omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
ROMeo (process optimizer). ROMeoRigorous Online Modelling and Equation Based Optimization is an advanced online chemical process optimizer of SimSci, a brand of Aveva software It is mainly used by process engineers in the chemical, petroleum and natural gas industries.

It includes a chemical component library, thermodynamic property prediction methods, and unit operations such as distillation columns, heat exchangers, compressors, and reactors as found in the chemical processing industries.
It can perform steady state mass and energy balance calculations for modeling, simulating and optimizing continuous processes.

ROMeo 6.0 has been released with increased access to native Refinery Process Models based on technology from ExxonMobil.

From ROMeo 7.0, ROMeo changed from 32 bit to 64bit.

ROMeo changed the name to AVEVA Process Optimization from 2020 version.

See also
List of chemical process simulators

References

External links 
 Official ROMeo Website
 Invensys and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company Sign Licensing Agreement for Refinery Process Models

Chemical engineering software
Magnar G. Huseby. Magnar Gunnbjørn Huseby (14 December 1928 – 2 July 2011) was a Norwegian engineer and politician for the Conservative Party.

He was born in Åsen as a son of Nils Husby (1890–1964), who managed an electricity works. His mother Gurine Olsen Lund (1896–1989) was a housewife, but also a cafe owner. Magnar Huseby followed in his father's footsteps. He finished his secondary education in Levanger in 1948, was an apprentice from 1947 to 1950 and attended Trondheim Technical School from 1950 to 1952. He then worked as an engineer in Trondheim Energiverk from 1952 to 1979.

He was a member of the municipal council of Trondheim Municipality from 1967 to 1983, serving as kommunalråd from 1979 to 1981. He was also a school board member from 1971 to 1975. He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Sør-Trøndelag during the term 1977–1981. He was then elected in the 1981 Norwegian parliamentary election and re-elected in the 1985 Norwegian parliamentary election. During both terms he was a member of the Standing Committee on Local Government and the Environment.

He was very active in the Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists and became an honorary member in 1981. He was elected to his first position here in 1953, and ended his last tenure in 1994. He was a board member from 1964 to 1968, then a supervisory council member until 1980 (chairing it from 1973 to 1976). He was also active in the Norwegian Polytechnic Society, where he received honorary membership of the local branch in 1997.

After retiring from the professional life in 1994 he was engaged in the well-being of pensioners. He was deputy chair of Ung i dag, gammel i morgen from 1994 to 1998, board member of the Norwegian Pensioners' Association from 2002 to 2007 and a member of the National Council of Senior Citizens from 2002 to 2006. He was also a lay judge in Trondheim City Court and Frostating Court of Appeal between 1995 and 1999. He died in July 2011.

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1928 births
2011 deaths
People from Levanger
Norwegian electrical engineers
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Politicians from Trondheim
Engineers from Trondheim
Members of the Storting 1985–1989
Members of the Storting 1981–1985
Schleicher Ka-4 Rhönlerche II. The Schleicher Ka-4 Rhönlerche II (), sometimes called the KA-4 or even K 4, is a West German high-wing, strut-braced, two-seat glider that was designed by Rudolf Kaiser and produced by Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co.

Design and development
The Rhönlerche II was first flown 7 December 1953. Its design goals were to produce a simple, inexpensive and robust two-seat trainer for school and club use. The design was a success and several hundred were constructed.

The Rhönlerche II is constructed with a welded steel tube fuselage and a wooden wing and tail surfaces, all finished in doped aircraft fabric covering. The  span wing is supported by single lift struts and employs a Goettingen 533 airfoil. The aircraft's landing gear is a fixed monowheel, with a nose skid.

The aircraft was issued a US type certificate on 28 September 1960.

Operational history
The Ka-4 was widely used by clubs and schools in West Germany and also by Canadian military gliding clubs stationed in West Germany, including the Lahr Gliding Club at CFB Lahr. One of these aircraft was later shipped to Canada and operated by the Cold Lake Gliding Club at CFB Cold Lake and in July 2011 was owned by the Gravelbourg Gliding And Soaring Club, Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan.

In July 2011 there were still five Ka-4s on the United States Federal Aviation Administration aircraft registry.

Aircraft on display

Aviodrome - 3
Technikmuseum Speyer
US Southwest Soaring Museum - 2
Austrian Aviation Museum

Specifications (Ka-4)

See also

Notes

References

External links

1950s German sailplanes
Schleicher aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1953
Hydrocycle. A hydrocycle is a bicycle-like watercraft. The concept was known in the 1870s as a water velocipede and the name was in use by the late 1890s.

