2024
Apr 2024 InstMC North East Section - Technical Talk
LoraWAN and the Internet of Things
Damian Walker from Ashcroft gave an in depth introduction to LoraWAN and how it is being used to retrieve date from remote locations by Gas supply companies.
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Apr 2024 InstMC South East Section - Technical Talk
Intergrated Cavity Spectroscopy
Recorded and edited for use by the North East Section to complement the Apr 2023 Video on Air Polution Measurement.
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Jan 2024 InstMC North East Section - Technical Talk
Phase 3 - The SRS
On 24th January 2024, Ian Pinkney from Tees-Tek Ltd gave an in-depth presentation on the responsibilities and technical attributes of a Functional Safety Assessor.
He covered important areas of SRS such as:
Comparing the original SRS objectives with the way many SRSs have been implemented,
Who is responsible for developing and maintaining the SRS,
Defining the purpose of an SRS during the operating life of a facility,
Looking at specific SRS requirements and identifying common misinterpretations of the standard and more…
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2023
November 2023 InstMC North East Section - Technical Visit
Press On Vinyl
On 23rd November 2023, members of the North-East Local Section were invited to visit the vinyl record manufacturing facility in Middlesbrough owned by Press On Vinyl Ltd. They took an exciting tour of the facility and discovering the interesting technical process of manufacturing vinyl records, and using precise instrumentation and calibration methods to produce fine quality audio representations on vinyl mediums.
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October 2023 InstMC North East Section - Technical Talk
The Road to NET Zero
On 23rd October 2023, Martin Kenzie from 2G Energy gave an in-depth presentation where he elaborated on the use of CHP Technology for green produced hydrogen as fuel. Martin covered key areas such as the comparison between Natural Gas CHP and Hydrogen CHP, the process of retrofitting 2G engines to hydrogen injection on site, controlled nitrogen oxide emissions during hydrogen operations and more…
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April 2023 InstMC North East Section - Technical Talk
Advanced Technology for Air Pollution Measurement
On 27th April 2023 Duncan Mounsor from Enviro Technology Services gave an interesting presentation where Duncan delved into the topics such as Ambient Quality Monitoring Stations, Los Gatos Research Off-Axis ICOS Analysers, the DOAS Technique, PMT signal detection amplification and conversion and more…
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CIE - Technical talk
"Balancing Resource Efficiency and Climate Change"
The video from Graham Hillier's lecture on "Balancing Resource Efficiency and Climate Change" can be viewed here --> VIDEO https://youtu.be/MhTrXlrknfs
and Graham's slides
can be viewed here --> SLIDES IOM3 | Cleveland Institution of Engineers (CIE)
Feb 2023 CIE - Technical Talk
"Tees Valley Industrial Cluster"
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2022
April 2022 InstMC North East Section - Technical Talk
Reactive Technologies - Inertia Measurement of the UK National Grid
Despite the subject being about the electrical power grid and problems it encounters as a result of going green.
It is a very interesting and informative talk. explaining how a simple measuring technique can be utilised to Measure, Monitor, Analyse and Control the power generation system across the whole country.
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Mar 2022 CIE - Technical Talk
The development of rail steels throughout the history of the railways
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2021
Nov 2021 - InstMC North East Section - Technical Talk
An Introduction Steam
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April 2021 - CIE - Technical Lecture
"Achieving ALARP with Safety Instrumented Systems. What does that mean?"
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