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Fluid Equipment Development Company. Fluid Equipment Development Company (FEDCO) is a Michigan-based designer and manufacturer of high-pressure feed pumps and brine energy recovery devices (ERDs) for brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) and seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) systems.  With over 3,500 units in service, FEDCO pumps and ERDs can be found on 6 continents, specifically in areas with little freshwater and rainfall or dense populations.  Reverse osmosis (RO) applications including SWRO plants, boiler feedwater, oil platforms, ocean liners, military systems, hotels and resorts.

RO is most commonly used to make potable water from sea-water by removing salt and other impurities.  In other cases it is used to purify water for cleaning of sensitive materials/parts and electrical power generation.

The RO process requires one or several high-pressure pumps and an energy and dollar saving ERD.  The FEDCO patented MSS and HPB (ERD) has propelled the company's remarkable growth.

History 
In the early 1980s, Eli Oklejas was chief R&D hydraulic designer and head of the R&D lab at a major pump company. He was assigned the task of testing a piston-type RO energy recovery device. After dealing with several failures and being frustrated by the overall system complexity, he proposed development of a turbocharger device to boost the feed pressure using brine hydraulic energy, however, the idea was not pursued.

Mr. Oklejas left to co-found Pump Engineering, Inc. where he served as president and he led the effort to develop turbochargers for RO applications until his departure in 1996. FEDCO was founded in 1997 as a partnership between Osmonics, Inc. and Eli Oklejas. FEDCO's goal was to develop innovative high-pressure pumps and energy recovery devices.

General Electric became FEDCO's partner from 2003 through 2006.

Currently, FEDCO is 100% privately owned and has continued its focus on its growth in Michigan, innovation, quality and cost-effective solutions for pumping and energy recovery. This effort culminated with the introduction of the Hydraulic Pressure Booster (HPB) and the MSS series of high pressure feed pumps. Mr. Oklejas continues to serve as president of FEDCO as well as leading the development of several new pump and energy recovery product lines reaching new industry benchmarks.

In June 2012, FEDCO and Torishima Pump Manufacturing of Osaka, Japan announced the formation of Advanced Pumps International, a 50/50 joint venture company that will focus on developing and manufacturing pumping equipment for the oil and gas industries. The joint venture will be based in Monroe, Michigan, and plans to begin operations in the fall of 2012. Its products will be manufactured in accordance with API standards for a wide range of oil industry applications.

The success of FEDCO continues and its developments have been highlighted on the CBS' Eye on America.   The segment, on business and technology, focuses on the increasing need for potable water and describes how energy recovery is playing a significant role in the selection of process equipment.

Gallery

References 

Energy recovery
Manufacturing companies based in Michigan
JCP Executive Committee. The JCP Executive Committee (EC) is the group of members guiding the evolution of  Java technology in the Java Community Process (JCP). The EC represents both major stakeholders and a representative cross-section of the Java Community. It is composed of 16 JCP members plus a non-voting chair. The chair of the EC is a member of the Process Management Office (PMO). The 16 voting members are selected from JCP members.

The EC is responsible for approving the passage of specifications through key points of the JCP and for reconciling discrepancies between specifications and their associated test suites. There were originally two ECs: the SE/EE EC oversees the Java technologies for the desktop/server space (with responsibility for the Java SE and Java EE specifications) and the ME EC oversees the Java technologies for the consumer/embedded space (with responsibility for the Java ME specification).

The two ECs were merged in August 2012, with the passage of JSR 355. The current membership consists of large Java vendors, such as Oracle, IBM, HP, Fujitsu & Red Hat. Also represented are "end-user" companies, including Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse & TOTVS. Two Java User Groups, SouJava and the London Java Community also hold seats, as does the Eclipse Foundation.

Responsibilities
Each Executive Committee is expected to:

 Select  Java Specification Requests (JSR) for development within the JCP.
 Approve draft specifications for public review.
 Give final approval to completed specifications and their associated  Reference Implementations (RI) and Technology Compatibility Kits (TCK).
 Decide appeals of first-level TCK test challenges.
 Review maintenance revisions and possibly require some to be carried out in a new JSR.
 Approve transfer of maintenance duties between members.
 Provide guidance to the PMO.

