Areas Of Technological Development Research Articles

METHODS REDUCTION OF SHOCK IMPACT ON OUTPUT SIGNAL ANGULAR RATE SENSOR

In the article the urgent question of constructing a system of shock protection elements of the control system aircraft as an example of the angular velocity sensor. The means to reduce the effect of transients in the sensing element of the sensor of angular velocity after impact loads on the measurement results several times, which is sufficient for most applications of the angular velocity sensor. Particularly important are the results for the angular velocity sensor based on Carioles vibratory gyroscope is sensitive to mechanical alternating loads.The methods taken from the practice of aviation turbine vibration and industrial adapted to a new kind of technology. The authors elaborated and summarized a large amount of materials and results of scientific and technological development area. Problem statement made clear, specifying areas to solve it. Conclusions made by the authors justify the materials contained in Sections Article.The optimal means of shock and vibration protection element management systems allowed a detailed analysis of the current scientific literature. The simulation results in applied mathematics packages confirm the effectiveness of the proposed facilities. Using these tools will expand the application of low-cost devices for high accuracy measurement of mechanical quantities (angular velocity, linear acceleration) in the navigation and management of the aircraft. Inexpensive devices on new physical principles of action, such as Carioles vibratory gyroscope, fiber optic gyroscope can be made on a modern production base of domestic enterprises. Built on such devices inertial and provided the means proposed by the authors means of vibration shock protection have much lower cost than the Platform system, and will not yield to the last in terms of precision.However, these observations do not reduce the practical value of the presented work, not disclosed in the article should become material for these publications in this field.Submitted material will accelerate the further development and implementation of modern gyro technology for new types of navigation devices. The article is relevant to scientific and technical journal "Mechanics of gyroscopic systems," and may be published in it.

Technology Focus: Offshore Drilling and Completion (April 2014)

Technology Focus As the saying goes, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” And never were truer words spoken regarding the oil field and new frontiers. Indeed, as the industry significantly increases the number of work fronts in both the established and the new deepwater frontiers, ever-more-innovative approaches are being developed to address the challenges faced. However, innovation in isolation is not sufficient. As we push the envelope of application, it is a necessity that the equipment and approaches being applied be fit for purpose, robust, and engineered. In support of this, while a model is a useful tool and plays a role as part of a development process, such complex engineering can best be implemented efficiently through obtaining actual performance data, which may then be used as a basis for improvement and expanded qualification. Data play a key role in two distinct and principal areas of technology development: data that are obtained and used to demonstrate the initial qualification (surface) and in-situ performance (deployed) data that are used to calibrate simulations and models and to allow further efficiencies to be securely achieved. As a technical advisor in hydraulic fracturing and unconventionals, I fully appreciate the plan/do/measure/learn cycle because this is fundamental to our overall efficiency. However, deepwater drilling and completion operations are quite different from those in unconventionals. With few wells and much higher costs, the statistical multiwell approaches taken onshore with unconventionals simply do not apply to deepwater efforts. While approximately 20,000 unconventional wells are drilled per year in North America, fewer than 200 deepwater wells have been drilled in the Gulf of Mexico to date. This makes each opportunity to gather data in deep water particularly valuable. And the key to maximizing industry efficiency will be to make sure that data gathering is part of our everyday business. Of course, this is best achieved by embedding the opportunities to gather such data within our standard practice. In this way, we improve incrementally. The following papers provide just a small snapshot of the areas in which incremental improvements are being achieved, allowing the deepwater drilling and completions envelope to be pushed further. It is very likely that such data-driven innovation will continue to be the lifeblood of the business. JPT Recommended additional reading at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org. OTC 24275 Real-Time Drilling-Data Diagnosis Implemented in Deepwater Wells—A Reality by R.A. Gandelman, Petrobras, et al. OTC 24081 Concept Alternatives and Feasibility Analyses of Deepwater Dual-Gradient Drilling-Riser Systems by Atul Ganpatye, Stress Engineering Services, et al. SPE 166554 Low Cycle Fatigue Analysis of Threaded Connectors for Subsea Drilling and Production by B. Zhu, GE Oil and Gas, et al. SPE 166589 Structural Response Monitoring of Huntington HP Drilling and Completion Riser by A. Rimmer, 2H Offshore Engineering, et al.

