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Ludhiana–Jakhal line. The Ludhiana–Dhuri–Jakhal line is a railway line connecting  in the Indian state of the Punjab and  in Haryana. The line is under the administrative jurisdiction of Northern Railway.

History
In 1893, an agreement for the construction, working and  maintenance of the broad-gauge Ludhiana–Dhuri–Jakhal railway line, via Sangrur, was signed between the British Raj and the native principalities of Jind State, Malerkotla State and Patiala State, since the line was situated partly in British territory and partly in the territory lying in the native principalities. in 1901, this new line was commissioned, possibly by the Southern Punjab Railway Co.

It was later extended to .

Electrification
The electrification of the Jakhal–Ludhiana line was sanctioned in 2013, with construction commencing from the Ludhiana end in March 2016, and the foundation stone being laid at Gill. Successful CRS trials were conducted up to Dhuri Junction from Ludhiana Junction in 2019. The electrification of 62 km-long stretch of Dhuri to Jakhal on Ludhiana–Jakhal line was completed and trial runs were successfully carried out in July 2020.

Tracks
Detailed survey for the doubling of the Ludhiana–Sangrur–Jakhal line has been ordered.

Railway reorganisation
Southern Punjab Railway was taken over by the state and merged with North Western Railway in 1930.

With the partition of India in 1947, North Western Railway was split. While the western portion became Pakistan West Railway, and later Pakistan Railways, the eastern part became Eastern Punjab Railway.

In 1952, Northern Railway was formed with a portion of East Indian Railway Company, west of Mughalsarai, Bikaner Railway and Eastern Punjab Railway.

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Trains at Ludhiana 
Trains at Jakhal
 Trains from Ludhiana to Jakhal

5 ft 6 in gauge railways in India
Rail transport in Haryana
Rail transport in Punjab, India

Railway lines opened in 1901
1901 establishments in India
Sensoaesthetics. Sensoaesthetics is the application of scientific methods to the study of the aesthetic, sensual and emotional aspects of materials.

Overview

The purpose of Sensoaesthetics is to understand how people interact with materials, and use that understanding to improve design and incorporate multisensory integration into the process. Another priority of Sensoaesthetics is to connect the Materials Science community with other disciplines such as Art and the design world, and reverse a perceived eradication of interest in the sensual and aesthetic properties of materials. 
The field has been developed by Materials Science academics, Professor Mark Miodownik and Dr Zoe Laughlin at King's College London and UCL, and through the work of the Materials Library at King's College, and the Institute of Making.

Spoon Experiment

The event was held in May, 2012 at Quilon, a Michelin starred Indian restaurant in London, by Zoe Laughlin and Mark Miodownik. 
The purpose was to study the taste of solid metals, and involved inviting a group of people including chef Heston Blumenthal and food science writer Harold McGee to eat Indian food using seven different freshly polished spoons in copper, gold, silver, tin, zinc, chrome and stainless steel.

The tastes of copper and zinc were found to be "bold and assertive, with bitter, metallic tastes". The silver spoon "tasted dull", while the stainless steel had a "faintly metallic flavour". Miodownik observed that the guests were not just tasting the spoons, but eating them, as with every lick they consumed "perhaps a hundred billion atoms".

In 2016, a set of the spoons Laughlin designed were included in the new permanent collection of London's Design Museum and are on display in the Designer Maker User gallery.

See also

 Neuroaesthetics
 Aesthetics

References

Applied aesthetics
Material Sciences Corporation. 

Material Sciences Corporation is an American materials technology company. It began as All Weather Steel Products in Chicago in 1951. It is now headquartered in Canton, Michigan. The company provides engineering and testing solutions for acoustical and coated applications. The company owns five manufacturing plants, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois; East Chicago, Indiana; Walbridge, Ohio; Canfield, Ohio; and Toronto. It has sales offices in Burr Ridge, Illinois, Turin, and Shanghai.

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Technology companies established in 1951
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
Companies based in Wayne County, Michigan
1951 establishments in Illinois
Diamond Cement Ghana Limited. 'Diamond Cement Ghana Limited 0257096098 is an Indian-owned Portland cement producing company located at Aflao in the Volta Region of Ghana near the border with Togo. The plant complements the Government Industrialization Program and economic up-lift. The company is using the latest technology of Programmable Logic Control (PLC) system in the cement production process to maintain consistency in the quality.

History 
It started production in 2002 with annual production of 700,000 tonnes of cement and was inaugurated by former President John Kufuor of Ghana in 2004.

The company in February 2014, completed a 2.5 km rail siding connecting it to the Togo Railway network, giving access to the port of Lomé, Togo, for easy delivering of clinker for cement production.