Power is collected from the rider via a crank with pedals, as on a bicycle, and delivered to the water or the air via a propeller. Seating may be upright or recumbent, and multiple riders may be accommodated in tandem or side-by-side.

Buoyancy is provided by two or more pontoons or a single surfboard, and some have hydrofoils that can lift the flotation devices out of the water.

Brands include Seacycle, Hydrobike, Water Bike, Seahorse (Cross Trek)  and itBike. Kits exist to temporarily convert an existing bicycle into a hydrocycle.

See also
Human-powered watercraft
List of solar-powered boats
Pedalo

References

Human-powered vehicles
Boat types
Cycle types
Low-temperature thermal desalination. Low-temperature thermal desalination (LTTD) is a desalination technique which takes advantage of the fact that water evaporates at lower temperatures at low pressures, even as low as ambient temperature. The system uses vacuum pumps to create a low pressure, low-temperature environment in which water evaporates even at a temperature difference of  between two volumes of water. Cooling water is supplied from deep sea depths of as much as . This cold water is pumped through coils to condense the evaporated water vapor. The resulting condensate is purified water.

Using waste heat
The LTTD process may also take advantage of the temperature gradient available at thermal power plants, where large quantities of warm cooling water are discharged from the plant, reducing the energy input needed to create a temperature gradient. This technique of making use of waste heat is a form of cogeneration.

History
The principle of LTTD has been known for some time, originally stemming from ocean thermal energy conversion research. Some experiments were conducted in the U.S. and Japan to test low-temperature-driven desalination technology. In Japan, a spray flash evaporation system was developed by Saga University. In the U.S. state of Hawai'i, the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority tested an open-cycle OTEC plant with cogeneration of fresh water and electric energy, using a temperature difference of  between surface water and water at a depth of around .

Research in India and pilot plants
LTTD was studied by India's National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) from 2004. Their first LTTD plant was opened in 2005 at Kavaratti in the Lakshadweep islands. The plant's capacity is /day, at a capital cost of  (€922,000). The plant uses deep sea water at a temperature of . In 2007, NIOT opened an experimental floating LTTD plant off the coast of Chennai with a capacity of /day. A smaller plant was established in 2009 at the North Chennai Thermal Power Station (a coal-fired power plant) to test the concept using power plant cooling water.

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Water desalination
Broburn Wanderlust. The Broburn Wanderlust was a small, wooden, single-seat glider designed in the United Kingdom just after World War II. Only one was built, though it was well used.

Design and development

The Wanderlust glider was designed and built by T. E. Brown and K. W. Radburn, two employees of Miles Aircraft, immediately after World War II. It was a single-seat, all-wood, shoulder-wing aircraft, with a short span for a glider of  though with an aspect ratio of over 15.

The wing of the Wanderlust was built around a single spar, which with plywood skin around the leading edge formed a torsion box. Behind the spar the wing was fabric covered. There was 4° of dihedral and 2° of washout. The trailing edge was spanned with aerofoil section flaps, split into two equal sections. Inboard, these acted as simple flaps; outboard, additionally, as drooping ailerons. The two NACA airfoil sections used in the wing were chosen because they have centres of pressure that vary little with the angle of incidence, which increases when the flaps are deployed.  The Wanderlust also had upper surface spoilers hinged on the wing spar at about quarter span.

The rest of the Wanderlust was plywood skinned, with a cockpit which could be open or enclosed in a bubble hood. The fuselage tapered aft, with the tailplane mounted on top and the small fin behind it. The elevators, with individual trim tabs, moved either side of the fin and the rudder was hinged behind their trailing edges.  Both elevators and rudder were horn balanced. The Wanderlust landed on a pneumatically-mounted central skid.

Operational history
Despite hopes of marketing the Wanderlust in finished and in kit form, only one was made.  This was flown by many pilots including Lorne Welch.  It was in at store at RAE Farnborough about 1970 and later donated to the Museum of Berkshire Aviation.

Aircraft on display
Museum of Berkshire Aviation - sole example

Specifications

References

1940s British sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1946
Abang (orangutan). Abang was an orangutan taught to make stone tools, as a part of a research experiment to determine if this ability is a characteristic unique to humans, the genus Homo, or to the family Hominidae.

Early life 
Abang was illegally captured in Sarawak when he was about a year old.  After being confiscated by authorities, he was taken with a female, Dayang, to England in 1967 and kept in Bristol Zoo.

Experiment

Aim and setup 
The aim of the experiment was to teach an ape subject, through imitative learning, to use a stone to hammer a flake from a flint and use this flake as a tool to open a box. The experiment was divided into two stages where the subject was given demonstrations and then given the opportunity to do the activity themselves.  The aim of the first stage was to get an ape to cut a cord to open a box, using a pre-made flake.  The second stage's aim was for the ape to make their own flakes and open the box with them. The demonstration and attempts were done with a sheet aluminium box. A mesh window made the food visible. The box had a lid secured by a cord inside the box, with the cord accessible via a slot.

