omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Shahid Salimi Combined Cycle Power Plant. Shahid Salimi Combined Cycle Power Plant  (Persian: نیروگاه سیکل ترکیبی شهید سلیمی ) or Neka Power plant (Persian: نیروگاه نکا) is one of the largest power plants in Iran, the construction of which began in 1975 and was completed in 1979 after 4 years. This power plant consists of two independent parts, heating and combined cycle, which is located on the Caspian Sea coast, 22 km north of Neka city. The nominal power of this power plant is 2214 MW, which consists of four steam units each with a nominal power of 440 MW, a combined cycle unit consisting of two gas units each with a nominal power of 137 MW, and a steam unit with a nominal power of 160 MW and two expansion turbines with power. The name of each is 9 MW.

Environmental pollution 
Due to the consumption of mazut (fuel oil) by this power plant, the destructive environmental effects on the surrounding residential areas are evident.

Awards 
The steam unit of this power plant was selected as the model power plant in Iran in 2008 in terms of providing full capacity during peak times in summer.

References 

 1-https://financialtribune.com/articles/energy/107519/neka-thermal-power-plant-to-use-caspian-sea-water/

 2- https://canvas.ucsc.edu/eportfolios/911/Will_the_demand_for_a_ban_on_mazut_consumption_in_Iran_succeed_/

 3- https://www.mapnagroup.com/en/news/power/neka-power-plant

 4- https://www.power-technology.com/marketdata/neka-shahid-salimi-steam-turbine-power-plant-iran/

 5- https://www.mazrec.co.ir/en-powerplants

 6- https://en.irna.ir/amp/82819907/

 7- https://www.farsnews.ir/en/photo/13990927000571/Iranian-Engineers-Cmplee-Overhal-f-Iran’s-Shahid-Salimi-Pwer-Plan

 8- https://financialtribune.com/articles/energy/114190/neka-power-plant-continues-mazut-burning-despite-judicial-ban

Power stations in Iran
Russell Francis Wright. Russell Francis Wright, MBE, Service number VX70200, was an Australian radio engineer and soldier.

Early life and education 

Russell Francis Wright was born in Melbourne September 28, 1920, the son of Col. Charles C. and Mrs. Jessie G. Wright and twin brother of Norman Douglas Wright ED, Lt. Col. He married Irma (nee Sanders) in 1956 and was the father of Col. Iain Wright and Dr Stuart Wright. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne where he constructed his own technically advanced radio receiver.

World War Two 
With the intention of following his father into the Army, Wright studied engineering at Melbourne University. After enlisting during World War II in 1942, he left Singapore aboard the Mata Hari on Australia Day when the ship was captured by the Japanese. He was made a prisoner of war in Changi Prison, where he and others built radios, concealing one receiver in a broom. Intelligence gathered by this means was vital to morale in the POW camp.

In 1947, Lieutenant Wright was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire "For highly meritorious service and outstanding ability."

England 
Following his education in Australia and his recovery from ill treatment by the Japanese, he pursued his studies of radio and engineering as a long time resident of England, gaining wide respect in the aircraft and nuclear power industries.

He died suddenly in England 22 April 2012, in his 92nd year and was buried at a funeral held in Caterham, England on May 10, 2012.

References 

1920 births
2012 deaths
Australian prisoners of war
Members of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne
Christopher P. Marquis. Christopher P. Marquis is a bioprocess engineer and academic at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. His research covers the development of biotechnology products through the lens of a bioprocess engineer, focusing on Recombinant protein production and other bioproducts, including nucleic acids and bacteriophage. He is the academic director of the UNSW Recombinant Products Facility (RPF). He is the co-author of over 75 refereed journal articles. He also actively engages with industry.

Career 
Marquis received his doctorate in biochemical engineering from the University of Sydney in 1994. He has a BSc (chemistry) and a BE(hons) in biochemical engineering from the University of Sydney. Since 1994, he has held an academic positions at the University of NSW in the school of biotechnology and biomolecular sciences. In 2002, he completed a graduate diploma in technology management from Deakin University.

