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ABB Research Award in honor of Hubertus von Gruenberg. The ABB Research Award in Honor of Hubertus von Gruenberg is named after Dr. Hubertus von Gruenberg, who was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the technology company ABB from 2007 to 2015.

Endowment and format
Awarded every three years, the prize is endowed with a research grant of US$300,000. The prize is awarded to a postdoctoral researcher working in the fields of energy, manufacturing, transport, infrastructure, digitalization, or related fields. The grant enables the awardee to continue research on his or her topic for three years.

Purpose
The award was created to sustain high levels of research and encourage the development of future technologies and applications.

Awardees

2016 
Dr. Jef Beerten from KU Leuven for his PhD thesis on "Modeling and Control of DC Power Systems"

2019 
Dr. Ambuj Varshney from Uppsala University/University of California, Berkeley for his PhD thesis on "Enabling Sustainable Networked Embedded Systems"

Jury

2016  
The 2016 jury consisted of
 Prof. Robert Armstrong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Prof. Ulrike Grossner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) 
 Prof. Nina Thornhill, Imperial College London
 Prof. Zheyao Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing
 Bazmi Husain, ABB's Chief Technology Officer  
 Dr. Hubertus von Gruenberg, former ABB Chairman

2019 
The 2019 jury consisted of

 Prof. Nina Thornhill (Imperial College London)
 Prof. M. Granger Morgan (Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh)
 Prof. Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich)
 Prof. C.L. Philip Chen (University of Macau, Taipa, Macau)
 Bazmi Husain, CTO of ABB
 Dr. Hubertus von Grünberg, former ABB Chairman

2022 
The 2022 jury consisted of

 Prof. Ambuj Varshney (National University of Singapore)
 Prof. Nina Thornhill (Imperial College London)
 Prof. Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich)
 Prof. Manfred Morari (University of Pennsylvania)
 Dr. Bernhard Eschermann, CTO of ABB Process Automation
 Dr. Hubertus von Grünberg, former ABB Chairman

References 

Science and technology awards
Ching-Yuen Hsiao. Ching-Yuen Hsiao (; born Guizhou, China, 1900 – 18 December 1984, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) was a Chinese-born American diplomat and engineer who received the Medal of Freedom from President Harry Truman in 1946 for his meritorious contribution to the Allied cause in the war against Japan.

Personal life and education 
Hsiao was born on March 28, 1900 (second month, 28th day of the lunar calendar), in Kaiyang, Guizhou province, China. He grew up in Shangtian, Jiangxi. He was in one of the early (1924) graduating classes of Tsinghua College, Beijing, which had been established as a preparatory school for students the government planned to send to the United States. He earned the following degrees:

B.S. Civil Engineering (with honors), 1926, California Institute of Technology,
M.S. Sanitary and Municipal Engineering, 1927 Harvard University
Sc.D. Sanitary Engineering, 1930 Harvard University

After completing his doctorate, he received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and travelled to Europe to study sanitation systems in major cities.

He returned to China in 1930 to serve his country in the field of his training: transportation, public works and communication.

Notable service 
Upon his return to China, he worked for the Shanghai municipal government and later with the Ministry of Communications of the Republic of China. In Shanghai, he was in charge of Municipal Engineering Public Works and modernized the sewer system for Shanghai. With the ministry, he was initially director of the Jiangxi Highway Bureau, then director of the South-West Highway Administration, and finally director of the National Highway Administration. He was in charge of building the great southwestern highway system. He was also in charge of the Burma Road and the strategic highway between Xinjiang and Russia. As director of the National Highway Administration after the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was responsible for relocating thousands of refugees and governmental officials from Chongqing to Nanjing safely.

Hsiao was awarded the Medal of Freedom (America's highest civilian award) by President Truman on December 26, 1946, for his meritorious contribution to the Allied cause in the war against Japan.

In the spring of 1947 he was dispatched to the United Nations as Delegate for China on the United Nations Transportation and Communication Commission, where he served from 1947 to 1957.  Concurrently, he served as the director of the Ministry of Transportation (sometimes called the Division of Communications based on an early incorrect translation from Chinese) under the Chinese Government Purchasing Mission, first in Canada and later in the United States (1952–1969). He settled in Washington, DC, in 1949.

References 

1900 births
1984 deaths
Rockefeller Fellows
California Institute of Technology alumni
Harvard University alumni
Engineers from Guizhou
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Diplomats of the Republic of China
Recipients of the Medal of Freedom
People from Guiyang
People from Silver Spring, Maryland
Liu Ning. Liu Ning (; born January 1962) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as Communist Party Secretary of Henan. Previously he served as Communist Party Secretary of Guangxi and Governor of Liaoning. He spent much of his career in water resources.

