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Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra Singh has stated that a citizen friendly and accountable administration is the focus of the government. A series of steps to achieve this goal have been initiated. These include simplification of procedures, identification and repeal of obsolete/archaic laws/rules, identification and shortening of various forms, leveraging technology to bring in transparency in public interface and a robust public grievance redress system.

Doing away with the practice of submitting Affidavits for small level executive jobs in the Government and allowing Self-Certification of certificates is one important step in this regard. This has greatly led to the reduction in time and effort on the part of both the citizen as well as the officials in many Government offices.

Leveraging the power of information technology brings with it the advantage of transparency and speed for the benefit of the citizens. In this regard the Government has embarked upon a time bound Digital India Plan. The details of this plan are available on the Website of the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (www.deity.nic.in). As a part of Digital India Plan, the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances has been made the nodal ministry for implementation of e-Office in Central Ministries/Departments. The Department is regularly monitoring implementation of the e-Office project. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj has moved into 100% e-Office platform.

The Central Secretariat Manual of Office (CSMOP) has been revised and the 14th Edition of the CSMOP was brought in the form of e-Book form on 22nd May, 2015, which is available on the website www.darpg.nic.in. This is a much reduced and simplified version of the manual in comparison to the earlier editions. A number of redundant and repetitive literatures and words have been removed.

The Government of India has also taken a number of initiatives for improving ‘Ease of Doing Business’. The emphasis has been on simplification and rationalization of the existing rules and introduction of information technology to make governance more efficient and effective.

One of the focus areas of Government is to reduce the decision making layers to the minimum while allowing for faster means of information sharing/dissemination. The Government has launched a [email protected] and india.gov.in for this purpose. This is a citizen centric platform to empower people to connect with the Government and contribute towards good governance. Suggestions are also received on the PMO website. It also seeks expert advice from the people, thoughts and ideas on various topics that concern India. Citizens can join the discussion to share, debate and add value.

UK-INDIA, 2016 -Year of Education, Research and Innovation Launched

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India and United Kingdom launched a joint initiative “2016: UK-INDIA Year of Education and Research” in New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani highlighted the importance of mobility of students and faculty and expressed hope that, under the GIAN Program, more UK academicians would be able to come to India in 2016. She expressed hope that areas of mutual interest in research could be picked up out of the ten research priority areas under IMPRINT (IMPacting Research Innovation and Technology). The Minister said that she would like to see partnerships and interaction among school students of India and UK, esp. children in Government schools, like Navoday Vidyalays.

Secretary of State, Business Innovation and Skillls, United Kingdom, Mr. Sajid Javid, in his statement, said that he looked forward to launch of the UKIERI-III which could build upon good work already done under earlier phases of UKIERI. He anticipated that more than 100 academicians from UK would be coming under GIAN over next two years. Under the UK Generation India program, they would be looking forward to send 25,000 UK students to India during the next 5 (five) years.

It is worthwhile to mention that during the visit of the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, to the United Kingdom last month, it was jointly announced by both the Prime Ministers that 2016 would be the UK-India Year of Education, Science and Research. On its part, Ministry of Human Resource Development carried out a review of current cooperation, and a process of identification of possible and potential areas of activity under the Year of Education, Research and Innovation. Secretary of State of the United Kingdom Mr. Sajid Javid and Mr. Jo Johnson, Minister of State for Universities and Science visited India.

The third phase of UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI-III), with higher budgetary allocation of 3 million GBP per year from each side, will commence on 1st April 2016. UKIERI-III will provide a basic framework for the bilateral cooperation between India and UK over the next 5 years. It will focus on leadership and faculty development, integration of skills in the education system, e-partnership & research incubation, and enhancing mobility.

Over the next year, UK and India intend to deepen their bilateral relationship across education, research & innovation. With this objective, both countries will undertake and support new initiatives. India and UK aim to create a professional network of academicians and work towards promoting research and teaching. India will look forward to more UK academicians coming to Indian institutions to teach courses under the recently launched GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks). In partnership between UK providers and community colleges and polytechnics of India, blended learning courses will be developed to increase employability, with focus on manufacturing and service sectors, to meet the requirements of “Make in India”.

