménez, and U.S oil companies are in the process of setting operations on both sides of the border, with the majority of the Mexico operations to be based in Cd. Acuna due to its proximity to Jiménez, and operations on the U.S side will be based in Del Rio, Texas. Companies are already working on infrastructure on the U.S side in Val Verde County. The oil industry is going to create an economical impact on both sides of the border.

Towns and villages

The largest localities (cities, towns, and villages) are:

Adjacent municipalities and counties

 Piedras Negras Municipality - southeast
 Zaragoza Municipality - south and west
 Acuña Municipality - north
 Kinney County, Texas - northeast
 Maverick County, Texas - east

References

Municipalities of Coahuila
Coahuila populated places on the Rio Grande
Manfred Baerns. Manfred Baerns (23 July 1934 – 2 February 2021) was a German chemist.

Career
After a 2-years postdoctoral fellowship at the Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, Illinois), a further 5 years in academia and a 5-year career in industry, was a full professor for chemical technology and reaction engineering at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) from 1974–1995. He then acted as scientific director of the "Institute of Applied Chemistry Berlin-Adlershof" until 2003. He was lately a guest scientist as Professor Emeritus at the "Fritz-Haber-Institute" of the Max-Planck-Society at Berlin.

Baerns was a member of numerous scientific committees and a referee for research proposal at a national level. From 1991 to 1997 he was member of the board DECHEMA (a scientific association of chemical technology, chemical engineering and biotechnology), and a permanent member of the German Chemical Society, the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, German Society for Coal, Oil and Gas, and finally the American Chemical Society.

He received the DECHEMA titanium medal, the award of the 4th World Congress on Oxidation Catalysis, for which he acted as president, honorary professorships of the Humboldt University and the Technical University, both at Berlin, honorary membership of the Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis at Rostock (Germany).

Baerns was an author of about 300 scientific publications and three books on chemical reaction engineering and catalysis. His research focused on heterogeneous catalysis (oil and gas for chemicals) and chemical reaction engineering.

He died in February 2021 at the age of 86.

Books
 
 
 
Manfred Baerns, Martin Holena, Combinatorial development of solid catalytic materials - Design of high throughput experiments, data analysis, data mining, 2009, Imperial College Press, London, 178 pages

References

1934 births
2021 deaths
German physical chemists
Astra 1M. Astra 1M is a geostationary communications satellite which is operated by SES. It is positioned in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 19.2° East, from where it is used to provide direct to home (DTH) broadcasting to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Satellite description 
Astra 1M was built by Astrium (now Airbus Defence and Space) under a contract signed in July 2005, and is based on the Eurostar 3000S satellite bus. It is equipped with thirty six transponders operating in the J-band of the NATO-defined spectrum, or the Ku-band of the older IEEE-defined spectrum. At launch it had a mass of , with an expected operational lifespan of 15 years, however four of its transponders were deactivated five years after launch. At the beginning of its operational life, it had a maximum power consumption of 10 kilowatts by the end of the satellite's operational life.

Launch 
The launch of Astra 1M was conducted by International Launch Services (ILS), using a Proton-M launch vehicle with a Briz-M upper stage. The launch occurred from Site 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at 20:44:20 UTC on 5 November 2008. Astra 1M was successfully placed into a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), from which it raised itself to geostationary orbit by means of an onboard apogee motor.

See also 

 2008 in spaceflight
 SES satellite operator
 Astra satellite family
 Astra 19.2°E orbital position
 Astra 1KR co-located satellite
 Astra 1L co-located satellite
 Astra 1N co-located satellite
 Astra 2C previously co-located satellite

References

External links 
 IMS  Official provider's site

Astra satellites
Spacecraft launched in 2008
2008 in Luxembourg
Satellites of Luxembourg
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Satellites using the Eurostar bus
Cement industry in China. China is the largest cement producer in the world. As of 2004, it was responsible for 60% of cement global production. In 2017, China produced 2,400,000 metric tons of cement, whereas other countries produced about 1,728,300 metric tons.

Cement production adds one ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) per ton of cement. According to engineering company FLSmidth, in order to heat a cement kiln with waste, about three times more waste is needed than the amount of coal used, reducing emissions by only about 10%. However, the Chinese cement industry has improved energy efficiency. In 2017, it accounted for 57% of the global industry's output, but only 52% of its emissions. However, the emission reductions from energy efficiency measures are vague compared to those that could be achieved with innovative technologies such as carbon capture and storage (CCS), which sequesters emissions.