Research 
Marquis's current academic research focuses on:

 Generation and characterisation of recombinant spider silk proteins
 Bioprocessing optimisation for cytokine production
 Photobioreactor studies on engineered cyanobacteria
 Plasmid production for gene therapy and in vitro mRNA synthesis
 Processing of therapeutic bacteriophage

Marquis has also recently had successful collaborations in other disciplines, including those in the areas of:

 Production and purification recombinant reductive dehalogenases
 Nanobiotechnology; the interface of nanoparticles with biological systems

Teaching 
Marquis is the academic convenor of the Biotechnology undergraduate program at UNSW. He teaches bioprocessing and in areas of biotechnology commercialisation.

External links 

 University of New South Wales Recombinant Products Facility
 Christopher P Marquis Google Scholar Citations
 Christopher P Marquis University of New South Wales

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
University of Sydney alumni
Bio2Watt Malmesbury Thermal Power Station. Bio2Watt Malmesbury Thermal Power Station is a  biogas-fired thermal power plant under development in South Africa. Bio2Watt, a South African company, entirely owned by Black women, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply 4.8 megawatts of electricity to South African Breweries (SAB) for use in their brewery near Cape Town. As raw material, the power station is designed to start with animal manure and urine, produced by 7,000 head of cattle at Morester's Vyvlei Dairy Farm. These will be supplemented by other organic waste, collected from farms and businesses in the nearby town of Malmesbury. The raw material will be digested anaerobically to produce industrial-grade biogas. The biogas will then be ignited to produce heat. That heat will be used to turn electric generators and produce electricity.

Location
The power plant is under construction at Morester's Vyvlei Dairy Farm, near the town of Malmesbury, in Swartland Municipality, West Coast District, in South Africa's Western Cape Province. Malmesbury is approximately , northeast of Cape Town, the nearest large city.

Overview
There are 70,000 dairy cows at Morester's Vyvlei Dairy Farm. The milk that they produce is supplied directly to the South African food and beverages company, Clover Industries Limited. Bio2Watt, plans to collect the manure and urine produced by those 70,000 cows and supplement it with organic waste collected from the town of Malmesbury. All this waste will then be anaerobically digested in new bio-digesters installed at the dairy farm.

The biogas will then be ignited to produce heat. The heat will be used to turn gas generators and produce electricity. In March 2022 Bio2Watt signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA), to supply 4.8 megawatts of electricity to the SAB brewery near Cape Town.

Ownership
The power station is owned and under development by Bio2Watt, a South African business entirely owned by Black women. Bio2Watt has established an ad hoc company  Cape Dairy Project (Pty) Limited (CDP), to develop, own, fund operate and maintain this renewable power project. CDP selected Anaergia, a Canadian company as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor.

Funding
Funding sources for this waste-to-energy project include the entities listed in the table below:

Other considerations
This plant is the second waste-to-energy plant that is operated by Bio2Watt in South Africa. In October 2015, Bio2Watt began supplying 4.6 megawatts of electricity to the BMW automotive plant in Rosslyn, Gauteng, approximately  northwest of Pretoria, under a 10-year PPA.

See also

 List of power stations in South Africa
 Divo Biomass Power Station
 Sfax Waste To Methane Gas Project

References

External links
 Cape Dairy Biogas Plant (Pty) Limited
 Combigas: Bio2Watt, South Africa

Power stations in South Africa
Western Cape
Proposed power stations
Buildings and structures in South Africa
Economy of the Western Cape
Fike Chemical. Fike Chemical is a former heavy chemical company and notorious superfund site in Nitro, West Virginia. Founded by Elmer Fike in 1971 in the buildings of a World War One government nitrocellulose plant, the 11-acre factory specialized in taking on jobs that larger chemical companies would ignore. To make this profitable, the company did no waste remediation, dumping hazardous chemicals into unmarked 55-gallon drums and open-pit lagoons on the site, next to the Kanawha River.

The site was subject to continual problems. In one infamous example, the company had agreed to dispose of the sodium coolant from the closed Fermi 1 nuclear reactor, which they did by dumping it in a WWI-era bunker. Rain began to leak in, causing the sodium to explode and requiring the town to shelter in their homes while the fire was put out over a 12 hour period. This was only one of several newsworthy incidents which eventually attracted the attention of 60 Minutes where Lesley Stahl introduced the segment stating "Now we take you to the messiest place we've ever been".