GESTIÓN ESTRATÉGICA DEL CONOCIMIENTO PARA LAS EMPRESAS PERUANAS

La gestión estratégica del conocimiento requiere un equilibrio entre los conocimientos de los empleados y los recursos tecnológicos disponibles, definiendo la competitividad de la empresa. Este documento presenta las propuestas de soluciones aplicables a la gestión del conocimiento como una mejor utilización de los recursos disponibles, optimizando el ciclo de decisión en los negocios, proporcionando mayor agilidad al flujo de información y reduciendo los costos. Las principales dificultades de las empresas están en la identificación y valoración del capital intelectual, en la ausencia de una política de fomento a las ideas, de una cultura organizacional en favor del conocimiento, así como las inversiones en tecnología para trabajar en el nivel estratégico. La reestructuración de la organización, junto con un cambio en favor de una nueva cultura, crea empresas del conocimiento. La aparición de la rápida expansión de las tecnologías para la distribución y la difusión de información y conocimiento ha llevado a centrar las oportunidades para el desarrollo de redes basadas en el conocimiento, la difusión de conocimientos y tecnologías de gestión del conocimiento y sus aplicaciones potenciales para mejorar la productividad del trabajo del conocimiento. Los problemas difíciles y complejos en el futuro pueden ser mejor tratados mediante el desarrollo de la gestión del conocimiento como una nueva disciplina basada en una síntesis integradora de las ciencias duras y blandas. Una sociedad de gestión del conocimiento profesional puede ofrecer un marco para catalizar el desarrollo de la síntesis de propuestas y servir como un punto focal para la coordinación de las actividades profesionales en las áreas estratégicas de la educación, la investigación y desarrollo tecnológico. Conceptos preliminares para el desarrollo de la disciplina de gestión del conocimiento y de la sociedad profesional explorada.

On the criticality of mapping practices: Geodesign as critical GIS?

In recent years, geospatial design (or geodesign) has emerged as an area of technological development, GIScience research, and design practice. With Esri leading the branding of this emerging area, geospatial technology developers, design consultancies, and academic units are recognizing the affordances of applying geovisualization and geoanalytical techniques to more conventional practices within design and planning fields. Additionally, the GISciences are being called to rearticulate their research agendas in the face of ‘big data’ and neogeography. This paper examines these developments with regard to criticality, or the ways in which mapping practices are applied in critical research – both research that seeks to situate the emergence of geospatial technologies and enrolls these technologies more directly as method. What is the criticality of mapping practices amid these developments? More specifically to the design and planning fields, how might geodesign align with critical GIS? I take up these questions by tracing three presuppositions of criticality in mapping while examining the conditions of geodesign's emergence: representation and futurity, neutrality and efficacy, and relationality and complexity. I conclude by outlining a research agenda for further advancement of a critical geodesign.

Empirical development taxonomy of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in South Moravian Region

This paper represents a pilot study examining entrepreneurial behavior patterns within the area of development of micro, small and medium-sized market active enterprises in South Moravian Region from the perspective of strategic management. The main aim of this article is to classify the enterprises by the character of development activities into relatively homogeneous groups and identify those activities that contribute to considerable differences between the individual groups. Empirical evidence is based on a quantitative survey in terms of a random choice of respondents obtained by means of an e-mail questionnaire. The major analytic procedure applied within this research comprises methods of Cluster Analysis and validation technique based on chi-square and G-square nonparametric tests for testing differences (independence) of variables between the clusters. By means of Cluster Analysis three relatively homogenous SME groups were identified. The first cluster, called “global”, (approximately 6% of the respondents) prevails in most of the strategic development aspects of the researched enterprises. Global SMEs rely on development activities in the area of product innovations and risk diversification into other activities. In terms of changes in functional strategies this involves primarily the area of new technology and human resources development, and the ability to benefit from participation in networks of cooperating organizations. The second cluster, called “transition”, (approximately 59% of the respondents) is developed mainly by means of investments in business specific knowledge, and/or in technical skills of their employees. They are more conservative in the area of product innovations and risk diversification into other activities, which is then reflected in a lower level of investments in technologies and marketing. In comparison with global enterprises the major difference lies in a much lower number of activities in the area of seeking cooperation with other enterprises. The third cluster, called “local”, (approximately 35% of the respondents) chooses the way of product innovations whose supply is mostly composed of standardized products and services, especially in local or regional markets. Local enterprises, when compared to the former clusters, are typical for a lower level of business cooperation, and in fact for absence of utilizing the support programs.