References
 JCP Executive Committee information at the Java Community Process web site.
 JCP 2 Process Document, Appendix A: Executive Committee Policies and Procedures.

Java platform
Gary Works. The Gary Works is a major steel mill in Gary, Indiana, on the shore of Lake Michigan. For many years, the Gary Works was the world's largest steel mill, and it remains the largest integrated mill in North America. It is operated by U.S. Steel.

The Gary Works includes both steelmaking and finishing facilities as an integrated mill, and has an annual capacity of 8.2 million tons. It contains:

 Four blast furnaces
 Three top-blown basic oxygen process (BOP) vessels 
 Three bottom-blown BOP (Q-BOP) vessels
 Vacuum degasser
 Three ladle metallurgy facilities
 Four continuous slab casters
 An 84" hot strip mill
 Hot-rolled temper mill
 Both 80" and 84" pickle lines
 A 52" six-stand and an 80" five-stand cold-reduction mills
 Electrolytic cleaning line
 Three batch annealing facilities
 A 38" continuous annealing line
 An 80" one-stand, a 48" two-stand, and an 84" two-stand temper mills
 A 48" two-stand double cold-reduction mill
 A 37" and a 46" electrolytic tinning lines
Pig Iron Caster

The Gary Works was under construction from 1906 to 1908, and the first shipment of iron ore was unloaded on June 23, 1908. About  of sand were moved in the process of constructing the plant.

The Gary Works remains Gary's largest single employer and a key element of the city's tax base, but employment levels have fallen substantially since the mid-20th century; the plant and allied facilities employed over 30,000 people in the early 1970s, but only 6,000 in 1990, 5,000 in 2015, 2,500 in 2021, and 2,246 in 2023. The plant is also a central part of the city's geography; its main entrance is at the northern end of Broadway, the city's main thoroughfare.

References

Further reading

External links

Economy of Gary, Indiana
Ironworks and steel mills in the United States
Industrial buildings and structures in Indiana
U.S. Steel
Sopwith Rhino. The Sopwith 2B2 Rhino was a British two-seat triplane bomber designed and built by Sopwith Aviation Company as a private venture. The Rhino was powered by a  Galloway Adriatic inline piston engine. Only two aircraft were built and the type did not enter production.

Development and design
In mid-1917, the Sopwith Aviation Company prepared a design for a single-engine bomber aircraft, the Sopwith Rhino.  As it did not match any official specification, it received no orders from the Royal Flying Corps or Royal Naval Air Service, but Sopwith was granted a licence to allow it to build two prototypes as private ventures.

The Rhino was a single bay tractor triplane with ailerons fitted to all three sets of wings. It had a deep fuselage, which accommodated an internal bomb-bay capable of carrying 450 lb (205 kg) of bombs in a self-contained pack that could be loaded with bombs separately and then winched into the aircraft to allow rapid re-arming. Defensive armament was a synchronised Vickers machine gun firing through the propeller disc, while the observer in the rear cockpit had a Lewis gun on a pillar mount. It was powered by a 230 hp (172 kW) BHP inline engine driving a two-bladed propeller, cooled by radiators each side of the fuselage.

The first prototype made its maiden flight at Brooklands in October 1917, with initial testing showing it to be nose heavy and subject to engine overheating. The second prototype, which differed in having the primitive pillar mounting for the observer's gun replaced by a more modern scarff ring, joined it for official testing at Martlesham Heath in February and March 1918.  Performance was unimpressive, with the aircraft having a poor ceiling and low speed, and it was rejected as a service type.  The two Rhinos were then used as testbeds for development of propellers.

Specifications

References

Notes
 Mason considers these dimensions suspect and suggests a length of 30 ft 3 in (9.22 m) and span of 41 ft (12.5 m), although it states that these numbers are also suspect.

1910s British bomber aircraft
Rhino
Aircraft first flown in 1917
Triplanes
Martinsyde F.1. 