The 60 Minutes segment attracted the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They admitted the site "fell through the cracks". By 1982 they had reached an agreement with Fike on soil and water testing and remediation of the site. In 1983, the EPA was told by the mayor that Fike had laid everyone off and abandoned the site. Throughout, Fike complained about government oversight and claimed it was their fault he went out of business.

Fike sold the site to Artel Chemical in 1986, but they closed the plant in 1988. In June 1988 the EPA sent in teams to clean it up, finding an unsecured cylinder of hydrogen cyanide, remaining sodium metal, a huge tank of flammable methyl mercaptan, 10,000 unlabeled barrels with volatile organic compounds and other dangerous chemicals, and high dioxin levels in the ground. After cleanup, in May 1999 the EPA transferred the property to the Nitro Development Authority. All major cleanup was considered complete in 2011, which showed no residual leakage into the river. Monitoring of the aquifer continues.

References

Citations

Bibliography
 
 
 

Superfund sites in West Virginia
Hadley engine. The Ursa Major Technologies Hadley is a  thrust Kerosene/LOX oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle rocket engine.

Hadley is the first engine developed by Ursa Major Technologies. It started development in 2015, and prototypes were test fired in 2018. In March 2022 qualification of the engine was complete and flight-ready engines had been delivered to customers. In March 2024 Stratolaunch Systems announced completion of the first powered flight of the Talon-A test vehicle, TA-1. Hadley is the engine powering Talon-A.

Another initial customer, Phantom Space Corporation, plans to use Hadley on their Daytona small-lift rocket. ABL Space Systems initially announced they would use the Hadley engine for the upper-stage of their RS1 rocket, but have subsequently decided to use an internally-developed engine called E2. In April 2023, Astra suggested the vacuum variant of the Hadley engine would power the second stage of their Rocket 4.0 launch vehicle.

References

External links 

 Ursa Major Technologies Hadley webpage

Rocket engines using kerosene propellant
Rocket engines using the staged combustion cycle
English ship Answer (1590). Answer was a small galleon in the service of the English Royal Navy. She spent her early career in expeditions as far as Cadiz and the Azores. She was later assigned to the Channel Guard during two more attempts by Philip II of Spain to invade England. She maintained this assignment until she went to the Irish Station then back to the English Channel. She was finally sold in 1629.

Answer was the first named vessel in the English and Royal Navies.

Construction and specifications
She was built on the Thames possibly at Deptford under the guidance of Master Shipwright Richard Chapman. She was launched in 1590. Her dimensions were  for keel with a breadth of  and a depth of hold of . Her tonnage was between 202.9 and 253.5 tons.

Her gun armament was in 1603 19 guns consisting of five demi-culverines, six sakers, six minions and two falcons plus two fowlers Her manning was around 100 officers and men in 1603.

Commissioned service
She was commissioned in 1599 thru 1600 under Captain Walter Gore for service with Sir Richard Leveson's Channel Guard in 1599. She was with the Channel Guard until July 1599. In 1601 she was under Captain Thomas Coverte for the Thames Guard. In 1602 she was under the command of Captain Matthew Bardgate for service in the English Channel. She was rebuilt at Chatham Dockyard in May 1604.

Disposition
Answer was sold at Rochester on 17 June 1629.

Notes

Citations

References
 British Warships in the Age of Sail (1603 – 1714), by Rif Winfield, published by Seaforth Publishing, England © Rif Winfield 2009, EPUB , Chapter 4, The Fourth Rates - 'Small Ships', Vessels in service or on order at 24 March 1603, Crane Group. Answer
 Ships of the Royal Navy, by J.J. Colledge, revised and updated by Lt-Cdr Ben Warlow and Steve Bush, published by Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, Great Britain, © the estate of J.J. Colledge, Ben Warlow and Steve Bush 2020, EPUB , Section A (Answer)
 The Arming and Fitting of English Ships of War 1600 - 1815, by Brian Lavery, published by US Naval Institute Press © Brian Lavery 1989, , Part V Guns, Type of Guns

