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Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal. Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis. It was founded in 2004 by the QIRT committee, with a strong connection to the QIRT conference. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.062.

Topics covered  
Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal covers all aspects of Thermography, with topics ranging from instrumentation, theoretical and experimental practices, data reduction and image processing related to infrared thermography.

Article categories 
The journal publishes articles in the following categories:

 Original research articles
 Research reviews

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
 Science Citation Index
 Scopus

References

External links 
 Journal Homepage
 QIRT Website

Academic journals established in 2004
English-language journals
Engineering journals
Taylor & Francis academic journals
Biannual journals
Lorenz energy cycle. The Lorenz energy cycle describes the generation, conversion and dissipation of energy in the general atmospheric circulation. It is named after the meteorologist Edward N. Lorenz who worked on its mathematical formulation in the 1950s.

Description

Introduction 
Any atmospheric circulation system, whether it is a small-scale weather system or a large-scale zonal wind system, is maintained by the supply of kinetic energy. The development of such a system requires either a transformation of some other form of energy into kinetic energy, or the conversion of the kinetic energy of another system into that of the developing system.
On a global scale, the atmospheric circulation must carry energy polewards, because there is a net gain of energy in the tropics through incoming solar radiation and net loss of energy in high latitudes through thermal emission. At low latitudes, where the Hadley cell takes shape, the poleward transport of energy is done by the mean meridional circulation. At mid-latitudes in contrast, the influence of longitudinally asymmetric features, referred to as eddies, is dominant over the mean flow. For a closer examination, it is useful to split all parameters (e.g. P) into their zonal-mean (denoted by an overline, e.g. ) and their departures from the zonal mean due to orography, land-sea contrasts, weather systems and any other eddy-like features (denoted by a prime, e.g. P').

Energy reservoirs
The available potential energy is the amount of potential energy in the atmosphere that can be converted into kinetic energy. In a statically stable atmosphere, the zonal-mean available potential energy  is approximated as:

where  is the integral over the Earth's entire atmosphere, ρ0 is the mean density of air, N is the buoyancy frequency, a measure of static stability, Φ is the geopotential and z* denotes a log-pressure coordinate.

Eddy available potential energy P' is approximated as:

Zonal-mean kinetic energy  is approximated as:

where u and v are the zonal and meridional components of air velocity.

Eddy kinetic energy K' is approximated as:

Sources, sinks and conversion of energy
The description of the Lorenz Energy Cycle is completed by a mathematical formalism for the generation of potential energy through diabatic heating, its conversion to kinetic energy through vertical motion of air and the dissipation of kinetic energy through friction. A conversion of zonal-mean energy to eddy energy and vice versa is possible where eddies interact with the mean flow and displace warm/cold air.

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Atmospheric circulation
Jim Waldo. Jim Waldo is an American computer scientist and the Chief Technology Officer of Harvard University. He is the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Technology and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he was lead architect for Jini, a distributed programming system based on Java, and helped develop Project Darkstar. He was also involved in some of the early design and development of the Java programming language and environment.

Biography
Jim Waldo graduated from the University of Utah in 1973 with a BS in philosophy, in 1975 with an MA in linguistics, and in 1976 with an MA in philosophy. He then attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for his PhD in philosophy and graduated in 1980. After a year-long academic position at Hampshire College, he joined a startup company as a programmer. He moved to Apollo Computer in 1985 and stayed on when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989. While at HP, he led the design and development of the first object request broker and was instrumental in getting that technology incorporated into the first CORBA specification. He then moved to Sun Microsystems in 1992. He left Sun in 2010 and after a year at VMWare, he joined Harvard University where he was named CTO in 2011.

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American computer programmers
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Barrier effect (disambiguation). The barrier effect is the phenomenon by which roads, highways, or railways impede the natural movement of animals.

Barrier effect may also refer to:

 Barrier effect (climatology), the process by which mountains block the passage of rain-producing weather systems.
 Barrier effect (microbiology), the effect probiotic bacteria have to reduce the binding space for pathogens.
 Barrier effect (food technology), the objective of using coatings to prevent water migration between food layers.

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HYLAS-4. HYLAS-4 is a telecommunications satellite owned and operated by Avanti Communications and manufactured by Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) that was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket on 5 April 2018.

Mission
The satellite is built to provide high speed data transmission services to Africa, Latin America and Europe. It is based on Orbital ATK's Star-3 Bus, delivering 64 28 GHz fixed beams covering Africa and parts of Europe. There are also four independent steerable beams that can serve Africa, South America and Europe. The capacity will partially be used to allow Avanti to expand into new markets and provide growth for existing markets.