The Martinsyde F.1 was a British two-seat biplane fighter designed and built by Martinsyde Limited, only two prototypes were built.

Design and development
The F.1 was designed as a fighter for the Royal Flying Corps and it was a large tractor biplane powered by a  Rolls-Royce Mk III piston engine. It had two tandem open cockpits with unusually the observer forward and the pilot behind. A rectangular aperture was cut-out of the upper wing  above the observer's cockpit which would allow the observer to use a gun. It was tested at Martlesham Heath in July 1917, where it demonstrated good handling but was criticised for the awkward crew arrangement. It was not ordered into production and only one prototype (of two ordered) was built. It continued in use at Farnborough until after the end of the war.

Specifications

References

Notes

Bibliography

F.1
1910s British fighter aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1917
Mercury Kitten. 

The Mercury Kitten (also known as the Aerial Kitten) was an American three-seat cabin monoplane designed and built by Mercury Aircraft Inc. in the late 1920s. Flown for the first time in 1928 only one was built.

Design
The Kitten was a three-seat high wing cabin monoplane powered by a  Mummert piston engine. It was constructed with welded steel tubing with fabric covering. It was later re-engined with a  Warner Scarab engine. The Kitten was scrapped in 1946.

Specifications

External links
Link to image of a Mercury Kitten
General Aviation News 2012 April 25, "Flying on wings of mercury"

References

Notes

Bibliography

1920s United States civil utility aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1928
Yamaha YMF292. The YMF292, aka SCSP (Saturn Custom Sound Processor) is a multi-function sound chip developed by Yamaha for the Sega Saturn, and was also used in Sega's arcade version of the Saturn, the ST-V, along with the Model 2 and Model 3.

For sound generation, the SCSP contains 32 sound generators which can function in either FM synthesis or PCM digital audio mode.  The sound generation hardware is then fed into the FH-1 128-step sound effects Digital Signal Processor, which includes 16 sound effect presets.  Finally each audio channel is mixed together, with fully configurable channel combining for various levels of FM generation complexity.  This allowed the channels to modulate each other, in practice four generators were connected at a time but all 32 generators could be combined into one channel if desired.  The SCSP also included a 7-level interrupt controller.

The SCSP is generally controlled via a dedicated external processor; in the case of Sega hardware, a Motorola 68EC000 is used.  Also included alongside is a RAM chip for storing digital audio data and sound programming, and an external DAC chip.

In comparison to the sound hardware in other video game systems of the time, the SCSP lacked any sort of hardware audio decompression.

References 
Saturn SCSP User's Manual

Sound chips
Video game music technology
IEEE Magnetics Letters. IEEE Magnetics Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was started in January 2010. It covers the physics and engineering of magnetism, magnetic materials, applied magnetics, design and application of magnetic devices, biomagnetics, magneto-electronics, and spin electronics. It publishes short articles of up to five pages in length and is a hybrid open access journal. The editor-in-chief is Massimiliano d'Aquino (University of Naples Federico II).

References

External links
 

Engineering journals
English-language journals
Hybrid open access journals
Magnetics Letters
Materials science journals
Academic journals established in 2010
Physics journals
Alf Gooding. Alfred Gooding  (died 29 January 2018) was a Welsh entrepreneur. Over a fifty-year period, he founded companies in the construction and electronics sectors.

Gooding was born in Risca, South Wales, the son of a miner. In the 1950s he started Modern Building Wales Limited which built 7,000 houses across Wales.  His most famous venture is Catnic, the company credited with developing the steel lintel for the building industry. In 1982, the company was involved in a House of Lords case, Catnic Components Ltd v Hill & Smith Ltd. Gooding sold it the following year, making a personal profit of £9 million. Another company, Race Electronics, was founded in the 1980s in partnership with Japanese business interests.

Gooding was chairman of CBI Wales. He was awarded with a fellowship from the University of Wales, Newport, in 2010.

In 2007, Gooding organised a bid to buy the troubled bank Northern Rock.