Timeline 
The experiment started in 1971. The experimental sessions were conducted in an indoor part of the ape's cage, initially with both Abang and Dayang present. After they proved to be a distraction to each other, only Abang was used as a subject. Stage I was conducted in four sessions from March 5 to March 19 with success observed at the end of the second session.  Stage II was conducted in seven sessions from March 23 to April 16, with success observed in the sixth session.

Conclusion 
In the opinion of the researcher, while the experiment showed, “… a case of imitative learning it would be misleading to think of Abang's behavior solely as parrot-fashion learning.  … apes possess random exploratory activity and innovations which can lead to new successes.”

See also 
Animal intelligence
Chantek
List of individual apes
Tool use by animals

References

External links 
 Orangutans' Intelligence

Primatology
Individual orangutans
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (T-ED) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishes original and significant contributions relating to the theory, modeling, design, performance and reliability of electron and ion integrated circuit devices and interconnects, involving insulators, metals, organic materials, micro-plasmas, semiconductors, quantum-effect structures, vacuum devices, and emerging materials with applications in bioelectronics, biomedical electronics, computation, communications, displays, microelectromechanics, imaging, micro-actuators, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, power ICs and micro-sensors. Tutorial and review papers on these subjects are also published and occasional special issues appear to present a collection of papers which treat particular areas in more depth and breadth.
 
T-ED is published by the IEEE Electron Devices Society. T-ED was established in November 1952 as the Transactions of the IRE Professional Group on Electron Devices; in 1954 issues were collected as Volume ED-1 originating the current volume numbering. From January 1955 T-ED was published as the IRE Transactions on Electron Devices and was finally the current denomination in January 1963 (Volume ED-10). Monthly issues were published starting from 1964 (Volume ED-11).

The editor-in-chief is Patrick Fay (University of Notre Dame). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.917.

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Semiconductor journals
Electron Devices, Transactions on
Electronics journals
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1954
Douglas P. Verret. Douglas Verret is the editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, and was appointed to that position in 2000. He is also member of the American Physical Society. Verret used to be a vice-chairman of the board of the College of Engineering and Computer Science of Baylor University. He has published more than twenty peer-reviewed, scientific articles.

Education
With a chosen field of study  in optical properties of metals, Douglas Verret earned an M.S. in Physics from Purdue University, and a PhD  in Experimental Solid State Physics from the University of New Orleans.

Career
He taught high school physics and math. Later, at Xavier University, he was an Assistant Professor of Physics and Pre-engineering.

In 1979 he joined Texas Instruments where he participated in producing a novel metal configuration for integrated circuits. In 1983 he became Manager of Bipolar and BiCMOS Development for Texas Instruments. At this time he is the Program Manager for Flash EEPROM development.

His research results, encompassing more than twenty scientific articles, have been published in the Journal of the Optical Society of America, the Transactions on Electron Devices, IEEE Electron Device Letters, the Proceedings of Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), International and Proceedings of Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM)

Society affiliations
He is a member of the American Physical Society, IEEE Electron Devices Society, and Sigma Xi. He is a Texas Instruments Fellow, and an IEEE Fellow.

He became an editor for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices in 1994 and this publication's editor-in-chief in the year 2000.

Verret is also a member of the IEEE Electron Device Society Publications Committee, and the IEEE TAB Periodicals Committee. At Baylor University he was a member of the board of advocates for the College of Engineering and Computer Science. For the University of Michigan and University of Florida he was a Semiconductor Research Corporation industrial mentor. In 2003 and 2010 he served on the ISQED 2010 Advisory Committee

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American magazine editors
21st-century American physicists
Living people
University of Michigan people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Banimboola Hydroelectric Power Station. Banimboola Power Station is a hydroelectric power station on the Dartmouth Dam Regulating Pond (or Banimboola Pondage), downstream of Dartmouth Dam on the Mitta Mitta River in Victoria, Australia. Banimboola has three turbo generators, with a generating capacity of  of electricity.  It is owned and operated by AGL Energy.

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Energy infrastructure completed in 2005
Hydroelectric power stations in Victoria (state)
Dams in the Murray River basin
2005 establishments in Australia
Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation. Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation was the agency of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir that provides road transport within Jammu and Kashmir and the adjacent states.

