Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Shell's $13 bln China refinery project shelved - paper
Sept 11 | Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:18pm EDT
Sept 11 (Reuters) - An 8.3 billion pound ($13 billion) project to build a refinery and petrochemical plant in eastern China involving Royal Dutch Shell has been shelved after losing political support, the Telegraph newspaper reported, citing sources.
The plant in the eastern city of Taizhou -- a tie-up with Chinese state-backed oil firm China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Gulf energy giant Qatar Petroleum -- would have refined 20 million tonnes of crude and produced 1.2 million tonnes of ethylene a year. Construction had been due to start last year.
The newspaper said the project appeared to have fallen victim to local opposition and politics.
It quoted a senior petrochemical executive as saying the Chinese had confirmed the project had been cancelled, possibly due to land problems.
A second source told the newspaper the project would be permanently suspended. ()
A Shell spokesman told the Telegraph that the company was still conducting a feasibility study into the project. Shell and CNPC could not be reached for comment.
A high-level Chinese government probe into corruption at CNPC widened at the end of August, with three additional senior officials at the energy giant being investigated over alleged wrongdoing.
Saturday, 6 July 2013
A Paper Authored by Brian Floyd Receives Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award
Dr. Brian Floyd
A paper authored by Dr. Brian Floyd, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been awarded one of the Pat Goldberg Best Paper Awards for 2011 by IBM Research.
The paper, titled "Organic Packages with Embedded Phased-Array Antennas for 60-GHz Wireless Chipsets", was among more than 110 papers in computer science, electrical engineering and mathematical sciences that were published in refereed conference proceedings and journals in 2011 that were submitted by IBM Research authors worldwide
Dr. Floyd says, "The 60-GHz application space is very exciting, where the large amount of available bandwidth enables high-speed wireless communications for applications like uncompressed wireless HD video streaming across your living room and multi-gigabit-per-second short-range file transfer between portable devices. For these markets to flourish, low-cost electronics are required, which includes a low cost integrated circuit and a low-cost antenna and package solution. In this work, we demonstrate for the first time a complete packaged 16-element phased-array chipset solution with embedded antennas, based on low-cost organic packaging technology."
You can read the full article on the IEEE Website.
Abstract
Array in Package
A multilayer organic package with embedded 60-GHz antennas and fully integrated with a 60-GHz phased array transmitter or receiver chip is demonstrated. The package includes sixteen phased-array antennas, an open cavity for housing the ?ip-chip attached RF chip, and interconnects operating at DC-66 GHz. The 28 mm x 28 mm ball grid array package is manufactured using printed circuit board processes and uses a combination of liquid-crystal polymer and glass-reinforced laminates, allowing excellent 60-GHz interconnect and antenna performance. The measured return loss and gain of each antenna from 56 to 66 GHz are -10 dB and -5 dBi, respectively. Finally, the packaged transmitter and receiver chipsets, each working with a heat sink, have demonstrated beam-steered, non-line-of-sight links with data rates up to 5.3 Gb/s using 16-quadrature amplitude modulation single-carrier and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing schemes.
IBM Press Release
Sunday, 30 June 2013
Bayram and Devetsikiotis Win Best Paper at SmartGridComm 2012
Islam Safak Bayram (L) and Dr. Michael Devetsikiotis (R)
Dr. Michael Devetsikiotis, and his PhD student Islam Safak Bayram, have won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications. The paper, entitled "Strategies for Competing Energy Storage Technologies in DC Fast Charging Stations," has been co-authored with George Michailidis, a faculty member from the University of Michigan, and Dr. Babak Parkideh during his time at the NSF FREEDM Systems Center. It will be presented on November 5-8, 2012 in Tainan City, Taiwan.
The authors propose an intelligent design of fast charging station architecture that ensures grid reliability. The critical component of their architecture is the energy storage, which is used to smooth the stochastic customer demand. "On the other hand, the choice of energy storage is application dependent; there is no single right answer. We developed a metric that enables researchers to compare the candidate energy storage technologies at fast charging stations. Moreover, we showed that optimal charging strategies, depending on the type of the energy storage employed at fast charging stations can increase the number of vehicles charged with the same amount of grid resources. Since the deployment of fast charging stations is in its infancy stage, our contribution will provide insights to network planners," says Professor Devetsikiotis.
Islam Safak Bayram won the Student Travel Grant at a previous Smart Grid Communications Conference, and continues his work in this field. The Network Performance Research Group, led by Dr. Devetsikiotis is actively engaged in the optimization and control of Smart Grid networks.
Sunday, 26 May 2013
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