Career
Liu was born in Linjiang, Jilin. He joined the Communist Party in 1990, and he was graduated from Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering (now is a part of Wuhan University).

Liu spent much of his career in water resources. He entered to work in Yangtze River Basin Planning Office, and served as the Chief of the Hub Design Department Crossing Dam Building Design Section Project Team. Later he served as the deputy director, Qingjiang Engineering Design Office, Design Bureau, the deputy director of the Design Center of the Design Institute and Director of the Three Gorges Design Office, the Director of the Jiangyan Engineering Department, Assistant Chief Engineer, deputy director of the Hub Design Department, and the Deputy chief engineer of the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission. In 2000, he served as the General Manager of Hubei Changjiang Bidding Co., Ltd. ().

In 2001, Liu was appointed the Chief Engineer of the Planning and Design Administration of the South–North Water Transfer Project, and he was appointed the General Engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources, later he served as the Deputy Minister in 2009.

In 2017, Liu was appointed the CCP Deputy Secretary of Qinghai, then he was appointed the Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee. In August 2018, Liu was appointed the acting Governor of Qinghai. His position was confirmed in September.

In 2020, Liu was appointed Governor of Liaoning.

On 19 October 2021, he was transferred to southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and appointed Communist Party Secretary, the top political position in the region.

On 31 December 2024, Liu was made Communist Party Secretary of Henan, succeeded Lou Yangsheng.

References 

People from Baishan
1962 births
Living people
Governors of Liaoning
Governors of Qinghai
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Jilin
People's Republic of China politicians from Jilin
Alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Delegates to the 13th National People's Congress
Members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Douglas George Sopwith. Douglas George Sopwith CBE FRSE MIME Wh.Sch (1906–1970) was a 20th-century Scottish engineer. From 1951 to 1967 he was Director of the National Engineering Laboratory (UK).

Life

He was born on 13 November 1906, the son of Joseph Sopwith, master mariner. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School.  Sopwith gained a Whitworth Scholarship which supported him to study Engineering at the University of Manchester graduating BSc (Tech) in 1928, at the same time becoming a full Whitworth Scholar. He then worked at Manchester Dry Docks.

In 1934 the Institute of Mechanical Engineers awarded Sopwith their Thomas Lowe Gray Prize and in 1948 he won their Bernard Hall Prize.

His alma mater awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1948. He then got a job as Superintendent of the Engineering Divisions at the National Physical Laboratory. In 1951 he was appointed Director of the National Engineering Laboratory where he remained for the rest of his career.

In 1957 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 1963 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh also served as President of the Whitworth Society. His proposers were Jack Allen, Sir Samuel Curran, William Fisher Cassie, and Ronald Arnold.

He retired in 1967 and served as Chairman of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers for the rest of his life.

He died whilst returning from a holiday in England on 22 October 1970.

Family

He was exceedingly shy and never married.

References

1906 births
1970 deaths
Scottish mechanical engineers
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
People educated at Manchester Grammar School
John Neal Hodges. John Neal Hodges (February 13, 1884 – January 18, 1965) was a United States Army officer in the early 20th century. He served in World War I and World War II.

Biography
Hodges was born in Baltimore on February 13, 1884. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1905.

Hodges was commissioned into the United States Army Corps of Engineers. He commanded the Sixth Engineer Regiment during World War I, and he worked with the British to build bridges on the Somme. Hodges received the Distinguished Service Medal for his efforts, and on June 26, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.

After the war's end, Hodges worked at the office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington, D.C., and he served as the editor of the Military Engineer from 1929 to 1931. He served as the Chief Engineer of the North Atlantic Division from 1943 to 1944, and he received the Legion of Merit for his performance in World War II.

Hodges retired in 1944. He died at Brooke Army Medical Center on January 18, 1965. He is buried in Encinal, Texas.

References

Bibliography

1884 births
1965 deaths
Military personnel from Baltimore
United States Army generals of World War I
United States Army generals
United States Army personnel of World War II
United States Army Corps of Engineers personnel
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army)
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Military Academy alumni
Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund. The Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund () is a German federal fund to manage the financial endowment for long-term nuclear waste storage sites. The fund is organised as a trust and falls into the remit of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. However, the closure of all power stations must be followed by finding a permanent nuclear graveyard by the government's 2031 deadline.