Launch
The satellite was launched into geosynchronous orbit by Arianespace on an Ariane 5 rocket in its ECA variant from ELA-3 at Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. The launch was originally planned in early 2017 but has been delayed to 21 March 2018, and then to 5 April 2018.  The satellite reached its geostationary orbital position by 19 April 2018.

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Spacecraft launched in 2018
Ariane commercial payloads
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
Communications satellites of the United Kingdom
2018 in the United Kingdom
Anna Slater. Anna Slater is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the Materials Innovation Factory at the University of Liverpool.

Education 
Anna Slater studied chemistry at the University of Nottingham, where she graduated in 2006. Slater completed a Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Professor Neil Champness in 2011.

Career 
In 2013 Slater joined the group of Professor Andy Cooper at the University of Liverpool, where she worked on porous organic cages. She is interested in supramolecular chemistry. In 2015 she published "Function-led Design of New Porous Materials" in Science. She was shortlisted in the 2016 Women of the Future awards in the science category.

In 2016 she was appointed an EPSRC Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow. She looks to develop new functional materials through continuous flow chemistry at the University of Liverpool. Her half-a-million pound grant, "High Throughput Materials Development in Continuous Flow", is supported by the Royal Society. She took part in the Sci Annual Review Meeting, talking about new concepts in organic synthesis.

Slater was co-chair of the UK Research Staff Association (UKRSA). Slater led a project looking at how researchers took maternity, paternity, adoption, and parental leave. In 2016 she discussed barriers to mothers from pursuing academia.

In 2017, Slater took an exhibit titled "No Assembly Required" to a special joint Royal Society/Science Museum "Lates", part of a series of events open to adult members of the public that typically attracts over 4000 people. As part of the exhibit, Slater worked with Senior Lecturer and science poet Dr. Sam Illingworth to produce a series of poems written by the visitors using language from scientific papers in the field.

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British chemists
British women chemists
British women scientists
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Combustion Science and Technology. Combustion Science and Technology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on combustion. The editor-in-chief is Richard A. Yetter (Pennsylvania State University). It is published by Taylor & Francis and was established in 1964 as Pyrodynamics, obtaining its current name in 1969.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in,

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 1.7.

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Taylor & Francis academic journals
Chemistry journals
Physics journals
English-language journals
Engineering journals
Combustion
Academic journals established in 1964
Journals published between 13 and 25 times per year
Kimberly W. Anderson. Kimberly W. Anderson is an American chemist. She is the Gill Eminent Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Dean for Administration and Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky.

Education and career 
Anderson studied chemical engineering at Youngstown State University and received her PhD in chemical engineering and bioengineering from Carnegie Mellon University. She joined the University of Kentucky in 1987 as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and faculty associate in the Center of Membrane Sciences. She was the department's director of graduate studies (1993–1996) and later served in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She was associate dean for administration and academic affairs in the College of Engineering from 1996–1999.

Awards and honors 
 2015 – Inducted in the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
 1991 – Excellence Award in Undergraduate Education, University of Kentucky

Selected publications

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Year of birth missing (living people)
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21st-century American chemists
Youngstown State University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering alumni
University of Kentucky faculty
Passive autocatalytic recombiner. Passive autocatalytic recombiner (PAR) is a device that removes hydrogen from the containment of a nuclear power plant during an accident. Its purpose is to prevent hydrogen explosions. Recombiners come into action spontaneously as soon as the hydrogen concentration increases. They are passive devices because their operation does not require external energy.

Hydrogen may be generated in a nuclear accident if the reactor fuel overheats and zirconium cladding of the fuel rods reacts chemically with steam. If the hydrogen is released from the reactor to the containment, it may get mixed with air and form a flammable or even explosive mixture. A hydrogen explosion could break the containment and cause radioactive materials to be released to the environment. Recombiners aim at removing hydrogen and thereby preventing explosions.

Inside a recombiner there are plates or pellets that are coated with platinum or palladium catalyst. On the surface of the catalyst, hydrogen and oxygen molecules react chemically at low temperature and low hydrogen concentration. The reaction generates steam. The reaction starts spontaneously when the hydrogen concentration reaches 1–2 percent. Burning of hydrogen in air requires at least 4 percent hydrogen concentration, and even higher for an explosion. Therefore, a recombiner is able to remove hydrogen from the containment before a flammable concentration is reached.