Greenhouse gas emissions in China's eco-industrial parks: a case study of the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area

Abstract To pursue the sustainable development of industry, China has been developing eco-industrial parks for more than a decade. However, the low-carbon performance of eco-industrial parks is unverified. In this study, a comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions inventory for industrial parks was established, including three sectors: energy consumption, industrial processes and product use, and waste. The Beijing Economic Technological Development Area (BDA), a typical national eco-industrial park of China, was chosen for a case study. The results show that the total greenhouse gas emissions of the eco-industrial park were 3.16 Mt CO 2 e in 2010, and energy-related greenhouse gas emissions accounted for 97% of the total. The greenhouse gas emissions increased by 94% from 2005 to 2010. However, the greenhouse gas emissions intensity decreased by 20%, mainly due to optimization of the energy structure and improvements in energy efficiency. The share of non-industrial sectors in the total greenhouse gas emissions increased from 12% to 33%, and the construction industry became the second biggest emissions source, after manufacturing. Scenario analysis indicates that greenhouse gas emissions in the eco-industrial park could be lower than the 2010 levels as eco-industrial development proceeds, but more efforts are needed to improve energy and material efficiency. The case study has great implications for low-carbon development in other industrial parks. It is vital to build the low-carbon economy by implementing policies that will expand eco-industrial park practice and promote low-carbon development in more than 1500 industrial parks in China.

Systems accounting for energy consumption and carbon emission by building

The method of systems accounting for overall energy consumption and carbon emission induced by a building is illustrated in terms of a combination of process and input–output analyses with a concrete procedure to cover various material, equipment, energy and manpower inputs. A detailed case study based on raw project data in the Bill of Quantities (BOQ) is performed for the structure engineering of the landmark buildings in E-town, Beijing (Beijing Economic–Technological Development Area). Based on the embodied energy and carbon emission intensity database for the Chinese economy in 2007, the energy consumption and the carbon emission of the structure engineering of the case buildings are quantified as 4.15E+14J and 4.83E+04 t CO2 Eq., corresponding to intensities of 6.91E+09J/m2 and 0.81 t CO2 Eq./m2 floor area. Steel and concrete contribute respectively about 50% and 30% of the energy consumption and the carbon emission, as a result of the reinforced-concrete structure of the case buildings. Materials contribute up to about 90% of the total energy consumption and carbon emission, in contrast to manpower, energy and equipment around 8%, 1% and 0.1%, respectively.

Safety Monitoring System Design and Key Technologies for Wide Area Nuclear Power Generation

To improve the safe operation level of nuclear power plants, the design principle and overall architecture of safety monitoring system for nuclear power generation were proposed from the aspect of technology development and wide area security. The constitution, monitoring scope and main functions including image surveillance, alarm, data storage and processing, security protection and network management etc., were designed. The key technologies involved, such as image recognition, data compression, remote transmission and monitoring and so on, were analyzed. The target technical indicators were put forward.

Reverse Logistics Activities for Renewable Resource Industry - A Case of Tianjin in China

The rapid growth in end-of-life electronic products in recent years has seriously threatened the environment. While if the renewable resource industry introduced the concept of modern logistics, they will be the best carrier for the activities of reverse logistics. The paper aimed to find out the way for the renewable resource enterprises taking part in the reverse logistics, and how they could cooperate with the Manufacturing Industrial Park, and then form the Regional Eco-Industrial Park. This research took two typical districts of Tianjin Ziya Environmental Protection Industrial Park and Tianjin Economic Technological Development Area for example to discuss the foundation and the management for the renewable resource industry in Tianjin, and built a closed-loop supply chain for end-of-life electronic products recycling.