Background 
In the aftermath of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in 2011, the German government decided to phase out nuclear energy production. All German nuclear power plants must therefore be shut down by 2022. Power plant operators were made responsible for the dismantling and disposal of the resulting nuclear waste. To address concerns that the disposal of nuclear waste may be dependent on the financial stability of those operators, the long-term financial responsibility was shifted to a trust fund managed by a federal government agency - the "nuclear fund" (German: "Atomfonds").

The fund 
On July 3, 2017, the four German nuclear power plant operators E.ON, EnBW, RWE and Vattenfall have transferred the legally stipulated basic contribution of € 17.9 billion as well as a 35 percent risk premium of € 6.2 billion to the Bundesbank. The resulting sum of € 24.1 billion euros represents the capital stock of the nuclear fund.

In the future, the fund is expected invest its assets in the capital markets and fund the search for suitable intermediate and final waste storage sites with the help of investment income. The selection of the investment instruments of this first German sovereign wealth fund are based on sustainability criteria and must be in line with Environment Social Governance.

Anja Mikus has been appointed CEO of the fund.

Investments 
As of July 2018, the fund has invested about 10% of its assets. €2.5 billion had been invested in highly liquid government bonds. The remaining assets were held as cash with the Bundesbank which resulted in a loss of €70 million in the funds first year due to the negative interest environment.

See also 
Nuclear Power in Germany

References

External links 
 www.entsorgungsfonds.de

Sovereign wealth funds
Foundations based in Germany
2017 establishments in Germany
Radioactive waste disposal
Pool fire. A pool fire is a type of diffusion flame where a layer of volatile liquid fuel is evaporating and burning. The fuel layer can be either on a horizontal solid substrate or floating on a higher-density liquid, usually water. Pool fires are an important scenario in fire process safety and combustion science, as large amounts of liquid fuels are stored and transported by different industries.

Physical properties

The most important physical parameter describing a pool fire is the heat release rate, which determines the minimum safe distance needed to avoid burns from thermal radiation. The heat release rate is limited by the rate of evaporation of the fuel, as the combustion reaction takes place in the gas phase. The evaporation rate, in turn, is determined by other physical parameters, such as the depth, surface area and shape of the pool, as well as the fuel boiling point, heat of vaporization, heat of combustion, thermal conductivity and others. A feedback loop exists between the heat release rate and evaporation rate, as a significant part of the energy released in the combustion reaction will be transmitted from the gas phase to the liquid fuel, and can supply the needed heat of vaporization. In the case of large pool fires, most of the heat transfer happens in the form of thermal radiation.

Typical fuels in accidental pool fires, or experiments simulating them, include aliphatic hydrocarbons (n-heptane, liquefied propane gas), aromatic hydrocarbons (toluene, xylene), alcohols (methanol, ethanol) or mixtures thereof (kerosene). It is important that a pool fire involving a water-insoluble fuel is not attempted to be extinguished with water, as this can trigger explosive boiling and spattering of the burning material.

Open-top tank fires are pool fires of industrial scale that occur when the roof of an atmospheric tank fails due to internal tank blast, followed by the contents of the tank catching fire. If a layer of water is present underneath the fuel and the fuel is a mixture of chemical species with several different boiling points, a boilover may eventually occur, greatly aggravating the fire. The boilover onset occurs as soon as a hot zone propagates down through the fuel, reaching the water and making it boil.

See also 

 Radiative transfer
 Fire safety

References 

Types of fire
Process safety
Computer Corporation of America. Computer Corporation of America (CCA) was a computer software and database systems company founded in 1965. It was best known for its Model 204 (M204) database system for IBM and compatible mainframes.

It was acquired by Rocket Software in 2010.

Corporate history
Founded in 1965, Computer Corporation of America (CCA) was a computer software and database systems. with offices in Technology Square, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Their primary database product, first deployed in 1972, was Model 204 (M204), which ran on IBM mainframes. It incorporates a programming language and an environment for application development.

CCA operated the ARPANET Datacomputer.

In 1992, CCA purchased the System 1022 and System 1032 assets of Software House; these database systems were designed for Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-10 and VAX systems, respectively.

In 1984, CCA was purchased by Crowntek, a Toronto-based company. Crowntek sold Computer Corporation of America's Advanced Information Technology division to Xerox Corporation in 1988.

The balance of CCA was acquired by Rocket Software, a Boston-based developer of enterprise infrastructure products, in April 2010.