A recombiner is a box that is open from the bottom and from the top. The catalyst is located at the lower part of the box. The reaction of hydrogen and oxygen on the catalyst surface generates heat, and temperature in the recombiner reaches hundreds of degrees Celsius. Hot steam is lighter than the air in the containment, so buoyancy is caused inside the recombiner, much like in a chimney. This causes a strong airflow through the recombiner, feeding hydrogen and oxygen from the containment to the device.

Hundreds of kilograms of hydrogen may be generated in a few hours during a severe reactor accident. The most efficient recombiner made by Framatome (formerly Areva) removes slightly over five kilograms of hydrogen per hour when the hydrogen concentration is four percent. Therefore, many recombiners are needed. For example, the containment of Olkiluoto 3 EPR in Finland has 50 recombiners.

Manufacturers of passive autocatalytic recombiners include Framatome, SNC-Lavalin (formerly Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, AECL), and German Siempelkamp-NIS.

See also
Hydrogen safety

References 

Catalysis
Nuclear power plant components
Nuclear safety and security
Hydrogen
Everett Water Pollution Control Facility. The Everett Water Pollution Control Facility is a wastewater treatment plant in Everett, Washington, United States. It serves the city of Everett and discharges treated water into the Snohomish River. The facility is located at the south end of Smith Island, adjacent to Interstate 5 and Spencer Island Regional Park, a noted birdwatching spot.

The lagoon system was built in the 1960s and covers . A mechanical treatment plant was opened in 1991 to accelerate water cleaning. Both systems were expanded in 2005–2007 to treat a combined  of wastewater per day. The expansion also included measures to reduce foul odors from the plant, including lids on processing tanks and bio filters.

References

Further reading
Fact Sheet for NPDES Permit WA0024490, Washington State Department of Ecology, 2015

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Buildings and structures in Everett, Washington
Sewage treatment plants in Washington  (state)
BioSimGrid. BioSimGrid was a project to make data sets from computer simulations in the field of modelling biological systems, particularly biomolecular structures, more accessible to researchers. The project began in 2004 and halted by 2009.

In 2004 designers presented the concept of the project as a "protein data bank extended in time". Other developers presented a web portal for accessing data in the project. Other designers described the project as efficient.

A review in 2006 described how BioSimGrid was a model project for making data from research more open.

BioSimGrid contributors accepted a grant from the National Institutes of Health in 2007.

References

External links

biosimgrid.org is now defunct and 
file archive at SourceForge

Digital libraries
Online databases
Bioinformatics
Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility. Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility is the largest wastewater treatment plant for Spokane, capable of handling up to 150 million gallons a day. During low flow periods, the outflow of the plant comprises up to 20% of the Spokane River's water. Until its construction in 1952 (completed 1958), Spokane dumped raw sewage into the Spokane River resulting in recurrent Typhoid fever outbreaks. A $126 million upgrade to increase capacity to  a day began in 2016, also adding sub-micron membrane technology filtration. It is part of Spokane's $300 million integrated water quality plan.

See also
Riverside State Park, namesake, across Spokane River

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Sewage treatment plants in Washington (state)
Buildings and structures in Spokane County, Washington
1952 establishments in Washington (state)
Sawtooth Building. The Sawtooth Building is a historic 1913 brick and steel industrial structure in Berkeley, California which was built to serve as the West Coast manufacturing headquarters of the Kawneer Manufacturing Co. It gets its name from the saw-tooth roof form of its design.

The Sawtooth Building is located at 2547 Eighth Street, between Dwight Way and Parker Street. The building was constructed for the Kawneer Manufacturing Company founder, Swedish born cabinet-maker, architect, inventor, machinist, and businessman Francis John Plym (1869–1940). The aluminum storefront products of the Kawneer Manufacturing Company are considered to have revolutionized storefront design and influenced the appearance of retail and commercial building design around the world.

The structure's primary distinguishing features are large clerestory windows built into twenty saw-tooth-shaped roof bays; these stretch the entire width of the building. These are considered early precursors to the glass-curtain designs that dominated later twentieth century office buildings.

Additions were made between 1947 and 1950, including an office structure on Dwight Way employing the company's own products from the middle of the twentieth century. It was described as ...one of Berkeley’s most artistic manufacturing plants, which is used as a model for industry in many places.

The building was eventually purchased by the Sealy Mattress Co. in 1959; the firm continued operations there up to 1972. The site was then purchased by A.J. Bernard, and divided  into 35 smaller spaces for sublease to small industries, craftspeople, artisans, artists, performance spaces and a school.

