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• What problem does your design idea solve?
This design reduces the response time to an airplane accident by the airport’s ARFF vehicles. Reducing response time is the best way to improve the ability to quickly extinguish a postcrash fire.
• What are the potential benefits?
There are two big benefits from this design: first,
The current plan to remove Incandescent Lamps from the worldwide marketplace leaves few alternatives. The most expensive, LEDs, and the most common, Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs), and its associated problems: emission efficiency, slow to start, short life, unacceptable colors, and potential Mercury Contamination.
Assisted Wheelchair for Physically Challenged is designed in Orange Research Labs, Hyderabad. The main motto of this project is to assist the physically challenged people. Here, we designed a wheelchair which can be controlled through the following means:
1) Tilt Sensor
2) GSM Modem
3) Voice Module
The total project was divided into three parts.
Quantum entanglement is a property of a quantum mechanical state of a system of two or more objects in which the quantum states of the constituting objects are linked together so that one object can no longer be adequately described without full mention of its counterpart—even if the individual objects are spatially separated in a spacelike manner.
In normal Scuba device when the tanks are emptied we have to go to land to charge the tank with compressed air which allows less time to be spent underwater.
This Equipment allows more time to be spent in water by charging the tank in the sea itself. The Equipment consist of air compressor, battery and tank.
A simple rotary heat engine that uses a small temperature differential to produce hundreds of foot pounds of mechanical torque for direct application or for electrical generation,can be built to operate from a hot spring or simple solar collector as heat source.
Utilizing only simple engineering and thermodynamics,
The system is based in grained particiles made out of expanded polystyrene, polyethylene mixed with magnetized iron particles in powder size This particles have the property that withholds oil in their fibers and stick together when coming close. In this way we can spray them from the air in a wide area after studying water currents.
The power densities in high altitude winds (4600 m and above) exceeds a 20 kW/m2 seasonal average and this is the highest power density for a large renewable energy resource anywhere on Earth. It exceeds the power densities of sunlight, near surface winds, ocean currents, hydropower, tides, geothermal, and other large-scale renewable resources.
A jackknife occurs when a truck and the trailer it is carrying, begin sliding in a rotating motion with respect to one another as the tractor and trailer fold up against one another. Although jackknifes occur most often on slippery roads, they can occur at any time due to over-braking, overly sharp turning, or over-accelerating.
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