CCA EMACS
Early Ads for CCA EMACS (Computer Corporation of America) (Steve Zimmerman) appeared in 1984. 1985 comparisons to GNU Emacs, when it came out, mentioned free vs. $2,400.

References

2010 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1965
American companies disestablished in 2010
Companies based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Software companies established in 1965
Software companies disestablished in 2010
Defunct software companies of the United States
HFRR. HFRR is a measurement for lubrication of Diesel or heating oil and stands for high frequency reciprocating rig. The value is given in μm, lower is better. The measured value is the diameter of the flattening of the ball after the test.

It's important because high pressure injection pumps are only lubricated by the fuel itself. Density and viscosity are not sufficient describing the aptitude of the fuel.

Examples of values 

 biodiesel (Europe, Norm EN 14214): ca. 320 μm
 diesel (Europe, Norm DIN EN 590): < 460 μm
 heating oil EL low sulfur (Germany, Norm DIN 51603-1): < 460 μm
 Diesel (USA, Norm ASTM-D975): 550 - 600 μm

References

Fuel technology
Lubrication
Aditya Captive Power Plant. Aditya Captive Power Plant is a captive 900 megawatt power project located at Lapanga, Sambalpur District Odisha which is part of Hindalco's Smelter_power project in Odisha. It has captive coal from Talabira-2 coal block a JV between Mahanadi Coalfields and Neyveli Lignite Corporation.

Project
Hindalco Industries awarded contract to BHEL for main package in June 2009. It is 6x150MW project with first of its kind Turbo generators designed by BHEL specifically for this project.

Clearances
The project has been accorded environmental clearance by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC).

Capacity
The planned capacity of the thermal power plant is 1350 MW. Phase I of 6x150MW units and Phase II of 5x150 MW units.

References 

Sambalpur district
Coal-fired power stations in Odisha
Government of Odisha
Hindalco Industries
2013 establishments in Odisha
Energy infrastructure completed in 2013
Aditya Birla Group
Yao Leeh-ter. Leether Yao Leeh-ter () is a Taiwanese engineer and politician. He was appointed political deputy minister of Education in September 2017 and resigned the position in January 2019.

Education
Yao obtained his diploma in electrical engineering from National Taipei Institute of Technology in 1982. He then moved to the United States and obtained master's degree in electrical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 1987 and doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1992.

See also
 Education in Taiwan

References

Living people
Ministers of education of Taiwan
Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni
1962 births
Charing Cross and Waterloo Electric Railway. 
The Charing Cross and Waterloo Electric Railway (CC&WER) was a railway company established in 1881 to construct an underground railway in London. The CC&WER proposed a line between a station under Trafalgar Square and the London and South Western Railway's terminus at Waterloo. The plan was similar in concept to that proposed by the Waterloo and Whitehall Railway in 1864 which could not raise funds due to a banking crisis. To form the tunnels under the River Thames, iron pipes would be sunk into a trench dredged in the river bed.

The CC&WER was the first to propose electric traction for its trains and was supported by Sir William Siemens. His brother, Werner von Siemens, had demonstrated the first electric railway in Berlin in 1879 and their electrical engineering company Siemens Brothers was to provide the electrical equipment and operate the line for the first five years.

Permission to construct the line was granted by Parliament on 18 August 1882 in the  (45 & 46 Vict. c. cclv) and a proposal was submitted in December 1882 to continue the line from Waterloo to Blackfriars and the Royal Exchange in the City of London. The extension was opposed by the Metropolitan Board of Works, but difficulties in raising funds to construct the line due to the novelty of its method of traction, led to the extension bill being withdrawn in May 1883.

William Siemens died in November 1883, and the company was abandoned in July 1885.

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Transport in the London Borough of Lambeth
Transport in the City of Westminster
Tunnels underneath the River Thames
Abandoned underground railway projects in London
Railway companies established in 1881
Railway companies disestablished in 1885
British companies disestablished in 1885
British companies established in 1881
Chirp (company). Chirp (also known as Asio Limited) was a technology company based in the UK. Chirp was originally a research project from UCL and was incorporated as a UK limited company in 2012. Chirp specialised in data-over-sound software development kits, which converted data into audio signals, which could be transmitted to other devices within hearing range

Chirp had been involved in projects with EDF Energy, Activision Blizzard, for the Skylanders: Imaginators game and Creata, in toys for the Netflix Original, Beat Bugs

On 13 February 2020, Chirp announced its IP and assets had been acquired by Sonos for an undisclosed amount, and that Chirp's SDKs will no longer accessible to the public from 1 March 2020.

References 

Information technology companies of the United Kingdom