See also 

 Ghana Cement
 Cement in Africa
 Railway stations in Ghana
 Railway stations in Togo

References 

 

Cement companies of Ghana
Volta Region
Drammen Heat Pump. Drammen Fjernvarme District Heating is a district heating system in Drammen, Norway, a regional capital some 65 km west of Oslo.

The heat pump was manufactured by Star Refrigeration in 2011 with three systems giving a combined capacity of 14 MWs to central Drammen providing 85% of hot water needed for the city. The district heating system is owned and operated by Drammen Fjernvarme who have the rights to the concession area given by the Drammen Municipality. This requires all new buildings larger than 1000 m2 to be built with a water-based heating system and connected to the district heating system.

The heat pump uses the natural refrigerant ammonia that has a zero global warming potential and is not a greenhouse gas. The heat source is seawater that is taken in around 8 or 9 °C from a depth of 18 m and is cooled by low pressure liquid refrigerant. Using a vapor-compression refrigeration cycle, the system heats district water from 65 °C to 90 °C for use in building heating and hot water systems. The system has an average coefficient of performance (COP) of 3.0 which means 1 unit of electricity is combined with 2 units of heat from the seawater to provide 3 units of heat to the district heating circuit. With the low cost of hydro-based electricity, it is cheaper to run a heat pump than a gas or electric boiler. In addition, the compressor technology used in the Drammen heat pump is the single screw compressor from Vilter (Emerson). Its internal design allows for balanced forces allowing it to perform with a very long bearing life at more than 120,000 hours for normal refrigeration compressors.

The heat is extracted from a local fjord whose water temperature is around 8 °C. The water is heated from recovered energy at a temperature of 120 °C. A city ordinance requires most new buildings to exploit this form of heating.

References

District heating
Energy conservation
Buildings and structures in Drammen
Vojislav Bego. Vojislav Bego (August 3, 1923 – May 29, 1999) was a Croatian electrical engineer.

He was born in Split. He graduated in 1946 at the Technical Faculty in Zagreb. Worked in the company Rade Končar (1946-1961), where he led the project for manufacturing high-voltage instrument transformers with open core. In 1958 he started teaching at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, where he received his PhD in 1965, and professorship in 1968. In the period 1970-1972 he served as the faculty dean.

Bego published numerous papers on laboratory and test facilities used in the electrical engineering, high-voltage measurement equipment, instrument transformers, measurement procedures, theory of errors, and the voltage scale as a measuring instrument. Bego gained reputation based on his work achieved in the field of fundamental electrical measurements. The highlight of his success in this field is the creation of Voltage balance that led to the internationally accepted corrections of voltage unit. The authored textbook Mjerenja u elektrotehnici ("Measurements in electrical engineering"; 1968, 8 editions), Mjerni transformatori ("Instrument transformers"; 1977), Naponska vaga ("Voltage scale"; 1986). He was a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1991, winner of the Nikola Tesla Award (1964) and the Croatian National Science Award (1997).

He died in Zagreb.

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Croatian electrical engineers
Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
1923 births
1999 deaths
University of Zagreb alumni
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb
People from Split, Croatia
Yugoslav engineers
Contamination Indicator Decontamination Assurance System. The Contamination Indicator Decontamination Assurance System (CIDAS) is a technology used to identify chemical contamination. CIDAS is meant to help soldiers by detecting trace levels and finding the exact location of chemical weapon agents. 

CIDAS is a component of a larger U.S. government initiative, run by the Joint Project Manager Protection at the Department of Defense, to improve decontamination processes associated with chemical, biological, and non-traditional warfare agents. Programs under this umbrella include the Joint Sensitive Equipment Wipe, General Purpose Decontaminants, and CIDAS.

Purpose 
The technology is designed primarily for government use, specifically on equipment such as tactical vehicles, ship surfaces, and weapons. The primary objective of CIDAS is the capability to detect trace levels of chemical warfare agents on surfaces before and after personnel decontaminate the surfaces "during Detailed Equipment Decontamination (DED) operations." One component of CIDAS is an applicator that is used to show chemical agents, specifically nerve and blister agents.

Development history 
In 2011, the U.S. Army product manager for the Decontamination Family of Systems (DFoS) began a market research project to identify potential prototype CIDAS technologies that could help soldiers locate chemical and biological warfare agents (CBWA), non-traditional agents (NTAs) and toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) on military equipment and vehicles.

After public input, the U.S. Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) Contracting Center issued a request for proposal (RFP) in early 2013.