See also
China Resources Cement
Economy of China

References

Further reading

Industry in China
Manufacturing in China
Cement industry
Ecopath. Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) is a free and open source ecosystem modelling software suite, initially started at NOAA by Jeffrey Polovina, but has since primarily been developed at the formerly UBC Fisheries Centre of the University of British Columbia. In 2007, it was named as one of the ten biggest scientific breakthroughs in NOAA's 200-year history. The NOAA citation states that Ecopath "revolutionized scientists' ability worldwide to understand complex marine ecosystems". Behind this lie more than three decades of development work in association with a thriving network of fisheries scientists such as Villy Christensen, Carl Walters and Daniel Pauly, and software engineers around the world. EwE is funded through projects, user contributions, user support, training courses and co-development collaborations. Per November 2021 there are an estimated 8000+ users across academia, non-government organizations, industry and governments in 150+ countries.

Components
EwE has three main components:

 Ecopath – a static, mass-balanced snapshot of the system
 Ecosim – a time dynamic simulation module for policy exploration
 Ecospace – a spatial and temporal dynamic module designed for exploring the combined impacts of fishing, the placement of protected areas, and changing environmental conditions.

Capabilities
The Ecopath software package can be used to:

 address ecological questions
 evaluate ecosystem effects of fishing
 explore management policy options
 analyze impact and placement of marine protected areas
 predict movement and accumulation of contaminants and tracers (Ecotracer)
 model effect of environmental changes,
 facilitate end-to-end ecosystem model construction

Development Ecopath version 6.0 received support from the Lenfest Ocean Program and the Pew Charitable trusts. In 2011 the Ecopath Research and Development Consortium was founded to share the responsibility of maintaining and further developing the approach with institutions around the world. EwE exclusively relies on user involvement for continued software development and releases of new versions.

The desktop version of Ecopath with Ecosim runs only on Windows and requires Microsoft Access database drivers version 2007 or newer. The computational core of Ecopath with Ecosim can be executed on other operating systems such as Unix or Linux using the Mono common language runtime. Spin-off versions in R, Matlab and Fortran are developed independently of the main desktop version of EwE, and are not supported by the Ecopath Research and Development Consortium.

Funding
In 2013, development efforts were centralized under Ecopath International Initiative, Spain, which coincided with a switch to a community-driven development model overseen by the Ecopath Research and Development Consortium. As the approach does not receive any core funding, the Ecopath with Ecosim approach now relies entirely on user-contributed project funding for continued development and releases.

References

External links
Official site
Social network site
Repository of published EwE models

Environmental science software
Conceptual modelling
Fisheries science
Computing by computer model
Ocean Data View. Ocean Data View (ODV) is a proprietary, freely available, software package for the analysis and visualization of oceanographic and meteorological data sets.

ODV is used by a large number of oceanographers. The UNESCO Ocean Teacher project employs ODV as one of its main analysis and display tools. ODV is used to display and analyze data from several oceanographic projects such as Argo, World Ocean Circulation Experiment, World Ocean Database Project, SeaDataNet, World Ocean Atlas, and Medar/Medatlas projects.
Ocean Data View includes also options that permit to perform objective analysis thanks to the add-on DIVA software.

Notes and references

External links
 http://odv.awi.de/

Earth sciences graphics software
Data analysis software
Graphic software in meteorology
John D. Letcher. John Davidson Letcher (died 1938) was an American academic and an acting president of Oregon State University. He served as the acting president for 4 months in 1892, upon the death of the second president Benjamin Lee Arnold.

As a son of Virginia's Confederate governor John Letcher, John Davidson Letcher was born in Virginia and attended Virginia Military Institute, where he obtained a degree in civil engineering. With jobs in the field, he also taught mathematics in several colleges. It was in 1888 that he became a professor at Oregon State University (then "State Agricultural College of the State of Oregon") in Corvallis, Oregon, as the Professor both of Mathematics and Engineering and of Military Science and Tactics.

After OSU's third president Benjamin Lee Arnold suddenly died in January 1892, Letcher was elected unanimously by the Board of Regents as the acting president of the college. His presidency lasted until early June of the year, when John M. Bloss became the third permanent president of OSU. Letcher left the school in 1894 and then served as a mathematics professor of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon until 1896. He returned to Virginia in 1896.

