omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Colombo Port Power Station. The Colombo Port Power Station (also sometimes referred to as the Colombo Port Power Barge) is a , permanently moored at the Colombo Harbour, in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. After the plant's 15-year license expired in 2015, the Ceylon Electricity Board purchased the powership in a controversial deal. It was previously owned by Colombo Power Private Limited, a 50-50 joint venture by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding and Kawasho Corporation.

The powership consists of four  units, totalling the plant capacity to . Although the plant is estimated to generate  per annum, the actual average generation is ,  above initial estimates. The barge was built by Sasebo Heavy Industries, with funding from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.

See also 
 List of power stations in Sri Lanka

References

External links 
 
 Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding
 MAN engines

Oil-fired power stations in Sri Lanka
Powerships
Buildings and structures in Colombo
Nxt. NXT is an open source cryptocurrency and payment network launched in 2013 by anonymous software developer BCNext. It uses proof-of-stake to reach consensus for transactions—as such, there is a static money supply. Unlike Bitcoin, there is no mining. NXT was specifically conceived as a flexible platform around build applications and financial services, and serves as basis for ARDR (Ardor), a blockchain-as-a-service multichain platform developed by Jelurida, and IoTeX (cryptocurrency) the current steward of NXT as of 2021. NXT has been covered extensively in the "Call for Evidence" report by ESMA.

History 
NXT was created with a total of one billion coins. On 28 September 2013,  BCNext created a forum thread announcing the proposed launch of NXT as a second generation cryptocurrency and asked for small bitcoin donations to determine how to distribute the initial stake. On 18 November 2013, fundraising for NXT was closed.

The initial coin offering collected 21 bitcoins that were worth US$17,000.

In July 2016, NXT launched Smart Transaction templates, which were meant to serve as building blocks for businesses to construct Blockchain solutions for particular problems.

NXT cryptocurrency 
The basic unit of account of the crypto platform is a cryptocurrency, which has the designation NXT. On July 29, 2014, Danish cryptocurrency exchange service CCEDK began offering NXT to fiat money for exchange.

Critique 
On September 15, 2014, a tweet by one of Bitcoin's developers, Jeff Garzik has been vocal about the vulnerability of Nxt technology and the closed nature of the development process.

References

External links 

 

Cryptocurrency projects
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Currencies introduced in 2013
2013 software
Financial technology
Darknet markets
Frankfort OQ-16. The Frankfort OQ-16, also known as the TD3D, was a target drone designed by the Frankfort Sailplane Company for use by the United States Army Air Forces and United States Navy.

The OQ-16 was developed under a contract for a radio-controlled target drone awarded in early 1945. Fifteen aircraft were ordered by the USAAF; later in the year the contract was transferred to the United States Navy, which assigned the designation TD3D-1 to the type. However, the contract was canceled before any of the aircraft were built.

Specifications

See also

References

OQ-016
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Monoplanes
Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United States
Target drones
Balkerne Gate. Balkerne Gate is a Roman gateway in Colchester (the former Camulodunum). It is the largest surviving gateway in Roman Britain and was built where the Roman road from Londinium intersected the town wall of Camulodunum. It is a scheduled monument and a Grade I listed building.

History
According to Historic England, the gate probably dates to the 2nd century AD. It appears to have incorporated an existing monumental arch from the 1st century.

Sir Mortimer Wheeler excavated at the site in 1917. According to a paper he published subsequently: 
The gate consisted of two broad carriageways, each  wide, flanked by two footways, each about  wide. The whole gate projects  in front of the town wall, and the total extent of the frontage is .

Although it is the best-preserved Roman gateway in the country, it only survives in part. The remaining gateway is the south-side arched footway; however, the remains of a guard tower are also visible. The rest of the gateway has been overbuilt by the 18th-century Hole in the Wall public house, which is also a listed building.

Structure
Roman town gates sometimes had as many as three entrances but were usually limited to one or two. The Balkerne Gate, however, had four gates, and unusually wide carriageways.