The approach in research will be inter-disciplinary cutting across various Ministries of Government of India. United Kingdom will be the partner country for the “Technology Summit 2016” to be organized jointly by the Department of Science and Technology and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) on 24th-26th October, 2016 in New Delhi.

The emphasis from both the sides would be on increased mobility of students and faculty. While the Ranking Framework of Indian institutions will provide a mechanism to UK students to get an idea of quality of Indian institutions, UK side will be looking forward to support more UK students to India under ‘Generation UK India’ Program.

The launch of “Year of Education, Research and Innovation” was attended by Minister of State for Universities and Science from UK, Mr. Jo Johnson and Minister of State in Ministry of HRD Dr. R. S. Katheria, senior officials and academicians from both sides, including about 25 Vice Chancellors from UK Universities and Vice Chancellors and Directors of Indian higher education institutions as well as media persons.

The launch was preceded by a bilateral meeting led by the two Ministers, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani and Mr. Sajid Javid, in which issues of mutual interests were discussed in detail. It was also attended by the Ministers of State from both sides i.e. Mr. Jo Johnson and Dr. R.S. Katheria and other senior officials.

100 More Flood Forecasting Stations to be Setup

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Central Water Commission (CWC) under Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation will set up 40 flood forecasting stations for the first time in the States of Arunachal Pradesh (3), Himachal Pradesh (1), Kerala (2), Rajasthan (12), Sikkim (8) and Tamil Nadu (14) during the current five year plan. In addition to this 60 more flood forecasting stations will be set up in other States already having flood forecasting stations to cover their uncovered areas.

Central Water Commission (CWC) has, inter-alia, been entrusted with flood forecasting activities in India. For this purpose, a network of 878 stations on major rivers and their tributaries has been set up. Presently, flood forecasts are issued for 176 stations (148 level forecast and 28 inflow forecast) using hydrological data from its own network and Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) received from Flood Metrological Organization (FMO) of India Metrological Department (IMD). The existing flood forecasting network of CWC covers 19 states/UTs/NCT, 10 major river basins and 72 sub-basins.

So far, 445 stations have been modernized with automatic data collection and transmission systems. Mathematical models on rivers Jhelum, Alaknanda, Bhagirathi, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Yamuna, Chambal, Baitarani, Vamsadhara, Subarnarekha, Mahanadi, Tapi, Godavari and Krishna have been developed. The forecast is disseminated using the email, SMS and website facilities.

The modernization of network includes installation of automatic sensor based data collection and satellite based data transmission systems for near real time flood forecasting and development of medium range hydrologic and hydraulic models with a warning time of upto 72 hours using one dimensional mathematical modeling tools, for effective flood forecasting.

The Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation had launched new flood forecasting website e-Surface Water Information System (“e-SWIS”) during the flood season of 2014, which has facilitated timely forecast dissemination through email/SMS. The trends of river water levels at the forecasting stations of the network during the last 72 hours are also made available to the general public at the web portal (http://india-water.gov.in//ffs).In addition, flood-warning messages are also disseminated using Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) of Google to make the warning more effective.

State-wise Distribution of Existing and Proposed Flood Forecasting Stations of CWC

Sl. No.	Name of State/UT	Existingflood forecasting Stations			Proposed Flood Forecasting Stations during XII Plan
Sl. No.	Name of State/UT	Level	Inflow	Total	Level	Inflow	Total
1	Andhra Pradesh	5	3	8	4	5	9
2	Arunachal Pradesh	0	0	0	2	1	3
3	Assam	24	0	24	5	0	5
4	Bihar	32	0	32	2	0	2
5	Chhattisgarh	1	0	1	0	0	0
6	Gujarat	6	5	11	0	1	1
7	Haryana	0	1	1	1	0	1
8	Himachal Pradesh	0	0	0	1	0	1
9	Jammu & Kashmir	1	0	1	5	0	5
10	Jharkhand	1	4	5	1	14	15
11	Karnataka	1	3	4	0	4	4
12	Kerala	0	0	0	0	2	2
13	Madhya Pradesh	2	1	3	0	1	1
14	Maharashtra	7	2	9	0	1	1
15	Orissa	11	1	12	0	2	2
16	Rajasthan	0	0	0	2	10	12
17	Sikkim	0	0	0	3	5	8
18	Tamilnadu	0	0	0	5	9	14
19	Telangana	4	4	8	2	3	5
20	Tripura	2	0	2	0	0	0
21	Uttar Pradesh	34	1	35	4	1	5
22	Uttarakhand	3	0	3	1	3	4
23	West Bengal	11	3	14	0	0	0
24	NCT of Delhi	2	0	2	0	0	0
25	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	1	0	1	0	0	0
	Total	148	28	176	38	62	100

