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The Reciprocating type Internal Combustion engines have been serving the world and boosting the automobiles since last 150 years. A lot of advancements in this field have occurred till now to increase and optimize its performance. But the constraint with respect to the space in the engine compartment of an automobile has unfortunately put a stop to this optimization.
Flexolar is an ecological lantern intended for both indoor and outdoor environments. It is a design intended to reduce waste and pollution caused by chemical batteries. It uses sunlight as an energy source. It doesn't use batteries; instead it has a composite flexible ultracapacitor that has numerous thin layers of graphene and silicone.
Urometry Bluetooth Technology
Description: This is a kidney sensor belt to measure urine flow from the kidneys to the bladder. The goal is to determine urine output for hospitalized patients as well as ambulatory patients.
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There are numerous high rise buildings in most cities situated either by narrow lanes or only their front sides face the main (wide) road and the other three sides face narrow lanes. lf fire breaks out in such narrow lanes facing buildings, much time is required to douse or control it,
Over the last few decades, the use of public transportation has been attractive to most of the people. The increase in passenger count has made ticket vending and vehicular monitoring a complex task. In addition to this, frequent accidents occur due to overload of passengers and these accidents are not cognizant to the rescuers.
The main objective of this project is to make life comfortable and easier for disabled and elderly people by using a handheld smart controller device. The smart controller device which is designed suits all types of disabled people such as the deaf, dumb and physically challenged.
Gesture recognition has a goal of interpreting human gestures that can originate from any bodily motion or state but commonly originate from the face or hand. It helps in building bridge between machines and humans than primitive text user interfaces or even GUIs (graphical user interfaces), which limits the majority of input to keyboard and mouse.
Plasma treatment of a slurry with a content of environmentally hazardous materials
Milan Korostenski (millekoro@gmail.com w1521)
Justification
Plasma treatment is a process suitable for treating environmentally hazardous sludge/slurry fluids. Plasma is suitable for the final step in the treatment of evaporator sludge. It is also useful for the treatment of effluents from the pharmaceutical industry,
The Shells is a set of a three coffee tables that can be used as for lounge as well as for children games. Shape of a tabletop inspired by a river shells and naturally fits in a contemporary functional or minimalist interior. You could be creative and experiment with a positions of a tables,
The success of an Oscillating Water Column (OWC) installation off the west coast of Scotland suggested a compounded system as in the following outline.
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