There are no other quadruple gates in Britain but there are a few elsewhere in Europe; for example, the Porte d'Auguste at Nîmes, the Porte Ste. André and the Porte d'Arroux at Autun, and the Palatine Towers at Turin.

References

Buildings and structures completed in the 1st century
Buildings and structures in Colchester (town)
Buildings and structures in Roman Britain
Gates in England
Roman sites in England
Arches and vaults in England
Town gates in England
Grade I listed gates
Grade I listed buildings in Essex
Kyohei Sakaguchi. is a Japanese artist and architect who was born in Kumamoto. He graduated from Waseda University's department of architecture in 2001. He is most known for his Zero Yen Project, which involves studying structures built at no cost, such as shanties made by the homeless.

The Zero Yen Project involved building dwellings after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdowns following the March 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated the Tohuku region. In response to the disaster he created a suicide help line using his personal cell phone. Later he studied provisional dwellings made from scrap wood, discarded cardboard boxes and other scavenged materials. In 2004 is photographic book Zero Yen House was published.

In 2013 his book, Build Your Own Independent Nation was published. In 2014, he wrote a novel, Genjitsu Dasshutsuron (Thesis on Escaping Reality). In 2020 his book Kurushii Toki wa Denwa Shite (Call Me When You're in Pain) was published.

Sakaguchi's work has been exhibited at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, the Trax Gallery in Yamanashi Prefecture, the Vancouver Art Gallery, as well as exhibitions in Nairobi, Berkeley, California, Philadelphia, Tokyo, the Walter Phillips Gallery at Banff Centre, Canada,Museo Desafinado / Casa Endeble in Mexico City, among other international venues

See also
Zero Yen House

References

External links
 0yenhouse.com, Sakaguchi's website

Japanese architects
1978 births
Living people
Waseda University alumni
Carnot Institute ARTS. The Carnot Institute ARTS (Actions for Research, Technology and Society; ) is a French research institute. It was originally created to group the 15 laboratories of the engineering school Arts et Métiers ParisTech. It received the Carnot label in 2006.

Creation
ARTS was among the first 20 institutes to be certified by the French Minister of higher education and research.

Laboratories
The laboratories are spread in the 8 centers of teaching and research of Arts et Métiers ParisTech. Some of them have satellite facilities in the 3 institutes of research of Arts et Métiers ParisTech and in the buildings of research partners like CNAM or école navale.

Departments

The laboratories are organized in 3 departments:

 Design, Industrialization, Risk, Decision (CIRD)
 Mechanics, Materials, Processes (M2P)
 Fluids and Energy (FISE)

Labs by locations

The list of the laboratories grouped by main locations :

Île-de-France
Laboratory of fluid dynamics (DynFluid)
Laboratory of biomechanics (LBM)
Laboratory of product design and innovation (LCPI)
Laboratory of process, mechanical and material engineering (PIMM)
Institute of aerotechnics (IAT)
Paris Design Lab (PDL)
Properties and architectures of alloys and mixes (P2AM)
LAboratory of energy process, environment and health (LGP2ES)
Lille
Lille Laboratory of Mechanics (LML)
Lille Laboratory of Electrical Engineering and Power Electronics (L2EP)
Thermodynamics, flows, mechanics, material sciences, forming, manufacturing (TEMPO)
Cluny
Burgundy laboratory of material sciences and process (LaBoMaP)
Laboratory of electronics and digital imaging (LE2I)
Team of technological research and development (ERDT)
Interdisciplinary Carnot laboratory of burgundy (ICB)
Team of research material-process (ERMPV)
Angers
Arts et Métiers ParisTech laboratory of Angers (LAMPA)
Aix-en-Provence
Laboratory of IT and systems (LSIS-INSM)
Bordeaux
Institute of mechanics and engineering (I2M)
Metz
Laboratory of Microstructure Studies and Mechanics of Materials (LEM3)
Laboratory of design, manufacturing and control (LCFC)
Châlons-en-Champagne
Laboratory of mechanics, surface, material sciences and process (MSMP)

Contracts
The contracts with private companies or with ANR (National agency for research) raised up to 12 million euros each year.