Ships of the Royal Navy
16th-century ships
Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler. Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler is an American biomechanics researcher specializing in human gait and balance, and in the design of devices for assisting in gait and posture. She is a professor and Willett Faculty Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Education and career
Hsiao-Wecksler majored in mechanical engineering at Cornell University, graduating in 1987, and began working in industry in the desktop printing and copying division of Xerox. While doing so, she earned a master's degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1994. She returned to graduate study in biomechanics in 1995, working with 
Stephen Robinovitch at the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, and completed a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Berkeley in 2000.

After postdoctoral research with James Collins at Boston University and Lewis Lipsitz and Casey Kerrigan at the Harvard Medical School, she became an assistant professor of mechanical science and mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2002. She earned tenure there as an associate professor in 2009, becoming the first tenured woman in the department, and was promoted to full professor in 2015.

She also co-founded a spin-off company, IntelliWheels, in 2010, focusing on the improved design of geared wheels for wheelchairs, and was its scientific advisor through 2018.

Personal life and activism
Hsiao-Wecksler co-founded LGBTQ advocacy groups at both Xerox and the UC Berkeley College of Engineering, and has been an advocate for inclusion and diversity more generally at the University of Illinois.

Recognition
Hsiao-Wecksler was named an ASME Fellow in 2014, and a Fellow of the American Society of Biomechanics in 2018. She was president of the American Society of Biomechanics for the 2021-2022 term.

The Society of Women Engineers named her a Distinguished Engineering Educator in 2018, "for steadfast commitment to student success and project-based and team-based learning; for leadership in revamping engineering curricula; and for serving as an encouraging role model and mentor".

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American bioengineers
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
American LGBTQ scientists
Cornell University alumni
Rochester Institute of Technology alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Ben Minicucci. Benito Minicucci (born April 27, 1966) is an American business executive. He is the president and chief executive officer of Alaska Air Group, the parent company of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and Horizon Air.

Early life and education 
Minicucci was born in Montreal, Quebec. His parents were from Casacalenda campobasso and 
immigrated to Montreal from Italy in the 1950s. Minicucci received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada. In 2012, he completed the advanced management program at Harvard Business School.

Career 
Following graduation from college, Minicucci served 14 years in the Canadian Armed Forces.  After, he joined Air Canada where he worked in a variety of roles in technical operations and later as vice president of heavy maintenance.

Minicucci joined Alaska Airlines in 2004, where he first worked as staff vice president of maintenance. He went on to hold roles as executive vice president of Alaska’s operations in Seattle and chief operating officer.  In 2016, he became president of Alaska Airlines where he led the company’s expansion into California and was CEO of Virgin America during Alaska’s acquisition of the airline. AFAR magazine named Minicucci one of their Global Visionaries in 2019.

On March 31, 2021, Minicucci was elected president and chief executive officer of Alaska Air Group, succeeding Brad Tilden.

Civic engagement 
Minicucci is on board of directors for Airlines for America, UNCF Seattle, World Trade Center Seattle, Challenge Seattle, Washington Roundtable, and the University of Washington Foster School of Business Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking Advisory Board.

Personal life 
Minicucci became a U.S. citizen in 2012. He also has a brother Pasquale, (Pat) who had a very successful career in the banking sector in Toronto. 
He lives in Issaquah, Washington.

References 

1967 births
Living people
Alaska Air Group people
Businesspeople from Montreal
Canadian emigrants to the United States
Harvard Business School alumni
Royal Military College of Canada alumni
Air Canada people
People from Issaquah, Washington
Canadian people of Italian descent
American people of Italian descent
Nan-Wei Gong. Nan-Wei Gong is an American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur whose work focuses on wearable technology. She is the founder and CEO of FIGUR8, a company focused on better technologies and hardware platforms to diagnose and treat musculoskeletal and orthopedic injuries.