References
https://web.archive.org/web/20080722214922/http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/exhibits/presidents/letcher.html

Presidents of Oregon State University
Virginia Military Institute alumni
1938 deaths
People from Virginia
University of Oregon faculty
Year of birth missing
19th-century births
Harduaganj Thermal Power Station. Harduaganj Thermal Power Station is located at Qasimpur Power House Colony which is 1 km distance from Harduaganj railway station at Harduaganj in Aligarh district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about 18 km from Aligarh and 105 km from Agra. It is the new electric power station established in Aligarh district; the old one is Sumera Hydroelectric Power Plant located in Jawan Sikandarpur of Aligarh district.

The coal for this power plant is sourced from coal mines owned by BCCL and ECL and are transported to the power plant through rail line. The power plant is owned and operated by Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam.

Operations
The plant has three stages, first two stages having 7 units capacity ranging between 30 MW to 55 MW were over three decade old and all are closed now. The machinery of currently functioning units are from Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.  The coal for all these units is fed from the coal mines of Bharat Coking Coal Limited and Eastern Coalfields Limited by means of the railways. 
This place is also known as Qasimpur Power House. It has two colonies for the employee resident, old colony and new colony and a main market known as dus dukan.

In 2008, Unit-5 of 60MW capacity, lying defunct since 1999, and renovated at a cost of  33 crore started generating power once again. The same unit was closed and the capacity was deleted from UPRVUNL generation capacity in July 2017.

Capacity 
Harduaganj Thermal Power Station has an installed capacity of 1270 MW.

In July 2014 state government decided to add another unit of 660 MW to the power plant.
July 2015: The 660 MW unit has been constructed by Toshiba . Thus it has achieved the capacity of 1270 MW

See also
 Sumera Hydroelectric Power Plant
 Kasimpur Power House
 Harduaganj

References

Coal-fired power stations in Uttar Pradesh
Aligarh district
1977 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
Energy infrastructure completed in 1977
Unified Smart Grid. Unified National Smart Grid as well as Unified Solar is a proposal for a nationally interconnected grid relying on a backbone of electric power transmission lines linking the US' local grids that have been upgraded to smart grids. Europe's analogous project is sometimes referred to as the SuperSmart Grid.

Technical features
High capacity transmission such as current technology 800 kV high voltage direct current lines would span the country, linking to local electric utilities and distantly located bulk power generation facilities. The national backbone would be intelligent in a manner similar to local smart grid clusters. As local electricity networks are upgraded to smart grids, interactions with the national backbone can become more coordinated. Examples given of the kinds of coordination are that hydropower from the northwest can be dispatched if wind is expected to temporarily subside in the Dakotas. Discretionary air conditioning in California can be turned on if strong winds are blowing in Texas.

Long distance interconnections are not new. The 1400 km Pacific DC Intertie between Los Angeles and the Pacific northwest was proposed in the 1930s and initiated by President John F. Kennedy in the 60s. The Pacific Intertie carries up to 3.1 GW on two 500 kV overhead lines. The 1200 km Quebec to New England HVDC line with 2 GW of capacity was constructed in the 1980s. A 5 GW 800 kV system was constructed along the southern provinces of China at a cost of €300 million in 2010.

The Unified Smart Grid proposal is more than a collection of point to point interconnections between regional systems with some communications intelligence. The topology conceptually has many smart grid access points that could form a virtual power generation cluster, a local electric utility system, or a grid energy storage facility.

Advocacy
According to advocates, a national system would do for the US energy economy what Dwight Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System did for efficient distribution of products. According to scientists such as James E. Hansen, construction of such a national grid is essential to any strategy to combat global warming. According to energy independence advocates such as T. Boone Pickens, it is essential for the U.S. economy and its strategic energy interests. 

The "Unified Smart Grid" is promoted by Alliance for Climate Protection (Repower America program) and Al Gore. Gore's cost estimate is $400 billion and would be recovered by transmission tariffs. The need for a national bulk transmission grid is detailed in T. Boone Pickens's energy independence plan.

See also

 List of energy storage projects
 Pickens plan
 Smart grid
 SuperSmart Grid
 Super grid
 V2G
 Wide area synchronous grid

References

Electric power transmission systems in the United States
Proposed electric power transmission systems
Proposed electric power infrastructure in the United States
BernzOmatic. Bernzomatic is an American manufacturing company. It was founded by Otto Bernz (May 21, 1856 – February 17, 1932) in 1876 in Newark, New Jersey as Otto Bernz Co.. The company manufactures handheld torches and accessories, especially gas burner torches using fuel cylinders containing butane, propane, MAPP gas, and oxygen for soldering, brazing, and welding. Its trademark torch packs include Basic Use, Multi-Application, and Specialty. Its products include torches, fuel cylinders, kits, solders and accessories, and utility lighters.