Strategic alliance in technological development and innovation: Performance evaluation of co-creation between companies and their supply chain

Purpose: The Brazilian oil and gas market presents a perspective of growth in the next decades. Considering this scenario, the increasing number of participants in this supply chain is foreseen to supply the demand of goods and services, especially in the technological development area. The paper intends to evaluate the collaborative development capacity and respective measurements of performance on these partnerships established between customer and suppliers, through qualitative research with a sample of Brazilian oil and gas market representative. Design/methodology/approach: This paper intends to verify if the co-creation performance is measured after an implementation, specific in a restricted industry. The methodology consists in a bibliographical research to support the study, and it also had a questionnaire sent to Brazilian companies that take part of the oil and natural gas industry supply chain, to analyze if the results of co-creation activities are measured by this group of companies, to verify its attractiveness to develop the co-creation usage or change the type of partnership with the market. Findings and Originality/value: The misunderstanding of co-creation and technical partnership was noticed. The usage of teams working together from two or more organizations cannot be considered as a co-creation, because the relationship and obligations are different between these two ways of workgroup. But the companies of oil and gas industry, when questioned, were able to distinguish it, avoiding risks of incorrect results motivated by wrong interpretation of the paper content. Research limitations/implications: As related in the paper, eight companies were invited to take part on the questionnaire about co-creation, but only 50% answered it. The research should have a better result of this subject if it had been developed with more answers of Brazilian oil and gas industry companies. Originality/value: Even this kind of partnership is used in oil and natural gas industrial segment, the measurement isn´t correct used. The value of this paper is to show that companies that are using co-creation could detect the best opportunities to apply it, due to the attractiveness that each situation can generate.

Governance Strategies for Living Technologies: Bridging the Gap between Stimulating and Regulating Technoscience

The life sciences present a politically and ethically sensitive area of technology development. NBIC convergence-the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and information and cognitive technology-presents an increased interaction between the biological and physical sciences. As a result the bio-debate is no longer dominated by biotechnology, but driven by NBIC convergence. NBIC convergence enables two bioengineering megatrends: "biology becoming technology" and "technology becoming biology." The notion of living technologies captures the latter megatrend. Accordingly, living technology presents a politically and ethically sensitive area. This implies that governments sooner or later are faced with the challenge of both promoting and regulating the development of living technology. This article describes four current political models to deal with innovation promotion and risk regulation. Based on two specific developments in the field of living technologies-(psycho)physiological computing and synthetic biology-we reflect on appropriate governance strategies for living technologies. We conclude that recent pleas for anticipatory and deliberative governance tend to neglect the need for anticipatory regulation as a key factor in guiding the development of the life sciences from a societal perspective. In particular, when it is expected that a certain living technology will radically challenge current regulatory systems, one should opt for just such a more active biopolitical approach.

Underwater Cables

Reports on the technologies that comprise underwater cables, examines their historical development, discusses their deployment, and reports on new areas of technological development to support undersea communciations.

Drowning In Data

Biomedical researchers are beginning to tap into a gold mine of nontraditional sources of data to unravel some of the complexities of human diseases, especially common diseases for which there is significant interplay between genetic variants and environmental stressors. But so much data are being generated from so many different disciplines that it is a challenge to integrate it all. Efforts are now under way at the National Institutes of Health to tackle this big data problem. The agency recently announced plans to spend approximately $100 million per year over the next seven years to develop a common data-sharing framework and to start training graduate students in quantitative skills. The idea is to promote data integration across disciplines, merging everything from electronic health records to environmental data. “The last decade or so has seen some fairly impressive technological developments in areas like genomics, imaging, environmental monitoring, and many areas of ...