In 2014, the house in Rhiwderin, near Newport, where Gooding, then 82, lived with his wife Lavinia was destroyed by fire; the couple escaped unharmed.

References 

Year of birth missing
20th-century births
2018 deaths
High sheriffs of Gwent
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People from Risca
20th-century Welsh businesspeople
21st-century Welsh businesspeople
John H. Sinfelt. John H. Sinfelt (February 18, 1931, in Munson, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania – May 28, 2011, in Morristown, New Jersey) was an American chemical engineer whose research on catalytic reforming was responsible for the introduction of unleaded gasoline.

Sinfelt worked for the Standard Oil Development Company (now Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering), where he specialized in developing techniques to speed up chemical reactions. He later patented that method.

Honors and awards
1975 National Academy of Engineering
1977 Dickson Prize in Science
1978 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
1979 National Medal of Science
1979 elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
1989 elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1984 Perkin Medal
1984 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal
1986 E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
1988 Chemical Pioneer Award
1994 elected to the American Philosophical Society

References

1931 births
2011 deaths
American chemical engineers
National Medal of Science laureates
Businesspeople from Pennsylvania
Penn State College of Engineering alumni
University of Illinois alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
20th-century American businesspeople

Members of the American Philosophical Society
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM, pronounced ) is an annual computer science research conference dedicated to information management (IM) and knowledge management (KM). Since the first event in 1992, the conference has evolved into one of the major forums for research on database management, information retrieval, and knowledge management. The conference is noted for its interdisciplinarity, as it brings together communities that otherwise often publish at separate venues. Recent editions have attracted well beyond 500 participants. In addition to the main research program, the conference also features a number of workshops, tutorials, and industry presentations.

For many years, the conference was held in the US. Since 2005, venues in other countries have been selected as well.

Locations 
 1992: Baltimore, Maryland, US
 1993: Washington, D.C., US
 1994: Gaithersburg, Maryland, US
 1995: Baltimore, Maryland, US
 1996: Rockville, Maryland, US
 1997: Las Vegas, Nevada, US
 1998: Bethesda, Maryland, US
 1999: Kansas City, Missouri, US
 2000: Washington, D.C., US
 2001: Atlanta, Georgia, US
 2002: McLean, Virginia, US
 2003: New Orleans, Louisiana, US
 2004: Washington, D.C., US
 2005: Bremen, Germany
 2006: Arlington, Virginia, US
 2007: Lisbon, Portugal 
 2008: Napa Valley, California, US
 2009: Hong Kong, China
 2010: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 2011: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
 2016: Indianapolis, US
 2017: Singapore, Singapore
 2018: Turin, Italy
 2019: Beijing, China
 2020: Galway, Ireland
 2021: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (Online)
 2022: Atlanta, Georgia, US
 2023: Birmingham, UK
 2024: Boise, Idaho, US

See also
 SIGIR Conference

References

External links 
 

Computer science conferences
Association for Computing Machinery conferences
Superdense carbon allotropes. Superdense carbon allotropes are proposed configurations of carbon atoms that result in a stable material with a higher density than diamond. Few hypothetical carbon allotropes denser than diamond are known. All these allotropes can be divided at two groups: the first are hypothetically stable at ambient conditions; the second are high-pressure carbon allotropes which become quasi-stable only at high pressure.

Ambient conditions
According to the SACADA
database, the first group comprises the structures, called hP3, tI12, st12, r8, I41/a, P41212, m32, m32*, t32, t32*, H-carbon and uni. Among them, st12 carbon was proposed as far as 1987 in the work of R. Biswas et al.

High-pressure carbon

The following allotropes belong to the second group: MP8, OP8, SC4, BC-8 and (9,0). These are hypothetically quasi-stable at the high pressure. BC-8 carbon is not only a superdense allotrope but also one of the oldest hypothetical carbon structures; initially it was proposed in 1984 in the work R. Biswas et al. The MP8 structure proposed in the work J. Sun et al. is almost two times denser than diamond; its density is as high as 7.06 g/cm3 and it is the highest value reported so far.