History

With the closure of Kohla Bridge in 1947, most of the trucks and buses owned by Allied  Chirag Din and Sons, Nanda Bus Service, N.D. Radhakrishan and other small transport operators got held  up on the other side of the border. The foremost challenge that the State of Jammu and Kashmir faced was the availability of essential commodities. The handful of private transporters did not come forward to meet the challenge. Their vehicles had to be commandeered to bring refugees from border areas but they did not co-operate with the State’s Emergency Administration. The non co-operating transporters were even jailed.  
The Government addressed the issue of development of road  transport immediately after assuming office which led to the birth of the first-ever Government owned transport fleet on June, Ist 1948. A handful of persons were drawn virtually from the road-side both at Jammu and Srinagar to form the management to operate the 50 trucks it acquired from General Motor Corporation, Bombay along with some accessories left by the American Company.
The Organisation was run as a government department in the early stages. Later it was named as Government Transport Undertaking. The  J&K State Road Transport Corporation (a successor to the erstwhile Government Transport Undertaking) came into existence on 1.9.1976 under Road Transport Corporation Act of  1950. 

The J&K SRTC has played a vital role in developing the economy of the State right from the date of its inception. The JKSRTC has maintained the supply of essential commodities to every nook and corner of the State very efficiently and operates passenger bus services in all the regions within the State. It also operates services on Inter-state routes in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Rajasthan.

Objectives

The main objectives of the Road Transport in the Public Sector in J&K State are summarized as under:

1. To make the transport system advantageous and convenient to the Public, kargil, Tourism, Trade, Industry and various other agencies.

2. To provide an efficient and economic Road Transport Service for the traveling public both within the State and on the Interstate routes.

3. To provide for highly integrated transport system for carriage of essential commodities of the Government agencies and under the Public Distribution System.

Fleet

At present the Corporation has total 373 buses.  On operational fleet of State Road Transport Corporation and measures to prevent the state owned corporation from bankruptcy, the government stated that there are 278 buses of JKSRTC operating on different routes of the state.

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Jammu and Kashmir (state)
Transport in Jammu and Kashmir
State road transport corporations of India
Transport companies established in 1948
Government agencies established in 1948
Indian companies established in 1948
Indian companies disestablished in 2019
GE Lighting. GE Lighting is a division of Savant Systems Inc. headquartered in Nela Park, East Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The company traces its origins to Thomas Edison's work on lighting in the 19th century.

History
In 1911, General Electric was found to have acquired three quarters of the National Electric Light Association, an association of lighting product companies through which GE had licensed its patented products; this trading arrangement was the subject of an antitrust investigation, and as a result the association was dissolved. GE subsequently acquired several of the association's member companies. These were later consolidated with the Edison lamp division.

In July 2011, GE Lighting entered a licensing agreement with Nuventix for its LED cooling technology and invested $10 million into the company. Two weeks later, the company announced its plans to buy Lightech, acquiring its LED and halogen power supplies, for a deal reportedly worth between $15 million and $20 million. On October 7, 2015, the Commercial division of GE Lighting was separated from the business and a new startup, Current, was created.

On July 1, 2020, GE Lighting was acquired by Savant Systems, a home automation company headquartered in Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States. This was General Electric's last consumer business. Neither company disclosed the price but the Wall Street Journal reported that it was $250 million.

See also
 Chicago Lighting Institute

References

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American brands
Lighting brands
Electronics companies established in 1911
American companies established in 1911
Manufacturing companies based in Ohio
Former General Electric subsidiaries
East Cleveland, Ohio
2020 mergers and acquisitions
Sally Project. Sally Project is a multimedia application framework for Windows based machines, which comes with some already pre-installed applications such as the Media Player and Image Browser. It is a touchscreen-based application framework, which can also be handled easily by mouse. The core functionality is the Media Player which allows the user to play and organize all types of multimedia files.

Sally is an open-source project and the source code can be downloaded from the Sally Project Google Code page.

UI Design 
The complete UI is designed to be handled by a single touch touchscreen. Sally does not handle any right mouse clicks. All applications are designed to execute actions by gestures. For example, scrolling in a list view works like on the iPhone by touching the list view and moving the finger up or down.

To render the UI Sally uses hardware acceleration by DirectX 9. That may cause some issues when creating themes for Sally or developing own plugins. Because plugin application are not running in their own process, the complete Sally program can crash by one bad programmed plugins.

Developer and Designer resources

SallyAPI 

With the SallyAPI it's possible to create new applications for Sally using C++ and VisualStudio. The SallyAPI is published under the LGPL licence which provides the developers with the possibility to create closed source applications with this API. That also means, that they can charge money for their work.

Currently the SallyAPI is changing very often, because not all necessary features are implemented yet. Until 1.0 of Sally is reached the SallyAPI can change with any Point release of the software.

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Multimedia frameworks