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1913 establishments in California
Buildings and structures in Berkeley, California
History of the San Francisco Bay Area
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Konstantin Strakhovich. Konstantin Ivanovich Strakhovich (October 1, 1904 – November 21, 1969) was a Soviet fluid dynamicist and hydraulic engineer.

Education 
Konstantin Ivanovich Strakhovich was educated in the Mathematics and Mechanics Department at the Saint Petersburg State University (then called Petrograd University) . He continued his studies at the State Hydrological Institute specializing in gas dynamics and hydrodynamics. In 1925, his interest in hydropower lead him to Central Asia where he investigated its feasibility in various locations. In 1928 he submitted his PhD thesis on the hydromechanics of rigid bodies.

Political Prisoner 

Strakhovich is mentioned in the book Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as having while in prison written down his confiscated engineering notebooks from memory. In 1952, he was sent to exile in Karaganda. In August 1955 sentence against him was nullified. After this 
he became the head of Heat Engineering at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and a professor of cryogenic technology in the department of Leningrad Technological Institute of the Refrigeration Industry.

Publications 
Gas dynamics in the application to artillery problems. Part 1. Fundamentals of gas dynamics, 1934;

Hydraulics: Lecture notes, 1934. Parts 1–2;

Fundamentals of the theory and calculation of pneumatic transport installations, 1934;

Centrifugal compressor machines: Lectures on theory and calculation, 1934–36 academic year, 1936. Part 1;

Applied gas dynamics, 1937;

Mechanics of a viscous fluids, 1940;

Centrifugal compressor machines, 1940;

Compressor machines, 1961 (in co-authorship);
The Lagrange equations of the second kind and their application to the solution of typical problems, 1961 (together with VP Yushkov);

Expansion machines, 1966;

Fundamentals of phenomenological thermodynamics: a summary of lectures. Riga, 1968;

Vectors and tensors, 1972 (together with P. P. Yushkov);

Hydro and gas dynamics, 1980.

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1904 births
1969 deaths
Soviet engineers
British Iron & Steel Corporation. The British Iron & Steel Corporation (Salvage) Ltd., commonly referred to as BISCO, was an organisation created during World War II to recycle scrap steel.

BISCO's duties included making the arrangements for the scrapping of surplus Royal Navy ships. The Admiralty would notify BISCO that a ship was available for scrapping; BISCO would then allocate it to a suitable yard for breaking up. The yards were paid their dismantling costs plus an amount per ton of steel recovered. This continued until 1962, after which yards were free to make their own contracts directly.

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Ship breaking
Hulamin. Hulamin is a South African company based in Pietermaritzburg that specialises in rolled aluminium products for precision and high technology applications. The company supplies a significant proportion of the world's ultra high-end aluminium products. It is known for being a key supplier of worked aluminium components for Tesla electric vehicles and aeronautical Wi-Fi components.

In 2018/19 the company was negatively effected by cheaper Chinese imports into its South African market, higher tariffs on its exports to the United States, reduced demand from the automotive industry, and has faced criticism for high executive overheads.

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1935 establishments in South Africa
Companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Engineering companies of South Africa
Companies based in KwaZulu-Natal
Manufacturing companies established in 1935
Pietermaritzburg
Aluminium companies
South African brands
Natalie Panek. Natalie Panek is a Canadian working in aerospace engineering. She works in the robotics and automation division of the space technology company MDA.

Early life and education 
Panek grew up in Calgary, Alberta, where she was the only girl in her high school physics class. She competed in the North American Solar Challenge in 2005. Panek completed a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Calgary in 2007. She earned a masters in aerospace engineering at the University of Toronto in 2009. In summer 2008, she worked at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Career 
After graduating, Panek attended the International Space University at Ames Research Center. Panek works at the space technology company MDA where she works on Canadian space exploration and robotics. She is on the engineering team building the chassis and locomotion systems for European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover.

Public engagement 
In 2012, Panek created the STEM mentorship blog The Panek Room, which offers career advice to girls and connects them mentors. Panek regularly gives interviews about her career and campaigns for increased representation of women in science. She spoke at the 2016 Women of Influence and 2017 Girl Talk Empowerment conferences.

Alongside her work and advocacy, Panek enjoys backpacking.

Awards and honours 
2013 - University of Calgary Graduate of the Last Decade Award 

2015 - Forbes 30 under 30

2015 - Flare magazine's 30 under 30

2016 - Wings Magazine Top 20 under 40

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1983 births
Living people
Canadian science communicators
Canadian Internet celebrities
People from Calgary
University of Calgary alumni
University of Toronto alumni
21st-century Canadian women engineers
Women rocket scientists