Engineering Wonders

Presented By:
Asad Saeed, J.E

 Wonders

1. Millau Viaduct (France)

2. The Tide Barrier Project (Venice)
3. The Three Gorges Dam (China)
4. Seikan Tunnel (Japan)
5. Airbus A-380
6. Pont Du Gard Bridge ( France)
7. Wireless Power Transfer, WPT
8. Nord Stream Pipeline ( Russia to Germany)
9. Qinghai Tibet Railway (China)
10. The Train That Never Stops (China)
11. Process Engineering Simulation Softwares
12. CHAMP Project (USA)

1. Millau Viaduct (Millau,France)

 Facts About Millau Viaduct

Worlds Tallest Cable-Stayed Road Bridge.

7 Towers are 1,125 Feet Tall and 980 feet above the
valley floor.
The central pillar is higher than the famous French icon,
the Eiffel Tower
It connects Paris and Barcelona.
It is the highest Road Bridge in the world, weighing
36,000 tonnes.
It has Seven Pillars and Roadway of 1.5 Miles Length.
The road way was built on either side of the valley and
rolled into position, until it met with precision in the
centre.

2. The Tide Barrier Project (Italy)

 Facts About Tide Barrier

Worlds Largest Flood Prevention Project to Safe Venice.

It consists of 78 rotating gates, each with an area of 6,500
square feet.

They are 92ft long, 65ft wide and will weigh 300 tonne.
Gates are supported by 125ft long steel and concrete
pilings.
The Gates Rest at the bottom of the sea and whenever the
tide rises above 3 1/2 feet, the water is removed from the
gates, causing them to float.
Compressed air is pumped into the structure when a tide of
more than 110m height is expected.

The air will rise up the barriers to the surface of the

water to block the flow of the tide.

3. Three Gorges Dam (Sandouping,

Hubei, China)

 Facts About Gorges

Dam

The worlds largest hydroelectric

power station.
The worlds largest concrete structure
Dam.
The dam is 1.5 miles wide and
creates electricity equivalent to 18
nuclear power plants.
Dam cost $37 billion to build & 1.3
million people were relocated.

4. Seikan Tunnel

 Facts About Seikan Tunnel

It is 53.85km railway tunnel in Japan, with a 23.3km

long portion under the seabed.

The track level is about 100 meters (330ft) below the

seabed and 240m (790ft) below sea level.

Longer and deeper than Channel Tunnel that links France

& UK, but Channel Tunnel has longer under sea portion.

Seikan is both the longest and the deepest operational

main-line rail tunnel in the world.
TheGotthard Base Tunnelin Switzerland will be longer
when it opens to traffic in 2016.

5. Airbus A-380

 Facts About A-380

A-380 is Worlds largest passenger aircraft.

Top speed:1,020km/h
Wingspan:80m
Length:73m
Range:15,700km
First flight:April 27, 2005
Engine type:Turbofan
Seating capacity : 407-526 (3-class)
644 (2-class)
853 (1-class)
Worlds largest aircraft is Antonov An-225 Mriya.

6. Pont Du Gard (Gardon River)

 Facts About Pont du

Gard

A true masterpiece of ancient architecture & 2000 years old.

It is constructed out of soft yellow limestone blocks.
This isthree-storey bridge, which measures 360 m at its longest
point along the top.
Total weight :50,000 tons
Total volume :20,000 m3
Major arch gap :25 m (one of the greatest of the Roman world)
Total Length : 274 m
Height : 49 m

It is the principal construction in a 50 km long aqueduct that

supplied the city of Nmes, formerly known as Nemausus, with
water. Built as a three-level aqueduct standing 50 m high, it
allowed water to flow across the Gardon river.

7. Wireless Power Transfer

 Facts About WPT

Largest application of WPT via microwave is a

space solar satellite (SPS).
SPS is a gigantic satellite designed as an
electric power plant orbiting the
geostationary earth orbit (GEO).
It consists of three segments:
1 - solar energy collector to convert solar
energy into DC (Electricity)
2 DC to microwave converter.
3 Large antenna array to beam down the
microwave power to the ground.

 Evidence of WPT

Japan space scientists make wireless energy

breakthrough with the vision Electricity gained
from solar panels in space could one day be
beamed to earth.
Researchers used microwaves to deliver 1.8 kw of
powerenough to run an electric kettlethrough
the air with pinpoint accuracy to a receiver 55
meters (170 feet) away.
"This was the first time anyone has managed to
send a high output of nearly 2 kw of
electric powervia microwaves to a small target,
using a delicate directivity control device,"

8. Nord Stream Pipeline

 Facts About Nord Stream

It is the longest sub-sea pipeline in the world,

after Langeled Pipeline.
Length: 1,222 km (759 mi)
Capacity:
55 billion m3/Year
Dia :
1,220mm (48in)
Pressure : 220 Bar
Sea Depth : 210 m (360 m Langeled
Peipeline)
It is an offshore natural gas pipeline from
Vyborg in the Russian Federation to
Greifswald in Germany

9. Qinghai Tibet Railway

 Facts About Qinghai Tibet

Railway

Qinghai-Tibet Railway is the world's highest

railway.
960 kilometers of its tracks are located 4,000
meters above sea level and the highest point is
5,072 meters.
550 kilometers of the tracks run on frozen earth,
the longest in any of the world's plateau railways.
45 stations: Altogether there are 45 stations
along the rail line.
Speed : 100 km per hour in the frozen earth
areas and 120 km per hour on non-frozen earth.

Tanggula Railway Station

5,068 meters above sea level, is the

highest railway station in the world.

Fenghuoshan Tunnel

4,905 meters above sea level and 1,338

meters long, is the world's most elevated
tunnel on frozen earth.

Kunlun Mountain Tunnel

It runs1,686 meters, is the world's longest

plateau tunnel built on frozen earth.

10. The Train That Never Stops.

 Facts About Non-Stop Train

The concept was created by Chinese designer Chen

Jianjun.

"A mere 5 min stop per station (elderly passengers

cannot be hurried) will result in a total loss of 5 min x
30 stations or 2.5 hours of train journey time!

Special stacked cars that automatically detach and

attach themselves to the speeding train as it passes by.

Passengers wait for the train inside a pod located on an

elevated platform.

11. Process Engineering Simulation

Softwares

12. CHAMP Project

 Facts About CHAMP

Counter-Electronics High Power

Microwave Advanced Missile Project.
The device is capable of taking out
any electronics it sets its sights on.
It can disable several targets at
once, and does no other damage
beyond leaving you in the dark.

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