Notes and references

 
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Arts et Métiers ParisTech
Carnot label
DeskLite. The DeskLite was a thin client launched in 1998 by Acorn Computers. It was designed to provide access to Microsoft Windows applications via Citrix ICA. It has been described as probably being the last product made by Acorn.

The design is a specialised Network Computer and was promoted to potential licensees for adoption. It was launched at the 1998 Thinergy conference in Orlando.

Specifications 
The DeskLite uses Cirrus Logic's CL-PS7500FE (a variant of the ARM7500 with a floating-point coprocessor) and runs .

References 

Acorn Computers
Palestinian Water Authority. The Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) is a public institution of the State of Palestine, responsible for the management of water resources in Palestine.

Purpose and tasks 

The mission of the Palestinian Water Authority is a sustainable development of water resources including the management of surface and groundwater and of wastewater. Its goals include economic growth and water and food security through securing the water rights of the Palestinians.

See also
 Palestinian law

References

External links
Palestinian Water Authority. Official website
Palestine: The Palestinian Water Authority (PWA). European Union Water Initiative

Water supply and sanitation in the State of Palestine
Water ministries
Ronald S. Cok. Ronald S. Cok (born 1959) is a scientist, engineer, and prolific inventor with 563 U.S. patents as of Oct. 1, 2021. The child of missionary parents, he spent most of his childhood years in newly independent Nigeria. Originally posted to a primary school in Zaki Biam, his family moved across the Katsina Ala River to the Teacher Training College at Mkar where his father taught at the college and supervised a network of primary schools. While at Mkar, Cok’s family lived in a grass-roofed house with no running water or electrical power, and was involved in a hunt for a rogue hippopotamus. A few years later, the family moved to the nearby town of Gboko, where his father constructed, administered, and taught at the W. M. Bristow Secondary School.

After graduation from Hillcrest high school, Cok returned to the US to attend Calvin College, where he received BA degrees in physics and mathematics, and then continued his studies at the University of Michigan, attaining a Master of Science in Electrical Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since finishing his studies, he has lived mostly in upstate New York with his family.  Cok spent three years living and working in England, where his twin daughters were born and their older sister temporarily acquired a very posh accent. He enjoys making things, visiting other countries and cultures, and outdoor activities, and has run the 2008, 2010, and 2011 Boston Marathons.

Cok was employed by Eastman Kodak from 1981 until 2015, eventually becoming a Research Fellow. He has worked in various fields, including image processing and Organic LED displays. He was recognized as the USA Top Inventor for 2003-2005 in the field of organic semiconductors by Organic Semiconductor Analyst Direct magazine and received an R&D 100 award for Innovation and Excellence. He is also author of a parallel processing computer science textbook, Parallel Programs for the Transputer. He taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology Computer Engineering graduate school between 1992 and 1994.

In subsequent years, Cok earned a Patent Agent certification with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and worked as the Director of Intellectual Property with X-Celeprint, Inc., a leader in micro-transfer printing. In 2016, Cok published a memoir of his life in Nigeria, Down Bush: A Boy’s Life in Africa.

See also 
 List of prolific inventors

References

20th-century American inventors
21st-century American inventors
Living people
Calvin University alumni
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
1959 births
Starfire Firebolt. The Starfire Firebolt, sometimes called the Starfire Firebolt Convertible, due to its removable canopy, is an American homebuilt aerobatic biplane that was designed by G. H. "Mac" McKenzie and produced by Starfire Aviation of Tempe, Arizona. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction, with some pre-fabricated parts available.

Design and development
The Firebolt was developed from the Steen Skybolt and features a biplane layout with interplane struts, cabane struts and flying wires, a two-seats-in-tandem open, or optionally, enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy that slides back, fixed conventional landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made of mixed construction, with a welded steel tubing, aluminum and wooden structure, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its  span wing employs a NACA 63A015/0012 airfoil and has a wing area of . The cockpit width is . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is the  Lycoming IO-540 powerplant. With that engine the aircraft has a cruise speed of  and an initial climb rate of 4,000 ft/min (20 m/s).