Basin-wise Existing Flood Forecasting Stations

Sl. No.	Name of River-systems	Number of flood forecasting Stations
Sl. No.	Name of River-systems	Level	Inflow	Total
1	Ganga & Tributaries	77	10	87
2	Brahmaputra & Tributaries	27	–	27
3	Barak-System	05	–	05
4	Eastern-Rivers	08	01	9
5	Mahanadi	03	01	04
6	Godavari	14	04	18
7	Krishna	03	06	09
8	West flowing Rivers	09	06	15
9	Pennar	01	–	01
10	Indus (Jhelum)	01	–	01
Total		148	28	176

Guidelines Governing Adoption of Children 2015 updated

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Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt Maneka Gandhi has updated that the main features of the ‘Guidelines Governing Adoption of Children 2015’ include: provisions for linking the orphan/abandoned/surrendered children of all Child Care Institutions (CCIs) to the adoption system, making the entire adoption process online, treating NRI Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) at par with the domestic PAPs and reducing the timeframe for completion of Home Study Report of the PAPs from two months to one month.

The major objectives sought to be achieved through these Guidelines are: expanding adoption programme in the country and addressing delays in the adoption process with an IT enabled platform of Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System (CARINGS).

The Guidelines were brought into effect to make the entire adoption process hassle free by minimizing delays at various levels. The provisions include declaring orphan, abandoned and surrendered children legally free for adoption by Child Welfare Committee(CWC) in a time bound manner, enabling online registration of PAPs for referral and matching, conducting Home Study Reports of the PAPs within a period of one month, mandating District Child Protection Unit(DCPU) to expedite placement of all adoptable children including setting up of linkage between Specialised Adoption Agency(SAA) and Child Care Institution(CCI) to reach all adoptable children etc.

P K Singh appointed Chairman of Steel Authority of India SAIL

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Shri P. K Singh, presently posted as Chief Executive Officer(CEO) in Durgapur Steel Plant Jharkhand, has been appointed as Chairman of Steel Authority of India Limited, Govt.of India.

Shri Singh is an alumnus of IIT-Roorkee and started his career in SAIL at its Bokaro Steel Plant in 1980. Singh also worked in IISCO Steel Plant, Durgapur Steel Plant and Bokaro Steel Plant. In July this year, he was given the additional charge of CEO of IISCO Steel Plant, Burnpur (West Bengal).

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Singapore Air Force ‘basic wings course’ celebrates 50,000 Flying Hours

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Through the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Basic Wings Course (BWC) program, Lockheed Martin and teammates Pilatus Aircraft and Hawker Pacific have delivered 50,000 flying hours and trained more than 300 pilots since 2008.

“The Basic Wings Course is a critical segment of the RSAF’s pilot generation pipeline. A key enabler for us to achieve this 50,000 accident-free flying hours milestone is the strong partnership between the RSAF and Lockheed Martin. Reaching this milestone also reflects our common emphasis on training excellence and safety. I congratulate 130 Sqn and Lockheed Martin on this occasion, and look forward to the Team achieving the next 50,000 hours,” said COL Tan Yik, Head Air Training, the Republic of Singapore Air Force.

As the Training Systems Integrator for BWC, Lockheed Martin delivers a turn-key training system comprised of aircraft, maintenance, simulators, training and logistics management systems, courseware and instructors. The program is operated at the Republic of Singapore’s 130 Squadron at Royal Australian Air Force Base Pearce; additional instructors at Paya Lebar Air Base in Singapore teach the Basic Aviation Ground School under the authority of the Flying Training Institute.

