control technology
1Best Available Control Technology — (BACT) is a pollution control standard mandated by the United States Clean Air Act. [Clean Air Act, section 169(3), uscsub|42|7479|3.] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determines what air pollution control technology will be used to …
2Reasonably Available Control Technology — (RACT) is a pollution control standard created by the Environmental Protection Agency and is used to determine what air pollution control technology will be used to control a specific pollutant to a specified limit. RACT applies to existing… …
3Lowest Achievable Control Technology — (LAER) is a pollution control standard created by the Environmental Protection Agency and is used to determine what air pollution control technology will be used to control a specific pollutant to a specified limit. At the discretion of the… …
4Control engineering — Control systems play a critical role in space flight Control engineering or Control systems engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors. The practice uses sensors to measure… …
5Control banding — is a qualitative or semi quantitative risk assessment and management approach to promoting occupational health and safety. It is intended to minimize worker exposures to hazardous chemicals and other risk factors in the workplace and to help… …
6active control technology — A technology in which the signal generated by the movement from the control column is fed into a computer, which in turn integrates various parameters and gives the output signal to the controls’ actuators for the particular flight regime …
7control theory — Field of applied mathematics relevant to the control of certain physical processes and systems. It became a field in its own right in the late 1950s and early 60s. After World War II, problems arising in engineering and economics were recognized… …
8Control theory — For control theory in psychology and sociology, see control theory (sociology) and Perceptual Control Theory. The concept of the feedback loop to control the dynamic behavior of the system: this is negative feedback, because the sensed value is… …
9Technology and society — or technology and culture refers to cyclical co dependence, co influence, co production of technology and society upon the other (technology upon culture, and vice versa). This synergistic relationship occurred from the dawn of humankind, with… …
10Technology Integration — is a term used by educators to describe effective uses of technology by teachers and students in K 12 and university classrooms. Teachers use technology to support instruction in language arts, social studies, science, math, or other content… …