A comprehensive framework for domestic and global sustainability through integrative and dynamic technology, innovation and operations strategies

This paper examines current trends in technology and innovation management strategies that may be subjecting firms and nations to risk in terms of achieving long-term domestic and global sustainability. A new model is proposed that provides guidelines with respect to the proper allocation of domestic resources across multiple technology/industry domains, and presents advanced decision-making tools and operations management strategic concerns that should be addressed. Although this new model is explained with references as applied to the USA’s current business environment, the general theoretical model concepts may be used to help identify how any country can limit its foreign dependence and identify both technology research and development areas that will provide the country with sustainable core competencies in the global economy and marketplace, and the operational structures needed to effectively achieve these goals.

Performance Analysis of Various Symbol Detection Techniques in Wireless MIMO System With MQAM Modulation Over Rayleigh Fading Channel

Wireless communication is one of the most effective areas of technology development of our time. Wireless communications today covers a very wide array of applications. In this paper, we study the performance of general MIMO system, the performance of Zero Forcing (ZF), Linear Least Square Estimator (LLSE), V-BLAST/ZF, V-BLAST/LLSE of 4x4, 4x6 & 4x8 with 4-QAM & 16-QAM modulation in i i d Rayleigh fading channel. We seen that SER performance of 4x8 antennas and 4-QAM modulation scheme outperforms others. Result shows that for higher modulation schemes SER performance degrades as well as SER performance increases for higher no of receiver antennas. Keywords - Multi Input Multi Output, Zero-forcing receiver, Linear Least Square Estimation, V-BLAST. I. INTRODUCTION Multiple antennas placed at the transmitter and/or receiver in wireless communication systems can be used to substantially improve system performance by leveraging the characteristics of the wireless channel. These systems, termed as Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), require two or more antennas placed at the transmitter and at the receiver. In these systems, performance gains are achieved as multiple transmitters simultaneously input their signal into the wireless channel and then combinations of these signals simultaneously output from the wireless channel into the multiple receivers. Multiple antenna systems take advantage of the spatial diversity obtained by placing separate antennas in a dense multipath scattering environment (2). There are two modes of employing MIMO - spatial multiplexing and diversity. Spatial multiplexing mode is aimed at transmitting independent data through each transmit antenna; thereby increasing data transmission rate. In diversity mode, same data is transmitted through more than one antenna; thus increasing the chances of the transmitted data reaching the receiver correctly(4).

The Internet as a source of information about sexuality

To use the Internet for sex educational purposes and for sex information has been recognised by prior research as benefits of the technological development and important areas to investigate, but few empirical studies have so far been conducted. The purpose of this study was to identify those who use the Internet to seek information about sexual issues and to examine the reasons for using the Internet for this purpose. A total of 1913 respondents completed an online Swedish questionnaire about Internet sexuality and the 1614 who reported using the Internet for sexual purposes were selected for analysis in the current study. More than one-half of these respondents claimed to use the Internet to seek information about sexual issues. The results showed that men and women of all ages used the Internet for this purpose, suggesting that the need for sexual education persists even in the adult years. The reasons for seeking information were primarily to get knowledge about the body, about how to have sex, and out of curiosity. Knowing who seeks information about sexuality on the Internet and the reasons why may be helpful in identifying the needs of different groups of individuals as well as tailoring the information provided, both online and offline.

Carbon nanotube membranes for desalination and water purification: Challenges and opportunities

Summary The importance as well as impact of application of carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes in the area of water technology development is tremendous. A substantial amount of work have been carried out with impregnation of CNTs (simply as one of the reinforcements for incorporation of better properties like antibiofouling and/or better strength, etc.) in polymer host matrix. However, the volume of work enabling CNTs as flow channels (in a membranous structure) is not significant and that is where the potential benefits of CNTs lie. Moreover, from impressive works carried out in this direction, it is quite obvious that still significant challenges have to be addressed to align the CNTs, to reinforce it in a suitable host matrix without disturbing the alignment and inhibiting the agglomeration (adoption of suitable nanocomposite fabrication route), to open the tips preferentially and to scale up favorably. It is believed that the innovative attributes put forth by CNTs and the application areas identified with CNTs are getting matured, while the area of development of CNT (based) membranes is far from being matured and it still needs to be looked into in the light of involvement of materials as well as process challenges.

