Makoto Tanigawa received his Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1997 from The Pennsylvania State University and subsequently worked as a reactor core analysis engineer for Westinghouse Electric Company. In 2003, he obtained a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Twente in the Netherlands. He spent 3.5 years at ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radioastronomy) de...

Comprehensive upgrades of gas turbine involve the replacement of “flange-to-flange” parts with more advanced designs. Because late-model gas turbines already incorporate advanced technology, these comprehensive upgrades apply only to older gas turbines that are part of a series or model line that the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) has redesigned. Examples of these model lines include the...

During the latter period of the nineteenth century, developing industrial corporations attempted to bring order to their operations. These rapidly expanding companies, such as Pullman Palace Car, H.J. Heinz, Westinghouse, and Sherwin-Williams, saw the need to organize production, sales, and service in the competitive market place. They also showed some initial concern about employees’ disconten...

AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONCLUSION PROPOSED BY V..A. THORNTON ON THE "LUMINOSITY AND COLOR RENDERING CAP ABILITY OF WHITE LIGHT".1 A study was recently conducted by V..A. Thornton of Westinghouse Plourescer.t end Vapor Divisions, on the luminosity and color rendering capability of white light. It is the purpose of this project to inves tigate the validity of his conclusions. Thornton states that:...

This paper presents an application of full function point analysis to the estimation of the size of real-time control software. The full function point counting technique is briefly described. Its usage is illustrated on a part of the Westinghouse Reactor Protection Control System and the results analyzed. We further describe a technique for the graphical representation of requirements that hel...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has commissioned a highly modified Westinghouse 600 kW wind turbine as its Controls Advanced Research Turbine (CART). The capabilities of the original turbine have been increased through the installation of a high-speed data-acquisition and control system, a widebandwidth variable-speed generation system, and a high-speed independent blade pitch s...

The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning eleven years, to an...

This paper introduces the simulation, and controls using Simulink of MATLAB for PCTRAN (Personal Computer Transient Analysis) power control system (PWR) type pressurized water reactor PWR WESTINGHOUSE AP1000. The controller model produces mathematical description in nonlinear relation form which is an important popular program used at most universities education. described by a block diagram th...