Education 
Gong earned her master's degree in 2009 and her PhD degree in 2013 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts  in the Responsive Environments Group in the MIT Media Lab advised by Joseph Paradiso. In 2013 Gong was part of a team that won the Robert P. Goldberg $100,000 grand prize at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. The team created "new sensor-level software that recognizes three-dimensional gestures on small, battery-powered, mobile devices." Gong worked in MIT's Media Lab as a research assistant for seven years.

Career 
Gong founded Circular2, a technology consulting company in 2014. Gong is a co-inventor of a device for "sensing floor for locating people and devices. A patent was issued to Microsoft for this invention in 2015. Gong co-founded FIGUR8, a company that develops wearable technology that can assess the musculoskeletal system in minutes. This technology allows for better accessibility and visibility of soft-tissue recovery and treatment planning compared to MRI's and X-Ray scans.

References 

National Tsing Hua University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Mesfin Tasew Bekele. Mesfin Tasew Bekele is an Ethiopian businessman, electrical and communications engineer, who serves as the group chief executive officer of the Ethiopian Airlines Group, since 24 March 2022.

Before that, between 2021 and March 2022, Mesfin T. Bekele was the CEO of Asky Airlines, a private Togolese airline, in which the Ethiopian Airlines Group is a strategic partner, maintains a 40 percent ownership and is the largest shareholder.

Background and education
Bekele is an Ethiopian national. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, obtained from Addis Ababa University. His second degree, a Master of Science in Communications Engineering was also awarded by Addis Ababa University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree, obtained from the Open University, in the United Kingdom.

Career
For the 11 years between 2010 and 2021, Bekele was the chief operations officer (COO) of the Ethiopian Airlines Group, based at the group headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital city. Having joined the airline in 1984, he has served in various roles, including in airline engineering, maintenance and management. Other areas include "aircraft procurement, flight operations and strategic development".

As CEO of Ethiopian Airlines Group, he will lead over 17,000 employees, replacing Tewolde Gebremariam, the previous CEO, who retired on 23 March 2022, for health reasons.

See also
 Girma Wake
 Tewolde Gebremariam
 Mohammed Ahmed
 Ahmed Kellow

References

External links
 Official Website of Ethiopian Airlines

Living people
1960s births
Ethiopian chief executives
Ethiopian engineers
Ethiopian electrical engineers
Ethiopian businesspeople
Ethiopian business executives
Ethiopian Airlines
Addis Ababa University alumni
Alumni of the Open University
O-Cresyl glycidyl ether. o-Cresyl glycidyl ether (ortho-cresyl glycidyl ether, o-CGE) is a liquid aromatic organic chemical compound and chemically a glycidyl ether. It has the formula C10H12O2 and the CAS Registry Number 2210-79-9.  It is one of a number of glycidyl ethers available commercially that are used to reduce the viscosity of epoxy resins. These are then further used in coatings, sealants, adhesives, composites and elastomers.

Uses
The main use of o-CGE is to reduce the viscosity of epoxy resins. These reduced viscosity resins may then be used to formulate coatings including UV cured versions. It is a monofunctional diluent and so in polymer science terms is a chain terminator. Chain extenders (f = 2) and cross linkers (f ≥ 3) are low molecular weight di or tri-functional epoxy diluents. The use of the diluent does effect mechanical properties and microstructure of epoxy resins. As it has glycidyl functionality, it is classed as a Reactive diluent.

Other names
o-CGE is known by a number of other names. These include: 
 Oxirane, 2-[(2-methylphenoxy)methyl]-
 Propane, 1,2-epoxy-3-(o-tolyloxy)-
 Oxirane, [(2-methylphenoxy)methyl]-
 2-[(2-Methylphenoxy)methyl]oxirane
 1-(o-Methylphenoxy)-2,3-epoxypropane

Toxicology
The material is a skin irritant and skin sensitizer. The toxicology has been reasonably well studied. It is REACH registered and produced or imported into the European Union in quantities greater than one thousand tonnes per annum.

See also
 Epoxide
 Glycidol

References

Further reading

External Websites
  Hexion HELOXY™ 62 | Miller-Stephenson
 RoyOxy® RAD 100 O-cresyl Glycidyl Ether 
  PARCHEM o-CGE

Glycidyl ethers
Reactive diluents