Band gaps
All hypothetical superdense carbon allotropes have dissimilar band gaps compared to the others. For example, SC4 is supposed to be a metallic allotrope while st12, m32, m32*, t32, t32* have band gaps larger than 5.0 eV.

Carbon tetrahedra
These new materials would have structures based on carbon tetrahedra, and represent the densest of such structures. On the opposite end of the density spectrum is a recently theorized tetrahedral structure called T-carbon. This is obtained by replacing carbon atoms in diamond with carbon tetrahedra. In contrast to superdense allotropes, T-carbon would have very low density and hardness.

References

External links
 SACADA - Samara Carbon Allotrope Database

Allotropes of carbon
Mazinger Z (1993 video game). is 1993 action platformer video game developed by Winkysoft and published by Bandai for the Super Famicom exclusively in Japan. It is based on the manga of the same name by Go Nagai.

Gameplay
Mazinger Z is a side-scrolling, action platformer.

Development and release
Mazinger Z was developed by Winkysoft, which had previously featured the franchise in early entries of the Super Robot Wars series on other Nintendo consoles. The game was released exclusively in Japan by Bandai on June 25, 1993.

Reception
The Japanese magazine Famitsu gave it a score of 17 out of 40 while the Italian magazine Computer+Videogiochi gave it a score of 92%.

References

External links
Mazinger Z at MobyGames

1993 video games
Bandai games
Japan-exclusive video games
Mazinger
Platformers
Science fiction video games
Side-scrolling video games
Single-player video games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video games about mecha
Video games based on anime and manga
Video games developed in Japan
Winkysoft games
Rehbinder effect. In physics, the Rehbinder effect is the reduction in the hardness and ductility of a material, particularly metals, by a surfactant film. The effect is named for Soviet scientist , who discovered the effect in 1928.

A proposed explanation for this effect is the disruption of surface oxide films, and the reduction of surface energy by surfactants.

The effect is of particular importance in machining, as lubricants reduce cutting forces.

References

Further reading

 

Condensed matter physics
Surface science
IWG. IWG may refer to:

 Inch of Water Gauge, pressure unit corresponding to 2.54 cmH2O or approximately 249 Pa
"I Wanna Go", song by Britney Spears
Interagency Working Group such as the 
Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group
Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs
IWG plc, a global provider of office space
Irish Workers' Group
Super Air Diver. , also known as Lock On in North America, is a jet fighter video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the follow-up to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis-exclusive Air Diver.

Summary
After a vicious warlord threatens the nations of the world with a massive military invasion, the United Nations have recruited an experienced pilot by the name of Jake Steel in order to bring peace back to the world.

The player participates in a variety of missions against both air and ground forces and can fly in four different aircraft (the British made Panavia Tornado ADV, the Japanese Mitsubishi F-2 fighter, the A-10 Thunderbolt II and the F-14 Tomcat). The player can use the strengths of each airplane to their advantage along with their powerful weaponry such as M61 Vulcans cannons and heat seeking missiles against enemy jet fighters, tanks and other various enemies scattered throughout each mission.

This game supports Mode 7.

A sequel Super Air Diver 2 was released exclusively in Japan for the Super Famicom.

Sequel

 is the Japan-exclusive sequel to the Super Famicom video game Super Air Diver.

The general idea of the game is that the player is launched into a 3D war zone with the task of flying a fighter jet. The player must defeat enemies with various weapons like missiles and gunfire as quickly as possible while obtaining as little damage as possible. Altitude is judged in feet while speed is judged in the plane's Mach number. The player is given the choice between two Western-made aircraft: a F-15E Strike Eagle or a Mirage 2000.

The game was also planned to be released in North America as Lock On 2, but was cancelled for unknown reasons.

Famitsu gave it 22/40.

See also
 Asmik Ace

Notes

References

1993 video games
Asmik Ace Entertainment games
Combat flight simulators
Copya Systems games
Flight simulation video games
Single-player video games
Sunsoft games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Vic Tokai games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Akihiko Mori