In 2014, the Joint Project Manager of Protection of the Joint Program Executive Office of Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) announced that it would seek two specific CIDAS devices to be used in level four "Mission Oriented Protective Posture gear." One device would be under 12 pounds and other device would be under 24 pounds, and both devices would be required to detect agents in under 5 minutes.

References 

Military sensor technology
Chemical weapons
Adsorbed natural gas. Adsorbed natural gas (ANG) is a process to store natural gas. Natural gas burns cleanly as a fuel, making it useful in many vehicles and applications such as cooking, heating or running generators. It contains mostly methane and ethane. These light gases have very high vapor pressure at ambient temperatures, and their storage requires either high-pressure compression (CNG) or an extreme reduction of temperature (LNG); or adsorbent systems—this is ANG. In the ANG process, natural gas adsorbs to a porous adsorbent at relatively low pressure (100 to 900 psi) and ambient temperature, solving both the high-pressure and low-temperature problems. If a suitable adsorbent is used, it is possible to store more gas in an adsorbent-filled vessel than in an empty vessel at the same pressure. The amount of adsorbed gas depends on pressure, temperature and adsorbent type. Since this adsorption process is exothermic, an increase in pressure or a decrease in temperature enhances the efficiency of the adsorption process.

It is possible to mix the ANG and CNG technology to reach an increased capacity of natural gas storage. In this process known as high pressure ANG, a high pressure CNG tank is filled by absorbers such as activated carbon (which is an adsorbent with high surface area) and stores natural gas by both CNG and ANG mechanisms.

Currently, researchers are developing new adsorbents with higher adsorption ratio to optimize this process, including MOFs (metal-organic frameworks).

References

Natural gas storage
Yuriy Prodan. Yuri Vasylovych Prodan (; born 27 January 1959) is a Ukrainian power engineer and politician. He has served as Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine of 18 December 2007 to 11 March 2010, and Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine from 27 February 2014 till 2 December 2014. In December 2005, received the title of Honored power engineer in Ukraine.

Biography 
Followed in the footsteps of his father-power, finished Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (1976–1982). He received BS in electrical engineering, a specialist in power plants. After graduation he worked for three years as an engineer department KPI power. The next two – senior inspector Fastiv district office energy control "Kyivenergo". By the spring of 1999 he occupied various posts in the same "Kyivenergo", was promoted to director of the department chair Energosbyt. Rapid career Y. Prodan sold in the metropolitan power company were in 1995–1999, this time it was headed by the future head of Ministry of Energy Ivan Plachkov.

In 1999–2000 Sold – 1st Deputy Director of National Power Company "UkrEnergo" – director of specialized subdivisions "Energy". From June 2000 to March 2001 – Director of "Energy".

From March 2001 – Chairman of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission of Ukraine. In 2004–2005 – head of fuel, energy and energy efficiency of the Kyiv City State Administration. From February 2005 – First Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy, President of NAC "Energy Company of Ukraine".

After joining the team of Viktor Yanukovych Cabinet Yuri Prodan returned to "Kyivenergo" (September 2006). And in November, was appointed adviser to President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko. From July 2007 – Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Appointed Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine in the Second Tymoshenko Government the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 10-VI of 18 December 2007.

Since 27 February 2014 the Minister of Energy and Mines in the Yatsenyuk Government.

Prodan married. He has two daughters – Yana (1983) and Anastasia (2002), and son Bogdan (1993).

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External links 
 Biography

Living people
1959 births
People from Norilsk
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute alumni
Independent politicians in Ukraine
Energy and coal industry ministers of Ukraine
Fuel and energy ministers of Ukraine
Granite Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District. The Granite Hydroelectric Power Station was built in 1896–1897 at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, about  southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States(in what is now eastern Cottonwood Heights. The plant comprises the powerhouse, transformer house, a wooden conduit, penstocks, and a small dam. Like the Stairs Station upstream, it represents an intact high-head generating plant from the late 19th century.

Description
The powerhouse is a rectangular brick building on a concrete foundation, with extensive corbeling. The interior is a single room with two Pelton wheels flanking a generator, which replaced two older turbine-generator units. A work area in the station was powered by a  Pelton wheel driving a belt, an unusual feature. The ceiling is a peaked assembly of steel beams with an arched brick infill. Water is supplied through a steel conduit and penstock system with a  head from the Stairs Station upstream. The dam, built in 1945, is part of neither historic district.

The transformer house is a plainer version of the power house. The operator's residence is nearby, built using the same sand-colored brick with extensive corbeling and a hipped roof. Two other residences of wood frame construction stand nearby, added in the 1920s. The present operator's residence is outside the historic district.