The Firebolt has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage is .

The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off with a  engine is  and the landing roll is .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied plans as 3000 hours.

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that six aircraft were completed and flying.

In March 2014 eight examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although a total of nine had been registered at one time.

Specifications (Firebolt)

See also
List of aerobatic aircraft

References

External links

 Photo of a Firebolt

Firebolt
1990s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Aerobatic aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Delhi–Moradabad line. The Delhi–Moradabad line is a railway line connecting Delhi and  the latter in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The Gajraula–Najibabad branch line is included in this line. The line is under the administrative jurisdiction of Northern Railway.

History
The Ghaziabad–Moradabad link was established by Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway in 1900.

Electrification
The  Delhi–Ghaziabad–Hapur–Moradabad line, as of 19 January 2016, is a fully electrified double and Gajraula–Najibabad branch is also electrified as on 12 April 2019.

Speed Limit
Delhi-Ghaziabad-Hapur-Moradabad line is classified as a "Group D" line and can take speeds up to 110 km/h. and Gajraula-Najibabad branch line is classified as a "Group D" line and can take speeds up to 100 km/h.

Loco shed
Ghaziabad electric loco shed serves the Delhi area.  It housed 47 WAP-1 locos in 2008. It also has WAM-4, WAP-4, WAP-5, WAP-7 and WAG-5HA locos.

Since this stretch is now electrified, this stretch would start seeing electric locomotives mostly.

Passenger movement
Moradabad is the only station on this line that is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway. But this station does not have any originating mail/express train.

References

5 ft 6 in gauge railways in India
Railway lines in Uttar Pradesh
Railway lines opened in 1900
Lift-on/lift-off. Lift-on/lift-off (LoLo, sometimes LOLO, LO/LO or Lo/Lo) ships are cargo ships with on-board cranes 
to load and unload cargo. Ships with cranes or other cargo handling equipment on-board are also termed geared vessels.

As container ships usually have no on-board cranes or other mechanism to load or unload their cargo, they are therefore dependent on dockside container cranes to load and unload. However lift-on/lift-off vessels can load and unload their own cargo unassisted. Lift-on/lift-off vessels can operate out of docks with no dockside cargo handling equipment.

"In May 2010 the Office of Naval Research (ONR) conducted a ... at-sea demonstration of their Large Vessel Interface Lift-on/Lift-off (LVI Lo/Lo) crane system in sea state 3 conditions. The LVI Lo/Lo demonstrator is an advanced motion-compensated, at-sea cargo transfer system. The embedded technologies combine to provide tagline free six degrees-of-freedom control of the payload."

References

Ship types
Tapping machine. A tapping machine is a device used to test the impact sound insulation of floors, for measurements of impact noise (noise of footsteps) in the field of building acoustics.

The standard tapping machine has five hammers placed in a line. Each hammer is lifted and dropped in turn, creating 10 impacts per second on the floor. In the room below or adjacent, a sound level meter is used to measure the sound level created by the impacts. Because the force and frequency of the impacts is known, the impact insulation provided by the floor can be determined from the sound level.

References 

Acoustics
Acid Blue 25. Acid Blue 25 (C20H13N2NaO5S) is an acid dye that is water-soluble and anionic and used for adsorption research. The structure is an anthraquinone.

Properties and applications 
Acid Blue 25 is powder-like and poorly soluble in water. The dye is soluble in solvents such as acetone and ethanol.

Use 
Acid Blue 25 is used for dyeing wool, silk and mixed fabric and printing them in a direct method.

The dye is extensively utilized to color leather, paper, cellulose, and PC blends during the manufacturing process.