History

1876–Present

In the 1940s Otto Bernz Co. relocated to Rochester, New York and changed its name to Bernzomatic. In 1982, Bernzomatic became a division of Newell (now Newell Rubbermaid).

On July 1, 2011, Worthington Cylinders division of Worthington Industries purchased Bernzomatic for $51 million.

In 2014, Bernzomatic's manufacturing facility in Medina, New York was consolidated with a location in Chilton, Wisconsin.

Bernzomatic, now a Worthington entity, continues to manufacture handheld propane and propylene ("Map-pro") cylinders found at big-box and hardware stores.

Consumer Product Safety Commission Recall 
A report addressing various defects with the Bernzomatic torch products was published in February 2019:  United Testing Services Study
On February 23, 2012, all fuel cylinders containing MAP/Pro (propylene) and MAPP gas were recalled.  Cylinders containing propane fuel were omitted from the recall but under review due to several injuries, including a fatality.  On February 14, 2019, a study was released identifying several alleged defects with all of the cylinders, regardless of fuel content.

The report alleges design and manufacturing defects at the neck of the cylinders and with certain torch attachments, leading to breach of certain cylinders and severe burn injuries.  In some instances severe injuries, including a fatality, were noted due to explosions attributed to failure of a pressure relief valve.

References

External links

Lighting brands
Newell Brands
Manufacturing companies established in 1876
1876 establishments in New Jersey
X-bracing. X-bracing is a structural engineering practice where the lateral load on a building is reduced by transferring the load into the exterior columns. 

X-bracing was used in the construction of the 1908 Singer Building, then the tallest building in the world.

Some skyscrapers by engineer Fazlur Khan, such as the 1969 John Hancock Center, have a distinctive X-bracing exterior, allowing for both higher performance from tall structures and the ability to open up the inside floorplan (and usable floor space) if the architect desires.

References 

Structural engineering
John Edward Jones (sculptor). John Edward Jones (2 May 1806 – 25 July 1862) was a noted Irish civil engineer and sculptor, active in Dublin and London.

Biography
Jones was born in Dublin, the son of miniature painter Edward Jones. As 'J. Jones', architect, 7 Amiens Street, North Strand, Dublin, he exhibited several watercolors at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1828 and 1829, including his View of the Town of Youghall, showing the proposed Chain Bridge (1828) and Design for a Viaduct (1829). He studied engineering under Alexander Nimmo, and for him worked on major engineering projects in Ireland including the building of the bridge at Waterford from 1829 to 1832 (which he directed). He was listed as a civil engineer in Wilson's Dublin Directory for the years 1833–35 with an office address at the Commercial Buildings, Dame Street. In 1839 he was awarded a Telford Medal in silver and 20 guineas for his paper and drawings on the sewage in Westminster.

In 1840 Jones ceased his engineering practice to become a sculptor in London, with considerable success, particularly in portrait busts of notables including Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1854 to 1862. Jones died while visiting Finglas, near Dublin, and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery.

References 

 Irish Architectural Archive
 W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists, vol. I, 1913, pages 557–8.
 Joseph Dunn, P. J. Lennox, The Glories of Ireland, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, page 86. .
 Survey of London: volume 21: The parish of St Pancras part 3: Tottenham Court Road & neighbourhood (1949), pp. 13–26, Charlotte Street. (British History Online)
 Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, vol. 2, London : Thomas Burrows, 1839, page 311.

1806 births
1862 deaths
Burials at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium
19th-century Irish sculptors
Irish male sculptors
Valkaria Airport. Valkaria Airport  is a public-use airport located  west of the central business district of the city of Grant-Valkaria in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The airport is publicly owned.

The airport was originally constructed by the U.S. Navy during World War II as Naval Outlying Landing Field Valkaria (NOLF Valkaria), an auxiliary airfield to Naval Air Station Melbourne, now Melbourne International Airport. NOLF Valkaria was closed in late 1945 and did not reopen for flight operations until 1959. During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the site was used as a Missile Trajectory Measurement (MISTRAM) station by the U.S. Air Force and NASA in support of launch operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center.

In 1959, the United States Department of Defense and the General Services Administration conveyed that part of the Valkaria facility not dedicated to MISTRAM to the county government of Brevard County, Florida for use as a public airport.

The Valkaria Airport also has the Space Coast Drone Test Center.

See also
 List of airports in Florida

References

External links

Airports in Brevard County, Florida
1940s establishments in Florida
Closed installations of the United States Navy