History
The Granite Power Station was built beginning in 1896 by the Utah Power Company, owned by the Salt Lake City Railroad Company to provide power to the company's streetcar system. The station did not live up to expectations and was frequently out of service. After several changes of ownership, the plant passed into the hands of Utah Power and Light in 1912. PacifiCorp later took ownership in 1989 operating the site under its own name as well as the name Rocky Mountain Power.

The Granite Power Station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1989.

See also

 National Register of Historic Places listings in Salt Lake County, Utah
 Stairs Station Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District

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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah
Victorian architecture in Utah
Renaissance Revival architecture in Utah
Buildings and structures completed in 1896
Buildings and structures in Cottonwood Heights, Utah
Historic American Engineering Record in Utah
Hydroelectric power plants in Utah
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah
National Register of Historic Places in Salt Lake County, Utah
Energy infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places
Jumbo: The Plane that Changed the World. Jumbo: The Plane that Changed the World, also known as 747: The Jumbo Revolution is a British documentary that was broadcast on BBC Two on 27 February 2014. The documentary, written and directed by Christopher Spencer, is about the development of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet.

Cast
Jullian Littman as Joe Sutter
Stuart Saunders as William McPherson Allen
David Peart as Juan Trippe
Eric Meyers as Jack Waddell
Alexandra Metaxa as Emilia de Geer

Production
The documentary was commissioned by the BBC and is a co-production with Smithsonian Channel and Discovery Canada. The Smithsonian Channel will broadcast it as a two-hour episode with the title 747: The Jumbo Revolution. The production company is Arrow Media and the distributor is TCB Media.

Reception
The Guardian called it a television highlight of the day. Overnight figures show that the documentary was watched by 1.34 million viewers in the United Kingdom, with a 5.9% audience share.

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2014 in British television
BBC television documentaries
British English-language television shows
Documentary television series about aviation
British aviation television series
Boeing 747
Medtech. Medtech or MedTech may refer to:
 Medical technology
 Medtech (medical education), a medical education facility founded in 2004 in Indianapolis, U.S.
 Medtech (robotic surgery), a medical robotics company founded in 2002 in Montpellier, France
 MedTech Europe, a Brussels-based trade association of the European medical technology industry
 Dornier Medtech, a former division of Dornier Flugzeugwerke
 Medtech Labs, a company founded in 1955 that was a founding joint venture partner in Prestige Brands
 Medical Technology Group, a not for profit organisation in the United Kingdom
Shijiazhuang Tiedao University. Shijiazhuang Tiedao University (abbreviated STDU, also known as Tieda and Tieyuan; ), is a national key university in China, specialised in transportation science, engineering and technology and information technology, etc. STDU is currently under the joint administration of the People's Government of Hebei Province, the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence of the People's Republic of China and National Railway Administration of the People's Republic of China. It has been selected, with Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing Institute of Technology and other key universities, for the "Educating and Training Program for Outstanding Engineers" () of the Ministry of Education. In 2016, STDU was listed as the key supporting first-class universities and first-class-discipline construction university.

STDU was formerly known as the Railway Engineering Institute of the People's Liberation Army (Army), founded in 1950, and was then one of the key universities in the Army. In 1979, STDU was listed as a national key university. In 1984, it was transferred to and under the administration of the Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China and renamed as Shijiazhuang Railway Institute. In 2000, it was transferred to Hebei Province, implementing jointly construction by the central government and the local government. In March 2010, it was renamed as Shijiazhuang Tiedao University.

As of July, 2018, STDU has nineteen schools and departments and twenty-five research institutes. There are fifty-one undergraduate majors. STDU currently has more than 1,400 staff, 23,800 full-time undergraduate students and 2,700 postgraduates at both masters and doctorals levels.

Its campus is situated in the suburb of Shijiazhuang city, the provincial capital of Hebei Province.

Notable faculty and alumni 
Yanliang Du (杜彦良, 1956), Pro-Vice Chancellor of Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Professor & Fellow of Chinese Academy of Engineering
 Changyu Shen (申长雨, 1963), Director of the State Intellectual Property Office of The People's Republic of China, Professor & Fellow of Chinese Academy of Science 
Hai-Sui Yu (余海岁, 1964-), Pro-Vice Chancellor of Nottingham University, DSc., Professor & Fellow of British Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
Zhengxu Zhao (赵正旭, 1960-), Chief Scientist in space mission visualization & control, DSc., Professor & Fellow of British Royal Society of Arts (FRAS)
Edward Zhang (张晓晨, 1983-), singer, actor and model in mainland China.

References

External links 
 Shijiazhuang Tiedao University (STDU)
 School of Civil Engineering, STDU

Universities and colleges in Hebei
Shijiazhuang