References

External links 
 ACID BLUE 25 Basic information chemicalbook.com
 Acid Blue 25 sigmaaldrich.com
 
 TREATMENT OF ACID BLUE 25 CONTAINING WASTEWATERS BY ELECTROCOAGULATION scientificbulletin.upb

Anthraquinone dyes
Acid dyes
Star-Lite Warp 1-A. The Star-Lite Warp 1-A is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by Star-Lite Engineering of Englewood, Ohio, introduced in 1996. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of .

The Warp 1-A features a cantilever mid-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed tricycle landing gear with wheel pants, a boom-mounted T-tail and a single pod-mounted engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from composites. Its  span wing is made with an aluminum spar and S-glass vinyl-ester resin, is detachable for ground transport or storage and has a wing area of . The standard engine used is the  Rotax 503 two-stroke powerplant.

The Warp 1-A has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot and baggage is .

The standard day, sea level, no wind, take off and landing roll with a  engine is .

The manufacturer estimates the construction time from the supplied kit as 100 hours.

Operational history
In March 2014 one example, the prototype, was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration as an Experimental - Amateur-built, although its registration expired in June 2013.

Specifications (Warp 1-A)

References

External links
Official website archives on Archive.org
Photo of the prototype Warp 1-A

Warp 1-A
1990s United States sport aircraft
1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Merville D.63. The Merville D.63 was a modification of the Druine D.62 Condor with a nosewheel undercarriage, modified fin and French engine. It flew in 1962.

Development
In the 1960s, André Merville was president of the Boulogne based company Helice G. Merville, which had been the chief supplier of wooden propellers for French aircraft since the end of World War I.  He sought to broaden the firm's product range by producing both light aircraft and gliders, several of which were versions of other manufacturer's designs. The Merville D.63 was one example, a modified Druine D.62 Condor with a French, rather than American engine and a tricycle undercarriage.

The D.63 was wood framed and covered with a mixture of plywood and fabric. It was a low wing cantilever monoplane with 5.83° of dihedral. Its tapered wings were based on two spruce spars and ply covered around the leading edge with fabric elsewhere; the Frise ailerons were constructed in the same way.  The D.63 had no flaps but light alloy air brakes were mounted under the wings at 37% chord. The fixed fin and ground adjustable tailplane were ply covered, mounting fabric covered control surfaces.  There was a trim tab in the port  elevator.
The fuselage was entirely ply covered.  Pilot and passenger sat side by side under a rear sliding canopy.  The D.63 had a fixed, unfaired tricycle undercarriage with wheels mounted on cantilever legs with shock absorbers. Its   Potez 4E-20 air cooled flat four engine drove a two blade propeller made by Melville Helices.

The D.63 first flew on 23 March 1962 and appeared at the Cannes light aircraft show in July that year.

Specifications

References

1960s French sport aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1962
Oliver Matthias Probst Oleszewski. Oliver Matthias Probst Oleszewski is a researcher and professor specializing in wind and biodiesel technologies with the Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey.

He was born in Hannover, Germany and received his bachelors (1990) and (1994) doctorate from Heidelberg University in physics and natural sciences with specialization in experimental physics respectively.

He has been a professor and researcher with the Tec de Monterrey in Monterrey since 1996, serving as physics department chair from 1999 to 2005.

His research and consultant specialties are renewable energy resources, especially biodiesel and wind, and their efficient use. He has been involved in renewable energy teaching and research since 1997, including a biodiesel project and wind energy since 2000. Wind energy projects have included assessment of existing facilities in Mexico and the United States, acting as advisor to more as well as the construction of Peñascal, a 200M” wind farm on the Texas Gulf coast. As director of the Wind Energy Research Group, he heads Tec de Monterrey’s efforts in wind turbines, and collaborates with Aeroluz, a small Mexican wind turbine manufacturer, spun off from these efforts.

Probst Oleszewski’s work has been recognized with Level II membership in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, and he received the Premio a la Labor Docente y Investigación (Teaching and Research Work Prize) twice.
He has published thirty nine peer reviewed articles and has a ResearchGate ranking of 20.98.

See also
List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty

References

Academic staff of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Living people
Scientists from Hanover
Year of birth missing (living people)