“Reaching this 50,000 flying hour milestone demonstrates the exceptional partnership we share with the RSAF and our team’s dedication to deliver an efficient, seamless and safe flying training environment,” said Jon Rambeau, vice president for Lockheed Martin Training and Logistics Solutions. “We are honored to assist the RSAF in training their next generation of pilots and look forward to delivering valued capability for decades to come.”

As part of Team 21, Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. is the original aircraft manufacturer for the PC-21 turboprop trainer and provides engineering and logistics support for the platform. Hawker Pacific Ltd. delivers aircraft maintenance and provides the “Authorized Maintenance Organization” for Team 21.

Turn-key training is a performance-based approach in which training is delivered as a service; benefits include increased graduate skill sets, shorter training times and lower training costs. Lockheed Martin’s turn-key training solutions are in demand worldwide. The company delivers the United Kingdom’s Military Flying Training System as part of the Ascent joint venture, and together with Team 21 was selected as Preferred Tenderer for Australia’s AIR 5428 Pilot Training System program.

For additional information, visit our website:www.lockheedmartin.com/training

About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that – with the addition of Sikorsky – employs approximately 126,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.

I S Dani former IAS appointed Chairman of Land Reforms Commission,MP

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I. S. Dani former IAS (Madhya Pradesh 1981) presently posted as Director General, RCVP Noronha Academy of Admin & Management, Madhya Pradesh, has been appointed Chairman of the Land Reforms Commission in Madhya Pradesh.

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Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Young Adults : Lower risk of CVD deaths

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Summary:Cardiorespiratory fitness in young adults was associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease and death but it was not associated with the development of coronary artery calcification in a long-term study of a large racially diverse group of US adults, according to an article.

Cardiorespiratory fitness in young adults was associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease and death but it was not associated with the development of coronary artery calcification in a long-term study of a large racially diverse group of U.S. adults, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) has been associated with decreased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in older adults but less is known about the role of CRF and its changes in young adulthood on long-term cardiovascular outcomes.

Joao A.C. Lima, M.D., of Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Ravi V. Shah, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, and Venkatesh L. Murthy, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and coauthors examined baseline CRF and changes in CRF in participants from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study in relation to future CVD.

The study included 4,872 adults (ages 18 to 30) who underwent treadmill exercise testing at baseline from March 1985 to June 1986 and 2,472 individuals who had a second treadmill test seven years later. During a median follow-up of nearly 27 years, participant assessments included obesity, left ventricular heart mass and strain(a measure of the strength of heart muscle contraction), coronary artery calcification (CAC) and incident CVD.

Among the 4,872 participants, 273 (5.6 percent) died and 193 (4 percent) experienced CVD events during follow-up. Among the deaths, 200 were noncardiovascular in origin and the greatest number of those (45 or 22.5 percent) were due to cancer. Also, 869 of 3,067 participants (28.3 percent) had any CAC by year 25, and 324 of 3,001 participants (10.8 percent) had left ventricular hypertrophy (a thickening of the heart muscle).

Exercise treadmill testing in the study consisted of as many as nine two-minute stages of gradually increasing difficulty. The study suggests each additional minute of baseline exercise test duration was associated with a 15 percent lower risk of death and a 12 percent lower risk of CVD. Each one-minute increase also was associated with reduced left ventricular mass and better strain. However, exercise test duration was not associated with CAC at year 15, 20 and 25.

A second treadmill assessment at seven years suggests that a one-minute reduction in fitness by year seven was associated with a 21 percent increased risk of death and a 20 percent increased risk of CVD. Each one-minute reduction was associated with worsening strain. No association between a change in fitness and CAC was found, according to the results.

“Efforts to evaluate and improve fitness in early adulthood may affect long-term health at the earliest stages in CVD pathogenesis,” the authors conclude.

Commentary: Fitness in Young Adults Predictor of Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

“The present report draws attention to the substantive and independent value of physical activity and CRF [cardiorespiratory fitness] in CVD [cardiovascular disease] prevention regardless of age, race or sex, highlighting its significance as a tool for individuals and population-based intervention. Policies directed at promotion of physical activity in the population will have a significant effect on CVD morbidity and mortality,” write David. E. Chiriboga, M.D., M.P.H., and Ira S. Ockene, M.D., of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, in a related commentary.

