Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Engineering and Technology Bulletin Board - 2013



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1 October

Details of New Ship Project - STREAM 5000 LNG Container Vessel


15 September 2013
Engineers' Day Celebration in India

World's Largest Solar Powered Boat

Virgin Galactic Completes Second VSS Enterprise Rocket Test Flight

On Sept. 5,  SpaceShipTwo achieved supersonic flight hitting mach 1.43 during its climb from its release point at 42,000 feet to 69,000 feet (21 km) over the Mojave Desert. In addition to achieving the highest altitude and greatest speed to date, the test flight demonstrated the vehicle's full technical mission profile in a single flight for the first time ... All of the test objectives were successfully completed.
http://www.dailytech.com/Virgin+Galactic+Completes+Second+VSS+Enterprise+Rocket+Test+Flight/article33330.htm

Researchers Improve Solar Capture with Materials that Enhance Scattering of Light
http://www.dailytech.com/Researchers+Improve+Solar+Capture+with+Materials+that+Enhance+Scattering+of+Light/article33345.htm


7 September 2013

Boeing 787 - Engineering Achievement 2013
BMW i3 - Latest Commercialised Engineering Achievement - 2013
World's Biggest Ship in 2013 - The Triple E Class

Japanese Maglev Train Begins Full Speed Testing at 310 mph (500+ kmph)
http://www.dailytech.com/Japanese+Maglev+Train+Begins+Full+Speed+Testing+at+310+mph/article33281.htm
Also see China's 500+ kmph unveiled in 2011
http://www.dailytech.com/China+Unveils+310+MPH+HighSpeed+Test+Train+/article23596.htm

Future of Factory Automation
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Baxter Robots

14.6.2013

Hyperloop - New Transportation Technology
http://nraoetkc.blogspot.com/2013/08/hyperloop-new-transportation-technology.html

6 August 2013

Open Source Hardware

Snap-on Industrial Announces Launch of the Revolutionary C-Tech Industrial Torque Wrench at SPE Offshore
http://www.industrytoday.co.uk/engineering/snap-on-industrial-announces-launch-of-the-revolutionary-c-tech-wrench-at-spe-offshore/25436



5 August 2013

 Nanotechnology to produce thin films with special quantum effects.

In traditional semiconductor cells, such as polycrystalline silicon solar cells a single photon can only excite a single exciton.  Typically photons from our sun have more than twice the amount of energy needed to excite one electron, so in these materials after excitation this extra energy is lost.  Thus the maximum theoretical efficiency of traditional thin film cells is around 45 percent.

Nanotechnology can be used to produce thin films with special quantum effects. One major research push is to work on the exciton generation, in so-called "excitonic solar cells" such as quantum-dot based dye-sentized solar cells (DSSCs) and other new/exotic material cells.  The goal here is  to find materials that create multiple excitons from a single photon, a phenomena known as MEG (multiple-exciton generation).  The LLNL  work (study) made layers of ordered nanopillars about 50 nanometers in width and between 250 and 1400 nanometers (1.4 µm) in height.  Nanowire thin films of gold, aluminum, and silver were tested. The study indicated that taller nanowires perform the best.  And surprisingly the aluminum -- while more reflective (88% avg. reflection) than gold (74%) in unpatterned flat films -- performs the best in black metal films, covering the broadest array of spectrum including the entire visible range.

http://www.dailytech.com/National+Lab+Researchers+Make+Sweet+Solar+Symphony+With+Black+Metal/article33079.htm

29 July 2013
BMW Officially Announces $41,350 USD All-Electric i3
BMW announced today that the electric i3 will go on sale in the U.S. during the second quarter of 2014.
http://www.dailytech.com/BMW+Officially+Announces+41350+USD+AllElectric+i3/article33061.htm

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