Program Considers What Is Needed for the Future of Carbon Sequestration

This article, written by Editorial Manager Adam Wilson, contains highlights of paper CMTC 151471, ’What's Next in Geologic Storage Research?’ by J. Litynski and T. Rodosta, US Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory; and L. Myer, R. Kane, and G. Washington, Leonardo Technologies, prepared for the 2012 Carbon Management Technology Conference, Orlando, Florida, 7-9 February. The paper has not been peer reviewed. The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched its carbon capture and storage (CCS) program in 1997 after holding a stakeholders workshop to obtain feedback from the technical and commercial sectors on its draft research plan. Consistent with administration and congressional priorities, CCS continues to be a key element of the DOE’s research and development (R&D) portfolio. Implemented by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) within DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy, the program is playing a lead role in CCS technology development and has made significant advances in the development of a broad range of effective and economically viable technologies. Overall CCS Program Goals and Objectives The overall objective of the carbon-storage program is to develop and advance CCS technologies that will be ready for widespread commercial deployment by 2020. To accomplish widespread deployment, three program goals have been established: (1) develop technologies that will support industries’ ability to predict CO2-storage capacity in geologic formations to ±30% by 2015; (2) develop technologies to demonstrate that 99% of injected CO2 remains in the injection zones by 2015; and (3) complete best-practices manuals for site selection, characterization, site operations, and closure practices by 2020. Only by accomplishing these goals will CCS technologies be ready for safe, effective commercial deployment beginning in 2020 and through the next several decades. CCS-Program Structure The carbon-storage program is composed of three principal elements: core R&D, infrastructure, and global collaborations. It is the integration of these elements that addresses technological and marketplace challenges. Core R&D. The core-R&D element involves applied laboratory- and pilot-scale research focused on developing new technologies and systems for greenhouse-gas mitigation. Core R&D encompasses four technical focus areas for CCS technology and protocol development: Geologic storage Monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA) Simulation and risk assessment CO2 use Infrastructure. The infrastructure element involves confirmation of CO2-storage approaches through activities such as the seven regional carbon-sequestration partnerships (RCSPs), which are conducting field tests, engaging regional stakeholders, and characterizing opportunities for CO2 storage in their regions. Nineteen small-scale and eight large-scale field projects were implemented by the RCSPs, and these involved site selection, CO2 injection into different geologic storage formation classes, monitoring, public outreach, and regulatory compliance.

Guest Editorial Special Section on Radio Frequency Identification

The four papers in this special section are devoted to the topic of radio frequency identification (RFID), new areas of technological development, and applications for its use.

UK fusion technology experimental activities at the ASP 14MeV neutron irradiation facility

► A technical overview of the ASP 14 MeV facility in presented, including the accelerator, the irradiation cell and the recently re-commissioned fast sample extraction system. ► Activation experimental results obtained using high purity elemental- and fusion-relevant material foils, are detailed. These include a list of measured short-lived reaction products from 54 experiments conducted using gamma spectrometry methods. ► Derived results from Zr and Au experiments are highlighted; the need to improve the data is identified using C/E plots derived from the European Activation File 2010 cross section evaluation. In support of the technological requirements for fusion, the UK fusion technology programme is conducting several experiments using the ASP DT neutron irradiation facility at Aldermaston. The present experimental programme covers two key areas of technology development: improving the quality of nuclear cross-section data required for fusion-related materials; and benchmarking fusion nuclear analysis tools such as the shutdown activation dose system MC-R2S. The first of these areas is the focus of this paper. The work presented here gives a technical overview of the ASP facility, including the accelerator, the irradiation cell, the recently re-commissioned fast sample extraction system and ancillary radiation metrology equipment. Results from preliminary activation experiments using high purity elemental- and fusion-relevant material foils, are presented. These include measurements of short-lived activation products conducted via gamma spectrometry methods.