Source:The JAMA Network Journals

National Painting Competition on Energy Conservation to be held in NTPC tomorrow

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Ministry of Power has launched the National awareness campaign in association with Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) to promote energy conservation amongst school children. The National Level Painting Competition for energy conservation shall be held at NTPC’s Power Management Institute on 12th December 9.30 AMonwards. 108 students selected from across the country are expected to take part.

The painting competition is organized in three stages at School, State and National Level to spread the message for the need for Energy Conservation. The school level competitions were started in the month of July.

The winners of the National Level Competition will be selected by the eminent jury members and awarded on Energy Conservation Day, 14^th December by Shri Piyush Goyal, Hon’ble Minister of State(Independent Charge) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable energy ,Govt. of India.

National energy conservation day is celebrated every year to spread the message of conserving energy by organizing discussions, conferences, debates, workshops, competitions and etc across the country. These Encourage people for efficient energy use in order to decrease the energy consumption and prevent the energy loss.

PNB COMES TO THE RESCUE OF FLOOD AFFECTED VICTIMS IN CHENNAI

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Punjab National Bank, in order to extend a helping hand to the flood affected victims of Chennai, has ensured that their branches and ATMs which were stalled due to water logging were brought back to normalcy and work resumed immediately. Now all their 81 branches and 82 ATMs are fully operational. From 2.12.2015 to 7.12.2015, six days time after the floods, there are 58,029 flood affected customers serviced in our ATMs and Rs. 17.79 Cr was disbursed.

The Regional Back office which handles clearance of cheques for five states was fully operational, amidst the flood without any interruption. Areas which were inundated where Branches / ATMs were not accessible, PNB provided customer service uninterruptedly with Mobile ATM / POS machines. The POS machines were also deployed in public places like Main Railway stations, Hospital areas and water logged residential pockets etc. Ten POS machines were moving around the city evoked good response.

All the 81 branches of flood affected areas of Chennai Circle worked on Sunday (6.12.2015). Extended working hours were implemented during the entire week to ensure maximum help to public. 18 Business Correspondents (BCs) are working in the field and effecting cash transactions using laptops and Bio metric devices at customer’s doorstep. During the period from 01.12.2015 to 07.12.2015, an amount of Rs. 40.22 lacs has been disbursed.

The Bank has waived ATM charges for their customers who use other Bank ATMs so that public are able to withdraw cash from a much wider network of ATMs. Further intersol charges are also waived. Thus customers can visit any branch of PNB instead of their Base Branch and complete their transactions at no extra charges. These waiver of charges are applicable from 01.12.2015 to 15.12.2015.

A control room to handle the emergent requirements have been established. Bank’s customers requiring urgent services can contact Annu Singh (9840460159) Srinivasulu (8939464666) Nelson (9940628534)

PNB has also assured its customers to approve credit facilities under the schemes of Repairs and Renovation to damaged houses and overdraft facility against the existing housing loans to meet the urgent fund requirements to ensure replenishment of the loss due to flood.

As a part of CSR activity, Bank distributed the food packets, water bottles, dresses, Blankets and sanitary items to the flood affected people sheltered in Govt flood relief centre located at Corporation High School, Subbarayar Street, Aminjikarai. Bank assures to take care of the basic necessities of all sheltered in the above school. The Bank will be going to more areas to distribute items of necessity to affected poor people in Chennai in this week also

PNB endeavours to stand with the customers in difficult times.

Water Resources & HRD Ministry join hands for Namami Gange Programme

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Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharti has called for sustained cooperation with the Ministry of Human Resources Development for the success of Namai Gange programme. Addressing a meeting regarding the role of IITs and educational institutes in Namami Gange programme in New Delhi. The Minister mentioned areas where the intervention of HRD Ministry is specifically required which includes rural sanitation, reuse of solid waste, adult education on environment –with focus on Ganga, development of projects especially for the most polluted tributaries –Ramganga, Kali and Yamuna, determination of e-flow and Jan bhagidari . She also mentioned that the major challenge for river Ganga is to keep it clean with approximately 20 crore people taking dip in the river every year. Sushri Bharti said, “Small stretches of rural areas can be adopted by educational institutes for treatment of small drains carrying rural sewage and solid waste and facilitate in providing 100% rural sanitation.”

Speaking on the occasion Union Minister for Human Resources Development Smt. Smriti Irani proposed a three-pronged approach for the involvement of her Ministry in Namami Gange programme .This will include, integration of all villages along river Ganga in Unnat Bharat Abhiyan – inspired by the vision of transformational change in rural development processes by leveraging knowledge institutions to help build the architecture of an Inclusive India; Special Literacy Package for Namami Gange – 100% literacy to the villages along river Ganga with special address to adult literacy and bringing team of national and international experts to develop innovative technologies and perform research in areas to address the challenges faced by river Ganga. She emphasized that most challenging part in the implementation of Namami Gange program is to bring behavioural changes and initiate a social movement. The Minister said these issues issue can be addressed by her Ministry by providing adult literacy and involvement of students in creating awareness.

The meeting started with a presentation about the various ongoing and planned activities under Namami Gange and how the educational institutes such as IITs, IISC, SPA, etc. can join in the successful implementation of Namami Gange programme. It was mutually agreed by both the Ministries that Secretaries of both the Ministries will discuss these possible approaches and identify the actionable points through which HRD Ministry can be involved in Namami Gange program. The action plan will include goal posts for three months and review of the progress every six months.

The meeting was also attended by Shri Shashi Shekhar Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation and Shri Vinay Sheel Oberoi Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development along with representatives from IIT Delhi and Kharagpur and Additional Mission Director, National Mission for Clean Ganga.

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Sensor detects cable fire before it starts burning

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Summary:Fires are frequently caused by smoldering cables. Novel sensors now help detect such smoldering fires at an early stage by analyzing the plastic vapors released by overheated insulating cables. Scientists have developed these hybrid sensors that combine measurement processes with data evaluation.

Fires are frequently caused by smoldering cables. Novel sensors now help detect such smoldering fires at an early stage by analyzing the plastic vapors released by overheated insulating cables. Scientists of KIT and Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences have developed these hybrid sensors that combine measurement processes with data evaluation. Their work is reported in the current issue of the Sensors & Transducers Journal.

A smoldering cable can be detected with a little luck before it starts burning: The plastic coating changes color, there is a smell of burning. Hybrid sensors might detect the risk of cable fires earlier, even before they are perceived by eyes and nose. They detect the gases released from the plastic coating due to heating and reliably identify and analyze the gas mixture and its concentration.

In addition, they can also detect interfering gases, such as propene or carbon monoxide, and, hence, exclude false alarms. To this end, the hybrid sensors do not only possess a gas-detecting sensor chip, but also the computation capacity and algorithms needed for evaluating measured data. “The combination of a smart evaluation process with physical measurement is the basic idea of this development,” Dr. Hubert Keller, Simulation and Measurement Project Head of KIT’s Institute for Applied Computer Science, explains.

The highly sensitive and very reliable hybrid sensors might increase safety in cable ducts. In addition, their capability of finding gas mixtures and determining individual gas concentrations might be useful for detecting toxic mold gases during food control, explosive gases in fertilizer silos, or leaks of natural gas pipelines. “Hybrid sensors can be used anywhere as separate systems or in a network. They may also be combined with classical safety technology, such as infrared cameras,” Keller says.

“For the development of the sensor, we use the effect that various gases react in different ways with gas-sensitive metal oxides as a function of temperature,” Professor Dr. Heinz Kohler of the Institute of Sensor Technology and Information Systems (ISIS) of the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences says. “This effect is the basis of a self-heated, temperature-controlled sensor chip with four sensors, i.e. a sensor array. “The sensor array is heated cyclically and cooled down again. Simultaneous measurement of electric resistance or conductance yields four specific conductance signatures, the evaluation of which provides information on the composition and concentration of the gas. The current issue of the Sensors & Transducers Journal reports this development in the area of hybrid sensor technology.

Combination of sensor technology and analysis method was funded with EUR 1.3 million for a duration of three years under the hybrid sensor platform project. The project team consisted of computer scientists and mathematicians of KIT, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, and two industry partners. The process has already attracted worldwide attention and won a best paper award for excellent research contributions at two international conferences.

Source:Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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